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Petitioning

Mike — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:27:50 GMT

I often participate on online petitioning in a range of subjects from protecting marine turtles to opposing Malaysia's development of oil palm production in the Amazon.
Petitioning can be effective!!
There are plenty of worthy petitions around, so if you are truly concerned and want to make a difference, I would urge all to participate. Be the change.

Help Stop the Trade in Bear Parts
https://secure3.convio.net/bfusa/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=467
Planned cellulose factory puts Tasmanian Devil at risk of extinction
http://www.regenwald.org/international/englisch/protestaktion.php?id=460
Stop Canada's Cruel Seal Hunt: Boycott Canadian Seafood
https://secure.humanesociety.org/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=2833&autologin=true&JServSessionIdr002=wfejhel3z1.app306a
Ask Your Senators to Stop Big Coal from Dumping
Toxic Mining Waste into Our Streams
http://www.ilovemountains.org/write-your-senators/
Taking the Wrong Path on Protecting Right Whales
http://action.earthjustice.org/campaign/rightwhale_1009?qp_source=unearthed_related
Dutch government finances (ir)responsible soya
http://www.rainforest-rescue.org/protestaktion.php?id=464

Thanks

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Please stop Iceland whaling

Mike — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:13:28 GMT

This summer, Iceland’s whalers have undertaken the biggest fin whale hunt in the North Atlantic in more than 20 years, killing 125 fin whales and more than 80 minke whales. With almost no domestic market for whale meat, Iceland plans to export thousands of tonnes of meat to Japan. The International Whaling Commission which bans commercial whaling and CITES, which bans international trade in whale products, appear powerless to stop Iceland… but the European Union (EU) could.

WDCS online petition
http://www.wdcs.org/view_e_protest.php?e_protest_select=33&&select=452

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Legalize Hemp and Cannabis in California

Fully — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 02:46:11 GMT

Hi Family,

Right now there are two competing signature drives to put Cannabis legalization initiatives on the ballot in California in

November 2010.

One is found at www.taxcannabis2010.org

The other is found at www.CaliforniaCannabisInitiative.org

Please look carefully at the text of both laws (the text of each is finalized) and make up your own mind which one you support.

I am supporting www.CaliforniaCannabisInitiative.org because our law will protect Cannabis users from discrimination in

healthcare, employment, and housing. It is a full legalization measure for industrial hemp and recreational cannabis which will restore full human rights to Hemp farmers and Cannabis users all across California. Of course supplying Cannabis to children will remain illegal just as it is today. Driving vehicles under the influence will remain illegal just as it is today. Cannabis users will still be fired from their jobs if they show up to work impaired.

There are two parts to our plan. The first part is to publicly post and personally distribute our "Freedom Lover's Call to Arms" in order to recruit volunteers. This document is available here-

www.imgur.com/dbU83

The second part of our plan is to ask everyone who volunteers to make a pledge for how many signatures they can collect in

the next 30 days or so. 15-30 signatures is a good number. If enough volunteers show this level of commitment we can succeed. You can probably get that number from your family members, friends, co-workers, and neighbors without having to solicit in public too much. This is an "out of the closet" movement. We will have to proudly advocate human rights for responsible, honest, hard-working Cannabis smokers in order to convince legitimate people to support us. I can supply stickers equivalent to each persons pledge number. These stickers can be used to generate interest and be given to voters who sign the petition. Here is the sticker design-

www.imgur.com/2cjvb

Feel free to distribute and use these images. Just don't copyright them.

We have 145 days in order to get the number of signatures that we need. Our petition is hot off the press on 9/11 and we

have started collecting the first signatures yesterday 9/12.

We are polling 56% public support for Cannabis legalization in California which menas that this is an initiative which is not doomed. Its time has finally arrived; we are at the tipping point right now. Now is the time to do this and to do it right. We may only get one chance. If a law which is not exactly what we want is implemented then we may lose our critical mass and our ability to set it right.

I believe that less adults will smoke cannabis after it is legal. This is the case in the Netherlands where it has been

available over-the-counter for 30 years yet only half as many citizens (percentage-wise) smoke as do citizens here. My economics professor has taught for years that prohibition has not succeeded in decreasing usage by increasing penalties. Instead it has destroyed lives and families without substantial benefit to society. After legalization hard-drug usage will decrease due to a "separation of the markets," a decline in the price of Cannabis relative to hard-drugs, and the restoration of honesty and common sense in drug education. Violence, thievery, and the incarceration of honest people will decrease as well. I also believe that a well regulated market will decrease the availability and appeal of cannabis to children. In fact teenage Cannabis use in California has fallen steadily since the passage of Proposition 215. Furthermore the adults who smoke Cannabis after legalization will be better able appreciate the majesty of nature in peace and unity without learning to fear and disrespect authority figures. This will be better for their spirits and better for society. Finally the human rights of legitimate medical Cannabis patients will be better protected than they are today. Legalizing Cannabis will create a safer, healthier, and more humane California for us all to live in.

If you want to help me in any way please contact the CCI campaign at www.CaliforniaCannabisInitiative.org or write me at
deep_space_underground@yahoo.com I give you my encouragement to modify this message if necessary and distribute it to anyone who might help on any forum or by any mechanism.

Love,
-Fully Committed

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Chronic Illnesses and Toxic Chemicals Database + Reality of Tacit Conspiracies

ToxicReverend — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:34:36 GMT

Database lists illnesses with toxic chemicals
that can cause them is now linked in at my
profile with a review and comments at :>
http://people.tribe.net/toxicreverend
Or just Google;
"Toxic Reverend"
I have other profiles and blogs, all of which
have the same red and white skull and cross bones.
With the exception of the "Straightedge" profile :>

Note the blog titled;
"Osho : The "Love Guru" and Non-lethal Biological Weapons"
posted at
Straightedge - Mister Kinkster
http://www.myspace.com/misterkinkster

..................................

In "other news":

Realities and tacit conspiracies of today's health care and political system
http://toxicreverend.blogspot.com/2009/06/realities-and-tacit-conspiracies-of.html

This posting could still use some editing.
Feel free to use it as you see fit.
My macular degeneration is forcing me to stop working
on this for now. But I feel the information is too
important not to send out. Please feel free to forward
to journalists that can make use of it, with or with out
credit to myself.

Blessings,

The Toxic Reverend

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Realities and tacit conspiracies of today's health care and political system
Sunday, June 7, 2009
http://toxicreverend.blogspot.com/2009/06/realities-and-tacit-conspiracies-of.html

Reference material is linked into the blog, but is not linked into this posting - TR

Excerpts from the above blog:>

Medical bills play a role in 62% of bankruptcies, study says
By Lisa Girion, June 4, 2009 Los Angeles Times

Quotes from the LA Times Nespaper article:
The study found that medical bills, plus related problems
such as lost wages for the ill and their caregivers,
contributed to 62% of all bankruptcies filed in 2007.

Medical insurance isn't much help, either. About 78% of
bankruptcy filers burdened by healthcare expenses were
insured, according to the survey, to be published in the
August issue of the American Journal of Medicine.

End of quotes from the LA Times newspaper.

The article appears to have been moved to their archives.
A copy is posted at: Physicians for a National Health Program,
http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/june/medical_bills_play_a.php

The article can also be found with the Google search terms;
"Medical bills play a role in 62% of bankruptcies, study says By Lisa Girion, June 4, 2009 Los Angeles Times"

The entire study can be downloaded from:

Physicians for a National Health Program,
http://pnhp.org/
at
http://pnhp.org/new_bankruptcy_study/

.........

“As an Environmental Technologist, I can not imagine
a health care system that could be viable, when it
ignores the common toxic chemical exposures” -
The Toxic Reverend

The realities and tacit conspiracies of today's health care and political system
By The Toxic Reverend
(No copyright claimed. Edit, post, forward and reproduce at will)

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.........

Please consider this information with the following moral:

Tacit Conspiracy Of Complicity - Simplified:

While walking to work each day, I had to cross a stream. I tossed a

rock in to step on and help myself cross each day, on the way to and from work.

Others saw this and did the same. We never discussed it or talked about it.

It was a tacit conspiracy of complicity.

Most of us never imagined that we would create a damn that would flood our

community and kill so many people.

But the few that did realize the impending disaster, set about preparing to

profit off of the coming tragedy, rather than attempt to prevent it. And what

is even worse, are the "measures" they took to keep the information

concealed so the disaster could not be avoided and they could

"make a killing", in profits.

End of quoted moral from a work in progress titled-
Toxic Revelations
..........................................................................

Leading medical providers like the Cleveland
Clinic and Johns Hopkins in Baltimore are
establishing special programs to give platinum
service to the well-heeled. Depending on the
program, the super-rich customers may receive
massages and sauna time along with their
physical, house calls, and step-to-the- front-
of-the-line service in testing facilities (158).

While Linda Peeno MD (featured in the movie
"Sicko") gave sworn testimony to the House of
Representatives on the subject of "Denial of
Health Care Services" to insured American's
(20a).

A Congressional Report states that of the
1,400 chemicals known to cause cancer,
less than 6% are tracked (145B).

The huge transnational companies that
produce toxic chemicals found in
pesticides, herbicides and industrial and
household products profit not only from
the sale of these products, but also from
the symptoms and chronic illnesses that
they can trigger (157).
________

157 :POISON FOR PROFIT
CHEM/PHARM HAS NO EQUAL - WHAT A
BUSINESS PLAN!
By Ashley Simmons Hotz May 15, 2002

This report has been censored from the
Internet and removed from the
Archives Wayback Machine. But a
number of advocates have been
re-posting the report and copies can be
found with a simple Google search on
the title and author:>
"POISON FOR PROFIT Ashley Simmons Hotz"

________ ........................

Even more disturbing is what is termed "the revolving door" from
these companies and their executives into many of the high ranking
administration offices of our government, in Washington DC. From
the National Institute of Health to the Food and Drug Administration
and beyond.

"The revolving door" is easily shown with an Internet www.google.com

search term, "revolving door washington DC drugs chemical companies".

In short, "Justice has been sold" (101) and millions of dollars put

into "fixing the sale" ( 49). The Los Angeles Times reported that,

"Drug Companies, HMO's Spend Big To Stop New Laws". They

donated hundreds of millions of dollars to political election

campaigns (49, 159 ).

To quote Senator Amy Klobuchar;

The debate on health care in Washington has been dominated by

the drug companies and the insurance companies for way too long.

When our health care policies are written for the insurance companies

and the drug companies instead of America's families, we get things

like Medicare Part D. Medicare Part D gave the prescription drug

companies something like $90 billion a year in Christmas presents

by banning the federal government from negotiating drug prices.

End of quote from Senator Amy Klobuchar

Drug companies are apparently buying out "grass root

organizations like NAMI (68). While they do the

"Poison for Profit" ( 157).

Use this Google search terms to find copies

"POISON FOR PROFIT Ashley Simmons Hotz"
.............................

To simplify the complexity of the
controversy, I will give this example. Bill
Moyers of the Public Broadcasting System
did a show named Trade Secrets and has
created a web page of the same name
(26). There is to much documentation
there to list, in regard to "industry"
covering up the damage to OUR HEALTH
from toxic chemicals, for over fifty years
(26).

Bill Moyers was tested for over 800 toxic
chemicals and over 80 chemicals (at
various levels of exposure) were found, in
him. That presents the potential for more
viable chemicals reaction variations than
the pick six lottery in one patient from the
perspective of Low Dose Cumulative
Effects of Toxic Chemical's ! But
regardless of this, many of the "tolerable
levels of exposure" to a (singular) toxic
chemical have been fraudulently produced
for decades (81).

Current events on this topic of "The Toxic Lotto" that
revolves around the "Toxic Soup" that all of us live in
are at my MySpace profile with links to the
California Biomonitoring Program
and the
"Cumulative Impacts".

Just as toxic chemicals can multiply in their toxicity
when mixed, so can infectious agents increase in their
pathogenic impact. And the the two (toxic chemicals
and infectious agents) usually work in a synergistic
manner.

It is suspected that
Camp Mandalay of the Bohemian Grove
might very well have "inside knowledge" that
other members of the Bohemian Grove are not
aware of.

Many camps in the Bohemian Grove contain very
prestigious visitors. You have camps like Cave Man,
Hideaway, Hill Billies, Hillside, Isle of Aves, Lost
Angels, Mandalay, Midway, Owl's Nest,
Sempervirens, Silverado Squatters, and Stowaway.
Mandalay seems to be the camp for international
relations and consists of many members officially or
otherwise connected to the intelligence agencies.
Mandalay is the only camp you cannot just walk into
and before you are allowed on the compound
someone will ask you who you have an appointment
with. If you're cleared for access, you are taken up the
hill with a Bechtel-designed electric pulley. Many
members of camps like Hill Billies or Stowaway
(Rockefellers and Morgans) have been to Mandalay at
one time or another.

It is believed that camp Mandalay was central to
the "Manhattan Project" (the nuclear bomb),
"Project Paper Clip" (that gave Nazi scientists
new identities and continued their research on
American's) and a host of other well document
experiments on hundreds of American cities.

I am all for telling the other members of the
Bohemian Grove what camp Mandalay has been
up to with the Non-Lethal Biological
Weapons known as Incapacitating Agents,
playing a part in Chronic Illnesses and cancers.
A video titled,
"Biological Weapons Experiments On The American People"
explains it rather well.

Copy / paste of a posting at
"Sex for the sake of sex" #83 (permalink)

When it comes to the effects of toxic chemicals on our gonads
and or our sex drive, there appears to be a cover up and
a conspiracy. Unfortunately, it is much worse than that. After
careful investigation, it seems to me that the circumstance are
due more to incompetence and greed.

This membership list of the Bohemian Grove does list
some of the deceased and their causes of death. Such as
John Du Pont (now deceased) of whom was diagnosed as
"insane". He was heir to the Du Pont chemical empire.
Ralph Bailey was a member of Camp Mandalay and Vice-Chairman
of Du Pont Chemical Company. John Du Pont (heir to the Du Pont
fortune) was a member of the "Isle of Aves" Camp.
John Du Pont was not a member of the Mandalay Camp.

I'll get back to that angle, after I clarify a few points....... Maybe
you could ask Mary Moore and Peter Phillips what they think about this ?

The elite of our society (The Bohemian Grove
crowd) can get caught up and effected by this "Toxic Lotto", too.
Only they have the money (cash) or a different type of health
insurance, that enables them to get properly evaluated at
clinics like the
Environmental Health Center-Dallas

I'll clarify a key point. A peer reviewed medical
journal has shown that the majority of mental
illness is due to toxic chemical exposures
and is not as genetic as they had thought.

________________________________________
In reference:
Article titled;
Environmental Connections: A Deeper Look into Mental Illness
Journal: Environmental Health Perspectives
Volume 115, Number 8, August 2007
http://www.ehponline.org/docs/2007/115-8/focus-abs.html
Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP ) is a a monthly journal
of peer- reviewed research and news on the impact of the
environment on human health.

End of copy / paste excerpts of posting from;
"Sex for the sake of sex" #83 (permalink)

____________________

Also note the excerpt from :>

http://www.larouchepac.com/node/10504
Nazi T4 Genocide Model Openly Touted By Obama Administration Officials

June 3, 2009 (LPAC)—When Adolf Hitler set up his T4 program, dedicated to eliminating "useless eaters" from Germany's hospitals and nursing homes, he turned to a "non-political" body of medical experts to make the decisions as to who should live, and who should die. It is becoming increasingly obvious that this same model is being adopted by the Obama Administration, in its zeal to ram through its genocidal health care "reform."
End of excerpt from:>
http://www.larouchepac.com/node/10504

____________________

The rough draft of "Toxic Revelations"
has been re-posted at
http://www.puppstheories.com/tr.html

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End of excerpts from:

Realities and tacit conspiracies of today's health care and political system
Sunday, June 7, 2009
http://toxicreverend.blogspot.com/2009/06/realities-and-tacit-conspiracies-of.html

_________________________________________________

Database lists illnesses with toxic chemicals
that can cause them is now linked in at my
profile with a review and comments at :>
http://people.tribe.net/toxicreverend
Or just Google;
"Toxic Reverend"
I have other profiles and blogs, all of which
have the same red and white skull and cross bones.

Note:

Sunday, March 23, 2008
Easter Sermon 08:
Red Collar Criminals Playing American Roulette With Our Lives
http://toxicreverend.blogspot.com/2008/03/easter-sermon-08-achilleas-heel-of.html

Blessings,

The Toxic Reverend
http://people.tribe.net/toxicreverend
aka
Tom Krohmer
Environmental Technologist
http://toxicreverend.blogspot.com/
aka
The Toxic Reverend
http://www.myspace.com/toxicreverend
aka
Justice Is Homeless
http://www.myspace.com/justiceishomeless
aka
Straightedge - Mister Kinkster
http://www.myspace.com/misterkinkster

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Perimeter Fencing : Closure of Golden Gate Park by Outside Lands

Anamika — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 15:24:14 GMT

Perimeter Fencing : Closure of Golden Gate Park by Outside Lands

Like last year, Another Planet Entertainment plans to displace San Franciscans and visitors from Golden Gate Park. For about two weeks San Franciscans and visitors are getting kicked out of huge portion of GGP by a private entity so that it can make a profit. Chunks of time and space like this are going to add up quickly. Say good bye to the artists, musicians, athletes, fauna, and so in Speedway Meadows and hello to the Walmart greeter ....

When
21 AUG -- 3 SEPT 2009 (and in 2010--2013)

Where
21st Ave -- 44th Ave: Most of the West End of GGP: Polo Fields, Speedway, Lindley, Marx, Little Speedway Meadows, and the connective areas

Whom
All unauthorized users

How
Chain--link fencing

What to Do
Spread the word about our loss of access to GGP, the displacement of fauna, and the destruction of flora by letter, word of mouth, phone, email, text, etc.

Call your supervisor: 554-5184; 554-5163 (fax); 554-5227 (TTY)

Call SF Rec and Park: 831-2700

Attend the Public Meetings
8 June, 7pm, Zephyr Coffee House
11 June, 7pm, Taraval Police Station
15 June, 6pm, Grace Luthern Church
18 July, 10am, Sunset Rec Center

[keywords: Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival, Golden Gate Park, Chain link fencing, public property, privatization, SF Rec and Park, Disaster Capitalism, open space, public domain, public funds, Pearl Jam, Dave Matthews Band, Another Planet Entertainment, Polo Fields, Speedway, Lindley, Marx, Little Speedway Meadows]

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Obama embraces environmental devastation

Steven — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 07:20:04 GMT

[From the Los Angeles Times, May 31, 2009]

Environmentalists feel betrayed by the EPA's decision not to block new mountaintop mining projects.

By Tom Hamburger and Peter Wallsten May 31, 2009

Reporting from Washington -- With the election of President Obama, environmentalists had expected to see the end of the "Appalachian apocalypse," their name for exposing coal deposits by blowing the tops off whole mountains.

But in recent weeks, the administration has quietly made a decision to open the way for at least two dozen more mountaintop removals. In a letter this month to a coal ally, Rep. Nick J. Rahall II (D-W.Va.), the Environmental Protection Agency said it would not block dozens of "surface mining" projects. The list included some controversial mountaintop mines.

...critics say the process scars the landscape and dumps tons of waste -- some of it toxic -- into streams and valleys.

The administration' s decision is not the final word on the projects or the future of mountaintop removal. But the letter, coupled with the light it sheds on relations between the mining industry and the Obama White House, has disappointed environmentalists. Some say they feel betrayed by a president they thought would end or sharply limit the practice....

Coal advocates have solicited help from officials as high up as White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. And the issue has sparked contentious debates within the administration. ..

Shortly after his inauguration, Obama won praise from the green lobby for taking a skeptical view of the mining process. And in March the EPA announced it would review the mountaintop projects, breaking from the Bush administration' s practice of granting permits with little or no scrutiny.

The EPA has the authority to block mountaintop removal under the Clean Water Act. But if the agency raises no objections, the final decision on projects is made by the Army Corps of Engineers, which historically has approved mountaintop mining. The corps previously had indicated its intention to approve 48 pending permits....

A review of Obama's campaign statements show that he had expressed concern about the practice without promising to end it. On a West Virginia visit, when asked about the impact of the mining on the state's streams, he said he wanted "strong enforcement of the Clean Water Act," adding: "I will make sure the head of the Environmental Protection Agency believes in the environment. "

And his EPA administrator, Lisa Jackson, has said that the agency had "considerable concern regarding the environmental impact these projects would have on fragile habitats and streams." She pledged that the agency would "use the best science and follow the letter of the law in ensuring we are protecting our environment. "

Soon afterward, the agency in effect blocked six major pending mountaintop removal projects in West Virginia, Kentucky and Ohio.

But this month, after a series of White House meetings with coal companies and advocates including Rahall and Democratic West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin III, the EPA released the little-noticed letter giving the green light to at least two dozen projects....

Ed Hopkins, a top Sierra Club official, said some of the projects that have now obtained the EPA's blessing "are as large and potentially destructive as the ones they objected to.""It makes us wonder what standards -- if any -- the administration is using," Hopkins said....

... after the EPA's initial announcement in March that it would conduct aggressive reviews, Manchin and Rahall took the coal industry's concerns to White House officials, including Emanuel and Nancy Sutley, who heads the Council on Environmental Quality....

Environmentalists were stunned to learn from Rahall's office May 15 that the EPA had given its blessing to 42 out of the 48 mine projects it had reviewed so far -- including two dozen mountaintop removals....

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Full:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-mountaintop-mining31-2009may31,0,7589633.story

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Oregon Country Fair 40th Anniversary special

spyder — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 06:03:47 GMT

This year at the 40th Anniversary of the Oregon Country Fair i have confirmed that there will be a special panel discussion scheduled for 2:30pm Friday at the Rabbit Hole. This is a panel composed of some of the founders and initial direct action leaders of many of the most important environmental organizations in the last 35 years (among those are included: Greenpeace, EarthFirst!, Ruckus Society, EPA Toxics campaign, Rainforest Action Network, Burning Man Foundation, Black Rock Arts Foundation, Rex Foundation, Pew Charitable Trust Oceans Study, ForestEthics, Faith and Environment Network, Otter Clan. If you are interested in what must be done to move the Anthropocene Era away from destroying life on earth, this panel will provide some positive, sustainable, direct action ideas.

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Ed Rosenthal takes Time 4 Hemp PLUS Audio remarks from President Obama!

Casper Leitch — Thu, 07 May 2009 02:59:13 GMT

Featured writer in CANNABIS CULTURE and SKUNK magazines as well as the author of more than a dozen books on growing marijuana - Ed Rosenthal takes 'Time 4 Hemp' and it's free to download at http://www.Time4Hemp.com Also included in this segment are audio recordings of President Obama talking about his use of marijuana and his approach to the War On Drugs.

Musical artists (in order of appearance):

Luke Scarmazzo - Pato Banton
Red Dirt - The Blaxicans

Please pass this information on to everyone you feel would enjoy this show.

Keep Strong!
Casper Leitch
Host/Creator: Time 4 Hemp
http://www.Time4Hemp.com

P.S. - Time 4 Hemp has a MySpace group - if you'd like to join, visit:
http://groups.myspace.com/ATime4Hemp

If you have time to surf the net, take a minute to say 'high' to all our friends at the Marijuana Music Awards:
http://www.marijuanamusicawards.com and
http://www.myspace.com/marijuanamusicawards

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Bartcop.com on The New American Dream

Sun, 19 Apr 2009 00:59:27 GMT

http://www.newamericandream.net/index.html

The New American Dream

Feature Interview
The Weekend
April 17

Bartcop.com's Terry Coppage, from Tulsa:

"Well, as you might know, I've got a smart mouth, always had a smart mouth.

And in 1993 my boss said, 'Bart, you ought to try this Internet thing, it's brand-new.' "

Poetry:
by Doug Draime
by Del "Abe" Jones

Columns:
A Progressive Pondering Healthcare — Joe Mayer of Rochester, Minnesota
Who's Killing Americans? Is it Dick Cheney? — Jim Fetzer, of Duluth, Minnesota

Political Art by Ben Heine of Brussels

and some other stuff ....

Thanks for stopping by.

The Dream Team
http://www.newamericandream.net/index.html

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Happy Earth Day - April 22nd

Sinja — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:59:56 GMT

From Canada:

http://www.earthday.ca

Top 10 Actions to reduce your ecological footprint:

http://www.earthday.ca/pub/resources/top10.php

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Hi, I'de like to meet you!

CLMTYKD — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 05:16:04 GMT

I have come here to help in building a stronger online community. Through building a community electronically via the internet, we are one step closer to uniting the world. My hope is that this is a big step in the right direction, one toward peace and understanding among the people of the world. Let us build bridges of understanding together! I firmly believe it is up to all the people of Earth to create a better world, not corporations, politicians, and other demagogues. Now we have the means to do so and make no mistake this is truly the dawning of a new age!

So visit my profile if you like, say hello, add me to your friends, and just communicate in general. I am also contributing to a blog if your interested; www.riseupforthenewday.net. Remember there can be no community without communication!

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Last Spring in Ivanpah Valley

Neotoma — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:33:24 GMT

http://www.basinandrangewatch.org/Ivanpah-Wildflowers.html

They are going to scrape up 5,000 acres of old growth Mojave Desert for an industrial solar facility.

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Dreaming the NEW American Dream

Sat, 04 Apr 2009 17:27:19 GMT

California poets Ava Bird & Rex Butters, and....

Santa Cruz artist Russell Brutsche - Karen Kwiatkowski of Virginia

Protests to stop immigration raids ... and more.
____________________

http://www.newamericandream.net

The New American Dream

What's New?

* Karen Kwiatkowski column
* Ava Bird poetry
* Rex Butters poetry
* Gary Mennie poetry

Columns:
Sherwood Ross — why not shut down a few prisons in the United States as well?
Mickey Z — Americans are cowards, too comfortable, will never-ever-not-in-one-million-years revolt-or-even-bother-to-stand-up — no matter what the rich folks do to them.
Lydia Sems — It's The American Dream that is the problem.

and more from Jack Saunders ...

Resistance:
* Planned civil disobedience in Minnesota to stop raids against immigrants
* Protests at Creech AFB against U.S. drone terroristic activity
*100 days of protest against Guantanamo to culminate

All this, Northern Exposure, The Big Lebowski, Paradise by the Dashboard Lights ... a certificate for free toast ... and more.

Join us.

The New American Dream
Dude.
... because ... Sister Mary Anne told us, "There are no wrong questions, if you don't know the answers."

... from the Dream Team

http://www.newamericandream.net

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Refuse Junk!

Aubrey — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:01:10 GMT

O.K., o.k., the earth is in dire danger, which puts us all in danger, and unless we actually change our priorities and actions our children’s children will live in a toxic unstable environment, get fatal cancers at young ages, and their children’s children (if they get born) will fight against the ferocious weather and dwindling food supply in a collapsed ecosystem just to survive, until all life is finally gone.

We’ve heard it, we care, now what? Some of us recycle some stuff. Some of us drive an expensive hybrid. Some companies even recycle. Yay. Overall, though, why does it seem like it’s still business as usual? Why do I get 3 phone books left on my porch even though I didn’t ask for them? Why is it a near impossibility to stop their delivery? Why are only 2% of the 5+ tons of tissue papers used annually (in the U.S.) from recycled material? And whose responsibility is it to change that stuff? And while I’m asking, what does “responsible” mean? What can an individual do about much bigger than individual problems?

As someone who wants to consider myself as something better than a parasite, I want to make sure that my personal impact, (some say “footprint”, but I’m talking about more than just oil and carbon), is as small as possible. When I talk about a person’s impact, I mean the personal use of materials and resources. The electricity they use, food they consume, gas, water, and so on. It’s more than just what’s utilized, too. Buying and using a product makes you responsible not just for the thing itself and its packaging, but also a portion of all the resources that are used in the making and transportation of it. But wait, there’s more! We are all responsible as individuals for what is wasted just to get and use what we do. The water that flows down the drain while you wait for it to get warm. The left overs that went bad while you were out of town. The first 4 copies that didn’t come out right. Since there’s no way to measure it, get an average, or figure an ideal, as a responsible individual, I simply have to try as hard as I can, in every arena.

To decrease my impact I try to save water by showering less, not flushing every time, and washing my clothes only when they need it. I reuse the blank back sides of paper, recycle every bit of it, and compost my unused bits of food. Anything I have control over is as efficient as I am able to make it.

Sometimes I get stuff. Free stuff, you know, at a show, fair, game or even on the street. If I know I’m not going to utilize it, then I refuse it. It may be as simple as a piece of paper, but imagine that tiny little waste and multiply it by as many people as you can see, or as many times as you’ve ever had something like that offered to you. I am choosing to take responsibility for all of the things I come into contact with; physical responsibility at an environmental level, even things that I didn’t ask for. When I say “responsibility” I don’t mean the psychological acceptance of ‘fault’ or guilt. Just that I am responsible for its purpose (that it gets used and not wasted) and its best destruction/disposal. The giver, after all, cannot possibly do that. By refusing the free thing I am refusing to take part in a larger impact. After all, what do you REALLY need a plastic bacardi necklace that flashes for? There’s a battery in there, ya know.

Imagine not ever being able to refuse all of the giveaways you come into contact with. Someone comes up to you at the mall and says: “Try our new chocolate covered snack” . You happen to be allergic, so what do you do with it? If you simply throw it in the trash, you are responsible for waste. This causes your personal impact to grow through no true fault of your own. Is it fair that you should have to try to find someone who wants it? If you can’t refuse, then you’d just hand it to the next guy and it would get passed on until it reached a person who would trash it or eat it. I know this example sounds absurd, but it is essentially the rule for a lot of waste.

As you already know, we don’t ask for the 6.5 million tons of junk mail (killing 100 million trees) that’s given to us for free every year. Not most of it anyway. So aside from being responsible for it’s proper destruction, (at 3 a day or more, that’s a big chunk of my time, especially if I want to take steps to ensure my privacy) how can I be responsible for it’s creation? Just letting junk mail come into my life and throwing it away makes me part of a big problem. I can recycle it all ‘till the lights go out, but that doesn’t change the fact that it’s still happening. This is why I must have the right to refuse anything anyone wants to give me. If I have no right to refuse, then I have no responsibility for my part, and no power to change it. And I WANT the power to change it.

Oh but there are things that can be done, right? Yep, LOTS of things. So many things to do in fact that it’s a pretty good investment of time. Call, mail, or email each sender and express your desire not to receive the mail. Of course, they still send it to you for a certain number of weeks or months (which seems to be growing) under the excuse that they pre-print and can’t sort you out. Some companies represented by the junk are not even the ones mailing you, so contacting them simply makes you a spectator in the sport of buck passing. If you want to opt out of credit solicitation, you cannot simply call amex or whoever, you have to call one or more separate entities and register your name and social security number with them.

Go to greendimes.org, now mailstopper.tonic.com, and learn how very time consuming opting out of junk mail marketer by marketer can be, or, pay someone to do it! You could go to donotmail.org and sign the petition. You could go to one of a few really great websites like obviously.com/junkmail, and read lots of tips for getting rid of your junk mail and the things you need to do to keep it from starting. I mean LOTS of tips, almost 3 pages worth.

According to the U.S. Postal Service’s Domestic Mail Manual, section 508 Recipient Services 1.1.3 Refusal After Delivery: “...an addressee may mark a mailpiece "Refused" and return it within a reasonable time, if the piece or any attachment is not opened.” Trying to get your individual mail carrier to recognize your right to refuse, however, may cost you a gift sent by a faraway friend, a broken netflix disk, two weeks of delayed mail, litter on the ground, and a lot of frustration so, proceed with caution. Refused mail should be returned to the sender, but I don’t have high hopes that it is.

Sometimes, like with the unfabulous company comcast, the unconnected, less than knowledgeable telephone representatives either tell you they don’t know how to process your request, or simply claim to have done it (thank you Andre, Lynn and Shelly) while the junk keeps coming. That is, if they don’t decide to send you on a goose chase of different phone numbers and websites that circle back to the beginning, or end at the do not call registry. In my case, having called every available number repeatedly, returned, refused, and mailed back the mail with my request on it several times (paying for the postage) over the course of 5 years has had exactly one result: my name replaced with “current resident” on the mail piece. O.k. sorry, 2 results, I will never do business with comcast.

Is this having the right to refuse? Is this having the power to influence change? Doesn’t seem like it to me. If I have the right to refuse what I don’t want, and the power to change a system of nature abuse and waste, why do I have to pay for it? After it’s been paid for with my time, money and frustration, why don’t I get results? I say I deserve more than the right to refuse!

Sending something to me in the mail without my specifically requesting it should quite simply not happen in today’s environment. And this goes as well for all the junk taped to my box or litter thrown near my yard in a plastic baggy with rocks in it. I must not have to pay in any way for this, (i.e. services or lobbying) because then it is only granted to those who can or will pay for it, and that’s not right or effective. This is where it gets stupid. Businesses are not going to change what they’re doing just because it’s right, they have a monetary interest. They will only stop if they have governmental regulation, or some kind of change of circumstance that tips the scale of their practice being profitable. Since the government isn’t built for that kind of micromanaging, and shouldn’t be, another solution must be found.

HERE’S WHAT I SUGGEST WE DO. Print this article on the BACKSIDE OF PAPER THAT HAS ALREADY BEEN USED!, and return it with a postage paid envelope that you have received as junk mail, along with your request to be removed from their junk mail list. Further, you could sign the bottom if you agree to never buy anything from or patronize any business (or nonprofit!) who sends you junk in the mail. You could even take it to real HERO level and designate a stamp or two from every book you buy for those that don’t include an envelope with their junk. If you feel inclined, send this to someone you think is cool enough to take it seriously. Come on people, I’ve seen how far email forwards can go. The more of us who do this, the louder the message gets. Perhaps they will hear us saying that we should not have to jump through endless hoops in order to ensure our rights, or protect our earth. Perhaps they’ll get tired of paying for something that doesn’t benefit them and hurts their client base. Maybe.... maybe they’ll stop just to save the trees. (If you don’t know yet how valuable trees really are, read the book The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight by Thom Hartmann. In fact, just read it anyway.)

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a further step towards global enslavment

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 05:15:34 GMT

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/03/22/water-forum.html

Water is no longer considered a human right.

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toxoplasmosis since someone mentioned it

Judith — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 04:46:42 GMT

hi, I was just reading through a thread on the ethics of pets and companion animals and read the business about toxoplasmosis as a risk in pregnancy.

there is so much misunderstanding about this protozoal disease! being paranoid abut cats during prgnancy doesn;t make a lot of sense though being reasonable does here';s why:

something like 30% of the adult population, mybe more than that, tsts positive fr prior exposure to toxoplasmosis antibodies, ueually asymptomatically. it IS a danger, n even so much t pregnant women and their fetuses as to the immune impaired; i know people with AIDS and eople who were on immunsuppressive emdication who became seriously ill from toxo...the rest of us have porbably had it already.

if you;lve never worked in an garden and never lived with a cat, it might be something to be worried about. if you;ve been around outdoor soil, outdoor cats, anywhere wild rodents live, , handled raw meat...chances are you've been exposed. get someone else to change the shitty litter box, sure. or better, get your hospital to do a titer to see if you;ve previously been though toxoplasma exposure.
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then forget worrying about it. i've been vegetarian for the past 35 years or so, and feel that;s greatly reduced my risk or exposure to not just tox, but salmonella,clostridium, E coli, and a lot of nasty foodborne disease. (I did get staph food poisoning once at a vegan community holiday meal.

sorry for blabbing on, but maybe it's of use., microbiology was always one of my favorite demanding science classes. I had cats all during pregnancy, home birthing, and raising my baby, wearing gloves and especially washing your hands aby thime you handle anything with shit in it is never a bad idea.

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SAY GOODBYE TO YOUR ECO CONSUMERISM FOLKS

ModottiManifesto — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 01:46:58 GMT

THE GOVERNMENT [ALL BUT RON PAUL] KILLED IT, VIA PASSING LAW BY CPSIA,

no longer after Feb 10 can you buy unless its Walmart, because the law by CPSIA, is going to shut down small INDIE and FAIR TRADE businesses and forcing self-employed poor mothers onto the streets, most likely into prostitution which the Godamn government in this country Does support [trafficking, exploitation, LABOR CAMPS].

Go to Moddott Manifesto for the entire blog post on this, I'm simply exhausted after dealing with this Draconian law all day, and right now, I'm considering selling drugs,

you get LESS time for drugs than for making homemade goods/selling them as they will be contraband come Feb 10 [though they are talking about a stay HOWEVER they are determined that they aren't going to do one damn change for Home owned and small businesses run by women, no matter what [even though they know damn well there is no lead in home made bibs and that its ludicrous to force testing at $600+ for a goddamn bib]

Yes I am pissed.

I reconstruct, clothes that WOULD have winded up in landfills and now I have to close up shop, and can't GIVE THEM AWAY EITHER---so I'm burning them,

have no choice [or sending them all to the front lawn of the Capitol as they are now deemed by the Congress as hazardous materials, this includes Any thing that is made for children [or can be construed as maybe touched by a child].

So, off to the landfills all these materials will go, LEAD CONTAMINATED PRODUCTS of course will Still be on Walmart shelves and elsewhere because Imports will have loopholes,

but You, the consumer, the Government has said, THEY WILL CHOOSE NOW WHERE AND WHAT YOU BUY.

And if you have no option but to work in home due to sick kids or taking care of parents, the USA government says to you, Fuck you, starve and die

I say, Fuck the USA government....one Fed up American. Off to the Hooverville like thousands more who will wind up there,

welcome to the New World Order of America, and Environmental concern is far, far from their agenda....oh no, its Corporate Protection and to Hell with the American and World's people.

Venting damn right--but as a Green, as a conscious consumer, as a eco-business, it is INFURIATING THAT OUR GOV HAS DEAD SET DELIBERATELY DONE ALL IN THEIR POWER

TO MAKE US POWERLESS. [though they speak otherwise, liars they are]

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Eco Couture – Buy Local, Save the Economy and The Planet

recycledfordancing — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:50:22 GMT

Wear Your Values

Coco Chanel once said “Fashion is not something that exists only in dresses. Fashion is in the sky, in the street; fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.”

At the end of its journey clothing and fabric scrap takes up a huge amount of landfill. Add to that the environmental costs of packaging, transport, color dying, printing, and laundry and it creates a dangerous and enormous carbon footprint. This is the reason fashion designed with recycled materials comes as a welcome new fashion trend. There are countless ways to reduce your fashion carbon footprint and rebuild the economy. The choice is ours to support local designers and in turn save the planet and create jobs.

“Several studies have shown that buying from an independent, locally owned business, rather than a nationally owned businesses, significantly more of your money is used to make purchases from other local businesses, service providers and farms continuing to strengthen the economic base of the community and creating jobs. Locally owned businesses can make more local purchases requiring less transportation and generally set up shop in town or city centers as opposed to developing on the fringe. This generally means contributing less to sprawl, congestion, habitat loss and pollution. Small local businesses are the largest employer nationally and in our communities, provide the most jobs to residents.“ Source: sconnect.org

RecycledForDancing.com designs by Deborah Paulino are collectable works of art that show the nature of transformation, and draw attention to the human connection to one another and the environment. Combined are an array of fabrics from different eras and areas of the world that are either surplus, recycled or vintage.

The reconstruction process starts with hand washing the fabrics in oxygen bleach, then looking at the fabric, shape, color, then sketching out a design. Often several pieces are used to make one piece of clothing and it can take time, sometimes weeks searching through thrift shops, to find the right elements that compliment each other. Once all the elements are in place the construction takes place, then fittings and finishing touches - sometimes tailoring alterations, other times embellishments such as beading, appliqué, or distressing. When the garment is finished and ready for retail, it is then steam cleaned for any leftover dust and allergens and de-wrinkle and refresh the fabric. The results are one of a kind sincere works of art that are well-made, timeless, and fun to wear. For more info please visit http://www.recycledfordancing.com and check out the latest Winter 08/09 Collection

Retail Store Locations for Recycled for Dancing

Recycled for Dancing
Studio By Appointment:
Haight Ashbury, San Francisco, 94117
Phone 9 am to 6 pm: 415 420 5871
http://www.recycledfordancing.com

Distractions
1552 Haight Street
San Francisco, CA 94117
Walking - Upper Haight, Between Ashbury and Clayton
Open 11 am to 7 pm - 7 Days a week.
Phone: 415 252 8751

Trunk
554 Haight St.
San Francisco, California
Walking - Lower Haight, Between Steiner and Filmore
Open 11 am to 8 pm Wednesday to Monday
Phone: 415 861 5310
http://www.pandorastrunk.com

Jalina's
19 E Blithdale Road
Mill Valley, California
Phone: 415 388 4682

Arara
665 San Jose Ave.
San Francisco, California
Walking - between 28th and 29th / Bernal Heights -Noe Valley
Phone: 415 756 5826
http://www.ararasf.com

“On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.” Thomas Jefferson

For more info please visit http://www.recycledfordancing.com and check out the latest Winter 08/09 Collection.

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Time 4 Hemp celebrates the Holidays with an All-Star line-up 4...

Casper Leitch — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 20:24:43 GMT

...you to party with, and it's free to download at http://www.Time4Hemp.TV

You and your friends are invited to big the holiday party at 'Time 4 Hemp' and smoke out with the remarkable guests who dropped by to share in the fun!

Joining in for this event are (in order of arrival):

Neal Smith - Vice-Chairman of Indiana NORML

Jack Herer - Author of 'The Emperor Wears No Clothes' considered by some to be the Bible of the Hemp Movement

Steve Hager - Creative Director of 'High Times' magazine

Chris Conrad - Publisher of 'The Leaf' newspaper and founder of the Business Alliance of Commence in Hemp

Mikki Norris - Editor of 'The Leaf' newspaper and founder of the Cannabis Consumers organization

Josh Schimberg - President of Texas NORML

Ethan Nadelmann - Founder of the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA)

Alison Myrden - one of the first 20 people in Canada to be granted permission by her government to use Medical Marijuana

Steve Bloom - Publisher of the on-line magazine, 'CelebStoner'

Lynnette Shaw - Co-author of California Proposition 215

Keith Stroup - Founder of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML)

Eddy Lepp - Marijuana Farmer and Hero of the Marijuana Movement

Paul Krassner - Author of 'Pot Stories For The Soul' and one of the comic geniuses of the 20Th century

Ed Rosenthal - Author of several marijuana grow books and featured writer for 'SKUNK' magazine

Gatewood Galbraith - One of the Founding Fathers of the Hemp Movement

Tokin' Tam - A Founder of the Global Marijuana Music Awards (GMMA)

Peter Christ - A Founder of the Law Enforcement Against Prohibition organization (LEAP)

Holly G. - Colorado activists and medical marijuana user

Marc Emery - Publisher of 'Cannabis Culture' magazine

Jodie Emery - Editor of 'Cannabis Culture' magazine

Featured Musical Artist (in order of FIRST appearance):

Emerald Night - Kenny G - Shirley Bassey
The Killing Time Band - Cannabis Chorus - Afro Man
Jet Baker - Adam Sandler - Brian Setzer
Kevin Bloody Wilson - B B King - Chief Greenbud
The Tall Brothers - Rubber Band - Lana Brown - Willie Nelson

Please pass this information on to everyone who you know would enjoy the programs and have yourself a HAPPY HOLIDAY SEASON AND A GREAT NEW YEAR!!

Keep Strong!
Casper

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Redrock drilling

Maia — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:44:17 GMT

As you may or may not know, the BLM and Bush Administration is trying to auction off oil and gas leases in Redrock wilderness in Utah (Dinosaur National Monument, Arches National Park, Canyonlands National Park, and Capitol Reef National Park) this Friday 19 December.
Whether or not you're a resident of Utah or have been to these places, please register your opposition and spread the word.
If you'd like, here is a link to the NRDC's form letter; all you have to do is fill in some spaces.

http://www.nrdconline.org/campaign/stop_wilderness_giveaway

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Ecological Impacts of Big Solar Energy

Neotoma — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:35:29 GMT

While I support solar energy, I support it on rooftops and in disturbed areas. If we go with the Al Gore economy, we will be giving up hundreds of thousands of acres of public lands. Big solar farms will end up scraping up many square miles of ecosystems and destroy much of the biodiversity of this planet. Most solar power will be wet cooled parabloic trough systems which require 6 acre feet of water per megawatt. This will dry up sprigs and destroy many dry adapted species like the desert tortoise. Don't be fooled by the "green" economy. The green economy means massive development in the southwest. If it were really green, it would not destroy so much habitat. Check out this web site I found: http://www.basinandrangewatch.org/SolarDesert.html . It really talks about the ecological impacts of green energy. You can also comment to the Obama Administration at : http://change.gov/page/s/energyenviro. Tell them not to ruin our public lands with green energy.

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Black File 7001: In 1999, Lee Vin Bah became an unknowing human test animal in a U.S. Government mind-control and torture black project. Wednesday, October 08, 2008 [Revised: 10.12.2008]

Lee Vin Bah — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 07:01:41 GMT

Black File 7001: In 1999, Lee Vin Bah became an unknowing human test animal in a U.S. Government mind-control and torture black project.
Wednesday, October 08, 2008 [Revised: 10.12.2008] [Press Statement]

Black File 7001: McCain’s Genocidal Holocaust in America

The McCain Doctrine:
Empty dribble for those unable to distinguish horse manure from shoeshine. McCain’s inner-cracker surfaces with “That one!” aka “Those people!”, “Tar Baby!”, “Little Black Sambo!” or “Jew Boy!” McCain’s comment caused me to remember my youth in the Southern U.S. and gas stations with three bathrooms for men, women and colored. One night I went to sleep as a Jewish child and woke up the next morning to hear my family saying that the U.S. Government now considered us white. As for my race, I chose to remain “human” while at least attempting to recognize same in all people as the individual threads within the beautiful fabric of our humanity.

McCain – “I’ve been on nuclear powered ships”:
Yes, second from the bottom of his graduating class, John McCain wet starts his Skyhawk on the flight deck of the USS Forrestal in 1967, detonates a Zuni missile on the F4 Phantom parked behind his jet and causes the infamous fire aboard the ship killing 132 U.S. Navy sailors and wounding countless others. McCain’s military career has consistently recognized the admiral’s son successfully making touchdowns for the opposing team - stop John you’re running the wrong way…the goalpost is the other direction! McCain’s political career has the same “reverse maverick” modus operandi while supporting an illegal war in Iraq that should result in first degree murder charges being brought against George W. Bush and his administration, as cited within Vincent Bugliosi’s book titled, The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder.

McCain – “My friends my record speaks of continuous service to the nation”:
Whose nation wrong way McCain – North Vietnam, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Dubai, land of the Bush bin Cheney harem whores? Allegedly, McCain with a false war hero persona sided with his communist captors in North Vietnam during the war. McCain, you must DECLASSIFY YOUR SEALED MILITARY AND ASSOCIATED RECORDS to answer the charges that while a POW of the North Vietnamese, you voluntarily and without being tortured did give aid and comfort to the enemy of the United States by producing over 32 propaganda tapes denouncing America as a nation of war criminals and did treasonously provide classified military flight path routes to the NVC, which allowed them to reposition their antiaircraft weapons and kill U.S. pilots on their return trips back home. Tell the American people why you and Kerry changed the standing rules that allowed U.S. Military Commanders on the ground to immediately implement a rescue mission to recover POWs and MIAs when sighted and now require a two day delay be communicated through the Pentagon before taking action, which may as well be two years in jungle time? McCain you allegedly support crossing into Pakistan to kill the complicit Bush family’s friend and ally, Osama bin Laden, but you won’t rescue our U.S. Military POWs and MIAs after the CIA has confirmed over 15,000 sighting. Not to mention that my sources close to the U.S. Special Forces operating in that region confirm that the Whitehouse via the Pentagon telephonically gave a special operations team the following orders after identifying the target for neutralization; “do not to kill Osama bin Laden and remove your team from the area.” When the team later inquired about their combat pay, they were told the mission had been classified and technically speaking since on paper they were never in the Afghanistan/Pakistan region, they are therefore not entitled to combat pay. Wonder if this was one of the same formulas used by your syndicated Republican consortium to systematically rape the financial assets of the American people – where were you 90% of the time for the past eight years? Maverick? – no I think you have been more like sedentary hot buttered goat custard.

McCain – “No one in this country supports genocide” – vomit!
Guess what “my friends”, McCain headed a Senatorial Investigation Committee to cover-up the Bush family’s continuing genocide of Americans and scapegoated their blame onto the back of a power company engineer for another Republican act of treason. My sources so very close to the U.S. Secret Service that I once declined their offer to be photographed sitting at Bush 41’s Whitehouse desk, volunteered that President and former CIA Chief, George H.W. Bush ordered the clandestine testing of a military Electromagnetic Pulse [EMP] weapon on New York City from a refitted A-6 Intruder jet-bomber with a golden canopy that “Killed American Citizens.” New Yorkers died that day, just like on 911. On the date of that EMP weapons attack ordered by Republican George H.W. Bush, American citizens died from an inability to obtain emergency services following massive regional power outages caused by the covert use the U.S. Military against our nation’s people while on U.S. soil. Following 911, it’s too bad that Rudy Giuliani affected such a rapid clean-up of the crime scene area to destroy any evidence; especial with what I suspect would have been found after the botched demolition operation on WTC Building No.: 7 that suddenly decided to drop into its own footprint without being touched. The Bush oligarchy historically recognizes an ongoing lineage of treason to perpetuate their global continuing criminal enterprise and the largest theft of government funds in the history of the known world.

President and former CIA Chief, George H.W. Bush replaced CIA Chief William Colby who died during a suspected assassination on August 27, 1996, before he could testify in the 1953 staged suicide/murder of U.S. Army scientist Dr. Frank Olson [CIA MK-ULTRA] from the same top secret laboratories in Fort Detrick, MD that recently recognized another alleged suicide in one Dr. Bruce E. Ivans [911 Postal Anthrax produced from within the same facility].

Black File 7001: The Genocidal Holocaust in America
U.S. Genocidal Black Projects in torture and mind-control have continued in development since the CIA’s importation of 1600 Nazi SS war criminals to America during “Operation Paperclip” where they continued their inhuman atrocities on human test animals within the MK-ULTRA Program. Those monstrous practices were first begun at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps. These genocidal black projects are covertly funded by billions of dollars from American taxpayers and are rarely scrutinized beneath their program titles by the congressional intelligence committees and their elected members with top secret crypto clearances. Typically these black projects and their methodologies are shrouded beneath federal programs with misnomer titles; kept under wraps at top secret military installations; are concealed within academic research grants; tested during the surrounding events of natural disasters; monitored within the public education system; entrenched within technological devices and surveillance equipment; and are hidden from public scrutiny around the world within prisons, hospitals and centers of academic learning that occasionally double as a blacksite facilities to varying degrees. These formulas for torture are applied against every thread of our existence and the total fabric of humanity by the controlling few against the many whom I feel will increasingly find their revolutionary voice for a restorative democracy that recognizes the human being in all people. Exposing these U.S. black projects causes’ whistleblowers like me to become Targeted Individuals [TIs] who are cauterized through “slow kill” and “silent kill” methods that psychologically wall-off mind-control victims with layers of suicide programming or are rapidly silenced by assassination. Self-inflicted harm is the cornerstone of the four principle components within the CIA torture matrix. This means that the “deep state” proponents of genocidal black projects in torture and mind-control within the U.S. Government infrastructure use covert operatives or jackal agents to harm or murder innocent American citizens. The only reason why these criminal agents and enemies of humanity have not murdered me to date is because I write and publish. The jackals and other criminal actors known to me have been warned along with their handlers that unannounced appearances will be considered a mortal threat. My contacts in the Federal Bureau of Investigation have been notified.

The Federal Witness Protection Program [WitSec], complete with a blacksite facility staffed by government psychologists assisting in the mind-control and torture program, recognizes a clandestine shadow network with given WitSec Inspectors and associated federal agents and agencies conducting sadistic and genocidal practices against Non-Criminal Federal Witnesses and Government Whistleblowers who unknowingly become human test animals within the fraudulent federal program.

This human laboratory control sample within the WitSec is subjected to an evolving mind-control and “no-touch” invisible physical torture experiment sourced from methods produced by the CIA’s MK-ULTRA Program and the KUBARK Counterintelligence Interrogation Manual [The Torture Bible]. The ongoing cover-up by WitSec’s administrators includes their lying under oath before the U.S. Congress to conceal the wrongful deaths of U.S. Government Witnesses from the lasting erosive effects of psyops, mind-control and torture while in and after having exited the Federal Witness Protection Program.

This additionally includes the theft of government funds while robbing the American taxpayers of $Billions through padded numbers to feather their budget. In 2000, I assisted the USDOJ to investigate and successfully prosecute my first WitSec Inspector, John W. Dubois [name authorized by U.S Marshals Service for release] for the same charge. Dubois was later released from prison and allowed to stalk me, convey veiled death threats and later accosted me by the arm while I was near death from cancer treatments.

WitSec Headquarters took no action after filing over 30 security notices, which remains in keeping with the most of our state and federal elected representatives; including Senator Ron Wyden, Congressman David Wu, Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski, and Oregon Attorney General Hardy Myers. Actually my volunteer work as a consumer advocate has placed nearly $30 thousand in the State of Oregon’s depleted coffers and I like Oregon’s AG, but their motives that extends beyond the perpetuation of the “Dark Figure of Crime” is best known to each of them and should be explained to the Oregon voters before the next election; certainly I am affording them yet another opportunity to respond, since they already know my legal name and contact information.

Every frontline covert operator working deep cover assignments, Non-Criminal Federal Witnesses and Government Whistleblowers who are granted a fraudulent Protective Person’s Status under Title 18 of the U.S.C. only to become unknowing human test animals in clandestine experiments, on average begin developing Post Traumatic Stress Disorder [PTSD] within 24 days of exposure in their given operational areas. Some are affected sooner and all experience the complete deconstruction of Constitutional Civil Liberties and inalienable human rights entitled any person [human being] and/or an American citizen after being psychologically pressed into the Federal Witness Protection Program.

The oil rich nations of Saudi Arabia and the UAE, Dubai that supported the attacks against America on 911, today are the only entities making money during the final glut of their end game to destroy America with the treasonous assistance of their complicit partners in the Republican Bush-Cheney administration.
With every economic hardship that our fellow human brothers and sisters are continuing to experience with the collapse of U.S. Republican capitalism, respectfully for those of us who remain an unseen minority as a protect class within plain-sight of mainstream America, the concentrated formulas used against us are horrifically deconstructive and are infinitely worse than anything being generally experienced at this moment.

This is Clandestine Genocide being conducted against American citizens by the U.S. Government. For my group of Veterans of Voluntary Covert National Service, no matter how much the economy and life improves for the majority of Americans living on Main Street, USA, our existence as Non-Criminal Federal Witnesses, Government Whistleblowers and Targeted Individuals [TIs] will remain one of Adjunct Human Slavery within a Virtual Death Camp Environment that continues to systematically and systemically murder our members who are equally entitled American citizens of good character. From that hellish place we watch the blessings of liberty enjoyed by our fellow citizens like “bubble boys” able to move about you while never allowed to penetrate the membrane of that inhuman vessel that falsely imprisons us away from our constitutional entitlements and inalienable human rights. The culpable actors within the U.S. Government have made it virtually if not completely impossible for most of use to find employment. The women in our group have to a degree been able to obtain public assistance, albeit an unnatural reduction from their former financial statuses before the WitSec Program.

This becomes an egregious human rights violation and Constitutional Crime committed by the U.S. Government against its veterans of covert national service who apparently are systemically targeted for eventual death following their voluntary participation as partisans of liberty.

A convicted felon in prison has more recognized civil liberties and opportunities made available to them than American citizen who went above and beyond the call of duty to participate in our government system to make the world and our nation a better place for all human beings.

Female Government Witness and Whistleblower Subjected to Rape Torture!
One female government witness and whistleblower recently communicated that following her discovery that a number of Republican Senators were laundering millions in U.S. taxpayers’ dollars through quasi federal programs, that she was kidnapped and subjugated to human sexual slavery for the sadistic pleasures of those wishing her death. Once programmed through mind-control techniques she was raped for two days, hung by the neck and thought left for dead until she awoke in a pool of her own blood and feces with her sexual organs destroyed.

After a 24 hour reconstructive surgery and a period of recuperation, she returned to a university where she completed her degrees only to have those targeting her for torture and mind-control, separate her from securing those University Degrees while leaving her with $30 thousand dollars in debts for student loans. Somehow she will have to pay-off those federal student loans while continuing to seek restorative justice and restitution for the crimes committed against her. Be aware that all American citizens and other innocent victims of genocidal human experimentation are being subjected to these crimes against humanity by the same individuals who espouse the rights of a blastocyst while processing Christianity. That said, even the members of the Nazi SS attended the Catholic Church.

Like this brutalized human being and gentle woman, I remain disenfranchised from the completion of my degrees by the actionable offences of the WitSec Program and without an audit conducted by the federal government, to this day I am not certain if the WitSec Inspectors actually caused me to pay nearly double what I owed in federal student loans.

Under the Bush oligarchy and within the Bush-Cheney administration, whose members were the first to avoid government service and the first to send our youth to be murdered for financial profits, a former Nazi became a Catholic Pope and the grandfather of Karl Rove [Roverer] aka “The Architect” built the Birkenau death camp. Karl Heinz Roverer was the Gauleiter of Oldenburg. Roverer was the Reich-Statthalter or Nazi State Party Chairman for his region. He was also a partner and senior engineer in the Roverer Sud-Deutche Ingenieurburo A.G. engineering firm, which built the Birkenau death camp where tens of thousands of Jews, Gypsies, dissidents and others were slaughtered through genocide. During that time and before while reaching back to 1920, the namesake of the two Bush presidents, George Herbert Walker and former Republican Senator, Prescott Bush laundered the financial assets of the Nazi industrial complex through WWI, WWII, and the Jewish Holocaust against the United States of America while our nation was at war with Nazi Germany. That treasonous legacy continues today as recognized since September 11, 2001.

The Federal Witness Protection Program with its “deep state” blackops proponents sharpened the blade of tactics later used against detainees inside Abu Ghraib Prison on the unknowing human test animals within the WitSec black project. To date the CIA torture matrix has killed and murdered an estimated 115 human slaves tortured to death inside Abu Ghraib Prison, Iraq; 35 were ruled homicides. The developers of the ongoing CIA torture matrix within the U.S. Government continue to target innocent American citizens for “slow kill” and “silent kill” deaths on U.S. soil and the majority of our alleged elected representatives remain silent. What excuse will they give when this matter reaches the light of public examination?

Other Examples of Black Projects Shrouded from Public Scrutiny
Some other examples of the programs and shrouds used as covers for the testing and development of the torture matrix include: The War for Profit Corporatist Deconstruction and Reconstruction Model; the No Child Left Behind Initiative that erodes the education process in High Schools, funds the testing materials exclusively sold by Neil Bush’s education software company, defrauds varying percentages of students from attending college, herds others into the cheap labor pools, and targets new immigrant American citizens for military service under an anti-American and treasonous administration; the New Phoenix Program; “Project Monarch II”; the CIA MK-ULTRA Program [the Manhattan Project of mind-control to create the perfect Manchurian Candidate] with projects Bluebird, Artichoke and over 250 subprojects; Dr. Ewen Cameron’s development of the July 1963, CIA KUBARK Counterintelligence Interrogation Manual at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec; “Project X” where KUBARK and other new variations that had largely been used in South America from 1983 to 1987 were remixed into a second “Bible” of the perfect torturer, titled Human Resource Exploitation Training Manual - 1993; the events surrounding Hurricane Katrina and the genocide of New Orleans with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ funding for strengthening the levees being diverted by Republicans to build a “Teapot Museum in North Carolina”; the FEMA trailer camp as Guantanamo Bay in New Orleans with free bus rides to Wal-Mart; Guantanamo Bay Prison, Cuba; Abu Ghraib Prison, Iraq; the three word mantra “War on Terror”; Color Code Terrorism Alerts and related Fear Tactics [terrorism]; Fluctuating Gasoline Prices that rise and fall with pending legislation and elections; the Attacks on September 11, 2001 by the oil trading partners of the Bush family; the 911 Postal Anthrax from the top secret laboratory at Fort Detrick, MD and the alleged suicide of Dr. Bruce E. Ivans; the 1953 staged suicide/murder of Dr. Frank Olson, from the top secret laboratory at Fort Detrick, MD; the tactics of Psyops Terrorism used against the American people and the world; the Genocide of over 100,000 innocent Iraqis [women, men, children, and infants] as War Crimes and First Degree Murder; the unconstitutional Judicial Selection of a U.S. President; the lies told to regain control of a Democratic Congress only to deconstruct the U.S. Constitution and the hopes of American citizens with Nancy Pelosi’s “Impeachment is off the Table”; “No-Touch” Invisible Physical Torture Techniques; Targeting Individuals [TIs] with Psychotronic Weapons using Electromagnetic Pulse Energy, Radiofrequency, Microwave Radiation, and Subliminal Imaging to “Alter” Brainwave Patterns that collectively result in Mind-Control or “Brainwashing”; the “Memory Pill” aka Brainwashing made simple by Big Pharma [also involved with MK-ULTRA]; the Punishing of Goodness while Rewarding Criminality and Gross Incompetence; Pharmaceutical particulates in our Toilet to Tap Drinking Water Systems; Atmospheric Nitrogen Fertilizer and Sulfuric Acid from Coal Furnaces compounding Global Warming and Affecting the Balance of Nature with increasing numbers of Dead Zone in the Earth’s Oceans; Plastics Consumer Products manufactured from Oil being used as “Slow Kill” Poison Delivery Systems; Video Surveillance Cameras installed on virtually every street pole for the harvest of a Retinal Recognition Database while simultaneously causing Desensitization to Empirical Intimate Intrusions and Psyops Suppression of the Sovereign Thought Process to create a Toxic and Self-Consuming Society [Self-Inflicted Harm of the CIA Torture Matrix]; the Psychological Conditioning of being Electronically Strip Searched or Raped by NSA X-Ray Body Scanners in Airports while some unknown operator sits in a closed room recording the images of small children and adults into a Database for Republican Pedophiles; Microwave Antenna Arrays positioned throughout most cities that have been removed in Germany from the known harm caused by prolonged exposure; the Electoral College measured against the Popular Vote to manipulate the will of “We the People”; Electronic Voting Machine Irregularities; Ad Nauseam Rhetoric repeated through the Propaganda Ministries that have deconstructed a Constitutionally Entitled Free Press; the Absorption of Generational Wealth for Converting those in the Middle into a Peasant Class Society; the Perversion of Language with a “War on Drugs” verses the Perpetual Promotion of Prescription Pharmaceuticals with many Patented before an Illness has been Invented; and the Deregulation and Privatization of America’s Economic Infrastructure to finish what they started on 911. All of the above and more, depending on the individual concentration or a collective lamination of same, recognize the means of causing psyops terrorism and torture technique that although tested on those of us who walk unseen among you in their most concentrated forms, have increasingly been implemented against the general population of America and the World since September 11, 2001.

Standing Alone for the Human Victims of Torture.
With the exceptions of Senator, Barack Obama; Congressman, Dennis Kucinich; and Congressman, Elijah E. Cummings, the majority of our elected Congressional members, including my Senator, Ron Wyden and Congressman, David Wu have supported genocidal torture programs through their craven silence and failure to implement a Congressional investigation regarding my firsthand experience of having become an unknowing human test animal and victim of torture as Non-Criminal Federal Witness, No.: 7001.

Even though John McCain publically stated “my friends no American would allow genocide to occur when it is completely within our power to stop it.” This unfortunately is not the case and like the past this same government demeanor that once allowed the genocide of over 6,000,000 human beings during the Jewish Holocaust is at play again. My story, Black File 7001 has been blacklisted by the propagandized corporate news media, most of the progressive news media, including Democracy Now, NOW on PBS, Air America Radio, and The Ed Schultz Show. Of course talk radio is what it is and I quit listening over a year ago, but Democracy Now and NOW on PBS, are two shows that I have followed and supported for years; only they will be able to answer the reasons for their own silence.

Currently and while still seeking asylum in Canada, I am attempting to contact Oprah Winfrey with Harpo Productions, Inc., the Canadian BBC and would welcome communications with any genuine journalism organization, publisher, film maker, literary agent or elected political representative willing to discuss the Black File 7001 story. My thank to those of you who have sent a petition to the Government of Canada requesting they grant asylum under the conventions of torture cited by the UNHCR and retroprosity for my Protective Person’s Status issued by U.S. Attorney General, Janet Reno under Title 18 of the United States Code.

The Bush-Cheney administration validates Black File 7001
Ironically, Black File 7001 has been reverse validated by the Bush-Cheney administration through their federal agent’s unlawful use of a communication facility while telephonically threatening, “Bah – you have people in very high places afraid to death that you are going to destroy their programs and they said if you publish your book, they will “invent” a criminal charge against you.” Following my invitation for his handler’s to go pound salt in their asses, agents of the Sensitive Operations Division of the Social Security Administration and the WitSec Program first awarded my Social Security Disability Benefits and then in an act of political retribution, punitively withdrew same under written letters of protest from the U.S. Government’s own federal judge. In an egregious violation of several federal laws that extend to a charge of treason under the Federal Identities Act, those mandated with my protection deliberately commingled federally sealed classified government documents and illegally unsealed my covert SSA file for public viewing from January 8, 2001 [my son’s birthday] until the U.S. Attorney in Seattle, WA suddenly contacted my attorney advising that she was filing a Motion to Reseal on July 14, 2008 – the Bush-Cheney administration is trying to perform a cover-up of the many crimes committed against me. A federal court judge is deciding the case on civil appeal in Seattle, WA.

Again, the administrators of the Federal Witness Protection Program [WitSec] have lied before the U.S. Congress regarding the deaths of government witnesses from the causal effects of the genocidal program while financially raping the American taxpayers with padded numbers they alleged represents 18,000 government witnesses when liberally speaking the number is more likely no higher than 8,500. Only 6% of the total number are Non-Criminal Federal Witnesses and the rest are Custodial and Criminal Federal Witnesses.

The ongoing egregious federal crimes and human rights violations committed against me directly or in layers and the mechanisms that have denied my constitutional right of legal redress under duplicitous use of national security protocols, have deconstructed my ability to enjoy the fundamental right to life, complete my university degrees, secure employment, recognize my Social Security, and retain my Social Security Disability Benefits from the actionable offences committed in political retribution by a corrupt government system that has leaking classified government information under Title 18 of the United States Code to a telecommunications company engaged in this blackops RICO conspiracy. The erosive effects caused by psyops and “no-touch” invisible physical torture by the U.S. Government, recognizes a resulting harm that has remained infinitely more damaging during the past eight years than the singular event relating to the Valerie Plame Wilson matter.

The list of criminal offenses committed against me along with the commingling and leaking of federally sealed and classified information is lengthy and has created a mortal threat environment around my geographic location in violation of the WitSec mandate. This further serves as the U.S. Government’s passive sanction for my assassination that increasingly becomes a probability nearing the end of the treasonous Bush-Cheney administration.

Under this administration and others, this is the clandestine reward for those good citizens and former law enforcement members who gave something extra in service to our nation. With a Protective Person’s Status as a Protected Class, we are “disappeared” into an unequal parallel within our mothercountry that is barren of constitutional civil liberties and inalienable human rights. While being mummified for voluntary covert national service, our individual sense of self-identity is eroded into an existence of adjunct human slavery within a virtual death camp environment were an unnatural death waits in the shadows. Once situated in the plain-sight of the general population, we are confronted by the constant threat of lethal deportation or vicarious extraordinary rendition back to our birth identities and certain death from known mortal threats and often the actionable offences committed in political retribution by the very U.S. Government personnel allegedly tasked with our protection.

Sh'ma Yis'ra'eil Adonai Eloheinu Adonai echad.
Many of you have written Diane Finley, Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, Canada and again I am indebted to you for your sense of humanity and kindness. Should any of you have time or the inclination, I would be equally grateful for a note being sent to your Elected Representatives, Oprah Winfrey, the BBC, and any progressive journalist who might assist me in sharing the Black File 7001 story. Whether my life is forfeited in this process, G-d or the Mother of All Things has placed this mission in my path and as her servant I obey.

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Save Southern Oregon Old-Growth Forests Now!

starchadstar — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:08:29 GMT

Please take just a couple minutes to call or write the governor of Oregon today- he is the only person standing between the passing of this truly disastrous and sweeping assault on our public forests. If we can hold this off 'til Bush is out of office 100,000's of acres may be saved from the chainsaws!

The Bush Land Management Legacy

When the BLM released the WOPR (Western Oregon Plan Revision) draft plan in 2007, 30,000 members of the public commented; over 90% asked the BLM to save the remaining older forests, protect clean drinking water, and concentrate forest management on restoration and thinning small trees to protect communities from wildfire. The BLM ignored this common ground, common sense approach to forest management.

More of the Same

The final plan will: 1) remove BLM forests from the scientific framework of the Northwest Forest Plan; 2) ramp up clearcut logging across hundreds of thousands of acres; 3) remove streamside buffers that protect clean water and fish; and 4) log some of the last remaining older forests in western Oregon.

By The Numbers

The WOPR will increase logging by nearly 400% compared to current logging levels; get over 70% of the timber volume from clearcutting; shrink streamside reserves by 50%; add 180 million tons more carbon to the atmosphere compared to no logging (equivalent to the greenhouse gas emissions from 1 million cars driven for 132 years) and result in 1,300 miles of new roads.

Take Action today!

The Final Plan outlines a destructive management strategy that KS Wild and our allies will continue to challenge, and we need your help. Under law, Governor Kulongoski is allowed a 60-day "consistency review" period that began last week. Governor Kulongoski is the only elected official standing between the Bush Administration and western Oregon's forests and salmon. It is imperative that the governor hears from you today! Let him know you appreciate these public lands - that you visit them, recreate in them and value them for the wildlife habitat, water and climate services they provide. If you live outside of the state, please join Oregonians in contacting Oregon's Governor and remind him that these are public forests - entrusted to the government to manage on behalf of all Americans.

This is a very unpopular proposal from a very unpopular administration in their 11th hour. Help us stop WOPR in its tracks!

Please contact Governor Kulongoski and ask that he help protect all of Oregon’s remaining public old-growth and not promote clearcutting on our public lands. Urge him to reject the WOPR and tell the BLM to come back with a plan that moves us forward in the forest.

Governor Kulongoski
Phone: 503-378-4582
Snail mail: 160 State Capitol, 900 Court St., Salem, Oregon 97301-4047;
Email online: www.governor.state.or.us.

Visit http://www.kswild.org/ to send or view a sample letter to Governor Kulongoski.

Thank You!

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using oil for fuel....time to say NO MORE

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 21:12:13 GMT

I have heard people talking about the OIL shortage leading to disater coming 2012. This post is to help people get more ideas and realize yet another lie.

If this massive deception were to be busted,
> it would:
>
> 1. remove the reason that many wars are fought today
>
> 2. revitalize the world economy, especially in rural area
>
> 3. instantly increase the wealth and health of every
> person on earth
>
> The fraud is this: We need gasoline.
>
> The truth is we don't now - and we never did.
>
> Here's a continuation of a series of videos
> from the creator of PermaCulture.org:
>
> http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/432.html
>
> - Brasscheck
>
> P.S. I guarantee you will NEVER see this
> information in the mass media, including
> so-called public broadcasting.
>
> If you believe it's important, please share
> it with your friends and colleagues.
>
> The info in this video is being very actively
> censored.
> - Brasscheck
>
> P.S. Please share Brasscheck TV e-mails and
> videos with friends and colleagues.
>
> That's how we grow. Thanks.
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THIS is the fastest way to build the world we need!

Tim — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:42:57 GMT

We have a huge, idealistic, smart, practical "movement" going, over on Facebook: The Next Step Together. There are more than a thousand folks in the group now, About 100 joining daily. There's proposal on the table to run our own presidential "election", and we are trying to enroll the entire world! Join us and bring in all your friends! It's all about acting PRACTICALLY, QUICKLY, WITH HUGE NUMBERS... So job ONE is getting EVERYONE IN!

Learn about the Next Step Together at http://nextsteptogether.net
Join the Next Step Together Group on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=24568801853

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. -Mahatma Gandhi

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FREE MP3 with RON PAUL, BARACK OBAMA, JOHN McCAIN & LOTS OF MUSIC!

Casper Leitch — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 09:19:27 GMT

Enjoy a real Texas ho-down in celebration of the 2008 Global Marijuana Music Awards and the 3RD ANNUAL 6TH ST SMOKE-OUT hosted by Texas NORML in Austin on September 20th. One of the organizers of this event (a leader in the TX-NORML chapter and founder of the organization Out Grow Big Bro.), Hector Sanchez detailed all the excitement when he sat down and took Time 4 Hemp. It's FREE to download at http://www.Time4Hemp.TV

Not only is it Time 2 Vote for the winning songs at the GMMA - it's Time 2 Vote for a new President of the United States. That's why, in this segment you hear directly from the Democratic candidate, Sen. Barack Obama and the Republican candidate, Sen. John McCain as to where they stand on medical marijuana and the War On Drugs.

You also hear Texas Congressman and former Presidential candidate, Ron Paul discuss the Marijuana Bill that recently went before United States Congress.

If you get the chance to visit the http://www.Time4Hemp.TV Video Vault, you can download these segments as well as many others) and send them in e-mails to your friends and community leaders!

Musical Artists Featured (in order of appearance):

The Individuals
Jet Baker
Johnny Reefer Seed & Afro-man
Sean Reefer and the Resin Valley Boys
Jr. Boogie
Donovan and Afro-man
Love and Rockets

Please pass this information on to everyone who you feel would enjoy it.

Keep Strong
Casper Leitch
Creator/Host: Time 4 Hemp
http://www.Time4Hemp.TV

Time 4 Hemp cell phone Website:
http://www.Time4Hemp.mobi/

"The only thing new in the world is the history you do not know"
President Harry Truman

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Listeria Outbreak

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 16:59:05 GMT

So here in Canada there has been a huge amount of coverage in the media surrounding an outbreak of listeriosis caused by Listeria in meat.

so my wife and I created this website to educate people about modern meat production and governmental corruption.

Please forwward it to all your friends and also let me know what you think.

www.listeriacanada.com

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Tools/Household Items Collective Library?

Diane — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 04:40:59 GMT

I remember reading in one of these groups of collectives who keep a database of things members own and are willing to lend to other members, such as tools, household items, baking pans, basically anything you occasionally need, but don't want to waste money and space buying it and storing it for long periods of time...

I was hoping that someone who is involved in such a community network could contact me as I would like to start something similar here and welcome tips on how to organize it and manage it.

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Has environmentalism gone too far? Hell no!

Jen — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:41:47 GMT

Seriously, there's a debate about this? Sigh... of course there is.

The debate: http://www.helium.com/debates/168344-have-we-gone-too-far-with-environmentalism
My resounding no: http://www.helium.com/items/1162237-environmentalism-global-warming-environmental-movement-sustainable-sustainability-green

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short essay on Donald Worster's "The Ecology of Order and Chaos"

Jen — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 06:23:00 GMT

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/945867/donald_worster_the_ecology_of_order.html?cat=38

Good short article on Donald Worster's eco-classic.

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The green way (literally) to improve indoor air quality

Jen — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 05:52:27 GMT

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/952779/top_ten_houseplants_for_controlling.html?cat=32

I thought this was pretty awesome - our little green buddies make our indoor air cleaner. Hurray!

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Eco Couture

recycledfordancing — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:18:40 GMT

Hi, I'm seeking like minds.

I grew up designing and making my own clothes since a little girl, and apprenticed with Mirage in Melbourne, Australia’s largest CMT house for major Oz designers; before studying fine art at Heatherleys in London. I was also sponsored by Mirage and a runner-up in the Australian Fashion Awards. Then I traveled and lived in a few different countries and got into planet activism and events, then running an online arts community, then helping manage festivals. Now current fashion has caught up with the designs in my head and the ideals in my heart and I recently returned to designing eco-friendly wearable art.

The stuff I’m now designing and reconstructing are Eco Couture, individual one-off’s made from recycled and vintage fabrics. My design skills are coming back and improving with each collection batch. Sketches and photos of recent experiments are up at http://www.recycledfordancing.com plus I already have clothes in 2 boutiques, addresses are on the site under Retail Stores.

I also do custom stage gear; before working on festivals full time I actually did costumes for Music TV dancers, musicians, and theatre. I had a few designs on national TV way back when, on long running music TV show called Countdown. And I designed costumes for a whole Bertolt Brecht play at the Chelsea Playhouse in London, plus whole wardrobes for nightclub dancers and contemporary cabaret, and fire dancers for festivals in Byron Bay.

My current designs are inspired by San Francisco and Japanese street fashion, as well as European Couture and Burning Man. For me it is sculpture using textiles with a wearable framework and chaos, I take something that I see and mix it with something else that I see, each piece inspiring the next piece. Anyway take a peek at http://www.recycledfordancing.com for art’s sake, and keep me in mind when you are thinking of new additions to your wardrobe or recycling your wardrobe.

Thank you for being here.

Deborah Paulino

Eco Couture

http://www.recycledfordancing.com

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Join the "No Meat Week" campaign now: Help stop global warming!

Julia — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 16:36:56 GMT

Did you know that if every American who eats meat daily decided to have one meat-free day a week, it would be the equivalent of taking 8 million cars off the roads?

• Animal agriculture causes about 18% of global human-induced green-house gas emissions

• Livestock produce 30-40% of total methane gas emissions

• Livestock occupy 30 percent of ice-free land on the planet, a major cause of deforestation

• Industrial meat production relies heavily on fossil fuels through fertilizer manufacturing and global transport

The emerging global warming crisis requires both personal change and industrial accountability. In addition to energy conservation, each of us can also limit our contribution to global warming by eating less meat and calling for a more sustainable livestock industry.

Join the campaign now at:

http://www.thepoint.com/campaigns/no-meat-week-help-stop-global-warming

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Please sign new Save Tara online petition

Michael Martin — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 19:55:06 GMT

Happy World Environment Day

PLEASE SIGN THE NEW SAVE TARA UNESCO PETITION ONLINE (Text below)
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/savetara/index.html

TaraWatch is celebrating UN World Environment Day 2008, with an online
version the new Tara UNESCO / ICOMOS petition, being launched on the
Internet today. The petition calls on the United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), and International
Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) to declare the Hill of Tara
cultural landscape a World Heritage Site, but to insist that the M3
motorway is rerouted first.

Social network applications like myspace and facebook causes will be
heavily used to promote it. The new myspace SAVE TARA Cause Ranked 1st
among new Environment causes in new members yesterday.
http://www.causes.com/myspace/causes/71127?recruiter_id=6916545

This follows on from the successful launch of the SAVE TARA facebook
cause, which already has over 2,800 members.
http://apps.facebook.com/causes/827?recruiter_id=6916545

World Environment Day, commemorated each year on 5 June, is one of the
principal vehicles through which the United Nations stimulates
worldwide awareness of the environment and enhances political attention
and action. It is only fitting that we in turn launch our campaign
today, calling on them to act to save Tara.
http://www.unep.org/wed/2008/english/

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TARA / M3 MOTORWAY - UNESCO / ICOMOS PETITION ONLINE
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/savetara/index.html

THIS PETITION is addressed to: The United Nations educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), which includes:
• The Director-General, Koïchiro Matsuura
• The Executive Committee of the General Conference
• The Intergovernmental Committee for the Protection of the World
Cultural and Natural Heritage, called the World eritage Committee
(hereinafter referred to as the "Committee")
• All parties in attendance at the 32nd Session of the World Heritage
Committee, Quebec, Canada, 2-10 July 2008.
• The Irish UNESCO Representatives

AND The International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), which
includes:

• ICOMOS International
• ICOMOS Ireland
• All other national ICOMOS bodies, such as ICOMOS Canada, UK, US,
Australia, Norway, and Aotearoa/New Zealand
• All parties in attendance at the ICOMOS Ireland AGM, Dublin, 4 June
2008
• All parties in attendance at the Sixth World Archaeological Congress,
University College Dublin, 29th June to 4th July 2008

WHOSE JURISDICTIONS have been jointly invoked in this matter of great
national and international importance by the Minister for the
Environment, Heritage and Local overnment, of the Republic of Ireland,
John Gormley, on 11 May, 2008, in his address at the launch of the
legal incorporation and charitable status designation of ICOMOS
Ireland. He announced that he had retained an ICOMOS member, Dr Jukka
Jokilehto to visit the sites currently on Ireland's tentative list, as
well as the Hill of Tara. Minister Gormley concluded:

"The Hill of Tara National Monument has strong merit for inclusion in
an application to UNESCO for consideration as a World Heritage site",
and that he did "... not see the proposed new road (the M3 motorway)
as being an obstacle to making this recommendation."

I EARNESTLY AND RESPECTFULLY PLEAD THAT:

I. The Hill of Tara archaeological complex / cultural and natural
landscape, in it's entirety, (hereinafer referred to as "Tara") be
inscribed onto the UNESCO List of World Heritage sites.

BUT ONLY on condition that:

II. The proposed M3 motorway, (hereinafter referred to as "the M3")
currently under construction, is re-routed beyond Tara, before the site
is given World Heritage Site status, because he M3 is destroying the
integrity of the site and landscape.

I MAKE THIS PETITION FOR THE FOLLOWING REASONS:

- UNESCO adopted the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World
Cultural and Natural Heritage ("The Convention") in 1972. Ireland
ratified the Convention in 1991. The Convention has as its goal the
identification and protection of cultural and national heritage of
"outstanding universal value".

- The Hill of Tara complex qualifies as a natural and cultural
landscape of outstanding universal value, due to it's unique cultural
significance, and the extent of the surviving remains. Tara covers a
much larger area than that the 100 acres of State-owned land on the
summit of the Hill, which currently delimits the 'national monument'.
The M3 passes through the middle of the area to be protected.

- The entire Tara archaeological complex and cultural/natural landscape
should be declared a World Heritage site. Expert bodies, such as the
Heritage Council, have recognised Tara consists of the entire Hill of
Tara along with the Tara / Skryne valley, as well as the defensive
forts that encircle the hill, including national monuments such as the
defensive forts of Rath Lugh (to the east), Rath Miles (to the north)
and Ringlestown Rath (to the west).

- Ireland has been in breach of the Convention since 1991, by failing
to nominate the Hill of Tara to be a World Heritage site, until after
the M3 motorway was approved. Article 3 of the Convention states: "It
is for each State Party to this Convention to identify and delineate
the different properties situated on its territory". A recent UN report
on Ireland's implementation of the Convention found that "Inventories,
established at national and local levels, have not been used as a basis
for selecting World Heritage sites". This has resulted in the
contradictory approach being taken by the Irish Government, which is on
one hand facilitating destruction of significant parts of the Tara
complex, and on the other, seeking International legal protection for
those same parts.

- The Minister for the Environment, has breached his responsibilities
under the Convention by initiating the inscription process of making
Tara a World Heritage site, while at the same time, failing in his
legal duty adequately protect the Tara complex from the immient threat
of the M3 motorway. John Gormley, said in a department press release,
11 April 2008, that he did not see M3 motorway preventing the Hill of
Tara from being nominated as a world heritage site. He said his
department had engaged Dr Jukka Jokilehto, a member of ICOMOS to visit
Tara and issue a report on it. It is these statements and actions that
have as well as other failures to act, that have invoked the
jurisdiction of international law.

- ICOMOS is an international non-governmental organization of
professionals, dedicated to the conservation of the world's historic
monuments and sites, and is an offical Advistory Body to UNESCO, for
purposes of implementing the World Heritage Convention. Both UNESCO and
ICOMOS would also be in breach of the Convention by accepting the
Minister's nomination of the Tara archaeological complex and
cultural/natural landscape, without insisting that the M3 motorway is
rerouted, while it still can be.

- National survey's have shown that 70% of Irish people want the M3
rerouted and an Irish Times online survey showed that 82% of people
want Tara declared a UNESCO site.

- The World Monuments Fund have placed the Hill of Tara on the 2008
List of 100 Most Endangered Sites.

SIGNED

_______________________________

[Published by TaraWatch.org, 4 June 2008]

=====================================================

For more information see:

UNESCO
http://whc.unesco.org/en/about/

ICOMOS
http://www.icomos.org

Statement by Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local
overnment, of the Republic of Ireland, John Gormley, on 11 May, 2008,
http://www.environ.ie/en/Heritage/Archaeology-NationalMonumentsService/News/Main\
Body,17071,en.htm

Save the Hill of Tara from the M3 Motorway!
http://www.tarawatch.org

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Forvik - Shetland Action

Michael Martin — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 10:28:23 GMT

http://shetlandconversation.squarespace.com/forvik/

Tiny Shetland Island declares Independence.

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I think I’m gonna puke….

walstib57 — Sat, 10 May 2008 02:15:40 GMT

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_on_re_us/18_kids

Happy Mother's Day: Woman pregnant with 18th child

By JILL ZEMAN, Associated Press Writer Fri May 9, 5:25 PM ET
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - It's a happy Mother's Day for an Arkansas woman — she's pregnant with her 18th child. Michelle Duggar, 41, is due on New Year's Day, and the latest addition will join seven sisters and 10 brothers. There are two sets of twins.
"We've had three in January, three in December. Those two months are a busy time for us," she said, laughing.
The Duggars' oldest child, Josh, is 20, and the youngest, Jennifer, is nine months old.
The fast-growing family lives in Tontitown in northwest Arkansas in a 7,000-square-foot home. All the children — whose names start with the letter J — are home-schooled.
Duggar has been been pregnant for more than 11 years of her life, and the family is in the process of filming another series for Discovery Health.
The new show looks at life inside the Duggar home, where chores — or "jurisdictions" — are assigned to each child. One episode of the new show involves a "jurisdiction swap," where the boys do chores traditionally assigned to the girls, and vice versa, Duggar said.
"The girls swapped jurisdictions, changing tires, working in the garages, mowing the grass," she said. "The boys got to cook supper from start to finish, clean the bathrooms," among other chores.
Duggar said she's six weeks along and the pregnancy is going well. She and her husband, Jim Bob Duggar, said they'll keep having children as long as God wills it.
"The success in a family is first off, a love for God, and secondly, treating each other like you want to be treated," Jim Bob Duggar said. "Our goal is for each one of our children to be best friends, and everybody working together to serve each other makes that happen."
The other Duggar children, in between Joshua and Jennifer, are Jana, 18; John-David, 18; Jill, 16; Jessa, 15; Jinger, 14; Joseph, 13; Josiah, 11; Joy-Anna, 10; Jeremiah, 9; Jedidiah, 9; Jason, 7; James, 6; Justin, 5; Jackson, 3; and Johannah, 2.
___
On the Net:
Duggar family Web site: http://www.duggarfamily.com
Discovery Health site: http://health.discovery.com/convergence/duggars/duggarfamily.html

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Censored background information with DC Madam

ToxicReverend — Sat, 03 May 2008 07:44:08 GMT

Please forward and post this censored information.
There is a media blackout on this - TR

Palfrey rejected suicide in May 2007 interview --'DC Madam:
' 'I'd never want my life to end in suicide' 01 May 2008
http://uspolitics.tribe.net/thread/f7170f24-b498-432d-bfee-3f10e85ac386

___________

From:
http://www.legitgov.org/#breaking_news

Palfrey rejected suicide in May 2007 interview --
'DC Madam:' 'I'd never want my life to end in suicide' 01 May 2008
Deborah Jeane Palfrey (aka the 'DC Madam,' who
was found hanged in Tarpon Springs, Florida on
Thursday) sat down in May 2007 for an interview
with Carol Joynt, host of the Q&A Cafe interview
series... For Palfrey, one thing was crystal clear
during that interview: She would never end her life
by hanging herself. Joynt brought up the subject of
Brandy Britton, a Baltimore prostitute whom had
occasionally worked for Palfrey and whom had
hanged herself in January 2007, only days away
from facing prostitution charges. Palfrey told Joynt in
no uncertain terms: "I don't want to be like her. I don't
want to end up like her." [See CLG's 'DC Madam'
Phone Records & Updates.]

One of Palfrey's former employees died by her own hand
02 May 2008
http://www.examiner.com/a-1371330%7EOne_of_Palfrey_s_former_employees_died_by_her_own_hand.html
Deborah Jeane Palfrey seems to have followed one
of her former employees to suicide -- a fate she once
prided herself on having avoided. Brandy Britton, 43,
died by suicide in January 2007, days before she
was scheduled to stand trial on prostitution
charges... Before her death, Palfrey said Britton, a
former University of Maryland Baltimore County
professor, was one of her employees.

End of excerpts from:
http://www.legitgov.org/#breaking_news

________________________________

The following was also sent to:
http://www.infowars.com/

__________

Censored background information:

Cheney was on her list ....

MySpace
Deborah Jeane Palfrey's (the DC Madam) list Fock Cheney ....
http://forums.myspace.com/p/2555951/35026952.aspx?fuseaction=forums.viewpost#35026952-

Censored:
STOP REPUBLICAN PEDOPHILIA
GOP = Grand Old Pedophiles
http://web.archive.org/web/20070115185302/http://www.the7thfire.com/child_sexual_abuse/grand_old_pedophiles.htm

________________________________
Censored:
Membership list of the Bohemian Grove
http://web.archive.org/web/20070223090124/home.planet.nl/~reijd050/organisations/Bohemian_Grove_members_list.htm

King, Larry : Not the guy from "Larry King Live". John deCamp - Named by Paul
Bonacci as the organiser of an off-season pedophile homosexual snuff film made at
the Bohemian Grove. Bonacci would eventually be granted 1 million dollars by the
court. King served 5 years in jail.

__________________________________________

Newspaper stories that reveal child sex parties and murders in
Sonoma County, California are presented in a manner to "connect the
dots". Guerneville is in Sonoma County,CA. near Monti Rio where the
Bohemian Grove is located. The Grove is where President Bush and the
most powerful men meet every year (145BG , 121pd).
http://web.archive.org/web/20050206201732/www.angelfire.com/hi/soberskidrow/chprosti.html

DETECTIVES CHECK FOR CONSPIRACY IN GUERNEVILLE KILLING ,
Published on March 26, 2004- The Press Democrat, PAGE: A1 .
BYLINE: STEVE HART, DEREK J. MOORE and CAROL BENFELL ,
http://web.archive.org/web/20050208091441/www.angelfire.com/hi/soberskidrow/hrm34.html

The scans of the Russian River Times newspaper do not come up at
the Archives. I have it scanned and posted at my "Justice Is Homeless"
MySpace profile, in the photo section in an album of it's own, titled
"Pimping Beyond The Law"
The profile with the scanned posted story is at
http://www.myspace.com/justiceishomeless

--
...-- End Of Forwarded Message -----

Regards,

Tom Krohmer
Environmental Technologist
http://toxicreverend.blogspot.com/
aka
The Toxic Reverend
http://www.myspace.com/toxicreverend
aka
Justice Is Homeless
http://www.myspace.com/justiceishomeless
Who's a criminal ?
http://people.tribe.net/toxicreverend

Homicide Charges For Corporations
(Rough draft posted with active reference links)
http://www.angelfire.com/nm/redcollarcrime

PLEASE NOTE::>

Peer Reviewed Medical Journal on Chronic
Illnesses, cancers and Stealth Infections
from Bio-weapons of the non-lethal variety
www.immed.org
Note:
The Gulf War Vets have posted
"Beyond Treason"
http://www.gulfwarvets.com

Toxic Revelations;
Censored information on
biological weapons and the health care
industry The censored rough draft has
been reposted
http://www.puppstheories.com/ToxicRevelations/tr.html
Reference material
http://www.puppstheories.com/ToxicRevelations/donebib.html

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Marc Emery has Time 2 Spare!

Casper Leitch — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 23:33:33 GMT

The fight is on between Marc Emery and the United States Government - giving the founder and editor of Cannabis Culture Magazine some time to spare -AND more Time 4 Hemp.
This new interview is free to download at http://www.Time4Hemp.tv

Music Artists:

The Tall Brothers
Green Feever
Shen Reefer and the Resin Valley Boys
Marlon Asher
Bob Dylan

Please share this information with everyone you know who would enjoy it.

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Join the new “Cool Earth Party” tribe

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 20:20:46 GMT

Join the new “Cool Earth Party” tribe

The Democrats and Republicans are the paid agents of the oil, armament, and insurance industries. Their continued rule of America will assure a future of more imperialist war, a healthcare system that doesn't work, and no meaningful action on global warming (the single biggest threat to the future of humanity and a healthy planet).

The Cool Earth Party is being established on the principles of revolutionary democratic socialism. We call for an end to the dictatorial power of the wealthy through the nationalization of major industries and for the establishment of a planned economy run to meet human and environmental needs. This socialist society must be established within the framework of full democratic freedoms and multi-party proportional democracy. To be truly Democratic all parties running in elections will be legally guaranteed equal time in the media, big campaign spending will be outlawed, and electronic voting machines (which are presently used to rig American elections) will be eliminated.

Upon taking power the Cool Earth Party will establish a system of socialized medicine for the United States, end all U.S. military occupations of other countries, end U.S. military aid to repressive governments, and nationalize the auto and energy industries to carry out immediate emergency measures to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Cool Earth Party
http://tribes.tribe.net/coolearth

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The Rainbow Dream Vision of Freedom

truthgathering — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 07:51:12 GMT

If you like this vision, please copy it and send to friends. Thanks.

~~~~~~~~~

The Rainbow Dream Vision of Freedom ~ 1993-2012
http://worldgathering.net/vision.html

The Rainbow Dream Vision of Hope
Intertribal Medicine Societies of Turtle Island
The Twenty Count: 1993-2012

Make copies of the Rainbow prophecy, and give or send them to people anywhere on the planet. Then let them be guided by their hearts to do the same until all planetary citizens are brought to life in the Rainbow dream, so that we may dream and work together for true peace. Love, Thunder Woman

Introduction by Aleran
Throughout the ages humanity has sought out the prophecies of the spiritually gifted to instil a clear hope and vision into life. During this time many prophecies come to us trying to lead us in many different directions.
Some prophecy points to disaster, hopelessness and the annihilation of mankind. But other prophecies create a vision of joyful transformation through quantum leaps into love and light.
As things stand now, the human race is dreaming a hell.
But as individuals and as a collective humanity it is our potential to dream of paradise and to create the kingdom of heaven on our Mother Earth.
Could it be that the pain in our hearts caused by the hell we have created will spur us on into visions and creations of a world formed in love?
It is my prayer and dream, along with a multitude of others who have taught me to dream the Rainbow dream, that each and every one of you learn to dream both while awake and sleeping, the dream of unity and love through divine transformation.
This prophecy on the following pages is a dream and vision that is a potential reality for mankind. It is not an ultimatum. But it is ours to behold and to create if we only dare to dream it together.

The Rainbow Dream Vision of Turtle Island
Prophecies of The Native Americans
1993-2012

PART ONE ~
The distribution and giving back to humanity of the Twenty Count.
In the Turtle Island lore we say it is the time of finding one’s path with heart.
The time of seeking perfection, growth and development.
Most importantly the time of trust and innocence, when mythologies of the world are revealing secrets.

PART TWO ~
The critical time. The time of the animal. The time of Tuwalananie, the dark force.
The reason for this is that seeds of light have been planted and we are starting to grow and the teachings are starting to come out and all those ones who have taught partial truths, who have taught deliberate lies in history, are going to be threatened by the awakening of the Rainbow people because the Rainbow people exist in every country, in every nation, in every land.
The Dark Forces will be threatened and they will use their power and their power exists in technology. We are going to see new technology appearing which will be a tremendous threat to the survival of humanity.
We must exert our influence by gathering together and sharing our ideas and plans for alternative power and for world peace. If we put a double amount of energy with what we are for, we can change it. We can change it.

PART THREE ~
The time of human to human communication.
The time the human family finally starts to become human.
There will be more information brought out into open format than has ever been seen on this planet.
We will re-establish contact in a very knowledgeable way with our ancestors from the stars.
So mark that down because it will happen. The first contact will be with the Pleiades and will be totally acknowledged and will be known to all the world powers. The second contact will be with Sirius.

PART FOUR ~
When truth seekers begin to open the veil of the crack between the worlds, we will see our memory circles.
Many of the leaders who are trying to keep us locked in the past, will not function today, will fall.
Many teachers and wise people will be seen for who they are and they will be the farmers, the labourers and the gas station attendants because the tagashala will be fully awakened.
People will begin to link up with other people in gathering together circles.
Many of these will be the so-called 'common people' and not the teachers you see up there now.

PART FIVE ~
The various winged serpent wheels will begin to turn, to dance once again and when they do the rainbow lights will be seen in dreams all over the world and these rainbow light dreams will help awaken the rest of humanity.
We will sit in a new circle of law.
All civil and social laws will have to be in conformity with natural laws or the people will not accept them and they will have the enlightenment necessary to reject those laws.
Science will once again become metaphysics. They will discover four laws that will help them jump to universal law and transcend the time-space continuum which is the limitation of the age and once again we will begin to take our power and to work with rules and laws that are cosmic laws.

PART SIX ~
We will once again see the way to continue a new dream.
We will be given the road map back to the stars and we will see the star people come out of the illusion of their two-legged form and into their actual great sleeper-dreamer form.
A powerful time approaches humanity and its really hard for me to talk about it.
I am a great dreamer but I don’t know if I dream that large.
We will see a real shift in planetary consciousness.
Many of the enemies of the humans will begin to drop away.
We will totally gain the light of the great light wheel.
There will be one humanity, one planet composed of all the different ways of dancing in complete harmony in the great gathering together circle.
All the seeds will be planted.
The Earth will have its true reality formed.
It will join the sisterhood of planets, the daughters of Copperwoman and it will create within itself all forms of all things in harmony with the everything.
We will see a whole new way of perfection.
There will be plants on this grandmother earth that will give life and sustenance as never before seen.
Starvation on the earth, all those things will be gone. There will be total balance and harmony.

PART SEVEN ~
The new race of humans will begin to design their new reality of life on this planet as they intended it to be when they first came here from the stars.
We will begin to establish this planet and use the collective consciousness to hold the power of this space in harmony with the Great Circle of Twelve and all the planets. There is a whole lot I don’t even know. There is more that I am not supposed to talk about yet.
The dream will be actualised and this planet will hold its space in the great council of planets and become a part of the universal enlightened sisterhood and brotherhood of humanity and keepers of the light circles. It's happened on many planets and it's expected to happen on a lot of other planets.
There will be a moment when the population will be 'the' Population, and something great will happen.
This planet will have its design of energy movement guided by all of humanity living here.

The Great Spirit will leave its seed and the egg of everything here on this planet and it will create itself 20 times over at the speed of light and this prophecy ends as I have been given it by the Grandmothers that I share with you now.

~~~~~~~~~

Put a double amount of energy with what we are for. We can change it.

Make copies of the Rainbow prophecy, and give or send them to people anywhere on the planet. Then let them be guided by their hearts to do the same until all planetary citizens are brought to life in the Rainbow dream, so that we may dream and work together for true peace. Love, Thunder Woman

http://worldgathering.net/vision.html

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Background information ~ The Greatest Vision Ever Seen

~ The Greatest Vision Ever Seen ~
~ The Rainbow Dream of Freedom ~

http://worldgathering.net/greatest.html

The Rainbow Dream Vision of Freedom ~ 1993-2012
Intertribal Medicine Societies of Turtle Island
http://worldgathering.net/vision.html

RDV extract: ~ A powerful time approaches humanity and its really hard for me to talk about it. ~ We will see a real shift in planetary consciousness. ~ The Earth will have its true reality formed. ~ We will see a whole new way of perfection. ~ Starvation on the earth, all those things will be gone. ~

~ VISION of FREEDOM ~

I hope many people will send the Vision of Freedom to friends, groups, etc.

I have been involved with the Rainbow Dream Vision of Hope and Freedom since 1984. In that year, three musicians and healers came into by one-man printing and publishing office, and said, "You really must look at this." They seemed a little (funny how life is at times) like the three wise men bringing gifts. Two days later I was distributing copies at a conference, and like me, people were amazed and astonished.

That's when my life started to be 'larger than life'.
And, in 1987, I went to visit the Hopi in Arizona, North America.

As I drove in from the west, an older man sitting by the roadside waved down my car... later, it felt to me that I was expected. He took me to meet Qwa David Monongye, and in the evening I was taken to a ceremony in the kiva. A dozen or more men descended from a ladder in the roof, and formed up in an arc of a circle.

They faced one direction, and started a slow foot-shuffling dance. Then fairly suddenly, domino-effect, turned one-by-one 180 degrees to face the other direction. At that point I very nearly fell off my chair ... something had hit me. A year or more later, thinking about it, the realisation seemed to be: 'We can change the direction the world is going in. It is possible.'

I drove off, eastwards, along the Hopi mesas to find somewhere to park up, and sleep the night. In the morning I got out of the car, and was surprised to see the face of the large rock only feet from the car had a carving on it. This was the Hopi's 'Prophecy Stone', and it shows people moving in a direction, and the path splitting into two. One path goes nowhere, it fades out. But the other path goes on, and corn symbols by the path indicate that this route leads to life and prosperity.

Many other unusual and significant things occurred out there in this ancient place where it feels like time had stopped. Indeed, after visiting the oldest township on the Hopi mesas ~ a tall, sharp-ended mesa, rather like a ship of the desert ~ my watch stopped, and never worked again. There is much more that happened.

In 1986 ~ the year before my first visit to the Hopi ~ I was within sixty feet of three disc craft, for around 25 minutes. This too, was like events were coming together to inform me of something significant, something much bigger than myself. In 1993, with friends, we were very close to craft in the area of the crop patterns of mid southern England on several occasions.

Since 1993, on most days when I first step out of doors I frequently see one or more flashes in the sky, seemingly from a source fairly close, and at a lowish elevation. I have always taken the flashes to indicate the locations of disc craft which are 'parked up' and are stationary. In 2007, possibly because I was loaned a camera with an unusual infra-red setting, many craft and aerial objects started to appear in my general scenic photographs. Most images are archived here: http://worldgathering.net/scotland

(A) The Rainbow Dream Vision says: "We can change it (the direction the world is going). If we put a DOUBLE AMOUNT of effort into what we are for."

(B) The Hopi Nation has a prophecy stone which predicts the world will come to a time of choice. And if we choose the good direction, we can go on into a good life.

(C) The craft appearing all over the world, seem to be waiting and watching. To see if we can figure things out. To see if we can: 'Seize The Day'.

The writing is on the wall, and it says: 'We CAN change direction.'

Please send the Rainbow Dream Vision of Hope and Freedom to your friends. And let's make a stand for what we really believe in. Put a DOUBLE amount of effort and energy into what you believe is important.

Don't feel disheartened. It looks like there are some unexpected, good moves to happen yet: "There is a whole lot I don’t even know. There is more that I am not supposed to talk about yet."

Text of The Rainbow Dream Vision of Freedom:
http://worldgathering.net/vision.html

Michael Irving
World-Action and The Big World Gathering
Scotland, United Kingdom ~ http://www.worldgathering.net

http://worldgathering.net/greatest.html

~~~~~~~~~

If you like this vision, please copy it and send to friends. Thanks.

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poster

walstib57 — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 22:04:41 GMT

is this poster worth anything? hate to think about selling and profiting, but i am going on disability soon and must sell everything to try and stay afloat :-( my daughter lives with me and i haven't been getting any help from her mom.
would rather this poster stay on my wall, but gotta do what one's gotta do.
thx in advance.
peace & smiles,

d~

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Calling All Portland Cultural Evolutionaries

Eriol — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 05:51:20 GMT

You are invited to participate in a potentially radical, transformational, exciting and fun experiment in social sustainability.

This is intended to be a research-oriented, experimental and experiential group on (re-)creating social sustainability. The “subjects” of the experiments will be ourselves, and, starting from the premise that we are all products of our culture(s), we’ll be exploring the culture within and without us, complete with taboos and shadows.

**The devastation of the outer environment and the devastation of the inner environment
are two sides of the same overall illness that can only be overcome by looking at both
sides together.**

Influences on our explorations will come from sources such as Deep Ecology, Quantum Physics/Chaos Theory, Systems Theory, Re-wilding/Wilderness Awareness, Permaculture, “Quantum” Psychology, and, at least in the beginning, some of the social exploration undertaken by the communities of ZEGG (zegg.de) and Tamera (tamera.org). This is not a group that “knows”, but rather one willing to play and discover. Everyone’s ideas, skills, facilitation and leadership (along these themes) will be welcome.

**If the parameters in a complex life-system can be adjusted, then the opportunity arises for a change within the whole system**

This invitation is for folks dedicated to social change on all levels, including (but not limited to) folks in the permaculture, intentional community, and re-wilding communities of Portland. Please note, this is not a theory-only group—please have some sense of adventure in regards to exploring yourself—we’ll be taking a deep look at our taboos, both personal and social. If you have any questions, please email teryani AT welcomehome DOT org.

First meeting will be Thursday, April 3rd in NW Portland. There is no charge for this study group, but please RSVP. Location TBA when you RSVP. More information will be available on the web soon.

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Earth Hour - Saturday, March 29th from 8 pm to 9 pm

Sinja — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:30:08 GMT

This year's Earth Hour - taking place on March 29th (Saturday!) from 8-9 pm local time. Nearly 200 cities spanning the globe and millions of individuals and businesses (form mom-and-pop joints to multinational corporations) have pledged to take part by turning out their lights for this symbolic hour. Organizer, World Wildlife Fund is encouraging people to use the time to engage in eco-friendly activities.

From candlelight dinners in San Francisco to glow-in-the-dark ultimate frisbee at the Illinois Institute of Technology, it's a time to get eco-imaginative. To see how you can get involved, visit http://earthhour.org.

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Destroy the Great Pyramid before 2012!!

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 02:09:51 GMT

You and me are living in a peculiar time wouldn't you agree? Many people feel they might actually become witness to the End of the World (or, as we know it). If you have pondered this also, you might want to keep reading. I'll try to break down, in common language, why I think we live in 'special' times, what I think will happen, and what I think we should do.

Mayan Prophecy:

For as long as humans existed, they have at certain points in time believed the End of the World had arrived, when nothing actually happened. This is for some proof enough that the whole end-of-the-world thing is nonsense, and needs no further investigation.
How can anyone look into the future anyway? Not so difficult actually, we do it all the time. The only things you need in order to look into the future is knowledge of cycles, and experience with the cycle. You know the cycle of your washing machine, the processes it goes through, and how long it takes. You can look into the future and estimate if the sun will still be up to dry the laundry, since you know about that cycle as well. People look into the future all the time, and plan their actions according to knowledge of cycles like pregnancy, menstruation or the seasons. If a cycle is longer that the general life span of a human being, the information about the cycle is recorded on a medium, to pass on to future generations, which is exactly what the ancient civilizations did.
Those tablets, documents and artworks become like a road map of time, especially if positioning of stars and planets have an affect on our human experience, which a lot of scientific evidence suggests, and 'spiritual' people firmly believe. The Mayans were such believers, and speak of a cycle 25,800 years long with a certain point within that cycle where our Sun will line up directly with the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. According to their calculations, this event, which they call the "Sacred Tree", will occur on December 21, 2012.
Is it the 2nd coming of the sun? Is the "New World Order" the antichrist? There is a heap of different perspectives on this 2012 subject online, and I leave it up to you to make your own conclusions. I'm not even sure if this has been backed up by science and astronomy,
but we only need to learn here that if at least the Mayans seemed to believe this to be true, and recorded it, perhaps others do too.

One Truth:

This demands that they believed there was ultimately One Order and One Truth to the way of the Everything, Universe, or whatever you wish to name it, much like every religion does, even science. I believe so too, and I assume that many different cultures and religions contain fragments of knowledge of it. Many 'different' cultures and religions have shared such truths and recycled them, or purposefully changed them to fit an oppressive agenda. Is it a coincidence that even Iran's leader Ahmadinejad firmly believes the awaited Mahdi is near, and many christians are preparing for Jesus' 2nd coming? Also we now have a prophet in the form of Al Gore, with his doomsday scenario's, as our global corrupted and dysfunctional leadership is preparing for world war 3. The internet has blasted open total access of information, and it seems as if we are living in the times of revelation. The worlds religions grow stronger, with more fanaticism than ever, inspired by each other's hatred, violence and repression, back in full force since September 11th. The U.S. Government is becoming increasingly more violent and oppressive towards the American people, and other nations, with permission of governments worldwide.
Many people strongly believe 911 was like Nero's Rome, and Hitler's Reichstag, an attack on us, from our leaders. An attack on our civil liberties, gathering momentum, but from who and why?

Rotten Apples:

Unfortunately, our planet seems te be controlled by a small group of people, which has passed that control down for generations. They controlled the land and orchards as royal families in Medieval times, and now they control it through finance, business and government.
The knights who collected the physical taxes with their swords are now outfitted with handcuffs, guns and computers. You see, all these hundreds of apples they claimed ownership of, start to rot in a couple days, and they can't eat them all themselves. So those who claim to own land and the fruits it bears, need an exchange medium that doesn't rot, like metal coins or paper bills. The concept of exchange is based on the presumption that a human can own land, fruit or even other life like cattle. A sad delusion; the only thing we own on this planet is our body. And we really don't even seem to own that, as it is required to report in the factory for 'employment', or on the battlefield for 'deployment'. How is it possible that humanity allows this?

The Pyramid:

In order for a few to control so many, they use hierarchical structures of authority, creating pyramids of possession and power, and reflect that in every aspect of society. In the military, in schools, homes, sports, companies, etc. you are positioned somewhere on the pyramid; most people start at the bottom, a few people are born at the top. It is evident that our planet's abundance is greedily controlled with these pyramids and it is evident to me that together with the "property-illusion" this is the only real problem this planet faces. All other problems are mere symptoms. war, starvation, poverty, crime, and even many seemingly 'natural' problems like disasters, diseases and extinction of species. All these are after effects of the growth of these pyramids, as people desperately try to climb them, trampling those below them, including Mother Earth. The bigger the Pyramid, the more possession and power for those at the top, and the more degrading and miserable the situation at the bottom is. People that rise to higher levels on the pyramid, or are born there, are not likely to give up their position as they know what awaits them below. People like you and me, with generally 'normal' lives, but not so much compared to the lives of people in Somalia for one. With a system like this, the most uncompassionate, unemphathetic people around rise to the top, or are born there and raised by these intelligent psychopaths. Of course the ramification of the pyramid shape is that most people are at the bottom, carrying the heaviest weight, putting the ones on top in a fragile position. They need to keep those at the bottom distracted from looking up, so they create distractions.

"We versus Them"

One of these is fascism, the highly delusional, contagious and effective -"we" versus "them"- syndrome. Some examples are Christian vs. Muslim (marketed heavily since 9-11), Nazis vs. Jews, Humans vs. Animals, or "consciousness vs. matter". In reality All is ultimately One, and variety in this Universe is created through subdivisions of polar opposites. For example, the subdivision of a human being is Male/Female, opposites indeed, yet when you zoom out one level, you will conclude they are both the same thing. The strength of the pyramid relies on the belief of those below in the illusion of separation. All violence, murder and massacre is the result from this concept of we vs. them, or even "we vs. everyone else", and these ideas are propagated through scriptures, religions and media.
Not only does it serve the divide & conquer technique, but it also gives people enemies to fear, and leaders to run to for security. Another scheme they use to distract us from looking at the top of the pyramid, is by giving mindless & destructive entertainment, elevating the artists involved to 'star' heights, and giving them a great abundance of wealth. Millions of dollars for something as fun as acting in a movie, or recording and performing music, while those behind the conveyer belts get minimum wage.
This way, us below might consider a higher position on the pyramid something that people deserve in relation to their talent and great work. As young children we always look at other people for inspiration and guidance, and most of us have had their idols.
Some of these 'celebrities' are so special that they have many talents, and appear in music, movie, tv and videogames. This leads a child to believe that there's a range of specialness to humans, and their success in live will depend on how special they are. They give us rags-to-riches stories so we think the ones at the top deserve to be there, while in actuality they are there because of their lack of emotional sensitivity, and their successful efforts of keeping the pyramid's base distracted from looking up.
Because the answer to all our problems is up there, out in the open, at the top of the Pyramid.

The Elite:

Those who do look up, speak of an Elite, that is secretly planning global control; a story so cliché you might chuckle here, perhaps the reason why it is so cliché. There are all kinds of stories out there as to the origins of these families, including alien DNA bloodlines and such, and again I leave it up to you to make your own conclusions. It is however worth mentioning here that many people believe that those at the top of the pyramid have always generated the major wars from both sides, and that World War III will not be any different.
Is it possible that a multi-generational elite is working towards a global empire? Is this something you witness around you? You might live in Europe, and have witnessed the change of currency there. All money was collected, and exchanged for the Euro. Who collected the money, who printed the new money, and for who? How do they know how much to print? Who decides the value of an apple? It was them, at the top of the pyramid, and it shows how big the pyramid already is. Now they are working on the "Amero" in the US, and I'm sure we'll get universal medical care soon, with required microchip implant mind you. Yes, it is possible, if not likely, that this 'obscured' elite exists, and there is a lot of valuable information on this subject online. Wasn't it Bush Senior himself who in September 11th 1990 coined the term "New World Order"? What? 11 years before 11-11-2001 when the big 11 in new york was attacked? The same 11 as in the $ symbol, or the two pillars of Solomon? What's up with these 11's?

The Rabbit Hole:

For as long as man existed, it has discovered truths about the world he lived in, truths about reality. Truths such as the inevitability of death, or that fire is warm, truths which he can use to plan his activities. With these pyramid structures it becomes possible to keep knowledge at the top hidden from those below. People are "initiated" to this knowledge when they are considered 'ready' by those above them, who know they need successors. The elite certainly uses knowledge of reality for their agenda on a material level, with advanced weaponry, telecommunications and machines to name but a few, but they also seem to believe in a non material level - the paranormal, witchcraft and magic stuff. Even though Bush Junior pleads us to not allow ridiculous conspiracy theories, he himself is part of the Skull and Bones society. I'm sorry, but having a secret club with skeletons and secret meetings is more ridiculous than the people wondering about them, unless you guys have some really cool secret knowledge - which makes conspiracy theories all but ridiculous.
There is reason to believe that the elite at the top of the pyramid uses occult knowledge on numerology, astrology, symbolism, ritual and even sacrifice, besides modern technology, to increase their chances of success. One look on your dollar bill will tell you.
Actually, many people worldwide firmly believe in this spiritual world, and even though always opposed by science,
string theory and quantum physics seem to move into the spiritual domain. It is as if science deals with the separateness of everything, and spirituality focusses on the interconnectedness of everything, yet upon further investigation this is just a spectrum of polar opposites meeting in the middle. I think the popularity of the 'scientific' atheist perspective is a result of the military campaigns against the Gnostics, Cathars, and of course the burning of "witches" on the stake, which pushed personal spiritual experience into the dungeons of the pyramid. It seems as if those above us at the top of the pyramid don't want us to find out the Truth. If that's the case, perhaps that explains why the world is being so radically changed by them, perhaps because the Mayans were right about 2012,
and they want to have their global Pyramid ready for this mysterious date.

Religion:

If you are a devout Christian or Muslim, or any other organized religion, you will probably feel that you already know the Truth, since it is written in your holy scriptures. But do you really feel with your whole being that it is the Truth that the Almighty Creator has written those books for us? There are a lot of very disturbing, conflicting and violent passages in those books, as well as some beautiful teachings.
Can you find it in your heart to give the Almighty the respect He/She is due, by believing he gave us free will, imagination, a conscious and intelligence, among all the other things we need to try to make the right decisions in our unique situations? I personally believe that the All is so glorious and perfect, that creation is perfect, has been, and always will be, and doesn't need an instruction manual. It doesn't need a Great Flood for Plan B. And yet, with all these 'blasphemous' thoughts, I still feel a strong connection with the All. Is it possible the All will create this connection with anyone seeking it, regardless of religion, culture, ritual or intention? I believe so, and I suggest to the devout among you to consider an even closer relationship with the All, where you truly believe in the perfection and glory of the almighty.
Where you don't have to invent strange excuses for the derogatory, hypocritical, and violent characteristics attributed to your god through the scriptures. Where you don't have to be afraid of laws written on paper, but gratefully use your free will to make the decisions you feel are in correspondence to the way of the All. And where you respect God's decision to give each individual a spark of life and free will, confident that all roads lead back to him, live and let live. "Your freedom to punch ends where my nose begins."
Perhaps not for you, but for millions of people around you, these scriptures have done more wrong than good, and need to be taken less seriously. I'm suggesting that your connection with the All will increase if you have faith in yourself, and start filtering the scriptures for what they are worth. Have faith and trust that the All has made you in his/her image. That you are a tiny holographic cell of the All, and as such have all the answers safely stored within. Findings of modern technology support the idea of a holographic, fractalized universe, with "Sacred Geometry" woven throughout it.

Atheism:

On the other side of the spectrum we find the atheists. They wonder why scriptures and religion have such a strong hold on so many people? I think that is because they feel a connection, a connection with the All. Some atheists argue none of it is real, but these people feel the connection is real, and don't want to let go of this feeling. We are all connected, regardless of what vile and disgusting scripture, behaviour or worship people surround it with. Instead of denying this connection, we should argue that people can let go of the scriptures without losing this sacred connection. We all are perfectly capable of living together harmoniously if we live in accordance to the logic and flow of the All. We need to use a balance of logical intelligence and emotional intuition, to filter the crap of the scriptures of all traditions,
and the Truth and Order of the universe will emerge, and set us free.

The Solution:

The only things we need to do is to stop supporting the Pyramid, and realize that property is theft, as Proudhon noted,
that the fruits of Mother Earth belong to all of her inhabitants equally. Bloody revolutions don't work. Revolutions have to come from within, for people just need to drop their destructive habits. We need to realize we are all connected, and that separation is an illusion.
I believe, and many others with me, that the All is the ultimate Parent, and has ensured we all can always "call back home", from wherever we are in the universe. The phone will always be answered. There are telephone booths all around us, all we gotta do is pick up the phone, and the All will comfort us, guide us, teach us, and make us laugh, or it will help us through the darkness back into the light. The call might not always be pleasurable, there might be tears, letting go, fear, self-reflection, and such. But if you prepare for the call, and surround yourself with your loved ones in a comfortable and familiar environment, I believe your phone-call with the All will be productive and helpful. I don't suggest a prank-call. The telephone booths I am talking about here are Entheogens.

The Light:

Did you know that the only organism that can break down nuclear waste is a Fungi? A mushroom basically? Did you know you have a neurological landscape that looks like mycelium? That your brain neurons and astrocytes are similarly arranged to the mycelia network? A.k.a the mushroom's underground web below the forest floor? These patterns are even discovered in outer space, between solar systems. Quantum 'String' theory speaks of a similar web. Or how about this one - that all humans, and probably loads of animals, produce DMT naturally in their physical body? And scientific study suggests this DMT is responsible for spiritual experiences and the alien-abduction phenomena humans experience? With meditation techniques, you can probably trigger the secretion of DMT, and feel drastic emotional or mental changes. DMT is also the active ingredient of Ayahuasca, a psychedelic brew people have consumed for years.
There are those that suggest the small photonic light your DNA transmits is the light people see inside, while under the influence of DMT. Will the coming photon-belt launch a psychedelic DMT trip, as part of the DNA-upgrade, wheter you like it or not? And did you know a full grown amanita muscaria might resemble a cup, and hold some psychedelic rainwater? You could walk through the forest, pick it up and drink from it, leaving some people to suggest this magic mushroom might be the fabled 'Holy Grail'. In the past, the US Military tried LSD on soldiers to see if it could be useful for mind control, but they discovered instead that LSD made people 'enlightened', more aware of the interconnectivity of everything, aware of the Truth. Soldiers dropped their guns, and picked up flowers in awe of the beauty and glory of God. Psychedelics like MDMA continuously proof very beneficial in trauma therapy and humans with terminal diseases. The psychedelic African root Iboga is extremely powerful against addiction, curing some heroin addicts instantly. The benefits of the Marihuana plant are seemingly boundless.

The Darkness:

Why is it the liquor stores, pharmacies, and streets are flooded with all kinds of drugs, except for Iboga, Peyote, Amanita Muscaria, Psylocibin, Ayahuasca, LSD, Salvia Divinorum, etc. etc. Except for the "psyche-delics", the "mind clarifying" plants? Because the international "War on Drugs" is a war on psychedelics, and has resulted in the world we see today. In light of the hypocrisy of this war, I dare to state we need to re-connect with these psychedelics. I believe it is the most basic of solutions, and they are way more safe than cigarette's, pharmaceuticals, crack and alcohol. I think it is especially important for our younger generations, as it is the ultimate right of passage, if done with the proper respect, education, care, timing and love. We all long back to our 'childhood happy carelessness',
and I suggest the only reason we've lost it is because we were not given our rites of passage, our psychedelics. Instead we get schools with pyramid structures, where some teenagers feel so disconnected that we see more suicidal massacres nowadays.
Most of these kids were on anti-depressants, not MDMA or Ayahuasca. At home a perpetual horse-and-pony show is blasted onto billions of retina's worldwide through television, internet and handhelds, solely for the purpose of misdirection and distraction. Will Brad Pitt ever marry Christina Aguilera? I believe a good psychedelic trip will benefit people and families, and the internet provides sufficient information for all to do it safe and wisely. Perhaps instead of prozac, try and and visit the forest's pharmacy. Mother Nature's pharmacy.
You go to her for your food, so what's wrong with her medicine? Who tell us they are wrong? Right, those above you...
Believe in your own judgement, not in the judgement of those above you. It's your choice.
Even though I believe people need to "call back home" more often, I strongly discourage the macho "getting F'd up!" approach. "How many do you dare to eat?" is the same as "How fast do you dare to drive this car?", and will get you in trouble. It is this sort of reckless carelessness that results in a "bad trip", and if you aren't like this, the chances of having one of the most wonderful times of your life are huge. A great mindset, a comfortable familiar setting, the right dose, the right choice of psychedelic, proper preparedness, a company of people that you completely love and trust, and an experienced "trip-sitter". These are the ingredients that will almost certainly guarantee a good time, and inspire you for a lifetime. If we want, we can drop the pyramid, and pick up the pieces. Drop our money, and share the abundance. Us below will have to welcome those that fall down from the top with open arms, if we ever want to make something really beautiful on this planet. Entire industries and avenues of 'employment and deployment' will evaporate, and we need to welcome back everybody that drops their weapons, or had a part in such destructive or meaningless industries. The wealthy need to give up their wealth, and the poor need to forgive them, a tough process with which the clarifying and connecting properties of psychedelics can help. With voluntary mutual cooperation we can turn this planet around.

2012:

If nothing happens, we might by then have established paradise on earth, and happily look forward to the year 27,812. If something great happens, we will be ready to integrate it into our sustainable earthly paradise, and take it to the next level. If the earth explodes, we'll meet again. Either way, there should not be a Great Pyramid of Tyranny in place, I assume, and we should all dedicate the next years of our lives to the destruction of the Pyramid, the New World Order, to the best of our individual capacity. This is the moment billions of humans have talked about for millennia... now what are you going to do? If something as huge as the realignment of our planet with the center of our galaxy can't make us all synchronize a global effort, then what will? We need to have a good look at the Pyramid, not at global warming. Distraction, remember?

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I dedicate this Tribe to the creation of a mycelium-like network of humans that are ready and willing to climb down the Pyramid together, and build a paradise on the ground as equals. I have faith that we have all the knowledge and infrastructure we need to solve all the problems that emerge from this drastic change. Maybe 10 years from now Buckingham Palace will host art galleries, live music, restaurants, libraries? Do you dare to dream of a Global Paradise?
Share your dreams here with us, and let's make it happen!!!
http://tribes.tribe.net/destroy-the-pyramid

Love,

Ramon

PS: The Great Pyramid in Egypt doesn't need to be destroyed imho :)

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Free Energy Celebration!

klenz752 — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:30:46 GMT

We are organizing a free energy celebration and are looking for any participants or ideas for orchestrating such an event. The idea is to inform the masses about the benefits of free energy for communities and our environment and the repression of free energy by certain governments/corporations. We plan on using pamphlets, movies, music, public speakers, dvds, floats, and food to create an effective celebration and appeal to a diverse group of people. It's time to take matters into our own hands and defend the defenseless!

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Conspiracy History compilation DVDs torrents

History — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:10:22 GMT

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Greetings to all my relations.

This is the last step of our project History Watch. If History is
defined and known by the texts, we can now add to this definition the
recorded events of the filmed archives. Animated images are harder to
deny than printed words. Our objective is to spread out freely some of
the little broadcast, even hidden informations about our collective
History.

We put online a collection of 391 documentaries and other selected and
recut videos, to offer to a wide public the best of the infos
available on the net in english and in french. If you are interested,
you have the time, the right equipment and connection, all you have to
do is open the joint document and decompress it if needed (but normaly
your system should do it automaticaly). You'll find therein nine links
that will open the torrents for the nine DVDs we compiled (around 4.6
Gig each, for a total of a little over 41 G, being over 100 hours of
videos).

Otherwise, you can go directly to btjunkie.com and search for these titles.

11 Septembre 2001 - 9-11
Bush family & friends
Capitalist & Communist regimes
Capitalist conspiracy
Mind Kontrol - Secret Programs
New World Order - Secret Societies
Secret services - cover up - covert ops
Secret weapons - UFO
Terrorism Theories propaganda

Torrents are a system of peer to peer data transfer. The more people
download a torrent, the faster it spreads and the longer it stays on
the net. If you don't have a bittorrent software, we suggest that you
download uTorrent on utorrent.com. If you want to participate in
facilitating the diffusion of these infos about our collective
History, download these torrents on as many computers as possible,
whether it is in cybercafes. It takes one or two minutes to open up
the links and the downloading will keep proceeding on its own.

Please spread this out, take part in this action for social education
on a planetary scale. Thanks.

For more info: watch.history@gmail.com History Watch

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Calling all people from Ireland.........

Michael Martin — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 22:30:52 GMT

..... in particular those located in North County Wicklow. A massive marina is currently under construction at the harbour and parts of the Nort beach. It may very well be too late to stop this project. Other areas of Greystones are under threat, too. But people are starting to organize to fight back. Check
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Greystones-Watch
for details and updates.

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Also, people are still fighting for the preservation of the Tara landscape in Co. Meath. The battle is far from over yet, and a new challenge has been lodged with the High Court recently. For regular updates check
http://tarawatch.org and
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hilloftara

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Looking for an Earth Woman Friendly community style living solution?

Temeluch — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:50:37 GMT

Looking for an Earth Friendly community style living solution?

There is a Meeting of the Kindred Spirits coming up March 29th! And
we do need to see some more Positive well integrated Female Energy in
this group who can work closely with others.

http://edenvillage.net/18.htm

We are still looking to organize a group of volunteers to
help out some good folks one day out of the week, with some
organic gardening and we still do need someone to take Minutes
at the next meeting.

It would be possible, I would think, if there is a single female or
two out there who is cool about living closer to the Earth then
I may be able to provide a place for you to live, for
maybe 6 months out of the year up where I live in Northern
California.

If you can simply come to our next meeting on March 29th. - T

http://edenvillage.net/18.htm

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The Big World Gathering - Take Your Power Back

truthgathering — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 01:11:04 GMT

THE BIG WORLD GATHERING
http://www.worldgathering.net

What is The Big World Gathering?
The Big World Gathering is happening now wherever you are by you sharing with others what you really feel and think about life today, and by distributing information you believe is important. At a later stage, perhaps soon to happen, all our individual actions may help lead to something quite surprising; a major world change.

"Awake, awake, the world is young,
For all its weary years of thought.
The starkest fights must still be fought,
The most surprising songs be sung."
~ James E Flecker

Surprising Songs for The Big World Gathering ...
The Big World Gathering Theme Tune 1 ~ (5+ mins):
http://www.worldgathering.net/wwwmp3/wg1.mp3
The Big World Gathering Theme Tune 1 ~ (1+ mins):
http://www.worldgathering.net/wwwmp3/wg2.mp3
Big World Gathering Love Song ~ Time ~ (2+ mins):
http://www.worldgathering.net/wwwmp3/time.mp3
World-Action Big Gathering Theme Tune ~ (1+ mins):
http://www.worldgathering.net/wwwmp3/wa18.mp3

Special Images for The Big World Gathering:
http://www.worldgathering.net/logos.html

Subscribe to the BWG NEWS List at Google:
http://groups.google.com/group/worldgathering

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'THE GATHERING' by Sitting Bull

It is very important that as many people as possible, in different places, should take part in the Gathering. Decide where and when and how to gather. Your participation is needed.

This is the beginning of the break we are all waiting for; for you all on Earth and ourselves out here. This is the beginning of the turn around. We have waited so long for the change. It is time. This is the beginning of the end of the old ways; the turning of the tide.

State what you believe is true. Courage is the ability to go beyond the familiar. Exchange the information and hopes you have. Always in the world, a change starts with a few people. These few speak the feelings and thoughts of a multitude. They speak the heart of humanity's soul.

The people and ETs who will come together shall ring in a return, a turn around. There will come a flow on Earth which will burst the dark energies surrounding you and your planet. That which you believe is true must be stated. The truth is the key.

May strength and vision be yours as you establish the new. Follow your hearts. Let your inner light be your guide. Realise the beauty and greatness you have within yourself and step ahead. This is the time so many have waited so long for. Never doubt it has started.

The young of all nations are looking for a new direction. It is time to light a beacon to show the way for all humanity. Let your feelings, thoughts and beliefs be your guiding light. The power of the moment. The wishes of the people. The good times ahead.

It is time for the gathering.

Tatanka Yotanka - The Sitting Bull
(This message is through a clairvoyant in Holland, Europe, in recent years)

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Special Words for The Big World Gathering:
~ The Rainbow Dream Vision of Hope: "This prophecy is a dream and vision that is a potential reality for mankind. It is not an ultimatum. But it is ours to behold and to create if we only dare to create it together." ~
~ A Central American Mayan Elder: "Human beings must come together in support of life. At present, each person and group is going his or her own way. There is hope if people can come together and unite." ~
~ E F Schumacher: "We must do what we conceive to be the right thing and not bother our heads or burden our souls with whether we will be successful. Because if we don't do the right thing, we will be doing the wrong thing and we will just be a part of the disease and not a part of the cure." ~
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'The Gathering' by Matthew

Last night I had a gathering for all my departed friends
I asked Jim Morrison where he'd been
He just laughed and smiled,
Spoke of what he'd seen

He said "I've been to the end of the rainbow"
He said "I've seen supernovae burst"
But before I could ask a question,
He said "Let me finish first"

He said "I have something to tell you",
This really is the MASTER KEY
ONLY! ONLY LOVE!
Will set this planet free

He then spoke ok Atlantis,
And what has come to pass
In an alien war of genocide,
He and his friends escaped the blast

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Now these ones are returning,
They see our hearts are burning
The Universe is yearning,
For us to break on through

Well now you see here is my request,
The letter to your heart
Will you join us now,
Let the healing start

First there came THE question,
Then I found THE door
Now I have come through it,
A stronger man for sure

I will ask you the same question,
I can lead you to this door
If you will walk through it,
You will be Wiser than before

Yes now I have this question to put to you
Are you going to resist,
Will you break on through?
Will you break on through?

I am waiting for you...

The Gathering

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Special Images for The Big World Gathering:
http://www.worldgathering.net/logos.html
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Subscribe to the BWG NEWS List at Google:
http://groups.google.com/group/worldgathering
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The Big World Gathering is happening now wherever you are by you sharing with others what you really feel and think about life today, and by distributing information you believe is important. At a later stage, perhaps soon to happen, all our individual actions may help lead to something quite surprising; a major world change.
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The Big World Gathering ~ http://www.worldgathering.net
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Turning of the Tide - WGFT

truthgathering — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:42:52 GMT

http://www.worldgathering.net/news24.html

Turning of the tide …
By Matthew,
Warrior-Poet from the Isle of Man, UK

We say we have it tough
But we always have enough
We say we are trying but the children are still dying
We read the news - got to get our daily blues... ohhhh

But we are ready
Ready for tomorrow
We got each other
From me you can borrow
They say you can never change a leopards spots
But they can’t see how we rearrange the dots

We are the power in everyone
We are the dance of the moon and the sun
We are the hope that will never hide
We are the turning of the tide

We will look to the stars and we will see the light
WE are powerful because we know what is right
We are ready
Ready for tomorrow
Sinking the ships of jealousy and sorrow

We are the power in everyone
We are the celestial dance of the moon and sun
We are the hope that refuses to hide
We are the turning of the tide

In your eyes a vision
In my heart a fire
We will unite our powers
To expose the Liar

We will not swallow any more excuses
We will not be party to your war on humanity
We have heard all your delusions
We are sated with your profanity...Liar

We are the power in everyone
We are the celestial dance of the moon and sun
We are the hope that refuses to hide
We are the turning of the tide

http://www.worldgathering.net/news24.html

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WORLD GATHERING FOR TRUTH
http://www.worldgathering.net

Subscribe to WGFT Newsletter at Google:
http://groups.google.com/group/worldgathering

Guide and index to all resources at WGFT website:
http://www.worldgathering.net/menu.html

WORLD-ACTION: http://www.worldgathering.net/world

STOP CHEMTRAILS: http://www.worldgathering.net/stop

INSPIRING TIMES: http://www.worldgathering.net/times

WORDS WAKEN WORLD: http://www.worldgathering.net/words

WINDS OF TRUTH: http://www.worldgathering.net/winds

CELTIC ISLAND: http://www.worldgathering.net/celtic

WORLD-ACTION 2: http://www.worldgathering.net/world2

Slideshow Videos:
http://www.worldgathering.net/menu.html#video

Sounds and Music:
http://www.worldgathering.net/menu.html#audio

Spacecraft in Scotland:
http://www.worldgathering.net/scotland

"We must do what we conceive to be the right thing and not
bother our heads or burden our souls with whether we will be
successful. Because if we don’t do the right thing, we will be
doing the wrong thing and we will just be a part of the disease
and not a part of the cure." - E F Schumacher

Subscribe to WGFT Newsletter at Google:
http://groups.google.com/group/worldgathering

The Rainbow Dream Vision: This prophecy is a dream
and vision that is a potential reality for mankind. It is not
an ultimatum. But it is ours to behold and to create
if we only dare to dream it together.

Central American Mayan Elder: "Human beings must
come together in support of life. At present, each person
and group is going his or her own way. There is hope
if people can come together and unite."

World Gathering For Truth
http://www.worldgathering.net

Please send to friends and contacts and groups

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2008 Communities Conference at Twin Oaks Community

Suede — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:18:46 GMT

My name is Suede and I live at Twin Oaks Community in Louisa, VA. This year I'm co-organizing the Communities Conference at Twin Oaks for my 2nd year, though the conference has been happening for many years now. Thought I'd post some basic info on the conference for those interested in learning about community, expanding knowledge or just meeting new people. Feel free to contact me with any questions about Twin Oaks or our conferences.

In Community,
Suede Machete

Here's the info:

The Communities Conference is a networking and learning opportunity for anyone interested or involved in co-operative or communal lifestyles. Join us for a weekend of sharing and celebration!

Friday August 15 through
Sunday August 17, 2008
$85 (sliding scale) includes
meals and camping

With workshops and events focused on
~ Intentional relationships
~ Group process
~Collective child raising
~ Creating culture
~ Forming communities
~ Sustainability
~ Appropriate technology
~ Community economics

Music
Dancing
Slide shows
Campfires
Swimming
Magic
More!

Respond to:
Twin Oaks Communities Conference
138 Twin Oaks Road, Louisa, Virginia 23093
540-894-5126

conference@twinoaks.org

For More Information, check out our website:

www.communitiesconference.org

Twin Oaks also hosts a Women's Gathering! Check that out at :

www.twinoaks.org/community...index.html

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How about GREEN solar energy??

Neotoma — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 18:29:50 GMT

I am getting very worried about the Democrats big plans for green energy. Traditionally, even "liberals" have always ignored the desert beauty. I can't tell you how many so called environmentalists I have heard who seem to have no problem plastering the public lands in the desert southwest with miles and miles of solar developments and wind turbines. While we should be using this energy, it should be going on rooftops and other previously disturbed areas. I am rather shocked how few environmentalists are not talking about the threats "green" energy have on the biodiversity of the desert. Both Hillary and Obama, not to mention McCain are planning to ruin our deserts with these kneejerk political reactions to global warming. Global warming is real. Alternative energy is a great thing to be persuing, but we should not jump the gun and agree to these vast proposals to alter our deserts with destructive green energy projects. Why are there no environmentalists posting opinions on the threats of green energy? Let's not play dangerous politics with our desert. If we stop all carbon emissions tomorrow, we still will not stop the shift we have caused on the climate. So let's slow down and start talking about green energy that will not trash our deserts. I live in the Mojave Desert in the Southwest US. There are permits to cover most of the public lands around my home for this. Many of these projects will go nowhere because most of the locals will protest the applications for water rights. Not because we are for coal and nuclear. We will protest those to. Because we love our home. All of these giant corporate solar and wind farms are designed to make a few power companies rich. Plus, none of them are designed to REPLACE coal and nuclear power.
There are alternatives to plastering the desert with these eyesores.

Thanks

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Marc Emery, Prince of Pot, takes Time 4 Hemp!

Casper Leitch — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 05:23:04 GMT

Marc Emery is called the 'Prince of Pot' and claims to have sold more marijuana seeds than anyone in the world. To date, no one has disputed that claim. He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, he is the founder of Cannabis Culture magazien, and considered by the U.S. government to be the biggest drug kingpin in history.

Just days before embarking on his 16-city 'Farewell Tour Across Canada' (and a few short weeks before entering prision for a 10-year stay), Marc was nice enough to sit down and take Time 4 Hemp.

Featured Music Artists:

The Individuals
Muck Sticky
Negative Index
Bob Marley
John Lennon

If you get a few minutes of free time, check out my new MySpace Time 4 Hemp Group Site at:
http://groups.myspace.com/ATime4Hemp

Please be kind enough to share this information with everyone who you know would enjoy these free downloads.

Keep Strong!

Casper Leitch
Creator/Host: Time 4 Hemp
http://www.Time4Hemp.com

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CHECK.IT

lmbfreespirit — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 00:12:38 GMT

http://my.barackobama.com/page/group/globalwarmingactivistsforobama

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Lakota Sovereignty

Eriol — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 22:39:56 GMT

If ya'all wanna follow the Lakota bid for sovereignty (yeah it's really happening), check out http://republicoflakotah.com/.

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HALLELUJAH!!

in-PHI-net — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 17:05:17 GMT

Hallelujah Diet - Drawing in religious mainstream crowds!

http://www.hacres.com/diet/hallelujahday.asp <<<<< It's kinda mainstream, but it's better than seeing ads for Wendy's burgers.
http://www.hacres.com/products/hallelujahdietbook.asp <<<<<< testamonies

Teehee..... K, now I'm not religious, but when I went to log in to Yahoo this mourn, on the front page was this video talking about a 72 year old preacher who is drawing crowds in by the hundreds to his seminars. They don't really come to see him Preaching about God, per say, but to see him talk about Vegetarianism! Like wow eh!.... He says people should all go back to the way that God directed them to eat in Genesis. He runs around the room full of energy talking about Vegetariansim. He was diagnosed with having a tumor when he was 42 and changed his diet.

He preaches about "How to Eliminate Sickness". Reverend George Malkmus tells his followers how he healed his own colon cancer and other diseases more than 20 years ago. This is what is attracting people to his seminars. Yeay.... I say go for it! Wake up america!

Of course I am pagan / pantheist, and not into dogmatic religion AT ALL, but to have mainstream Americans start changing their diet as a whole is good ya?

:-)

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Eulogy for a Tigress

Chathaunt — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 01:39:37 GMT

A soft and fury kitten
With blue eyes and tiger stripes
Grows into a cat
Mighty mankiller
stalker of jungles and forests
one of the rarest breeds
born into a life of captivity
what must it be like
to cat nap
as food walks around pointing
tail twitches
thoughts of freedom
and meals of funny looking monkeys
forever taunting
finally freedom comes
Ohh Tatiana Tigress
you are my shero
mighty mankiller
graceful and sleek
when shall we learn
that you commited no crime
you were only following
your instinctual call
may you live wild and free
forever in our hearts
and in the great world beyond
Blessed be, great cat
Blessed be...

A message to cops and others who shoot wildlife to kill-
Use a tranquilizer gun...
It is not the wild animal's fault that they encounter us,
it is we who have encroached on their freedom

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earth first

budgie — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 19:19:38 GMT

earth first and water is before the first.the air is first.and its all interconnected.the project that we do in mexico is all about that.we traveled on the horses and teached the indigenous kids in the forgoten villages that enviroment is important and its must be first to protect.so we teach them about recicling and haw not to use the destructive products.we had alot of positive impact and many comunityes were happy to have us in their lands for to express it.check the site www.nomadsunited.com and there you will find more about the project.you can all join it.and you all can support it.togehter we are like a thunder storm when alon we just a wisper.lets wark together for the earth.lets get together and feel alright.

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Ed Rosenthal - a founder of High Times Magazine - takes Time 4 Hemp!

Casper Leitch — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 20:32:39 GMT

Would you please help get the word out about 'Time 4 Hemp' - the new Potcast series that's free to download from http://www.Time4Hemp.com

I've worked hard to put together some great podcasts designed to feed brains the truth about Marijuana and its’ many uses for paper, fiber, fuel, and medications. What's more - the thing that makes these shows so great are the guests!

There are 3 PotCast's being offered – free – at http://www.Time4Hemp.com and all can be subscribed to through iTunes should you like. EACH SEGMENT HAS LOTS OF GREAT MUSIC INCLUDED!

You'll also find nearly 100 great songs and more than 80 interesting videos you can freely download from the site.

The first PotCast series, 'Time 4 Hemp - TODAY' features segments that were recorded in 2007 and are offered in audio format only.

Currently featured is Ed Rosenthal - (one of the founders of High Times Magazine). Ed is recognized worldwide as an authority on marijuana. In his thirty-plus years as a cannabis expert, he has written or edited more than two dozen books about marijuana cultivation and social policy, which cumulatively have sold over one million copies. He is a member of the International Cannabinoid Research Society and the Garden Writers Association of America. He has also served as an expert witness on marijuana cultivation in State and Federal trials.

If you have time, check out some of the past interviews released in this series:

Tere Joyce (From the NBC hit series, 'Last Comic Standing');
Keith Stroup - (founder of NORML);
Steve Hager - (Editor of High Times Magazine);
Allen St. Pierre - (Dir. of NORML);
Steve Bloom (former Editor of High Times);
Jack Cole (Founder of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition);
Gatewood Galbraith (Author and candidate for the Governors office of Kentucky);
Carl Olsen - (founder of Iowans for Medical Marijuana); and many more.

Interviews SOON to be released:
Marc Emery - (founder of Cannabis Culture Magazine);
Dale Garrienger - (Dir. of California NORML);
and Andy Dick (Comedian).

The second PotCast series, 'Time 4 Hemp - MUSIC' features segments that were recorded in 2007 and are offered in audio format only.

There aren't many outlets for talented musicians to be heard who sing about how wonderful marijuana is - Time 4 Hemp is trying to change that.

This week, Neal Smith (of Indiana NORML) takes Time 4 Hemp to discuss a variety of marijuana-related-topics including how to pass a urine test. Music featured in this free download is from the CD entitled: 1967 - written and recorded by; Mellow The Band.

If you have time, check out some of the past interviews released in this series:

The Individuals - (7 time winners of the Marijuana Music Awards - 5 Global and 2
American);
Muck Sticky - (check out his new CD ‘Bob-O-Link Cove');
Lynnette Shaw (Hemp Activists and song writer);
and meet our new friends from Marijuana Radio.

The third PotCast series, 'Time 4 Hemp - CLASSICS' features segments that were recorded and televised in 1991 and are offered in audio format only right now but will soon be released through http://www.Time4Hemp.com in video format.

‘Time 4 Hemp’ was the first television series in the history of broadcasting to feature marijuana as the main topic of discussion. Featured in this series are:

Willie Nelson - (Super Star);
Dr. Tim Leary - (Author and Pop Icon);
Jack Herer - (Author);
Kevin Zeese - (co-founder of the Drug Policy Foundation); as well as all the founders of the Marijuana Movement.

Please be kind enough to share the http://www.Time4Hemp.com URL with everyone who you know would enjoy these free downloads.

Keep Strong!
Casper Leitch
Creator/Host: Time 4 Hemp - http://www.Time4Hemp.com
Time 4 Hemp Cell Phone Website - http://www.Time4Hemp.mobie

You can find the MySpace Time 4 Hemp Community Group at:
http://groups.myspace.com/Time4Hemp

You can find the TribeNet Time_4_Hemp Community Group at:
http://tribes.tribe.net/time_4_hemp

You can find the Yahoo! Time 4 Hemp Community Group at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Time4Hemp/

Time 4 Hemp YouTube Video Channel:
http://youtube.com/profile?user=Time4Hemp

You can find the YouTube Time 4 Hemp Community Group at:
http://youtube.com/group/Time4Hemp

You can find the Yahoo! Time 4 Hemp Community Group at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Time4Hemp/

"The only thing new in the world is
the history you do not know"
President Harry Truman

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PRESS STATEMENT: Revised 12.06.2007, Black File 7001, Freelance Journalist inside the Federal Witness Protection Program as a Non-Criminal Federal Witness.

Lee Vin Bah — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:48:00 GMT

PRESS STATEMENT: Revised 12.06.2007, Black File 7001, Freelance Journalist inside the Federal Witness Protection Program as a Non-Criminal Federal Witness.

Freelance Journalist inside the Federal Witness Protection Program as a Non-Criminal Federal Witness. “Black File 7001” is a work of investigative journalism that initially began in 1994. Early in 1999, I completed a covert assignment with the FBI lasting five years after having been previously requested to stand-down from a fulltime university curriculum with an inactive law enforcement background for possibly twelve months. Immediately thereafter I entered the Federal Witness Protection Program (WitSec) and ever since have continued to experience the U.S. government’s use of psychological torture practices and political retribution by the named agents and agencies of the U.S. government under the Bush-Cheney administration. Multiple actionable offenses have been committed under state, federal and international law while the culpable agents and agencies remain shielded from civil and criminal prosecution by the administration’s threat or issuance of national security letters, which prevent legal discovery and subvert the rule of law. The U.S. government does torture, I am one of its American victims and am requesting a humanitarian intervention before it is too late.

EDITORIAL FOREWORD:

Producing the report titled “Black File 7001” has experienced the threat or issuance of national security letters by the Bush-Cheney administration, a subordinate agent directly under the administration threatening me with the invention of a criminal charge if I publish and the suppression of this story by the same Democratic Congress that falsely promised an end to the money laundering operation in Iraq that remains perpetuated by the insidious genocide of our American military service members and other innocent human beings throughout the world.

As a former lifelong humanitarian member of what use to be the Republican Party until 2000 and a person who also voted for Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, I charge the neoconservatives with having filled the bowels of this Trojan Horse Republican Party with the stench of operating a continuing criminal enterprise under the guise of bringing democracy to the world.

The U.S. government infrastructure has been overthrown and this administration has declared constitutional civil war against the United States of America. The American people must organize in a lawful and peaceful revolution that mirrors and surpasses the civil rights era. We must march on Washington, D.C. and picket the corporate offices of the propaganda ministries to force their coverage of your protests and displayed messages.

It is critically important that before the next election we must demand Democratic Congressional members to openly support publically funded elections; not for profit universal healthcare; free or affordable higher education for all citizens; the meaningful development alternative fuel sources; the abatement of the conditions causing the honey bee populations from disappearing from around the world (later in the primary story I will invite you to read why noticing the smallest of G-d’s creatures holds the largest messages); and the criminal investigation of the named agents and agencies of the U.S. government under the Bush-Cheney administration regarding the Black File 7001 report.

Career politicians, regardless of political affiliations who fail the muster of the American people should be removed and replaced with genuine representatives before the next voting cycle.

Americans must become the partisans of liberty to reclaim the dream and promise of America and our inalienable rights as human beings. The jackbooted fascists of today must be prevented from emulating the treason of U.S. Senator Prescott Bush through their perversion of peace for the profits of war. The American mainstream has already been herded towards the invisible and tangible death camps of democracy. In those places you will endured conditions far worse than any physical torture where other Americans like me have been left for dead for over thirty years. These human beings of whom I speak are not criminals or terrorists; they are honorable American citizens who answered their country’s call to duty for special covert government service only to become a disposable population and the hidden dirty secret of the U.S. government.

Since 1970, one thousand and eighty (1,080) American citizens have existed as something cousin to death camp victims from the destructive effects of the Federal Witness Protection Program. These non-criminal federal witnesses and American veterans of voluntary covert government service became the unknowing test subjects in a clandestine torture experiment that exists as the precursor model for converting a freethinking U.S. civilian population into a self-consuming enslaved society. Within the death camp known as “WitSec” these human beings are subjected to the insidious methods of psychological torture that systematically erode the individual sense of self-identity until the will to live has been lost.

ABOUT ME:

My WitSec No. is 7001, I am a husband, father, writer, and freelance journalist who remained inside the Federal Witness Protection Program as a Non-Criminal Federal Witness and am now ready to surface under guarded conditions with the firsthand story of how a minority group of honorable American citizens are being psychologically tortured and politically persecuted by the U.S. government. Immediately I am seeking the support of the American public and progressive news media; the representation of a listed creative agent; contract negotiations with book publishers and the motion picture industry; a university initiative with an accredited school of journalism to include lecturing options and the sanitized conversion of my college records; and communication platforms with Ms. Oprah Winfrey and Mr. George Clooney via the Smoke House Studio.

By comparison to the physical injuries that I have endured from trauma and other accidents, the lasting effects of psychological torture are far worse. This form of torture is sourced from the fascist mindset of the named agents and agencies of the U.S. government under the Bush-Cheney administration through their commissions of actionable offenses and political retributions. As a veteran of voluntary covert government service who operated undercover for five years while contracted by the FBI as an agent of the federal government, I state unequivocally and categorically that the U.S. government does torture human beings. As an American citizen and non-criminal federal witness let the record show that I am declaring myself as a torture victim of the U.S. government. With my soul dying and the body giving signs that it wants to follow I offer that no truer words have ever been written than “give me liberty or give me death” or that “the worse death is a life without hope.”

Having previously been blessed with an out of body experience during trauma that was caused by the U.S. government and prior to my recovery in advance of relearning how to walk, I am not frightened by a natural death. The experience of dying for me confirmed the Socratic belief that the human soul is made of two parts with one half being a physical finite and the other a non-physical infinite. Life as seen from the eyes of the body is an illusion or one half of a duality. It was possible to see from two separate and paralleling perspectives at the same time. The physical world appeared normal while my body felt the tremendous force of being pulled into the earth. Initially from within the spiritual realm there was no ugliness, no beauty, no gender, and only muted colors with humanoid forms. Before I lost the sight of my physical body, the last human emotion that I felt was an all encompassing global pity that literally enveloped the earth with my living sentient energy. Soon I was sitting in space and the beauty of the earth returned with the comforting tenderness of a loving mother and at my back was the warmth of wisdom and strength from a fatherly sun. A few moments passed and my two halves were made whole again to continue the journey that brought me to this place of inhuman suffering.

In self-definition I am a Humanitarian-Universal-Infrastructuralist or a person who has spent a lifetime identifying and interrelating the commonalities between myself and all known sentient beings and other components within the universe from which to become more human.

My views of the current U.S. President and Vice President find them culpable for treason, egregious crimes against humanity and international terrorism while wearing a mask of insipid divinity. Clearly these judicially selected ten cent millionaires are criminal sociopaths who function from a series of learned behaviors used to produce a desired result while being incapable of recognizing any genuine sense of right and wrong.

These individuals and their followers bare the marks that brand their names with the gamatria of the most inhuman and deceptive beings that walk among us on the earth in legion with what some would call the antichrist. Although I have never considered myself worthy of the blessings, respectfully I believe that throughout my life there have been a number of occasions when my being was touched by the many faces of G-d. With all of that said, one should never confuse spiritual currency with political capitol since the latter is most often sourced from the abyss of false profits, which brought the genocide over six million Jews, Gypsies and homosexuals in Nazi Germany; the slaughter of tribal nations in America; the turning of human beings against their brothers and sisters throughout history; the selling of children, women and men as slaves; the gang rape and victimization of Arabic women who are then whipped as criminals; and the 911 terrorist attacks used to perpetuate war profiteering and oil piracy for those who drink from a rivers of human blood and suffering. Considering my temporary acquaintance with death, I believe the purest form of spiritual worship that collectively joins us with the universe is simply the individual act of at least attempting to recognize the human being in all people.

BLACK FILE 7001:

“Black File 7001” is a work of investigative journalism that began in 1994 as an academic prospectus with the goals of publishing books, producing movies, film documentaries, and developing a lecture syllabus with the thinking who better to teach than a person with skin in the game. While in a fulltime academic setting and shortly after beginning this protect, I discovered actionable intelligence that was brought forward for case installation at the federal level. Already possessing an inactive law enforcement background and specialized skill sets where few if any training manuals exist, the FBI requested my voluntary assistance for a projected twelve months. Five years later I completed the FBI undercover group one investigation having successfully penetrated four organized crime groups while never being afforded one day off for that entire period of time. Since other federal law enforcement agencies are not equipped to handle long duration personal security operations, I entered the Federal Witness Protection Program (WitSec) as a Non-Criminal Federal Witness in 1999. Nearly immediately after entering the WitSec the named agents and agencies of the U.S. government under the Bush-Cheney administration unthinkably began outing my active covert status. Since exiting the WitSec in good standing early in 2001, political retributions by the U.S. government have continued to terrorize me with actionable offenses and the tactics of psychological torture. These culpable acts additionally serve as a passive sanction for the assassination of an American citizen and a former covert agent of the federal government. This story is uncharted territory and I am unaware of any other writer/journalist who has actually penetrated this fraudulent clandestine federal program, which shrouds itself beneath an undeserved veil of secrecy that exists in the absence of public scrutiny and meaningful congressional oversight. The latter might explain why multiple action notices regarding this investigation have gone unanswered by the craven Democratic Congress that I helped elected to office with their false promise of ending the corporatist money laundering operation in Iraq.

Within the next 30 day or by New Year’s Day 2008, I will publish an extensive sanitized report that has been redacted from a much larger work. Please communicate with me and contact your local election campaign committees to demand that your congressional members take action in this matter.

American citizens are being used as the unknowing test subjects in a clandestine torture experiment shrouded within the Federal Witness Protection Program (WitSec). Non-Criminal Federal Witnesses (1,080) are a special minority class of American citizens in title only who are being used as a laboratory control sample for the applied tactics of terrorism and psychological torture (psyops) on a U.S. civilian population by the U.S. government.

Writing remains one of my two fragile anchors holding me to this world and a federal agent (L.H.M.) directly under the Bush-Cheney administration has telephonically communicated “you have a lot of people in high places afraid to death that you are going to destroy their programs…and if you publish a book, the government will invent a criminal charge against you.” After refusing not to publish with an invitation to that federal agent’s handlers to “go pound salt up their asses”, a series of actionable offenses were committed against me in political retribution under state, federal and international law. These same entities on several occasions have outed my classified status that with each culpable act, serves to intensify what has become a standing passive sanction for the assassination of an American citizen and former covert agent of the federal government.

As a physically disabled person from two trauma accidents caused by the federal government or incurred in the line of duty during covert government service, I applied for Social Security Disability Benefits (SSDB) through the required classified channels. This process required that I utilize my second WitSec Inspector (A.S.) and the Social Security Administration’s Sensitive Operations Division (SOD) that was established for persons in covert-ops, the CIA and the U.S. State Department working oversees. The Social Security Disability Benefits were authorized, but following my refusal not to publish the WitSec and SSA’s SOD conspired to punitively withdraw my SSDB. This occurred prior to beginning treatments for Hodgkin’s Lymphoma cancer in 2004. The government’s own federal court judge who heard the SSA case issued several letters of complaint to the Sensitive Operations Division, charging that office had provided the court with erroneous information and that the SOD’s delay in responding was contemptuous to the point of preventing a fair hearing. Two months past while the SOD and WitSec crafted their evidence and my SSDB’s claim entered the appeals stage. During the initial SSDB process, repeated telephonic conversations had been made with and between the WitSec and the SOD to insure that the production of the SSA documents would not out my covert status. After multiple assurances that complete security would be maintained, the WitSec and SOD deliberately or at the least through total gross incompetence filed documents that outed my covert status by commingling my identities in violation of several federal laws and a federal court seal. After the matter was sent to the SSA Hearing and Appeals Board where it remained for two years that federal agency notified my private attorney they had lost my classified government file in violation of the same laws allegedly protecting my covert status. A copy was returned by my attorney and two weeks later my benefits were denied again. The SSDB matter is pending on civil appeal to the federal court where I am certain it will be again denied by the government’s crafting of the evidence. Lastly the WitSec and SOD conspired to deconstruct my only viable work history by purging a covert front business located in Texas from the regular SSA computer system and additionally failed under contract to sanitize and convert my previous Social Security records into my new Jewish name. Allegedly I had been employed by that Texas front business for over a decade as a construction estimator that for all I knew might have found Dick Cheney answering the telephones on an earlier occasion. Following the WitSec and SOD’s punitive acts of political retribution, during two subsequent visits to the local SSA office the computer screen was so void of information that the office staffers contacted their supervisors to report they believed their computer system had been penetrated by hackers.

Prior to 911 and before the USDOJ had been prostituted by this corrupt administration, I was able to assist in the covert criminal prosecution of my first U.S. Deputy Marshal/WitSec Inspector (J.D.) for his theft of government funds.

After 911 and following my refusal not to publish under threat of the invention of a criminal charge by the U.S. government that same former WitSec Inspector/federal felon was released from prison and allowed to stalk me. While near death from chemotherapy and radiation treatments for Hodgkin’s Lymphoma cancer that same federal felon physically accosted me by the arm inside of a warehouse superstore. Thirty-six security notices went unanswered by the U.S. Marshals Service’s Federal Witness Security Program Headquarters.

The second WitSec Inspector (A.S.) eventually came to my home with a regular deputy marshal who did not have a WitSec security clearance, which further outed my covert status and sarcastically laughed that he had forgotten to tell me that the WitSec Headquarters’ mailing address had been changed after 911 and that under the new U.S. Patriot Act my only means of communicating with headquarters was directly through him. That WitSec Inspector continued to smile while stating that my classified information and security notices had been circulated by several staffers without WitSec clearances before it got to where I thought it was being sent. When asked about the other Deputy Marshal’s security clearance, the WitSec Inspector stated “owe I use non-WitSec personnel all the time to handle WitSec matters.” This same WitSec Inspector has committed multiple actionable offences and has outed my covert status numerous times while creating a growing mortal threat environment around my geographic location.

Many of the public self-aggrandizing claims and testimonials given before the U.S. Congress and published by the Federal Witness Protection Program will soon be debunked within my Black File 7001 report.

Following the WitSec and SOD’s removal of my work history with their deletion of the covert front business from the SSA computer system and even though I am a very capable and multitalented individual with strong skill sets, given this act and the government’s failure to perform under written contracts, I have been unable to find employment after submitting over 3000 job applications. However by comparison and in direct contrast to my own personal situation, the first WitSec Inspector (J.D.) after his release from federal prison for the theft of several thousand dollars in U.S. government funds is now gainfully employed and processing the private financial records of American citizens as a mortgage loan officer. Under this administration criminals and traitors are rewarded and the good servants of the American people become part of a disposable population.

Out of 18,000 federal witnesses, 16,920 are criminal and custodial federal witnesses and 1,080 of that total number are “non-criminal federal witnesses.” The six percent who are non-criminal federal witnesses are comprised of honorable American citizens from every cultural identity within our society. These same veterans of voluntary covert government service took that extra step above and beyond the call of duty to participate in our system while defending our constitutional democracy and the American people. Within that minority of six percent I am an even smaller number of non-criminal federal witnesses who entered covert government service with an inactive law enforcement background and specialized skill sets of a nature that possess few if any training manuals.

The ACLU of which I am a member has tried to bring four previous cases involving non-criminal federal witnesses through the Washington, D.C. office. With each lawsuit brought by the ACLU, the Bush-Cheney administration has issued national security letters to prevent the legal discovery of evidence and thus subverted the rule of law. However, in my possession is the actual physical evidence that includes but is not limited to federal court documents proving the outing of my covert status; the federal court documents of the first WitSec Inspector (J.D.); lawfully produced audiotape recordings of WitSec personnel and others; and the proof of warrantless wiretapping, data mining, the electronic theft of intellectual property; et al. One should remember General Douglas MacArthur’s island hopping campaign during WWII. As that relates to this matter, I am bypassing a slugfest with Goliath that would only serve to hold me in stasis with my foot in the courtroom door. Instead I invite all freethinking human beings to a Greek debate in the court of public opinion. Criticism and contemplation are necessary to keep a flourishing democracy alive. Let the U.S. government bring forth its best criminal cowards to stand on the square with me in open examination before the American people and the world.

THE TREASON OF CONDOLEEZZA RICE:

It is also my intention to challenge the blatant lies told before the U.S. Congress by Condoleezza Rice regarding the administration’s knowledge of events prior to 911 – the FBI and CIA did have operational joint counterterrorism taskforce offices since the mid 90s.

“A litany of lies about 911, Iraq and now Iran – There is one point that I am compelled to insert within this document beyond the scope of its primary focus and here seems as good a place as anywhere. A covert FBI Special Agent and former teammate in charge of two special operations groups who worked in the field with me and whom I supported in the hunt for Eric Robert Rudolph also known as the Olympic Park Bomber, revealed during the mid 90s that both the FBI and CIA had established joint counterterrorism taskforce offices to exchange foreign and domestic intelligence. This fact directly contradicts Condoleezza Rice’s testimony before congress regarding the August 6, 2001 PDB Briefing Report titled “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.”, during which Rice stated that a fractionalization existed between federal agencies, which prevented intelligence information from being communicated to the Bush administration. The most blatant lie came when Rice stated that no joint FBI/CIA taskforce offices existed before or during that time, while alleging joint taskforce offices were being established forthwith. Further supporting a charge of perjury against Condoleezza Rice and I believe grounds for treason, appears to be former CIA Director, George Tenet’s public testimony regarding actionable intelligence in July 2001 regarding Osama bin Laden’s plan to attack American targets using commercial jetliners. July 2001 marked the last time that I flew on a commercial aircraft on my way to lecture at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia and an occasion when I exchanged passing remarks with former U.S. Senator Gary Hart sitting near me. The actionable intelligence was clearly suppressed by the Bush-Cheney administration. In other words, given these facts and the known associations between the 911 Terrorists; the family of Osama bin Laden; the Saudi Arabian Royal family; the United Arab Emirates (poised to purchase 25% of Citibank and 40% of the U.S. and British Stock Markets); and the oil trading partners, personal friends and business associates within the Bush-Cheney syndicate it appears that the United States of America was allowed to be attacked by a foreign enemy to act as a protagonist event for the perpetuation of war profiteering and oil piracy. Therefore I strongly believe that if the unveiled enemies of the American people were not politically shielded, they would have already been prosecuted for treason, conspiracy, racketeering, money laundering, operating a continuing criminal enterprise, international terrorism, and crimes against humanity.”

SPECIAL NOTE CONCERNING IRAN:

Before the 2006 election the U.S. Intelligence agencies already knew that Iran did not have a “secret nuclear weapons program.” That report was presented to the Bush-Cheney administration and was politically suppressed with instructions given between the lines to craft new evidence. The facts are that Iran’s nuclear enrichment program has not been able to achieve a greater rate than 3.8% enrichment, which is even a lower percentage than what is required to bring a peaceful nuclear power plant online and far less than the enrichment level needed to produce a nuclear weapon. The psychology of substituting sexuality for the creation of illegal wars with oil rich sovereign nations, seems the iconic aphrodisiac of this administration when laminating that over sixty-eight elected Republican politicians have been charged and convicted of sexual crimes against children; that George W. Bush, a known cocaine user (sexual stimulant), deserted his post in the Air Nation Guard when they began drug testing; that both Bush and Cheney took multiple deferments from military service during Vietnam so that other Americans could die in their places; that Dick Cheney made use of a Freudian phallic extension in the form of a shotgun to shot his friend in the head during a hunting expedition; that Dick Cheney has a pneumatic penile implant to achieve an erection; and that the nude photograph of George W. Bush in college displays an unremarkable penis. Add these factors together with the absolute power over the U.S. military and the world will recognize a six headed monster with twelve hearts that numbers 666 and produces the political fodder that destroys the sovereign thought process, creates a toxic society and consumes the collective human soul. Plainly stated devil cannot exist without followers.

MY REQUEST TO MEDIA, UNIVERSITIES, PUBLISHERS, MOVIE PRODUCERS, AND THE WORLD OF HUMAN BEINGS:

While my reaching out might become the closing scene in a lifelong journey to become more human, knowingly I choose my own death over remaining a torture victim and slave within an uncultivatable existence where self-nurturing and remaining true to one’s own nature is an impossibility. The Democratic Congressional members that I helped elect have remained silent with the full knowledge of this matter and only a handful of good human beings seem to be listening for the moment. Already a subordinate federal agent directly under the Bush-Cheney administration has telephonically threatened that if I publish a book the government will invent a criminal charge against me. This is not the America that I defended and have nourished. Nevertheless if we are to remain a world of human beings, we the people must publically exam the U.S. government’s ongoing psychological torture of up to 1,080 Non-Criminal Federal Witnesses who are American citizens and your good neighbors. Currently I have established online locations on YouTube, Tribe.net, Comcast, and have posted on the message board at The Ed Schultz Show website where these American citizens can share their stories with other human beings and possibly begin to reclaim their individual sense of self-identity through these communication platforms. One non-criminal federal witness has already communicated they are hiding outside the U.S. to protect themselves from U.S. government torture. Recently I attempted to communicate with a well known actor’s movie studio and was informed that I must have a listed creative agent to represent my story before they will be legally able to communicate with me. Therefore and in as much that I would dare to hope to restore my own life back to the place where it should have already been, I am seeking the representation of a listed Creative Agent, Business Negotiations with members from the Publishing and Motion Picture Industries, and a University Initiative from an accredited School of Journalism where I might combine all of these components within a flourishing academic setting to create a lecture syllabus and continue writing. Please do not think me a selfish person, because I have remained one of the most extroverted and giving human beings you could ever know. This academic and professional prospectus has endured as my long-range plan since beginning this journalism project and is one of the few reasons why I have not ended my own life after experiencing something cousin to an extraordinary rendition to a clandestine blacksite torture facility that exists invisibly within the plain-sight of American society. Please do not let this story die with me and challenge the validity of any member of the Democratic Congress for their repeated failures to respond to several action notices regarding this matter.

Beyond the above I wish to offer one final piece of personal information. When I relocated to this area I had no intention of becoming involved with anyone and had anticipated reclaiming my academic standing to achieve my goals in life. While visiting a local bookstore and coffee house, I met the finest human being whom I have ever known and today that person is my wife. Together we raised our young child from her previous marriage and I have been blessed by the experience of being a father. Had it not been for my wife’s medical insurance I would not be here today writing this story. My wife retires at the end of this year and our child is now attending a university. What that means for me living on a fixed monthly annuity income and having been waited out by the WitSec while my saving depleted is that I will not be able to afford the additional $600.00 a month for my portion of the medical insurance policy. Further I have been unable to move in any direction to build the life that I wanted from the resulting harms caused by the WitSec cocoon that I will address in detail within the redacted report that follows. To protect my family and legally separate myself from my wife in the event of recurring illness, I am preparing to file the divorce papers on my desk. Never will I forgive or forget that the U.S. government under the Bush-Cheney administration has systematically deconstructed my family and prevented my equality as a person and an American citizen while psychologically torturing me in ways that have already killed other Americans who are non-criminal federal witnesses through suicide and medical neglect. This deconstruction of my family unit is comparatively symbolic to the overthrow of the U.S. government infrastructure by the international crime consortium and the same coconspiratorial war profiteers who attacked the United States of America on September 11, 2001. Having lived so long as the shell of an American citizen in title only, if I am unable to be made whole again in America, then as a torture victim and dissident under political persecution I am prepared to request asylum from the government of Canada. Should that fail and if I cannot be restored then I am ready to leave this world for the peace of oblivion and wish each of you mozel tov.

THE QUESTION HAS BEEN ASKED BY A GROWING NUMBER OF HUMAN BROTHERS AND SISTERS, WHAT CAN WE DO TO HELP YOU?

First please do not attempt to send any money I believe that it is possible to earn a living with the years invested in this story and I prefer paying my own way, which has remained the purpose of my labors while enduring U.S. government torture. Profoundly from a place of extreme isolation your concerns are priceless gifts that have touched me deeper than words could possibly express and I truly feel your human warmth and compassion.

Beyond that human inclusion the most important act of support is not to let this story die from a lack of response or another empty promise by the congress just so this matter will be “disappeared” like the 1,080 American patriots who are non-criminal federal witnesses in the Federal Witness Protection Program. Please meditate for the good energy of the universe to encompass the lives of all human beings and continue to contact any person or organization who will if nothing else at least feel the truth of this torture story: Democratic Party headquarters around the nation; elected representatives who truly wish to remain in office; U.S. and international human rights organizations; members of the progressive news media (The Ed Schultz Show, Air America Radio, Democracy Now, The Nation Magazine, I.N.N. International News Net, Studs Terkel, the ACLU, Civil Rights Attorneys; etc.); the free and independent sovereign nations of the world (Vancouver BC, Canada, UK, Italy, Spain; etc.); the International Court of Justice aka the World Court and Cour internationale de Justice; and any other conduit of communication that might wish to know, share or actuate this true story.

Ms. Oprah Winfrey and Mr. George Clooney are two people whom I admire for their humanitarian and creative contributions to the world. With their support this story will not be silenced and human lives will be saved. Please send each of them “one” simple note requesting their support of the “Black File 7001” story and include my website and e-mail addresses. The movie “Syriana” spoke to me at a very personal level with Bob’s betrayal by the government he served that ultimately resulted in his death. Oprah Winfrey's all-girl leadership academy in South Africa is only one of the endless humanitarian contributions made to the world by this great human being. The education system has played a significant part of my life with a trilingual professional educator in my immediate family, a child currently attending a university and my own employment with the FBI in the third year of a fulltime academic curriculum. The purpose of that covert government service was initiated to prevent national and international organized crime organizations from distributing methamphetamine within the public school systems and throughout the United States of America.

For a time I prevented the false prophets who professed a love of children and humanity from preying on the innocent, but the “war on drugs” like the “war on terrorism” are only political mantras meant to perpetuate and fatten the cash cows of government profiteers.

PLEASE CONTACT MR. GEORGE CLOONEY WITH ONE LETTER ONLY:

Agent:
Mr. George Clooney
C/o Bryan Lourd
Creative Artists Agency
2000 Avenue of the Stars
Los Angeles, CA 90067
424.288.2000
424.288.2900 fax

Publicist:
Mr. George Clooney
C/o Stan Rosenfield & Associates
2029 Century Park East
Suite 1190
Los Angeles, CA 90067 USA
310.286.7474
310.286.2255 fax

Movie Studio:
Smoke House
Attn: Mr. George Clooney
C/o Warner Bros.
4000 Warner Blvd., Bldg. 15
Burbank, California 91522 USA
818.954.4840
818.954.4860 fax

PLEASE CONTACT MS. OPRAH WINFREY WITH ONE LETTER ONLY:

The Oprah Winfrey Show
Attn: Ms. Oprah Winfrey
http://www.oprah.com/email/email_landing.jhtml

BLACK FILE 7001 CONTACT INFORMATION:

E-mail:
BlackFile7001@comcast.net

Tribe.net:
http://people.tribe.net/49395906-0c49-4c98-b92a-79f37b7927cb

You Tube:
http://www.youtube.com/BlackFile7001

Comcast: Currently blocking my ability to establish a website online.

The Ed Schultz Show (Message Boards – “The Media” Section)
http://www.bigeddieradio.com

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posting an IMPORTANT earth.first tribe ;)*

lmbfreespirit — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 16:44:21 GMT

http://tribes.tribe.net/environmentprotect

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Urgent plea to Earth First! tribe! North Coast Earth First! needs you!

shunka — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 02:06:47 GMT

Hello, fellow Earth First!ers!
Ok, there are over 800 people in this tribe, so we should be able to make some stuff happen.
North Coast Earth First! needs the help of the larger Earth First! movement, in order to keep the NCEF! Media office open.
Our office space is only $300/month, and our phone/DSL is about $100.
On our website, we have an automatic monthly donation service, through PayPal, starting at just $5/month and going up to $50/month.
With just 100 people, out of the 800+ in this tribe alone, at just $5/month, our basic operational costs would be covered.
Please, the Old Growth Redwoods need your support, and so does the North Coast Earth First! movement.
We have one of the most active, long-standing Earth First! campaigns in the world, with international moral support for saving these Old Growth Redwoods; what we're lacking is the real material support, and that's where the grassroots community comes in.
We need the spirit of direct action, and we need it soon...the end of the month is nearing, and we're still a bit short on making the bills; this office is the only real support center for the tree-sitters and ground supporters in Humboldt County, CA, and it will have to close without broad-based community support, so please show some love to the Earth First! movement and help out at this critical time, if at all possible.

You can make a one-time donation or sign up for automatic monthly donations at the following link:

http://www.northcoastearthfirst.org/NCEFdonations.htm

I really hope that 100 or more of you will respond...1 out of 8 people responding isn't too much to ask, I would hope, and if half or more of you would respond, we would be set and our resistance would be so much stronger. Please help if you can! Earth First!

Forever Wild,
Shunka Wakan
North Coast Earth First! activist for over 9 years
Ground support for Julia "Butterfly" Hill
Eyewitness to the murder of David "Gypsy" Chain
Ground support, media, and organizer for many years and presently

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Sea Shepherd in the New Yorker

DarklingThrush — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 14:31:53 GMT

NEPTUNE'S NAVY
Paul Watson’s wild crusade to save the oceans.
by Raffi Khatchadourian

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/11/05/071105fa_fact_khatchadourian?currentPage=1

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Humancar on TV!

djembemon — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 20:34:31 GMT

Put your money where your mouth is!
Promote sustainability!

Tonight on "Invention Nation" which will feature HumanCar airs 10:30 p.m. (pst) on the Science Channel. It will repeat at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday and at 3:30 p.m. Sunday!

www.humancar.com.

Check out this link to see some of our publicity:
http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071119/BIZ0102/711190360/1011&nav_category=

Check out:http://www.greenteamtv.com, http://www.greenearthvision.com, http://agreenevolution.blogspot.com, http://www.seriousyurts.com, http://www.greenmatecafe.com

Don't forget to PRE-ORDER!

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Tuva Camp 2008

Alexander — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 21:13:30 GMT

Dear Friends

Thank you for your interest to our music.

Last summer we held a throat singing camp in Tuva.

We had 14 students from around the world - 8 of them were from the US, 2 from Australia
2 from Denmark, 1 from France, 1 from England.
After arriving in Tuva, the students spent 1 week in Kyzyl, the capital city.
They were able to see many tourist attractions, see a Tuvan shaman,
and attend the Naadym - National Harvest Celebration.

The students then went on to spend 1 week in the deep taiga, with members of the Tuvan throat singing group Chirgilchin,
learning various styles of throat singing, traditional Tuvan instruments, as well as the Tuvan language.

This summer, we are trying to get 2 groups to go to Tuva again, in either June or July.

Please let me know if you have any further questions.

Please check our photos made by Russell Roesner - our student.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bertdanger/sets/72157602427847575/

Thank you
Alexander

www.purenaturemusic.com
www.chirgilchin.com

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Pelosi and Reid Nix Renewable Energy? WTF??!

Jim — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 00:02:55 GMT

They seem to have gutted the provisions for solar, wind and other renewables from the energy bill.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/toby-barlow/news-alert-if-you-love-r_b_71888.html

If this is true, I will actively campaign against her in the next election.

I am sick of phony Democrats who knuckle under to Bush and the oil and coal industries.

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Meeting Tonight in Portland!

Brian — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 00:54:06 GMT

Hi, I'm just getting started here on Tribe, so please forgive me if posting this here now is a transgression of any sort, but, are fellow portlanders going to the meeting tonight @ 7:00pm??? It's followed by a vegan potluck and a benefit show... I'll se ya there!
Here's the info:

Stumptown Earth First! Benefit Show THIS SUNDAY!

Sunday, November 11th, 9p. Vegan Potluck!
Monkey Puzzle Manor
5529 N. Vancouver
$5-15 Suggested donation

Evan Greer
Mark Gunnery
Brenna Sahatjian

Stumptown Earth First! will be having its regular weekly Sunday organizing
meeting starting at 7:00pm. If you've been looking to get involved with
serious forest defense and anti-Liquified Natural Gas actions, come to the
meeting. Stay for the potluck and benefit show!

www.riotfolk.org

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NCEF! Media sabotaged! Hijacked by lone wingnut! Accused of fraud, activist treason and embezzlement!

White Rabbit — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 20:22:12 GMT

NCEF! Media in Humboldt County, Ca. is accused of fraud and donation embezzlement. Caution! Do not support this lone wingnut's scam! Other legitamate groups exist in the area. Caution! Do not be fooled by NCEF! Media and his fraudulent outreach. Shunka Wakan exists completely seperate from any active affinity group. Read about how he perpetuated a lawsuit under the guise of EF! against a legitamate environmental nonprofit:

From: http://northcoastjournal.com/100407/cover1004.html

October 4, 2007
Money On Trees

Big cash nearly fell into Shunka Wakan's lap. Other Earth First!ers are kinda happy it didn't.

by Heidi Walters

As the jury trial for the civil suit Kathryn Miller v. the Trees Foundation puttered to a start last week inside Courtroom 3 at the Humboldt County Courthouse, Shunka Wakan — a key witness for the plaintiff — spent mornings sitting on the hard wooden benches in the long hallway outside the courtroom. During breaks, Miller's attorney Linda Mitlyng, would come out of the courtroom to join him. But otherwise, as other people and their legal affairs swirled around him in a warm, odiferous bath of humanity, Shunka sat alone. Or, sometimes, he stood alone, straight-spined, his small, stocky body swallowed by the huge, stiff blue suit out of which his newly shorn, razor-scraped bald head poked vulnerably — as if, at any moment, the suit could gulp once more and he'd disappear completely. Always, he clutched a paper folder with a wolf's face on its cover.

The North Coast Earth First! Media guru had shaved off his woolly rust-tinged brown hair and beard the night before jury selection started, after discussing it with attorney Mitlyng. Now, it took an uncertain moment to recognize him. Then, of course: Shunka's light blue eyes in the pink-pale face, Shunka's closed-lip smile, Shunka's trademark husky murmur, "Mm-hmm, for sure," in response to a comment.

In Courtroom 3, the amiable but no-nonsense Judge Christopher Wilson's domain, the fate of a $185,000 donation dangled. Would the plaintiff, donor Kathryn Miller, prevail in her claim that the defendant, the Trees Foundation, was not in fact the intended recipient of her generous gift? That Shunka Wakan's NCEF! Media Center and the treesitters were? Or would the Trees Foundation convince the jury that, in fact, the money was intended all along for Trees, with no instructions attached for funneling it elsewhere?

Richard Idell, left, who is defending the Trees Foundation against a lawsuit filed by Kathryn Miller, confers with Doug Wallace, community support coordinator for Trees. Photo by David Lawlor.

In her opening arguments, Miller's attorney, Mitlyng, said the case came down to "fraud and broken promises." "She believed [Trees] would hold [the money] in trust, for the benefit of North Coast Earth First!" said Mitlyng. The defense's attorney, Richard Idell, countered in his opening argument that the donation was an unconditional gift and Miller never wrote letters of instruction — as Miller claims she did. "Ms. Miller ... didn't do anything. She took the check [from her mother's estate] and flipped it over and wrote on the back, 'Payable to the Trees Foundation,'" said Idell.

Miller's claim sought the return of her $185,000, plus interest.

Out in the hallway, Shunka waited to tell his side of the story. Maybe he thought about the magical donation that never materialized, and now probably never would. Maybe he thought about the other times he'd been in this courthouse — dozens of times, along with other activists, often before Judge Wilson, answering to charges of trespassing and other forms of civil disobedience in the woods. Likely, he wondered when they were finally going to call him in to testify — it was taking forever in there. He'd even sent out an e-mail prematurely to the several hundred subscribers to his NCEF! online group erroneously announcing he would be first up to testify.

By the end of Friday's court session, Miller was still on the stand. Perhaps Monday it would be Shunka's turn. Whenever it was, he would be testifying on Miller's behalf; but he wasn't a party to the lawsuit. And in the end, after hearing all of the evidence, the jury would be determining who was telling the truth about intentions and letters of instructions. Shunka was just there to provide context and evidence in a contract dispute.

But to a number of forest activists, including a half dozen or so who appeared in the audience last Friday to watch the trial unfold, that context matters more to them than the legal questions. They say this lawsuit has placed a strain on the environmental community that could do as much damage as an ill-felled redwood that takes down other giants in its descent. They disapprove of the lawsuit, and they blame Shunka for it. And, they say, it's just another example of how Shunka has commandeered the North Coast Earth First! identity and used it for purposes that nobody else in the amorphous but consensus-driven local Earth First! movement has agreed to.

"For a lot of us, when we read about the lawsuit, this is kind of like Shunka on trial," said long-time forest activist Deane Rimerman last Friday, calling from Olympia, Wash. "And, to what extent is he worthy of that money?"

Kathryn Miller wanted her money to go toward saving trees, she said on the witness stand last Thursday. The slender 59-year-old was dressed in a pink print skirt and white sweater, with her gray-streaked dark hair pulled back into a neat, thin braid tinted slightly green. (Little did the jury know that Miller had spent the night in jail, in blue jail duds, and then had been "dressed out," in court lingo, in her street clothes before being escorted into the court by the bailiff. Miller had been arrested the week before, on Sept. 17, when she arrived in civil court for the pre-trial readiness hearing; according to the misdemeanor criminal charges filed against her, Miller allegedly had made annoying phonecalls to Barbara Ristow of the Trees Foundation all hours of the day and night.)

On the stand, Miller described how she became an activist. She remembered how, when she was a child in Orinda, her mother decided to stop spraying the beautiful oak trees on their property after reading Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. "And then, when my son was 9, we were watching the news on TV about the Chernobyl nuclear power plant meltdown. And my son said to me, 'I wish I'd never been born. I don't think I'll get to live a full life.'"

She protested the building of the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant. She started a peace action group in the late 1980s in San Jose. She did nonviolent protests at the Nevada Test Site. And in 1990, she came up with some of her fellow protestors to help set up the camp for Redwood Summer, and to take part in demonstrations. She's been on and off involved in Earth First! actions in Humboldt ever since, she said, including huffing in supplies for treesitters and huffing out their garbage. She'd also, at one point, bought a condo in Arcata.

In 2004, Miller sold her condo and bought an acre of farmland, already planted with coffee, in Guatemala. She put in fruit trees to shade the coffee. That same year, her mother, who lived in Sonoma, died. "The last time I saw her was in 2003," said Miller. "She told me when she died, she was going to leave me some money. I told her I'd use it to further my work for the forest. And she was pleased, because she loved the treesitters and the forest."

Shortly after learning of her mother's death, Kathryn Miller sought out Shunka Wakan in front of the food co-op in Arcata, where he "tabled" to raise funds for the North Coast Earth First! Media office — selling T-shirts, and stickers, offering pamphlets, accepting donations. She'd known Shunka for about five years, she said.

"I said to him, I was going to inherit some money: What was the best way to get that to the North Coast Earth First!?"

In the spring of 2005, Shunka Wakan was floating above the treetops. "I was so excited," the 32-year-old said in an interview a few weeks ago, sitting inside his tiny but colorful North Coast Earth First! Media office in Arcata, walls covered in art and topo maps — including one of Buckeye Mountain, where in 2000-2001, during the "Mattole Free State" action, Shunka and others hiked 14 miles through waist-high snowdrifts to save trees.

Kathryn Miller, he recalled, had come up to him excitedly as he walked along the sidewalk outside the Arcata Co-op and said, "I just donated $185,000 to North Coast Earth First!'"

She'd talked to him the year before about making the donation — she'd said she was anticipating an inheritance from her mother's estate, and she wanted to make a big donation to his group. He'd told her to make it through the Trees Foundation, which handled the NCEF! Media office's finances through an arrangement that had been established years ago. (The Trees Foundation is an umbrella organization formed in 1991 to assist smaller environmental groups. As a 501(c)3 nonprofit, it can accept large, tax-deductible donations on behalf of affiliates, and provide professional resources. And it can lead large campaigns, like the one to save the Headwaters Forest back in the '90s.)

Well, now she'd finally done it.

Miller and Shunka agreed to meet at Fiesta Café in Sunny Brae, so she could tell him how she wanted the money spent: She wanted, straight away, for someone to organize a mediated workshop for the local Earth First! activists on ageism and sexism, issues she thought were fracturing the movement. And, she wanted the bulk of the donation to help support the forest activists who blockade logging roads and hunker up in ancient redwoods to fend off loggers' saws.

Not long after, Shunka was on his way to have lunch with some folks from the Trees Foundation, where they'd talk about Miller's wishes.

"Our media outreach was going to get a big boost," Shunka said. "The donation would keep the EF! office going for many years. So I walked into the Wildflower Café feeling elated, thinking we got all this money."

Barbara Ristow and Doug Wallace of the Trees Foundation were there. "I was super excited," Shunka said, "and I said, 'This is great, this big donation. Isn't it wonderful?' We ordered food, and still I'm all excited, talking about the money, but I notice they're looking nervously at each other. [Finally], they said, 'Well, we're just shocked that you think this money was for you.' And I was like, 'I just met with the donor, and that's what she said.' And they're like, 'Well, let's go ahead and plan the workshop and deal with that later.' I remember that, because it put me at ease."

After that, Shunka said he gave Trees a list of people he thought might benefit from the mediator-run workshop. "Some were people I knew had beefs with me, but I was willing to bring 'em into the circle and talk about it."

According to some vague accounts, the workshop was a disaster. One person who was there claims that Shunka, at one point, pounded his fists on the floor, blustered, then got up and stormed out, yelling as he walked away. Shunka says that's overblown.

"The letter from Kathryn Miller to Barbara Bristow said she wanted the mediation to be a safe place, safe to be emotional," he said. "And I think people are saying 'I freaked out.' The freak-out reports are exaggerated. It's just part of this ongoing character assassination. People say I was 'red-faced.' But my face is naturally red."

In late 2005, while Shunka was in Seattle, a friend called him from Arcata to say a woman had come by asking for the office key. She had a list of equipment she wanted to take away. The friend didn't give her the key.

When Shunka got back from Seattle, he discovered his reimbursement funds from Trees had been "frozen." He also learned about a letter someone in the NCEF! movement had circulated for signatures and then sent to Mark Knipper, who handled the Trees Foundation transactions for the NCEF! Media office. It said, in essence, "We don't want Shunka running EF!"

"I called the Trees Foundation," Shunka recalled. "I was sick, it was the middle of the winter, I'm trying to table, it's raining, it's cold. And Barbara Ristow told me, 'You just need to have a meeting [with the other Earth First!ers] and come to a group consensus on what the Trees Foundation funding should be used for."

The meeting never happened — nobody could agree to meet, said Mark Knipper, also in an interview last week. Knipper is a social worker and a long-time activist who had been the contact person between Trees and NCEF! Media. "So it ate itself," Knipper said. "And although I'm former Navy, a mariner, I said I'm not going down with this ship. So I divorced myself from it ... and signed it all back to Trees."

The NCEF! Media office was dropped from the Trees Foundation altogether.

Shunka and the NCEF! Media office never did see any of the big donation. Miller didn't even know that, he said, until she phoned him up in the summer of 2006, more than a year after she made the donation, to ask about a guy named "Jungle," who had been reported as missing on the NCEF! hotline. Miller was spending much of her time in Guatemala now, where she was raising fruit trees; after she'd made her big donation, Hurricane Stan had struck — she spent the ensuing year mopping up the mess.

First, Shunka told her Jungle was still missing. Then he told her about the money.

"I said, 'Yeah, they told me it wasn't for us,'" said Shunka. "And she said, 'I meant for all of it to go to you guys.' She sounded real upset. And I was like, 'I knew it! I knew it!'"

Shunka tried to sue Trees in small claims court, but it went nowhere.

Miller filed a claim against the Trees Foundation on Oct. 5, 2006, in Humboldt County Superior Court, seeking the return of the $185,000 plus interest so she could distribute the money herself.

And if she wins? "She may just spread it out more," said Shunka. "She's got tree planting ideas. Maybe she could buy a grove. She'd maybe not give it all to Earth First! this time. It was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that Trees blew for us."

On an uncomfortably hot afternoon last week, four forest activists who'd agreed to an interview for this story — Jeff, Shaggy, Sparrow and Farmer — sat on the ground at the Arcata Marsh next to a log bench on which a teeming crew of red ants worked a splintered notch. Someone had come along here in 1999 and carved a grouping of faces — bearded, grimacing, possibly mourning faces — onto the log and signed it Daniel. The carving had been drenched in red paint, and burnished by years of sitters.

"It kind of reminds me of the memorial for Gypsy," said one of them. "With the red paint."

Gypsy was the forest name of David Nathan Chain, who in September 1998, during an Earth First! action at Grizzly Creek, was crushed to death by a tree felled by an enraged logger. Farmer, actually, was there — he was just 16, but had a year of activism already under his belt. And Shunka was there — it was Shunka's first forest action.

Farmer, Shag, Sparrow and Jeff first made it clear that they spoke for themselves alone, although they participate in various forest defense affinity groups: Farmer works for the Mattole Wildlands Defense Group now, watchdogging the California Department of Forestry for new timber harvest plans, and keeping an eye on a Pacific Lumber Co. watershed analysis. Shag, who saw his first redwood about five years ago, helps keep the Fern Gully treesit village in Freshwater functioning. Jeff, who grew up in the high desert, and fell in love with the woods, works with the Nanning Creek treesit just outside of Scotia, as well as other groups. Sparrow, who was drawn to forest action because the cultural landscape was "like a folktale" he couldn't resist, is with the Fern Gully affinity group. These groups are all part of the Humboldt Forest Defense Association, a collective with a website but no formal structure.

The HFDA sprang into being six years ago — about the time the entity called North Coast Earth First! had essentially dissolved. It would take a book to describe that drawn-out dissolution — a book of lost causes, won causes, waning media interest, Judi Bari's death, Gypsy's death, ego-spurred squabbles, interpersonal catastrophes, a war overseas, hurricanes. And while the HFDA activists might still cherish the Earth First! name — the movement — in their hearts, it's now been further complicated by what you might call the Shunka effect.

"I still feel in many ways solidarity with the greater Earth First! movement abroad," said Farmer. "But in this county, in this climate, if you say you're with the North Coast Earth First!, many people associate you with North Coast Earth First! Media."

Shunka revived the North Coast Earth First! office around 2002. And he did what previous office managers had done — tabled, put out news releases, wrote articles for other publications. But it wasn't like the old days, in the '90s, when hundreds of people were getting arrested in forest actions and the jail support phone and legal resources were in constant use.

Shunka first worked in an office in Eureka, then later moved to Arcata. He called his outfit the NCEF! Media Center. For a time, he and other "affinity groups" tried to work together. But he alienated some people. He took over the North Coast Earth First! website. He controlled the North Coast Earth First! email list of 300 or more subscribers to the news alerts. He sent out press releases on his own.

"I felt the North Coast Earth First! Media Center was a unilateral effort on Shunka's part," said Farmer. Whereas, in the old days, "spokespeople were decided on by the group. And if you wrote an article it was passed by everyone. I feel Shunka appointed himself spokesperson at some point."

Many also claim they've been subject to a lashing anger from Shunka.

"I won't work with him because I pledge nonviolence in my actions," said Shag. "I don't believe he pledges the same thing. He has exhibited violent behavior towards me and towards other activists in my presence."

"He's a bear," said Jeff, making claw-fists with his hands.

But the sad thing is, all of this infighting probably has done nothing to help the actual trees. And the mediation workshop Kathryn Miller wanted didn't fix matters. Now, there was her lawsuit.

"When I heard about this lawsuit, I thought, the Trees Foundation does not deserve to be attacked in that way," said Farmer. "There's much bigger issues that need to be dealt with — with Maxxam and old-growth logging. ...If you look at Fern Gully and Nanning Creek (the Bonanza timber harvest plan), there's hundreds of old growth acres still standing whose fate is unclear."

Shag put it more bluntly: "If [Miller] knew Shunka and wanted to get the money to North Coast Earth First! Media, she should've given it to Shunka. But if she was trying to get it to treesits and forest defense, then the money went to the right place.

"My problem is this whole representation thing. There's people in the trees — how do you know who to get the money to, to help them?"

Shunka knows that a lot of fellow activists aren't happy with his role in the donation dispute. He also knows how some people talk about him and say he's hard to get along with. "I'm just standing up for the truth," he said. "And people don't like it. To me, it feels like a small clique of people who don't like me. I feel a lot of love and support in this community."

He certainly doesn't come off right away as someone who's angry, or who lashes out, or who locks the office and doesn't let people in. Why, recently, he helped a young woman hook up with the treesitters so she could learn the ropes. (Shaggy said that's proof Shunka doesn't have direct connections with the people doing direct action; but you can't deny it's a connection.)

It's probably a bad idea to ask Darryl Cherney, one of the founders of the local Earth First! movement, what he thinks of Shunka Wakan, whose real name is Jason Wilson. (Shunka tells a story of how he was named by a Lakota medicine man on the banks of the Cheyenne River in South Dakota in 1995. "Shunka Wakan," meaning "great dog," is only part of it. There's a secret part after that — altogether, his name means "the humble man called horse.")

"Shunka's a wingnut," Cherney said over the phone last Friday, sounding cheerfully vitriolic. "I have a 10-verse song about Shunka."

Here are the last few verses:

Who's at the co-op spanging a donation
Shunka, Shunka
Who's got a lawsuit 'gainst the Trees Foundation
Shunka, Shunka
Shunka, Shunka
Who's gonna keep on fighting the fight
Shunka, Shunka
With four of his friends at swimmers delight
Shunka, Shunka
Shunka, Shunka (Shunka voice: It's the last of the revolution)

There's no other word for it but "mean." But Cherney and Shunka have history — not all of it sour. Cherney said Shunka laughed when he heard the song, at least the first time.

"I met Shunka in 1998," Cherney said. "And I know he knew Julia ["Butterfly" Hill, whom Shunka had come west to find]. That was a good thing, helping Julia. That was good Shunka."

Cherney had even pushed for Shunka to go to Houston to talk with Charles Hurwitz, whose Maxxam Corp. bought out the old Pacific Lumber company back in 1985 and quickly became the forest activists' number one villain. Shunka went.

But now? "The current status of Shunka and me," Cherney said, "is that Shunka has sent me five or eight or nine e-mails threatening to sue me. Shunka is a joke."

Cherney can talk for hours about the problems he's had with Shunka over the years. His main point, though, is what has Shunka done for the trees lately?

"My question is, where's your topo maps?" he asked. "Where's your wilderness preservation proposal? Where's your lobbyist team in Sacramento?"

It has to be that, on some level, even the people in the movement who don't like Shunka understand somewhat where he's coming from. So he's emotional. Passionate. Perhaps he's caught up so completely in the cause he can't let go. Or, who knows — maybe he's a phony, like he accused Knipper of being back in 2005.

But being a forest activist comes with perils beyond the obvious physical ones.

"I'm really trying to have compassion for Shunka, even though he's kind of attacked us," said Susy Barsotti by phone from Laytonville a couple of weeks ago. Barsotti is president of the Trees Foundation board, and she says the lawsuit has held Trees hostage, unable to function fully. "I've been mystified and dismayed that he's participated like this in the suit. But Shunka witnessed Gypsy's death. And I think he may have post-traumatic stress syndrome. I don't think he's recovered from it. And that can affect your behavior."

A number of people mentioned this, actually, about Shunka. And he often refers to Gypsy's death himself. In an article titled "What Luna has taught me," posted on the website of Julia "Butterfly" Hill's organization, Circle of Life, Shunka writes: "I decided to commit to doing ground support after witnessing the death of David Nathan "Gypsy" Chain on September 17, 1998 ... I remember looking across the valley as we hiked up that day, seeing the rolling hills of forests and clear-cuts, and thinking out loud, "That's why we're here!" Seeing Gypsy's life taken from him, and then seeing the corruption and lies of the Humboldt County Sheriffs ... really opened my eyes to the situation our old-growth forests face."

Later, he did ground support for Hill in her second year in Luna. And in the same article on her website, something else Shunka writes indicates how ready he was to devote himself to a cause: "Being on the support team was the top priority in my life, and I was happy knowing that everything else revolved around when I'd be needed for the next supply run. I never felt lost because I knew what I was doing. That was a feeling I had not felt in years, between feeling dissatisfaction with life in college, and then more dissatisfaction with life as a minimum-wage worker after college. Before joining Julia's ground support team I was unhappy, even to the point of tears, wondering if my entire life was going to be a minimum-wage nightmare ...."

Pure devotion, without benefit of a little hypocrisy, could drive anyone batty. Deane Rimerman, the activist from Olympia who said it is Shunka who is on trial, said it's not uncommon for intense, stressful movements like Earth First! to produce an army of walking wounded. And he's been around, in forest actions up and down the coast, for long enough to know; he was the one, in fact, who "got the maps and led the first hikers up to the hill" to the Gypsy Mountain campaign and Luna treesit.

"In the forest activist movement, there's very little that's rewarding," Rimerman said. "There's a lot of post traumatic stress syndrome. All of us get it. Once you've been through the court process, and the jail process, and seen 1,000-year-old trees get cut down that you really cared about and thought you could save — it's devastating."

That alone, setting aside the troubles with Shunka, could explain the many rifts that have occurred within the local EF! ranks over the years. Josh Brown, who moved to Humboldt in 1995 right before the peak of the Headwaters campaign, said one of the unique qualities of Earth First! is that it "is primarily a youth movement."

"A lot of people that come through are young, are passionate — and it's a wonderful thing," he said. They get thrown into leadership positions quickly — and then they get burned out. Many move quickly on to other things. Brown stayed in longer than most. "When I left [in 2001], I was 30 years old. And I'd been a full-time activist since I was 18."

Paradoxically, said Brown, the youthful draw and the departure of seasoned activists leaves the movement with "no elders to kind of sit around and coach the [new kids]."

The movement also draws strong personalities, he said. Tenacious ones, too, like Shunka's.

"Shunka, I think he really does have a big heart," said Brown. "And I think he does care for the forest."

Last Friday, following the morning session of Miller v. Trees, a group of the Humboldt Forest Defense Association activists stood on the courthouse steps talking. The door opened, and Shunka walked out and down the steps toward the group. They didn't greet him. After a time, he tried to talk to one of them, Jeff. Jeff walked away. Shunka followed him, then stopped and talked to another guy. Then he stood alone again.

From: http://northcoastjournal.com/101107/news1011.html

Trees Foundation Wins

October 11th, 2007

The jury in the civil case Kathryn Miller v. the Trees Foundation decided in favor of Trees, after deliberating all day Tuesday. (See "Money on Trees," Oct. 4).

Miller is the long-time forest activist who inherited a bundle from her mother and then signed $185,000 over to the Trees Foundation. In her lawsuit, she claimed she had intended the money to be passed through Trees to one of its affiliates, North Coast Earth First! Media, run by Shunka Wakan. She claimed she had made her intentions clear, verbally and in writing, and that Trees had agreed to the conditions, then broken its promise and kept the money. Trees denied making such promises, and said it had never seen any letters or heard of instructions to give the money to NCEF! Media. (Also, somewhat relatedly, in criminal court on Tuesday Miller pleaded no contest to charges that she had made annoying phonecalls to Barbara Ristow of the Trees Foundation.)

So, that's that. Now, there are only the pieces to pick up.

For Shunka Wakan — featured in last week's Journal as a central figure in a messy nest of infighting that has fractured the current ranks of local Earth First!ians — it could be a long, lonely patching together of lost friends and broken alliances. Not only did he and Miller lose their attempt to retrieve her donation, but now he's been banned from the North Coast Co-op.

Yes, that happened last week. It was Thursday, around 4:15 in the evening, and two activists with the Humboldt Forest Defense Association were tabling — hawking brochures and such — outside the Co-op. It's an activity Shunka himself has spent many a day doing in that very same spot, raising cash to pay for his NCEF!Media outreach work and other causes. And, well, these two fellows, Jeff and Farmer, were on Shunka's shit list, now. They'd spoken gently, but unfavorably, about Shunka's doings in the North Coast Earth First! arena — said he lashed out at people, said he commandeered NCEF! resources, and so forth. Here's a snippet of Jeff's account of what happened, which he sent to the NCJ in an e-mail on Friday:

"Shunka was removed from the Arcata Co-op yesterday after a scuffle with myself and another activist around 5 p.m. Well, he wasn't exactly removed, but APD was called. He was asked to leave after threatening to flip over the HFD donation table while stating he was 'like Jesus in the marketplace ...'"

Sue Coulter, manager of the Arcata Co-op, recounted on Friday how an employee walking by heard the argument and went inside to get her. "So I went out to talk to [Shunka], because it's not the first time we've had problems," she said. "Most of the time, he's fine. Most of the time, I stick up for him." One time, she said, she even called the police to protect Shunka after someone had threatened him. "But he gets into arguments. I tried to talk to him. I told him to leave. ... He was causing a scene, right by the door, and I can't have it. He refused to leave. ... I said, fine. I went into the store. He followed me into the store, and he was still yelling at me, 'Oh, now you're going to call the police on me.'" Coulter called the police, but Shunka left before they arrived.

Shunka, waiting in the courthouse for the jury verdict Tuesday, said Coulter did indeed ask him to leave and he did, indeed, refuse to. As for the HFD tablers, he said he merely asked them why they had Trees Foundation literature on their table. "I said, 'Why do you want to represent these people?'" And then, he said, "Jeff accused me of embezzling — he said this in public. He said, 'You've embezzled thousands of dollars from the Earth First! movement through the years.' And I complained to one of the employees who was walking by. Because that's serious, accusing someone of embezzling."

But Shunka said the whole thing's yet another attack on him. "I don't consider I was yelling. We were talking. I'm an emotional person, I concede to that. I speak from my heart. I don't scream at people. I would love to — but I don't."

In his email, Jeff with HFD predicted Shunka would leave town within weeks, if not sooner. But at the courthouse, even before the verdict, Shunka said he wasn't going anywhere.

"I'm just going to continue to run the Earth First! office and continue to call Humboldt County home," he said. He's also going to write a letter to the Co-op, complaining about how he gets scapegoated and booted out of there even when other people, he says, are the culprits. And, as for the Miller v. Trees case, he said, he and Miller may now take their complaint to another venue.

-- Heidi Walters

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tree sit info

bREEZY — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 16:48:03 GMT

ello = )
i was wondering if anybody had any information of any tree sits in cali
i tried contacting fern gully and some other camps, but it seems all the sites are inactive.
any information would be appreciated!!

b l e s s i n g s
xo- breezy

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TRUTH IS FREE; so is my RETREAT Vermont

Bald Mountain Retreat, — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 20:18:10 GMT

I'm looking to network with folks, to extend an invitation to visit Bald Mountain Retreat, VT (www.baldmountainretreat.com) as my guest. Like-minded people who appreciate rustic accommodations are welcome to come up at no charge. (Those who require a private room can inquire about those accommodations as well.)
Basically, I'm offering people the opportunity to come stay with a retired naturopathic doctor in a truly amazing natural setting, secluded, idyllic, peaceful...
If you might want to lead a retreat, please contact me.
You are welcome,
Dr David

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Free MP3 with Keith Stroup - Founder of NORML

Casper Leitch — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 18:01:43 GMT

Eight hundred thousand people were arrested in 2006 on marijuana related charges. Today, every 41 seconds someone in America is arrested on a marijuana related charge.

On September 15, 2007 - Keith Stroup (founder of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws - NORML) was one of those arrested.

This was the second time for Keith to be arrested on a marijuana charge. He recalled getting busted with joint on him while crossing into Canada during the 1970s in an exclusive interview with Casper Leitch when he sat down and took 'Time 4 Hemp'. Download it for free at http://www.Time4Hemp.com

Also - If you get time, you might want to get your fee downloads of the following 'Time 4 Hemp - TODAY PotCast' interviews:

Allen St. Pierre (Dir. of NORML)
Steve Hager (Editor of High Times Magazine)
Steve Bloom (Former Editor of High Times)
Jack Cole (Founder of LEAP)
Gatewood Galbraith (Author)

EACH SEGMENT HAS LOTS OF GREAT MUSIC INCLUDED!!

Interviews SOON to be released:
Ed Rosenthal
and Marc Emery

Don't miss the free downloads on the 'Time 4 Hemp - MUSIC PotCast':

This week, we turned over the controls to the hard working activists at MarijuanaRadio.com because we think everyone should discover their great work! (It just so happens that our host was a guest on this segment!) Tune in and tell your friends about: http://www.MarijuanaRadio.com

And, if you get time, you might want to get your free downloads of the following 'Time 4 Hemp - MUSIC PotCast' interviews:

The Individuals (7-Time winners of the Global Marijuana Music Awards)
Muck Sticky (Check out his new CD ''Bob-O-Link Cove')
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Many of interviews from the television series have been released through the PotCast series, 'Time 4 Hemp - CLASSICS' and feature:

Willie Nelson (Super Star)
Dr. Tim Leary (Author)
Jack Herer (Author)
Kevin Zeese (co-founder of the Drug Policy Foundation)

I’ve worked hard to put together some great podcasts designed to feed brains the truth about Marijuana being used for paper, fiber, fuel, and medications. What’s more - the thing that makes these shows so great are the guests!

Please be kind enough to share the http://www.Time4Hemp.com URL with everyone who you know would enjoy hearing what they have to say.

Keep Strong!
Casper Leitch
Creator/Host: Time 4 Hemp
http://www.Time4Hemp.com

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Help save our old-growth forests!

Fri, 19 Oct 2007 22:40:23 GMT

Hello,

Many of you may not know that in August 2007 the Bush Administration introduced the Western Oregon Plan Revison (WOPR) to change the Northwest Forest Plan and proposes to greatly alter the management of the remaining old-growth forests in Oregon. Did you know that only 3% of the ancient forests in the United States are still standing today, and they are all in this area of Oregon that the WOPR affects? The WOPR will affect lands managed by the BLM and are proposing the following changes:

1. Doubling the amount of old-growth forests that are available for clear-cut logging from 25% to 50%. That translates into clearcutting more than 110,000 acres of 120+ year old trees in just the first decade.
2. Open to logging over 200,000 acres of protected areas bordering streams and rivers which would destroy water quality and ecosystems in these waterways.
3. Remove protections for over 250 vulnerable plant and animal species, some listed under the Endangered Species Act , if their protection would hinder logging operations in these areas. In other words, logging would take precedence over saving endangered species already being protected.

Something I did not know until recently is that there is some consensus on both sides of this issue that timber needs can be accomplished in sustainable ways by focusing on thinning in previously logged areas. There is no need for these old-growth forests to be sacrificed!

Could you please help save these last remaining ancient forests before it's too late?

A decision will be made on WOPR in December 2007, just 4 months after this proposal was made. And citizen comments must be received by Nov 8, 2007. The organizations working to defeat WOPR, including Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center (www.kswild.org), feel strongly that WOPR can be defeated if citizens speak out against this proposal. Please go to:

www.oregonheritageforests.org/citizenguide

There you can learn more about how wrong this proposal is, why there is a good chance to defeat it, and will also give you a link to send your comments to the BLM with a copy sent to KS Wild and to Oregon's congressional delegation. Your email matters! Please help save these old-growth forests in Oregon no matter where you live.

Thanks for reading this. It's so important and we only have until November 8, 2007 to act!

Calliope

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Raw Foods

Josh — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 18:29:17 GMT

Has anyone seen the trailer for "Raw For 30 Days"? It's a documentary about six people, who normally eat fast food, who decide to go 100% raw for a month. It features interviews with doctors, experts, and raw foodists including Gabriel Cousens, David Wolfe, and Woody Harrelson.

I am new to raw foods and very interested in hearing from others who are raw foodists and people who are trying to change their lives for the better. Many people in my family have diabetes and I have changed my diet and gone raw to prevent myself from also getting diabetes.

The trailer on Youtube at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSuqCMld00w

There is also a new two-disc DVD set that is available for order called RAW FOR LIFE, which is a encyclopedia of Raw Food, perfect for beginners like me and Raw Food enthusiasts. I have found it to be very helpful, as I have been transitioning to raw foods. It’s about how to live raw, the Raw Food philosophy, why to eat a raw food diet, important medical facts and nutritional information. It’s a very practical guide to becoming raw and staying raw.

Visit the Raw For 30 Days site at:

www.rawfor30days.com

Another great resource I have found is the Raw Summit site, which is at:

www.rawsummit2.com

I joined for the first Raw Summit and found it very helpful and interesting and it’s FREE!

Who here is raw?

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Fall Ecology and Harvest: An Intergenerational Exploration

nathaniel — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 02:21:41 GMT

October 13-14, 2007 (Saturday-Sunday)
at Lost Valley Educational Center, Dexter, OR

We invite people ages 12 through 112 to join us to learn about fall ecology, indigenous tradition, and the harvest season here in the western Cascade foothills. Throughout this weekend of presentations, discussions, and activities, we'll explore how we can learn from one another and pass ecological wisdom and insights back and forth between generations. The schedule (subject to change) is as follows:

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13 morning: indigenous traditions and their modern applications
9-9:30 am: introduction/welcome circle
9:30-10:30 am: Esther Stutzman (Kalapuyan storyteller)
10:40-11:30 am: presentation and discussion circle featuring Bill Burwell (Kalapuya researcher), Jerry Hall (ethnobotanist, Lane Community College), Dharmika Henschel (ethnobotanist/musician), Jude Hobbs (Permaculture teacher and designer, Agroecology Northwest), and Rick Valley (Lost Valley land steward, Permaculture teacher and designer)
11:30 am-12:10 pm: break-out groups
12:10-12:30 pm: concluding morning circle
12:30-1:30 pm: lunch

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13 afternoon and evening: seasonal harvest activities, ecological restoration, ecovillage development, youth initiatives, and bioregional culture
2-4:30 pm: tour (Rick Valley) and hands-on harvest- and land-related activities
4:45-5:45 pm: Alison Rosenblatt (NextGEN--Global Ecovillage Network)
6-7 pm: dinner
7:30 pm on: music (Dharmika Henschel and others), sharing circle about traditional seasonal celebrations, stories, poems, networking

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14 morning: school gardening, youth, and horticultural exploration
7:30-8:30 am: breakfast
9-9:30 am: morning welcome circle
9:30-9:50 am: Sharon Blick (former director, School Garden Project)
9:50-10:10 am: Jen Anonia (Food for Lane County Gardens Program Manager)
10:10-10:30 am: Heiko Koester (Permacultural landscaper, Eugene Permaculture Guild)
10:40-11:20 am: Sarah Kleeger and Andrew Still (Seed Ambassadors Project)
11:30 am-12:30 pm: discussion
12:30-1:30 pm: lunch

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14 afternoon: autumn ecology and ethnobotany
2-4:15 pm: talks and walks with Dave Kofranek (lichenologist), Tobias Policha (ethnobotanist, Institute of Contemporary Ethnobotany), Heiko Koester, and others
4:30-5:30 pm: closing circle

Conference registration fees, including four organic vegetarian meals, are $105 for students 12 and above, $135 for non-students. Overnight lodging ($30) and camping ($10) are also available. We are offering a $10 discount/rebate from your registration fee for each paying registrant who first heard about the event through you, or who cites you as his or her primary influence in considering attending. A limited number of worktrade scholarships are available (for an application, follow the link within the online registration form at www.lostvalley.org/fallecology/registration). If space allows, we will also accept single-day attendees for $80 Saturday only, $65 Sunday only (or, for students, $65 Saturday only, $50 Sunday only.) See www.lostvalley.org/fallecology for updated event details, or contact Fall Ecology and Harvest Event, 81868 Lost Valley Lane, Dexter, OR 97431, (541) 937-2567 x116, nature AT lostvalley.org.

brochure: www.lostvalley.org/files/Fall%20Ecology%20and%20Harvest%20brochure.pdf
poster: www.lostvalley.org/files/Fall%20Ecology%20and%20Harvest%20poster.pdf

Cosponsors:
Lost Valley Nature Center
Lost Valley Educational Center’s 87 acres include oak savanna, natural meadow, stream and riparian areas, ponds, extensive forest lands in various states of maturity, gardens and orchards. Our diverse habitats and several miles of nature trails offer unique environmental education opportunities. Lost Valley Nature Center sponsors walks and public events (like May’s Native Plants and Permaculture Gathering) to help nature-lovers learn from the land and from one another.

NextGEN
NextGEN is a global network organized by young adults concerned with issues of sustainability. We hope to inspire you with examples of viable and positive choices for the future. We offer opportunities for action through conferences, educational workshops, and direct experience in communities. Our international support network develops connections among activists and encourages resource sharing.

Excerpts from May’s Native Plants and Permaculture Conference Proceedings:

Bill Burwell: At the start of each harvest season the Kalapuyans would have a first gathering ceremony. The spiritual leader of each winter village site would harvest a few articles of each resource, bring it back, prepare it in a ceremonial way, bless the plants or animals that were responsible, and then the regular harvest could begin. The first gathering ceremony was very important to them, and it was practiced all throughout the Kalapuya culture, religiously. Their belief was that all plants and animals, including humans, were part of the same format. As above, so below. Just like humans, plants and all animals had families, and then beyond the families they had communities.

There’s one word I know of that was utilized all the way up and down the Willamette Valley, the lower Columbia, and into the Salish area in Washington: Tamanawas. It’s been translated as spirit power. People who went out on a vision quest were looking for their Tamanawas. I think what it really related to was a person’s ability to interconnect with all the rest of nature. I’ve collected a number of tales of the people going out into the woods to find a particular medicine, and their ability to find this medicine came from the ability to plug into that certain plant and interact with it. The plant actually was the teacher of the person who was going out on the search.

Jerry Hall: When we started learning our language, songs began coming to us. There is the belief that songs are just in the ether or in the air, and they select somebody to come to at a time in that person’s life. … My experience is that singing evokes something from us that is beyond talking and gives expression to prayer.

I feel that nature is really part of the home and that people related that way five hundred years ago. People knew where everything was and they took care of it.

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pass this on...

SevenCrowsDancing — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 20:24:47 GMT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgvnqv1-_D4

pass it on. mail it to friends, loved ones, coworkers. post it on the message board at school, the laundrymat, in church. if someone asks for your phone number and you feel inclined to give it to them, add this, too. let people know what you stand for. let people know what you stand against. let people know that you stand.

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Slightly OT: New Freegan Tribe Forming

turtlebeanz — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 19:00:47 GMT

tribes.tribe.net/ef0f2448-...a79c08384f

freeganism is good for the earth....

withdraw your energy from overproduction and overconsumption....

find it, borrow it, share it....

: )

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JESUS CHRIST+JESU KRISTE+YESHUA HAMASHIACH+JESUS CHRISTUS+JESU KRISTU+ISOUS HRISTOS

Sun, 23 Sep 2007 06:28:49 GMT

JESUS CHRIST+JESU KRISTE+YESHUA HAMASHIACH+JESUS CHRISTUS+JESU KRISTU+ISOUS HRISTOS

Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of this prophesy and keep those things which are written in it; for the time is near. REVELATION 1:3

And I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth." REVELATION 11:3

He who testifies to these things says, " Surely I am coming quickly." Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus! The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen. REVELATION 22:20-21

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Everyone, has the responsibility to find the truth for themselves. What is stated below, must be researched and verified, so that every individual can then decide to accept, or discard it as myth. The only truth is God the Father, the Son our Lord Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit. Read the Bible, pray to the Holy Spirit for guidance and our Lord Jesus Christ will not abandon you, but will place the truth in your heart.

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We must not try to copy the world, but be different to it, as the example set by our Teacher, our Lord Jesus Christ. Being the same as the world, sharing its base values, being part of the fashion trends, is all part of Satan's system (Sex changes that are taking place ever more frequently and therefore not knowing anymore who is a man or a woman). The Pope of Rome is one of Satan's instruments (the Papists have immense power and wealth, our Lord Jesus Christ was humble and owned nothing). Talmudists/Zionists want to rebuild Solomon's Temple and proclaim their own false king of the world (there is only one King of the Jews and Orthodox Christians and that is our Lord Jesus Christ). Their power base is the U.S.A (Superpower of the world). They contol many governments, banks, newspapers, television stations (the media in general), etc. We must not forget the very elusive and cunning Masonic Lodges which form part of Satan's means to spread anti-Christian and heretic information. Television and video has been one of the most powerful tools of Satan, which has ruined the ethics which sustained our youth and the family unit. With pornography in all its forms, men have been misled and subsequently their women, a whole generation of our youth and their families have been devoured by Satan. We have forgotten about God, the Bible and prayer and have allowed ourselves to go down the road to hell and have fallen into Satan's trap (in other words we are slaves to flesh and our desires). Hedonism is the aim of humanity.

The group that is attempting to rule the world, consists of three member countries, U.S.A, Europe and Japan (3 presidents). Their central control, consists of 32 members (of the 29, 8 are Americans; 9 from Japan; 12 from the European Union (contolled from Belgium/Luxembourg). Head of the 3 member group is Rockefeller (his head quaters is in Rhodes, Greece; his specific influence is in the U.S.A and E.U). Whoever does not obey the orders of this group are murdered. Death is the penalty for disobedience. Another Satanic "club" is called, Bildeberg. They can destroy any government and put a new one together again. They can make a country vanish and create a new one too. 200 members, which include intelligence agencies (CIA; BIA; BND (Ger.); SIB (Ital.); SPELA (Fra.)). There are members who are involved with NATO and hold important positions in the US administration, etc. They hold an extremely harsh stance against the East, especially with Russia because of its Christian Orthodox heritage. They exterminate/demolish any opposition.

An enemy going back thousands of years is head quatered in China (the Himalayas/Tibet). The Seljuks come from that region, who are the ancestors of the Turks, who attacked and oppressed Christian Orthodoxy in Asia Minor and Greece. The Turks/Jews have tried many times to wipe out the Greeks and Christian Orthodoxy. They call the Greeks and Christian Orthodoxy, the people of the "Blue Trigramaton" (which is refering to the Holy Light that emenates from our Lord Jesus Christ's tomb). The roots of martial arts is that region spoken of above. Martial arts are Satanic and anti-Christian and yet has our youth spellbound under the innocent guise of sport/fitness. In the Himalayas there is a glass pyramid (Sambala), it has many entrances. This is where the White Brotherhood is based. It's aim is to destroy all the world's religions except its own. It has more power than the U.S.A. It has more resources at its disposal than all the governments in the world. It has infiltrated and controls many governments and religions (Roman Catholics, Protestants and Judaism). The First and Second World Wars were masterminded by them. They are going to start the Third World War too. The White Brotherhood works with the Bildeberg club and all the others. They are assisted by the Zionists. They created Hitler and introduced the Swastika (broken cross, that is what it means). Hirohito of Japan was responsible for a massive bloodbath, but he was not punished like the others, after the Second World War because he was a member of the world ruling 3 member group mentioned above. Grey Wolves (Turkish Muslims), are connected to the White Brotherhood. Only Grey Wolves members may rule Turkey. They must always mantain a harsh stance against Greece/Christian Orthodoxy (Turgut Ozal, was exterminated for his softer stance).

The White Brotherhood want to destroy the followers of Jesus Christ. They call His followers, bipods or two-legged ones. Their methods are many: thirst, hunger on a worldwide scale. All plants and forests must be destroyed. Wars, so as to ensure maximum slaughter. They refer to humanity as a chicken breeding farm. They destroy humanity with drugs; they have contaminated our drinking water (it has been doctored with medication); our food is also contaminated and our clothes too from the fancy washing powders that we use (that is why everyone is getting ill and they don't know why). Thirst on a worldwide scale, for eg.. Euphrates to be dried up because of Turkey, which will lead to a confrontation with Iran/Syria. Hunger, for eg., Russia was the world's wheat provider, even the U.S.A relied on her. The White Brotherhood ensured that Russia would starve. In Moscow young women give themselves for a plate of food. Homosexuality, the U.S.A being its banner. One can go on and on, but there will be no end then. It is devestating. But do not despair, if you are a follower of our Lord Jesus Christ because He has defeated Satan and the world.

(This is a summarized version and a translation of a tape recording in Greek, from a Greek Orthodox perspective ofcourse, given to me by a Monk at Calvary/Golgotha in Jerusalem, Christmas, 2001. I cannot divulge any names, nor my own because this is a very dangerous subject. You will have to verify the truthfullness of the matter yourself. Please excuse my errors of spelling or other. May God forgive me if I am wrong about any of this, but I do it with honest intentions. God bless you. From a humble follower of our Lord Jesus Christ.)

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"These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world." JOHN 16:33

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"LORD JESUS CHRIST, HAVE MERCY ON ME."

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Virgin America's Leather Seats (Not So Swanky, IMHO)

turtlebeanz — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 21:14:40 GMT

Hello, all. I received the below promotional email through Travel Zoo today. It's hyping a big Virgin America sale. (Actually, the sale's not that big -- there are lots of flight sales going on.) Anyway, one of their big selling point seems to be their leather seats. I'm going to write to them that their leather seats are reason enough for me to not fly their airline -- I'll take somebody else's deal. I mean, maybe maybe maybe for foot comfort some people got a reason to interact with leather. But just to have a swanky place to put my butt? No thanks, I'll pass on animal torture and murder. I encourage you to get in touch with Virgin America, too, if you feel so moved.

: )

The Travelzoo Newsdesk has found this outstanding offer from
Virgin America:

NEW YORK--JULY 19, 2007-- Virgin America, a brand new
airline with impressive amenities, is launching flights from
New York in August.

To celebrate, they are offering an introductory sale for all
tickets purchased through August 8:

- New York-Los Angeles ... $139 each way (starts August 29)
- New York-San Francisco ... $139 each way (starts August 9)

You can fly to either city in first class for $389 each way.

This sale is for travel 7 days a week through November 14.
To find the lowest fares, book 7 days in advance.

Main cabin passengers will experience mood lighting, leather
seats with 32-inch pitch and lumbar support, a nine-inch TV
screen with live TV and 25 movies, and have access to power
outlets.

First class passengers will receive upgraded amenities and
also sit in oversized seats with 55-inch pitch and built-in
massage function.

For more information on Virgin America and to book your
trip, click here:
http://www.travelzoo.com/Newsflash.asp?312965

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Triple Global Crises

Alexander — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 14:12:45 GMT

Triple Global Crises

From Empire to Earth Community: Author David Korten on "The Great
Turning"

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The International Forum on Globalization and Institute for Policy
Studies is hosting a three day teach-in this weekend
titled "Confronting the Global Triple Crisis: Climate Change, Peak
Oil (The End of Cheap Energy) and Global Resource Depletion &
Extinction." We speak with, among others, David Korten - publisher of
the magazine YES! A Journal of Positive Futures and author of "The
Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community." [includes rush
transcript]
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A new study from the nation's preeminent scientific advisory group
has revealed that less than two percent of the money spent by the
federal government on climate change research is used to study how
climate change will affect humans.
According to the report issued by the National Academies, the U.S.
Climate Change Research Program spends just $30 million dollar a year
on examining the impact of global warming on humans. To put that
figure in perspective, the United States is spending an estimated
$275 million per day on the Iraq war and occupation.

Spending cuts have also resulted in the grounding of earth-observing
satellites. The authors of the report state QUOTE "The loss of
existing and planned satellite sensors is perhaps the single greatest
threat to the future success" of climate research.

This weekend, the International Forum on Globalization and Institute
for Policy Studies is hosting a three day teach-in
titled "Confronting the Global Triple Crisis: Climate Change, Peak
Oil (The End of Cheap Energy) and Global Resource Depletion &
Extinction."

We speak with four guests from the forum. We begin with David Korten:

David Korten, author of "When Corporations Rule the World". He is the
co-founder of Positive Futures Network, and publisher of the magazine
YES! A Journal of Positive Futures. His most recent book is
titled "The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community."

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RUSH TRANSCRIPT
This transcript is available free of charge. However, donations help
us provide closed captioning for the deaf and hard of hearing on our
TV broadcast. Thank you for your generous contribution.
Donate - $25, $50, $100, more...

JUAN GONZALEZ: A new study from the nation's preeminent scientific
advisory group has revealed that less than 2% of the money spent by
the federal government on climate change research is used to study
how climate change will affect humans.

According to the report issued by the National Academies, the U.S.
Climate Change Research Program spends just $30 million a year on
examining the impact of global warming on humans. To put that figure
in perspective, the United States is spending an estimated $275
million per day on the Iraq war and occupation.

Spending cuts have also resulted in the grounding of earth-observing
satellites. The authors of the report state, "The loss of existing
and planned satellite sensors is perhaps the single greatest threat
to the future success" of climate research.

AMY GOODMAN: This weekend, the International Forum on Globalization
and Institute for Policy Studies is hosting a three day teach-in
titled "Confronting the Global Triple Crisis: Climate Change, Peak
Oil (The End of Cheap Energy) and Global Resource Depletion &
Extinction."

Today, we're joined by four of the guests in that forum. We begin
with Vandana Shiva and David Korten.

Vandana Shiva, world-renowned environmental leader and thinker,
director of the Research Foundation on Science, Technology, and
Ecology, and the founder of Navdanya, "nine seeds," a movement
promoting diversity and use of native seeds. Dr. Shiva was the 1993
recipient of the Alternative Nobel Peace Prize, the Right Livelihood
Award. She's the author of many books, her latest, Earth Democracy:
Justice, Sustainability, and Peace.

David Korten, also with us, author of When Corporations Rule the
World, cofounder of Positive Futures Network and publisher of the
magazine YES! A Journal of Positive Futures. His most recent book is
called The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community.

We welcome you both to Democracy Now! David Korten, let's begin with
you. The Great Turning, explain.

DAVID KORTEN: Well, essentially, this gets to the basic theme of the
conference, that we humans have come up at a defining moment in our
experience, in which we're confronting the limits of the ecosystem at
a time when we are in a condition of extreme inequality between the
rich and the poor, and we're dependent on an economic infrastructure
that, in turn, depends on the assumption of everlasting cheap oil.
Now, we've essentially come up to the limits.

What my book, The Great Turning, does is puts it into our current
situation to the deeper context of 5,000 years of human experience,
organizing ourselves, both our relations among nations and among --
all the way down to among family members, based on dominator
hierarchy. And what this -- the underlying pattern of societies, with
a few people on the top, many people on the bottom, and the majority
of the society's resources being expropriated by the ruling elites in
order to maintain a system of domination. And we have played that out
for 5,000 years, empire through empire, each one falling in turn, is
it, through internal corruption and the devastation of its resource
base. And now we're encountering that on a global scale.

And what -- the key point of this conference is that we are facing a
monumental decision point in human experience in which we have to
actively choose our future. And virtually none of the options on the
table being discussed deal, in any adequate way, with the depth of
the problem, and many of them are actually ultimately
counterproductive. What the establishment is doing is looking for
solutions that will maintain the system of power, but not necessarily
deal with the fact that we have to address in fundamental ways our
human relationship to earth and to the life support system of earth.

And in an already overpopulated world, we absolutely have to deal
with the issues of equity and redistribution of not only income, but
ownership, control and access to resources, so that everyone has a
secure means of living. We also, of course, have to be fundamentally
reconstructing our infrastructure to create an infrastructure that is
consistent with living and balance with the earth, localizing our
economies, bringing an end to war and violence and the massive misuse
of resources to support military establishment.

So what this conference is doing, which is also what my book The
Great Turning does, is bring all of these various crises that we're
facing as a species into a common framework that helps us see the
depth of the solutions and the very dramatic nature of the solutions
turning from systems of domination to systems of partnership and
reestablishing a sense of human community and of living communities
that bring us humans into balance with earth.

JUAN GONZALEZ: David Korten, in the United States we're confronted
here with a mass media system now where the oil companies and the
chemical companies are actually the ones advertising their changes
now, in terms of dealing with global warming. It's an enormous
hypocrisy that the very companies that are involved in the worst
aspects of what is happening to the world are now the ones that are
promoting in their advertisements a consciousness about it.

You talk about the prosperity narrative and how the prosperity
narrative distorts the reality of what's happening with global
warming. Could you talk about that?

DAVID KORTEN: Yes. Part of breaking out of this, breaking out of what
I call the cultural trance of empire, is to recognize the stories,
essentially the lies, that the system feeds us to keep us locked into
this trance. And the key in the empire prosperity story is the idea
that money is wealth, that economic growth is the key to prosperity,
that when people are making money, they are creating wealth, and the
idea that inequality is essential to growth because the rich people
have the money to invest, and so we should honor rich people, we
should welcome inequality, because in the end it makes us all better
off. Now, we're seeing that play out, of course, in the corporations
now, you know: we're benevolent, and so forth.

But the thing that -- you know, I spent thirty years of my life
working on third world development, on the effort to end poverty in
low-income countries. And it took me a long time, but I finally came
to realize that mostly what economic growth is about is rich people
expropriating the resources of poor people to turn them into the
garbage of the consumer system in an accelerating rate in order to
make money, which increases the power of people who -- for people who
already have more than they need.

Now, what we need to come to recognize is that real prosperity is
grounded in the health of our children, our families, our communities
and nature, and that a real economic system promoting real prosperity
is one that is serving the health of children, families, community
and the environment. And it absolutely requires a substantial degree
of equity and sharing of resources to assure that everyone's needs
are met. And you begin to see the -- you know, the stories
fundamentally contrast, and they lead to totally different kinds of
outcomes, in terms of how we allocate resources and even how we think
about what it means to be human at our most foundational values.

AMY GOODMAN: Vandana Shiva, talk about how this plays out on the
ground in places like, well, your home country, India.

VANDANA SHIVA: Well, the triple crisis is really seriously converging
on India, India being one of the preferred spots for outsourcing of
all the pollution and energy-intensive production of the world. We
hear of outsourcing of jobs in the information technology sector. We
don't often enough hear about the outsourcing of pollution to the
third world, the resource-intensive, resource-hungry industry like
steel and iron and aluminum and automobile manufacture. India now is
going to be the home of making cheap cars for the rest of the world.
But every car then requires land, which is grabbed from tribals,
peasants. It requires aluminum and steel, which needs to be mined. It
requires coal, which needs to be mined.

And just as when the first colonization took place, it was assumed
that the earth was empty, terra nullius, no matter how many
indigenous people existed. India, a land of 1.2 billion people, is
being treated as an empty land for global capital, making 80% of
India redundant.

But people are fighting back. And place after place, in Dadri, in
Nandigram, in Singur, people are just getting together in a new earth
democracy and saying, "This land is our land. We will decide what we
do with it. You cannot force a polluting industry on us.
Globalization cannot force it." And we are really seeing a whole new
political practice emerge.

India is engaged in this debate also centrally in another way that
brings the resource question: the alternative -- fuel alternatives to
global warming, as well as the new militarization, on a global scale
together. The three, four options being offered to contain emissions
are biofuels, which, in fact, will increase emissions; carbon and
emissions trading, which is reversing the "polluter pays" principle
and is making the society pay the polluter, rewarding them with
credits. Most of these credits are then being given to polluting
industry: HFC companies, sponge iron plants, cutting down forests and
then planting palm oil. These are becoming clean development
mechanisms, which are really dirty.

But the dirtiest of all, dirtiest of all the new clean options is
nuclear. The US-India nuclear agreement is being offered as a clean
energy option, as a solution to climate change. But it is, in effect,
an instrument of permanent war. In the Hyde Act, which overrides the
India-US agreement, Iran has been mentioned fifteen times. An
agreement between India and the US mentions a third country fifteen
times. This is about a new security policy, a new security policy in
which a militarized empire seeks the last resources of the poorest
person and wants to use the worst form of violence to appropriate the
resources that people need for living.

And across the world, people are saying, "No. We want peace. We want
democracy. We want sustainability. We will live in a different way."
And those alternatives are growing. Our work, in Navdanya, we are
saving seeds that can tolerate the salt after cyclones, seeds that
can survive the floods, in which we have lost 2,000 people in India
this particular extreme monsoon. And around the world people are
creating alternatives, so we really have these two trends right now:
one, a declining trend, but very visible trend because it's so
violent, and violent is always visible; and the other, a peaceful
trend and nonviolent trend, quiet, but much more pervasive.

JUAN GONZALEZ: Vandana Shiva, you've been a spokesperson for years
over the impact on the world's agriculture, of this corporate
dominance. A new battleground has developed recently in Burma with
Bayer and Bayer's efforts, the German giant, in terms of rice. Could
you talk about that?

VANDANA SHIVA: Yeah, but it's not just the German giant in Burma.
It's the American giant, Monsanto, literally killing Indian farmers.
Since 1997, I've been doing studies in every area where farmer
suicides have happened. These happen to be the cotton belt, the
cotton areas where Monsanto has now gained total monopoly. The Bt
cotton seeds that Monsanto is selling have pushed farmers to the
edge, because of the high prices, because of the high levels of
failure and the high requirements, exactly like the rice of Bayer for
Burma will be.

As the corporations that came out of warfare gained control over the
chemical industry for warfare, they became agrichemical giants,
because they deployed chemicals used for war into agriculture. Over
time, they bought up the seed industry. Over time, they bought up the
biotech industry. And, of course, these guys are the same people who
sell us the medicine in pharmaceuticals. So what we've got, a
convergence of death. We've got a convergence of destruction.

And in India, we are witnessing this destruction from the seed end
through Monsanto's monopolies on seed, and that is why I have been
working with Indian farmers, both to save our native seeds and save
our freedom, and do the seed Satyagraha, like Gandhi a hundred years
ago in South Africa -- and we're remembering Steve Biko today -- when
Gandhi started the Satyagraha, the non-cooperation with an unjust
brutal regime. But the global economy has become an unjust brutal
regime. And everywhere -- we are defending the Yamana, because they
want to even use the land where the rivers flow for real estate. I
don't know why land becomes real estate when it moves into the hands
of the rich, and it's treated as nobody's land, no man's land, when
it's generating survival for the poor. So India is definitely at the
heart of the new debate about the real democracy.

AMY GOODMAN: Vandana Shiva and David Korten, I want to thank you for
being with us. Vandana Shiva's latest book is Earth Democracy:
Justice, Sustainability, and Peace. David Korten's latest book is
called The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community. They're
both part of the International Forum on Globalization that is holding
a conference this weekend in Washington, D.C. at George Washington
University at the Lisner Auditorium.

When we come back, we'll be joined from two others who are
participating: the author and professor Michael Klare and the British
climate change activist Simon Retallack.

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/14/1421257

Vandana Shiva Decries the "Outsourcing of Pollution to the Third
World"

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We speak world-renowned environmental leader and thinker, Vandana
Shiva about India and global resource depletion. Shiva says, "India
is one of the preferred spots for outsourcing of all the pollution
and energy-intensive production of the world. We hear of outsourcing
of jobs and informational technology sector. We don't often enough
hear about the outsourcing of pollution to the third world."
[includes rush transcript]

Vandana Shiva, world-renowned environmental leader and thinker. She
is also a physicist and ecologist and the Director of the Research
Foundation on Science, Technology, and Ecology. She is the founder of
Navdanya -"nine seeds", a movement promoting diversity and use of
native seeds. Dr. Shiva was the 1993 recipient of the Alternative
Nobel Peace Prize -the Right Livelihood Award. And she is the author
of many books, her latest is "Earth Democracy: Justice,
Sustainability, and Peace."

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----------
RUSH TRANSCRIPT
This transcript is available free of charge. However, donations help
us provide closed captioning for the deaf and hard of hearing on our
TV broadcast. Thank you for your generous contribution.
Donate - $25, $50, $100, more...

JUAN GONZALEZ: A new study from the nation's preeminent scientific
advisory group has revealed that less than 2% of the money spent by
the federal government on climate change research is used to study
how climate change will affect humans.

According to the report issued by the National Academies, the U.S.
Climate Change Research Program spends just $30 million a year on
examining the impact of global warming on humans. To put that figure
in perspective, the United States is spending an estimated $275
million per day on the Iraq war and occupation.

Spending cuts have also resulted in the grounding of earth-observing
satellites. The authors of the report state, "The loss of existing
and planned satellite sensors is perhaps the single greatest threat
to the future success" of climate research.

AMY GOODMAN: This weekend, the International Forum on Globalization
and Institute for Policy Studies is hosting a three day teach-in
titled "Confronting the Global Triple Crisis: Climate Change, Peak
Oil (The End of Cheap Energy) and Global Resource Depletion &
Extinction."

Today, we're joined by four of the guests in that forum. We begin
with Vandana Shiva and David Korten.

Vandana Shiva, world-renowned environmental leader and thinker,
director of the Research Foundation on Science, Technology, and
Ecology, and the founder of Navdanya, "nine seeds," a movement
promoting diversity and use of native seeds. Dr. Shiva was the 1993
recipient of the Alternative Nobel Peace Prize, the Right Livelihood
Award. She's the author of many books, her latest, Earth Democracy:
Justice, Sustainability, and Peace.

David Korten, also with us, author of When Corporations Rule the
World, cofounder of Positive Futures Network and publisher of the
magazine YES! A Journal of Positive Futures. His most recent book is
called The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community.

We welcome you both to Democracy Now! David Korten, let's begin with
you. The Great Turning, explain.

DAVID KORTEN: Well, essentially, this gets to the basic theme of the
conference, that we humans have come up at a defining moment in our
experience, in which we're confronting the limits of the ecosystem at
a time when we are in a condition of extreme inequality between the
rich and the poor, and we're dependent on an economic infrastructure
that, in turn, depends on the assumption of everlasting cheap oil.
Now, we've essentially come up to the limits.

What my book, The Great Turning, does is puts it into our current
situation to the deeper context of 5,000 years of human experience,
organizing ourselves, both our relations among nations and among --
all the way down to among family members, based on dominator
hierarchy. And what this -- the underlying pattern of societies, with
a few people on the top, many people on the bottom, and the majority
of the society's resources being expropriated by the ruling elites in
order to maintain a system of domination. And we have played that out
for 5,000 years, empire through empire, each one falling in turn, is
it, through internal corruption and the devastation of its resource
base. And now we're encountering that on a global scale.

And what -- the key point of this conference is that we are facing a
monumental decision point in human experience in which we have to
actively choose our future. And virtually none of the options on the
table being discussed deal, in any adequate way, with the depth of
the problem, and many of them are actually ultimately
counterproductive. What the establishment is doing is looking for
solutions that will maintain the system of power, but not necessarily
deal with the fact that we have to address in fundamental ways our
human relationship to earth and to the life support system of earth.

And in an already overpopulated world, we absolutely have to deal
with the issues of equity and redistribution of not only income, but
ownership, control and access to resources, so that everyone has a
secure means of living. We also, of course, have to be fundamentally
reconstructing our infrastructure to create an infrastructure that is
consistent with living and balance with the earth, localizing our
economies, bringing an end to war and violence and the massive misuse
of resources to support military establishment.

So what this conference is doing, which is also what my book The
Great Turning does, is bring all of these various crises that we're
facing as a species into a common framework that helps us see the
depth of the solutions and the very dramatic nature of the solutions
turning from systems of domination to systems of partnership and
reestablishing a sense of human community and of living communities
that bring us humans into balance with earth.

JUAN GONZALEZ: David Korten, in the United States we're confronted
here with a mass media system now where the oil companies and the
chemical companies are actually the ones advertising their changes
now, in terms of dealing with global warming. It's an enormous
hypocrisy that the very companies that are involved in the worst
aspects of what is happening to the world are now the ones that are
promoting in their advertisements a consciousness about it.

You talk about the prosperity narrative and how the prosperity
narrative distorts the reality of what's happening with global
warming. Could you talk about that?

DAVID KORTEN: Yes. Part of breaking out of this, breaking out of what
I call the cultural trance of empire, is to recognize the stories,
essentially the lies, that the system feeds us to keep us locked into
this trance. And the key in the empire prosperity story is the idea
that money is wealth, that economic growth is the key to prosperity,
that when people are making money, they are creating wealth, and the
idea that inequality is essential to growth because the rich people
have the money to invest, and so we should honor rich people, we
should welcome inequality, because in the end it makes us all better
off. Now, we're seeing that play out, of course, in the corporations
now, you know: we're benevolent, and so forth.

But the thing that -- you know, I spent thirty years of my life
working on third world development, on the effort to end poverty in
low-income countries. And it took me a long time, but I finally came
to realize that mostly what economic growth is about is rich people
expropriating the resources of poor people to turn them into the
garbage of the consumer system in an accelerating rate in order to
make money, which increases the power of people who -- for people who
already have more than they need.

Now, what we need to come to recognize is that real prosperity is
grounded in the health of our children, our families, our communities
and nature, and that a real economic system promoting real prosperity
is one that is serving the health of children, families, community
and the environment. And it absolutely requires a substantial degree
of equity and sharing of resources to assure that everyone's needs
are met. And you begin to see the -- you know, the stories
fundamentally contrast, and they lead to totally different kinds of
outcomes, in terms of how we allocate resources and even how we think
about what it means to be human at our most foundational values.

AMY GOODMAN: Vandana Shiva, talk about how this plays out on the
ground in places like, well, your home country, India.

VANDANA SHIVA: Well, the triple crisis is really seriously converging
on India, India being one of the preferred spots for outsourcing of
all the pollution and energy-intensive production of the world. We
hear of outsourcing of jobs in the information technology sector. We
don't often enough hear about the outsourcing of pollution to the
third world, the resource-intensive, resource-hungry industry like
steel and iron and aluminum and automobile manufacture. India now is
going to be the home of making cheap cars for the rest of the world.
But every car then requires land, which is grabbed from tribals,
peasants. It requires aluminum and steel, which needs to be mined. It
requires coal, which needs to be mined.

And just as when the first colonization took place, it was assumed
that the earth was empty, terra nullius, no matter how many
indigenous people existed. India, a land of 1.2 billion people, is
being treated as an empty land for global capital, making 80% of
India redundant.

But people are fighting back. And place after place, in Dadri, in
Nandigram, in Singur, people are just getting together in a new earth
democracy and saying, "This land is our land. We will decide what we
do with it. You cannot force a polluting industry on us.
Globalization cannot force it." And we are really seeing a whole new
political practice emerge.

India is engaged in this debate also centrally in another way that
brings the resource question: the alternative -- fuel alternatives to
global warming, as well as the new militarization, on a global scale
together. The three, four options being offered to contain emissions
are biofuels, which, in fact, will increase emissions; carbon and
emissions trading, which is reversing the "polluter pays" principle
and is making the society pay the polluter, rewarding them with
credits. Most of these credits are then being given to polluting
industry: HFC companies, sponge iron plants, cutting down forests and
then planting palm oil. These are becoming clean development
mechanisms, which are really dirty.

But the dirtiest of all, dirtiest of all the new clean options is
nuclear. The US-India nuclear agreement is being offered as a clean
energy option, as a solution to climate change. But it is, in effect,
an instrument of permanent war. In the Hyde Act, which overrides the
India-US agreement, Iran has been mentioned fifteen times. An
agreement between India and the US mentions a third country fifteen
times. This is about a new security policy, a new security policy in
which a militarized empire seeks the last resources of the poorest
person and wants to use the worst form of violence to appropriate the
resources that people need for living.

And across the world, people are saying, "No. We want peace. We want
democracy. We want sustainability. We will live in a different way."
And those alternatives are growing. Our work, in Navdanya, we are
saving seeds that can tolerate the salt after cyclones, seeds that
can survive the floods, in which we have lost 2,000 people in India
this particular extreme monsoon. And around the world people are
creating alternatives, so we really have these two trends right now:
one, a declining trend, but very visible trend because it's so
violent, and violent is always visible; and the other, a peaceful
trend and nonviolent trend, quiet, but much more pervasive.

JUAN GONZALEZ: Vandana Shiva, you've been a spokesperson for years
over the impact on the world's agriculture, of this corporate
dominance. A new battleground has developed recently in Burma with
Bayer and Bayer's efforts, the German giant, in terms of rice. Could
you talk about that?

VANDANA SHIVA: Yeah, but it's not just the German giant in Burma.
It's the American giant, Monsanto, literally killing Indian farmers.
Since 1997, I've been doing studies in every area where farmer
suicides have happened. These happen to be the cotton belt, the
cotton areas where Monsanto has now gained total monopoly. The Bt
cotton seeds that Monsanto is selling have pushed farmers to the
edge, because of the high prices, because of the high levels of
failure and the high requirements, exactly like the rice of Bayer for
Burma will be.

As the corporations that came out of warfare gained control over the
chemical industry for warfare, they became agrichemical giants,
because they deployed chemicals used for war into agriculture. Over
time, they bought up the seed industry. Over time, they bought up the
biotech industry. And, of course, these guys are the same people who
sell us the medicine in pharmaceuticals. So what we've got, a
convergence of death. We've got a convergence of destruction.

And in India, we are witnessing this destruction from the seed end
through Monsanto's monopolies on seed, and that is why I have been
working with Indian farmers, both to save our native seeds and save
our freedom, and do the seed Satyagraha, like Gandhi a hundred years
ago in South Africa -- and we're remembering Steve Biko today -- when
Gandhi started the Satyagraha, the non-cooperation with an unjust
brutal regime. But the global economy has become an unjust brutal
regime. And everywhere -- we are defending the Yamana, because they
want to even use the land where the rivers flow for real estate. I
don't know why land becomes real estate when it moves into the hands
of the rich, and it's treated as nobody's land, no man's land, when
it's generating survival for the poor. So India is definitely at the
heart of the new debate about the real democracy.

AMY GOODMAN: Vandana Shiva and David Korten, I want to thank you for
being with us. Vandana Shiva's latest book is Earth Democracy:
Justice, Sustainability, and Peace. David Korten's latest book is
called The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community. They're
both part of the International Forum on Globalization that is holding
a conference this weekend in Washington, D.C. at George Washington
University at the Lisner Auditorium.

When we come back, we'll be joined from two others who are
participating: the author and professor Michael Klare and the British
climate change activist Simon Retallack.

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Michael Klare on the Internal War For Control of Iraq's Oil

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We speak with Michael Klare, author of "Blood and Oil: The Dangers
and Consequences of America's Growing Dependency on Imported
Petroleum." Klare says, "There's a second war underway in Iraq that's
a war for the control of the oil wealth. That's a war that is pitting
Kurds against the Arabs of the country, Shiites against Sunnis, and
Shiite against Shiite. Because eventually the Americans are going to
leave and the people of Iraq know this." [includes rush transcript]

Michael Klare, Professor of Peace and World Security Studies at
Hampshire College. He is author of several books including "Blood and
Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Dependency on
Imported Petroleum."

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AMY GOODMAN: Last week, tens of thousands of people attended Farm Aid
here in New York City. It's an annual concert to raise support for
family farmers. This is the musician Neil Young, one of the
organizers of Farm Aid.

NEIL YOUNG: Transporting food around the world to other countries and
using all of that fuel and all of that packaging and all of that air-
conditioning fuel and all of those things that need to happen to get,
say, a tomato -- since that's on our mind today, we're coming with a
tomato now -- from Chile to California, it costs a lot of
environmental damage just getting that one tomato up there.

And so, if you look at the world and you figure one of the things
about our big agriculture is that we want to feed the world --
doesn't that sound great? You know? We're going to help everybody.
OK, you know, that's great. But I don't think it's really that way. I
think we ought to feed ourselves, the people that are close to us,
and we ought to let the people around the world feed themselves with
their own crops so that we don't go in there and take their food crop
away and give them a cash crop and then say we're going to give you
food. And that's what we do. We have people growing textile materials
and cotton and things in third world countries, and we do business
with them through China, and we do all of these things with our
economics. And we undermine the sustainability of the countries that
we say we're helping. And then, if these countries don't cooperate
with us, we control their food supply.

AMY GOODMAN: Musician Neil Young at the Farm Aid concert this past
weekend.

As we continue looking at issues of climate change, energy and the
environment, we're joined by two more guest speakers at this
weekend's International Forum on Globalization in D.C.: Michael
Klare, professor of Peace and World Security Studies at Hampshire
College, author of a number of books, including Blood and Oil: The
Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Dependency on Imported
Petroleum; and Simon Retallack, head of the climate change team at
the Institute for Public Policy Research in Britain, coauthor of the
new report, "Positive Energy: Harnessing People Power to Prevent
Climate Change."

We're going to turn first to Michael Klare. President Bush spoke last
night, addressed the nation, talked about why we continue the war in
Iraq. Can you talk about the connections between war and oil or, as
you put it, the title your book, Blood and Oil.

MICHAEL KLARE: Well, Amy, good to talk with you. There are really two
wars now underway, I think, in Iraq, maybe more than two. There's the
US effort to retain, as what President Bush said last night, an
enduring presence in Iraq. And I believe that's connected to our,
that is America's, long-lasting geopolitical imperative of being the
dominant power in the Persian Gulf. And, of course, he also refers a
lot to Iran, now the next threat perceived on the horizon to American
dominance. So one part of the war in Iraq, I believe, have always
believed, is part of this long-standing US effort to dominate the
region geopolitically and control the oil spigot from the Gulf, where
two-thirds of the world's oil is located.

But there's a second war underway, and that's a war for the control
of Iraq's oil wealth. And that's a war that is pitting Kurds against
the Arabs of the country and Shiites against Sunnis, and Shiite
against Shiite, because eventually the Americans are going to leave,
and the people of Iraq know this, and they are now fighting amongst
themselves for who's going to control that territory. And I believe a
lot of the violence in Iraq today is really about that struggle for
control of Iraq's oil wealth. And American soldiers are caught in the
middle of this.

And I think, frankly, that American military leaders have come to
understand that the prospect of an Iraq, of a national Iraq, has been
lost. That war has been lost. What's left is the fighting over the
remains, the carcass of Iraq.

JUAN GONZALEZ: Michael, on the issue of Iran, especially with all the
saber rattling, and even among many of the Democratic candidates for
president you find some of the same saber rattling toward Iran. Iran
is a huge nation. It is not only oil rich, but considerably
developed, with a huge population. What kind of -- your analysis of
the sense among military people about even talking about any kind of
military action or extension of what's happened in Iraq into Iran?

MICHAEL KLARE: Well, we tend to forget that the US military is not a
monolithic organization. I'm sure if you ask the ground forces, the
Army and the Marine Corps who are baring the brunt of the fighting in
Iraq, they'll say, you know, "Not over my dead body do we want to go
to war with Iran." They are stretched to the limit. They couldn't
take on another single mission anywhere in the world. So they're
saying, "Please don't start any trouble in Iran."

But if you ask the Air Force or the Navy, they feel differently.
They're not overstretched in Iraq. They might feel very differently
about it. They might be looking for missions And I think, in fact,
that the military is divided on this, as is the administration.

It's clear that Condoleezza Rice, I believe, and others of a more
realistic nature, I suppose you'd say, think that attacking Iran
would be a tremendous mistake. But there are clearly ideologues,
neoconservatives, led by the Vice President, who are strongly
committed to attacking Iran. And I fear that they're prevailing in
this debate and that before the administration leaves office that we
will see an attack on Iran.

AMY GOODMAN: I wanted to turn to Simon Retallack, who is just in from
Britain for the International Forum on Globalization conference. What
is "climate porn"?

SIMON RETALLACK: Good question. It's a phrase that authors of a
report that we commissioned in London came up with to describe the
way in which some journalists, some environmentalists and even some
politicians use alarmist language to talk about climate change, in a
way that you might see headlined, certainly in British newspapers,
saying almost "the end is nigh," using biblical terms to describe the
impacts of climate change. It's a phrase that is certainly not used
to undermine the science. It certainly doesn't mean to do that. What
it seeks to do is try to encourage people to think about what sort of
language will be necessary to motivate the public to take action.

If we talk about climate change in a way that makes it appear that
there's nothing we can do anymore about it, that it's too late, that
it's happening, it's going to be devastating on a global scale,
without giving people the option and making the solutions clear to
act, then I think we're going to turn people off. So it's part of
some research and a long-running project that we're engaged with to
try to find ways of simulating climate-friendly behavior amongst the
public.

JUAN GONZALEZ: Simon, in the previous segment, Vandana Shiva talked
about what she called a fallacy of using fixes like trading in
pollution credits in the United States. So you've analyzed what the
EU is doing in terms of this kind of approach. Could you talk about
that?

SIMON RETALLACK: Yes, certainly. I mean, one of the most commonly
adopted solutions in the world for dealing with climate change has
been the support for cap and trade schemes, where there's a cap
placed on emissions and companies get given quotas, and they can
trade them to meet their reductions. The big problem with the
European scheme, and I foresee a problem with potential US-wide
schemes in the future, is that the caps placed on industry have been
far too weak. Governments have over-allocated pollution permits to
industry, which has meant that the cost of a ton of carbon on the
European markets is far too low, and it isn't delivering the step
change in investments that we need to see in renewable energy and
energy efficiency to do our bit to avoid dangerous climate change.

We're at a critical point, not just in the EU, about here in the US
now, where finally, with a Democratically controlled Congress, we're
going to see this full attempt to pass a cap and trade bill through
Congress. We've got to make sure, and anyone who's listening to this
and watching this needs to do their part to ensure, that the right
caps are put in place. At the moment, most of the bills before
Congress only envisage far too little emission reductions by 2050. We
need to see at least 80% cuts in emissions, at least, by 2050, with
early action being critically important, too, if we're to avoid the
most dangerous impacts from climate change. And we need to put
pressure on our representatives and senators in the US to ensure that
adequate action is taken at this critically important point.

AMY GOODMAN: I wanted to go back to Michael Klare and ask you a
question about the research in global climate change. I was just at
Stanford University. They have the GCEP program, that is Global
Climate Environment Program, that got something like $225 million
from ExxonMobil, General Electric, Shlumberger and Toyota. You have
University of California, Berkeley, got something like half-a-billion
dollars from BP. They call it "Beyond Petroleum" now, British
Petroleum. How is this corporate control of academia or funding of
academia affecting the research? Are you concerned about this?

MICHAEL KLARE: Well, I think everybody should be concerned. What I
think is going on is that the oil companies themselves have realized
what we'll be talking about tonight, which is that we're coming to
the end of conventional petroleum -- that is, liquid petroleum, the
stuff that you stick a drill in the ground, and it comes gushing out.
The days of easy-to-find liquid petroleum are over.

And the oil companies understand this, even if their propaganda says
otherwise. And they want to control whatever is going to replace it,
whatever new liquid fuels come online. So they want to invest
billions of dollars into the research, into whatever new fuels are
going take the place of conventional petroleum, whether it's biofuels
or synthetic liquids from tar sands or shell oil or whatever the next
fuels will be, so that their companies can dominate the production
and the marketing and the retailing of these liquids and retain the
monopoly on our energy, as they have now.

So, of course, we should be very deeply worried about it, because it
could foreclose other solutions that probably would be healthier for
all of us, in the sense that David Korten was speaking about earlier,
of a more egalitarian, a more healthy form of energy system.

AMY GOODMAN: Michael Klare and Simon Retallack, I want to thank you
for being with us. Both will be speaking this weekend, beginning
tonight, at George Washington University at Lisner Auditorium, part
of the International Forum on Globalization. Michael Klare's latest
book, Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's
Growing Dependency on Imported Petroleum. Simon Retallack is with the
Climate Change Team at the Institute for Public Policy Research in
Britain, just in for this conference. Thanks so much for being there.

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/14/1422209

"Climate Porn" - Simon Retallack on the Dangers of Using Alarmist
Language to Talk About Climate Change

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We speak with British climate change expert, Simon Retallack about so-
called "climate porn." Retallack says, "It's a phrase that's
certainly not used to undermine the science...But if we talk about
climate change in a way that makes it appear that there's nothing we
can do anymore about it, that it's too late, that it's going to be
devastating on a global scale...I think we're going to turn people
off." [includes rush transcript]

Simon Retallack, head of the Climate Change Team at the Institute for
Public Policy Research in Britain. He is the co-author of the new
report "Positive Energy: Harnessing People Power to Prevent Climate
Change."

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This transcript is available free of charge. However, donations help
us provide closed captioning for the deaf and hard of hearing on our
TV broadcast. Thank you for your generous contribution.
Donate - $25, $50, $100, more...

AMY GOODMAN: Last week, tens of thousands of people attended Farm Aid
here in New York City. It's an annual concert to raise support for
family farmers. This is the musician Neil Young, one of the
organizers of Farm Aid.

NEIL YOUNG: Transporting food around the world to other countries and
using all of that fuel and all of that packaging and all of that air-
conditioning fuel and all of those things that need to happen to get,
say, a tomato -- since that's on our mind today, we're coming with a
tomato now -- from Chile to California, it costs a lot of
environmental damage just getting that one tomato up there.

And so, if you look at the world and you figure one of the things
about our big agriculture is that we want to feed the world --
doesn't that sound great? You know? We're going to help everybody.
OK, you know, that's great. But I don't think it's really that way. I
think we ought to feed ourselves, the people that are close to us,
and we ought to let the people around the world feed themselves with
their own crops so that we don't go in there and take their food crop
away and give them a cash crop and then say we're going to give you
food. And that's what we do. We have people growing textile materials
and cotton and things in third world countries, and we do business
with them through China, and we do all of these things with our
economics. And we undermine the sustainability of the countries that
we say we're helping. And then, if these countries don't cooperate
with us, we control their food supply.

AMY GOODMAN: Musician Neil Young at the Farm Aid concert this past
weekend.

As we continue looking at issues of climate change, energy and the
environment, we're joined by two more guest speakers at this
weekend's International Forum on Globalization in D.C.: Michael
Klare, professor of Peace and World Security Studies at Hampshire
College, author of a number of books, including Blood and Oil: The
Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Dependency on Imported
Petroleum; and Simon Retallack, head of the climate change team at
the Institute for Public Policy Research in Britain, coauthor of the
new report, "Positive Energy: Harnessing People Power to Prevent
Climate Change."

We're going to turn first to Michael Klare. President Bush spoke last
night, addressed the nation, talked about why we continue the war in
Iraq. Can you talk about the connections between war and oil or, as
you put it, the title your book, Blood and Oil.

MICHAEL KLARE: Well, Amy, good to talk with you. There are really two
wars now underway, I think, in Iraq, maybe more than two. There's the
US effort to retain, as what President Bush said last night, an
enduring presence in Iraq. And I believe that's connected to our,
that is America's, long-lasting geopolitical imperative of being the
dominant power in the Persian Gulf. And, of course, he also refers a
lot to Iran, now the next threat perceived on the horizon to American
dominance. So one part of the war in Iraq, I believe, have always
believed, is part of this long-standing US effort to dominate the
region geopolitically and control the oil spigot from the Gulf, where
two-thirds of the world's oil is located.

But there's a second war underway, and that's a war for the control
of Iraq's oil wealth. And that's a war that is pitting Kurds against
the Arabs of the country and Shiites against Sunnis, and Shiite
against Shiite, because eventually the Americans are going to leave,
and the people of Iraq know this, and they are now fighting amongst
themselves for who's going to control that territory. And I believe a
lot of the violence in Iraq today is really about that struggle for
control of Iraq's oil wealth. And American soldiers are caught in the
middle of this.

And I think, frankly, that American military leaders have come to
understand that the prospect of an Iraq, of a national Iraq, has been
lost. That war has been lost. What's left is the fighting over the
remains, the carcass of Iraq.

JUAN GONZALEZ: Michael, on the issue of Iran, especially with all the
saber rattling, and even among many of the Democratic candidates for
president you find some of the same saber rattling toward Iran. Iran
is a huge nation. It is not only oil rich, but considerably
developed, with a huge population. What kind of -- your analysis of
the sense among military people about even talking about any kind of
military action or extension of what's happened in Iraq into Iran?

MICHAEL KLARE: Well, we tend to forget that the US military is not a
monolithic organization. I'm sure if you ask the ground forces, the
Army and the Marine Corps who are baring the brunt of the fighting in
Iraq, they'll say, you know, "Not over my dead body do we want to go
to war with Iran." They are stretched to the limit. They couldn't
take on another single mission anywhere in the world. So they're
saying, "Please don't start any trouble in Iran."

But if you ask the Air Force or the Navy, they feel differently.
They're not overstretched in Iraq. They might feel very differently
about it. They might be looking for missions And I think, in fact,
that the military is divided on this, as is the administration.

It's clear that Condoleezza Rice, I believe, and others of a more
realistic nature, I suppose you'd say, think that attacking Iran
would be a tremendous mistake. But there are clearly ideologues,
neoconservatives, led by the Vice President, who are strongly
committed to attacking Iran. And I fear that they're prevailing in
this debate and that before the administration leaves office that we
will see an attack on Iran.

AMY GOODMAN: I wanted to turn to Simon Retallack, who is just in from
Britain for the International Forum on Globalization conference. What
is "climate porn"?

SIMON RETALLACK: Good question. It's a phrase that authors of a
report that we commissioned in London came up with to describe the
way in which some journalists, some environmentalists and even some
politicians use alarmist language to talk about climate change, in a
way that you might see headlined, certainly in British newspapers,
saying almost "the end is nigh," using biblical terms to describe the
impacts of climate change. It's a phrase that is certainly not used
to undermine the science. It certainly doesn't mean to do that. What
it seeks to do is try to encourage people to think about what sort of
language will be necessary to motivate the public to take action.

If we talk about climate change in a way that makes it appear that
there's nothing we can do anymore about it, that it's too late, that
it's happening, it's going to be devastating on a global scale,
without giving people the option and making the solutions clear to
act, then I think we're going to turn people off. So it's part of
some research and a long-running project that we're engaged with to
try to find ways of simulating climate-friendly behavior amongst the
public.

JUAN GONZALEZ: Simon, in the previous segment, Vandana Shiva talked
about what she called a fallacy of using fixes like trading in
pollution credits in the United States. So you've analyzed what the
EU is doing in terms of this kind of approach. Could you talk about
that?

SIMON RETALLACK: Yes, certainly. I mean, one of the most commonly
adopted solutions in the world for dealing with climate change has
been the support for cap and trade schemes, where there's a cap
placed on emissions and companies get given quotas, and they can
trade them to meet their reductions. The big problem with the
European scheme, and I foresee a problem with potential US-wide
schemes in the future, is that the caps placed on industry have been
far too weak. Governments have over-allocated pollution permits to
industry, which has meant that the cost of a ton of carbon on the
European markets is far too low, and it isn't delivering the step
change in investments that we need to see in renewable energy and
energy efficiency to do our bit to avoid dangerous climate change.

We're at a critical point, not just in the EU, about here in the US
now, where finally, with a Democratically controlled Congress, we're
going to see this full attempt to pass a cap and trade bill through
Congress. We've got to make sure, and anyone who's listening to this
and watching this needs to do their part to ensure, that the right
caps are put in place. At the moment, most of the bills before
Congress only envisage far too little emission reductions by 2050. We
need to see at least 80% cuts in emissions, at least, by 2050, with
early action being critically important, too, if we're to avoid the
most dangerous impacts from climate change. And we need to put
pressure on our representatives and senators in the US to ensure that
adequate action is taken at this critically important point.

AMY GOODMAN: I wanted to go back to Michael Klare and ask you a
question about the research in global climate change. I was just at
Stanford University. They have the GCEP program, that is Global
Climate Environment Program, that got something like $225 million
from ExxonMobil, General Electric, Shlumberger and Toyota. You have
University of California, Berkeley, got something like half-a-billion
dollars from BP. They call it "Beyond Petroleum" now, British
Petroleum. How is this corporate control of academia or funding of
academia affecting the research? Are you concerned about this?

MICHAEL KLARE: Well, I think everybody should be concerned. What I
think is going on is that the oil companies themselves have realized
what we'll be talking about tonight, which is that we're coming to
the end of conventional petroleum -- that is, liquid petroleum, the
stuff that you stick a drill in the ground, and it comes gushing out.
The days of easy-to-find liquid petroleum are over.

And the oil companies understand this, even if their propaganda says
otherwise. And they want to control whatever is going to replace it,
whatever new liquid fuels come online. So they want to invest
billions of dollars into the research, into whatever new fuels are
going take the place of conventional petroleum, whether it's biofuels
or synthetic liquids from tar sands or shell oil or whatever the next
fuels will be, so that their companies can dominate the production
and the marketing and the retailing of these liquids and retain the
monopoly on our energy, as they have now.

So, of course, we should be very deeply worried about it, because it
could foreclose other solutions that probably would be healthier for
all of us, in the sense that David Korten was speaking about earlier,
of a more egalitarian, a more healthy form of energy system.

AMY GOODMAN: Michael Klare and Simon Retallack, I want to thank you
for being with us. Both will be speaking this weekend, beginning
tonight, at George Washington University at Lisner Auditorium, part
of the International Forum on Globalization. Michael Klare's latest
book, Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's
Growing Dependency on Imported Petroleum. Simon Retallack is with the
Climate Change Team at the Institute for Public Policy Research in
Britain, just in for this conference. Thanks so much for being there.

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/14/1422224

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Hi Guys,

I have added an Energy Efficiency section to my website- Comments/Suggestions would be great.

Link: http://www.worldofrenewables.com/EnergyEfficiency/index.html

Grant Rowe

World of Renewables
grantrowe@worldofrenewables.com

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intergalactic rainbow,mexico

budgie — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 09:21:11 GMT

WE FOUND IT!
RAinbow included
amaaaaaaaaaaaaaazin g place
3 huge rivers
1 really big where there is river side camping, pretty much eveybody
can camp on the river, then it extends into the second cristal blue
river that emanates from a rock!!!!!! its unbelievable, the rivers
starts gushing straight from the rocks sourounded by caves, and
stalakites, cristal clear pure water, enough for 1000 generations,
its really a celestial place. there are tons of huge pools, and one
that seems like a sanctuary really sacred grounds. Its one of the
most amazing natural wonders i have ever seen. its boggling to see a
cascade come out of a rock! the area is really surreal.
then the cirle can hold around 5000 people at least, holding hands
perfeclty flat, sourounded by the main river. camping can be along
the river, on the main grasslands or in the jungle.
there are no ticks, though at the santuary there are mozzies.
there is a parking spot that can hold about 300 cars easy and is by
the river.
And last but not least is that the land is for sale.
so a community can be formed.
just the water alone is an amazing eternal wealth.
and the beuaty of the spot is priceless, yesterday as we were coming
back, it started raining, as we were wondering if too keep on
looking and just then a rainbow appered pointing to the spot.
hence divine intervention!
We also went with a super amazing crew, and made some music for the
people. We told them what we wanted to do and they were very exited.
so there is welcome from the owners of the land and the recently
emerging miny comunity that is about 5 km from the place, it is very
remote. no people in the area, good privacy.
there is a medium size town about 90 min away, and a full on city
(las choapas) about 150 min away.
So there is a lot of abundance of water and land.
land here is stil pretty cheap.
though i havent closed a price with the owner, he is open to
negotiate and even more if we do what i hope we can make out of it.
We are planing to start the seed camp dragon portal 30 november, and
plant watermelons, tomatoes, cabbage and all kinds of veggies, that
will hopefully give fruit toward the end of the gathierng. We foudn
a horse cart to bring the food in, there are also some canoes. and
we have pots and stuff for the seed camp. though it would be nice to
get in some cool seeds, and people to work in the SEED CAMP
(literally)
We also want to work on the kitchens and some cob building, and
whaetver we need to organize for x amount of people.
the actual gathering will start (Portal resonating dragon) 29 of
january, let me know what you think we havent sealed the dates yet
though we are about to!
hope you are happy, we will compose an oficial invite these days,
but youc an pass it on.
just dont mass mail it please untill we have all the info down.

for more info check
http://groups. yahoo.com/ group/intergalac ticrainbow

kareen

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hey all

Grant — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 17:31:27 GMT

Hey all,
Started a tribe to promote and discuss all renewable energy sources.

Its called Renewable future

Please join if interested

Grant Rowe
www.worldofrenewables.com

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Beware of the "Roid a Cops"

ToxicReverend — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 13:31:03 GMT

This is posted in an attempt to prevent police brutality and
improve the safety of our communities No copyright is claimed.
Please reproduce at will - TR

Roid-a-cops and police brutality on a bad judgment call
By the Toxic Reverend
http://myspace.com/toxicreverend
that has been asking,"Who's a criminal" ?
http://people.tribe.net/toxicreverend

We as tax payers put out a lot of cash to train a policeman.
They join the force, wanting to do good,help people and try to
make a difference in a very screwed up world.

Some times, I have to wonder what changes ? How do some
of them become "bad apples" and give their entire profession a
bad name ?

For a few years, I have been doing research on the effects of
the "low dose cumulative effects of toxic chemicals" with violence
and abusive behavior.

Law enforcement is not excempt from such toxic chemical
exposures. But they do maintain a harder "front" than most
classes of society, with the "I am fine" presentation. Their
ego's are just that way, or they probably would not be in that
profession. Think about it. They risk their lives on a daily basis
to "uphold the law". They are heroes. And as such, they are
not to prone to saying, they have a problem, of any kind.

While I was researching this issue, I became acquainted
with Mesha. . Her son had been shot 48 times by 9 San Francisco
policeman. She started The IDRISS STELLEY FOUNDATION
with the money from the wrongful death suit of her sons murder.
http://mysite.verizon.net/vzeo9ewi/idrissstelleyfoundation/

Mesha was very kind and patient the times that I have called.
But the other day, she got me. She admitted that yes, the toxic
chemicals could also impact a policeman's decision to use
deadly force. But then she asked what I thought might happen
when a "Toxic Victim" (as I call "mentally ill") that is acting out,
meets up with a policeman on steroids ?

Mesha agreed that everything that I was on about can apply
to such a situation as an unjustified police shooting. But she
also thought that steroid abuse by law enforcement is inducing
some "bad judgment calls", more than anything else. And that
these factors are being protected by the " Blue Wall of Silence".

So being an open minded hippy, after talking to Mesha, I did
a couple of Google searches on the subject.

The results astounded me. The Google search terms were
"police steroid abuse" and "police steroid abuse testing".

I thought I would find masses of articles about the police busting
people for it. But nooooo, I find massive articles about police
forces around the country being busted.

Si I tried posting "Roid-a-cops and police brutality" at
myspace. It would not post. So I sent it to a number of
friends at myspace. They could not get it to post. Though
Ken said a couple of days later that he was able to post it.
Seems there is a tracking program at myspace for censorship.
This report has finally posted at Myspace bulletin's and my blog.
After some serious complaining is rather public ways, across the
Internet.

Anyway, I became rather frustrated and called Mesha. What
I had decided to do was spread a "true rumor" that did seem
to get "their attention". And not just Mysapce's.

I called the Sonoma County sheriff and a captain answered
the phone. He said that the sheriff was unavailable. So I told
the captain that I had done a Google search that shows police
departments around the country were being busted by the feds
for steroid abuse.

I told him the search terms and I could sense the panic
in his voice. I told him that the searches reveal Boston police
being busted by a federal grand jury investigation. Dallas also
came up with the search and too many others to list.

Now I only went over the first ten results of the first search term
and twenty of the second. When I got to the one about president
Bush talking about steroid abuse in a State of the Union address,
I stopped. After all, Bush was talking about steroid abuse in
sports. Maybe he should have been a bit more specific and
included law enforcement. You know .... the people that enforce
the laws against such things as drug abuse.

Not that I want to snitch out the feds and risk screwing up any
investigation that they might have. I am not aware of Sonoma
County being investigated for steroid abuse. Maybe it isn't. Maybe
it is ? All I know is that I do not want to be charged with
"obstruction of justice", for bringing this to their attention.
After all, more often than not, "no good deed goes unpunished".

What I can point out is what other police departments that
have ignored the abuse of steroids like an ostrich, have found.

While they are so bent over with their heads in the sand,
the feds sneak up and give them an exam that nobody likes.
Regardless of sexual orientation.

As the prior mentioned search reveals, it was a Federal Grand
Jury investigation that busted the Boston police department for
steroid abuse.

Maybe if all of the San Francisco MUNI bus drivers that have
to pee in a bottle for random drug screening became aware of this.
They might be able to break the censorship and warn others of
the impeding steroid exams .... or a, the investigations that have
busted so many police departments around the country ?

One of my psychologists had told me that "the good and the
bad news it that I am not paranoid or delusional".

Now please excuse me .... I need to get back to editing
"Toxic Revelations" and my Myspace profile / blog. It is
my intention to post this at my blog. If I can ......

Blessings,

The Toxic Reverend
http://myspace.com/toxicreverend
Asking;
Who's a criminal ?
http://people.tribe.net/toxicreverend
Cc
The IDRISS STELLEY FOUNDATION
a nonprofit organization created through the settlement
of Idriss Stelley's vs. City & County and SFPD case and its
allocation to his mother Mesha Monge-Irizarry. Her only
child, 23 African American honor student was killed by
SFPD at the SF Sony Metreon on June 13, 2001, 48 shots,
9 officers, as he stood alone in an empty theater.
The Idriss Stelley's case is at the root of the
40-HR mandatory
San Francisco Police Departments
Mental Health Training,
http://mysite.verizon.net/vzeo9ewi/idrissstelleyfoundation/

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Protest the North American Union!!!

walkthespiral — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 00:32:18 GMT

Come and protest the "amero" AUGUST 18th at 1 p.m. at Seattle Center!!!

Read below for more information...

Opposition Builds to the North American Union
author: onthewingsofhelios
August 20-21, 2007 the leaders of Canada, the United States, and Mexico will meet in Montebello, Quebec to attend their semi-secret third Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America summit meeting to advance the North American Union that is already rapidly being established without the involvement of congress or the knowledge of citizens.
Connie Fogal of the Canadian Action Party was on the Alex Jones Radio Show at infowars.com yesterday to discuss the upcoming meeting in Montebello, Quebec, and where the press and public are NOT welcome.

A 25 km (18 mile) security perimeter will be established around the town of Montebello to keep reporters and demonstrators from bringing attention to what is going on; however, many reporters and protesters plan to go there anyway, at least to the perimeter.

A demonstration protesting the meeting and the North American Union will also be held in the United States at the Seattle Center in Seattle on Saturday, August 18, at 1 PM.

In March 2005 George W. Bush and the leaders of Canada and Mexico signed an agreement to form a security and prosperity partnership for a North American "Community." In other words, they agreed to build a North American Union, but while the agreement received little media coverage at the time, it would take another year for even those following the news closely to begin to the significance and scope of the agreement. Every one of our governmental departments was joined with an appointed spp.gov working group that is rewriting regulations and laws to merge the three governmental systems into a regional government. Congress will serve largely to rubber stamp laws as they are presented by these unelected committees, as is now the case for legislatures in the European Union countries.

According to Connie Fogal of the Canadian Action Party, the spp.gov agreement was a political coup d'etat. It was a take over of the executive government of North America with a transfer of power into private unelected committees following the Soviet model. It was, as radio talk show host Alex Jones says, "Red Dawn in slow motion."

The idea of a North American Union might sound innocent enough or even like a nice idea unless you understand the form of government being set in place. It is worth setting aside time to study what is going on and the difference between the Soviet-style system of appointed committees being set up as opposed to the constitutional system set up by the Founding Fathers with elected government and representatives that serve the people, separation of powers between those who make the laws and those who administer the country, and separation of power between the federal government and the states. The American system was set up to insure that the power remained with the people and could not be taken over by a group who might seize control of government. Of course, the ultra-rich and their self-serving think tanks and agents would prefer to simply take over and have their self-appointed committees decide how we will all live. It will be the middle class and average citizen who will have to make sacrifices of freedoms, rights, and their standard of living.

It is worth noting that without the helpful event of September 11 and the pretext of a lurking enemy, these changes necessary for the North American Union such as the umbrella government of Homeland Security, the Patriot Act, the National ID Card (internal passport), "North American Community", which have long been planned could never could have been justified.

Thanks to the effort of activists such as Connie Fogal in Canada, CNN's Lou Dobbs, investigative reporter Dr. Jerome Corsi and his book the Late Great USA, and Alex Jones' documentaries and radio show in the United States, the word is starting to getting out about the take over of our executive branch by the private interests who control the Council on Foreign Relations. We need to see the larger picture of the events of September 11 and how they have been used to justify take over plans that have long been in the works.

The North American Union did not just spring from September 11 as some kind of sudden bust of inspiration. It was planned and plotted for years by a small group of ultra rich who want to run the world. It's up to the people to speak up for their own selfish interests and to support the US Constitution and Bill of Rights and a government that represents and serves the people.

Banker David Rockefeller, honorary chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations, the private think tank that planned the North American Union, with a model of his early project: his Twin Towers.
PICTURE tinyurl.com/2flkue

REFERENCES:

CAP/PAC Leader calls the SPP a "hostile takeover" of the apparatus of democracy
August 2, 2007 tinyurl.com/23t7wt

Discussion of North American Union

Jerome Corsi, writer of the book, The Late Great USA
October 2, 2006
AUDIO tinyurl.com/yvfot2
Start at 5 minutes for Dr. Jerome Corsi and his analysis of the plans for the North American Union.

Interview with Dr. Jerome Corsi
VIDEO
youtube.com/watch

THE COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS (CFR) PLANNED THE NORTH AMERICAN UNION

VP Dick Cheney talks to David Rockefeller and the Council on Foreign Relations
VIDEO tinyurl.com/2wkcbl

New World Order Chieftains Openly Discuss Dismantling US Border and Bringing Us into the Pan-American Union
June 10, 2005 Links to other articles tinyurl.com/2z6nab

THE CANADIAN COUNCIL OF CHIEF EXECUTIVES (CCE)

The Canadian Council of Chief Executives, a council of the top 150 corporations in Canada ,is dominated by the Council on Foreign Relations in the United States.

Dismantle the border, CEOs say
Make it an 'internal checkpoint,' council argues in citing security and trade concerns
January 14, 2003 tinyurl.com/2x2z97

SECURITY AND PROSPERITY PARTNERSHIP OF NORTH AMERICA (SPP)
It has been described as a hostile take over of the executive branches of the three countries of North America.
www.spp.gov/

Task force urges creation of 'Fortress America'
Increase police, security co-operation, create common external tariff
March 14, 2005 tinyurl.com/funao

President Quietly Creating 'NAFTA Plus'
May 24, 2006
gothinkblog.com/

The American Union is Already Here
June 20, 2006 tinyurl.com/2a9fhh

Canada, the United States, and Mexico... a possible merger?
June 20, 2006 tinyurl.com/ruh9u

A SUPER HIGHWAY WILL BRING GOOD OFF-LOADED IN MEXICO TO THE US AND CANADA

NAFTA Super Highway Map
October 2, 2006
PICTURE tinyurl.com/23xy8o

Bush Administration Quietly Plans NAFTA Super Highway
June 12, 2006 tinyurl.com/hakrn

THE CURRENCY WILL BE THE AMERO

The Plan to Replace the Dollar With the 'Amero'
May 22, 2006 tinyurl.com/gjt24

London stock trader urges move to 'amero'
Says many unaware of plan to replace dollar with N. American currency
November 2, 2006 tinyurl.com/yu6nuc

LOU DOBBS IS ONE OF THE FEW IN THE MEDIA REPORTING ABOUT THE NAU

Lou Dobbs Discusses CFR Plans for a North American Union
Week of July 19, 2005
VIDEO (4:08 min )
tinyurl.com/2sgath

CANADIAN, US, AND MEXICO POLICE AND MILITARY ARE MERGING

Canada-US troop deal 'close'
August 29, 2002 tinyurl.com/2zmlta

Cop wins RCMP settlement after highway search
Jan 28 2005 tinyurl.com/3k347

Armed Mexican Troops Invade US
Eyewitnesses: Under cover of aid, combat ready soldiers roll into Texas
September 8, 2005 tinyurl.com/c23mv

OPPOSITION TO THE NORTH AMERICAN UNION PLANS

Stop the Security and Prosperity Partnership
stopspp.com/stopspp/

Stop the North American Union
www.stopthenau.org/

Canadian Action Party
tinyurl.com/25obxs

contact phone: 604-872-2128

Corridor Watch www.corridorwatch.org

Texas Toll Party www.texastollparty.com

U.S.-Mexico merger opposition intensifies
July 10, 2006 tinyurl.com/pb4nq

THE ULTIMATE GOAL IS A SOVIET-STYLE GLOBAL GOVERNMENT

The Creation of the Global Union
March 13, 2006
VIDEO tinyurl.com/m9d7n

What is wrong with merging the three countries of North America into one regional government? Those in the know, such as a former Soviet dissident warn of an EU Dictatorship, and the North American Union will follow the same model.

Former Soviet Dissident Warns Of EU Socialist Dictatorship
March 2, 2006
tinyurl.com/jgl3d

This might be an explanation of Communism that you have not heard before: a plan by the super-rich for taking over large regions and their resources.

Book: None Dare Call It Conspiracy
reactor-core.org/none-dare.html

found at portland.indymedia.org/en/200...6.shtml

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some good news...

SevenCrowsDancing — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 23:04:18 GMT

Shell Oil Can't Drill This Year in Beaufort Sea, Court Rules

ninth circuit court of appeals halts exploration amid concerns over environmental harms

August 15, 2007
San Francisco, CA-
Shell Offshore Inc.- which was on the verge of oil exploration in the Beaufort Sea- cannot proceed until the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decides whether environmental harms were properly considered by the federal agency that gave Shell an exploration permit.

Acoalition of Native Alaskans and conservation groups had sued to halt the drilling on concerns that such large scale industrial activities would threaten endangered bowhead whales, polar bears, and other marine animals in coastal waters just off the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge. The groups challenged the permit issued by the federal Mineral Management Service on grounds that the agency failed to conduct proper assessment of environmental impacts.

The court, which had temporarily halted exploration last month at the group's request, said today it would keep the injunction against exploration in place until the court resolves challenges to the agency's environmental review. The court put resolution of the case on a fast track.

The court order concludes that the petitioners "have shown a probability of success on the merits" and "the balance of hardships tips sharply in their favor."

Noise from exploration activities will disturb bowheadwhale migration and feeding in the Beaufort. Also at risk from disturbance and potential oil spills are polar bears and a variety of other animals, including the threatened Steller's and spectacled eiders.

"The cost of drilling will lay with the local communities when the effects are seen on a daily life basis affecting our lives and our health," commented Rosemary Ahtuangaruk, an Inupiat resident of Nuiqsut, a community near the proposed Shell lease area, and a member of Resisting Environmental Destruction on Indigenous Lands (Redoil).

"The agency's own scientists have warned that this type could threaten serious impacts to bowhead whale mothers with calves," said McDowell, EarthJustice attorney.

Shell had been granted permission by the MMS to drill as many as four wells this year, some just offshore from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge area kept off-limits to major mineral exploration despite continued efforts of the Bush administration to open it up to such activities.

"Shell would have started its exploratory drilling right at the peakof bowhead whale migration through the Beaufort Sea," said David Gordon,
Executive Director of pacific Environment. "We think it's important for the court to continue its 'time out' for Shell to protect the whales while it reviews the merits of the case."

In addition to bowhead whales, the drilling plan threatens polar bears, beluga whales, and the coast of the Arctic national Wildlife Refuge.

"If polar bears are to survive as the Arctic melts in the face of global warming, we need to protect their critical habitat, not turn it into a polluted industrial zone," said Brendan Cummings of the Center for Biological Diversity.

Groups represented by EarthJustice are the Alaska Wilderness League, Sierra Club, Natural Resources Defense Council, Pacific Environmentalist for Biological Diversity, and Resisting Environmental Destruction on Indigenous Land (Redoil).

for more go to www.earthjustice

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Bush Appointee Blocked 2006 Surgeon General's Report

ToxicReverend — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 23:00:53 GMT

Resources for helping to fight the corruption of
science are given after the link to the story,
My time is too limited to track these postings and
comments. E-mail me if you want a response.- TR

Bush Appointee Blocked 2006 Surgeon General's Report
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072907Y.shtml
Christopher Lee and Marc Kaufman of the Washington Post
report in Sunday 29 July 2007edition that a 2006 report urging
Americans to help tackle global health problems was kept
from public view largely because it did not promote White
House objectives
.
Go to Original at:>
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/28/AR2007072801420.html

Excerpts:

Richard H. Carmona, who commissioned the "Call to
Action on Global Health" while serving as surgeon general
from 2002 to 2006, recently cited its suppression as an
example of the Bush administration's frequent efforts
during his tenure to give scientific documents a political
twist. At a July 10 House committee hearing, Carmona did
not cite Steiger by name or detail the report's contents and
its implications for American public health.

After a long struggle that pitted top scientific and medical
experts inside and outside the government against Steiger
and his political bosses, Carmona refused to make the
requested changes, according to the officials. Carmona
engaged in similar fights over other public health reports,
including an unpublished report on prison health. A few
days before the end of his term as the nation's senior
medical officer, he was abruptly told he would not be
reappointed.

End of excerpts from:

Bush Appointee Blocked 2006 Surgeon
General's Report
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072907Y.shtml
Christopher Lee and Marc Kaufman of the Washington
Post report in Sunday 29 July 2007

Inconvenient Truth Blog at
http://www.participate.net/

_____________________________________________

Scientific Integrity Program | Union of Concerned Scientists
Union of Concerned Scientists. Page Last Revised: 07/26/07.
We are mobilizing scientists and citizens alike to push for
reforms that will protect our health, safety, and environment.
http://www.ucsusa.org/scientific_integrity/

________________

FDA Scientists Pressured to Exclude, Alter Findings
The Union of Concerned Scientists released survey
results that demonstrate pervasive and dangerous political
influence of science at the FDA.
www.ucsusa.org/news/press_release/fda-scientists-pressured.html
- 30

Take action and stay informed with John Hammell at
www.iahf.com

The Beaching To Impeach Project
Photo's of over 1,000 people laying on a
beach to spell IMPEACH NOW
Join the crusade (with action links) at
http://www.bodiescount.org/

Blessings,

The Toxic Reverend
MySpace Bpg
http://blog.myspace.com/toxicreverend
Who's a criminal ?
http://people.tribe.net/toxicreverend

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Scientists claim Bush bends data
James Glanz
http://www.iht.com/articles/130372.html
The International Herald Tribune 02-18-2004
http://web.archive.org/web/20040223103628/http://www.iht.com/articles/130372.html

Distortions are said to serve policy goals

More than 60 influential scientists, including 20 Nobel laureates,
have issued a statement asserting that the Bush administration
has systematically distorted scientific fact in the service of policy
goals on the environment, health, biomedical research and nuclear weapons at home and abroad.

Among the Nobel winners are David Baltimore, Leon Lederman,
Norman Ramsey, Harold Varmus and Steven Weinberg.
Signatories and the union's report can be
found at www.ucsusa.org.

_____________________________________
Verification:
The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet
sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper
library, we provide free access to researchers, historians,
scholars, and the general public
http://www.archive.org/index.html

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Inconvenient Truth Blog at
http://www.participate.net/

More information about this is now posted at my blog:
http://blog.myspace.com/toxicreverend

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Powerstation Greenhouse tech

Optimus — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 14:19:19 GMT

repost from >>

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070802201909.htm

Source: University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Date: August 7, 2007

Ceramic Tubes Could Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Power Stations

Science Daily — Greenhouse gas emissions from power stations could be cut to almost zero by controlling the combustion process with tiny tubes made from an advanced ceramic material, claim engineers on August 3, 2007.

The material, known as LSCF, has the remarkable property of being able to filter oxygen out of the air. By burning fuel in pure oxygen, it is possible to produce a stream of almost pure carbon dioxide, which has commercial potential for reprocessing into useful chemicals.

LSCF is not a brand new material - it was originally developed for fuel cell technology - but engineers at Newcastle University in northern England, in collaboration with Imperial College London, have developed it for potential use in reducing emissions for gas-fired power stations and possibly coal and oil-fired electricity generation as well.

Conventional gas-fired power stations burn methane in a stream of air, producing a mixture of nitrogen and greenhouse gases including carbon dioxide and nitrogen oxides, which are emitted into the atmosphere. Separating the gases is not practical because of the high cost and large amount of energy needed to do so.

However, the LSCF tubes would allow only the oxygen component of air to reach the methane gas, resulting in the production of almost pure carbon dioxide and steam, which can easily be separated by condensing out the steam as water.

The resulting stream of carbon dioxide could be piped to a processing plant for conversion into chemicals such as methanol, a useful industrial fuel and solvent.

The new combustion process has been developed and tested in the laboratory by Professor Ian Metcalfe, Dr Alan Thursfield and colleagues in the School of Chemical Engineering and Advanced Materials at Newcastle University, in collaboration with Dr Kang Li in the Chemical Engineering Department at Imperial College London. The research has been funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).

Details of the research and development project are published on 3 August 2007 simultaneously in two technical publications - Materials World and The Chemical Engineer. A series of research papers have also been published in academic journals as the project has developed.

The LSCF tubes look like small, stiff, drinking straws and are permeable to oxygen ions -- individual atoms carrying an electrical charge. Crucially, LSCF is also resistant to corrosion or decomposition at typical power station operating temperatures of around 800C.

When air is blown around the outside of the tubes, oxygen is able to pass through the wall of the tube to the inside, where it combusts with methane gas that is being pumped through the centre of the tubes.

The oxygen-depleted air, which consists mainly of nitrogen, can be returned to the atmosphere with no harmful effects on the environment, while the carbon dioxide can be collected separately from the inside of the tubes after combustion.

An alternative would be to control the flow of air and methane so that only partial combustion took place. This would result in a flow of 'synthesis gas', a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen, which can easily be converted into a variety of useful hydrocarbon chemicals.

The tubes of LSCF, which stands for Lanthanum-Strontium-Cobalt-Ferric Oxide, have been tested successfully in the laboratory and the design is attracting interest from the energy industry. The Newcastle team is now carrying out further tests on the durability of the tubes to confirm their initial findings that they could withstand the conditions inside a power station combustion chamber for a reasonable length of time.

Although it has not yet been attempted, it should be possible to assemble a power station combustion chamber from a large number of the tubes, with space between them for air to circulate.

In theory the technology could also be applied to coal and oil-fired power stations, provided that the solid and liquid fuels were first converted into gas. This operation is simple in theory but would add to the cost and complexity of running a power station.

Government statistics suggest that the UK energy industry produces over 200 million tonnes of carbon dioxide per year, which is more than one-third of the country's total carbon dioxide emissions.

Professor Metcalfe said: 'The cheapest way to dispose of waste carbon dioxide from combustion is to release it into the atmosphere. We have been doing this since humans first discovered how to make fire.'

'The technology we have developed may provide a viable alternative, although whether it is economical to introduce it will depend largely upon the carbon credit system that Governments operate in the future.'

LSCF is a relatively new material and over the past ten years or so been the subject of research in many countries, mainly into its potential use as a cathode in fuel cells.

end of repost >>

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070802201909.htm

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Update on the Blockade on Mt. Elphinstone, Sunshine Coast

Renee — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 21:04:34 GMT

Please help support or join this blockade to protect the Oldgrowth Ecosystems of Mt. Elphinstone's temperate rainforests. go to www.yourwatershed.com for the official website.
***********************************

Thank you for bearing with our piecemeal press kit. We are way too busy just keeping up with the essentials, let alone proper communications.

If you could please forward the following info on, that would be appreciated.

- Each day, events escalate rapidly. There is now a concern that without an immediate resolution that there may be a dangerous situation occuring. Media presence would help keep things safe, as currently all events are happening under a veil.

- Over 300 people attended a rally at the SCRD office today to demand the board issue a stop work order. the chair (who seems to be in a conflict of interest) was not overly cooperative.

- There is another large protest scheduled at the SCRD office on Field Rd for 11:30 am Friday. This will follow an emergency meeting of Gibsons Town Council at 8:30 am. The only item on the agenda of this meeting is whether to Instruct the Gibsons SCRD Rep. to back a stop work order.

- Continuing on the ground citizen inspections of the steep slopes below the cut blocks (and above the creek) have found extremely unstable debris chutes, overflowing with loose rocks, silt, and broken logs from past logging. These debris piles and soil are a mudslide waiting to occur when heavy runoff conditions occur. Runoff is expected to increase dramatically if the cutting plan is completed. Mudslides into the creek would dramatically affect water quality, and may block the creek, creating a dangerous flash flood and creekbed damage for a great distance. It is thought that Forestry and Logging Company environmental monitors and consultants have not even been onsite for inspections, despite reports authorizing cutting.

- for the fourth straight day, teams entered the woods and disrupted falling for most of the day. The fallers have resumed cutting after contact with protesters on the cutblocks, continuing to operate even with people in the immediate area.

- Ministry of Forests, SCRD and Work Safe BC have all responded to the complaint of this and other dangerous action by the fallers (and others) by directing complaintants to call the RCMP.

- The RCMP have not been receptive to any requests for help from protesters, and in fact seem to be operating as agents of the company. I will attach an email detailing such an event.

- It has become a question of how the exceptionally heavy police presence is being funded in such a small town. It is wondered whether Western Forest Products is paying for RCMP overtime, thus putting the police in conflict with evenly upholding the law.

- RCMP K9 units have been seen in the area of peaceful protest in public spaces. All protesters have been peaceful in their actions while Logging company employees have been physically threatening with: chainsaws, heavy equipment, vehicles (crewcabs and logging trucks) even on public roadways.

- The lack of coverage for such an important and precedent setting story in this province leads the question of whether the CBC has enough funding to properly cover the news.

Regards,
Jay

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after culture

Wed, 01 Aug 2007 08:57:41 GMT

http://art.afterculture.org/
fun site...

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rainbow reforestation mexico

budgie — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 08:41:03 GMT

<http://www.reforest a.nomadsunited. com/>
VERY SOON INFORMATION ON THE INTERGALACTIC RAINBOW GATHERING TO TAKE
PLACE IN <http:///>
MEXICO ON NOVEMBER 2007 <http:///>
LOCATION:
The event will take place north of Chiapas, Mexico. Close to a village
called Ostuacan.
Camping is on the shores of a deep river, where swimming is fantastic.
Nearby is the Chichonal Active Volcano, that in it's crater holds a lake
with emerging volcanic hot water, an unforgettable experience. (swimming
is possible with a bit of common sense and taking certain precautions)
There will are also many beautiful horses, and a few excursions will be
arranged, though we cant guarantee that everyone will be able to take
part in this activity.
We use horses to transport the baby trees to their location minimizing
our carbon emissions.
The event is non-commercial, and is free for all, we maintain a
vegetarian food diet, basic maintenance choirs should be shared equally
by all those attending.
We count on donations to feed everyone as well as support from
environmental institutions, we also raise funds through the shows we
offer in the communities. ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION
We consider essential to compliment the reforestations with
environmental education initiatives thus helping raise awareness of the
importance of planting trees and conservation. We work together with
governmental and nongovernmental organization to help monitor the trees.
We organize plantations in schools accompanied by the students, in this
case we prefer to plant fruit trees which also helps the students to
have fresh fruits right in school, this being specially very beneficial
in low income villages.
Fruit orchard planting in School (21st of May)
For more info on our environmental education program please check:
www.edu.nomadsunite d.com <http://www.edu. nomadsunited. com/>
COMMUNITY OUTREACH MULTI ETHNIC PERFORMANCE
7th of May Community annual Fair,
24th May Post Reforestation Performance offering.
In our reforestations we seek to reach out to the local community by
creating a multi-ethnic show, so after the end of the festival we
usually offer this event to the community, which usually includes music
from all over the world, ethnic dances and several other performances.
For more info please check
www.shows.nomadsuni ted.com <http://www.shows. nomadsunited. com/>
Bring:
We suggest to bring essentials for camping in nature.

- Tent and tarp
- Waterresistant raincoat
- Sleeping bag
-Own plate, spoon and cup.
- Musical instrumments, if you have
- Flashlight and candles

DonÂ´t bring!
-Plastic, each person is responsable for his/her own waste.
-There is no electricity in this area so avoid to bring electronic
devices. No hay energÃa elÃ©ctrica en esta zona, evita traer
aparatos que la requieran.
-DonÂ´t bring alcohol nor drugs !
PARTICIPATE!
Participants upon arrival are advised to sign in agreement to a letter
of terms conditions that are provided upon entry, in this way the basic
concepts of communitarian life are established and the people are
informed regarding basic notions of how to behave in the environment,
preventing the space from suffering negative ecological effects.

If you are interested in participating please register so we can
coordinate how many trees will be planted as well as general food
supplies and so that the event does not exceed the maximum capacity of
the area. Location will also be announced to those registered. Please
mail us at:
reserve@nomadsunite d.com

Don't forget to bring your musical instruments, camping gear, rain is
scarce though we recommend to come prepared.

Bring positive vibrations and the will to serve eachother and the earth.
We hope to see you here to share 7 days of magical planetary healing.

Nomads United

www.nomadsunited. com <http://www.nomadsun ited.com/>
March for global Cooling

This reforestation will be the launch of
a new campaign to help revert global warming.

Remember that the earth does not belong to Mankind
But Mankind to the earth.

We march with the earth
and for the earth

and her voice is our voice!

www.march.nomadsuni ted.com <http://march. nomadsunited. com/>

Why reforest

Reforestations are essential activities to help revitalize the health of
the Earth and combat climate change. Today around the world the
deforestation has grown to an alarming rate exceeding by far the index
of reforestations, this brings catastrophic consequences to the
atmosphere as well as for other organisms that's depend on these forests
for habitat..

We have but a short time to avert damaging and economically debilitating
climate change. We also have all the economic, intellectual and
technological know-how to head off this calamity and avoid the
disruption and misery that inaction would entail.
The solutions are numerous and, as many economists say, affordable when
compared with the costs of complacency.

Globally, forest cover is at least one-third less than what it once was.
It is time to reverse the trends, it is time to act.

Climate change confronts us now. There is no longer conjecture or debate
around an abstract or hypothetical future. We need action. We need to
plant trees and in doing so send a signal to the corridors of political
power across the globe that the watching and waiting is over â€"
that countering climate change can take root via one billion small but
significant acts in our gardens, parks, countryside and rural areas.
Achim Steiner, Executive Director
United Nations Environment Programme

â€ The question is not whether climate change is happening but
whether, in the face of this emergency, we ourselves can change fast
enoughâ€
Kofi annan
<http://www.unep. org/billiontreec ampaign/>

Our reforestation programs.

Our innovative reforestations combine the plantation of trees fused with
a multicultural events, workshops and temporary ecologically friendly
living spaces that last from a few days to several weeks. This promotes
reforestation events not only as necessary duty of each individual to
combat climate change, but coordinating a culturally appealing and
spiritually earthbinding.

Through the reforestations and creative activities and workshops we
intend to generate a deep and lasting effect, as much for the local
communities as well as for the participants and simultaneously create a
forest or of fruit orchard that can also help as nutritious source of
food of the communities, as well as to absorb carbon dioxide emissions
which are exceeding on our planet.

Another key point is the life and direct experience of participating in
an temporal ecological community with all the benefits and complications
that this carries, thus also promoting ecovillage living and a more
sustainable lifestyle. Workshops are offered on a volunteer basis, We
ask from those attending consideration in order to maintain a
harmonically working community as well promoting principals of respect
towards the environment.

Participants upon arrival are advised to sign in agreement to a letter
of terms conditions that are provided upon entry, in this way the basic
concepts of communitarian life are established and the people are
informed regarding basic notions of how to behave in the environment,
preventing the space from suffering negative ecological effects.
We use horses to transport the baby trees to their location minimizing
our carbon emissions. The event is non-commercial, and is free for all,
we maintain a vegetarian food diet, basic maintenance choirs should be
shared equally by all those attending.
We count on donations to feed everyone as well as support from
environmental institutions, we also raise funds through the shows we
offer in the communities.

We consider essential to compliment the reforestations with
environmental education initiatives thus helping raise awareness of the
importance of planting trees and conservation. We work together with
governmental and nongovernmental organization to help monitor the trees.
We organize plantations in schools accompanied by the students, in this
case we prefer to plant fruit trees which also helps the students to
have fresh fruits right in school, this being specially very beneficial
in low income villages.

I Reforestation Festival
Palenque, Chiapas
Mexico
December 2005
Click here to see the full size poster
<http://nomadsunited .com/events/ reforesta1. htm>

Temporary ecovillage habitat.

Participants have the opportunity to offer workshops with a cultural or
ecological focus, like for example: Acoustic Music, permaculture, cob
brick building, African Dance, collective Intelligence, consensus and
facilitation, handcrafts from recycled materials, Horse maintenance and
care, temascal (sweat lodge), Maya calendar, African percussion, yoga,
martial arts and capoeira

In order to be able to live in this communal space that hosts a
considerable amount of people, it is necessary to distribute the work
equitably. For that reason we created the energetic administration that
equilibrates workload. Which is vital in successfully maintain an
organic community in a natural context.

In the morning, after the breakfast we form a circle of discussion where
people take responsibility for choirs and activities. The tasks are
distributed according to the amount of people that attend, divided by
the amount of necessary activities.
Usually during or after every reforestation we take the time to organize
a show for the village, that combines ethnic music, dances and many
acts. We also use the space and time to respectfully transmit ecological
messages.

This innovative initiative seeks to venture into new way of creating
events without a negative impact to environment, as well also to raise
awareness in the participants and the local communities, on the
importance of reforestations and sustainable development in a creative,
dynamic, attractive and effective method.
II Reforestation Festival
Chapultenango, Chiapas
Mexico
Augst 2006
Click here to see the full size poster
<http://nomadsunited .com/events/ reforesta2. htm>
<http://nomadsunited .com/events/ reforesta1. htm>
<http://nomadsunited .com/events/ reforesta2. htm>
<http://nomadsunited .com/>

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bee magic activists

tatiana — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 17:24:05 GMT

seeking activists tuned to the bee on ecological, social, political fronts
also- folk savvy in bee magic, bee masters, melissas, bee witches, beekeepers wise in the ancient ways...
anyone got any tips? (this is for a film project in the making).
many thanks :)

in solidarity,
tatiana

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learning how to walk...

SevenCrowsDancing — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 18:28:59 GMT

... "when you walk across the fields with your mind pure and holy, then from all the stones, and all growing things, and all the animals, the sparks of their Soul come out and cling to you, and then they are purified and become a holy fire inside you..."

Hasidic saying

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Free MP3 featuring Steve Hager - High Times editor

Casper Leitch — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 04:02:08 GMT

A rare interview with High Times Editor, Steve Hager, is free to download at http://www.Time4Hemp.com as is a new music interview featuring Lynnette Shaw (California hemp activists and singer/song writer).

If you're a fan of High Times magazine (and, who isn't?) this segment of the 'Time 4 Hemp PotCast Series' is one you DO NOT want to miss.

And if good music is what your are looking for - take time to enjoy the fun segment with Lynnette Shaw and discover her remarkable history with the Hemp Movement.

Also posted to the http://www.Time4Hemp.com site is another segment from the classic 'Time 4 Hemp Television Series' - featuring Dennis Perone, one of the founders of the Medical Marijuana Movement.

If you get time, check out and join the Time4Hemp.com forum and/or help yourself to any or all of the other free video and audio downloads.

Please forward this message to your friends &/or copy and post the above information anywhere and everywhere you feel people, who would enjoy these interviews, will be most likely to see it.

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Toxic Resources; Identify - Avoid; If you are not enraged, you have not been paying attention.

ToxicReverend — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 02:33:17 GMT

If you are not enraged, you have not been paying
attention.In which case, please review this and
protect yourself - TR

Database summarizes between chemical
contaminants and approximately 180 human
diseases or conditions. Type in an illness and
the database tells you which toxic
chemicals are associated with it.
http://database.healthandenvironment.org

The database is a work in progress. Many of the members
of this project are with
the Breast Cancer Fund
www.breastcancerfund.org

Evaluate all products in your home for the potential of toxic
chemical exposures, using the
Household Products Database.
www.householdproducts.nlm.nih.gov/products.htm

_______
Common chemicals are linked to breast cancer
Of the 216 compounds, many in the air, food or everyday items.
By, Marla Cone , Times Staff WriterMay 14, 2007
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-cancer14may14,1,6867764.story?coll=la-headlines-nation
___________

A book titled "Diet For A New America" exposes meat and
dairy products as leading sources of exposure. It was written
by the heir to the Baskin Robbins Ice cream Empire,
John Robbins. Of whom also started,
"Earth Save" www.earthsave.org

Toxic chemicals being disposed of as fertilizer and the plants
absorb it (including "organic"). Legislation passed to make it
legal. Book title "Fateful Harvest" ,by Duff Wilson.
Book review;

Magazine: MOTHER JONES; SEPTEMBER 01, 2001
Section: Media Jones book review,
A DIRTY SECRET - Fateful Harvest
http://www.angelfire.com/nm/redcollarcrime/fate.html

PESTICIDES, FOODS, AND YOU,
Magazine: Consumer Reports; March 01, 2001,
Section: TEST INFORM PROTECT
http://www.angelfire.com/nm/redcollarcrime/pfyecr.html

The 10 most dangerous toxins in your house ,
Thursday, January 14, 1999 By Claude Morgan
(Claude Morgan is a freelance writer based in Maine who
contributes to E, the Environmental Magazine.)
The Los Angeles Times Syndicate,
All Rights Reserved
This is posted for educational and research purposes.
Copyright laws still apply.
Please note the "fair use statement.
http://www.angelfire.com/nm/redcollarcrime/com10.html

One of the best references is to subscribe to "
Green Tips" from
the Union Of Concerned Scientists www.ucsusa.org
--------
GreenTips Home (Index)
Greentips, from the Union of Concerned Scientists, is
a monthly electronic newsletter and web feature with tips
for incorporating environmentally friendly ...
www.ucsusa.org/publications/greentips/ - 34k - May 17, 2007
-----------

Note the "GreenTips Archive"

Housecleaning Made Easier (9/05)

The Dangers of Modern Art (3/05)

Green Foods (We're Not Just Talking Vegetables) (7/05)

End of examples from " Green Tips Archive"

_________

One of the best book is "Our Stolen Future",
web page at
http://www.ourstolenfuture.org
Our Stolen Future New insights from scientific research,
Low dose effects of endocrine disrupting chemicals http://www.ourstolenfuture.org/NewScience/lowdose/lowdose.htm

_______

Another book titled,
Toxic Deception:
How the Chemical Industry Manipulates Science, Bends
the Law and Endangers Your Health. 2nd ed. Dan Fagin,
Marianne
Lavelle, and the Center for Public Integrity. 1999. 250 pp.
ABSTRACTS - review OF NEW BOOKS ON ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH,
American Journal of Public Health,
Jul99, Vol. 89 Issue 7, p1120, 2p.
http://www.angelfire.com/nm/redcollarcrime/td.html

Title:
Scientists claim President Bush bends data,
Distortions are said to serve policy goals .
by James Glanz The International Herald Tribune
02-18-2004 www.iht.com
Excerpt from article;
More than 60 influential scientists, including 20 Nobel
laureates, have issued a statement asserting that the Bush
administration has systematically distorted scientific fact
in the service of policy goals on the environment, health,
biomedical research and nuclear weapons at home and
abroad.
End of excerpt from;
The International Herald Tribune 02-18-2004
www.iht.com

______

Note that
cleaning plastic can cause a very toxic
chemical reaction. Explained and
documented by a Case Western Reserve
University researcher in the article :>

Protecting Yourself From Unsafe Plastics,
By Sharon Levy
National Wildlife Magazine,
FebruaryMarch issue, Vol.42, No.2
http://www.nwf.org/nationalwildlife/article.cfm?articleId=890&issueId=66

____

26 Trade Secrets,
Web page from Bill Moyers Public Broadcasting show, national television.
Documentation of 50 years of corporate cover up. Bull Moyers
was tested for over 800 chemicals. They found over 80. That
creates more viable chemical reactions in one patient than the
California pick six lotto. In many instances, chemicals multiply
in toxicity, rather than add, when mixed (16, 17). The correct
tests must be used ( 12A).
http://www.pbs.org/tradesecrets/index.html

Our Stolen Future New insights from scientific research,
Low dose effects of endocrine disrupting chemicals http://www.ourstolenfuture.org/NewScience/lowdose/lowdose.htm

________________

Google search term: "toxic food".

Source: *(food);

Journal of Nutritional & Environmental Medicine,
Mar96, Vol. 6 Issue 1, p55, 70p, 58 charts,
2 diagrams, 17 graphs, 2bw.
HERBICIDES -- Health aspects; PESTICIDES -- Physiological effect
Pesticides, ("X-rays can enhance the action of the toxic chemicals",
use "find in page" under the Edit for "radiation "),
http://www.angelfire.com/nm/redcollarcrime/pestherb.html

______

Troubling chemicals detected in people,
by Daniel P. Jones , The Hartford Courant ,
Published by The Seattle Times Newspaper
Saturday, August 26, 2000 ,
CDC researcher quoted as saying,
"Main source of exposure is "food".

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Earth Concerts to launch the largest environmental platform by the end of this year

ToxicReverend — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 22:23:12 GMT

To:
Music Loving Advocates,

Check out Earth Concerts, you may want to visit
http://earthconcerts.com
which is best viewed with an i.e. browser.

Earth Concerts is still an all volunteer group working via the internet
and by phone for the most part. With 126 websites and 72 member
organizations we are preparing to launch the largest environmental
platform by the end of this year. Everything from writing, advocacy,
campaign or virtually any other business position you could ever
imagine we are filling.

So by chance if you are into saving Mother Earth and can dedicate
a minimum of 15 hours per week totally at your convenience then
they need the help of every dependable person threy can find.

If interested please drop an email to a.tait@oeom.org and place your name
in Subject line and then in the body of the email simply request a Fast Track
application.

Peace to you and hope to here from you soon.

Andrew Tait
a.tait@oeom.org
One Earth, One Mission
The Environmental Community
P.O. Box 1269
Hot Springs National Park, AR 71902
Tel: 501.545-9979 or 501.588.4095
Fax: 310.421.9205
skype i.d. - theenvironmentalist

Board Member:
http://theenvironmentalcommunity.org
http://globalenvironmentalnews.org
http://theenvironmentaleducationcenter.com
http://earthconcerts.com
http://racetosaveearth.org
__________________________________________________________

The above information was sent to me by one of my "MtSpace Friends",
"Kindness of Strangers~ For Earth & Animal ", http://www.myspace.com/seeloveverywhere

Her associate Andrew is head of the organization Earth Concerts
If you contact Andrew directly please tell him you got the information
from her blog, The Reverend Nan SEA LOVE, Founder and Director of
Kindness of Strangers

---- End Of Forwarded Message -----
Blessings,

Tom Krohmer
Environmental Technologist
aka
The Toxic Reverend
http://myspace.com/toxicreverend
aka
The Toxic Reverend
Who's a criminal ?
http://people.tribe.net/toxicreverend

Homicide Charges For Corporations
http://www.angelfire.com/nm/redcollarcrime

The Criminalization Of Homelessness;
A Problem Becoming A Solution
http://www.angelfire.com/hi/soberskidrow/parkh.html

The Gospel of Toxic Revelations
^(Rough Draft of "abstract" wss posted)^
This page has been censored and removed from the
Archives "Way Back Machine" to 2005.
http://www.angelfire.com/in/sickbuildingsyndrome/tr.html
Biological / Chemical Weapon Information, History & Treatments.
Verifiable sources and peer reviewed medical journals can be found at
www.immed.org
and The Biological Weapons Watch Dogs are at
The Sunshine Project www.sunshine-project.org

Please note:

The Gulf War Vets have posted
"Beyond Treason"
http://www.gulfwarvets.com

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Web Design?

Djinn — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 21:38:55 GMT

Im looking for somebody who has some web design skills that they would like to donate to a worthy cause. Some compensation is possible.

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eco-paganism and ecosocialism is a threat to america.....LMFAO!!!

Sat, 23 Jun 2007 23:35:32 GMT

Fred L. Smith Jr.
President
Competitive Enterprise Institute

Fred Lee Smith - president and founder, Competitive Enterprise Institute, a free market public policy group established in 1984; popular speaker at universities and conferences around the world; frequent guest on national television and radio programs to discuss and debate regulatory initiatives, and topical policy issues, has appeared on CNN's Crossfire, PBS’s News Hour with Jim Lehrer, and Now with Bill Moyers, ABC's 20/20, and This Week, NPR's Talk of the Nation, The Diane Rehm Show, The G. Gordon Liddy Show, and many others; published in leading newspapers and magazines such as the Wall Street Journal, National Review, Economic Affairs, and the Washington Times; academic articles have appeared in journals such as Harvard Journal of Law, Economics, CATO Journal, and Economic Affairs; contributing editor, Liberty magazine; co-editor, Environmental Politics: Public Costs, Private Rewards and the Field Guide for Effective Communication; contributed chapters to more than a dozen books, including Global Warming and Other Eco-Myths, True State of the Planet, Corporate Aftershock: The Public Policy Lessons from the Collapse of Enron and Other Major Corporations, Solutions for an Environment in Peril, Market Liberalism: A Paradigm for the 21st Century, and Assessing the Reagan Years; board member, Institute Turgot in Belgium; served as director, Government Relations for the Council for a Competitive Economy; senior economist, Association of American Railroads; five years as a senior policy analyst, Environmental Protection Agency; did graduate work in mathematics and applied mathematical economics at Harvard, SUNY at Buffalo, and the University of Pennsylvania; BS, Theoretical Mathematics and Political Science, Tulane University, where he earned the Arts and Sciences Medal (Tulane’s highest academic award) and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Spouse - Frances. Washington, DC.

The use of the terms eco-paganism and eco-socialism is provocative and deliberately so. My goal today is twofold: first to persuade you that conservatives should engage the environmental debate (our neglect here has been foolish and dangerous); and, second, to warn that, while we have a deep and important moral responsibility to care for God’s creation, that this responsibility should be by extending the conservative institutions of liberty (private property, the rule of law, private action) – not by joining the collectivist environmental parade.

Let me clarify why I selected these terms:

· Eco-Paganism? Most environmentalists do not, of course, see themselves as pagans. Yet, many do espouse a watered down form of pantheism which elevates nature to near deity. They have confused the biblical truth that The earth is the Lord’s with the fashionable environmental slogan that The Earth is the Lord! Moreover, the environmental establishment demands a status for the Cathedrals of Nature that they deny vigorously for the Cathedrals of God.

· Eco-Socialism? Again, most would reject the socialist label, insisting that they wish only to “correct market failures” (which they seem to find everywhere). But, their “free market” would be rigidly controlled by environmental rules, with “market-mechanisms” rhetoric used to justify pervasive regulatory taxes and quotas to micro-manage the economy. That was the system put forward by communist theorists in the 1930s as market socialism. It failed; eco-socialism is now failing in the global warming sector. In their world: EPA will steer; you and I are allowed only to row! In their world, as in that of their socialist precursors, there is little role for private conservation or private property.

With the defeat of communism and the failures of economic socialism, the hopes of the left have moved decisively into the environmental area. No longer does the left pretend that it offers the promise of realizing Heaven on Earth - now they claim only that they must retain power to prevent Hell on Earth.

The leader of this Doom and Gloom Alliance, former presidential candidate Al Gore, is not your friend. Yet, we should realize that Al Gore (a former theology student) believes passionately in this apocalyptic view of nature. He champions the Malthusian view of the relationship between man and nature, the famous

I=PAT

equation. To Gore, man’s impact on our planet (always negative) is seen as exacerbated by:

· P, population (the enviros lead the population control fight, often praising China’s one-child policy)

· A, affluence (America, they note, consumes a disproportionate fraction of the world’s goods – they fail to note that we produce an even larger share)

· And T, technology (nuclear, biotechnology, chemicals, cell phones, you name it – they find it worrisome).

In effect, they’ve adopted a Terrible Toos viewpoint: there are too many people on our planet, we consume too much of the world’s finite resources, and we use too much technology that we understand too poorly!

Their solution? Population controls (fewer people)! Consumption controls (rationing and taxing of resource use)! And, technology controls (holding the creative genius of the American entrepreneur down to the speed of the political bureaucracy). All voluntary, if possible; coercive, if necessary.

To we conservatives, this program – less people, less goods and services, less innovation - sounds suspiciously like the old collectivist goals of Death, Poverty and Ignorance!

Yet, I do not believe we can or should denigrate environmental values. We more than anyone must realize and accept our duty to care for God’s Creation, to protect and respect the beauties of Garden Earth. The conservative neglect of environmental policy, our failure to develop and then commit the resources to implement a conservative limited-government vision for addressing environmental issues has created a vacuum into which the left has moved.

Their effort to seduce religious, social, defense and populist conservatives is strategic and dangerous. Yesterday’s USA Today editorial, numerous TV shows over the last few weeks, paid ads in New York Times – all emphasized the same point: “even Christian conservatives” concede the moral need to endorse Al Gore’s agenda.

This setback reflects the confusion conservatives feel over how to meet our stewardship duties – and, that confusion in turn reflects our failure to extend conservative principles to this increasingly important policy area. The result is that too many conservatives have come to doubt that our moral and constitutional values are applicable to the environmental policy area. Moreover, being conservative and Christian in a liberal, secular world is sometimes a lonely existence. Wouldn’t an eco-evangelical alliance with the environmental establishment grant us long-denied respect and make it easier to advance other more important conservative goals?

But, before anyone concedes anything, we should first reflect that this is not the first time that such doubts have arisen, not the first time that conservatives have been pressured to seek accommodation with the enemies of freedom. Recall that it was not long ago, that conservatives were widely attacked as caring little about the poor. Liberation Theologians championed the gospel of social justice, seeing the Welfare State as the only moral, the only compassionate way to meet our moral obligations to the unfortunate. And, although conservatives were critical of the welfare state as costly, as incompatible with our freedom and responsibility ethos, our lack of a positive alternative vision left us guilty, vulnerable to the blanishments of the left.

And some conservative succumbed. Fortunately, over time, the Welfare State’s intrusiveness, its paternalism, its denial of respect and rights, became evident. But, the real change happened as the inability of political programs to resolve poverty became ever more apparent. That awakening was accelerated by the creative works of conservative scholars and religious leaders such as Charles Murray and Marvin Olasky. They noted that policies that viewed private charity as degrading, welfare as a right, that saw the poor as victims – were incompatible with basic human nature, that we are all free and responsible – that they had failed. Earlier critics had pointed out the waste and the inefficiency of these programs; but these individuals went further, demonstrating that poverty programs perpetuated poverty. And with that realization, conservatives recaptured the moral high ground and welfare reform became a political bi-partisan reality.

Today, we’re becoming increasingly aware that the Endangered Species Act endangers species, that Superfund enriches lawyers while cleansing only taxpayer’s wallets. The Clean Air and Clean Water Acts restrict growth and control land use but do little to make America more healthful, that EPA increasingly alarms rather than informs the American citizenry. And these problems are becoming increasingly evident.

When I was a kid, many people were worried that chemicals in the water supply might cause harm – and many still do today. But then it was fluorides, most people weren’t alarmed and the alarmists were private citizen groups. Now the fears are about chlorination to kill bacteria, many people take them seriously, and the alarmists is our own EPA. And, ironically, that fear in part explains the massive expansion of bottled water – with its attendant energy, litter and solid waste problems. Ironic!

The Risk is Real

A few weeks ago, the Washington Post reported that the National Association of Evangelicals has decided not to endorse the environmental establishment’s global warming policies. This was a strange piece to appear in a newspaper; normally, the decision of a group not to take action is not news. But, behind that story was a concerted effort by major environmental groups and their funders to attract religious support for their globalist policies.

Eco-evangelicals were confident that the 30-million-member National Association of Evangelicals would issue a public statement on the dangers of global warming, marking a potentially fatal rift in the right-leaning coalition of climate-change humbugs. Fortunately that didn’t happen. NAE President Ted Haggard made it clear that the association “was not considering a position on global warming … not advocating …specific legislation or government mandates." Indeed, he noted that NAE's executive committee recently passed a motion "recognizing … the lack of consensus among the evangelical community on this issue."

One leading evangelical environmentalist, Calvin DeWitt, saw the NAE statement "a retreat and a defeat." "A year ago,” he noted, “it looked as though evangelicals would become a strong, collective voice for what we call 'Creation care' and others may call environmentalism," he said. His regret seemed prompted by his subsequent remark that "This will have negative consequences for the ability of evangelicals to influence the White House …." The chatter on the internet showed similar dismay by the environmental establishment.

The eco-evangelicals, having failed to persuade the National Association of Evangelicals, formed an ad hoc. the Evangelical Climate Initiative and issued An Evangelical Call to Action. That manifesto was a highly political statement:

“In the United States, the most important immediate step that can be taken at the federal level is to pass and implement national legislation requiring sufficient economy-wide reductions in carbon dioxide emissions through cost-effective, market-based mechanisms such as a cap-and-trade program. On June 22, 2005 the Senate passed the Domenici-Bingaman resolution affirming this approach, and a number of major energy companies now acknowledge that this method is best both for the environment and for business.

“We commend the Senators who have taken this stand and encourage them to fulfill their pledge. We also applaud the steps taken by such companies as BP, Shell, General Electric, Cinergy, Duke Energy, and DuPont, all of which have moved ahead of the pace of government action through innovative measures implemented within their companies in the U.S. and around the world. In so doing they have offered timely leadership.”

Thus, there is now religious, conservative support for the policies of Al Gore. The Chattering Class by chattering long and loudly have begun to gain mainstream Republican support and adherents throughout the conservative ranks. Environmentalism poses a real and present danger to America’s future.

These policies would do great harm to humanity, for the only known way to dramatically reduce greenhouse gases is to drastically reduce fossil fuel consumption. Many nations have ratified Kyoto but the only nations that are meeting their reduction targets are those whose economies have collapsed. Kyoto-type policies would inflate the already high cost of gasoline, natural gas, and home heating oil in this country, placing even more hardship on poor households. Exporting such policies to China, India, and other developing countries, where emissions are growing most rapidly, would doom those nations to perpetual energy poverty.

This push to use our vulnerabilities to enlist evangelicals and other conservatives in a global environmental crusade will continue. Yet, the expanded use of concentrated energy has been (literally) the engine of growth for the past century. Energy lights, cools and warms our homes; allows us the freedom of mobility to move when conditions change, to unite our geographically dispersed familes; to lighten the burdens of the workplace. Former missionary and climate scientist John Christy of the University of Alabama at Huntsville, commenting on this statement, noted: “Access to inexpensive, efficient energy would enhance the lives of the Africans while at the same time enhance the environment.”

Yet, these evangelicals would “help” the poor by closing the doorway out of poverty. As conservatives, we must recognize that the path to a cleaner environment is to increase global prosperity, to gain the wealth and knowledge that allows better Creation Care, better stewardship.

The eco-evangelicals mean well but they are confused. They fail to understand both the biblical and the economic basis of sound policy. Let me now review these confusions:

The Eco-Pantheism Confusion:

Modern intellectuals heavily influence our environmental thinking. Having abandoned God, many seem eager to worship Gaia – the goddess of earth. Few join the Church of Wicca or dance around trees at midnight but they seem to have substituted for the Christian rule – The Earth is the Lords – a confused view that The Earth is the Lord!

This is foolish. If any credence is given to the concept of Gaia (our planet evolving toward some form of self-consciousness), then man is clearly its “soul” and its “brain cells.’ To reject this special responsibility is to abandon our unique ability to care for God’s creation.

The Christian tradition is clear: mankind was given both dominion and stewardship over the earth.

The dominion concept is clear (all quotations taken from the New Living Translation of the Bible):

Genesis 1:27-28 “So God created people in his own image…God blessed them and told them, multiply and fill the earth, and subdue it. Be masters over the fish and the birds and all the animals.”

And also:

Psalm 8:5-6 " For you made us only a little lower than God, and you crowned us with glory and honor. You put us in charge of everything you made."

But, equally clear, is the fact that we are made responsible for its care:

Genesis 2:15 "And the Lord God placed the man in the Garden of Eden to tend and care for it."

But, Christianity denies deity to nature. The Bible warms against this explicitly:

Roman's 1:25 "Instead of believing what they knew was the truth about God, they deliberately chose to believe lies. So they worshiped the things God made but not the Creator himself.”

Again, conservatives recognize that the biblical statement that The earth is the Lord’s is very different from the environmental view that The Earth is the Lord.

Our challenge, as in the case of welfare, is to translate our moral obligations into meaningful effective acts. We can care – but we must also act wisely to ensure that our moral concerns have moral consequences. Simply passing a law will not suffice. The Bible is not “green” in the sense that our eco-evangelical friends would pretend.

The Eco-Socialist Error:

The old progressives favored economic and technological growth since they were confident the future belonged to them. Theirs was the heresy of arrogance – the Tower of Babel hubris – that would create Heaven on Earth. Our new “green” progressives hate progress – modernity in general – and fear that change means loss of power. Their policies alone can prevent Hell on earth. Thus, their endorsement of the Malthusian I=PAT equation.

The Greens not only reject the private property focus of the Bible, but also reject the Constitution with its focus on private property. The checks and balances of the Constitution, we’re told, make it too difficult for the EPA to achieve its noble missions. But this is exactly wrong. Nothing is more suitable to integrating environmental values, to reducing conflict, to advancing both liberty and environmental quality than our constitution of liberty.

The Constitution lays out that environment of liberty. One scholar defines it thusly:

“The environment for liberty is characterized b a social order where the individual is secure in his person and his property against invasion by other persons, including agents of the State, by an economic order of well-defined opportunities for a person to contract for goods and services and freely to transfer property to others; by a civic order providing a myriad of opportunities for voluntary cooperation on projects for social good; by a political order in which the power of the State is strictly limited, and where common law rules on trespass and tort govern, instead of bureaucratic regulations of productive activity, govern the problems caused by accidental injury to others.” Dennis: p. 64

Al Gore recently spoke to a conservative gathering in Washington. Gore spoke eloquently on his concerns for our planet, his belief that a “wrenching transformation of America is critical,” is deeply worried about the fragility of our natural environment. Yet, Gore seems totally unaware of the fragility of the environment for liberty and the harm his policies would create for those institutions.

Yet, as all conservatives know well, the environment for liberty is always fragile and made far more so by a government seeing its duty to protect us from everything. George Washington warned us that political power like fire was a dangerous servant. And the EPA has become a very dangerous “servant” indeed – seeking to manage our life styles, our backyards, our very bodies.

Eco-socialism is no more likely to advance environmental goals than socialism did economic goals. The road to serfdom can be paved with green as well as red bricks but it still leads to the same authoritarian end state.

But then what is the Conservative Alternative?

Conservative environmental policies should be based on the same principles that have done so much to advance economic progress. The elements can be found in those two great documents of civilization: the Bible and the Constitution. No text is better to kick off this discussion that the parable of the Good Shepherd (Gospel According to Saint John, Chapter 10, verses 11-14, King James Version):

I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.

But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep.

The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep. I am the good shepherd….

I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.

But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep.

The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep. I am the good shepherd….

The Christian tradition makes it clear that man is to meet his moral duties to care for God’s creation prudently. Our duty is not simply to “care” but to devise institutions that will empower and incentivize each of us to fulfill our moral stewardship obligations wisely. It is not enough to care, we must devise effective policies to ensure that our responsibility for this planet is effective.

A story from a friend and wife of one of my oldest friends who teaches in Northern Virginia made this clear to me. She was administering an achievement test to a young Johnny and asked, “Now, Johnny, why does oil float on water?” And without a pause, young Johnny responded: “Well, ma’am, I guess it’s because people don’t care anymore!”

The Johnny story says much about the greenwashing of America’s youth in our schools but also poses our challenge.

And, as the Good Shepherd parable shows, private property is the most important environmental policy in the world. We must find ways of clarifying that only the extension of the institutions of liberty to the environmental area is compatible with meeting our moral duties to ‘care.”

Most environmental problems reflect problems with resources that have been left unattended, watching over by “hirelings”, parts of the commons of the world, and, too often, suffering the tragedies of such collectively controlled resources.

The environmental establishment plays on our fears: desert tortoises are endangered in Nevada, human chromosome damage is found in citizens around Superfund sites, the Cuyahoga River in Ohio catches fire, tropical rainforests are disappearing, and (of course) global warming threatens the future of mankind. That such claims may be false, over-stated or causally linked to non-human causes is rarely considered. Bad things are happening – man must be the cause. And, as moral individuals, we do feel a responsibility to concern ourselves with these factors.

But, we remain too unaware of the history of private conservation, the real trends that saw the reduction of the horrendous pollution of waters and air of air in the much poorer cities of a century or so ago. And that is tragic, for as Roderick Nash noted: "To defend a tradition, you first have to identify it." Conservatives have done a very bad job of educating ourselves and our fellow Americans on the history of man’s relationship with nature. We’ve allowed the left to create a caricature where error was intent, where progress has been belittled, where creative experiments have been ignored.

After all, America depleted – for a while – our wildlife and our forests but we transformed that natural heritage into wealth and knowledge. We used our greater abilities to lighten our footprint on this planet, to become better stewards, and Bambi now nibbles the gardens around Washington and forests are expanding throughout America. Would we deny the Brazils and Indonesias of the world the freedom to take this same path toward a better world?

Unfortunately, there’s little literature – too little literature – describing how Americans far before the EPA or the DOI were even dreamed of were already reducing waste, protecting wildlife, buying and protecting national amenities. One scholar, Pierre Desroches, has documented the rapid reduction in emissions as entrepreneurs looked at the liquids, solids and gases flowing out of their plants in the 19th century and found ways to transform these waste streams into wealth. Industrial ecology was discovered by the market long before it was thought of by the environmentalists. The view that only the government cares about efficiency, about waste reduction, is a modern secular heresy

And technology did much to lighten our footprint on this earth. Consider the massive reduction in pollution as the automobile replaced the horse. After all, the horse relied on renewable energy, was “organic,” and bio-degradable. But, a horse produced 40 pounds a day of solid wastes, a gallon or so of liquid, and required many acres of farm land devoted to providing it grain. Moreover, although an abandoned car can be an eyesore, it is far less objectionable to the dead horse in the front yard.

Man is not the cancer of planet earth. We are not mere “stomachs” – consumers of scarce resources – rather we have hands and a brain and a soul and – given the institutions of liberty that America’s Constitution has granted us – we can and do make the world a better place. The creative linkage of man’s genius and energies via the institutions of liberty has steadily lightened man’s footprint on this planet.

There is much yet to do but we should not be unaware that we’ve done much that is right. Consider some of the proudest examples of private conservation -- Jefferson's Natural Bridge, Mount Vernon, British anglers successfully suing upstream polluters, big-game ranches in Texas where dozens of species endangered in their home nations now flourish (America has been a refuge for nature, not just people). People care about the environment but conservatives must demand that the institutions support that concern, empower the individual to protect his or her part of this Garden Earth. That institutional development has been blocked by years of neglect but where it has been allowed it has demonstrated the viability of private property based environmentalism. The challenge is to an imaginative policy of ecological privatization - extending the institutions of liberty to those resources left behind – integrating the economic and ecological worlds.

Civilization as the Slow Evolution of Conflict Resolving Institutions

Mankind’s long prehistory as hunter-gatherers – living in communal, egalitarian tribes suppressing all individual experimentation because of fear that freedom would be used irresponsibly. The gradual development of the institutions of liberty which allowed freedom to expand but ensured that this freedom would be used responsibly - the family, private property, fences, customs of honesty and tolerance (but not affirmation) of error, contracts, trade, the market, and the array of complex arrangements that make modernity possible – all are steps along this path. The result is that mankind today in America especially – is far more capable of acting as a creative and responsible steward of this Planet.

Yet, the Greens disparage these institutions. They would have us return to the Dancing with Wolves lives of the primitives (aka indigenous peoples) of the world. Yet, as anthropologists gradually grow away from their romantic idealization of these often brutal societies, it is becoming increasingly evident that our world is far more sustainable than was theirs, our world is for better prepared to evaluate and respond creatively to environmental concerns.

Environmentalists seem horrified by mankind’s increased knowledge and power. To them, man only harms our planet. Yet, the authors of the famous bird guides, Roger Tory Peterson and James Fisher, in a book Wild America, speaking of America noted:

..”never have I seen such wonders or met landlords so worthy of their land. They have had, and still have, the power to ravage it; and instead have made it a garden.” (quoted in Dennis, p. 59, mss; from their book p. 418, Houghton, Mifflin, Boston, 1955)

Americans spend vast energies, time and resources to better this planet, to make the world more a garden, an ark. Indeed, that point is sometimes realized even by critics of America such as John Kenneth Galbraith. He once noted that in America our homes and yards are beautiful, while our government parks and roads are a mess. From that observation, as a liberal, he drew naturally the conclusion, that we should raise taxes on our homes and yards, to fund our starved public sector. Conservatives would draw another conclusion: Is it possible to make more of this planet someone’s “backyard”, someone’s garden, someone’s pet?

Consider that the world needs two critical underground liquid resources – one is rare and costly to acquire, one falls freely from the sky; one historically has become ever more abundant, one has become increasingly scare. And, of course, I refer to oil and water. The difference is that oil – because of America’s unique provision allowing private ownership of subsurface mineral rights - allows private management of the oil resource. Water, everywhere, is controlled politically. Couldn’t we consider w hether the techniques used for oil management might not be extended to groundwater? (Almost all the world’s potable water resides in aquifers.)

The resources that are at risk today, the resources that are of concern in the environmental debate are those that lack the constitutional protections that allow caring individuals to own and protect them. The environmental problem is not that there is too much private property, but rather that there is too little.

Pets, wildlife? Offshore oil fields, offshore shrimping or fishing areas?

Indeed, as we become a wealthier people, we also come to realize that this is our planet and we should be better stewards. Since my childhood, I’ve noted a general decline in litter, especially given the massive expansion of material use and travel. A friend notes that mountain climbers now use less intrusive pitons and other climbing equipment. Even stone colored chalk needed to improve holds has become the preferred climbing product. And all this has happened because a free people with greater wealth and knowledge, motivated to be sure by peer pressure, have lightened their footprints on the earth. That cultural shift has happened by word of mouth – not restrictive rules.

Conclusion:

Conservatives must reject, not compromise with, the eco-pagan and eco-socialist biases proffered by the environmental establishment. We should be Green - -But we need not, indeed must not, become Pagans or Reds. Rather, we should begin now to devote the time, energy and resources needed to bring conservative principles to the fore of this emerging policy area. Our goal should not be to accept any watered-down, Al Gore lite policies, nor to give credence to the pantheistic language of the more extreme wings of modern environmentalism but rather to infuse environmental policy with the wisdom and moral concepts that structure our economy.

The rule of law, private property, enforceable agreements (contracts) creates an environment within which trust arises and it is that mix of legal and moral disciplines that has held our economic problems in check. And those same institutions can and should be extended to those resources – wildlife, groundwater, western lands and Alaska, offshore areas, space – the areas and resources which have for too long been left under the stewardship of the “hireling” rather than good [private] shepherds.

We can no longer stay on the sidelines while the left seduces our youth and our co-conservatives to their side. This will take time, resources and energy. We are not bereft of individuals and ideas, our intellectual ammunition stockpile is meager but not non-existent. Becky Norton Dunlop, CEI, Steve Hayward from PRI, David Reidenour at the NCPPR, Cal Beisner at Knox ? and Ken Chilton at Westminister, and a handful of others. Gary Palmer of the Alabama Policy Institute, CEI and Jane Shaw in Montana produced one book on environmental education – Facts not Fears – and CEI has a number of books (look at our web site) but the field is wide open and all of you and your groups should engage it also.

We’re late to this game – as we were late to the welfare reform fights, But our ideas and our ideals are correct. And we have some interesting rallying cries. To paraphrase that famous populist candidate, William Jenning Bryan, we reject both eco-paganism and eco-socialism. We will not crucify mankind on a cross of green!

Alternatively – Conservatives should espouse property rights approaches proudly. We realize we need be neither red nor pagan to be green!

http://www.policycounsel.org/46101/48601.html

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Anti-Globalization Tribe

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A Very Inconvenient Truth - By Captain Paul Watson

Thu, 21 Jun 2007 16:58:42 GMT

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A Very Inconvenient Truth - by Capt Paul Watson

The meat industry is one of the most destructive ecological industries

on the planet. The raising and slaughtering of pigs, cows, sheep,
turkeys and chickens not only utilizes vast areas of land and vast
quantities of water, but it is a greater contributor to greenhouse gas emissions
than the automobile industry.

The seafood industry is literally plundering the ocean of life and some
fifty percent of fish caught from the oceans is fed to cows, pigs,
sheep, chickens etc in the form of fish meal. It also takes about fifty
fish caught from the sea to raise one farm raised salmon.

We have turned the domestic cow into the largest marine predator on the
planet. The hundreds of millions of cows grazing the land and farting
methane consume more tonnage of fish than all the world's sharks,
dolphins and seals combined. Domestic housecats consume more fish,
especially tuna, than all the world's seals.

So why is it that all the world's large environmental and
conservation groups are not campaigning against the meat industry? Why did Al
Gore's film Inconvenient Truth not mention the inconvenient truth that
the slaughter industry creates more greenhouse gases than the automobile
industry?

The Greenpeace ships serve meat and fish to their crews everyday. The
World Wildlife Fund does not say a word about the threat that meat
eating poses for the survival of wildlife, the habitat destroyed, the wild
competitors for land eliminated, or the predators destroyed to save
their precious livestock. .

When I was a Sierra Club director for three years, everyone looked
amused when I brought up the issue of vegetarianism. At each of our Board
meeting dinners, the Directors were served meat and only after much
prodding and complaining did the couple of vegetarian directors manage to
get a vegetarian option. At our meeting in Montana we were served
Buffalo and antelope, lobsters in Boston, crabs in Charleston, steak in
Albuquerque etc. But what else can we expect from a â€œconservationâ€ group
that endorses trophy hunting.

As far as I know and I may be wrong, but my organization, the Sea
Shepherd Conservation Society is the only conservation organization in the
world that endorses and practises vegetarianism. My ships do not serve
meat or fish ever, nor do we serve dairy products. We've had a
strictly vegan menu for years and no one has died of scurvy or malnutrition.

The price we pay for this is to be accused by other conservation
organizations of being animal rights. Like it's a bad word. They say
it with the same disdain that Americans used to utter the word
communist in the Fifties.

The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is not an animal rights
organization. We are exclusively involved in interventions against illegal
activities that threaten and exploit marine wildlife and habitat. We are
involved in ocean wildlife conservation activities.

Yet because we operate our ships as vegan vessels, other groups, and
now the media dismiss us as an animal rights organization.

Now first of all I don't see being accused of as an animal rights
organization to be an insult. PETA was co-founded by one of my
crew-members and many of my volunteers come from the animal rights movement. But
it is not accurate to refer to Sea Shepherd as animal rights when our
organization pushes a strict conservation enforcement policy.

And secondly we do not promote veganism on our ships because of animal
rights. We promote veganism as a means of practising what we preach
which is ocean conservation.

There is not enough fish in the world's oceans to feed 6.6 billion
human beings and another 10 billion domestic animals. That is why all the
world's commercial fisheries are collapsing. That is why whales,
seals, dolphins and seabirds are starving. The sand eel for example, the
primary source of food for the comical and beautiful puffin is being
wiped out by Danish fishermen solely to provide fish meal to Danish factory
farmed chickens.

This is a solid conservation connection between eating meat and the
destruction of life in our oceans.

In a world fast losing resources of fresh water, it is sheer lunacy to
have hundreds of millions of cows consuming over 1,000 gallons of water
for every pound of beef produced.

And the pig farms in North Carolina produce so much waste that it has
contaminated the entire ground water reserves of the entire state. North
Carolinians drink pig shit with their water but its okay they say, they
just neutralize it with chemicals like chlorine.

Most people don't want to see where their meat comes from. They also
don't want to know what the impact of their meat has on the ecology.
They would rather just deny the whole thing and pretend that meat is
something that comes in packages from the store.

But because there is this underlying guilt always present, it manifests
itself as anger and ridicule towards people who live the most
environmentally positive life styles on the planet â€“ the vegans and the
vegetarians.

This is demonstrated through constant marginalization especially in the
media. Any organization, like Sea Shepherd for example, that points out
the ecological contradictions of eating meat is immediately dismissed
as some wacko animal rights organization.

I did not set the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society up as an animal
rights organization and we have never promoted animal rights in the
organization. What we have promoted and what we do is oceanic wildlife and
habitat conservation work.

And the truth is that you can't practise solid and constructive
conservation work without promoting veganism and/or vegetarianism as
something that promotes the conservation of resources.

A few years ago I attended a dinner meeting of the American Oceans
Campaign hosted by Ted Danson. He opened the dinner by saying that the
choice he had to make was between fish and chicken for the dinner, and what
was the point of saving fish if you can't eat them?

Guest speaker, Oceanographer Sylvia Earle put Ted in his place by
saying she did not think that he was being very funny. She said that she
considered fish to be her friends and she did not believe in eating her
friends. So neither Sylvia nor I ate dinner that night.

I met Sylvia again at another meeting, this time of Conservation
International held at some ritzy resort in the Dominican Republic. Harrison
Ford was there and the buzz was what could be done to save the oceans. I
was invited as an advisor. I sat on a barstool in an open beachfront
dining plaza as the conservationists approached tables literally
bending from the weight of fish and exotic seafood including caviar. I
looked at Sylvia Earle and she just shook her head and rolled her eyes.

The problem is that people like Carl Pope, the Executive Director of
the Sierra Club, or the heads of Greenpeace, World Wildlife Fund,
Conservation International and many other big groups just refuse to accept
that their eating habits may be just as much a part of the problem as all
those things they are trying to oppose.

I remember one Greenpeacer defending his meat eating by saying that he
was a carnivore and that predators have their place and he was
proud to be one.

Now the word predator in relationship to human beings has a rather
scary connotation having nothing to do with eating habits, but for any
human being to describe themselves as a carnivore is just plain ridiculous.

Humans are not and have never been carnivores. A lion is a carnivore as
is a wolf, as is a tiger, or a shark. Carnivores eat live animals. They
stalk them, they run them down, they pounce, they kill, and they eat,
blood dripping, meat at body temperature. Nature, brutal red in tooth
and claw.

I've never met a human that can do that. Yes we found ways to run
down animals and kill them. In fact we've come to be rather efficient at
the killing part. But we can't eat the prey until we cut it up and
cook it and that usually involves some time between kill and eating. It
could be an hour or it could be years.

You see our meat eating habits are more closely related to the vulture,
the jackal or other carrion eaters. This means that we can't be
described as carnivores. We are better described as necrovores or eaters of
rotting flesh.

Consider that some of the beef that people eat has been dead for months
and in some cases for years. Dead and hanging in freezers, full of
uritic acid and bacteria. It's a corpse in a state of decomposition. Not
much that can be said to be noble about eating a cadaver.

But a little dose of denial allows us to bite into that Big Mac or cut
into that prime rib.

But that one 16 ounce cut of prime rib is equal to a thousand gallons
of fresh water, a few acres of grass, a few fish, a quarter acre of corn
etc. What's the point of taking a shorter shower to conserve water as
Greenpeace is preaching if you can sit down and consume a 1000 gallons
of water at a single meal?

And that single cut of meat would have cost as much in vegetable
resources equivalent to what could be fed to an entire African village for a
week.

The problem is that we choose to see our contradictions when it is
convenient for us to see them and when it is not we simply go into a state
of suspended disbelief and we eat that steak anyway because, hey we
like the taste of rotting flesh in the evening.

Have you ever thought why it is that with a person, itâ€™s an abortion
but when it comes to a chicken, it's an omelette?

Does anyone really know what's in a hot dog? We do know that the
government health department allows for an acceptable percentage of bug
parts, rodent droppings and other assorted filth to go into the mix.

And now tuna fish comes with a health warming saying it should not be
eaten by pregnant women or small children because of high levels of
mercury. Does that mean mercury is good for adults and non-pregnant women?
What are they telling us here?

Eating meat and fish is not only bad for the environment it's also
unhealthy. Yet even when it comes to our own health we slip into denial
mode and order the whopper.

The bottom line is that to be a conservationist and an
environmentalist, you must practise and promote vegetarianism or better yet veganism.

It is the lifestyle that leaves the shallowest ecological footprint,
uses fewer resources and produces less greenhouse gas emissions, it's
healthier and it means you're not a hypocrite.

In fact a vegan driving a hummer would be contributing less greenhouse
gas carbon emissions than a meat eater riding a bicycle.

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