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EVENTS
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ARTS
MUSIC VIDEOS
ENVIRONMENT
SCIENCE
HEALTH
GLOBAL NEWS
NATIONAL NEWS:
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QUOTES FOR THE WEEK
PUNMASTER MUSIC NEWS-SELECTED ARTICLES
LIFESTYLE/ ARTS/ CULTURE/ ETC:
EVENTS:
WUD Society and Politics Presents:
Psychedelics-Breakthroughs,
May 7, Madison Wisconsin
Chicago Screening of Dirty Pictures and Shulgin Fundraiser
(May 18, 2012) in Chicago, IL
U.S./NATO Out of Afghanistan, the Middle East and Africa!
Money for Jobs and Education!
Sunday, May 20, 2012, Chicago
Wind in a Mirror.
Ayahausca Visions by my friend Josie Hyde.
San Francisco, May 23
Aloha Wisdom Gathering w/ Indigenous Grandmothers:
June 2-6, Big Island, Hawaii
Rainbow Gatherings Guide-Welcome Home
HIGH CONSCIOUSNESS:
The War on Pot:
Why Celebrating 4/20 Means More Than Just Getting High
Most of North Carolina Grand Jury's Cases Are Drugs
Oakland 4/20:
"Obama, You're Alienating Your Base"
#OpCannabis:
Anonymous Hackers Take Up Marijuana Activism
Cannabinoid receptors give cells the tools they need to defend
against HIV infection
The Cannabis Assembly, Free guidance and support for the legal
religious use of cannabis
First Interview with Albert Hofmann for English-Language Audience:
In 1976, Michael Horowitz interviewed Hofmann for High Times, a first for an
English-language publication. Despite Hofmann's initial misgivings about having the
conversation appear in a magazine that celebrated illegal drug use, he eventually agreed.
It offers a thorough account of the creation of LSD, as well as his discovery of
psilocybin/psilocin in mushrooms and ergine in morning glories.
When LSD Was Legal (And Cary Grant Was Tripping)
On Acid:
LSD and the Sorcerer’s Apprentices
Dr. Athanassios Kafkalides is an early pioneer in the clinical use of LSD and devoted
a great deal of time to clinical research into the psychotherapeutic application of
psychedelic drugs. His research concluded in major findings in the field of the
prenatal and perinatal stages of human life. My appreciation and thanks to his son and
my friend Zephyros for organizing this site and bringing awareness to his father's
devotion to helping people
Erowid psychedelic folder for Michael Horowitz
Why a documentary on the Secret History of Magic Mushrooms?
Wasson and Allegro on the Tree of Knowledge as Amanita
by Jan Irvin and Michael Hoffman
On the Origins of Ayahuasca
Dragibus:
A quarterly publication on the botany, cultivation, history, and usage of
medicinal and
entheogenic plants Ayahuasca video
by Arnaldo Cintron
Don Emilio & His Little Doctors (1982),
by Luis Eduardo Luna
[Complete Film]
Peru’s Takiwasi Center Uses Medicinal Plants to Treat Addiction
Can a hallucinogen from Africa cure addiction?
Acacia spp. – Acacia Tree:
rich source of DMT
Dale Pendell Absinthe Kit (Wormwood)
Shamanic Workshops from Ross Heaven
Shamanism Approved as a Religion in Norway
Alan Moore:
The Role of the Shaman
-you tube
PSYCHEDELIC YOGA
by Sri Brahmarishi Narad
Bicycle Day 2012:
The Shulgin Blotter Art Fundraiser
Eros And The Eschaton "What Science Forgot"
Terence McKenna
-you tube
Drugs:
More Than Chemical Reactions
by Dennis Mckenna
The Good Friday Marsh Chapel Experiment:
4/20/ 1962
How Psychedelic Drugs Can Help Patients Face Death
Tibetan Book of The Dead
- The Great Liberation - NFB
Life After Life :
NDE Documentary Film
Mushroom Death Suit Consumes Body After Human Wearing It Dies_
Plant/Human Symbiosis & the Fall of Humanity:
A Talk with Tony Wright
In Goddess We Trust:
America's Spiritual Crossroads
The Bon Tradition And The Concept Of Non-Duality
Sacred Life COINS OF THE NATURAL WORLD
A new book by Martin Gray
Dealing with Suffering and Seeing It As Grace
by Ram Das
Tribes of Creation:
This site is devoted to the cultivation of our humanness in conscious, respectful,
and free-flowing dialogue with the Natural world.
The Golden Age of Getting High in America:
How 2 Young Hippie Girls Became Major Players in the Drug Trade
The Beats:
Remember the Tea
Spiral of Cooperation.
My interview and translation in Greek of the Mayan Spiral of Cooperation message
Dr. Dyer's Latest Children's Book
- I AM is now Available
ARTS:
Alan Moore:
Art is Magic
-you tube
My friend Glenn Bodish's excellent article on the meaning of art for him and society
WT/Influencer:
Ziggy Marley On the New Documentary "Marley"
-you tube
ENVIRONMENT:
Earth Day:
9 Films That Will Change the Way You Think About the World
CSG-Free Community.
The Channon and Keerrong Make a Stand.
Check out this video of communities working on a grass roots level to
protect their environment
Wendell Berry:
This old farmer is still full of piss and vinegar
Towers Kill 6.8 Million Birds a Year,
Study Estimates
Melting glaciers liberate ancient bacteria
SCIENCE:
Scientists find 'man's remotest relative' in lake sludge
Powerpot Generates Electricity From Your Campfire
Inteligentry and Manufacturers Gearing Up for Noble Gas Engine Roll-out:
Use hardly any gas or electricity in your car with this revolutionary technology
HEALTH:
Dr. James Oschman Discusses Earthing or Grounding
-youtube
The healing touch of the wild
THE MEDICINE HUNTER'S FAVORITE HERBAL ADAPTOGENS
TOP 3 MEDICINAL MUSHROOMS
THE ALARMING TRUTH ABOUT ANTIBIOTICS
Let’s put an end to ‘dietary tribalism’
Mercy Mounthawk, Tralee, Ireland
– Fluoride causes cancer faster than any other chemical
Devil's Work:
The Fascinating History of America's War on Masturbation and Porn
Women, Sex and S&M:
Mainstream Media Totally Wrong About Female Desire -- Again
Sexual healing through body and spirit
Sex-for-Hire Robots Predicted by 2050
GLOBAL NEWS:
It’s official:
China now eats twice the meat we do
Afghan schoolgirls poisoned in anti-education attack
Indian ferry splits in two, 40 dead
The next People's President of India 2012
- Dr. Leo Rebello
-video
Global famine if India, Pakistan unleash nukes:
study
UK GOVERNMENT TO PLACE MISSILE BASE ON ROOF OF RESIDENTIAL FLATS
Chossudovsky's New Book:
America's "Contingency Plan" to Attack Iran with Nuclear Weapons Review
of "Towards a World War III Scenario.
The Dangers of Nuclear War"
'Putinomics' is the biggest threat to Russia's environmental movement
The European Stabilization Mechanism, Or How the Goldman Vampire Squid
Just Captured Europe
North, South, East, and West:
Austerity Revolt Felt Across Europe.
Europe’s austerity backlash gains steam in challenge to German-driven program
European, US Austerity Drive is Suicidal:
Nobel Economist Stiglitz
Greek anger keeps German tourists away
Germany to Greece:
Cut Safety Nets for Citizens But Keep Buying Our Weapons
THE US SPONSORED "PROTEST MOVEMENT" IN MALAYSIA
United Arab Emirates (UAE) lead Anti-Iran Alliance on Behalf
of Washington and Tel Aviv
NATIONAL NEWS:
GENERAL INFO:
Issues and Alibis news service
Lewis Lapham,
Machine-Made News
'Whole Food, Not Whole Foods':
Renegade Farmers Reclaim Land on Earth Day
Mother Wins Top Environmental Award for Beating Monsanto
Dr. Mercola Discusses An Important Topic: GMO
-youtube
The REAL COLOMBIA SCANDAL:
When Bedding Prostitutes Is Worse Than Crimes Against Humanity
Terrorist Plots, Hatched by the FBI
Milwaukee Red Cross Told To Prep For Chicago Evacuation During NATO Summit
John Pilger | You Are All Suspects Now.
What Are You Going to Do About It?
Wal-Mart Covered Up Widespread Corruption
U.S. Judges Admit to Jailing Children for Money
Toddler Terrorist:
TSA Threatens Lockdown Over 4-Year-old Girl
Witness To Murder:
US Border Patrol Beat and Taser Man to Death
Private Prison Corporations Are Modern Day Slave Traders
NDAA Nullification Becomes Law in Virginia.
Effective July 1st.
How Obama Became a Civil Libertarian's Nightmare
The Top Five Special Interest Groups Lobbying To Keep Marijuana Illegal
Federal agents raid Mormon food storage facility, demand list of customers
storing emergency food
Vermont Legislature Votes to Overturn Citizens United
Jim Hightower | The Citizens United Gang
SDS Founder, Tom Hayden on Participatory Democracy From Port Huron
to Occupy Wall Street
-you tube
What If the Greedy Rich Paid Their Share?
8 Things to Know About Wealth and Poverty in the US
GOP's Ridiculous Student Loan Plan
GOP Wants to Axe Food Stamps to Save Defense Budget
Food Stamps In Crosshairs Of Republicans' Plan To Save Military
Don't Let Business Lobbyists Kill the Post Office
Fear of a Koch Planet
How Liberty Was Lost
By Paul Craig Roberts
ALEC is plotting to take down state renewable energy targets
Dow Chemical Reaps Rewards by Funding PBS' 'America Revealed
'Is 'America Revealed'--or PBS? Dow-sponsored public TV series tracks
Dow's product lines
Eyeless Shrimp and Fish With Tumors:
The Horrific Consequences of BP's Spill
THE GULF IS DYING:
Two years After the BP Drilling Disaster, Gulf Residents Fear for the Future
Greg Palast | BP Covered Up
Blow-out Two Years Prior to Deadly Deepwater Horizon Spill
BP Cover-up
Part 2: Bribery, George Bush and WikiLeaks
The Most Evil Chemical Company and the Second Richest Person in the World:
Millions VS Monsanto and Watching the Gates Foundation
Blamed for Bee Collapse, Monsanto Buys Leading Bee Research Firm
Shocking Conflict of Interest:
Private Water Companies Partner With Fracking Lobby
61-Year Old Woman Violently Arrested After Peacefully Protesting
a Koch Funded Meeting focusing on child poverty in the state.
Romney Vows to Build XL Pipeline Himself
4/27/2012 -- Cloud of depleted URANIUM heading towards Hawaii and West Coast?
Why Fukushima Is a Greater Disaster than Chernobyl and a Warning Sign
for the US. The radioactive inventory of all the irradiated nuclear fuel stored in
spent fuel pools at Fukushima is far greater and even more problematic than
the molten cores
Dan Rather Got it Right:
George W. Bush DID go AWOL
A Conspiracy of Whores
Interview:
Nuns Face Vatican Rebuke for "Radical Feminism"
The Relationship Between Christianity and Capitalism
Noam Chomsky on America's Declining Empire, Occupy and the Arab Spring
Chris Hedges | Welcome to the Asylum:
"The quest by a bankrupt elite in the final days of empire to accumulate greater
and greater wealth, as Karl Marx observed, is modern society's version of
primitive fetishism."
Jeremy Scahill:
US Has Become 'Nation of Assassins'
The Way of the Drone:
Emblem for an Empire of Cowards
WAR:
Obama Approves More Killing In Yemen
SYRIA:
UN Working With NATO to Provide Pretext for Intervention UN "aid" program
to be used in establishing NATO "humanitarian corridors."
TOP OF THE WORLD:
NATO Rehearses For War In The Arctic
The Western campaign for global dominance has reached the top of the world.
Welcome Home Vietnam from my Vietnam Vet friend Chuck
-youtube
POLITICAL:
ATTENTION MSM:
Ron Paul Wins Alaska!
-you tube
Ron Paul Picks Up 122 Missouri Delegates !! -
Caucus Chairman Arrested !!
Mitt Romney:
Professional Liar
Romney Advises Broke, About-to-be-Unemployed College Students:
“Just Borrow Money From Your Parents!”
This Supremely Republican Supreme Court
Awful:
GOP Rep. Wants Tax Hikes For The Poor, Says They ‘Don’t Have Skin In The Game’
ECONOMIC:
Getting Paid 93 Cents a Day in America?
Corporations Bring Back the 19th Century
What Is Corporate Enterprise?
Second in a Series on Poverty, Wealth, and Globalization
Five Tax Fallacies Invented by the 1%
The National Debt and Federal Budget Deficit Deconstructed
- Tony Robbins
-you tube
MF Global:
The Untold Story of the Biggest Wall Street Collapse Since Lehman
SURVEILLANCE/FRINGE POSSIBILITIES:
Supreme Court:
Organizations Can't Be Sued for Torture
US Muslim:
I Was Tortured at FBI's Behest in UAE
Fraser and Freeman, Creating a Prison-Corporate Complex
Rebecca Solnit, American Dystopia, Fiction or Reality?
Unplugging Americans From The Matrix
Whistleblower:
The NSA is Lying -- The U.S. Government Has Copies of Most of Your Emails
OBAMA'S dept of homeland security buying huge arsonal's of ammunition!
FOR USE AGAINST WHO???
Operation Pearl:
9/11 insights
The 9/11 Attacks on the World Trade Center (WTC):
Unspoken Financial Bonanza
- by Prof Michel Chossudovsky
9-11 WTC Biggest Gold Heist in History:
$300 Billion in Bars
-you tube
VATICAN OFFICIAL TIED TO BP, GOLDMAN-SACHS, AND MEDIA
CENSORSHIP IN THE OIL FIASCO INCREASING EVIDENCE OF FOUL PLAY
Project Camelot UFO Portal
HUMOR:
Memory a spoof
by Pam Peterson
PUNMASTER MUSIC NEWS:
The Band drummer Levon Helm in final stages of cancer
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Drummer Levon Helm, a longtime member of The Band, is in the final stages of cancer, his family said on Tuesday.
Helm, 71, who also toured with Ringo Starr's All Star band in the 1980s and won a Grammy Award for his 2011 release "Ramble at the Ryman," had canceled a series of recent gigs, raising fears about his health.
A message posted on his official website by his wife Sandy and daughter Amy, said that Helm "is in the final stages of his battle with cancer. Please send your prayers and love to him as he makes his way through this part of his journey."
"Thank you fans and music lovers who have made his life so filled with joy and celebration... he has loved nothing more than to play, to fill the room up with music, lay down the back beat, and make the people dance! He did it every time he took the stage," the message added.
Robbie Robertson, former front man of The Band, sent a message of "love and prayers" to Helm during a speech at the weekend at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony.
Helm, who also sang vocals and plays guitar and mandolin, played with The Band until their 1976 " The Last Waltz" farewell performance, which was filmed by director Martin Scorsese.
He rejoined The Band when it reunited some years later without Robertson, and then forged a solo career.
Music Legend Merrell Fankhauser Releases Definitive Collection 'The Best Of' Two-CD Set
Featuring 32 tracks – over 90 minutes of music!
4/3/2012 - London, UK – Music collectors worldwide rejoice! Legendary singer/songwriter/guitarist Merrell Fankhauser, who has led one of the most diverse careers in music, has released for the first time a new compilation 'The Best Of' two-CD set on UK's Gonzo MultiMedia. Featuring vintage tracks, hard to find gems and unreleased material, Merrell Fankhauser's 'The Best Of' is sure to please the most avid fan. Merrell Fankhauser is considered one of the main innovators of surf music and psychedelic folk rock, and is widely known as the leader of the instrumental group The Impacts who had the international hit “Wipeout”. His travels from Hollywood to his 15 year jungle experience on the island of Maui have been documented in numerous music books and magazines in the US and Europe. Merrell has gained legendary international status throughout the field of rock music; his credits include over 300 songs published and released.
“Merrell Fankhuaser 'The Best Of' is my first retrospective, a 2-CD set with songs from 1963 to now. It was a difficult task to pick a group of songs from nearly forty albums – I found a few unreleased gems along the way.” - Merrell Fankhuaser
Merrell Fankhauser 'The Best Of' features tracks spanning the majority of the music legend's extraordinary career; featuring Merrell And The Exiles (1963-64), Fapardokly (1966), Merrell And HMS Bounty (1968), MU (1971-74), and solo (1976-2011) including several unreleased recordings. Many tracks included on this compilation are hard to find, highly sought after, collector's items that have been out of print for many years, making Merrell Fankhauser 'The Best Of' the definitive collection.
Merrell Fankhauser has presented a number of television programs over the years including 'California Music', 'Route 66 TV Live', and in 2001 he began hosting a music show called 'Tiki Lounge' that airs on the California Central Coast, Southern California, Hawaii and parts of the East Coast. 'The Best Of The Tiki Lounge' volumes 1&2 DVDs feature highlights from Merrell's cable TV show and is also available now on Gonzo MultiMedia UK.
QUOTES FOR THE WEEK:
"Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions." - James Madison
"Each act, each occasion, is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next. You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join with you in resisting somehow. You don't want to act, or even talk, alone; you don't want to 'go out of your way to make trouble.' Why not?-Well, you are not in the habit of doing it. And it is not just fear, fear of standing alone, that restrains you; it is also genuine uncertainty." - Milton Mayer - They Thought They Were Free - http://bit.ly/I2rlbC
"The two greatest obstacles to democracy in the United States are, first, the widespread delusion among the poor that we have a democracy, and second, the chronic terror among the rich, lest we get it." - Edward Dowling - [1941]
"Excessive partiality for one foreign nation, and excessive dislike of another, cause those whom they actuate to see danger only on one side, and serve to veil and even second the arts of influence on the other. Real patriots, who may resist the intrigues of the favorite, are liable to become suspected and odious; while its tools and dupes usurp the applause and confidence of the people, to surrender their interests." -- George Washington (1732-1799) Founding Father, 1st US President
"The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks." - "It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men." -- Samuel Adams- (1722-1803)
"One of the things they want is a passive quiescent population. So one of the things that you can do to make life uncomfortable for them is NOT to be passive and quiescent." - Noam Chomsky
"The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." - Plato
"Most Americans aren't the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected; they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that its might makes it right." - Joseph Sobran Columnist
"By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy - indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self satisfaction" - William Osler (Canadian Physician, 1849-1919)
"Philosophy should always know that indifference is a militant thing. It batters down the walls of cities and murders the women and children amid the flames and the purloining of altar vessels. When it goes away it leaves smoking ruins, where lie citizens bayonetted through the throat. It is not a children's pastime like mere highway robbery." - Stephen Crane
"Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie, but rather mourn the apathetic, throng the coward and the meek who see the world's great anguish and its wrong, and dare not speak." - Ralph Chaplin
"Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?" - Kahlil Gibran
"If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged" - Noam Chomsky
"The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home" James Madison: US fourth president" 1751-1836
"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
"When people ask me, 'Why can't labor organize the way it did in the thirties?' the answer is simple: everything we did then is now illegal." - Thomas Geoghegan
"A new fascism promises security from the terror of crime. All that is required is that we take away the criminals' rights-which, of course, are our own. Out of our desperation and fear we begin to feel a sense of security from the new totalitarian state." Gerry Spence, lawyer and author, source: Give Me Liberty, 1998
"...So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men." Voltaire, François Marie Arouet (1694-1778), Philosophical Dictionary, 1764
"The death of a single human being is too heavy a price for the vindication of any principle, however sacred." - Daniel Berrigan
"These are the men who, without virtue, labour, or hazard, are growing rich, as their country is impoverished; they rejoice, when obstinacy or ambition adds another year to slaughter and devastation; and laugh, from their desks, at bravery and science, while they are adding figure to figure, and cipher to cipher, hoping for a new contract from a new armament, and computing the profits of a siege or tempest." - Samuel Johnson
"As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever." - Clarence Darrow
"The terrible, cold, cruel part is Wall Street. Rivers of gold flow there from all over the earth, and death comes with it. There, as nowhere else, you feel a total absence of the spirit: herds of men who cannot count past three, herds more who cannot get past six, scorn for pure science and demoniacal respect for the present. And the terrible thing is that the crowd that fills the street believes that the world will always be the same and that it is their duty to keep that huge machine running, day and night, forever." - Federico Garcia Lorca - Spanish Poet and Playwright
"There is something perverse about more than enough. When we have more, it is never enough. It is always somewhere out there, just out of reach. The more we acquire, the more elusive enough becomes." - Unknown
"Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment." - Mark Twain
"Much of our activity these days is nothing more than a cheap anesthetic to deaden the pain of an empty life." - Unknown
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