LINKS BY GEORGE NEWSLETTER
JUNE 21, 2012
As in my previous editions, I feel I have covered a lot of parameters of interest including shamanic hope to the darker shadows of our social situations. For us to stay clear, I feel we need to look at all the possibilites even if we don't want to attach to all. Open systems of communication prevent fear, confusion or even being duped whether by angelic messiahs or smiling politicians. And at the same time, we can learn of positive directions for body, mind, emotion and soul.
Last week, I read a number of news stories and email comments from people feeling sympathy for a number of American soldiers who were killed in their participation in the invasion and ongoing domination of Afghanistan. During the same week we learned that
18 Afghani citizens who were slaughtered by our new weapons of mass destruction, the US drone strikes. No apologies from our State Department who considers such deaths as "colateral damage".
Perhaps to those who consider our permanent war machine as a video game, it doesn't mean much but to the mothers who have to hold the bloody remains of their children, it is another experience of our progress in bringing them democracy (and higher oil prices) Homeland security
committee chairman Peter King's reply was that he's "not concerned about the program's negative fallout, particularly civilian casualties adding that the US drone policy is one of "righteousness and goodness".
Would this lunatic as well as the others like him that go to church on Sunday's and profess to be good Christians ask "Who would Jesus kill first?" Similarly would Jesus advice the Wall Street bankster mob to "Rob the poor and give it all to the ultra-rich". Along with President Obama's anouncement of having "kill lists" to assasinate even American citizens without a trial means that we no longer even have the security of our Bill of Rights to protect us from the same government that is supposed to be protecting us instead. Scary times but also the need to be aware and active in promoting the return of sanity and compassion.
To live in denial that such darkness is spreading and hurting millions of people around the planet is in itself dark. Certainly any spiritual path that does not integrate compassion in such awareness and doing whatever we can to end the suffering of others is only a self serving agenda and
not one of love or light.
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EVENTS:
HIGH CONSCIOUSNESS:
Are We Finally Reawakening to the Profound Healing Properties of Psychedelics? Legal research on a range of currently illegal drugs indicates they may help cure PTSD, alcoholism and even cluster headaches.
List of misconceptions about illegal drugs
U.S. targets landlords in fight against medical pot
Cape Town woman cures colon cancer with cannabis
The Ones Who Will Never Know: Poverty and Psychedelics
Rainbow Guide:
Updated with exact directions into the U.S. National Rainbow Gathering of the Tribes.
Magic Trip’s Druggy Sixties Origin Story
(or, Why Historians Should Think About Selling Out)
The Ceremony of Original Innocence
- 12 Foundation Circuits from the template dot org
The movie Matrix and Plato's cave
The Practice of Presence, Part One Lee Irwin
The Spiritual Essence of Gardening by Ocali
Dispelling Ignorance and Developing Harmony Sister Joan Kirby
In July 2011, Yogaville, an Ashram founded by Gurudev Satchidananda, celebrated the 25th Anniversary of its LOTUS temple with a gathering called "One in Spirit." The following was a response offered by Sister Joan Kirby, RSCJ, of the Temple of Understanding, to the panel topic, "Dispelling Ignorance and Developing Harmony...What ignorance are we addressing here? I am considering ignorance here from the point of view of a westerner. We live in the global village, we share the same roof, we are interdependent and co-responsible for care of the Earth. And yet, we still think of ourselves, and our religion, as separate, distinct, and unique."
The Fascinating Story of the Original Sexual Revolution
ARTS:
Aloria Weaver's inspirational art
David Heskin's high portals
ENVIRONMENT:
Please stop Xingu dam, Amazonian Indians plead at summit
India's capital in water crisis after supplies cut
Sea Shepherd" Captain Paul Watson Interview: Waiting on German Justice
and a Note From Martin Sheen
Floating dock from Japan carries potential invasive species
Red Cross sounds alarm about weapon contamination
A Desperate Effort to Save the Rainforest of Borneo
SCIENCE:
Casa Solare By Studio Albori Mixes Passive Design and Gorgeous Wood.
Long before there was a Passivhaus institute in Europe and a Passive House movement in America, there was passive solar design, which was very popular in the '70s
Volkswagen Levitating Car in China
The scale of the universe
HEALTH:
NEW Urgent Warning to All Cell Phone Users. The biological impact of your cell phone is not related to its power, which is quite weak, but rather to the erratic nature of its signal and its ability to disrupt resonance and interfere with DNA repair. As a general rule, you’ll want to avoid carrying your phone anywhere on your body. The most dangerous place to be, in terms of radiation exposure, is within about six inches of the emitting antenna
Roundup:
Used in Gardens Everywhere, This "Biodegradable" Product is Likely Carcinogenic
Fluoride:
The Hard to Swallow Truth Documentary
Chest X-Rays:
This Popular Procedure Tripled the Cancer Risk of 1.65 Million People Last Year
Food has gotten cheaper — but at what cost?
Turmeric:
The Spice that Is Better than Drugs for Rheumatoid Arthritis
The human body and its natural defenses against existing bacteria
Yoga Exercise - Standing Forward Bend (Uttanasana)
Is Pleasure a Sin?
GLOBAL NEWS:
8 Ugly Sins of the Catholic Church.
If pedophile payouts weren’t enough to convince you the Catholic
leadership is often anything but moral, take a look at some of their other sins.
Amazonian Communities Occupy the Belo Monte Dam Site to Free the Xingu River!
Quake-hit Afghan village could become mass grave
Report: Gaza's Water 'Unfit to Drink'
Greece:
Left Threat Terrifies Bankers: Out of the Eurozone, Into Bankruptcy?
As Greeks prepare to vote in the most important election in their history on Sunday, people in Athens fear they are facing a future full of uncertainty, poverty and violence. Well-publicized crimes help create an atmosphere of violence as the wealthy and vulnerable immigrants alike come under attack.
Greece’s Biggest Hospital Struggles as Austerity Cuts Bite
Video
The political issues in the Greek elections. Whoever wins the election, the working class will be forced to repay the €200 billion-plus bailout through the austerity measures attached to the Memorandum signed with the troika
In solidarity with the Greek People
Killer Capitalism -
Greek crisis produces fatal medicine shortages
High Radiation Detected On Floor Above Crippled Fukushima Reactor
NATIONAL NEWS
GENERAL INFO:
Issues and Alibis
The Schwartz Report
Daniel Berrigan:
America's Street Priest "undaunted at 92 and full of the fire that makes him
one of this nation's most courageous voices for justice, stands in
New York City's Zuccotti Park."
Lisa Brown | My Vagina Monologue
Brown writes: "I was shocked to learn Thursday that the leadership of the Michigan House of Representatives had decided to silence me and keep me from doing my job because I had uttered the one word they couldn't stand to hear: vagina."
Jesus, the Radical Economist
Obama TPP Trade Document Leaked, Revealing New Corporate Powers And Broken Campaign Promises
A critical document from President Barack Obama's free trade negotiations with eight Pacific nations for the TPP-- Trans Pacific Partnership-- was leaked online early Wednesday morning, revealing that the administration intends to bestow radical new political powers upon multinational corporations, contradicting prior promises
Sanders Releases Explosive Bailout List.
"More than $4 trillion in near zero-interest Federal Reserve loans and other financial assistance went to the banks and businesses of at least 18 current and former Federal Reserve regional bank directors in the aftermath of the 2008 financial collapse, according to Government Accountability Office records made public for the first time today by Sen. Bernie Sanders."
Can We Curb Obscene Pay? 5 Examples of Shareholder Activism. Shareholder-activists are taking some of the Occupy movement's messages off the streets and into the corporate spaces where shareholder meetings take place.
Living on food stamps in middle-class suburbia
Senators Grovel, Embarrass Themselves at Dimon Hearing. "Most of the rest of the senators not only supplicated before the blowdried banker like love-struck schoolgirls or hotel bellhops, they also almost all revealed themselves to be total ignoramuses with no grasp of the material they were supposed to be investigating."
Bill Moyers | Campaign Cash Is the Gift That Keeps on Giving.
"'Can 46 Rich Dudes Buy an Election?' almost all men, mostly white, 'and so far, the vast majority of their contributions have been made to conservative groups.' They want to own this election. So if there are any of you left out there with millions to burn, better buy your candidate now, while supplies last."
Mitt Romney's Blueprint for Privatizing American Education
Trudell is an eye-opening documentary that challenges belief systems. At its loftiest, Trudell will inspire you to reawaken your spirit. "The great lie is that it is civilization. It's not civilized. It has been literally the most blood thirsty brutalizing system ever imposed upon this planet. That is not civilization. That's the great lie, is that it represents civilization." -John Trudell
Trudell Documentary
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DR. BRONNER'S HEAD ARRESTED IN WHITE HOUSE HEMP CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE ACTION
Seven More States May Legalize Medical Marijuana in 2012
Justice Department Targets Medical Marijuana Despite Increasing Support For Legalization
Jesse Ventura Slams The Political Gangs Taking Over The Country
For-Profit Colleges Are Bankrolling Romney to Keep Student Loan Money Flowing
Writing Off The Elderly by Paul Craig Roberts
What we have witnessed in the 21st century is a clear decision by political elites and the private interests that control them that gratuitous wars are more important than the elderly. In the budget deliberations it is not the trillion dollar annual budgets of the military/security complex that are seen as excessive. Instead, the focus is on cutting the sparse benefits for the elderly
Grieving Father Struggles to Repay Dead Son's Massive Student Loans. Despite the help of a lawyer, he has not been able to determine exactly how much he owes, or even what company holds his loans.
"I Met a 16-Year-Old Kid. 3 Days Later Obama Killed Him.
We are sleepwalking into the Drone Age, and few people are debating the dire consequences. "
24-Year-Old Gets 3 Life Terms in Prison for Witnessing a Drug Deal:
The Ugly Truth of Mandatory Drug Sentencing
North Carolina legislature moves to gut Racial Justice Act, resume executions
The Stop-and-Frisk Crisis:
How to Criminalize an Entire Generation of Black and Latino MenInstead of curtailing gun violence in the inner city, stop-and-frisk has only succeeded in marginalizing young males of color.
FBI Terror Plot: How the Government Is Destroying the Lives of Innocent PeopleThe FBI is using informants to stir up fake terror plots, destroying lives in the process
Do Americans Approve Mass Murder?
A majority of Americans, it seems, approve of drone strikes against "terrorists", even if they kill innocent bystanders.
The Truth About Religion in America: The Founders Loathed Superstition and We Were Never a Christian NationThe claim that America was founded as a Christian nation -- a favorite of Right-wing Christians -- is just not true.
Bill Rees // Why We're in Denial
"In this interview he speaks with us about why we're in denial about the failure of the human enterprise. We ask Bill about the reasons we're in denial and how we could start adapting to our ecological challenges through a new cultural narrative"
What Is the United States Government Waiting for?
We continue to post the opinions of many international scientists on the potential global catastrophe that would result from the collapse of Reactor 4 at Fukushima Dai-ichi. The message now is simple and clear—Japan’s government will not act; it is the United States who must step forward—yet no action has been taken
Evict Monsanto, Preserve Hawaii. For over 20 years, Hawai'i has been the global center for the open-field testing of GMO's, including pharmaceutical crops. Over 5,000 experimental tests have been conducted that spray over 70 different chemicals.Hawai'i has less than 3,000 acres of certified organic farmland, which is 0.27% of Hawaiian farmland. Kamehameha Schools is Hawaii's largest private landowner with 363,000 acres of land. Despite Kamehameha's public statements about sustainability and conservation, they lease substantial amounts of land for GMO open field tests and seed corn production
Plague confirmed in Oregon man bitten by stray cat | Yahoo! Health
Admissions on Nixon’s ‘Treason’
The School of the Americas, the CIA and the US-Condoned Cancer of Torture Continue to Spread in Latin America, Including Mexico
WAR:
House Homeland Security Committee chairman Peter King (R-NY), said he's "not concerned" about the program's negative fallout, particularly civilian casualties, adding that the U.S. drone policy is one "righteousness and goodness"
Congress Pushes for War with Iran. A huge bipartisan majority of Congress has essentially told the president that nothing short of war or the threat of war is an acceptable
Revealed:
64 Drone Bases on American SoilSpencer Akerman: Presence and Purpose of Drones Sees Domestic Drift
Expanding US "Shadow War" In Africa Builds Spy Network
The Pentagon's Last Frontier: Battle-Hardened Troops Headed To Africa
Naomi Wolf | Rape in the Military a Culture of Coverup.
A new documentary by director Kirby Dick, 'The Invisible War,' is "about systemic rape of women in the military and the retaliations and coverups victims face, ... the examples of what happens to women soldiers who are raped in the military are stunning, both in the violence that these often young women face, and in the viciousness they encounter after attacks."
POLITICAL:
Romney Quietly Hires Consulting Firm With Sordid History Of Destroying
Democratic Voter Registration Forms
Ralph Nader: Romney’s Campaign of Inanity
Jeb Bush Ready for 2016
Billionaire Sheldon Adelson will give 'limitless' support to Romney. Casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, whose net worth is estimated $24.9 billion and who was the chief financial backer of Newt Gingrich's presidential campaign just donated $10 million to one of the pro-Romney SuperPACs. Forbes today quotes a source close to Adelson who says Adelson believes that "no price is too high" to protect the U.S. from what Adelson sees as Obama’s "socialization" of America, as well as securing the safety of Israel
7 States That Ban Atheists From Holding Public Office
ECONOMIC:
The Secret of Oz — Winner, Best Docu of 2010.
"One of the best documentaries on the subject of economics.
Everyone should check this out if you want to know how the system is controlled. "
G. Edward Griffin on the Federal Reserve System
SURVEILLANCE/FRINGE POSSIBILITIES:
Middle Ages Scourge of Black Death Popping up in Affluent Regions of U.S.
Expert Panel Reports False Accounts of U.S. Political and Military Leaders on 9/11. Massive National War Games on September 11th Raise Further Questions
Trillion Dollar Suit Inside Story: The RICO (organized crime) Lawsuit Naming: Daniel Dal Bosco, Giancarlo Bruno of the Davos World Forum, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon and others, will be charged with the theft of trillions of dollars, is Ongoing & very much alive, bringing a deafening silence from corporate media
GOV. ACTIVATING (STAFFING) FEMA CAMPS ALL OVER USA
Insiders Report:
Top 100 Illuminati Banksters Meeting for Satanic Child Sacrifice in Colorado on Jun
HUMOR/WEIRD STUFF:
Before a Bush Speech, this happens
Mysterious Buddhist Retreat in the Desert Ends in a Grisly Death
QUOTES FOR THE WEEK:
"Washington...has become an alien city-state that rules America, and much of the rest of the world, in the way that Rome ruled the Roman Empire." - Richard Maybury
"Make wars unprofitable and you make them impossible." - A. Philip Randolph
"It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them." - Alfred Adler
"To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public." - Noam Chomsky
" An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war." - Charles de Montesquieu
"In the eyes of empire builders men are not men but instruments" - Napoleon Bonaparte
"The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy." - Woodrow T. Wilson
"Basically, what Economic Hit Men are trained to do is to build up the American empire. To create situations where as many resources as possible flow into this country, to our corporations, and our government, and in fact we've been very successful." - John Perkins
"The great lie is that it is civilization. It's not civilized. It has been literally the most blood thirsty brutalizing system ever imposed upon this planet. That is not civilization. That's the great lie, is that it represents civilization." - John Trudell - http://is.gd/Le7XO0
"When you get down with Obama, however grudgingly or reluctantly, you are dancing on the killing floor" - Chris Floyd
"A country without a memory is a country of madmen." - George Santayana
"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 - 1898-1936
". . . 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.
"Around the world, the message received is that, whoever wins [the U.S. election], expect only more of the same - national narcissism disguised as altruism, corporate appeasement, and the arbitrary use of U.S. military and economic might." - Greg Guma - Toward Freedom magazine
"It should be no surprise that when rich men take control of the government, they pass laws that are favorable to themselves. The surprise is that those who are not rich vote for such people, even though they should know from bitter experience that the rich will continue to rip off the rest of us." Andrew Greeley (Chicago Sun-Times, February 18, 2001)
"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.
"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
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