Links By George May 10

LIFESTYLE/ ARTS/ CULTURE/ ETC:





Four different conferences on anthropology, ethnobotany,
the arts, psychotherapy, psychopharmacology and
consciousness studies.
Florianópolis, Santa Catarina
Brazil June to August 2009





The dreaming festival 5-8th June,
Woodford Australia




Kratom Basics





Argyreia nervosa - Hawaiian Baby Woodrose





Amanita Muscaria podcast with Wolfgang on Gnostic Media





A visit to the Peyote Way of God Church in Arizona







A Cannabis Odyssey, Dr. Lester Grinspoon








Cannabis Nation Takes to the Streets in First Week of
Global Marijuana March








California Governor asks: What if pot's legal and taxed?








New Beauty Secret: Marijuana








Wonderful consciousness expanding appliances








Kaputtradio Nimbin Mardi Grass report






Radio Free Exile: "Legalize Me"








Mexico Decriminalized Drugs Last Week







Do ecstasy pills ever contain PCP?






Extracted DMT Crystals, by Stevek1 image








Scientists get dirt on mystery plant







Adam "The Polish Hippie" blogsite:






Visual art of Petrus Boots






What do you get if you divide science by God?






Continuing the Astral Journey into the Interior of the Planet





The 2012 Apocalypse — And How to Stop It







'The future is going to be very exciting'








Alchemist James Price failed bigtime






Ancient tsunami 'hit New York'







Revealed: the face of the first Europea







Preserved Proteins









PATHOGENS RETURNED TO EARTH 3 TO 7 TIMES
MORE VIRULENT







'Alien skull' spotted on Mars










200,000 Year Old Statue Found on Moon







Bob Welch of Fleetwood Mac discussing UFO's








The Dead 2009 Spring Tour









Brownsville Girl by Bob Dylan & Sam Shepard







Celebrate Pete Seeger's 90th Birthday with "Essential Pete Seeger" CD








Springsteen to Seeger: You Outlasted the Bastards









An interview with Rupert Isaacson, whose The Horse Boy:
A Father’s Quest to Heal His Son was published last
month by Little, Brown








Gobs of green ideas for Mother’s Day









12th Annual Peace Pals International Arts
Exhibition and Awards






The photography of Joachim Knill





Playland in San Francisco in the 30's






California's toughest gang was a mob of Aussies








Sea Shepherd's Coorperation.K9 Project Enters
Second Phase in the Galapagos








PLEASE TAKE ACTION; Help Stop Ringling Bros.
Expansion on Coney Island!








Robert F. Kennedy, Jr says:
Join me in stopping mountaintop removal








The Kashmir Valley now faces a threat even greater than
human conflict as the glaciers melt









Could Monsanto Be Responsible for One Indian Farmer's
Death Every Thirty Minutes? video








Annual meeting of the Federation of Global Governments.








TAKE ACTION----Malaysian Oil Palm Threatens Brazilian Amazon







Climate Change 'Cultural Genocide' for Aborigines







Indigenous Wisdom Against Climate Change







Speaking Out for Remote Tribes







Natural rubber flops









Bamboo Mountain Bike








Bamboo bike







Star Crust 10 Billion Times Stronger Than Steel







World's Largest Solar Tower Now Powers 10,000 Homes







Solar Cooking






Harvesting the Rain: An Old Idea Takes on New Life








Little Homestead in the City







Air Pollution Endangers Lives of Six in Ten Americans








The EU Gets Serious About Chemicals






A sudsy study of eco-label shampoos







Grist Special Report on How We Dispose of Our Poop








Are We So Addicted to Meat That We Can't See Where
the Swine Flu Came From?








Bayer Stores Chemical that Killed 20,000 in Bhopal in WV








The Wholesale Sedation of America's Youth







Teens and Depression








25 Ancient, Proven Home Remedies With Science Behind Them








Spices kill cancer cells








Philippines Immersion Retreats - Refresh Your Body & Soul






Shattered Illusions: Ten Things about the Natural World You
Thought You Knew (But Didn't)







Bonnie Bassler: Bacteria Communicate With Each Other
Through Chemical Language and other articles on
Viola's excellent blog site






An invention that could change the internet for ever








OpEdNews » The Dumbing Down of America








Mike Davis, Road Trip in the Plague Years







'I Was Raped' Should Horrify -- But Our Culture Has
Stripped the Word of Its Power





Mom Song: An Ode To Mothers Who Get High (VIDEO)




GLOBAL:



MAJOR FIGHTING IN PAKISTAN TENS OF
THOUSANDS OF REFUGEES





Half a Million Flee Swat Valley as Pakistan
Faces Months of Fighting






Kenyan women stage 'sex strike'






New Evidence of Torture Prison in Poland






5,335 students dead, missing in Sichuan quake: China






Environment Emerges as a Major Casualty in Gaza






'The Smell Is So Awful That I Start to Vomit':
Is This Farm the Ground Zero of Swine Flu?





Aussies are finding their civil liberties undermined at an alarming
rate, with the excuse being the 'war on terror'. Non-Aussies are
welcome to register too






Australian Military Buildup And The Rise
Of Asian NATO





Somalian piracy






Traffickers Used Heathrow 'Children's Home' to Bring Chinese
Migrants Into Britain for Prostitution and Drugs Trade






Canadians crack gene code of flu virus






NATIONAL:



Anti-Empire Report, May 4, 2009





Latest news from Issues and Alibis





Excellent news stories from OpEd news







Flying Pigs and the WHO
Flying Pigs, Tamiflu and Factory Farms Part II:






Media sensationalism, corporate power and the swine flu outbreak






Baxter awaits frozen vials of virus strain from Atlanta







Obama Seeking $1.5 Billion for Response to Swine Flu
By Roger Runningen and Hans Nichols






Previous Swine Flu Outbreak Originated At Fort Dix
Mass vaccination program was halted after hundreds contracted
debilitating nerve disease






'Truckloads of Bodies' Prove Civilians Killed by US






Change.... What Change?
US Afghan Strikes Kill 100, 'Mostly Civilians'
By AFP
Deputy provincial governor Mohammad Younus Rasouli said
he had seen the bodies of 20 children brought by villagers to
the provincial capital, also called Farah.







US soldiers told to act as Christian missionaries in Afghanistan









Is Army Abusing Children With its Latest Experiment,
the Army Experience Center?













America's Shame
By Eric Margolis
Nations that use torture disgrace themselves. Armed forces and
police that torture inevitably become brutalized and corrupted.
"Limited" use of torture quickly becomes generalized.
"Information" obtained by torture is mostly unreliable.









U.S. Has a 45-year History of Torture
By A.J. Langguth
CIA Director Richard Helms once tried to rebut accusations
against his agency by asserting that the nation must take it on
faith that the CIA was made up of "honorable men." That was
before Sen. Frank Church's 1975 Senate hearings brought to
light CIA behavior that was deeply dishonorable.











Revealed: U.S. Interrogators May Have Killed Dozens of Detainees












Government Could Destroy Records in Hundreds of Guantanamo Cases










Madsen: Cheney Had Death Squad, Killed Hariri & Hobeika














Prosecute This: Torture Was Used to Try to Link Saddam with 9/11














Combat Operations in Fallujah















Sea-Based Missile Defense Moves Forward














Death Row Prisoner Troy Davis: We Must Expose a
System That Fails to Protect the Innocent













Gun Nuts Stockpiling Ammo












MONTANA GOVERNOR SIGNS NEW GUN LAW










Georgia candidate for governor says sex with mules,
watermelon behind him













GOP Has Hit the Dead-End of Politics: Who's Going
to Buy Their Fear and Hysteria?












40 Million Nonbelievers in America?
The Secret Is Almost Out









Everyday is Doomsday in Washington










Matt Renner | "They Frankly Own the Place"











Memo to Media: Populism Is a Rebellion Against
Corporate Power -- It's Not Just Stupid, Raw Anger










Peak-Oil Prophet James Howard Kunstler on Food, Fuel and
Why He Became an Almost Vegan









Let Them Eat Cake: Limbaugh Mocks Recession During
Speech to Wealthy Right-Wing Donors





Who's in Charge? The Wall Street Bandits, Of Course







Wall Street rallies as unemployment rate soars
US shed another half-million jobs in April







Eddie Hatcher, Indian Activist, Dies in Prison









Four Indian Athletes Honored








White House: We Can't Save Newspapers







Supreme Court Mocks Teen Girl's Strip-Searching









Chemtrail Patents:








Bilderbergers plan secret meeting in Greece






Arlen Specter's Bizarre, Blood-Soaked Story is a GOP
Distraction From His Treatment of Anita Hill,
JFK Witness and the Truth






Augusto Boal, Founder of the Theater of the
Oppressed, Dies at 78