Links by George December 1st

LIFESTYLE/ ARTS/ CULTURE/ ETC:



Late November, the Bogong Moth Dreaming, Australia





Some Dutch cannabis "coffee shops" to go up in smoke





Dutch mayors want to licence growing marijuana





Dutch MP Boris van der Ham buys a bag of weed of
the "regulated market"






Dutch court upholds ban on magic mushrooms






UK scientists attack plan to upgrade cannabis






House of Lords endorses tougher pot penalties






Like interest rates, the final decision on the classification
of illegal drugs should be free from political influence, say
the government's drug advisers





California Supreme Court Rules Unanimously Against
Compassionate Care






Obama's Drug Czar Pick: Will We Ever Get Past Having
a War on Drugs?






Aldous Huxley-The Mike Wallace Interview 5/18/58





Christian mushroom trees






China has oldest stash in tomb of blue-eyed harpist






Friend Stephen Gertz's new book Dope Menace has some
very interesting pop drug story covers . Check out this
youtube preview





Cheech and Chong back on the road






Salvia....A Strange, Legal High






Mapping the Spirit Plants






Shamanism: Magical Mystery Tour






Graham Harvey "Historical Dictionary of Shamanism"






Planetary Tantra





UFO in Cyprus 1973 story






Meteor crash over Western Canada Nov 20, 2008 Part III






Experts call for global network to prevent asteroid disasters







Return of the Neanderthals:
If we can resurrect them
through fossil DNA, should we?






Jesus: A Story of Enlightenment by Deepak Chopra







'Buddha's skull' found in Nanjing






Native American Spirituality:Freedom Denied






Meditation May Protect Your Brain






From Counterculture to Cyberculture






“The Pranksters, the Dead, and the Sixties”






Mystery `Eleanor Rigby' document goes to auction





Shared Wisdom-shamanic workshops for a modern world






Back from the grave-Research on near-death experiences
is unlikely to find evidence that human consciousness can
survive without a brain





Cynthia Re Robbins beautiful art dimensions







Katherine Green is seeking a community manifestation.
Chcek her site:







The Venus Project: A Resource-Based Economy is a system
in which all goods
and services are available without the use of money, credits,
barter or any
other system of debt or servitude. All resources become the
common heritage
of all of the inhabitants, not just a select few.







The Global Coherence Initiative empowers co-creation with
others for the benefit of all.







Israel and USA Jews Moving for Peace in Palestine:
Jewish Voice For Peace






Buy Progressive for Holidays: Faerie Tale Theatre --
(1326 minutes - 7 Discs)






Indigenous People Demand Voice in Climate Talks







FDA Scientists Revolt Against Corrupt Food and Drug
Administration Officials






GM crops 'to be grown in secret'






Where There's Wildfire Smoke, There's Toxicity






Rats trained to sniff land mines, TB





Coke/Pepsi as pesticide






Teething drug kills 25 children in Nigeri







Sarah Palin Turkey Incident: Does TV Interview While
Turkeys Are Slaughtered In The Background (VIDEO)







Suki Falconberg's excellent description and summary of
the nightmarish suffering that puts turkeys on tens of
millions of tables on Thanksgiving......






A meat free Thanksgiving feast







David Irving's fantastic deconstruction of sadistic cultural
traditions that promote, perpetuate and even celebrate
unbelievable cruelties against sentient beings.






The Balloon priest






Cult sci-fi writer Norman Spinrad. didn't know he
wrote the original star
trek episode 'the doomsday machine.'





NORMAN SPINRAD--Allow me to Introduce Myself







This is our brave new world
Confront the Delusions
By Jim Kirwan






Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of
Digital Natives





Virtual Sex: How Online Games Changed Our Culture






GLOBAL:




At Least 150 Dead in Mumbai; India Blames
Pakistani "Elements"




China maintains hold on Tibet and tests Dalai Lama






Protesters swarm Thai airport, takeoffs suspended






World's navies struggle to deter Somali pirates






Dangerous Waters: Did Indian Navy Sink Wrong Ship?
CNN






UK anti terror laws right move against Icelandic banks?





Hugo Chavez Allies Score Big Wins in Venezuela Elections






Caribbean Economic Union Starts in 2009






Afghan President Wishes He Could Shoot Down U.S. Planes
By Vancouver Sun
Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Wednesday he would
bring down U.S. planes bombing villages if he could, in a sign
of growing tension between Afghanistan and its Western
backers as the Taliban insurgency grows in strength.





Russia eyes Mediterranean for naval base






Israeli Palestinians: The Unwanted Who Stayed






Famine, disease set to kill millions in gaza due to Israels blockade





Victory for Venezuela?s Socialists in Crucial Elections






Kilroy was here







NATIONAL:





"Nobody Is Watching "
America's Hidden War in Somalia
By Paul Salopek
It is a standoff war in which the Pentagon lobs million-dollar
cruise missiles into a famine-haunted African wasteland the
size of Texas, hoping to kill lone terror suspects who might
be dozing in candlelit huts.





Gates and the Urge to Surge






Tomgram: Frida Berrigan, Who Rules the Pentagon?







Suppressed Speech Of Wamsutta (Frank B.) James,
Wampanoag






Bush's Bizarre Pardon List






Kafka and Uighurs at Guantanamo






The new edition of "Issues & Alibis!"







The Establishment's Thanksgiving






Left Strives To 'Keep Faith' As Obama Manuevers







Thanksgiving A Loaded Holiday for
Many Native-Americans





Thanksgiving Check on America's Food






"What Next?
The Elections, the Economy, and the World"
By Noam Chomsky
Question is what is a democracy supposed to be? - The
ignorant and meddlesome outsiders have a function and
namely to watch what's going on. And to push a lever
every once in a while and then go home.







Financial Meltdown: You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet






Obama Will Spend Over $3 Trillion On ECONWAR!
Fire And Penalize The Bank Oligarchs






Idiots and Bailouts






The New Trough: The Wall Street bailout looks a lot
like Iraq — a "free-fraud zone" where private contractors
cash in on the mess they helped create by Naomi Klein







The 10 Worst Corporations of 2008






Overcoming Fears of Falling Stock Prices







7.7 Trillion Dollars And Counting
The Cost Of "Rescuing" The US Financial System
By Hamilton Nolan
US government has pledged more than $7.7 trillion of our
tax dollars to "rescue" the financial system. How much
is 7.7 trillion?







Zombie economics: Don't Bail out the System that Gave Us
SUVs and Strip Malls





How To Deal With Pirates (American, Not Somalian)






Left Out of the Bailout: The Poor






NYC Churches Ordered Not To Shelter Homeless






Max Keiser Calls Henry Paulson A "Financial Terrorist"
- Counterfeit Paper Traded For Oil/Resources






Max Keiser on Obama's economic team






Stop Hating: Here's Why Obama Is a Progressive






Democracy Now! Exclusive (Part 1): Bill Ayers and
Bernardine Dohrn on the Weather Underground, the
McCain Campaign Attacks, President-Elect Obama
and the Antiwar Movement Today





Republicans Turn to Dirty Tactics in Georgia







Can George W. Bush 'Self-Pardon' Himself?






If Obama Doesn't Prosecute Bush's Torture Team,
We'll Pay a Big Price Down the Road






Bush pleased with Iraq war outcome






Adam Engel's latest broadside of Western civilization/capitalism







John Steppling summarizes the numerous aspects of the
American Left that present significant obstacles overcoming
the monster of capitalism.






Morris Berman's deconstruction of our American plutocracy and the "glue"
that holds it together






Twenty-Six Things We Now Know Seven Years After 9/11







Disposable Youth in a Suspect Society






Department of Homeland Insecurity








"Emergency Preparedness" or Martial Law?
Vigilant Shield 09: A Cover for Illegal Domestic Operations?







ACLU Demands Information On Military Deployment
Within U.S. Borders







Bug-sized spies: US develops tiny flying robots







Jonestown, Harvey Milk, and George Moscone







The Club of Rome-new world order agenda?