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LIFESTYLE/ ARTS/ CULTURE/ ETC:
EVENTS
HIGH CONSCIOUSNESS
ARTS
MUSIC VIDEOS
ENVIRONMENT
SCIENCE
HEALTH
GLOBAL NEWS
NATIONAL NEWS:
GENERAL INFO
WAR
POLITICAL
ECONOMIC
SURVEILLANCE/FRINGE POSSIBILITIES:
QUOTES FOR THE WEEK
PUNMASTER MUSIC NEWS-SELECTED ARTICLES
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LIFESTYLE/ ARTS/ CULTURE/ ETC:

EVENTS:

Sat, July 9 at the White House:
Stop the Bombing of Libya!


Shambhala Festival
- On August 5th to 8th British Columbia, Canada.
Be sure to see the fabulous art of our friend Chris Dyer who will be there as well




An Introduction to the Spirit Vine
August 11-18 in Brazil



Ecology, Cosmos and Consciousness:
London- Tuesday 26th July



HIGH CONSCIOUSNESS:


Did Shakespeare smoke pot?



Paris Hilton Does Hash Like A Pro
-youtube



Tommy Chong Confronts
"War on Drugs" Profiteer



The Ramifications of Ron Paul and Barney Frank’s Efforts to Legalize Marijuana



How Marijuana Legalizers Can Win Over Social Conservatives



Latest Obama/DOJ Memo Emphasizes Why We Must Pass HR 2306,
The Ending Federal Marijuana Prohibition Act Of 2011



Prisoners convicted for crack could be released early



Hemp Hero:
How Marijuana Could Save The Economy



Feds vs. Deadheads in Missouri "Schwagstock" Forfeiture Battle



Italy
-Top court permits marijuana on balcony



Lebanese Police Destroying Marijuana Fields Attacked




GM marijuana problem growing in Colombia




Body's Natural Marijuana
-Like Chemicals Make Fatty Foods Hard to Resist



Does cannabis cure cancer




LSD Alleviates 'Suicide Headaches'



Legend of a mind:
The archives of Timothy Leary



Aldous Huxley's psychedelic Los Angeles life



Acid tests:
Research into hallucinogenic drugs begins to shake off decades of taboo




Drugs and Medicines in Historical Context




Ibogaine:
A Novel Anti-Addictive Compound A Comprehensive Literature Review



Alex Jones, DMT and the Clockwork Elves
-youtube
(This one might be better in the fringe section, but have a look if interested)



The Vaults of Erowid



The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide
by James Fadiman



Prof. Jay Courtney Fikes interview
– “Huichol, Peyote, and the Carlos Castaneda Deception” –




Margaret de Wys ayahuasca site and events calendar




Jacques Mabit
- Ayahuasca, shamanism and foreigners
-youtube



Takiwasi
-Center for the Rehabilitation of Drug Addicts and the Investigation of Traditional Medicine




Anaconda Cosmica:
a healing center mission: "The healing programs we offer bring together all the different tools of the shipibo medicine. They are practiced by shipibo master healers with decades of experience and under the supervision of Guillermo Arevalo, also known by his shipibo name as Kestenbetsa, who is the spiritual guide of the shipibo people."



Sacred Medicine Journey



Ayahuasca:
Liana of Illumination



The Four Gates
-shamanic workshops



Mushrooms, Myth & Mithras,
by Ruck, Hoffman, & Celdrán (2011)




The Deep Self,
by John C. Lilly (1977)



Dennis McKenna interview



Answering the Call to Your Shamanic Initiation
Host: Alberto Villoldo, Ph.D.
Ignorance or fear too often keep us from seizing the opportunity to experience
profound personal transformation, but we are all called upon to take a shamanic
journey, if we choose to accept it.




Merry-Prankster Physicists
-Trying to draw a line from LSD to ESP by way of quantum physics.
Hey, it was the '70s. .



Harvard scientists to make LSD factory from microbes




Dirty Bloody Hippies-
"a hippie trip back to 1970s New Zealand. The documentary explores a colourful time in New Zealand’s social history beginning in 1969, a couple of years after San Francisco’s infamous “summer of love”.
Hands off to our friend Peter Terry who organized the famous Nambassa festivals
and has been a major resource for this film



Ruling Elite/NWO take DMT to contact entites
- Alex Jones 14/6/11 (????)



Religion and Psychoactive Sacraments:
An Entheogen Chrestomathy



The Shaman's Path
- Hank Wesselman



THE SHAMANS OF EGYPT



Autobiography of a Yogi Sideshow
- The Life of Paramhansa Yogananda
- Narrated by Swami Kriyananda



Phillip Askew New York City Vinyasa
-youtube




The Karma Papers article from Global Brain Project




Random acts of Aloha
-youtube




Sacred Messages
-Honoring the Infinite Self
-blogsite of our friends Caroline and Thom



"How Is Peace Possible in This World?"
iammaster's inspirational portals of ascension




Mindfulness Life Coaching with Medway Kent




Molecules of Madness:
"The story of our descent into madness"





ARTS:

Beautiful art dimensions of Jeffrey K Bedrick



Our friend Chris Dyer continues to manifest beautiful art on canvas
and skateboards and now on film



Hemingway, Hounded by the Feds



Pagan Paranormal Erotica
by Laura Stamps



The Doors
- 10 Minute Interview 1969



Jim Morrison and The Doors



ENVIRONMENT:


Iceland Beautiful
-youtube



Ecoversity
-variety of environmental news and issues to learn about



South Africa Goes Green to Honor Mandela's 93rd Birthday



Wiraqocha Foundation
-promoting a philosophy of life harmony with the natural world.
This is a way of life preserved by the Q'ero Indians of Peru



The Belize Project:
Endangered Species SanctuarySelf
- Sustainable EcoVillagein Central America



Ethiopia
- Omo Valley tribes:
photographs by John Kenny



World Bank Loans Madagascar $52 Million To Protect Biodiversity



Spectacular discoveries in New Guinea



The most important fish in the sea



Loudest Animal is Tiny



MEXICO:
Native Community Defends Land Against Loggers, Organised Crime



Chinese firm to invest 10 million euros in Congo forest area.
A Chinese firm will invest more than 10.3 million euros (15 million dollars)
over four years to exploit a forest area in northern Congo



Amazon Deforestation Rates Double
as Brazil Weighs Bill to Pardon Farmers



NO FRACKING WAY!
NYT Reports Gov. Cuomo About to Lift Ban on Fracking in NY



Plans to strip mine the moon may soon
be more than just science-fiction




Help Protect Whales and Dolphins From Oil Exploration



Going Meat-Free One Day a Week Saves More
GHG Emissions Than A 100% Local Diet (Redux)



Put Down Your Beach Towel:
10 States Where You Should Think Twice Before Jumping in the Water



Why is there only one human species?



Crazy Europeans think people are more important than cars



Stressed in the City:
How Urban Life May Change Your Brain



Remembrance of cities past:
spectacular photos of the way we lived



Jim Kunstler on The Triumph Of The City:
Dream On



Public Urinal Feeds Plants With Pee



"Could eating poo burgers save the earth?"



Jellyfish Close Scottish Nuclear Power Plant



Big Steps In Building:
Stop Ignoring Orientation And Sun Control



German Combined Power Plant Demonstrates Real-Time Integration of Renewables



Concrete canvas shelters



Anatomy of a solar PV system



Green Roof Covers Wind- and Solar-Powered Produce Warehouse



Groundbreaking solar plant in Spain generates 24 hours of power



SCIENCE:


China opens world's longest sea bridge



Scientists:
Saturn moon could support life



Antimatter Tevatron mystery gains ground



Past Due?
On an Average of Every One Million Years, Earth Absorbs a Major Asteroid
or Comet Impact. A house-sized asteroid zipped past Earth yesterday closer than the moon.


HEALTH:


Archive for the "Electrosmog" Category



Attention Veg-Eaters:
6 Nutrients You Could Be Short On



Europe Calls This One of the Top 6 Chemical Threats to Humans
..DEHP


Drug Company Profiteering, Pill Mills and Thousands of Addicts:
How Oxycontin Has Spread Through America


Vaccines & Liberty:
Let Freedom Ring,
July 1, 2011
-youtube



Links Between Environmental Exposures and Autism Explored



FDA Says:
Drinking This Natural Food is a Crime :
Ron Paul vs the FDA milk police



Paleo Diet Solution
~ Are Grains Making You Sick & Fat?
(Beyond Gluten-Free!)



Can Eating this Common Grain Cause Psychiatric Problems?
-Wheat



Is your shampoo making you fat?




How to Drink Your Way Out of Fatigue :
Dr. Mercola Interviews Cherie Calbom about Juicing
(Part 3/3) -youtube



Ignored Since the 1950s
- Now a 'Miracle' High-Protein Super Food?
-Spirulina and nice comparison to chlorella



Take 4.5 Grams of This Each Day to Prevent or Fight Asthma
-CLA



Astaxanthin helps Flush These "Dementia Markers" Out of Your Blood Stream



Mystery Ingredient in Coffee Boosts Protection Against Alzheimer's Disease,
Study Finds


New Study:
Fluoride Can Damage the Brain


Roundup:
Birth Defects Caused By World's Top-Selling Weedkiller,
Scientists Say




Organic Spies Volume II:
Dean Foods, Land O'Lakes and Monsanto.
Part 1-youtube



GOP votes against food safety—again




Biotech company using cell lines from aborted babies
in food enhancement testing



Is Breast Milk the Key to Mother-Baby Bonding?



Using Birth Control Pills Alters Womens Mate Preferences



EU Bans Penis-Shrinking Chemical;
America Does Not



Measuring Up:
How Our Culture's Obsession With Porn-Sized Penises Hurts Men



Why Getting Older Doesn't Mean Giving Up Sex



Mac McClelland on PTSD,
Haiti and Women Writing About Sex



GLOBAL NEWS


Qaddafi Did NOT Threatens Attacks on Europe
Huge Pro Gaddafi Rally In Tripoli-Video
Gaddafi is challenging Sarkozy, Cameron and Obama
to switch on their TV and watch the crowd.


The Powers of Manipulation:
Islam as a Geopolitical Tool to Control the Middle East



Worst Drought in 60 Years Threatens Famine in Africa
NAIROBI, Kenya, July 6, 2011 (ENS)
- The worst drought in 60 years is causing a severe food crisis in East Africa.
In Kenya, the world's largest refugee camp is overwhelmed as 10,000
climate refugees from across the drought-stricken region arrive each...




Amazon Deforestation Rates Double as Brazil Weighs Bill to Pardon Farmers



The Invasion of Australia
- Official, at Last



Revealed:
British government's plan to play down Fukushima



United Kingdom:
Strikes: 750,000 set to down tools in biggest day of industrial action since the 1980s



Is Greece Being Blackmailed to Put the Brakes on Gaza Flotilla?



Greek journalist:
police in Syntagma “flirted with death”



Athens riots:
Greek general strike, day 2 - in pictures



In Greece:
'Populist Backlash in Age of Austerity'



If Greece goes…



The 'rituals' of the Greek riots



It's all Greek to them



Noam Chomsky
In Israel, a Tsunami Warning



India's 'Shocking' Child Sex-Change Epidemic



The Living Dead:
Why Thousands of Russian Addicts Are Rotting to Death




Staying Human (47:22)
Made Before His Death, This Film Follows Human Rights Activist
Vittorio Arrigoni As He Tries To Help The People Of Gaza.




NATIONAL NEWS


GENERAL INFO:


Fourth of July Lies



A July Fourth Shame on the Founders



U.S. life expectancy lags behind 41 nations



Jay Walljasper:
Why Cycling is More Patriotic Than Flag Waving



One Small Town in America Quietly Enjoys the Health Care We All Dream Of



Ordinary People Making Great Changes:
An Interview With "Freedom Riders"
Director Stanley Nelson



Small Acts of Resistance That Changed the World



Julian Assange on Why Calls for His Death and the McCarthyesque Crackdown
on WikiLeaks Are Good Signs



WikiLeaks' Brilliant Mastercard Commercial Parody
-youtube



10 Most Influential People in the Alternative Media (2011)
Monday, June 13, 2011



Issues and Alibis news



Anti-Empire Report




Lies Become Truths:
The Demise of the Newspaper Leaves Americans Dumber, Blinder and
Prone to Ideological Manipulation



Why Do People Believe Stupid Stuff, Even When
They're Confronted With the Truth?



14 Propaganda Techniques Fox "News" Uses to Brainwash Americans



Roger Ailes’ Secret Nixon-Era Blueprint for Fox News



Why is there a Media Blackout on Nuclear Incident at Fort Calhoun in Nebraska?



Emergency Status Unchanged as Secondary Flood Berm Collapses at Neb. Nuclear Plant



Yellowstone Oil Spill:
Over 1,000 Barrels Leak From Burst Exxon Pipeline
(VIDEO)



Lies, Damned Lies and Oil Spills:
Exxon Under Fire



Thousands flee as fire nears town, Los Alamos nuke lab



Nukes at Risk as Floods and Fires From Extreme Weather Make Us Vulnerable



3 Nuclear Plants in Danger.
2 Plants- Mandatory Evacuation underway Now!
-youtube




Fukushima Spews, Los Alamos Burns, Vermont Rages & We've Almost Lost Nebraska




NRC and industry rewrite nuke history



A 35% Spike in Infant Mortality in Northwest Cities Since Meltdown
Is the Dramatic Increase in Baby Deaths in the US a Result of Fukushima Fallout?
By JANETTE D. SHERMAN, MD and JOSEPH MANGANO



Trial Begins:
Did New Orleans Media Contribute to Police Violence After Hurricane Katrina?



America the Vulnerable:
Government Does Nothing as Right Wing Violence Surges



Making the World Safe for Hypocrisy
By Michael Parenti
American intervention may seem "wrongheaded" but, in fact, it is fairly
consistent and horribly successful.



Jury Duty in the US
Karin Friedemann
Monday, July 04, 2011



Supreme Court OK With Violent Video Games;
Porn Still Illegal (for Minors)



What's the Matter With Oklahoma?
State Launches Anti-Immigrant and Anti-Muslim Crusade



Woman Gang-Raped by 7 Halliburton Employees "Signed Away" Her Right to Sue?
How Justice Has Become the Privilege of Corporations



Why Is Jerry Falwell's Evangelical University Getting Filthy Rich off Your Tax Money?



Union Workers Replaced With Prison Labor Under
Scott Walker's Collective Bargaining Law




Don't Look on the Bright Side:
Pessimism, Not Magical Thinking, Is What Will Save Us




Getting used to Life without Food
Wall Street, BP, bio-ethanol and the death of millions



15 Food Companies That Serve You 'Wood'



Wikileaks:
US Embassy Cables :Haiti:
Exposed: U.S. Suppression of Min. Wage and Elite's Private Army
By Democracy Now!
The Nation magazine and the Haitian weekly, Haïti Liberté, exposes new details on how Fruit of the Loom, Hanes and Levi's worked with the United States to block an increase in the minimum wage in the hemisphere's poorest nation.



Daniel Ellsberg:
All the crimes Richard Nixon committed against me are now legal




Bradley Manning’s Army of One




Chase Madar, A Medal for Bradley Manning?



Supreme Court's Latest Sabotage of Democratic Process
-- Are Only Wealthy Corporations Supposed to Have a Say in Our Government?



The Painful Collapse of Empire:
How the "American Dream" and American Exceptionalism Wreck Havoc on the World



How Greed Destroys America



Iceland Beautiful
-youtube



Who Does The Law Serve?
By Paul Craig Roberts



Fighting the Culture Wars With Hate, Violence and Even Bullets:
Meet the Most Extreme of the Radical Christians



Keith Olbermann | Petraeus Is Wrong (and Stupid) on Torture



Killing Gaddafi's Grandbabies
Glen Ford
Black Agenda Report



WAR:


Dennis Kucinich: The US Must End Its Illegal War in Libya Now




The War Against Libya By Cynthia McKinney




The CIA's Fake "Arab Spring" Becoming A Long, Hot Summer Of War
Obama Regime Courts World Conflagration: Imperial Overstretch Threatens as US, NATO Wage Five Wars: Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Libya, and Yemen – Are Syria, Iran, Lebanon Next?
Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D.



The Lie Behind the Afghan War



US special forces to hit Afghanistan



10 Years of US War: $3.7 Trillion... and Counting



Risk-Free And Above The Law:
U.S. Globalizes Drone Warfare:
Last week the Washington Post, the New York Times and other major
American newspapers reported that the U.S. launched its first unmanned
aerial vehicle (drone) missile attack inside Somalia.



Metal Allies:
The new face of a faceless global war: drones and the CIA.:
In the next decade, our reliance on drones and the spies who support
them may increase for a different reason: We're losing friends.





US Refuses to Vacate Pakistan Base
By REUTERS
The United States is rejecting demands from Pakistani officials that
American personnel abandon a military base used by the CIA to stage
drone strikes against suspected militants, U.S. officials told Reuters.



Why Is U.S. Pumping AK-47's and Military Rifles Into
The Hands Of Mexican Drug Cartels?


POLITICAL:


Breaking Point:
Obama and the Death of the Democratic Party



Sen. Bernie Sanders:
We Will Not Balance the Budget on the Backs of Working Families



Ralph Nader Is Tired of Running for President
by Chris Hedges :
"The most important moral and intellectual voices within a disintegrating
society are slowly discredited when their nonviolent protests and calls for
justice cannot alter intransigent and corrupt systems of power. The repeated
acts of peaceful civil disobedience, efforts at electoral and political reform
and the fight to protect the rule of law are dismissed as useless by an embittered,
dispossessed and betrayed public. The demagogues and hatemongers, the
purveyors of violence, easily seduce enraged and bewildered masses in the
final stages of collapse with false promises of vengeance, new glory and moral renewal."




Psycho Talk:
The 32 Craziest Things GOP Presidential Contender Michele Bachmann Has Said



Bachmann:
Energy is ‘the most easy problem for America to solve



Does Bachmann Believe Slavery Had Advantages?
-video



Bachmann’s Aide Hides $10M Secret



Gay Marriage in NY, Won by Tea Party Funders?



Contrary To GOP Claims, U.S. Has Second Lowest Corporate
Taxes In The Developed World




Why the GOP Loves the Debt



ECONOMIC:


America's Oil Price Inflation Crisis is Yet to Come



Obama's Trillion-Dollar "Sacrifice"
Plan Targets Health Care and Social Security



Tax the Rich. Problem Solved




Absurd:
Corporate-Backed Group Wants to Ensure That We Can't Compare CEO
and Worker Pay:
Corporations Trying to Hide CEO-Worker Pay Gap



How the Hell Do You Get Out of Debt If You're Not a CEO Raking in Millions?



The 'enraging' salaries of America's top execs:
By the numbers



Why QE2 Failed:
The Money All Went Offshore



The Military as a Jobs Program:
There are More Efficient Ways to Stimulate the Economy



SURVEILLANCE/FRINGE POSSIBILITIES:


President John F Kennedy Secret Society Speech
version 2-youtube



Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) versus Bilderberg:
Where are Real Decisions Being Made?



A disturbing trend:
Neo-Nazi codes



Steve Quayle:
Luciferian Take Down of World Banking System, False Flag Attack,
Torture Cells, World War 3
-video



Security Grifters Partner-Up on Sinister Cyber-Surveillance Project



Why Do the Police Have Tanks?
The Strange and Dangerous Militarization of the US Police Force



Obama Administration Shuts Down Investigations Into Bush-era Torture



The Corrupt Corporate Incarceration Complex



SHU prisoners join Pelican Bay hunger strike



3 Months in Juvie For a MySpace Joke?
How the For-Profit Prison Industry Locks Up More People Each Year



ALEX JONES ‘DMT ELVES WANT THE ELITES TO KILL US ALL'.
(Too bad he pulled his video off youtube rather than risk anyone with
even part of a brain seeing it)



The Smart Phone Con Job:
Your So-Called 4G Phone Isn't What It's Cracked Up To Be




The Best AntiVirus Software Companies



Hackerville:
How a Remote Town in Romania Has Become Cybercrime Central



How the hot dog became the most American food
Served everywhere from Coney Island to the FDR White House,
the wiener has come to symbolize our way of life



Sarah Duterte VS sheriff (Super Punches)
-youtube



HUMOR:

SAPPORO BEER COMMERCIAL




QUOTES FOR THE WEEK:

“The best way to do for the progress of humanity is to step forward yourself. That might sound individualistic and egoistic, but isn’t, it’s just common sense.“
Sri Aurobindo


"There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution." Aldous Huxley




"I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries as long as they are chiefly agricultural; and this will be as long as there shall be vacant lands in any part of America. When they get piled upon one another in large cities as in Europe, they will become corrupt as in Europe."-- Thomas Jefferson -- (1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President



"There's only one party in America today, with two wings, the conservative wing, known as Democrats, and the reactionary wing, known as Republicans." - Gore Vidal



"In the U. S. the Democrats have become what the Republicans used to be and the Republicans have become lunatics." - Phil Gasper


"We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace, business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob." Franklin Delano Roosevelt also known by his initials, FDR - 32nd President of the United States (1933-1945)



"Today television news is watched more often than people read newspapers, than people listen to the radio, than people read or gather any other form of communication. The reason: People are lazy. With television you just sit - watch - listen. The thinking is done for you." Roger Ailes (president of Fox News Channel) while working for the Nixon administration



"All experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security." - United States Declaration of Independence
From my friend Siva:
Those who think the Founding Fathers of America were supporters of capitalism should get their ignorance cleared, before getting overly enthusiastic over capitalism and thinking that it is their patriotic duty to be so. Defending capitalism need not be (and is not) the duty of every American citizen in the name of patriotism. It is the duty of every American citizen to fight for individual rights and individual freedom, because those were the foundations of this nation, not capitalism.
Thomas Jefferson said in 1802:

"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property - until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."



"No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck." - Frederick Douglass



"No power but Congress can declare war,but what is the value of this constitutional provision, if the President of his own authority may make such military movements as must bring on war?" -- Daniel Webster (1782-1852), US Senator 1846



"Wars are caused by undefended wealth." -- General Douglas MacArthur - (1880-1964) WWII Supreme Allied Commander of the Southwest Pacific, Supreme United Nations Commander
"To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers, but extremely fit for a nation that is governed by shopkeepers." Adam Smith



The world looks with some awe upon a man who appears unconcernedly indifferent to home, money, comfort, rank, or even power and fame. The world feels not without a certain apprehension, that here is someone outside its jurisdiction; someone before whom its allurements may be spread in vain; someone strangely enfranchised, untamed, untrammelled by convention, moving independent of the ordinary currents of human action. -
Winston Churchill, politician and statesman (1874-1965)



"The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it." - Joseph Conrad



"To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers, but extremely fit for a nation that is governed by shopkeepers." Adam Smith



"It is part of human nature to hate the man you have hurt." - Tacitus c.56 - c.177 AD



"Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future." - Adolf Hitler



"The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment." - Robert M. Hutchins



"The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now" - J. G. Ballard
Where there is no vision, the people perish
---Proverbs xxix, 18