Aloha from what continues to be a very stormy wet time on the Big Island of Hawaii.
The rain does help nature grow and the water tanks fill. Likewise information also nourishes our knowledge and helps us discern as well as choose appropriate action. Thus the path to wisdom is clearer. Not being on the grid gives us a chance to appreciate how to let go of loops that continue to be diverted through greed and destruction of the planet and all its life forms. The trend of the ultra-wealthy in building underground survival complexes is not a sign of healthy stewardship and expresses terrible mismanagement of resources and infrastructure. If corporations claim to be looked at as individuals, then they have to start acting as such. The bottom line can leave room for sharing and surprise out of the box gratitude and profit sharing with all of humanity instead of squeezing the life out of survival.
We are indeed entering a world of quickening change. As David Icke suggests, we need to open our minds and start taking responsibility and "remove the edifice of control and the suppression of information which will allow the full flow of knowledge of who we are to flood into the public arena." He points out that we are spirit beings having a human experience, but in order to enter the incredible consciousness shift, it is essential that we take care of the first part. Too many people deny the need for the first and feel that pain and suffering of others can be thus not real.
rights to energy and clean water. Political The movements to suppress freedom and dissent continue to spread while the media and government show not concern for individuals but for their corporate bosses and banksters. There is truth in the statement that "To Occupy" means not to repeat the same process but to end corporate rule. Spirituality is not a matter of self applauding righteousness but of putting compassion into practice. Christians should remember that Jesus was not interested in putting on fancy robes but in healing the sick for no pay or need of high insurance premiums. In the temple he cast out the money makers and proclaimed usury, which we call paying interest to the banks, as evil. Likewise he didn't say God should punish with drones, prohibition or weapons of mass destruction but to live and let live. Not of guilt and punishment but of love and finding delight in being part of the creation that is for all. Many on the new age path feel that to be spiritual means to meditate and hide in caves of personal dis-attachment. Yet the bodhisattvic path is one of compassion and of making sure all life is free of pain and suffering. Meditation, chanting, yoga and other spiritual practices are necessary but that does not mean just holding hands in circles but to also reach out to those that are not in the circle and to work towards bringing justice for all. It is certainly possible for the dominators not to be predators but to share what they have grabbed and to put away the war toys. Instead they can find themselves better liked and their soul more at ease by making sure everyone in the world can be fed, health care provided and a roof over their heads. To look at people with a feeling of gratitude, joy and compassion is true net worth. To own more than one can use is gluttony. To live simply so others can simply live is a universal affirmation. As Terence McKenna said, our society has created the sin of robbing the future from our children. Alternative and even free energy should be available for all and privatization and patents should not restrict everyone's assassinations and so called collateral damage are nothing more that murder and must end. At this point we can no longer be apathetic. Information is a vital link and even though our economic situation is in grave shape, I am determined to keep the Links By George newsletter and facebook updates serving such a need. Besides the demonstrations in front of wall street, we need to reach the places where the elites eat, play golf and live with the wake up call. They don't need the extra fleet of high priced cars and personal island mansions. It's time for them to join humanity rather than enslave it. It's time for their children to become aware of how their parents' lifestyle and jobs are starving children in other places and are killing off our atmosphere with pollution.
Sacred power plants, shamanism and psychedelics can open our doors of perception and access our birthright to higher ground, and deep healing. They connect us to the world of nature and its communications. They can provide entertainment but also the responsible integration into a hopefully healthier and more loving lifestyle.
To strive for the healthiest diet is important but to feel moral righteousness for others who don't have such a choice does not bring satisfaction. Our emotional health and attitude is important and sharing these same opportunities with others such as with our example and explanation is important as well.
Humor, art and music were all considered divine muses by the ancients and are vital for our life to flourish. As feminist Emma Goldman once said " If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution."
In-Joy your day and the rest of your life.
George
This week's "links by George" again is full of articles that include shamanism, healing, environmental issues, political and economic. And lots of music videos as well.
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EVENTS:
8th International Amazonian Shamanism Conference:
"What Ever Will Be, Shall Be"
July 14 - 21st, 2012
Hemp Building Courses
-Australia
HIGH CONSCIOUSNESS:
The Siberian Shamanism Origins Of Santa Claus:
Reindeer, Pine Trees, And.. Mushrooms?
The psychedelic secrets of Santa Claus
Literary Review:
‘The Psychedelic Explorer’s Guide’
by James Fadiman
New book on Albert Hofmann
The General History of Drugs'
by Antonio Escohotado,
Acid Redux:
in Contemporary Justice Review, 2008:
Drugs, Healing, and the Expansion or Repression of Human Consciousness:
PART IV
The God Chemical:
Brain Chemistry And Mysticism
PSYCHEDELIC YOGA:
The Application of Yoga Meditation Techniquesto the Use of Psychedelic Sacraments
Terence McKenna
- Love and Meaning
-youtube
Terence McKenna
- Bring Back The Archaic Revival
-youtube
Dennis Mckenna
- Shamanism, Consciousness, and the future of Psychedelics
-youtube
Absinthes To Go Mad Over
The Visionary World of Ayahuasca
- Plant Spirit Shamanism in the Amazon
The Internationalization of Ayahuasca
edited by Beatriz Caiuby Labate, Henrik Jungaberle
Czechs Decriminalize Peyote, Magic Mushroom Growing
Johns Hopkins Psilocybin
-Cancer Study
Can Ecstasy Treat Autism?
The HolyHerb dot org
Most Shocking WikiLeaks Yet
Marijuana may be good for your brain and more
-video
New Jersey OK’s MMJ on Preserved Farms
Father gives five-year-old medical marijuana
It Turns Out That Smoking Marijuana May
Actually Make You A Safer Driver
Michigan Medical Marijuana Home Delivery Service
Feds Force Hundreds of California's Medical
Marijuana Dispensaries to Close
World War-D:
The Case against prohibitionism, roadmap to controlled re-legalization
-youtube
Tell Attorney General Holder to end
the assault on medical marijuana!
Gingrich Proposed the Death Penalty for Pot Smokers
-- Even Though He Admitted to Smoking it Himself
US House Set to Pass Bad Drug Bills
Police Commissioner's Order Was Not Enough:
NYPD Continues to Make Thousands of Illegal, Racially Biased Pot Arrests
Basque Country to Legalize, Regulate Marijuana
Australia:
The Legal Way To Invest In Cannabis
Live Stoned is a medical marijuana awareness resource
supporting advocacy, education and safety.
A Fluoride-Free Pineal Gland is More Important than Ever
The Soul Cluster:
Reconsideration of a Millennia Old Concept
By Ede Frecska, Levente Móró and Hank Wesselman:
"The article presents a comparative analysis of the theories on conceptions of soul in indigenous and early European traditions. The focal point of the study is the observation that the concept of soul is noticeably complex in aboriginal cultures, and its plural—especially tripartite—nature is the rule rather than the exception."
Fire of the Goddess: Nine Paths to Ignite the Sacred Feminine
by Katalin Koda.
Katalin is a friend and also a wonderful example of spiritual vision and its expression.
Reading any of her books is a pleasure, inspiration and an access portal to higher
consciousness and health.
Bhagavad Gita on trial, faces ban in Russia
Shanti Loka is located on the North Coast of Bali, near Lovina and Seririt,
on a hill within a very spiritual environment –overlooking the Bali Sea and the
mountains of the national forest.
A sensual location of calm, in the midst of nature, surrounded by Balinese temples and rice fields –on a hill by the sea. The right place to rejuvenate your body and soul in a fascinating, tropical world.
WISDOMKEEPERS:
Meetings with Native American Spiritual Elders~
The Thick Dark Fog
-youtube
Walter Littlemoon was forced to attend a Federal Government Boarding School on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota in the 1950s, where his culture, language and spirituality were brutally suppressed
December 20, 1192:
Richard the Lionheart captured
Happy birthday, ex-Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
The Way of the Heart:
A beautiful portal from my friend George that reminds the beauty of following
Your heart's inner guidance:
Thrive is an excellent movie that I encourage all to see. For the sake of openness,
here is a different review on the movie to consider:
"Thrive: The Story is Wrong but the Spirit is Right"
Pila of Hawaii
- Huna Cleansing to Clear Old Baggage
-you tube
ONE OF THE GREATEST POSTS ON YOUTUBE SO FAR!
-youtube
COMMON PASSION PACHAMAMA WORLD
-you tube
Tina Turner - Sarvesham Svastir Bhavatu - "Children Beyond"
- HD Clip 2011
ARTS:
Check out Robbie's psychedelic art gallery for beautiful portals and expanded expressions
One People Flash Mob — Occupy
-youtube
On 19 November 2011 over 100 dancers converged at Occupy
SF & Oakland to dance the world awake
Bruce Springsteen | 'Someplace Like America'
Hippie TV News and Stuff
w/Winston Smith and the WWH News Team
-youtube
RetroBites:
Hunter S. Thompson & Hell's Angels (1967)
-youtube
John Lennon`s last interview 8th December 1980
John Lennon’s spirit still soars, Yoko Ono declares
The musician was assassinated 31 years ago today
Bob Weir:
How Barack Obama Reunited the Dead
-youtube
ENVIRONMENT:
Blood of the Amazon
-youtube
This feature length documentary shows the journey one woman
took from the headwaters in Ecuador along the Amazon to Brazil,
investigating the effects of the oil industry on the environment
and indigenous people who live there.
Nicola Peel is our friend who made the movie above mentioned.
Please check out her website for more information on her work
and also for the Blood of the Amazon movie.
Crisis in the Amazon
- World's 3rd Largest Dam Construction Kills Indigenous People
-you tube
U.S. Blocks Climate Change Agreement
CLIMATE CHANGE: Kyoto Protocol on Life Support
U.S. 2020 climate treaty proposal isn’t a delay—it’s a death sentence
Air Too Dangerous to Breathe:
How Gas Drilling Can Turn Rural Communities Into
Industrial Wastelands
[With Photos]
Robert Redford | Congress and Keystone XL:
A National Disgrace
Confirmed:
Fukushima disaster contaminated ocean with 50 million times normal radiation,
leaks still ongoing
Global Witness quits Kimberley Process as Zimbabwe 'blood diamonds' exported
Biomass is the next biofuel 'land grab' on tropical forests, warn campaigners
The bugs that ate Monsanto
In praise of the humble pothole
Tina Turner
- Beyond Project 2011
- New Trailer - May 2011
Is living off the Grid now a crime?
Urban Homestead:
personal and excellent information on sustainability
New Agtivist:
Edith Floyd is making a Detroit urban farm, empty lot by empty lot
Justin Maxson:
An Appalachian trailblazer for sustainability
Shipping containers:
could they tackle the housing crisis for a growing population?
Eco friendly houses and more
Alexi Arango:
Teaching solar to take a quantum-dot leap
SCIENCE:
UNLIMITED FREE ENERGY IDENTIFIED
-youtube
Experimental Magnetic Pulses May Help Heal A Brain After Stroke
HEALTH:
The Best, Worst and Most Overlooked Food Stories of 2011
Willie Nelson | Occupy the Food System
Dr. Mercola Interviews Dr. Beatrice Golomb on Big Pharma
(Part 1 of 7)
"The Drug Companies' Newest Profit Weapon to Steal Your Money "
Seven Diseases Big Pharma Hopes You Get in 2012
Book:
"While Science Sleeps"
by Woodrowe C. Monte
Burzynski:
Cancer Is Serious Business
Australian journalist wins prestigious award for exposing flu vaccine scandal
'Anthrax isn't scary at all compared to this':
Man-made flu virus with potential to wipe out many millions
if it ever escaped is created in research lab
Read more:
Important Advantage from Actually Getting Flu?
The First Thing to do When a Cold or Flu Strikes
-youtube
The Vitamin Which Can Cut Your Flu Risk Nearly in Half
-Vitamin D
10 Natural Tips To Boost Immunity This Winter
Natural cures for high blood pressure
VEGANISM:
A TRUTH WHOSE TIME HAS COME
Rudi Moerck on Astaxanthin
-youtube
"Some Call It the World's Best Antioxidant
-- Protecting Your Eyes, Brain, and Preventing Wrinkles "
Dr. Mercola Interviews Dr. Huber about GMO
(Part 1 of 2) -youtube
"The Hidden Epidemic Destroying Your Gut Flora "
Get the Lead and Arsenic Out of Apple Juice
! PLEASE SIGN ! !
Don't Let Bayer Avoid Responsibility for Injuries to Women
VERY IMPORTANT ACTION
How much sugar is in your kid's cereal?
Obama Legalizes Horse Slaughter for Human Consumption
Most Shocking WikiLeaks Yet
Marijuana may be good for your brain and more
-video
Creative People Cheat the Most
10 Habits of Happy Couples
Who's Winning the War on Abortion,
Birth Control, and Sex?
Shame on You:
PA Liquor Control Board Blames Drunk Girls
(and Their Friends) for Being Raped
Women, Sex and Death — From Vampires to Psychoanalysis
GLOBAL NEWS:
ActionAid:
Act Now to Stop Food Price Spikes
NZ food bill to make growing food a government privilege
rather than a human right
Australians outraged at Japan using Tsunami relief funds for whaling
China police block access to riot-hit village: locals
Hundreds Arrested in Child-Trafficking Ring Bust
#Op Support Greece - Anonymous
-youtube
Anonymous
#OpGreece - No IMF
-youtube
Egypt's Day of Shame:
Video Shows Women Beaten With Metal Poles
Gingrich Calls Palestinians 'Invented' People
UK is a Christian Country, Affirms Prime Minister
The North American Homeland Security Perimeter:
A Threat to Canada's National Sovereignty
How We're Polluting Mexico
BOMBSHELL:
US Caught Meddling in Russian Elections!
Putin Accuses US In Murder Of Gaddafi
Russia's Vladimir Putin implicated Washington today in the killing
of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi and launched a tirade against
Senator John McCain in an extraordinary attack on US policies.
Pearl Harbor:
70 Years on, Is Iran the New Japan?
Rwanda:
The Pentagon's African Holocaust Spanish High Court investigates
genocide committed by US-backed dictatorship
NATIONAL NEWS:
GENERAL INFO:
January 11, National Day of Action Against Guantánamo!
Turning to Instead of Against Each Other
URGENT
- FOX News Caught Using Fake Video Of Riots HA, HA!
-youtube
If You Are Not Outraged, You Are Not Paying Attention:
5 Major Ways Corporate Elites Are Degrading America
Bailout Total:
$29.616 Trillion Dollars
These 30 Corporations Want To Buy Our Government
Richard D. Wolff | Lehman Brothers:
Financially and Morally Bankrupt
The Walmart Heirs Have the Same Net Worth
as the Bottom 30 Percent of Americans
Walmart spends big to help anti-environment candidates
Sow seeds, not greed:
Farmers gather on Wall Street
Move Your Money, Change the System
Occupy Our Homes:
From the Streets to Foreclosed Homes,
OWS Finds a New Frontier
Mary Lee Ward Eviction Defense by O4O August 19, 2011
-youtube
From Eviction to Victory,
San Francisco Shows the Way to Take Back America
How Goldman Sachs and Other Companies Exploit Port Truck Drivers
— Occupy Protesters Plan to Shut Down West Coast Ports in Protest
Occupy New Orleans Protesters Disrupt Foreclosure Auctions
Occupy is Not Just About Occupying:
The Goal is Not to Occupy it is to End Corporate Rule
We Are The Many
- Occupy Anthem for the 99% (OWS)
by Makana
The Remarkable Political Stupidity of the Street
Olbermann Interviews Dorli Rainey 84 Year Old Pepper Sprayed By Seattle Cops
-youtube
Must-Watch Maddow Segment on New GOP Voting Restrictions
Barring Elderly Women From the Polls
The young and the restless:
Kids sue government over climate change
Santorum:
We Don’t Need Food Stamps Because Obesity Rates Are So High
EXCLUSIVE:
Under Industry Pressure, USDA Works to Speed Approval of
Monsanto's Genetically Engineered Crops
Monsanto's Micro-Monster Could Kill Us All
Merck
—Too Big to Prosecute?
191 Anti-Earth Votes?
House Republicans Earn 'Worst Environmental Record of Any Congress'
The 20 Worst Wall Street Banks Funding Our Filthiest Polluters
China Wants To Construct A 50 Square Mile Self-Sustaining
City South Of Boise, Idaho
Uncle Ernie's late news
www.issuesandalibis.org
Time Magazine Person of the Year:
The Protester
David Icke On 2012
-youtube
Democracy Burning:
Three Founding OWS Members Talk About Our Broken System And How to Fix It
Why I Voted Against the Homeland Battlefield Bill
SPECIAL EDITION:
Indefinite Detention Bill Passes Both Senate and House
-video
The Trial of Bradley Manning
- Rule of Law or Rule of Intimidation, Retaliation and Retribution
The War on Drug Addicts - and Everyone Else
Marching Off the Cliff
By Noam Chomsky
Gingrich Proposed the Death Penalty for Pot Smokers
-- Even Though He Admitted to Smoking it Himself
Fraternity Suspended for Asking Members Who They'd Like to Rape
Why is Facebook Protecting Pro Rape Language
and Abuse of Women?
Should Pepper Spray Be TIME's Person of the Year?
Senate's Descent Into Madness:
Likely to Reject Nominee Because of Her Boyfriend of Two Decades Ago
In W. Virginia, "No Justice" After Mining Disaster That Killed 29
--and In North Carolina, Sterilization Victims Wait for Theirs
Ed Schultz on Michigan Gov't Takeover:
An "All-Out Assault" on the Voting Rights of Black Voters
Why Is the N.Y.P.D. After Me?
To be young and black in America.
A Good Day to Die
-excellent documentary on the struggles of Native Americans and Dennis Banks
L.A. County's War on Desert Rats
-youtube
What Once Was Is No More;
America Has Forfeited Its Role As The Leader Of The Free World
How Have We Become the United States of Fear?
""Tom Engelhardt: Americans ... are now remarkably detached and insulated
from the wars fought in our name and, increasingly, even those wars are
fought with an eerie detachment, at least the drone part of them.
In essence 1% of Americans who run things send 1% of Americans
(those in the armed services) out to fight their wars and the other 98%
are left out of things.
It's not exactly the definition of a democratic republic, is it?"
The Warning in Gary Webb’s Death
Tea Party Founder Arrested for Packing Heat on an Airplane
After Iraq, War Is US
The Final Indignity, the Last Insult, the Real America
Tomgram:
Nick Turse, Did the Pentagon Help Strangle the Arab Spring?
Dear Iran, Please Give Me Back My Drone Plane
Did FDR Provoke Pearl Harbor?
By Patrick J. Buchanan
WAR:
Obama at Fort Bragg:
A Hypocritical Embrace of a Criminal War
By Bill Van Auken
President Barack Obama used his speech to US troops at Fort Bragg, to embrace the nine-year war in Iraq that he had ostensibly opposed and to declare the destruction of the country a "success."
Documents Reveal US Massacre in Haditha, Iraq
New Photos Released of Iraq Atrocity,
With Documents and Video
US Troops Begin Operations on the Jordan-Syria Border
BREAKING:
US Troops Deploying on Jordan-Syria Border
-youtube
Air Force Dumped Thousands of Cremated Troops' Remains in Landfill
-- Many More Than Previously Acknowledged
IRAN-DRONEGATE:
Washington's Acrimony over the Downed Top Secret Spy Drone
Nick Turse,
The Life and Death of American Drones
Inspector General:
Army Retaliated Against Whistle-Blower
POLITICAL:
A Congress of Cowards
The Rise of the New Confederacy:
How America-Hating Right-Wingers Took Over the GOP
Republicans Worship a Nazi Jesus
Easier for GOP to Rig Voting Than Win Elections Fairly:
Voter Restrictions Based on Shoddy Evidence
GOP Trying to Steal Election By Limiting Voting?
How the GOP stole America
The Republican Clown Car Needs to Drive Out of Iowa. Now.
Short Tales From Bizarro World:
The GOP Primaries Edition
Ron Paul Blasts Michele Bachmann:
'She Hates Muslims'
Perry Getting Desperate:
Releases Gay-Baiting, War-on-Christmas-Trumpeting Campaign Ad
Is Gingrich Fit to Be President?
10 of The Craziest Things Newt Gingrich Has Ever Said
Newt's Colossally Stupid Tax Plan
How Ayn Rand Seduced Generations of Young Men and
Helped Make the U.S. Into a Selfish, Greedy Nation
ECONOMIC:
Presenting the Ten Greediest Americans of 2011
Corzine-Gensler the Goldman Connection
SURVEILLANCE/FRINGE POSSIBILITIES:
The THRIVE Movie:
An Exclusive Interview With Foster Gamble
ZEITGEIST:
MOVING FORWARD | OFFICIAL RELEASE | 2011
-youtube
Why Obama Will Not Veto NDAA Military Detention of Americans:
He Requested It.
Pepper Spray, Tasers, and LRADs
— What's Behind the Explosion of 'Less Lethal' Weapons for Crowd Control?
Beyond Guantanamo, a Web of US Prisons for Terrorism Inmates
Guantanamo Forever?
Federal agents raid Mormon food storage facility,
demand list of customers storing emergency food
David Icke EXPOSES Illuminati Music Industry
-youtube
"Shoot them down" UFO updates
HUMOR:
Monty Python - Spam
Hucklebuck
-youtube
Elvis Drugs
The dumbest cop ever
-youtube
Arj Barker - Hilarious stand up!!
[NEW]
Buddha Vs. Jesus
QUOTES FOR THE WEEK:
"Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth." - -- Albert Einstein -- (1879-1955) Physicist and Professor, Nobel Prize 1921
"Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking; where it is absent, discussion is apt to become worse than useless." -- Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi - (1828-1910) Russian writer Source: On Life and Essays on Religion
"Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down" - Frederick Douglass
"We must make clear to the Germans that the wrong for which their fallen leaders are on trial is not that they lost the war, but that they started it ": U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson, U.S. representative to the International Conference on Military Trials, Aug. 12, 1945
"Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking; where it is absent, discussion is apt to become worse than useless." -- Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi - (1828-1910) Russian writer Source: On Life and Essays on Religion
"This is my creed: Happiness is the only good; reason the only torch; justice the only worship, humanity the only religion, and love the only priest" - Robert G. Ingersoll
"He who is not angry when there is just cause for anger is immoral. Why? Because anger looks to the good of justice. And if you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust." - Aquinas
"There is absolutely nothing to be said for government by a plutocracy, for government by men very powerful in certain lines and gifted with 'a money touch,' but with ideals which in their essence are merely those of so many glorified pawnbrokers:" Theodore Roosevelt
"Liberty is not for these slaves; I do not advocate inflicting it against their conscience. On the contrary, I am strongly in favor of letting them crawl and grovel all they please before whatever fraud or combination of frauds they choose to venerate...Our whole practical government is grounded in mob psychology and.. the Boobus Americanus will follow any command that promises to make him safer." --H. L. Menchen
"He who dares not offend cannot be honest" Thomas Paine
"Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one." - Charles Mackay - 1841
"A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins." - Benjamin Franklin
"The ruling class has the schools and press under its thumb. This enables it to sway the emotions of the masses." - -- Albert Einstein - (1879-1955)
"Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought! Strike against manufacturing shrapnel and gas bombs and all other tools of murder! Strike against preparedness that means death and misery to millions of human beings! Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction! Be heroes in an army of construction!" - Helen Keller
"No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world." -- Bernard Baruch
"We all have the potential to move the world, and the world is ready to be moved." - - -- Harry Chapin
"There are no magic answers, no miraculous methods to overcome the problems we face, just the familiar ones: honest search for understanding, education, organization, action that raises the cost of state violence for its perpetrators or that lays the basis for institutional change -- and the kind of commitment that will persist despite the temptations of disillusionment, despite many failures and only limited successes, inspired by the hope of a brighter future." -- Noam Chomsky
You must work - we must all work to make the world worthy of its children. -- Pablo Casals
"Formerly no one was allowed to think freely; now it is permitted, but no one is capable of it any more. Now people want to think only what they are supposed to think, and this they consider freedom." - Oswald Spengler - (1880-1936) Source: The Decline of the West, 1926
"I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have: three meals a day for their bodies, - education and culture for their minds - and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits" - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Each time a person stands up for an idea, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, (s)he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance." -- Robert F. Kennedy
"Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the window which hope has opened" -- Charles Spurgeon
"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.": Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - (1749-1832)
"To educate a man is to unfit him to be a slave.": Frederick Douglass - [Frederick Baily] (1818-1895)
"Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide." -- Buddha [Gautama Siddharta] (563 - 483 BC)
"Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned, everywhere is war and until there are no longer first-class and second-class citizens of any nation, until the color of a man's skin is of no more significance than the color of his eyes. And until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race, there is war. And until that day, the dream of lasting peace, world citizenship, rule of international morality, will remain but a fleeting illusion to be pursued, but never attained... now everywhere is war." - - Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia - Popularized by Bob Marley in the song War
"Silence, they say, is the voice of complicity. But silence is impossible. Silence screams. Silence is a message, just as doing nothing is an act. Let who you are ring out & resonate in every word & every deed. Yes, become who you are. There's no sidestepping your own being or your own responsibility. What you do is who you are. You are your own comeuppance. You become your own message. You are the message. In the Spirit of Crazy Horse " Leonard Peletier
"It is yet another Civilized Power, with its banner of the Prince of Peace in one hand and its loot-basket and its butcher-knife in the other. Is there no salvation for us but to adopt Civilization and lift ourselves down to its level?" - Mark Twain
"The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own" Aldous Huxley - English novelist and critic, 1894-1963
"I count myself as a spiritual sister to those the US government has murdered, and I am angry at my powerlessness." - Karen Kwiatkowski
"The search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty." - Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
"There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting." -- Buddha
"America's entire war on terror is an exercise in imperialism. This may come as a shock to Americans, who don't like to think of their country as an empire. But what else can you call America's legions of soldiers, spooks and special forces straddling the globe?" : Michael Ignatieff, New York Times, Jul. 28, 2002
"I do not hesitate one second to state clearly and unmistakably: I belong to the American resistance movement which fights against American imperialism". - Paul Robeson
". . . in America, we have achieved the Orwellian prediction - enslaved, the people have been programmed to love their bondage and are left to clutch only mirage-like images of freedom, its fables and fictions. The new slaves are linked together by vast electronic chains of television that imprison not their bodies but their minds. Their desires are programmed, their tastes manipulated, their values set for them. " Gerry Spence, From Freedom to Slavery.
"If we work in marble, it will perish; if we work upon brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust; but if we work upon immortal minds and instill into them just principles, we are then engraving upon tablets which no time will efface, but will brighten and brighten to all eternity": Daniel Webster
"Our only political party has two right wings, one called Republican, the other Democratic. But Henry Adams figured all that out back in the 1890s. 'We have a single system,' he wrote, and 'in that system the only question is the price at which the proletariat is to be bought and sold, the bread and circuses.'" : Gore Vidal - The Decline and Fall of the American Empire
"If a baseball player slides into home plate and, right before the umpire rules if he is safe or out, the player says to the umpire - 'Here is $1,000.' What would we call that? We would call that a bribe. If a lawyer was arguing a case before a judge and said, 'Your honor before you decide on the guilt or innocence of my client, here is $1,000.' What would we call that? We would call that a bribe. "But if an industry lobbyist walks into the office of a key legislator and hands her or him a check for $1,000, we call that a campaign contribution. We should call it a bribe." : Janice Fine - Dollars and Sense magazine
" The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to the point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group or any controlling private power. " : President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
"The first war crime committed in any war of aggression by the aggressors is against the truth" - Michael Parenti
PUNMASTER MUSIC NEWS-SELECTED ARTICLES:
Dobie Gray, Singer Known for ‘Drift Away,’ Dies
By PAUL VITELLO
Dobie Gray, a versatile singer and songwriter who had a handful of hits in various pop genres but who was probably best known for his enduring 1973 soul anthem, “Drift Away,” a wistful paean to all songwriters and their songs, died on Tuesday in Nashville. He was believed to be 71.
Barbara Orbison, Widow of Singer Roy Orbison, Dies at 61
Barbara Orbison, widow of the rock singer Roy Orbison, who managed his career in the 1980s and worked to keep his legacy alive, died in Los Angeles on Tuesday. She was 61.
JIMI HENDRIX PARK TO OPEN IN SEATTLE NEXT YEAR
According to Rolling Stone, A new park celebrating the life and music of Jimi Hendrix is set to open in the guitarist's hometown of Seattle next year. Jimi Hendrix Park was revealed last week at a public meeting at the Northwest African American Museum and will open in 2012 to celebrate what would have been his 70th birthday. The 2.5-acre park will include stepping stones featuring his lyrics, rain drums, a butterfly garden, a performance area, a sound garden and more.
OLD SCHOOL BLUE BLUES OUT NOW FROM BILLY COX
The Blues ain’t perfect; the Blues is life. – Billy Cox
In 2009 Billy Cox was inducted into The Musicians Hall Of Fame; in 2010 he was honored with Experience Music Project’s Founders Award and earlier this year he was inducted into the West Virginia Music Hall Of Fame. With the honors and accolades pouring in, thick and fast, it would be understandable if he were to rest on his laurels. But that’s just not the Billy Cox way. He’s been a music man in motion for more than 50 years and shows no signs of slowing down. His latest album release, Old School Blue Blues, is a testament to his inexhaustible energy fervor and drive. To borrow from the album’s first -- and last -- track, he keeps “Rockin’ And Rollin’ On.” The album is something of a plea for a return to authenticity in music, both in terms of message and in the process by which it was created.
Of course, Billy is best known as the musician who worked with Jimi Hendrix before the Jimi Hendrix Experience was conceived, after the Jimi Hendrix Experience disbanded as part of the Band of Gypsys and, thereafter, as part of the Jimi Hendrix Experience when it coalesced again for the last time.
