Wars on Drugs, Drugs on War
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Wow! Trying out Ping.fm How much fun are all these Twitter front-ends!

trying out Ping.fm! how much fum are all these Twitter front-ends!

3-D Arcologic Principles Take-Off in Food Production Design

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Up on the Farm
September, 2008< BACK TO CONTENTS | DIGG IT | DEL.ICIO.US
By taking food production vertical, designers are making inner-city farming a fruitful proposition. By Tim McKeough

Visitors to P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in New York are now confronted not just with sculpture and video, but with fresh fruits and vegetables growing atop a canopy of lacquered cardboard tubes.

a General Protest & Strike thru Self-Jubilee do a Bankruptcy!

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Here is a modest proposal that will help folks who really need help as well as make our economy stronger: Everyone with significant credit card debt (which is just about everyone) should use his or her check to file for bankruptcy. The entire process can cost as little as $600 for people who represent themselves (which many currently do, with paperwork help from paralegals and targeted legal advice from lawyers). And even if you choose to hire a lawyer to represent you, the proposed rebates will definitely get you started.

Bankruptcy has been around since biblical times, and has long been recognized as an important component of the capitalist economy in that it restores debtors to the consumer marketplace. Specifically, bankruptcy gets rid of credit card and most other kinds of debt (exceptions are alimony and child support; most student loans; recent taxes; and debts caused by fraudulent or willful and malicious actions). Most people are solvent for the first time in years when they emerge from bankruptcy, and once again are able purchase goods and services without going into more debt. Just imagine how the economy would hum if consumers were freed from the punishing interest rates that often creep over 30% for technical violations of credit contracts.

sYnthetic Biology! Craig Venter! talks Live webcast 7PM west coast

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Craig Venter Live via Webcast

This Seminar will be broadcast live via webcast during the event.

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Monday, February 25, 2008

7:00 PM

Herbst Theatre

401 Van Ness Avenue
San Francisco, California 94102

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The Long Now Foundation presents Seminars About Long-term Thinking
Joining 3.5 Billion Years of Microbial Invention - with Craig Venter

Few people in history have expanded the capabilities of science and technology as profoundly as J. Craig Venter. Life on Earth is about to be fundamentally altered by the creation of a totally synthetic organism, an artificial species genetically encoded from scratch by scientists working under Dr. Venter. Do not miss what he has to say about the implications of this watershed moment.

February 25th, (MONDAY)
Doors open 7:00pm, talk at 7:30pm (duration ~1.5 hours)

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Craig Venter's Seminar will be presented live via webcast on Monday, February 25th at 7:30 pm.
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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



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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!

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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

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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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