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ENVIRONMENT
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HEALTH
GLOBAL NEWS
NATIONAL NEWS:
GENERAL INFO
WAR
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ECONOMIC
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QUOTES FOR THE WEEK
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EVENTS:
2012 MAUI EARTH DAY FESTIVAL
-April 22
Ram Das on Orpah show
-April 22
2012 Rainbow Gathering Brazil
-December
Psychoactive Substances in European History and Culture.
Wellington New Zealand . Sept 8 -9
The Tiger Meets the Jaguar again.
14 – 21 October 2012, 25 October – 1 November 2012, Nepal
Second intercultural exchange of shamanic traditions between
the Himalaya and the Amazon
HIGH CONSCIOUSNESS:
Feds Raid Oaksterdam Marijuana University,
The Beating Heart of the Oakland Cannabis Revival
Feds On Pot Raid?
'There Are Just Too Goddamned Many Of Them'
Canna-Conomy:
Rebranding the Medical Marijuana Industry
Tommy Chong Rolls a Giant Joint on Hashbar TV
-you tube
Rolling Words, Snoop Dogg’s Smokable Songbook
-you tube
Pipes by Tia.
Works of art and high function
War Crimes:
Suppressing Scientific Study of Cannabis is a Shocking
Admission of Ulterior Motives.
Historic Challenge to Drug War Looms at Cartagena Summit
Why is the Obama Administration Suddenly Fixated
on Stomping out Medical Pot?
5 Ways to Avoid Getting Busted for Pot
Why Prohibition: a rich site on drug policy
Converts and sceptics on the road to reform in Australia
Rick Doblin
- Keynote Speech 2012 SSDP Conference
-you tube
Carl Sagan on Cannabis
Hippies
-Full Length Documentary-(2007)
-you tube
Literary Review:
‘Too Much to Dream’ by Peter Bebergal:
"the story of Bebergal’s life as a young adult, as he experimented in drugs with
the aim of achieving a higher spiritual awareness"
[Podcast] Jung and Psychedelics
– 03/08/12
Anthroposophia :
A Different Kind of Love Story: One Woman's Psilocybin Experience
Tierra Vida
- An Ayahuasca Journey
-you tube
Ayahuasca:
""the shamanic tradition that literally saved my life"
Ayahuasca Foundation
Amanita muscaria - A New Outlook
Galbulimima belgraveana, An unknown hallucinogen
Implications of Psychedelic Research for Psychology & Psychiatry
- Stanislav Grof, M.D., Ph.D.
-video
Patricio Dominguez:
The high dose experience
-you tube
Daniel Vitalis:
Visionary Nutrition
Spiritual Growth with Entheogens:
Psychoactive Sacramentals and Human Transformation
[Kindle Edition]
Wasson and Allegro on the Tree of Knowledge as Amanita
by Michael Hoffman
Excellent alternative consciousness news stories and free video downloads
Journey with Alberto Villoldo to the Sacred Valley of Peru
The Rainbow Warriors
-you tube
Jesus was a Buddhist Monk BBC Documentary
-you tube
Easter:
Christian or Pagan?
Easter:
The Resurrection of Spring
Deena Metzger
-- Seeing through Indigenous Eyes, Weaving Community Dreams, Stories and Spirit
All Things Healing
Online community for healing mind, body, spirit and the planet
Catalysing evolutionary change for the greater good of all
Sol Purpose
Inspiration, creativity, transformation.
Ecstatic Trance Postures
ARTS:
"The maids of music" art injection
Julian Lennon slams Yoko Ono and talks of John Lennon and Paul McCartney
(part1) -you tube
Young Duane Allman:
The Bob Greenlee Interview
ENVIRONMENT:
Top Ten Largest Protected Area on the Planet
NASA Sees Fields of Green Spring up in Saudi Arabia
Amazon Watch
Nonprofit organization to protect the rainforest and advance the
rights of indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin
Paul Stamets:
6 ways mushrooms can save the world
-you tube
GOOD NEWS!
PAPUA NEW GUINEA:
Where Bees Reform Gangsters
The strawberry guava is a nice tasting fruit rich in nutrition and easy to grow as well as forage. It has been a delight that our whole family has enjoyed enjoying.The state of Hawaii is threatening to use unhealthy ways to eradicate it because it is "invasive". i find no threat to the environment from this wonderful fruit but more harm from invasive humans and other more toxic irritants that have landed on this island including unleashed dogs, sugar, inflated mortgages and non stop patrols from hellicopters wasting gas invading privacy and making awful noise. Xenophobic fears are not only restricted to social groups but also in the domesticating of plants. Mono cropping supports big business while what grows wild and freely is viewed automatically as a threat without considering the benefits as well. The book of Genesis says that God gave us all the plants and fruits as food and medicine. Let's save our strawberry guava from the fires of the inqusition.
Dolphin deaths blamed on oil exploration
Dirty Fracking Business
by Peter Ralph
Gaiafield
Linking subtle activists for collective healing and social change
Spirits Intent
-yurts and beyond
SCIENCE:
The Future of Wind Power:
9 Cool Innovations
Google Begins Testing Its Augmented-Reality Glasses
Mystery of Human Consciousness Illuminated:
Primitive Consciousness Emerges First as You Awaken from Anesthesia
Discovery of foot fossil confirms two human ancestor species co-existed
Mind Reading Machines in the Future
HEALTH:
Edible Weeds
-you tube
Green Smoothie with wild edibles
-you tube
How Much Sleep Do You Need?
Part 1/3 -you tube
Dr. Mercola Interviews Caroline Barringer on the health benefits of diet:
"The Hidden Cause of Psychiatric Disorders Almost No One Considers "
The disgusting treatment of dairy cows and their calves!
-youtube
Milk:
"The Everyday Drink that May Contain Blood, Pus and Drugs"
Pig Farming:
A Video from Ohio Bacon Farmers
-you tube
Charlie Brown - Mercury Undercover
-youtube
FDA Warns: Don't Use This on Your Skin But You Can Put It in Your Mouth in Higher Doses
"The Hidden Trigger to Alzheimer's and Parkinson's That 75% of People Carry"
The Neurological Poison So Common Your Doctor Probably Pushes It
Drug babies before vaccinating them, doctors demand
5 Countries That Do It Better:
How Sexual Prudery Makes America a Less Healthy and Happy Place
GLOBAL NEWS:
Flood-hit Fiji declares state of emergency
Tibet Under Siege
Street Riots Form in Response to Monsanto Intrusion into Nepal
India:
The Monsanto "Massive Con" Causing a Suicide Every 30 Minutes.
Bitter Seeds Trailer
-you tube
Monsanto ‘Knowingly Poisoned Workers’ Causing Devastating Birth Defects
From Bosnia to Syria:
Is History Repeating Itself?
Balkan Wars Cover-Up Yugoslavia 1999
by Jan Irvin
Russia Planning Troops Deployment On Iran's Northern Border
And Waiting For A Western Attack
Destruction of Spain’s Economy Duplicates Greece
East Timor:
A Lesson In Why The Poorest Threaten The Powerful
by John Pilger
AUSTRALIA: REPORT
-- Refugee Child Trauma: Hundreds of Kids Still Locked Away
Emergence of artemisinin-resistance on Thai-Myanmar border raises
specter of untreatable malaria
Destroying a Continent.
Are Africans a lesser people than Caucasian-Semites?
World Bank Supports Harmful Water Corporations,
Report Finds
The Fuel Pools of Fukushima:
THE GREATEST SHORT-TERM THREAT TO HUMANITY
Tepco Reports Another Radioactive Water Leak at Fukushima Plant
DANGEROUS CROSSROADS:
US-JAPAN CONFRONT NORTH KOREA:
Tension ahead of Pyongyang Missile Test
NATIONAL NEWS:
GENERAL INFO:
Issues and Alibis alternative news
The Anti-Empire Report
Stuart Wilde alternative news and views
Millions Against Monsanto:
The Food Fight of Our Lives
Monsanto threatens to sue the entire state of Vermont
FDA Deletes 1 Million Signatures for GMO Labeling Campaign
EPA Paves Way for "Agent Orange" GM Corn
Michael Klare,
Welcome to the New Third World of Energy, the U.S.
"A New Energy Third World in North America?
How the Big Energy Companies Plan to Turn the United States
into a Third-World Petro-State "
6 Scary Extreme Energy Sources Being Tapped to Fuel
the Post Peak Oil Economy
Payola for the Most Profitable Corporations in History
Imagine that the richest people in this country use some of their vast wealth
to routinely bribe politicians.
Turning America Into a Giant Casino
The tunnel people of Las Vegas:
How 1,000 live in flooded labyrinth under Sin City's shimmering strip
Inside the Growing Prescription Pill Epidemic That's Ravaging Communities
My 14 Year Old Son Has Brain Cancer -- Without Obamacare,
We May Have Been Dropped By Our Insurance Company
The Real Health Care Debate
What Is ObamaCare?
by Paul Craig Roberts
The Assault on Public Education
by Noam Chomsky
Social Darwinism or a Decent Society
The System Isn't Broken, It Was Built This Way
Fools! A Cry of Hope!
The Thrive Movement
The Babylonian Captivity of Washington
Outside View:
Something is rotten
The United States as Number Two
NSA Whistleblower Thomas Drake:
The US Is Becoming more and more a Security State like E. Germany
Owe The IRS?
Bill Would Suspend Passport Rights For Delinquent Taxpayers
1/3 of US Adults Struggle to Afford Their Car
Wealth Defense Industry:
The Real Reason America's Oligarchs Can Squeeze the Rest of Us.
How the richest of the rich stay on top.
Manipulating Public Perceptions This Week in History:
The Toppling Of Saddam Hussein
Right-Wing Religion's War on America
5 Big Media Stereotypes About the South (And the Real Story Behind Them)
At 11th Hour, Georgia Passes "Women As Livestock" Bill
Naomi Wolf | Sexual Humiliation, a Tool to Control the Masses
Limbaugh, Santorum, Sex, and the Origins of the Roman Catholic Church
Report Says Everybody is Watching Internet Porn, A Lot
We Can't Let Him "Get Away With It."Serious Business:
President Bush and VP Cheney Should Take the Stand on War Lies
Forced Labor:
How A Utah Rehab Center Exploited Patients
Jailing Americans for Profit:
The Rise of the Prison Industrial Complex
Is Georgia Waiting for Its Jobless to Just Kill Themselves?
How State GOPers Made Unemployment Hell on Earth
Godspeed You Black Emperor - The Dead Flag Blues
-you tube
RACISM AND "HATE CRIME" IN THE U.S.:
The Ku Klux Klan Still "Kill At Will"
JUSTICE IN NEW ORLEANS:
Officers Receive Long Sentences in Katrina Shootings
Who Killed Trayvon Martin?:
"The press is doing Zimmerman a favor by referring to him as a
'neighborhood watch volunteer.'
In fact, he was more of a vigilante than a volunteer."
Texas to Kill Another Potentially Innocent Man
-- Convicted of Lethal Shooting While Handcuffed?
California Jails Teenage Rape Victim For Being Afraid To Testify
And Then They Came For The Muslims
The 'Patriot' Movement Explodes:
The radical right grew explosively in 2011,
the third such dramatic expansion in as many years.
Dan Rather Was Right About George W. Bush
The ICC is Criminal:
"The US, which is not even a signatory to the treaty that created the
International Criminal Court, calls all the shots like a Mafia don.
Africans and a few Serbs are the only ones that get arrested,
while great crimes against peace masquerade as humanitarian intervention."
CIA jet crashed with 4 tons of cocaine
-you tube
Protesters Beware:
U.S. Supreme Court Expands Invasive Strip-Searches
Cruel And Unusual Punishment More Evidence U.S. Police Brutality Is Out Of Control
Rachel Maddow:
How America's Security-Industrial Complex Went Insane
Get your subterranean doomsday condo
— while supplies last!
Polish PM Reveals That US Tortured at Black Sites
Perverts in Power:
The Torture-Lovers Who Rule Us
by Chris Floyd
Man whose WMD lies led to 100,000 deaths confesses all
Who Benefits From the Organized Violence of War?
WAR:
Leaked Video Shows US Contractors Randomly Killing Civilians
Leaked Video Shows US Contractors Randomly Killing Civilians
-the you tube
The 1%’s Hand in the Afghan Murders
FROM LIBYA TO SYRIA:
"WAR IS A RACKET. IT ALWAYS HAS BEEN"
Seymour Hersh:
US Training Iranian Terrorists in Nevada
Bogus 'Ceasefire' in Syria as Washington Prepares War Pretext
Kosovo's "Mafia State" and Camp Bondsteel:
Towards a Permanent US Military Presence in Southeast Europe
Washington’s Bizarre Kosovo Strategy could destroy NATO
US draws up plans for nuclear drones
POLITICAL:
Obama by Default by Robert Scheer
The Republicans are a sick joke. With Ron Paul out of it and warmongering hedge fund hustler Mitt Romney the likely Republican nominee, the GOP has defined itself indelibly as the party of moneyed greed and unfettered imperialism.
When Mormons Were Socialists:
Why the Mormon Church's Founders Would be Very Disappointed in Mitt Romney
Being Green:
Presidential hopeful Jill Stein aims to rebuild a broken system
Ben Swann (Reality Check)
Santorum Delegate Count a Lie?! Paul
-you tube
Does Israel Interfere in US Elections?
Hedging Our Bets on the Black Bloc:
the Impotence of Mere Liberalism
by Zakk Flash
ECONOMIC:
The Richest 1 Percent Captured 93 Percent Of Income Gains In 2010
Winship and Moyers | The Rich Are Different From You and Me
- They Pay Fewer Taxes
Ask the Conservatives Why So Many Americans Are Living in Poverty and Hardship
Whose Recovery?
Many Remain in Critical Condition
Corporations Plan for Post-Middle-Class America
Corruption Is Responsible for 80% of Your Cell Phone Bill:
"In the case of Big Telecommunications, buying politicians
pays off handsomely by killing the competition. "
SURVEILLANCE/FRINGE POSSIBILITIES:
Supreme Court Rules Cops Can Strip Search Anyone At Anytime For Any Offense
Tom Burghardt:
"Final Curtain Call" in America?
Deep Police State Surveillance and the Death Of Democracy
Someone You Love:
Coming to a Gulag Near You
Thirteen Ways Government Tracks Us
The Occult Mockery Of Police And Military
by Mark Passio
-youtube
Pentagon sets up fast track for buying cyber war tools
CIVIL LIBERTIES IN AMERICA:
BIG BROTHER IS GETTING BIGGER
United State of Emergency:
Outlawing Dissent
by Zakk Flash
Television Weapon of Mass Persuasion
-you tube
Navy simulated Virginia Beach jet crash in December drill
Agenda 21:
The Wrenching Transformation of America
-you tube
9/11 And the Cover Up:
Was Israel Involved in 9/11 Attack?
-you tube
Exposed:
Secret Presidential Chemtrail Budget Uncovered
– Congress Exceeds Billions To Spray Populace Like Roaches
Ex Government Employee talks about CHEMTRAILS
part 1-you tube
Russian Scientists Crack Crop Circle Code:
Pole Shift Impending
Rare, Unexplained Daytime Fireball Scorches Texas Sky
Did Nasa Cover Up UFOs That 'Buzzed' Atlantis?
Andromeda Council:
Help across the heavens
The End of Economic Enslavement of Mankind.
Free Photon Energy is Available for Everybody Now!
QUOTES FOR THE WEEK:
"Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army." - Edward Everett
"If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one of them would remain in the army." - Frederick the Great
"It's not a matter of what is true that counts but a matter of what is perceived to be true." - Henry Kissinger
"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn." - Alvin Toffler
"Without general elections, without unrestricted freedom of press and assembly, without a free struggle of opinion, life dies out in every public institution, becomes a mere semblance of life, in which only the bureaucracy remains as the active element. Public life gradually falls asleep, a few dozen party leaders of inexhaustible energy and boundless experience direct and rule. Such conditions must inevitably cause a brutalization of public life: attempted assassinations, shootings of hostages, etc." - Rosa Luxemburg
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect." Mark Twain
"Those who do not move, do not notice their chains." - Rosa Luxemburg
"We Americans claim to be a peace-loving people. We hate bloodshed; we are opposed to violence. Yet we go into spasms of joy over the possibility of projecting dynamite bombs from flying machines upon helpless citizens. We are ready to hang, electrocute, or lynch anyone, who, from economic necessity, will risk his own life in the attempt upon that of some industrial magnate. Yet our hearts swell with pride at the thought that America is becoming the most powerful nation on earth, and that she will eventually plant her iron foot on the necks of all other nations. Such is the logic of patriotism." - Emma Goldman.
"Our job this day is to become part of the answer to the world's immense and protracted suffering rather than continuing our ancient task of being part of the difficulty." - Hugh Prather
"Where suspicion fills the air and holds scholars in line for fear of their jobs, there can be no exercise of the free intellect. Supineness and dogmatism take the place of inquiry. A problem can no longer be pursued to its edges. Fear stalks the classroom. The teacher is no longer a stimulant to adventurous thinking; she becomes instead a pipe line for safe and sound information. A deadening dogma takes the place of free inquiry. Instruction tends to become sterile; pursuit of knowledge is discouraged; discussion often leaves off where it should begin." - -- William O. Douglas -- (1898-1980), US. Supreme Court Justice
"So free we seem, so fettered fast we are." -- Robert Browning - (1812-1889) English poet, playwright
"When the People contend for their Liberty, they seldom get anything by their Victory but new masters." - George Savile - (1633-1695) 1st Marquess of Halifax
"Government, in its last analysis, is organized force." - -- Woodrow Wilson - (1856-1924) 28th US President
"Tyranny is the exercise of some power over a man, which is not warranted by law, or necessary for the public safety. A people can never be deprived of their liberties, while they retain in their own hands, a power sufficient to any other power in the state." - -- Noah Webster - (1758-1843)
"One of the hardest things to teach a child is that the truth is more important than the consequences." - O. A. Battista - [Orlando Aloysius Battista] (1917-1995), Canadian-American chemist and author
"Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change." - Robert F. Kennedy -
"The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker." - Albert Einstein
"Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of worship consecrated to peace." - Charles Sumner
"It'll be a great day when education gets all the money it wants and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy bombers." - Author unknown, quoted in You Said a Mouthful edited by Ronald D. Fuchs
"Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both." - Abraham Flexner
"[I]n the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. " - Adolf Hitler , Mein Kampf, vol. I, ch. X
"A half truth is the worst of all lies,because it can be defended in partiality." - Solon - (c.638 BC-558 BC) Athenian statesman, lawmaker
"History is an account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools."-- Ambrose Bierce, American writer, 1842-1914
"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country . . . we're dominated by the relatively small number of persons . . . it is they who pull the wires which control the public mind, who harness old social forces and contrive new ways to bind and guide the world." - Edward Bernays
"When you invite people to think, you are inviting revolution" - Ivana Gabara
"War is when the government tells you who the bad guy is. Revolution is when you decide that for yourself." - Author unknown
