Greetings from New Zealand where Stephanie and I just celebrated our 30th wedding anniversary with many new friends and of course our travelling family. Lots of wind and rain have paused our journey through this beautiful land, but the email seems to be able to carry on nonetheless. 
 
 
LIFESTYLE/ ARTS/ CULTURE/ ETC:
 
 
 
"Feb 20th Democracy Now! gala with Willie Nelson"
 
 
Wesak Festival Mt.Shasta, May 16-18
 
 
 
July 17 Burgh Festival, Germany
 
 
 
 
Invitation to a launch in Brisbane
Moreno Collegium
 
 
 
Rex Foundation Benefit at the Fillmore in San Francisco Feb 29
Tea Leaf Green with Moonalice
 
 
 
World Psychedelic Forum
March 21-24 Basel Switzerland
"Come celebrate Albert's 102nd"
 
 
 
Nimbin Mardi Grass May 3-4.
Join us in Australia for this funtastic celebration. Hippies and open minded peoples enjoying a beautiful weekend
 
 
 
 
My friend Grant's "Heart Art" Golden Bay, New Zealand Jan 21 to Feb 2
 
 
 
"Hawaii Total Well Being Festivals" Hawaii March 8-9 Oahu and also Sept 6-7 Big Island
 
 
 
Big Island Hawaii Permaculture classes February
 
 
"Women of the World: Acoustic" CD
 
 
 
Visionary art from Jarah Tree
 
 
 
AJ is a wonderful musician with heart and soul we met in New Zealand
 
 
 
 
 
 
Robert Anton Wilson
 
 
Canadian pot news
 
 
 
"Canada: Marc Emery to Accept Canadian Prison Time on US Charges"
 
 
"UK: The Reasons Behind Gordon Browns Marijuana Madness"
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
"CANNABIS COLLEGE IN OAKLAND TEACHING POT COURSES"
 
 
 
"Hippies in Daffin Park: Where were you in ‘72?"
 
 
 
Saint John Coltrane Church
 
 
 
"The Ascended Masters" video
 
 
 
Anastenaria  video

 
 
"An Open Letter from Jack Kornfield, Ram Dass, and Sharon Salzberg"
 
 
 
"Karma | Life Reflects What You Project | Paradox of Life" by Viola Woolcott
 
 
 
THE TWIN EVILS OF COMFORT AND EASE
 
 
 
"Forgiveness-what is it?"  by Viola Woolcott
 
 
 
"I Wonder Why by Phillip Daniel | Feed333, Its Feeding Time at Personal Development at Viola Woolcott.com"
 
 
 
 
Coloidal Silver dangers of
 
 
 
"EU claim cloned food is safe "
 
 
Billy Dean-animal communicator
 
 
 
"Greenpeace says located, chasing Japanese whalers"
 
 
"Aussie court rules Japan's whale hunt illegal"
 
 
 
"Solar Cycle 25 peaking around 2022 could be one of the weakest in centuries"
 
 
 
 "Huge gas cloud will hit Milky Way"

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7184521.stm

 

 

 

"Nuclear Power Rebirth Spawns New Worries"

http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1213366/nuclear_power_rebirth_spawns_new_worries/index.html

 

 

 
"December 21 2012 THE END" video
 
 
"Apocalypse 2012? Some say ancient records foretell end of the world"
http://www.citizen.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080113/GJNEWS02/38591256
/-1/CITNEWS

 
 
 
"The Most Terrifying Video You'll Ever See" (environmental dangers)
 
 
 
Important petition on saving Greek forests
 
 
"Are Oceans the Next Drinking Tap?"
 
 
 
"MoD to open British UFO X-files"
 
 
 
"Microsoft System May Monitor Workers' Brains, Bodies"
 
 
 
"Peru: Archaeological Fortress Discovered in the town of Kimbiri, Cusco"
 
 
 
"The Amrosia Society" with interesting information on Amanita
 
 
 
"Amanita Muscaria: Herb of Immortality"
 
 
 
"Many Dutch coffee shops close as liberal policies change"
 
 
"Venezuela: Chavez Says He Chews Coca Daily"
 
 
 
"Censored" cannabis news from UK
 
 
 
 
" Rewilding and Rainbowculture "
 
 
 
My friend Mike Safran's art site
 
 
 
Robina and Huckleberry are a vibrant couple in Golden Bay New Zealand with much to offer in living with nature and permaculture
 
 
 
 
"We are a Christchurch-based group with links and members all over Aotearoa/New Zealand. We concentrate on the foreign military and intelligence installations in New Zealand .  There are three - the US "Deep Freeze" military base at Harewood ( Christchurch Airport ); and the "NZ" intelligence gathering installations at Tangimoana (Manawatu) and Waihopai (Marlborough), which are simply outposts of American Intelligence. We have specific demands on all three – that Harewood be demilitarised; and the others closed ASAP. We demand the abolition of the NZ Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB), which operates Waihopai and Tangimoana. We have built up information on the whole gamut of the ongoing US-NZ military and intelligence relationship."
 
 
 
A planned community in New Zealand with focus on sustainability and modeled from traditional European villages while incorparating the latest in earth friendly ideas
 
 
 
Ringing Cedar's latest Anastasia chapter
 
 
 
 * Medical plants 'face extinction' *
Hundreds of medicinal plants are at risk of extinction, threatening the
discovery of future cures for disease, experts warn.
Full story:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/2/hi/health/7196702.stm
 
 
 
Soybean concerns
 
 
 
"Meat’s Meat….So Let’s Eat"
 
 
 
http://www.rense.com/general80/nutra.htm
"Hawaii Moves To Ban Aspartame "
 
 
 
"Raw Food Diet - Physical, Emotional, Spiritual Commitment to Your Health"
 
 
 
"Travelling School of Life "
 
 
 
"Watch 'Earth Pilgrim' online"
 
 
"Conscious Design & Feng Shui workshops with Christian Kyriacou"
 
 
 
Richard Heath, master of sacred number and sacred geometry
 
 
 
Reiki forum
 
 
 
Freddy Silva, an expert on crop circles and sacred spaces
 
 
 
Pyramids in Bosnia
 
 
The Flower of Life, Piri Reis Maps and other mysterious artifacts
 
 
 
Rare History web site of Larry Radka
 
 
 
Hellenic Buddhism and Buddhist Christianity
 
 
The Grandmothers Speak
 
 
 
WorldReviewer web site. The WorldReviewer web site has experts from all fields and walks of life, from travel to education. It is not simply a travel site, but aims to celebrate the wonders of the world, both ancient and modern, and become a true encyclopedia of travel experiences.  http://www.worldreviewer.com/
 
 
"Positive Thoughts, Food for the Mind"
Jean Houston: A leading sociopolitical artist and visionary thinker
 
 
 
"Psychopharmacology: Critical Psychiatry"
 
 
 
Dolphin play video
 
 
"Lab successfully clones human embryos"
 
 
 
"Astronauts landed at Uluru: it's true?"
 
 
 
"Why Al Gore isn't running for president"
 
 
"Eight thousand evacuated as Colombian volcano erupts"
 
 
 
"Rich nations owe trillions for eco-damage"
 
 
 
"Antarctic Ice Loss Speeds Up, Nearly Matches Greenland Loss"
 
 
 
"UFO sighted 1-1-08 in San Diego "
 
 
A COUPLE OF NEW ZEALAND BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES:
 
 
 I am hilighting two local businesses that are for sale. Both Pedro and Woody are unique and wonderful people. One place is a magnificent organic farm in Golden Bay and the other is an art gallery on the ocean and next to a national park. In our own goal of seeking residency, we would be happy to consider how to be apart of either established business as well.
 
 
Pedro is a wonderful man in beautiful Golden Bay on the South Island of New Zealand. He has a radiant farm that we enjoyed both the scenery at as well as views. Because of other travelling on needs, he is offering the farm for sale. If interested. contact him direct through the website.
 
 
Woody is a deep hearted artist who has crafted a unique space for many talented people on the spectacular northern part of New Zealand's south island to showcase their work. He too would like to travel on, so if interested in buying this business, contact him direct as well.
 
 
GLOBAL:
 
 
 
Death and Darkness in Gaza
People Are Dying, Help Us!
By Maan
A humanitarian crisis is underway as the Gaza Strip's only power plant began to shut down on Sunday, and the tiny coastal territory entered its third full day without shipments of vital food and fuel supplies due to Israel's punitive sanctions.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19120.htm
 
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West Bank Bantustan
By Ben White
The Annapolis peace process, guided by the Quartet, leads us towards a Palestinian "state" that, notwithstanding Bush's adjectival outpourings, will resemble Gaza-esque enclaves declared "unoccupied" and subjected to brutal repression.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19116.htm
 
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McCarthyism Comes to Europe and the Levant: 
  By Franklin Lamb in Beirut and Ann El Khoury
The foot-soldiers of the Likud lobby around the world are applying pressure to stop people from attending academic and activist conferences. As with the McCarthyism of half a century ago, today's Middle East Studies McCarthyism perpetrated by the Likud Lobby is also a threat to our liberty, to academic freedom, and to basic, fundamental democratic rights and responsibilities.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19113.htm
 
 
 
"The Un-American Way: A little compassion applied to all of your fellow men"
 
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Noam Chomsky
The Apartheid Paradigm in Palestine/Israel
22 Minute Video
Chomsky says U.S. backing of continued Israeli occupation and annexation of Palestinian land is the biggest obstacle to peace.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19112.htm
 
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Muslim Women... The Real Oppression
By Nahida Izzat
The greatest danger and the most ruthless enemy of the world now is Islam, and they the "poor brave" Zionists are living amidst millions and millions of "Islamo-fascists", "terrorists" or "potential terrorists", and they courageously are trying to fight this "evil" to save the "civilized" world.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19119.htm
 
 
 
 
"European Collusion in Israel's Slow Genocide "
By Omar Barghouti
The European Union, Israel's largest trade partner in the world, is watching by as Israel tightens its barbaric siege on Gaza, collectively punishing 1.5 million Palestinian civilians, condemning them to devastation, and visiting imminent death upon hundreds of kidney dialysis and heart patients, prematurely born babies, and all others dependent on electric power for their very survival.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19121.htm
 
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"Pictures Showing The Slaughter In Gaza"
So Many Tragedies in Such Little Time
Where to start..., what to talk about...?  The crippling electricity shortages, affecting hospitals as well as civilians?  The air strikes & on-going, daily bombings by the Israeli army, their indiscriminate targeting of civilians and police stations...? 
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19128.htm
 
 
"UN Transformation Proposed To Create 'New World Order"
By Andrew Grice in Delhi
Gordon Brown has begun secret talks with other world leaders on far-reaching reform of the United Nations Security Council as part of a drive to create a "new world order" and "global society".
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19122.htm
 
 
 
 
 
 
Is This The Big One?
By Mike Whitney
On Monday, fears of a US recession spilled over into Asian markets sending stocks tumbling. Indexes were hammered across the board in what turned out to be the worst day of trading since 2001.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19126.htm
 
 
 
"Stocks plunge worldwide as U.S. markets were closed for the MLK holiday."
 
 
 
"Bloody Tuesday? Global Markets See Worst Day Since 9/11.. US To Follow?"
 
"Lakotah declare independence"
 
 
"Japanese government pushes through law to allow naval support for
Afghan occupation"
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/jan2008/japa-j18.shtml
 
"Nepali Maoists rejoin interim government to contest elections"
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/jan2008/nepa-j18.shtml
 
 
 
 
NATIONAL:
 
 
 
The new edition of "Issues & Alibis!"
http://www.issuesandalibis.org

 
 
"Mena, Arkansas: Where The Dots Connect Between
  The Bush And Clinton Crime Families"
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/MENA/mena.html
 
 
 
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011708H.shtml
"How to Rig an Election: Confessions of a Republican Operative"
     By Steven Rosenfeld
 
 
 

Bill Moyers | Martin Luther King and LBJ
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011908A.shtml


 
"Obama's Dubious Praise for Reagan"
 
 
"Kucinich Kept Off Texas Ballot"
 
 
America's Number One Addiction Problem: Oil. A Crude Awakening (DVD)
 
 
Pre-Emptive Nuclear Strike a Key Option, NATO Told
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/01/22/6529/
 
 
 
 
 
Anti-Empire Report, January 13, 2008
http://killinghope.org/aer53.htm
 
 
 
 

 
 
"The Afternoon Buzz: CBS/NYT Poll: 75% of Americans Says Country Is On Wrong Track, a record high"
 
 
 
Waxman: 473 Days of Email Missing From White House, Agencies From 2003
to 2005
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011808J.shtml

 
 
Case for Cheney's Impeachment "Stronger Than Watergate"
 
"Iraqi Children Pay Heavy Price of War"
by Dr. Cesar Chelala
One child dies every five minutes because of the war, and many more are left with severe injuries.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19062.htm
 
 
 
"Intelligence Chief Weighs In on Waterboarding as Torture"
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011308Z.shtml
 
 
 
The Late Molly Ivins: "I Will Not Support Hillary Clinton for President."
 
 
 
Christopher Kutruff | NBC Blocks Kucinich From Debate
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011408R.shtml

 
 
"Ron Paul and the Neo Nazis"
 
 
 
"Across America, Deadly Echoes of Foreign Battles"
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011308Y.shtml
 
 
 
"The Power Elite"
 
 
"In Lies We Trust: The CIA, Hollywood and Bioterrorism - Official Release"
 
 
 
"Pentagon, Big Pharma
Drug Troops to Numb Them to Horrors of War"
By Penny Coleman
The DoD is flirting with the idea of medicating soldiers to desensitize them to combat trauma -- will an army of unfeeling monsters result?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19065.htm
 
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"We Are Trained Killers"
4 Minute Video
US in Iraq: Are We Humane? - WARNING -
This video should only be viewed by a mature audience.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19066.htm
 
 
 
"Did the Christian-right want Kennedy Dead?
Did Nazi Sharpshooters fear Kennedy would pull our troops out of
Germany and Vietnam?"

http://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/ Billy_James_ Hargis
 
 
QUOTES:
 
 
 
The history of the race, and each individual's experience, are thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal: Mark Twain
 
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Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to think. But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing: Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, 1791 ~
 
 
 
 
The state has, in order to control us, introduced division into our thinking, so that we come to distrust others and look to the state for protection! But the roots of our individualism remind us that what we are is inseparable from the source from which all others derive; that coercive practices that threaten our neighbor also threaten us.: -Butler Shaffer
 
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In India when we meet and part we often say, "Namaste," which means: I honor the place in you where the entire universe resides; I honor the place in you of love, of light, of truth, of peace. I honor the place within you where if you are in that place in you and I am in that place in me, there is only one of us ... "Namaste." ... : Ram Dass
 
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Peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace: Martin Luther (1483-1546)
 
 
The ultimate measure of a person is not where one stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where one stands in times of challenge and controversy: Martin Luther King
 
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Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms: J. Krishnamurti
 
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Past the seeker as he prayed came the crippled and the beggar and the beaten. And seeing them...he cried, "Great God, how is it that a loving creator can see such things and yet do nothing about them?"...God said, "I did do something. I made you." : Sufi Teaching
 
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I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law: Martin Luther King Jr., "Letter From Birmingham Jail", 4.16.63
 
 
"The cost of liberty is less than the cost of repression." - W.E.B.  Du Bois
 
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We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life: A. J. Muste
 
 
"Volumes can be and have been written about the issue of freedom versus dictatorship, but, in essence, it comes down to a single question: do you consider it moral to treat men as sacrificial animals and to rule them by physical force?" -- Ayn Rand- (1905-1982) Author
 
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"Stability and peace in our land will not come from the barrel of a gun, because peace without justice is an impossibility." -- Bishop Desmond Tutu - (1931- ) Nobel Prize for Peace 1984
 
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"The greater the importance to safeguarding the community from incitements to the overthrow of our institutions by force and violence, the more imperative is the need to preserve the constitutional rights of free speech, free press and free assembly in order to maintain the opportunity for free political discussion." -- Justice Charles Evans Hughes - (1862-1948) Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court Source: DeJonge v. Oregon, 1937
 
 
'Those who   joyfully march in rank and file has
already earned my contempt.
They have been given a large brain by mistake,
since for them the
spinal cord would suffice.' - Albert Einstein


'who looks outside dreams
who looks inside awakes' - Carl Gustav Jung



Power Is only a tool that offers the potential
for unlimited freedom
by means of actions that are congruent with
personal integrity. - anon
 
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When you give food to the poor, they call you a saint. When you ask why the poor have no food, they call you a communist: Archbishop Helder Camara, Brazilian liberation theologist
 
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Peace we want because there is another war to fight against poverty, disease and ignorance: Indira Gandhi, 1966
 
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It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace: Andre Gide
 
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No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do: Dorothy Day
 
 
"The necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude, and perseverance. Let us remember that `if we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom.' it is a very serious consideration .  that millions yet unborn may be the miserable sharers of the event." : - Samuel Adams, speech in Boston, 1771.
 
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The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people: Frank Kent
 
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"Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.": Sir Francis Bacon
 
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The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men: -Plato
 
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Demagogue: one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots: -H.L. Mencken
 
 
 
Violence is shrouded in justifying myths that lend it moral legitimacy, and these myths for the most part kept people from recognizing the violence for what it was. The people who burned witches at the stake never for one moment thought of their act as violence; rather they though of it as an act of divinely mandated righteousness. The same can be said of most of the violence we humans have ever committed: Gil Bailie
 
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The problems of this world are so gigantic that some are paralysed by their own uncertainty. Courage and wisdom are needed to reach out above this sense of helplessness. Desire for vengeance against deeds of hatred offers no solution. An eye for an eye makes the world blind. If we wish to choose the other path, we will have to search for ways to break the spiral of animosity. To fight evil one must also recognize one's own responsibility. The values for which we stand must be expressed in the way we think of, and how we deal with, our fellow humans: - From the Christmas Message 2001 of HM Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands
 
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We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living: General Omar Bradley
 
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The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis: Edmund Burke