| Our three month visa in Australia approaches the end, so we prepare now of a month of camping in Fiji before heading for New Zealand. Internet service and electricity on the island won't be available, so my mailings might seem rare for the next few weeks. Any donations towards our internet costs are very appreciated still. Paypal can be used for a
credit cards to the account balivillasinga@yahoo.com Otherwise, here is an address for mailing us below. Many greetings from "Odyseus" George and the mobile family tree GEORGE DOUVRIS c/o AARON GINGERELLI POBox 8975 MISOULA, MT 59807 USA LIFESTYLE/ ARTS/ CULTURE/ ETC: "Actress Mariel Hemingway Hosting Fund-Raising Dinner November 9th for Alex Grey's Chapel of Sacred Mirrors in New York -- Consciousness Cafe" "Albert Hofmann Named No. 1 Among Top 100 living geniuses " "LSD and Dying on the eye of the cyclone Blog" "Tim Leary's 'powdered residue' "YouTube - Prince of Pot
- Part One" "Dutch protesters make bid to save "magic mushrooms" http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071027/wl_nm/mushrooms_dutch_dc Healthy garden allies from my friend Pedro River's Source Botanicals "Missoulian (MT): Medical Marijuana Advocate Kills Herself" ALLEGED BURNING MAN ARSONIST read this: -------------------------------------------------------- This latest update was just sent to me: Hello, George, thanks for your attention. Did you know there was another arson at this year's Burning Man? My friend, who did an art exhibit there of a modern Statue of Liberty had his whole installation burned on the same night as the main burn. Was this also caused by Paul Addis and his
friends? Here is his article on Tribe.net Resould Benefit in Hawaii Halloween Oct 31 and Nov 2 Grand Opening (thanks Jesse) "History Lessons with His Holiness: The Story of Tibet" Adam Elenbaas http://www.realitysandwich.com/node/585 Fenario Gallery featuring visionary artists Robert Venosa and Martina Hoffmann My friend Iasos'
latest newsletter "Neil Young - Chrome Dreams II - Music - New York Times" "Complete Clapton -- Just Released, 2 CD Set" "Schwarzenegger Again Vetoes Industrial Hemp Bill" "Europe's biofuel boom could shaft world's poor," "Time Magazine honors Karl Ammann as “Hero
of the Environment“ "Propolis could be used as a natural, non-toxic food preservative" "Hawaii's Warm-Hearted Honey Man" Kelpie Wilson | Bioneers to the Rescue http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/102907R.shtml "Feds want to survey, possibly clean up vast garbage pit in Pacific" "’70s Echo in New ‘No Nukes’ Campaign - Ne w York Times" "Dennis Kunich might have sited UFO" "House passes
Hawaii Superferry bill" "10 Oct 2007: US and Russia Sign Pact to Hunt for Water on the Moon and Mars" "Fight Global Warming Now: The Handbook for Taking Action in Your Community" "Environmental failures 'put humanity at risk'' "Killing Fields - Electromagnetic Radiation" "What Women Aren't Told About Childbirth" "Sicko" DVD "Biochiped" "Italian Fires Maybe Caused by Aliens--Gov't Investigation" "Mohawk Warriors Unite with Zapatistas at Encuentro" "Nov 3 Ireland: Samhain Bagpipe Gathering" Rainbows End Farm, Missouri Gathering "Wonders of Cannabis | Ed Rosenthal's Third Annual Wonders of Cannabis" Oct 27/28 San Francisco "NORML Does LA: The 2007 National Convention"
"Smoking Pot 2.0" "The Magic of the Big Green Gathering" "Millions Stand
Against Poverty in 24-Hour Global Rally" "Granby Colorado, 1972:Armageddon Postponed-The first Rainbow Gathering. 2012 July 4th 40 Years of Rainbow” " Rainbow Family "unofficial
home page" "McCain mocks Clinton's Woodstock project " "Dutch Declare Hallucinogenic Mushrooms Illegal" "No more mushrooms" "Israel OKs ecstasy use " "Clandestine Chemistry Primer & FAQ " "Experience 'Hendrix' at 80" "Neil Young | Doin' what he does - and it's rock solid | Seattle Times Newspaper" "up! Dance culture continues to spread" Swami Beyondananda http://communingwithdolphins.com/ Our friend Dolphin David on Maui sends us this access to many beautiful whale appreciation boat trips "Whale Dreamers" the movie Koa talks about survival in the Australia bush "Cognition
Factor" teaser "13 month calendar and 2012 prophecy" "European Alliance of Initiatives for Applied Anthroposophy" 85 million-year-old dinosaur skull found in Japan Knights Templar win heresy reprieve after 700 years 1,001 inventions mark Islam's role in science Ancient Mexican city raises questions about Mesoamerica's Mother Culture "15 Reasons to Stop Hiding from Vegetarianism" "FDA seizes $71k in herbal tea products as campaign of censorship against nutritional supplements continues" "Highly Toxic Cosmetics" "Study says climate change could trigger mass extinction" "Superbugs Worse
than AIDS?" "Bill Cosby Insults Black Communities" "Michael Moore's "Sicko" on DVD, With New Material" "11 Things the Rest of the World Can Teach Us" Big Foot photos and more "Man levitates outside the White House" GLOBAL: "Ecuador wants military base in Miami" "Sarkozy promises a green revolution for France" Desmond Tutu Likens Israeli Actions to Apartheid http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/10/29/4872/ Rumsfeld Charged with Torture in French Court
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/10/29/4890/ "Myanmar Magic: Tell a Joke, and You Disappear" Worsening conflict between Russia and Georgia driven by Washington-Moscow rivalries http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/oct2007/geor-o30.shtml Near-unanimous vote at UN to repudiate US blockade of Cuba http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/nov2007/cuba-n01.shtml Pictures of Tehran, Iran
NATIONAL: October 27 Peace Demonstrations "Where Have All the Protests Gone?"
"Mike Davis, Who Really Set the California Fires?" "Blackwater Granted Immunity In Killing Civilians" "Mukasey Supports Warrantless Wiretapping" http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/102707A.shtml Laurie Kellman of The Associated Press reports: "President Bush's choice for attorney general told senators Friday the Constitution does not prevent the president from wiretapping suspected terrorists without a court order." "Bill Clinton Trades Blows With 9/11 Truthers" http://mparent7777-2.blogspot.com/2007/10/rumsfeld-charged-with-torture-during.html "Donald Rumsfeld charged with torture during trip to France" "Rumsfeld Flees France" "FCC Chief fast-tracks more concentration of media ownership" "As We March In Opposition - Keep In Mind A Proposition!" "White House Leak: Cheney's Plan for Iran Attack Starts With Israeli
Missile Strike"
"Come to Jonesboro or to a Demonstration Near youToday" "Only the god-damned should be paying taxes" and other blogs "Green Practices Grow on Campus " "Naomi Wolf's Guide to Restoring Liberty in America" "Who Are the Most Influential
Progressives?" "What We Can Do to End the War" "Put Bush/Cheney in a Straightjacket" "Dennis Kucinich questions Bush's mental health on Iran" "Updated Edition, Bush on the Couch: Inside the Sociopathological Mind of George" "Where Does the Right-Wing End and the Media Begin?" Fascist Blueprint The
information side of the Matrix "American Bar Association: Halt All Executions" "B-2s Drop Bombs on Hawai’i Island" http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/16736-october-27th-mobilization-to-end-the-war?play=1&utm_source=rgema "Video: October 27th Mobilization To End The War" "Protester Waves Blood-Colored Hands in Rice's Face" http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/10/24/4789/ Analysis: Wars Could Cost $2.4 Trillion Over Decade http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/10/25/4811/ "Helicopter Gunfire Kills Iraqi Civilians, Days After Sadr City Battle" http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/102407J.shtml "Southern California Fires: Mother Nature Vs. Human Development" http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/10/24/4784/ "California wildfires continue to rage" The new edition of "Issues &
Alibis!" http://www.issuesandalibis.org "Ron Paul Booed At GOP Debate" "Kucinich Pushes Bush Impeachment" http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/10/23/4767/ "Interview with Dennis Kucinich; "Fear is not a basis to run a government in a Democracy." "Prior Permission From Government to be Required for Each Flight" "Bush's Spying Hits Americans Abroad" "Secret CIA Jail on British Island to Be Investigated"
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/101907J.shtml "More than 755,000 on US terrorist watch list " "Censored 2008: The Top 25 Censored Stories" My friend Iloilo has a new website for a very important organization dedicated to informing people about their trial rights called FIJA "The Fully Informed Jury Association" "They Thought They Were Free; The Germans, 1933-45" http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18591.htm "The reality of NSPD-51 is almost as bad as the paranoia." By Ron Rosenbaum "Is a Presidential Coup Under Way? " "US Food Riots Much Closer than You Think" "Get your war on" US government unable to account for $1.2 billion paid to Iraq contractor http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/oct2007/corr-o24.shtml "Schwarzenegger to sue EPA," "Prison Crisis: Will California Spend More on Jails Than Universities?" "Building God's Christian Army" "Bush Regime Preaches Democracy, Proposes Tyranny" By Paul Craig Roberts U.S. citizens had best rethink the "war on terror" while they still have the liberty to do so. For all of President Bush's blah-blah talk about bringing democracy to the world, the Bush administration has proved that it is no friend of liberty at home. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18611.htm
ANTI-GENTRIFICATION REBELS By Roopa Singh, WireTap Increasing gentrification in America's midsized cities has spurred collective actions -- and gained victories -- among local communities fighting for their right to stay. http://www.wiretapmag.org/race/43269/ "The California wildfires and the American social crisis" http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/oct2007/fire-o25.shtml "On fires, Bush looks to smother Katrina debacle" http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/26b0d09397 "Congress takes days off" video Thomas Paine quotes QUOTES: "Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.": Thomas Jefferson = "Under the influence of politicians, masses of people tend to ascribe the responsibility for wars to those who wield power at any given time. In World War I it was the munitions industrialists; in World War II it was the psychopathic generals who were said to be guilty. This is passing the buck. The responsibility for wars falls solely upon the shoulders of these same masses of people, for they have all the necessary means to avert war in their own hands. In part by their apathy, in part by their passivity, and in part actively, these same masses of people
make possible the catastrophes under which they themselves suffer more than anyone else. To stress this guilt on the part of the masses of people, to hold them solely responsible, means to take them seriously. On the other hand, to commiserate masses of people as victims, means to treat them as small, helpless children. The former is the attitude held by genuine freedom fighters; the latter that attitude held by power-thirsty politicians." : Wilhelm Reich, The Mass Psychology of Fascism = "It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificually induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear." : General Douglas MacArthur, "If they do it, it's terrorism, if we do it, it's fighting for freedom." - Anthony Quainton, U.S. Ambassador to Nicaragua, 1984: Anthony Quainton - Source: Off the record response of the Ambassador to a group of concerned U.S. citizens when asked to explain the difference between U.S. government actions in Nicaragua and the violence it condemns as terrorism elsewhere in the world.
= It is in the nature of imperialism that citizens of the imperial power are always among the last to know--or care--about circumstances in the colonies: Bertrand Russell = The president has adopted a policy of 'anticipatory self-defense' that is alarmingly similar to the policy that imperial Japan employed at Pearl Harbor, on a date which, as an earlier American president said it would, lives in infamy. Franklin D. Roosevelt was right, but today it is we Americans who live in infamy: Arthur Schlesinger. = The aim of military training is not just to prepare men for battle, but to make them long for it: Louis Simpson "No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.": - Theodore Roosevelt: (1858-1919) 26th US President = "Do not expect justice where might is right.": - Plato (429-347 BC) - Source: Phaedrus, 360 B.C. = "A truth that's told with bad intent, beats all the lies you can invent.": - William Blake : (1757-1827) English poet, painter, engraver = "When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.": - Eric Schaub - Individualist, activist, speaker, writer = "It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.": - Voltaire - [François Marie Arouet] (1694-1778) === I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. Some of these young men think that war is all glory but let me say war is all hell: William Tecumseh Sherman. === "The greatest spiritual practise is to transform love into service": Sai Baba "The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion." - Albert Camus When one door closes, another door opens..." Bob Marley The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was
a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread. When evil doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out 'stop!' When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable, the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer. - Bertolt Brecht = How many does it take to metamorphose wickedness into righteousness? One man must not kill. If he does, it is murder.... But a state or nation may kill as many as they please, and it is not murder. It is just, necessary, commendable, and right. Only get people enough to agree to it, and the butchery of myriads of human beings is perfectly innocent. But how many does it take?: Adin Ballou, The Non-Resistant, 5 February 1845 = There have been periods of history in which episodes of terrible violence occurred but for which the word violence was never used.... 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 thought 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 "The evil that is in the world always
comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding. On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is that we call vice or virtue; the most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance which fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill." Albert Camus: The Plague, Modern Library Edition, p. 120 = War creates peace like hate creates love: David L. Wilson = During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism: Howard Thurman "What no one seemed to notice was the ever widening gap between the government and the people. And it became always wider.....the whole process of its coming into being, was above all diverting, it provided an excuse not to think....for people who did not want to think anyway gave us some dreadful, fundamental things to think about.....and kept us so busy with continuous changes and 'crises' and so fascinated.....by the machinations of the 'national enemies,' without and within, that we had no time to think about these dreadful things that were growing, little by little, all around us..... "Each step was so small, so inconsequential, so well explained or, on occasion, 'regretted,' that unless one understood what the whole thing was in principle, what all these 'little measures'.....must some day lead to, one no more saw it developing from day to day than a farmer in his field sees the corn
growing.....Each act is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next. "You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join you in resisting somehow. You don't want to act, or even talk, alone.....you don't want to 'go out of your way to make trouble.' But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes. "That's the difficulty. The forms are all there, all untouched, all reassuring, the houses, the shops, the jobs, the mealtimes, the visits, the concerts, the cinema, the holidays. But the spirit, which you never noticed because you made the lifelong mistake of identifying it with the forms, is changed. Now you live in a world of hate and fear, and the people who hate and fear do not even know it themselves, when
everyone is transformed, no one is transformed. "You have accepted things you would not have accepted five years ago, a year ago, things your father.....could never have imagined." Milton Mayer, They Thought They Were Free, The Germans, 1938-45 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1955) http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11845.htm "Apathy is the glove into which evil slips its hand" : Bodie Thoene = "By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy - indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self satisfaction" : William Osler (Canadian Physician, 1849-1919) = "My generation's apathy. I'm disgusted with it. I'm disgusted with my own apathy too, for being spineless and not always standing up against racism, sexism and all those other -isms the counterculture has been whinning about for years." : Kurt Cobain (American Musician and Singer of the grunge rock band Nirvana. 1967-1994) = There is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for: Paulo Coelho: = ...when we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us, we start to have a burning, almost heartbreaking sense of the fragility and preciousness of each moment and each being, and from this can grow a deep, clear, limitless compassion for all being.: Sogyal Rinpoche = "Our job this day is to become part of the answer to the world's immense and protracted suffering rather than continuing our ancient task of being part of the difficulty.": Hugh Prather - Author, minister The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there
was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread. When evil doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out 'stop!' When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable, the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer. - Bertolt Brecht = How many does it take to metamorphose wickedness into righteousness? One man must not kill. If he does, it is murder.... But a state or nation may kill as many as they please, and it is not murder. It is just, necessary, commendable, and right. Only get people enough to agree to it, and the butchery of myriads of human beings is perfectly innocent. But how many does it take?: Adin Ballou, The Non-Resistant, 5 February 1845 = There have been periods of history in which episodes of terrible violence occurred but for which the word violence was never used.... 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 thought 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 "Give me an underground laboratory, half a dozen atom-smashers, and a beautiful girl in a diaphanous veil waiting to be turned into a chimpanzee, and I care not who writes the nation's laws." -- S.J. Perelman VIDEO CLIPS OF THE WEEK:
Quicksilver - Mona http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpTGM74dbuQ&mode=related&search Quicksilver in Film Soundtrack http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NkcoCQVJfQ&mode=related&search Smothers Brothers - Jefferson Airplane White Rabbit / Somebody To Love http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1cfTMdjkYM&mode=related&search Jefferson Airplane - House at Pooneil Corners http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHkgMLXY7wg&mode=related&search Jefferson Airplane - Two Heads http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwEgOfQufbo&mode=related&search Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_B1BcDFdQY&NR=1 ----------------------------------- Richie Havens "License To Kill" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JltNLkh03ME ----------------------------------- Paul McCartney - India unreleased McCartney thing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGa20RAeIgY Paul McCartney's rehearsals for London secret gig June 7, 2007! Only Mama Knows. Drive My Car. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFtEZGE26gU Joe Cocker: "Cry me a river" 1970 Miles Davis - New Rhumba (1959) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlGbNMt_jzg Tim Hardin "if I were a carpenter" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLmT70EOCys "Crosby, McGuinn, Hillman & Dylan - Mr Tambourine Man" 1972 Gong Daevid Alien – Owly Song video Daevid Allen – Gong Madness (Osama bin Laden rant) Jimi Hendrix playing piano and violin "YouTube - Grateful Dead - Shakedown Street - 3/28/81 Essen, Germany" "YouTube - Grateful Dead - Uncle John's Band @ Radio City 10-31-80" "YouTube - Grateful Dead- Truckin' 4-17-72 (Full Version)" "YouTube - Grateful Dead - St Stephen" "YouTube - Grateful Dead - Peggy O - 6-26-94" "YouTube - Jerry Garcia & Sammy Hagar "Going Down" "YouTube - Jerry Garcia warming up backstage." Jimi on 12 string | |||||||||||||