Links BY George ~ Dec. 5th, 2012

           LINKS BY GEORGE NEWSLETTER

 

Aloha from an off grid rain forest cabin in Hawaii. For the past 7 years

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LIFESTYLE/ ARTS/ CULTURE/ ETC:

 EVENTS:

 

[9th International Amazonian Shamanism Conference: "AYAHUASCA - SAN PEDRO"]july 21-27, Peru 

HIGH CONSCIOUSNESS:

The Healing Power of Marijuana Has Barely Been Tapped Medical marijuana is now legal in 18 states, but it's clear we've discovered a fraction of its potential for health

WeedGeist (Full Web Documentary)

 

DEA OFFICE CLOSES IN HILO

80 Years for Medical Pot? Montana Man's Potential Sentence Sparks Outrage Chris Williams is the poster boy for the Federal government's aggressive assault on Montana's marijuana providers

California’s Humboldt State University launches marijuana institute

Santa Claus, Mushroom Beer, and the Dutch

Actor Larry Hagman, a mainstay of television known for his roles on shows such as Dallas and I Dream of Jeannie, died this past Friday. In a rare case of psychedelics being discussed frankly and positively on mainstream TV, he explained why all of our politicians should be required to undergo an LSD trip at least once:

An Amazing New Use for Ecstasy. A promising new study reveals the potential of MDMA.

Literary Review: ‘Animals and Psychedelics’ by Giorgio Samorini

Psychedelics in the 21st Century: Breakthroughs in Therapeutics-- Bruce Sewick

The Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss, by Dennis McKenna "Terence McKenna was one of a kind. For all of us who never knew him personally but have heard his unique and mesmerizing voice, been touched by his eloquence, and persuaded by the power of his insights and the courage of his imagination, 

Graham Hancock - Grateful that plants help induce altered state of consciousness

Dr. Stanislav Grof - The Cosmic Game

Inner Worlds, Outer Worlds - Part 1 - Akasha

Prayer of GuateMaya-Unification of Wisdom Film Preview (trailer coming soon)

A Message From New Zealand Waitaha - The Nation of Peace Welcome to Waitaha. For years New Zealand archaeologists have been puzzled by a people who lived without weapons and created trading systems that moved industrial stone the length of the country. They were a peaceful confederation of over two hundred iwi known as the ‘Nation’.

Was the Egyptian God Horus Born on December 25th of a Virgin?

1st Template Ceremony, Original Innocence

ARTS:

Bruce Lee  Plays Ping Pong

Improving the Quality of Life. Created by Squitieri Butterfield. "I am currently turning sour lemons into lemonade with a garnishing of mint. Life has taken a series of unforeseen twists and turns and placed me in a position.."

Rolling Stones storm London; New York next

MUSIC VIDEOS:

Duane Allman - Herbie Mann - Push Push

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6KBLBpOaJ8&feature=share

Grateful Dead - China Cat Sunflower / I Know You Rider ('70)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvq2JTWdJ1U&feature=share

Shawn Phillips-peace song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04U0c3ZwyAg&feature=youtu.be

It's a Beautiful Day - Bombay Calling (1978) FAMILIAR ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFP-rYQb3ts&feature=share&fb_source=message

James Gang Live 1971 Walk Away

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EdWQ8hX4Ik&feature=related

Janis Joplin- San Francisco Bay Blues

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Law1GAAcRsc&feature=share&mid=52

Jeff Beck - Cause We've Ended As Lovers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeAv1nSFTf0&feature=related

Jefferson Airplane - Martha

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0nz_ilXrpg&feature=share&mid=521

Jesse Colin Young - Darkness Darkness (live 2009)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edCKPmEhRpU&feature=share&mid=541

Jimi Hendrix- Christmas On Earth Continued 12/22/67

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geXz5Y8ENxE

Jimi Hendrix - You Got Me Floating

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_v19VpDyVcM&feature=share&mid=53

Jimi Hendrix, Brian Jones, Dave Mason, and Mitch Mitchell - Ain't Nothin' Wrong With

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFgG1VFkdvk&feature=share

Jimi Hendrix Watch Buddy Guy At Georgia Club

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtcAwzBr0c8&feature=related

Jimi Hendrix with the Rolling Stones / Rocks Off Message Board - youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rqqaw9iN0Js&feature=related

Jimi Hendrix Maui 1970 Raibow Bridge Concert [full live]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrbcDk643t8&feature=share&mid=53

ENVIRONMENT:

Coqui frogs in Hawaii

 

Ocean acidification affecting live marine creatures in the Southern Ocean. The shells of marine snails - known as pteropods - living in the seas around Antarctica are being dissolved by ocean acidification according to a new study published this week in the journal Nature Geoscience

Growing food in the desert: is this the solution to the world's food crisis?Philipp Saumweber is creating a miracle in the barren Australian outback, growing tonnes of fresh food. So why has he fallen out with the pioneering environmentalist who invented the revolutionary system?

SCIENCE:

13-year-old genius from Sierra Leone builds generators out of scrap, makes you feel dumb

　

No Rare Earths in Next Generation Electric Vehicles

HEALTH:

 European Environmental Bureau Urges EU States to Ban Amalgam Fillings

Even if You Have the Flu, Ignore This Much-Heralded Flu Remedy. Science Behind Tamiflu Recommendations "Missing in Action"

What's the REAL Story About the Flu Vaccine?

Profits Before Life—The Sad History of Antidepressant Drugs Depressed? The Mistake that Could Make You Suicidal. How the Pharmaceutical Industry Profits from False Claims, and a Brand New Online Tool that Can Help You Get Better Health Care 

How the Sugar Industry Hoodwinked You about the Dangers of Sugar, Using Big Tobacco Tactics

The Surgery Hardly Ever Needed - Never Do It Unless Two or More Experts Tell You To 90 Percent of Melanoma Surgeries are Unnecessary, Study Finds

GLOBAL NEWS:

50 Reasons to Boycott the Catholic Church. The Church uses its resources to oppose social progress and positive change all over the world.

Iceland Did it Right...and Everyone Else is Doing it Wrong. Iceland’s commitment to its program, a decision to push losses on to bondholders instead of taxpayers and the safeguarding of a welfare system that shielded the unemployed from penury helped propel the nation from collapse toward recovery, according to the Washington-based fund.

Japan support for whaling outweighs opposition: poll. More Japanese people support the country's controversial whale hunt than oppose it.

310mph 'floating' trains unveiled in JapanThe first of a new generation of high-speed, magnetic levitation trains has been unveiled in Japan.

A seed For Change a documentary project by Alex Ikonomidis and the declaration on seed freedom. Greek film maker says we can 'grow our way out of the crisis'

Africa: Calling for a GMO-Free Continent. “It is all about market colonization,” Bassey told IPS. “GM crops would neither produce food security nor meet nutrition deficits. The way forward is food sovereignty – Africans must determine what crops are suitable culturally and environmentally. Up to 80 percent of our food needs are met by smallholder farmers. 

The Great Mexican Maize Massacre. Gene Giants Prepare the Genetic Wipe-out of One of the World’s Most Important Food Crops

 

Ontario First Nation Wins Cleaner Forest after 10 Years of Logging Blockade. Ten years ago today, on December 3 of 2002, members of Grassy Narrows First Nation began a blockade to prevent the passage of logging equipment and trucks through their traditional territory. Located fifty miles north of Kenora, a small Canadian city on the north shore of Lake of the Woods, Grassy Narrows is a semi-remote Anishinaabe community with a population of about 950 people who live on the reserve (reserves are the Canadian equivalent of reservations in the United States).

Namibia: Indigenous Semi-Nomadic Himba And Zemba March In Protest Against Dam, Mining And Human Rights Violations

What you don't see in the mainstream media about Gaza. Please share this with whoever you can. I cried when I saw the truth of what is happening and no one is stopping in a just way

Chomsky | What the American Media Won't Tell You About Israel. "An old man in Gaza held a placard that read: 'You take my water, burn my olive trees, destroy my house, take my job, steal my land, imprison my father, kill my mother, bombard my country, starve us all, humiliate us all, but I am to blame: I shot a rocket back.'"

Malaysia: Victim of America’s "Irregular Warfare" Ops? TC 18-01 SPECIAL FORCES 

UNCONVENTIONAL WARFARE" is listed on the US Army’s official website and can only be accessed by authorized officials within the American government (a leaked copy has been made available and can be viewed by clicking here)"…a step by step guide of how to create, manipulate, co-opt and make use of a countries population, persons of special interest inside the country as well as expatriates, organizations inside as well as outside the country, towards a subversion. Beginning with manipulating dissent into demonstrations, the polarization of a population, riots and armed insurgencies that require action by security forces, and psychological warfare by means of media, step by step, in logical sequence, towards a full scale war, based on humanitarian principles and the pretext of bringing democracy and freedom."

Humanitarian Coverup: Why is Obama Silent Over the New Congo War? 

  

US Brands Blamed in Deadly Bangladeshi Blaze. "The 100-plus workers who died in a fire late Saturday at a high-rise garment factory in Bangladesh were working overtime making clothes for major American retailers."

Fueled by War on Drugs, Mexican Death Toll Could Exceed 120,000 As Calderon Ends Six-Year Reign. this article details newly-released statistics that indicate the predicted death toll from the alleged war-turned-bloodbath will likely far exceed past estimates

NATIONAL NEWS

 
GENERAL INFO:

Video/Photos-43rd Native American Day of Mourning-Plymouth, Mass.

America Didn’t "End" Slavery After the Civil War -- We Simply Exported It One of the most enduring myths we love here in America is that we ended our involvement with slavery. One of the most enduring myths we love here in America is that we ended our involvement with slavery after the Civil War. While our Founders – people like Thomas Jefferson, who wrote "all men are created equal" in the Declaration of Independence but owned slaves himself – were tarnished, morally imperfect hypocrites, in our modern era, we tell ourselves, we’ve risen above that. We are pure! We’re no longer tainted by slavery!If only it were true.

NJ: Demolish Homes Immediately or Pay $2,000 per Week. After hurricane Sandy hit the east coast, all of the mainstream media sources were praising FEMA and the governments overall response to the disaster.However, since the dust has settled and reality has set in, it seems that most of the actual help is coming from people in the community and the government is actually doing more harm then they are doing good.

Senators Launch Effort to Strike Indefinite Detention. "Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) introduced an amendment ... that would protect American citizens from being indefinitely detained."

The Humiliation of Bradley Manning. It is a bitter irony that Army Pvt. Bradley Manning, whose conscience compelled him to leak evidence about the U.S. military brass ignoring evidence of torture in Iraq, was himself the victim of cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment while other military officers privately took note but did nothing.

Bradley Manning: A Tale Of Liberty Lost In America. By Glenn Greenwald.The US does nothing to punish those guilty of war crimes or Wall Street fraud, yet demonises the whistleblower.

Why Are We Testing Newborns for Pot? The science is alarmingly inconclusive, but the punishment for mothers is severe.

Private Prison Company Used in Drug Raids at Public High School Corrections Corporation of America used in drug sweeps of public school students in Arizona.

DuPont Sends in Former Cops to Enforce Seed Patents: Commodities...the world’s second- biggest seed company, is sending dozens of former police officers across North America to prevent a practice generations of farmers once took for granted.

Whistleblower: Nuclear Disaster in America Is More Likely Than the Public Is Aware ofKey federal official warns that the public has been kept in the dark about safety risks.

Tsunami debris washes up in Hawaii

Shell VP: Yeah, we're gonna spill oil in the Arctic. Not a big deal, despite that its containment system was "crushed like a beer can" in hilariously bad tests.

Cows near natural-gas fracking sites are getting sick and dying. Food or fuel -- which kind of independence is most important to us?

Fracking Our Food Supply. "Ambient air testing by a certified environmental consultant detected elevated levels of benzene, methane, chloroform, butane, propane, toluene and xylene—compounds associated with drilling and fracking, and also with cancers, birth defects and organ damage. Her well tested high for sulfates, chromium, chloride and strontium; her blood tested positive for acetone, plus the heavy metals arsenic (linked with skin lesions, cancers and cardiovascular disease) and germanium (linked with muscle weakness and skin rashes)."

Top US Healthcare Giant: GMOs Are Devastating Health. Corporate Giant Comes Out Against GMOs.Kaiser Permanente, the largest managed healthcare organization in the United States, has advised its members against GMOs (genetically modified organisms) in food.

Justice Department ditches Monsanto investigation. After almost three years of digging into Monsanto's potentially anticompetitive practices, the feds aren't saying why they're walking away

Big Pharma Company Mocked Patients Who Got "Jawbone Death" from Drug: "Ma Toot Hurts So Bad"Newly available emails reveal Merck was far from concerned when a disease linked to Fosamax surfaced.

Hostess CEO Cuts Worker Pay, but Leaves Own Salary Untouched" After failed Twinkies-maker Hostess filed for bankruptcy in November, acting chief executive Gregory Rayburn imposed an 8 percent across-the-board pay cut on the company’s workers. Despite those cuts, Rayburn, who took the company over after its second bankruptcy filing in March, will not be subject to the pay cut because he is not technically a company employee, the Huffington Post’s Bonnie Kavoussi reports."

College Used to Be the American Dream -- Now It's the American NightmareEscalating delinquency rates make student loans look like the new subprime.

Steve Fraser, The National Museum of Industrial Homicide and The Archeology of Decline. Debtpocalypse and the Hollowing Out of America

The Legal Creation of Race in America. When examining history, it seems that a narrative has evolved over time that slavery somehow just happened in the United States due to the need for cheap labor and that Africans were chosen because they could do that labor the best. While this is true, it is far from the full reality of the situation. Like slavery, race took time to be created and accepted by the population and like slavery; race had to be created from a legal framework. For this, we need look no further than colonial Virginia

A Year in Jail for Not Believing in God? "In Kentucky, a homeland security law requires the state's Homeland Security Officers to acknowledge the security provided by the Almighty God - or risk 12 months in prison."

WAR:

AP's Dangerous Iran Hoax Demands an Accounting and Explanation Evidence proves that the graph trumpeted by AP as evidence of Iran's nuclear weapons program is an obvious sham

Suicide Drones, Inside the New Army Arsenal. "Flying grenades. Mini spy blimps. Robotic bomb-busters. Suicide-vest spotters. Battlefield 3D printers. The Army is retooling for a very austere, very remote way of war. And the gear that's required is very different from the hardware that came before."

Obama 'drone-warfare rulebook' condemned by human rights groups New York Times reports administration attempting to set out circumstances in which targeted assassination is justified

Latif Autopsy Report Calls Gitmo Death a Suicide: Questions Remain. The cause of death has been ruled a suicide, the manner of death has not yet been disclosed. The list of unanswered questions grows.

It's Time to Challenge the Propaganda Regarding Who is Killed by U. S. Drones"The public would not be accepting of drones, if they knew how kill decisions are made, and how many innocents are killed in the process."-- Robert Greenwald, Brave New Films

Iran Captures US Drone In Its Airspace 04 Dec 2012 Iran has "captured" a US drone gathering intelligence over Gulf waters after it entered its airspace, state media has reported. The report quoted the Revolutionary Guard's navy chief General Ali Fadavi on the "intruding" [aka illegally spying] ScanEagle drone, but offered no precise details on the location or how it had been seized by the Guards' naval unit. 

America's Mindless Killer Robots Must Be Stopped. Sharkey writes: "It is clear that the rational approach to the inhumanity of automating death by machine is to prohibit it."

Pentagon to Double Size of Worldwide Spy Network."Combined with the enormous growth in the CIA since 9/11 attacks, the recruitment drive will create an unprecedented spy network." 

POLITICAL:

Former GOP Leaders in Florida Admit to Voter Suppression. "Former GOP chair, governor - both on outs with party - say voter fraud wasn't a concern, but reducing Democratic votes was."

ECONOMIC:

The Gift of a Sustainable Economy. Nader writes: "The holidays have been hijacked by big companies sending out a message to the American people: 'Buy, buy, buy!

SURVEILLANCE/FRINGE POSSIBILITIES:

U.N. to Seek Control of the Internet. Next week the United Nations’ International Telecommunications Union will meet in Dubai to figure out how to control the Internet. Representatives from 193 nations will attend the nearly two week long meeting, according to news reports.

ANONYMOUS: You, ITU, & Internet Censorship

Supreme Court Confirms Citizens Right to Film Police. "The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to review a federal appeals court decision finding it unconstitutional to enforce an Illinois state law that makes it a felony to videotape police officers."

NSA Whistleblower: Everyone in US Under Virtual Surveillance, All Info Stored.RT talks to William Binney, whistleblower and former NSA crypto-mathematician who served in the agency for decades.

HUMOR/WEIRD STUFF:

Man Faces Death Threats and Jail for Pointing Out That Weeping Jesus "Miracle" Is Just Faulty Plumbing Sanal Edamaruku faces jail for revealing 'tears' trickling down a Mumbai church statue came from clogged drainage pipes.

BILL HICKS TALKS ABOUT MAGIC MUSHROOMS