Download Uproar: Record Industry Goes After Personal Use

Despite more than 20,000 lawsuits filed against music fans in the years since they started finding free tunes online rather than buying CDs from record companies, the recording industry has utterly failed to halt the decline of the record album or the rise of digital music sharing.

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"addiction" obsolete! It's now controlled "dependence" says DSM-IV

from Stanton Peele
From the right, the directors of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) and the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) have written a plea to return to the term “addiction” – which was replaced by “dependence” in DSM-IV – in DSM-V.
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For example, these assessments will often refer to a prior dependence diagnosis, then claim the person has relapsed since they are again drinking. But, per my role in that volume, there is no mention of use as a sign of relapse, but only use leading to “clinically significant impairment or distress.” DSM thuhttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifs takes the radical position that use of any drug can be controlled, including even following a diagnosis of dependence. Continue at
from Stanton Peele's blog

Neurocomix by Tim Leary and Alan Moore's Promethea

It was at the end of the seventies that Neurocomics (1979) was released in a print run of 10,000. It’s not even listed on the wikipedia entry of his works, and seems overlooked by most Dr. Leary’s fans. So when I was pointed to the torrent of this lost work, I was ecstatic. Download Timothy Leary’s Neurocomics neuocom.jpgfrom Alterati’s torren....

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Neurocomix by Tim Leary and Alan Moore's Promethea

It was at the end of the seventies that Neurocomics (1979) was released in a print run of 10,000. It’s not even listed on the wikipedia entry of his works, and seems overlooked by most Dr. Leary’s fans. So when I was pointed to the torrent of this lost work, I was ecstatic. Download Timothy Leary’s Neurocomics neuocom.jpgfrom Alterati’s torren....

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Neurocomix by Tim Leary and Alan Moore's Promethea

It was at the end of the seventies that Neurocomics (1979) was released in a print run of 10,000. It’s not even listed on the wikipedia entry of his works, and seems overlooked by most Dr. Leary’s fans. So when I was pointed to the torrent of this lost work, I was ecstatic. Download Timothy Leary’s Neurocomics neuocom.jpgfrom Alterati’s torren....

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David J. Brown on new Psychedelic Healing research in Scientific American magazine

psychedelic perfumes/pheromones from bees
and San Pedro cactus



FREE PREVIEW
Scientific American Mind - December, 2007
Psychedelic Healing?
Hallucinogenic drugs, which blew minds in the 1960s, soon may be used to treat mental ailments

By David Jay Brown

Graphic - Key Concepts

Mind-Bending Therapies

* The drugs that put the “psychedelic” into the
sixties are now the subject of renewed research interest because of their therapeutic potential.
* Psychedelics such as LSD and the compound in magic mushrooms could ease a variety of difficult-to-treat mental illnesses, such as chronic depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and drug or alcohol dependency.
* Clinical trials with various substances are now under way in humans.

ind-altering psychedelics are back—but this time they are being explored in labs for their therapeutic applications rather than being used illegally. Studies are looking at these hallucinogens to treat a number of otherwise intractable psychiatric disorders, including chronic depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and drug or alcohol dependency.

The past 15 years have seen a quiet resurgence of psychedelic drug research as scientists have come to recognize the long-underappreciated potential of these drugs. In the past few years, a growing number of studies using human volunteers have begun to explore the possible therapeutic benefits of drugs such as LSD, psilocybin, DMT, MDMA, ibogaine and ketamine.
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RU Sirius launches Open Source Reality movement. Open Source Political Par

The Open Source Political PartyCreated by MondoGloboA Liberal / Libertarian / Other unity party that will develop ideas and solutions to America's political problems through an open source process that will be engaging and fun.

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The Six Wives of Timothy Leary by John Higgs

re: The Arts 2007. see latest Leary Media news out of London--from one of Leary's biographers, John Higgs
http://www.ihaveamericasurrounded.com/
The Six Wives of Timothy Leary - reviewed by John Higgs
I was kindly invited along to the press night of this play yesterday, and got to meet the cast and writer afterwards. All very enjoyable. My review follows. I never expected to be writing theatre reviews here; perhaps one day there'll be Tim Leary: The Musical...
THE SIX WIVES OF TIMOTHY LEARY
Etcetera Theatre, Camden High Street London, until Dec 9th
As any Learyphile will tell you, you get the Timothy Leary you deserve. Such is the ever-shifting nature of his character that he is almost impossible for a writer to depict without revealing far more about themselves than about him.
http://ihaveamericasurrounded.blogspot.com/

Google Psychedelic? Doyle? Ecodelics lsd psybernetics? autopoiesis gettin' a Clue!

what?
from rose rose on realitysandwich
Google is the first psychedelically informed superpower to shape the noosphere and NASDAQ. I don't mean that Googlers (necessarily) are all seasoned psychonauts, or (necessarily) take 4:20 breaks on-campus, or are well represented (necessarily) at Burning Man. Nor am I saying that psychedelics “caused” Google, any more than a Stanford education did. I do mean that the core mission comes right out of the psychedelic atlas: a vision of super-connectivity and super-conductivity that is a hallmark of the psychedelic landscape. An exceptional treatment of this theme is Rich Doyle’s book Ecodelic!, forthcoming from the University of Washington Press in 2008. Every search returns a new (always new because always shifting and adding and growing) set of filaments connecting the searcher's quest to their potential grail. Every quest or re-quest weaves the mycelial mat of connections more densely: among people, data, images, jokes, video, ads, text messages, music, maps, and cultural artifacts of every communicable variety.





http://www.realitysandwich.com/google_and_myceliation_consciousness

Pangea animations

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http://www.scotese.com/sfsanim.htm
Astronomy Picture of the Day

Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.

site

2007 September 22
See Explanation. Clicking on the picture will download the highest resolution version available.

Whose Betrayal? | BuzzFlash.org

Bush was using a familiar right-wing tactic: identifying himself with a military uniform and the stature of the military in general, when he had no military stature himself. Rudy Guiliani used the same tactic in his ad in Friday's New York Times: by associating himself with Petraeus' rank and role, hoping some of the stature of the military would rub off on him. The implicit message is an attack on MoveOn: in pointing out Petraeus' deception, MoveOn, so Giuliani implies, was being disrespectful of the military itself. This is a typical right-wing attack on progressives, and progressives shouldn't stand for it. They should not be allowed to hide behind the troops. The troops themselves have been betrayed. None of us wants to hear it, to know it, to acknowledge it. Least of all me. It disgusts me how the troops have been betrayed by people saying, "Support our troops." But it is true, and millions of us must start saying so. There are unacknowledged villains behind this carnage.In a country that takes its freedoms seriously, freedom of speech must be maintained. Betrayal through deception is much worse than being impolite. Where tens of thousands of deaths and maimings are concerned, it is immoral not to point out betrayals when they are real. It is patriotic to root out betrayal on grand scale wherever it occurs.

Whose Betrayal? | BuzzFlash.org

Blogged with Flock

35-year Time Lapse of Tokyo Skyline

This 10 second time lapse compresses 35 years of skyscraper construction in Shinjuku district of Tokyo. It’s worth watching several times. Watch on YouTube or click here:

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Manuel DeLanda vids

Playlist: Manuel De Landa - The Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze 2007Add Video to QuickList Manuel DeLanda - The Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze. 2007 1/510:00http://www.egs.edu/ Manuel DeLanda lecturing about the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze. Public Open Video Lecture at European Graduate School EGS, Media and Communication Studies department program. Saas-Fee, Switzerland 2007. Manuel De Landa. Gilles Deleuze.

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.

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Chalmers Johnson, Agency of Rogues

The American people may not know it but they have some severe problems with one of their official governmental entities, the Central Intelligence Agency. Because of the almost total secrecy surrounding its activities and the lack of cost accounting on how it spends the money covertly appropriated for it within the defense budget, it is impossible f

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Tomorrow Never Knows? try Hollywood by Ms madonna Amy Winehouse all her songs hi-fi ! WTF? the Stones too!!

what?

http://www.deezer.com/

Wasson's Thesis/Theory Project One Step Beyond - The Sacred Mushroom (1961)

One Step Beyond - The Sacred Mushroom (1961)

John Newland pulls the Wasson's book, Mushrooms, Russia, & History off the bookshelve of Andrija Puharich! @ about 11:45 min. left...

http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif

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E r i k
D a v i s


The Crazy Wisdom of Philip K. Dick
Outline


8 Week Course
Sept 17 to Nov 11

Erik Davis is the author of Techgnosis and The Visionary State: A Journey through California’s Spiritual Landscape. Erik consulted on the script for A Scanner Darkly, and was recognized by the New Yorker for his expertise in PKD’s work. He has taught courses at UC Berkeley, UC Davis, and the California Institute of Integral Studies. He is working on a book about PKD.


http://www.maybelogic.org/erikcrs.htm

spook Country by william Gibson ongoing interactive Noospherics developments

what?


http://nodemagazine.com/

http://node.tumblr.com/post/7615461

Gibson talks from 2nd Life VR



http://node.tumblr.com/post/7615461

Jason Bourne Ultimatum antidote to US "govt." shredding Universal Human Rights

what?
"Hollywood" continues the "we're only doing this "to save American Lives""! subtext. Two other films in x had the same agenda....Reduce "terrorism" by introducing Universal Human
Rights for all Humans. The Creator gave all Humans the 5th Amendment and the right
to not be tortured or "interrorgated"...

David vs. G.O.L.I.A.T.H.

http://www.thebourneultimatum.com/


"Privacy?!, Get Over It!" , Bill Clinton after Monica Lewenski
http://www.aec.at/en/festival2007/index2.asp

How to help the "terrroritius" theArms race heats UP

Description

“Goodbye Privacy” is the theme of this year’s Ars Electronica, the festival extraordinaire of art, technology and society in Linz, Austria. September 5–11, 2007, the focus will be on these late-breaking phenomena of a new culture of everyday life being played out between angst-inducing scenarios of seamless surveillance and the zest we bring to staging our public personas via digital media.

Homepage

http://www.aec.at/en/festival2007/index.asp

Endless Summer of Loving continues in Vancouver this month

http://www.cinematheque.bc.ca/summeroflove/index.htm
what?

The Psychedelic Pioneers is one of many feature films and documentaries being shown at Pacific Cinmathque during its Summer of Love series, which starts Friday and runs until Aug. 16.

The Psychedelic Pioneers is being shown Wednesday, Aug. 8 at 7:30 p.m. It will be preceded by two shorts: Sal Mineo narrating LSD: Insight or Insanity?, a scare film about the dangers of LSD, and LSD: The Trip to Where?, which includes Leary talking about the difference between a good and bad trip on acid.

Curated by Videomatica's Graham Peat and Jim Sinclair, with help from Kier-la Janisse, the Summer of Love series includes many rarely seen films such as The Trip, described as one of Hollywood's most accurate portrayals of what it's like to take LSD, Psych-Out, set in Haight-Ashbury and starring Susan Strasberg, Dean Stockwell, Jack Nicholson and Bruce Dern, and Something's Happening a.k.a. Hippie Revolt, a cinma vrit look at youth culture in San Francisco and Los Angeles in 1966-67.

PSYCHEDELIC PIONEERS (THE)

The story of The Psychedelic Pioneers is part leading-edge medical research and part utopian idealism. More than 40 years ago, in a remote corner of the Canadian Prairies, three gifted psychiatrists conducted a cutting-edge research project with an extraordinarily powerful drug - LSD.

http://www.telefilm.gc.ca/data/production/prod_3100.asp?lang=en&cat=tv&g=doc&y=2004

List of films

Wonderwall + Reflections on Love +
Donovan music videos for “Wear Your Love Like Heaven” | Monterey Pop |
The Trip + Invasion of the Thunderbolt Pagoda | Psych-Out |
Something's Happening AKA Hippie Revolt +
Beyond LSD! + Psychedelic Hippie Love-In

::More links at the bottom of the page::

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Wonderwall Great Britain 1968. Director: Joe Massot Cast: Jack MacGowran, Jane Birkin, Irene Handl, Richard Wattis, Iain Quarrier

http://www.cinematheque.bc.ca/jul_aug_07/summer_love_01.htm

Peter Stafford de-animates-- Master Psychedelic Investigator

Peter with his Playing (working!) Walls! and T-Shirt. Peter liked to process and compress his working files and database for his next Project to the size of the binder he has in his hands! Very Portable. Also to wallpaper his room with the history of Media Images associated with Psychedelics, as Peter was always collecting new material for the next edition of Psychedelics Encyclopedia. Peter used this photo as his business card! About mid 1980's?


Psychedelics
Peter Stafford 2003 paperback from Ronin Publishers

LSD - The Problem-Solving Psychedelic
©1967 by Peter Stafford and Bonnie Golightly
Published by Award Books, New York



Check out bruce's comments below
http://www.bruceeisner.com/new_culture/2007/07/peter-stafford-.html

Books by Peter G. Stafford

* Psychedelics encyclopedia

* Psychedelics by Peter Stafford p. 2003 from Ronin Press newer diff. pback book


LSD: The Problem-Solving Psychedelic written with Bonnie Golightly (1967, Award Books),


* Heavenly Highs: Ayahuasca, Kava-Kava, DMT, and Other Plants …
* Magic Mushrooms
Psychedelic baby reaches puberty;: An assemblage, by Peter G Stafford (Unknown Binding - 1971)
LSD in Action ?

Yage in the valley of fire by Peter G Stafford (Unknown Binding - 1967)

Peter's very extensive website Psychedelics 101

see newer material at Ronin press


Acid Baby

from Erowid
http://www.erowid.org/library/books/psychedelic_baby.shtml


sample writing

A Review of Pihkal

by Peter Stafford

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Note: Pihkal is available from the Island Group Marketplace for $18.95 (P. X) and at 978 pages also may be the biggest book bargain of the century.

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I wish to whisper into your ear a thought that has been recurrent in my mind since I first read this book. That is that this massive volume, whose first printing is already sold out, might well be the most important document of this century!

The first half of PIHKAL (Phenethylamines I Have Known and Loved), by Alexander and Ann Shulgin (Transform Press), is a thinly-veiled biography of one of our greatest "white shamans," a chemist in this instance, and of his seduction by his second wife, Ann. The second half describes synthesis routes, dosage recommendations, and comments about the duration and qualities of 179 semi-synthetic molecules which have been both "known" and "loved" by seasoned psychenauts.

Peter first took peyote in the early 'Sixties and was an editor of Crawdaddy, the first rockmagazine.

http://www.island.org/ive/3/pihkal3.html

Free/Cheap Oil/Energy Peak graph look see

Latest update on Peak Oil Nightmare Upcoming now
http://www.theoildrum.com/node/2820

The first of the projections we call the "symmetric" projection. It simply assumes that oil production will decrease in the future in a manner similar to the way that it increased in the past. This method assumes that 2006 is the peak year; 2007 production will be equal to 2005 production; 2008 production will be equal to 2004; and so on. Thus, the future is expected to be a mirror image of the past.

The second projection is what we call the "analyst average" method. Here, we average five projections assuming peak in the 2005 to 2007 period - two made by Ace, one made by Bakhtiari, and two made by Robelius. We have adjusted all of the projections to a "total liquids" basis for this comparison (that is, including ethanol and other liquid fuels that are similar to oil), so that they are comparable to each other and to the historical data.

Figure 1 shows that the projection methods produce fairly similar results. Both methods show production declining fairly rapidly:
http://www.theoildrum.com/node/2820

Clear Light .EU updates/upgrades Huxley & Watts!

Effing the Ineffable *NEW*
A close reading of Aldous Huxley's The Doors of Perception and Alan Watts' The Joyous Cosmology. Draws on linguistics, conceptual dynamics, philosophy, and perceptual theory in an effort to reconcile the contradictory aspects of the texts within a nondual framework that necessarily subverts language.

Huxley leaned toward the latter camp. In his view, however, time was running out for the actualisation of this potential. Man was at the precipice of unmitigated disaster. As Jay Stevens writes, a way had to be found to heal the gap between homo faber, man the wielder of increasingly ingenious and dangerous tools, and homo sapiens, man the smart monkey who had mastered the planet but not his own inner flaws - flaws that were now threatening to bring the whole evolutionary game to a precipitous close.¹⁰ Accompanied by the writer-philosopher Gerald Heard, Huxley began an investigation into the esoteric wisdom traditions of the East in the hope of formulating a remedy to these ails. This culminated in 1945 in the publication of The Perennial Philosophy, an annotated compendium of the perceived similarities between widely divergent mystical experiences of centuries passed. Central to Huxley's philosophy was the theory put forward by Bergson that the brain and the central nervous system operated as an eliminative system that screened much out of consciousness, leaving only that necessary for practical survival. In the twentieth century, however, Huxley felt that a way had to found which would bypass Bergson's 'reducing valve' and tap the unlimited potentials of the brain. The mystical experience, in Huxley's view, broached this issue squarely. How to achieve the experience was an entirely different matter.
http://clear-light.eu/effing_1.htm

Alpert & Metzner on early 60's with Gary Bravo on Psychedelic Explorations..it never lets UP!

what?
ok

March 2008

PSYCHEDELIC EXPLORATIONS: CONVERSATIONS ABOUT LEARY, THE HARVARD EXPERIMENTS, MILLBROOK, AND THE SIXTIES

By Ram Dass and Ralph Metzner
With Gary Bravo

Paperback ISBN 9780907791386

http://www.synergeticpress.com/forthcoming.html

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Samantha Powers on Bush Admin disasters

what?
Samantha Powers writes
The most counterintuitive, as well as the most politically difficult, premise of the manual is that the American military must assume greater risk in order to gather much-needed intelligence and, in the end, achieve greater safety. The emphasis of the 1990s on force protection is overturned by the assertion of several breathtaking paradoxes: “Sometimes, the more you protect your force, the less secure you may be.” “Sometimes, the more force is used, the less effective it is.” “Sometimes doing nothing is the best reaction.” Sarah Sewall, a former Pentagon official who teaches at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University (and a close colleague of mine), has contributed an introduction that should be required reading for anybody who wants to understand the huge demands effective counterinsurgency will place on the military and the voting public. “Those who fail to see the manual as radical probably don’t understand it,” she writes, “or at least what it’s up against.” continued here

Lovelock, Brand, Moore? bizarre promoters of Nuclear Power

what?

Or you could be sitting next to scientist and Gaia theorist James Lovelock, a supporter of Environmentalists for Nuclear Energy™, which quotes him saying, “We have no time to experiment with visionary energy sources; civilisation is in imminent danger and has to use nuclear—the one safe, available, energy source—now or suffer the pain soon to be inflicted by our outraged planet.”

If you sit next to Lovelock, you might start by mentioning that half the farms in this country had windmills before Marie Curie figured out anything about radiation or Lise Meitner surmised that atoms could be split. Wind power is not visionary in the sense of experimental. Neither is solar, which is already widely used. Nor are nukes safe, and they take far too long to build to be considered readily available. Yet Stewart Brand, of Whole Earth Catalog fame, has jumped on the nuclear bandwagon, and so has Greenpeace founding member turned PR flack Patrick Moore. So you must be prepared.

http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/316

from

Published on Thursday, June 2, 2005 by the Inter Press Service
Nukes-Against-Global Warming Strategy Scored as Too Costly
by Stephen Leahy

BROOKLIN, Canada -

The Rocky Mountain Institute, a non-profit energy research organization, has calculated that improvements in energy efficiency are six times more cost effective than nuclear power and eliminate the need for all existing nuclear plants and any future ones.

''All of this could be done without any changes to our way of life,'' said Hoffman.

Why the push for nuclear power? In Hoffman's view, because ''the nuclear industry are major donors to Bush Republicans and have a direct channel to power in Washington.''

© Copyright 2005 IPS - Inter Press Service

http://www.eroei.com/articles/2005_articles/_nukes-against-global_warming_strategy/

from Reuters:

Japan quake sends tremors across nuclear industry

Tue Jul 24, 2007 12:33PM BST

By Barbara Lewis and Peter Dinkloh - Analysis

LONDON/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - A Japanese earthquake that forced the closure of the world's biggest nuclear plant has highlighted the energy source's dangers, just when support had been growing.

Worries about security of energy supply and the urgency of fighting climate change had helped to overcome years of opposition to nuclear power after the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.

Generating nuclear power does not produce any of the carbon emissions blamed for warming the planet.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUKL2489828520070724

Joanna & John chat about "Sacred Cows": getting on with Open Source "religion" UPgrades

FROM SACRED COWS TO SILENT KNOWING

Five Talks with John Lash beginning July 2007. These discussions challenge unexamined beliefs and ideas received from culture, religion, education, and the media, and propose how we might attune more deeply to innate knowing and the wisdom of human instincts. See Sacred Cows.

WonderFull! AweFull!

Five Talks with John Lash:

FROM SACRED COWS TO SILENT KNOWING

These discussions challenge unexamined beliefs and ideas received from culture, religion, education, and the media, and propose how we might attune more deeply to innate knowing and the wisdom of human instincts.

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LATEST BROADCAST - July 16, 2007
The Cyberworld Demystified: Savior, Trickster, or Just A Gadget? Comments on IT and the cult of technology.

LEFT CLICK LISTEN | RIGHT CLICK (save as) DOWNLOAD
LENGTH: 34.31 mins. SIZE: 7.89MB

Beautiful Material!

UPCOMING BROADCASTS:

July 26, 2007 - The Arc of the Species: The Noosphere and the Myth of Ascending Evolution

August 5, 2007 - Against Christianity: The Illuminist Option in Buddhism and Gnosis

August 16, 2007 - Gaia's Way: The Psychonautic Adventure as a Path of Coevolution

August 26, 2007 - 2012 and the Next Age: Trauma and Mutation in the Piscean Endtime

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Battle of Bands Beatles vs Stones Cinematic Shoot-out Double-Feature!

what?
Opening Night Extravaganza!
West Coast Premiere Of Ultra-Rare 1964 Beatles Documentary!
Beatles vs Stones Cinematic Shoot-out Double-Feature!

http://www.modsandrockers.com/schedule.200707131930e.html#stars

Saturday July 14, 2007 - 9:00pm
Egyptian Theatre, Hollywood

Ultra-rare 35mm screening of Otto Preminger's cult classic!
First Hollywood screening in 25 years!
Special "Skidoo" Guests!

SKIDOO

This is the first 35mm screening in Hollywood of this ultra-rare Otto Preminger cult classic in over 25 years. This infamous acid-comedy stars Jackie Gleason, Carol Channing and Groucho Marx in his last film. Several of the cast and crew – including Otto and Groucho – took acid trips as pre-filming research! Event will be attended by special guests from the Skidoo universe! Never on VHS! NOT ON DVD!

Buy Tickets Now!

More Info...

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http://www.modsandrockers.com/schedule.html

ignorant & impotent Bush/USA terrorists bombing people

bomb the Brutes! get on Amazon
what?

Tom (TE) says- As the Europeans are well aware, air power -- given the civilian casualties that invariably follow in its wake -- is intensely counterproductive in a guerrilla war. "Every civilian dead means five new Taliban," was the way a British officer just returned from Helmand Province put it recently.

However, an air-power strategy fits American predilections to a tee. As a Reuters piece aptly headlined the matter, the Americans in Afghanistan are "hooked on air power." Americans have long been so. After all, with the singular exception of various Central American proxy wars during the Reagan years, air war has essentially been the American way of war since World War II.

from

Tom Dispatch

posted 2007-07-09 09:37:45

Tomgram: Carnage from the Air and the Washington Consensus

[Note to Tomdispatch readers: After a July 4th break, Tomdispatch is back -- with a favor to ask. In addition to everyone who bookmarks Tomdispatch, 18,000 of you now get e-mails letting you know whenever a new piece has been posted. (Many tens of thousands more read pieces from the site reposted elsewhere.) Most new readers sign up for those emails thanks to word of mouth, a formidable force in the on-line world. For those of you who already are hooked on TD, I wanted to urge you to lend the site a word-of-mouth hand (if you'll excuse the mixed metaphor). Why not write perhaps 10 people you know who might benefit from getting Tomdispatch regularly, urging them to go to the "sign up" window at the upper right of the main screen, put in their e-mail addresses, answer the confirmation letter that will quickly arrive in their in-boxes, and so join the TD crew. For those of you with a few extra minutes, who are willing to spread the word, my thanks in advance. Tom]

"Accidents" of War

The Time Has Come for an Honest Discussion of Air Power
By Tom Engelhardt

John Urry on Global Complexity, Human Rights & Cognitive Liberty

what? A Way Out! Universal Global Health/Dental Care, global G.I. Bill and Universal Gaia Education, A secular Space, Cognitive Liberty, and Human Rights for all on earth. Bucky showed that the Innovations produced from this way more than pays for itself up to 11 to 1 invested ...

NEW CITIZENSHIPS

Thus globalisation seems to involve some weakening of the power of the social and a corresponding development of ‘post-national’ citizenship (Rose 1996). Soysal argues that national citizenship is losing ground to a more universal model of membership located within an increasingly de-territorialised notion of a person’s more universal rights (1994: 3; Bauböck 1994). This post-national citizenship is especially connected with the growth of guest-working across many societies, greater global interdependence, increasingly overlapping memberships of different kinds of citizenship, and the emergence of universalistic rules and conceptions regarding human rights formalised by international codes and laws (such as the UN, UNESCO, ILO, EU, Council of Europe, Geneva Conventions, European Human Rights Convention and so on). Overall Soysal suggests an increasing contradiction between rights, which are universal, uniform and globally defined, and social identities, which are particularistic and territorially specified (1994).

John Urry continues here

http://jwsr.ucr.edu/archive/vol5/number2/html/urry/index.html

from

Journal of World-Systems Research, Vol V, 2, 1999, 311-324
http://jwsr.ucr.edu/
ISSN 1076-156X
©1999 John Urry.

Conference Program - Mobilities, Space, and Inequality, Basle 2007

14 May 2007

Mobilities, Space, and Inequality. IV. Cosmobilities Network Meeting in Basle, 7.-8.9.2007 The social arrangements of space and social inequality have always formed intriguing associations, yet the dynamics introduced by modernization, globalization, migration, and social change in relation to space and inequality have not received sufficient attention in the social sciences. Developments in communication and transport technologies are offering new possibilities of social arrangements and inequality structures in time and space. As a result, new spatial settings and functional overlappings are possible, e.g. working from home, travel time as working time, long distance relationships, etc. Accordingly, spatial mobility constitutes a number of different types of mobility. Of interest are not only the different types of mobility but also their relations to each other, as well as to social inequality structures and their dynamics more generally. The conference program and paper abstracts are online now. The Venue The conference takes place in Basle at the Departement of Sociology at Basle University. For further information, including online registration, rail and airport connection, please visit the conference website: http://soziologie.unibas.ch/cosmobilities/index.htm

http://www.cosmobilities.net/index.php?id=220

Wow! Fitjof Capra UP levels Bateson, Varela, & Autopoiesis! Cognition is the Living Process

FC speaks at ISSS on lack of Intelligent Design in policies of US govt., US Media, & US Senate/Congress & The Academy!
see last i minuite of talk
01:30: 00!!

Sunday,
8:00p.m. Fritjof Capra, "Complexity and Life" [Digest as HTML] [MP3 audio]
(90 minutes, 42 MB)

full site for audios & texts
http://isss.org/world/en/node/66

OMG! Nelly Furtado! sings Say It Right.. hot hot

what?


Say It Right lyrics


From my hands I could give you
Something that I made
From my mouth I could sing you another brick that I laid
From my body I could show you a place God knows
You should know the space is holy
Do you really want to go?



Say It Right lyrics

Megalithic legacy Neolithic conf. in Malta 3-11 November 2007

what?
Conference, tour, and workshops:
On approaches to understanding the origins of our megalithic legacy
The Caraffa Stores, Birgu, Island of Malta
3rd - 11th November 2007
http://www.metageum.org/



Metageum '07: This week-long event comprises three threads centred on the theme of understanding the consciousness of the people who built the megalithic temples::

* Conference: An international, inter-disciplinary conference on different ways of approaching the thinking and imagination of the Neolithic people who built the megalithic temples in Malta and elsewhere in the world.
* Workshops: A series of experiential workshops enabling us to make the imaginative leap into the Neolithic worldview.
* Tour: A tour of Malta's megalithic heritage.

It takes place on the Vittoriosa Waterfront on the Mediterranean island of Malta, an island noted for its exceptional legacy of prehistoric temples.

Presenters

Paul Devereux

Erik Davis

Benny Shanon

Prospective webcast: Glastonbury Radio is hoping to broadcast the event live on the internet, and is currently seeking commercial sponsors to make this happen. Glastonbury Radio's live webcast of the Megalithomania conference in Glastonbury (19th-20th May) proved to be very popular with the online radio audience.

erik davis reports on Bardo Theory: Costa Rica "Mind" conf. PKDick

what?
Erik Davis Reports
It seems as if all those Philip K. Dick novels were coming home to roost, and if the rest of the journey was more of your typical commercial airline hell, it remained permeated with the woozy disorientation caused by mistaken identity and the arbitrariness of the archons who rule these transit zones.

It may also be one of the most useful. Early in Waking Life, the Ethan Hawke character quotes Timothy Leary to the effect that, even if nothing of us survives death, the last few minutes of the brain's electrical activity may be experienced by the dying person as an entire life racing in time-lapse—or, as the film itself suggests, a nearly infinite labyrinth of dreams. From this perspective, the traditional teachings of bardo navigation may come in handy despite the basic reality of brain-death: even if we are only riding that last wave to flatline, it pays to know how to surf.
http://techgnosis.com/chunkshow-single.php?chunk=chunkfrom-2007-06-29-1929-0.txt

See also film on the Bardo Process during the Dying Process...how long does Dying last anyway? the extreme DMT probably kicks in. Maybe the homicidal Aztecs were getting off on the DMT squirt when one's beating heart was cut out and they drank the living blood?

Tim Leary wrote some on the Time Dilation Time manipulation during simulated Dying or very
high dose psychedelic trips ....in
neurologic now online here
page 40

http://www.noveltynet.org/content/books/neurologic/40.html

get Deleuzed! DeLanda on a Roll! part 4/of 5

Manuel DeLanda is the closest we have to a second generation Gregory Bateson, Marshall McLuhan, bucky fuller, etc. The rare fantastic Public Speaker...but
super rational, very psychedelic.

what? 4/5 talk parts
Transcendental Reservoir of Essences? Not! No way Jose!


see other 4 parts on Youtube....

The Iraqi Tribunal Charade --the complicit Media Plays Along

Barry Lando: It's understandable that there's been no mention in the Baghdad courtroom of foreign complicity with Saddam’s crimes. What is surprising, though, is how thoroughly the American media have played along with that charade.
http://www.alternet.org/bloggers/lando/55074/




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sYnaesthetic & sensory anthro Conf. & EthnoGraphi Fims

27 June - 02 July 2007 Uni. of Manchester, UK
what?

10^th RAI INTERNATIONAL
FESTIVAL OF
ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM
27 JUNE - 2 JULY 2007
UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER

INCORPORATING A MAJOR CONFERENCE:
BEYOND TEXT: SYNAESTHETIC & SENSORY
PRACTICES IN ANTHROPOLOGY

CENTRE FOR SCREEN STUDIES
SCHOOL OF ARTS, HISTORIES AND CULTURES

image : GRANADA CENTRE FOR
VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY

SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES

CELEBRATING 20 YEARS 1987 - 2007

sample talks & topics

2) Tickling the Senses: Colour, Synaesthesia, Film and Culture

Conveners & Discussants - Diana Young and Jennifer Deger

Barbara Saunders: Virilio and the Technology of Colour

Diana Young: The Invention of Colour

http://www.raifilmfest.org.uk/conference.htm

Future Shock Toffler's on CoastToCoastAm Mon. June 18 2007

Hosted by George Noory Guest(s) Alvin Toffler, Heidi Toffler

Monday, June 18 Futurists Alvin & Heidi Toffler have helped millions around the world anticipate tomorrow. Focusing on families, finance, media, military and business, the Tofflers prepare us for the sweeping changes rushing toward us all.

http://www.coasttocoastam.com/shows/2007/06/18.html

Alvin Toffler site
new book
Revolutionary Wealth

This long-awaited look at wealth in the 21st Century focuses on the economic revolution sweeping the globe and the impact it will have on everything from science and schools to property and politics, marketing and media.




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Rise of the New Atheists by ronald Aronson of The Nation

Rise of the New Atheists

By Ronald Aronson, The Nation
Posted on June 16, 2007, Printed on June 16, 2007
http://www.alternet.org/story/54054/

What began with publisher W.W. Norton taking a chance on a gutsy, hyperbolic and idiosyncratic attack on religion by a graduate student in neuroscience has grown into a remarkable intellectual wave.

DeLanda Videos from 2006 ESA

DeLanda Videos from 2006 ESA

what?

Collection assembled by Mr. Goodreads for your viewing ease.

About:Manuel DeLanda lecturing about the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, logic, meaning, and the understanding of geometry and mathematics in an open lecture at European Graduate School EGS, Media Studies department. Saas-Fee, Switzerland 2006. Manuel de Landa.

http://www.goodreads.ca/manueldelanda/

cc

rest of vids on toutube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52IAUvfXHaQ

European Graduate School this Summer classes

http://egs.edu/main/aboutegs.html

Amy & Mick duet Isle of Wight! too much!

what?
OMG!!
this has happened in just six months!

from sunday daily mail

Meanwhile on stage, newlywed Amy Winehouse performed a duet with Mick Jagger, cementing her ascent to near superstar status after topping the charts in both the UK and the US.

Winehouse, teamed up with Jagger on Ain't Too Proud To Beg, a Temptations song the Stones recorded for the 1974 album It's Only Rock'n'Roll. An unintimidated Amy made a fine double act with Mick, with different vocal styles but similar waist sizes.

John Lash audio interview with Joanna Harcourt-Smith

Future Primitive
http://www.futureprimitive.org/NIHI.html

LATEST BROADCAST - June 6, 2007
The tenth interview is about the Healing Myth. A summary of Gnostic teachings on the Sophia, with emphasis on the healing effect of Her Story, the divine power of the Organic Light, and the quest for a new image of humanity.

LEFT CLICK LISTEN | RIGHT CLICK (save as) DOWNLOAD
LENGTH: 46.16 mins. SIZE: 10.50MB

With John Lash's book, CGS is challenging the ideology and beliefs that threaten survival on this precious planet and presenting John's careful recovery and restoration of the Gnostic myth of the earth goddess, Sophia, who we today call Gaia.

I will be broadcasting a series of ten talks to be posted on Future Primitive twice a month, beginning February 8, 2007. I will be interviewing my collaborator and longtime friend, John Lash, about his book.

- Joanna Harcourt-Smith

Candace Pert on Molecules of Embodimenting Joy Juice Opium as Sacred Herb of

what?

http://www.candacepert.com/

MP3

http://www.candacepert.com/blog/blog.htm

this talk is online live now and should be available in archives soon enough


here are faster links to shows...Archive function finally works really well!

Listen live link
http://tinyurl.com/9r2gt
or
http://www.kpfk.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=260&Itemid=82

they now have really quick shows if you miss live one
archived link
http://tinyurl.com/32bz8z
or
http://www.kpfk.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2101&Itemid=135&lang=en


KPFK
http://www.kpfk.org/



1-3:30 AM Candace Pert Ph.D. "To Feel "Go(o)d: The Science and Spirit of
Bliss"
Bliss Is Your Biological Birthright - Are You Ready to Claim It?

To Dr. Candace Pert, 'feeling good' and 'feeling God' are one in the
same. You may be surprised to hear a world-renowned biophysicist
talking about God, yet Candace Pert is on the vanguard of a new breed of
scientists who fearlessly explore the territory where science and spirit
meet. On 'To Feel Go(o)d' Dr. Pert reveals that you are biologically
'hardwired for bliss' - all you need to do is tap your own body's
unlimited natural capacity for living in joy and connecting to the
divine. Join her on this new original audio to learn about:

+The biophysics of pleasure: How to get the most out of your body's
neurological capacity for ecstasy.
+ Forgiveness and you biology - why this powerful act can transfigure
and heal you at a cellular level.
+ What makes us feel bad? Simple changes that will eliminate obstacles
to your happiness.
+ How trauma is stored in the body, and strategies you can use to
release it.
+ Can science find God? A researcher's perspective on the universal
binding force of love, and more.

Since her appearance in 'What the Bleep Do We Know?' Candace Pert has
heard one question repeated again and again: 'How do I feel good in my
life?' With 'To Feel Go(o)d', this cutting-edge researcher and
spiritual philosopher brings you her insights on what you can do to
transcend transitory sensations of joy or pleasure - and inherit the
blissful union with God that is your evolutionary birthright.

Candace Pert, Ph.D. is an internationally recognized psycopharmacologist
and leading edge researcher, best known as the co-discoverer of the of
the 'pleasure' (or opiate) receptor and for her groundbreaking theories
on neuropeptides, consciousness, and reality. She is the author of
'Molecules of Emotion: The Science of Bodymind Medicine' and 'Everything
You Need to Know to Feel Go(o)d' has published over 250 articles in
peer-reviewed journal, and was a featured scientist in the film 'What
the Bleep Do We Know?' From Sounds True, 1 (800) 333-9185,
www.soundstrue.com

from
SOMETHING'S HAPPENING ON THE WEB
KPFK can be heard streaming live online at www.kpfk.org and click on
'listen live" Times are Pacific Time. Program times for
"Something's Happening!" are approximate but close and "Monday night" is
legally Tuesday morning et seq. Details of the
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music selections, tape sources etc) can be found at
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date of broadcast to find any information. Thanks to Archive Webmaster
James Pressler and Server Masters Riley and Mary McIntire


AUDIO ARCHIVES
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on www.kpfk.org for 60 days after broadcast. To get to audio archives
click on 'audio archives.' Times listed are the legal time with Monday
night listed as Tuesday morning, etc. Translation: you can listen to
the show any time of the day or night on demand. Helpful Hint: If you
click on 'show' then the long list of programs will be arranged by show
rather than by day of broadcast.

Richard Alpert Ram Dass rare film/video on LSD

Richard Alpert (Ram Dass) on LSD
08:00
Richard Alpert (Ram Dass) discusses the psychological implications of the LSD psychedelic experience.
Tags:
Richard Alpert Ram Dass LSD Acid Psychedelic Psychology
Added: 4 months ago in Category: Howto & DIY
From: majikrush
Views: 11,539
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hW6Dm_m5t4

Christopher Hitchens on the Essential Stupidity of Religion

wow! My count is now up to 8 of anti-"Religion" people! what is going on? A touch of sanity attacking the psychotic monster of Obsolete Religion. Wonderful!

Christopher Hitchens on the Essential Stupidity of Religion

"Many people have been motivated to do grand, good things by faith, but why is that necessary?"

By DWAYNE BOOTH

Tuesday, May 29, 2007 - 6:00 pm

(Illustration by Mr. Fish)

He appears equally capable of pissing into your grandmother�s fish tank and beating you at chess: the quasi-omniscient Johnny Rotten of political journo-intellectualism, looking as if he were assembled hastily by sausage makers hoping to fill a suit with all the succulent impropriety of vitriolic yet delectable meats. A man well aware that the shortest distance (and least interesting path) between birth and death is a very straight line, he has the reputation of someone prone to the rich experiences offered by staggering. But contrary to the corroborating promises all but guaranteed by the YouTube versions of himself, Christopher Hitchens was not an as-advertised fucking dickhead asshole bully, much to my dismay.

It was like meeting a clown without his makeup, away from the hysteria of his profession, who appears lovely and handsome and noble, if only because he isn�t trapped in a spotlight at the center of a ludicrous pie fight. CON. HERE

This week Slate is publishing three excerpts from Christopher Hitchens' new book, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything.

If the followers of the prophet Muhammad hoped to put an end to any future "revelations" after the immaculate conception of the Koran, they reckoned without the founder of what is now one of the world's fastest-growing faiths.
http://slate.com/id/2165033/


1. Hitchens
2. God: The Failed Hypothesis. How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist by Victor J Stenger
3. Kathleen Kennedy's
4. Julia Sweeney's One Woman Play and Freedom from Religion Society and Jesus!, Protect me from your Follower's Lawsuit against the US Media, President Bush, US Congress & Senate!
5. Sam Harris

6. The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
7. The Assault on Reason by Al Gore!
8. The Hoax of Salvation by John Lash!


One of the better reviews on Amazon
Hitchens hits another one out of the park, April 29, 2007

By	K. Knighton (Seattle) - See all my reviews

I think Christopher Hitchens is a national - no, make that Global - treasure, and his newest book here only underscores this. To carry on with my baseball metaphor, when Hitchens stepped up to the plate with this book on religion the bases were already loaded: Vonnegut on third, Sam Harris on second, and Richard Dawkins on first. Hitchens knocks 'em all in with one swing of the bat. He cuts through the BS of religion and "faith" better than anybody.
the increasingly publicly-accepted insanity of religion in this, the 21st century. This insanity threatens to bring down all of civilization and, in the case of American fundamentalists in our government with their quivering fingers poised atop the launch buttons of our nuclear weapons, the end of Everything, which religious nut-jobs anticipate with unrestrained glee, so certain they are that they, at least, will be OK in the aftermath. This is just absolutely nuts, and Christopher Hitchens does us all a great service in pointing this out.
more at
http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0446579807/

see more at amazon with their forums on this topic

Salvation and Why You Don't Need It

Amy Winehouse hits big time! Rolling Stoned ! Spin

from Idolator

Spin cover !

Rollin' Stoned cover
Flash!







http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2007/05/30/amy-winehouse-the-latest-rolling-stone-cover-star/

Wuss US CD executives leave Addicted off Amy's US debut CD??!! WTFcuk?
AMY WINEHOUSE LYRICS

buy UK "Addicted" on UK Back to Black CD
Addicted on Back to Black CD UK

Tell your boyfriend next time he around
To buy his own weed and don't wear my shit down
I wouldn't care if brave would give me some more
I'd rather him leave you then leave him my draw

When you smoke all my weed man
You gotta call the green man
So I can get mine and you get yours

Once is enough to make me attack
So bring me a bag and your man can come back
I'll check him at the door make sure he got green
I'm tighter than airport security teams

When you smoke all my weed man
You gotta call the green man
So I can get mine and you get yours

I'm my own man so when will you learn
That you got a man but I got to burn
Don't make no difference if I end up alone
I'd rather have myself a smoke my homegrown
It's got me addicted, does more than any dick did

Yeh I can get mine and you get yours
Yeh I can get mine and you get yours
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/amywinehouse/addicted.html

order the UK CD! on iTunes UK or Amazon UK