WORLD CAN'T WAIT
Stewart Brand who is now 68 and lives on a tugboat in Sausalito, CA, has stayed ahead of the curve for so long that as a publisher, writer, techno-guru, enviro-philosopher, supreme networker, he's become a cottage industry in academia. Read what he says about environmentalism and the direction in which it should be going. When Stewart talks, everybody tunes in.
Stipe sang the R.E.M. oddities "New Test Leper," and "Chorus and the Ring," which he said developed after conversations he had with the late beat poet William S. Burroughs. The latter song has never been performed by R.E.M., according to Stipe.
Tai Chi master taught Lou some moves; Lou reciprocated when the master puts out a DVD and then writer attempts an interview."Is Lou Reed ('60s musician and heroin icon Lou Reed, he writes) even still alive?" was my first thought. "And what the hell is he doing being fit? Shouldn't he have, like, IVs of synthetic opiates trailing him on rolling cradles?"Some junior tool is aghast that Lou Reed has the audacity to be in good physical shape. So what if he geezed a bit in his younger days. Do young disgressions preclude a fit lifestyle? And why must some media refer to Lou and heroin as if they're mutually exclusive of one another? He's newsworthy for being a musician, not for something he did 40 years ago. Damn.
More on the sudden demise of Arthur Magazine "The magazine can't be restarted," Babcock said. "It's a done deal. It's dead. The situation can't be unfucked."link
"This historical dredging is not offered as an accusation or a provocation. But just to share the grief of history. To thin the mist a little. To say to the citizens of America, in the gentlest, most human way: Welcome to the world.""...to dogmatically hold to only one set of ideas results in, I think, a slow, sad, and unnecessary form of brain death. Westerners need to start reading non-western press if they ever wish to understand the world better than they do at this moment."
She then refers to the September 11, 1973 CIA supported military coup in Chile headed by General Augusto Pinochet, the British government's September 11, 1922 mandate in Palestine and George Bush Sr's announcement to go to war against Iraq on September 11, 1990.
Despite the Bush administration’s insistence it has no plans to go to war with Iran, a Pentagon panel has been created to plan a bombing attack that could be implemented within 24 hours of getting the go-ahead from President George W. Bush, The New Yorker magazine reported in its latest issue.
The special planning group was established within the office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in recent months, according to an unidentified former U.S. intelligence official cited in the article by investigative reporter Seymour Hersh in the March 4 issue. via
This sucks out loud. Arthur will cease operations effective immediately. 
Lurking is the new black. Thank you for stopping by.
Check Your Peanut Butter
Utopian Bliss Balls is a product exclusively available at Azarius. They are derived from the real Bliss Balls from the sixties, made of psychedelic LSA seeds and bee wax. This modern variety contains Hawaïan baby woodrose (Argyreia nervosa), fo ti tien (Centella asiatica), damiana (Turnera diffusa), ginseng (Panax ginseng) and bee pollen.
It's quite the pitch: Former drug warrior sees the light, goes to the dark side and makes a video, Never Get Busted Again, with shady tips on how to fool the fuzz. Stoners rejoice. 
What is this movie "The Secret" that everyone is talking about? This movie exposes a concept that has been around since the beginning of man. When it was discovered how powerful it was, those in control tried to suppress it in order to maintain that control. Throughout history there have been great thinkers who have indicted this secret in their work and literature. In the early 1900's it began to appear more often in many business and success books. Again it was suppressed from the majority of the people.
NEW JEFF BECK CD Tracks featured are:link
Bolero
Stratus
You Never Know
‘Cause We’ve Ended
Behind The Veil
Two Rivers
Star Cycle
Big Block
Nadia
Angels
Scatterbrain
Led Boots
Pork Pie/Brush
Rainbow
"Western North Carolina is already suffering from some of the worst air
pollution in the country. By building an oil burning plant that we don’t
even really need, Progress is choosing to endanger our health for the
sake of profit instead of making the necessary investments in energy
conservation and clean energy." said Micah Lee, a life-long Asheville
resident.
Neal Cassady - From the bars of Denver to the Steel Mills of Utah to the avant-garde parties of Manhattan, across a nation whose heart is calling for a role-model, a leader, a hero... Neal Cassady's on the road again, and all his old pals are there with him--Jack Kerouac, Ken Kesey, The Merry Pranksters. They're searching for Neal's long-lost father, who holds the key to the great unwritten American novel. But in the end it's Neal alone, and in the rear-view fast-approaching are cops, groupies and the dark chimera of his own vanity.
Across The Universe - A love story set against the backdrop of the 1960s amid the turbulent years of anti-war protest, mind exploration and rock 'n roll, the film moves from the dockyards of Liverpool to the creative psychedelia of Greenwich Village, from the riot-torn streets of Detroit to the killing fields of Vietnam. The star-crossed lovers, Jude (Jim Sturgess) and Lucy (Evan Rachel Wood), along with a small group of friends and musicians, are swept up into the emerging anti-war and counterculture movements, with "Dr. Robert" (Bono) and "Mr. Kite" (Eddie Izzard) as their guides. Tumultuous forces outside their control ultimately tear the young lovers apart, forcing Jude and Lucy – against all odds – to find their own way back to each other. 
I enjoy LD Beghtol's column at the Village Voice and his podcast which is a weekly ramble through the obscurer and experimental corners of music. 
Lynn Rockwell has just passed away from lung cancer. Lynn was a photographer and lived in Halifax, NS. 
Morrison climate warning strikes global noteScientists offered cash to dispute climate study | Climate change | Guardian Unlimited Environment
Scientists and economists have been offered $10,000 each by a lobby group funded by one of the world's largest oil companies to undermine a major climate change report due to be published today.
Letters sent by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), an ExxonMobil-funded thinktank with close links to the Bush administration, offered the payments for articles that emphasise the shortcomings of a report from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
RADICAL LIVING PAPERS
A history of the free, alternative, counter-culture and underground press, 1965-75
Gavin Brown's enterprise at PASSERBY
February 2 - March 7, 2007
Covering politics, revolutions, evolutions of the planets, freak-outs, love-ins, support of green politics, gay liberation, power to the people, the peace parties, protests, the Panthers, peyote, LSD, pot, fiction, music, poetry, prose, prayers and more. Publications include: Actuel, Avatar, Berkeley Barb, Berkeley Tribe, Black Panther Papers, Digger Papers, Door, East Village Other [EVO], The Fifth Estate, Freep, Grabuge, Hobo-Québec, International Times [it], Los Angeles Free Press, The Oracle, The Organ, Other Scenes, OZ, Rat, The Realist, Re Nudo, Rolling Stone, The Seed, Ann Arbor Sun....more.
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As individuals, collectives, and a species we are heir to a living library far older than the Sun, and we were born to enjoy, celebrate and preserve our personal and unitive rights and expressions of access. A few thousand years ago, there was an accident — and the road to the library disappeared. That road is open again. link ~ DEDROIDIFICATION ~ It's high time you broaden your cute little close-minded reality tunnel if you think wonder only exists in fiction -- let me tell you a fantastic story, a history -- welcome to operation mindfuck link Ibogaine - Rite of Passage is a documentary project about the use of Ibogaine for the treatment of addiction and its spiritual background. CoverPop - This is truly a digital archivist's dream: data displayed in a way that is both aesthetically pleasing and informative." --Annalee Newitz / Wired.com. The Strange, Harrowing Journeys of Free Energy Activists - The human journey hangs in the balance today. Humanity is very capable of destroying modern civilization and even most of life on earth. We are also quite capable of turning earth into a heavenly place where we all live in beauty, peace and plenty. The crux of the situation relies in great measure on real economics, and energy has always been the underlying basis for all economies for all time. Wade Frazier
"I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world." - that underpin evolution. Hubble Deep Field - Representing a narrow "keyhole" view stretching to the visible horizon of the universe, the Hubble Deep Field image covers a speck of the sky only about the width of a dime 75 feet away.
"It's not so threatening -- it's a Lite-Brite."
Molly Ivins, Columnist, Dies at 62We are the people who run this country. We are the deciders. And every single day, every single one of us needs to step outside and take some action to help stop this war. Raise hell. Think of something to make the ridiculous look ridiculous. Make our troops know we're for them and trying to get them out of there. Hit the streets to protest Bush's proposed surge. If you can, go to the peace march in Washington on January 27. We need people in the streets, banging pots and pans and demanding, "Stop it, now!" linkOne hellraising writer and feminist is gone far too soon and I already miss her.
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