tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46437188382927551752012-02-15T23:18:00.429-08:00an eclectic collection of alternative news and Internet trivia gathered by the Wicked Witch of the Webthe Wicked Witch of the Webhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06074756493933282819noreply@blogger.comBlogger821100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4643718838292755175.post-89141285974763287812009-09-18T12:05:00.000-07:002009-09-18T12:19:26.710-07:00

well burn me at the stake if I haven't been neglecting my blog for awhile, busy writing on other people's blogs and working on my bookswith Samhain just over the horizon, I'm considering the whelming response SpiderLines has elicited from readers [if there are any] in the year it's been online, and wondering if there's any point to picking up the pace again; if I'm just writing for myself, I'll

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God has resigned!read the speechmore next timeBlessed Be

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don't worry about psych tests, especially the ink blots; now there's no reason to fear, or fail, the Rorschachlink = www.livescience.commore next timeBlessed Be

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Happy Maybe Day!more next timeBlessed Be

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no, this isn't about Québecois souverainistesI'm talking about the Second American Revolutionastrologers have been watching the evolution of Pluto-in-Capricorn energy for some time, the same patterns that led to the tea parties and regime changes of the 18th Century, the last time Pluto passed through Capricorn; it’s somewhat mind boggling that so few people see this coming, but I guess King

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a recently de-classified Department of Homeland Security report warns Americans to expect growing right-wing extremism from white nationalists, militias and groups like the Ku Klux Klanso what’s the Klan like in the 21st Century? photographer Anthony Karen has spent a couple of years researching today’s Klan and Life Magazine just published a photo essay with some of the images from his new book,

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there’s some kind of gunk growing off Alaska that no one’s seen before, and no one knows yet what it is or where it came fromit looks like what Newfoundlanders call slub, but it’s strange that the Alaska version has appeared so suddenly; it’s been common around some Newfoundland harbours, especially St. John’s, for decadesmore next timeBlessed Be

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time warp ?I had to read the beginning of Patti’s blog posting about hair over again, just to make sure I was reading it rightthen my first thought was about how much some of our current Cosmic energy pattern reflects the energies of the 60s, one of the many periods when the length of hair has been a volatile subject; seems it still is [forget climate change! cut your hair!]check it out @ Patti’s

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thinking of Earth as ‘the blue planet’ has been a popular myth, particularly since we saw the first snap shots the astronauts took from orbit and the moonbut from farther away, ‘pale blue dot’-distance and beyond, planets like Earth actually look red because biological molecules such as oxygen, water, carbon dioxide and methane show up in the red wavelengthsso if E.T. is looking for us, she’s not

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is it just me, or is there some kind of dichotomatic puzzle about how people who celebrate Solstice could be so disrespectful of the environment?why don't they just stay home and watch Oprah?more next timeBlessed Be

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has Barack Obama completely compromised the ability for plebians to ever again trust or believe anything a politician says?consider:✪ did Obama misrepresent himself to the so-called ‘left-wing’, who were primarily responsible for electing him?✪ and didn’t he promise to wind up the war?✪ instead of starting new ones?✪ what was the Guantánamo reversal about?✪ what did he really mean

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it wasn’t that long ago that ‘we’ thought Ida was ‘the missing link’but a 2004 discovery suggests homo sapiens and the great apes parted at an evolutionary crossroads much more recently than that, and that the split happened in Europe, long after the apes had expanded beyond Africamore next timeBlessed Be

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one of the many human mysteries has been the question of how we evolved from the pack mentality of our caves and tribes to living together as social animals in [relatively] peaceful communitiesapparently it was our warlike nature that drove us toward peaceful coexistence; constant bloody and lethal conflict with our neighbours drove us to build alliances with them instead [to organize bigger

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many are amazed when they hear about things like the way some ancient construction, like Stonehenge or the pyramids, or sometimes even natural landscapes, casts some kind of unusual shadow or creates some kind of ray of light, but only on ‘special’ days like solstices, equinoxes and my mom’s birthdayif you’re looking to temper your amazement, consider that future archeologists may say the same

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so, where did the Neanderthals go? their disappearance has never made evolutionary senseturns out, we ate ‘em !wonder if they tasted like chicken ?more next timeBlessed Be

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1st, this is by no means an atonement for the May 15 post about humourless Americans; the Goddess manages synchronicity2nd, this is about humans, not just Canadians3rd, are humans dumber than animals that communicate telepathically, or by some other unwritten and unspoken method ? like prairie dogs ?4th, are we less-evolved than earthly species that communicate by deliberately manipulating their

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On May 16, 1920 Pope Benedict XV canonized Jeanne d'Arc, who then became a patron saint of France.The Burgundians arrested Jeanne by authority of the Inquisition, but lacked the nerve to kill her.So they sold her to the English, who found Jeanne guilty of Witch craft and burned her at the stake on May 30, 1431, at the age of 19.The Catholic Church pardoned her retroactively in 1452.more next

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if your life is a trudge-trudge-glub-glub treadmill, you may not be aware of the anti-LGB...etc controversy about Miss California’s views on the Natural Familyif you are, you might find this video amusing, depending on whether you agree with herif you don’t realize it’s a Queer-friendly parody within the 1st minute, please go to another page, quickly ~ I don’t want any hate mailif do you realize

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one of the existential questions that’s always intrigued me is, if ‘God’ created the universe, where’d he come from?in many religions the faithful simply reject the question: ‘God just is’, they say, and if you haven’t found him yet you just need to find ‘the Word’I’ve never understood how this differs from the pagan concept that Square One is The Mystery; as long as we are here, in this space

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yeah?so how you well do you know your planet?LiveScience'll tell youmore next timeBlessed Be

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someone shops there, 'cause they’re still in business!don’t those people know?if you just needed 1 more reason to stop, this could be itmore next timeBlessed Be

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Happy Birthday to the Internet, born in 1969 in a lab at the University of California, Los Angeles [UCLA]it’s been about 10 years since I first heard the concept the Web is an evolutionary step in global consciousness, the Cosmic awakening of a planet, and the idea that the Internet represents the beginnings of neurons connecting and exchanging information with one another, the first step in

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think about what this looks like before you try to figure out what it isit shows how details may differ from one level of the Cosmic zoom to another, but the pattern of existence is universalmore next timeBlessed Be

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nearly everyone in the Queer [i.e. lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, androgynous, transsexual, hermaphrodite, inter-sexed, two-spirited, omnisexual, asexual, questioning youth, etc (LGBTATHISTSOAQYe)] Community knows who Fred Waldron Phelps, Sr. is, but not many of us thought he might be this disturbed, or this much of a dangerThe Bilerico Project reports that the Westboro Baptist Church

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my, aren’t we busy these days ! …… what with Saturn’s ongoing confrontation with the rest of the solar system, including an alignment last seen at the beginning of the 60s flower-powered anti-capitalist wave …… and the dawning of a reformist fervour not seen in 250 years, not since the days of tea parties and revolutions … plus the economy … plus the climate … plus … plus …no wonder the world

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which blind man has the right description of the 800-ton elephant we call by so many names: … greenhouse effect … global warming … climate change … etc?the World Meteorological Organization says 1998 was the hottest year since we started keeping records in the 19th centurybut according to Planet Ark the 11 scientists who approved the final report from the UN's 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on

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when I worked for Greenpeace briefly in the early 90s, running the Vancouver Island canvass and occasionallydriving Zodiacs, we published a tri-fold pamphlet with the headline, Hope For The Planetaround that time, someone published a catalog of environment challenges and do-able solutions for each oneI started sometimes saying, except at the doors of course, that "the pamphlet (was) misleading,

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there are all kinds of them [oracles]are chicken entrails oracles because some can read them?or can anything be an oracle if the reader believes it is [an oracle]?or does that depend upon who the reader is?e.g. I work with Tarot, medicine cards, astrological synchronicities, intuition, analysis so, do my readings work because I’m reading oracles, or because I am the one who is reading these

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it’s less than 20 years since killer asteroids started poking our awareness, after one just missed the planet, without our knowledge until it had passedas we started learning more about these renegade rocks, the Cosmos put on an impressive show with Shoemaker-Levy, to demonstrate what one of these rocks can do, then threatened us with the early perceived potential of Hale Bopthere’ve been some

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too bad it’s not faster, but Alberta [remember Ralph Klein?] is showing signs of philosophical and social – and deceivingly political [welcome to the future] – evolution [maybe it’s Barrack’s influence]the province actually took the first step Feb 6, '09 with the appointment of a new human rights commissioner whose priorities include working protection of sexual orientation into Alberta

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... at least stop using the wordI was watching one of my favourite shows on the telly Thursday evening and was shocked, for some reason, when I heard the phrase ‘witch-hunt’ [there’s no smiley for my reaction]I was shocked because I thought it was being used less these days; maybe it was an old show; maybe it was just harder to ignore on the day of the new Moon in Aries [happy new year!]the

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think water puts out fires?not in this Colorado home; don't think it'd be a good idea to drink it, eitherMar 27 updateI thought fiery water was an interesting anomaly, but it turns out some of the smart scientist-guys think we can cut GHGs by burning icemore next timeBlessed Be

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… we had 90 seconds to duck & cover?and what if, instead of a solar storm, it's The Big One off the Pacific NorthWest coast, or another killer asteroid, or a thermonuclear suitcase bomb, or … ?now, I don’t mean to be apocalyptic ~ or maybe I do, considering the word apocalypse originally referred to hidden knowledge, not ‘end of the world’ ~ but I’ve never believed ignorance is bliss, and if it

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just because we don’t hear much about the executions on the evening news doesn’t mean The Burning Times are gonePatti’s Paganism/Wicca blog has a rundown on some of what’s going on these days in Gambia, as well as reference links to other postings; it’s not pretty, so reader discretion is requiredmore next timeBlessed Be

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first of all, as a Witch my ‘old’ S-word, of course, is Satan, described erroneously by many Witches as a Christian invention, probably because so many Christians erroneously associate him with the Craftbut these days I’m far more interested in the new word; while the energies associated with the metaphoric Satan may have something [e.g. greed, etc] to do with today’s so-called financial crisis,

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hey, Trekkies! heard the news?Vulcan, AB, – so-named in 1915 after the Roman God of Fire – has been lobbying Paramount Pictures for a year to premiere the next Star Trek movie therepersonally, I would’ve thought it was a no-brainer, given the town’s obsession with Vulcan and the fact it’s hosting VulCON16: Spock Days/Galaxyfest 2009 but, apparently a few hundred Canadians with a Spock-fetish in a

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[a commentary on black holes]one of my many favoured creation metaphors, for this universe at least, is that The Goddess [a.k.a. God, Raven, Spider Grandmother, Mbombo, Mangala, Damballah, etcetera, including Izanagi and Izanami] created everything, from the chaos/void in Her cauldron before the Beginning of Timeit’s only one of the creation myths/metaphors/folklore/science that I like; there are

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synchronicity is an amazing Cosmic Truth; I’m not sure which entrances me more, the way it works so seamlessly, if you let it, or the way the uninitiated react when ‘coincidence’ becomes obviousfor example, a recent conversation touched on the differences between North American toilets and those around the rest of the planet, which revived some of my memories about Soviet toilets, especially the

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octopi are smarter than they lookperhaps too smart, for one who longed to escape the confines of the aquariummore next timeBlessed Be

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. . . but it took 2 cops and 8 passersby 20 minutes to catch himmore next timeBlessed Be

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[with apologies to John Lennon and Paul McCartney]when I was a kid, old people worried about cheap imports from Japan, except of course for transistor radios; my parents bought me my first transistor, about the size of a pack of cigarettes, when I was only 10 or 11 [that was like 7 or 8 today]by my teens, people complained about the cheap and poorly-made goods they bought from Hong Kong, and a

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if you still think the "economic crisis" can be fixed, you might benefit from going to the links in the September 18 post again and considering how well we've done so far; if that doesn't work, spend a day sorting through Google hits for broken + economymore next timeBlessed Be

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it’s nice to see General Motors making a logical decision that recognizes things are changing and that we all need to wake up to realities we’ve ignored for decades, at least since 1929 if not earlier: survival over the long term is impossible without sustainable, reality-based decisionsrefusing life support for a company that isn't making it is a Business 101 decision; we need more such

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long ago, in a previous century, I came to understand, and wrote about, the concept that myth is what’s left of history, i.e. what today will be at sometime in the future [I once suggested myth was the history men rejected when they took control of keeping written records ☺]I was sorting hits from a Google search recently when I came across this magnificent site of indeterminate age that seems

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we’ve come a long way since George Orwell wrote 1984 and it’s interesting how much our world reflects his once-improbable Big Brother visions, in spirit if not according to the letter of the novelin many ways we’ve gone far beyond Orwell’s Ministry of Truth, but it’s scary how few people realize it and even scarier how few carecensorship, of course, is an ancient and time-worn strategy for

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I wonder why so few people have noticed Dick Cheney has admitted to being part of a process for U.S. war crimes?amazingly, Cheney still supports waterboarding, despite the fact U.S. courts ruled long ago it constitutes torture, or that the U.S. War Crimes Act defines torture as a war crimeWhoa! sorry, I forgot we're talking we're talking about the U.S. vice-president who shot a Texas lawyer and

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hey, Hippies! remember Ziggy?[ for under-40s, Zbigniew Brzezinski is an amazing yet underestimated geopolitical philosopher and strategist who served Jimmy Carter as principal foreign-policy advisor and National Security Advisor, a hawk who both played a role in détente and helped form the pre-Taliban Afghan mujaheddin network, way back when the Soviets were in Afghanistan ]Ziggy’s written an

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parthenogenesis, i.e. asexual reproduction, is not unknown among humans, although some would have you believe virgin birth only happened once and that that was a divine act [well yeah, isn’t everything, whether your personal divinity involves the Goddess, the Matrix, or whatever?]true, it doesn’t occur often in mammals, but it’s common among plants, bees and fleas, and lots of other living things

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mystics, cosmologists and some fringe scientists are just a few of the groups who've always believed that, at some level, everything is alive, that in fact the whole Universe is a living entity, metaphorically speakingmainstream scientists are getting a nudge toward that view from a new report by an international group of geologists - including one from the Geological Survey of Canada - proposing

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a few years ago the science guys told us we can only ‘see’ 4% of what we think of as The Universeby seeing, they meant not only with optical telescopes, but also through our interpretations of data collected by radio telescopes, electronic telescopes, satellites, at x-rays levels, at ultraviolet levels – way more than we can see with human eyes; that slice is probably about 0.002% of the known

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an AlterNet writer says John McCain is effectively campaigning for Barrack ObamaAlexander Zaitchik thinks McCain's tirades about Obama’s promises to share the economic pie more equitably are winning votes for Obama among people who like that idea [maybe McCain ought to get out in the real world more]before Canadians start laughing, we need to remember whom we just re-elected to tell us who gets

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ever wonder what a cough looks like?a Pennsylvania State University professor has come up with a way to capture images of the shock wave a cough creates; the colours represent differences in air pressure, i.e. the speed at which your germs are spreading, just like the Hubble etc. pix show different elements, gases or radiation frequenciesI wanna see a sneeze!more next timeBlessed Be

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… death really is the end?do you know when you fall asleep?how would you know you were dead?in the October issue of Scientific American, Jesse Bering [director of the Institute of Cognition and Culture at Queen's University Belfast in Ireland, where he studies how the evolved human mind plays a part in religious thinking] suggests the concept of an afterlife is critical to construction and

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humans are on the verge of creating the first computers that may be able to reproduce, i.e. to create new computers, perhaps recreating or improving upon themselvessince reproduction is one of the criteria for whether an entity is alive, these replicating computers could, technically, be a new life formI wonder if the new species will think of us as The Divine Computer as they create new e-gods

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some election victory, eh? a larger slice of a smaller piejust like the old days; why can’t these guys play king of the cold war hill on a deserted island somewhere and leave us out of it?and what’s attacking Pakistan about? would they bomb London or Ottawa? if that’s not bullying …aw, they’re all nuts!more next timeBlessed Be

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now that they’ve saved the moneylenders [and why the hell did our ‘leaders’ do that anyway, eh?], is anyone up for bailing out Mother Nature? WARNING: it’s going to cost a lot more than the banks bailoutmore next timeBlessed Be

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this guy does work with monkeyswanna banana with that latté?technology’s not going to save usbut have faith! the Goddess really does take care of her own; first she gave us pot, and now superworms!pots & kettlesGoogle CEO Eric Schmidt thinks the Internet is a cesspool, as far as the quality of content and the amount of false informationwonder what he thinks of the people who facilitate e-dumpster

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40 years ago, the ‘big one’ was thermo-nuclear warfarethis is what the BBC was ready, in the 70s, to tell their listeners and viewers if it had happened thenmore next timeBlessed Be

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check out the weekly update from AlterNet, a 10-year-old, award-winning e-zine that combines original journalism with the best from hundreds of other independent news sourcesmore next timeBlessed Be

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they should have known: arranged marriages are a bad idea these daysmore next timeBlessed Be

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I wonder what real life is like in China, compared with the politically distorted dribbles the mainstream media give usfor example, why am I surprised that the “authorities” would approve this nightmarish exhibition of bloated bodies, snarling faces and deformed figures by Chinese sculptor Chen Wenling at the Asia Art Centre in Beijing?do the Chinese have more freedom than our daily news tells us

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Nicaragua’s getting guns from Russia nowUS threatens RussiaRussia likes Iran and North Korea, toobut it’s ready to take on Canada, Denmark, the US and Norway over who owns the north poleon the other hand, W actually said no to Israel [wow! who’d’a thunk?]more next timeBlessed Be

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and the point is?btw, it works out to $666 CDN [isn’t that appropriate?]more next timeBlessed Be

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Mr. Global Warming got enthusiastic applause when he told the Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting that climate-change deniers are guilty of “a form of stock fraud because they are misrepresenting a material fact"Gore said “it is time for civil disobedience to prevent the construction of new coal plants that do not have carbon capture …”I wonder what the average An Inconvenient Truth fan

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further to my September 11 post, Agence France-Presse’s Moscow bureau says Russian warships with nuclear-tipped cruise missiles have set sail for joint military exercises this winter off Venezuelameanwhile, Bolivian President Evo Morales says the United States is facilitating the coup d'etat by right-wing regional governors in his countrymore next timeBlessed Be

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apparently, global climate change is responsible for:✪ more stray cats✪ allergies✪ declining tourism✪ bubonic plague✪ better beer✪ all of California’s problems✪ and damned near everything elsemore next timeBlessed Be

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blame Cliff Richardor, at least, blame Israeli teens’ reaction to his 1963 concertafter the “outbreak of mass hysteria”, the committee that approves visits by foreign artists passed Resolution 691 to never allow a performance by the Beatles because of the potential for a “negative influence on [Israel's] youth”the committee reconsidered, but stuck by its original decision because "the band has no

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if you’re paying attention, you already know drinking water is a major environment/political/consumer issue on North America’s event horizonwhat happens if you apply hyper-green recycling concepts to the challenge?in Santa Ana, Calif, it took a decade to overcome the psychological barriers, but the $480-million Orange County Groundwater Replenishment System finally opened last Januarymore next

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so, US authorities are willing to shell out $900+ billion to save the moneylenders, eh?and Canada and anyone else with some petty cash has promised to helpwho do those governments represent? how much of that tax money will come from the poor and homeless? [as if BC should talk]don't worry now, but The American Prospect co-editor Robert Kuttner says the Wall Street carnage and international echoes

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aren't crows smart!well, duh! … and your point is?just to be straight, we are talking the left-handed guardian and keeper of all sacred law?Norse mythology’s symbol of intelligence?the messenger of the gods?of course crows are smart!more next timeBlessed Be

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wouldn’t it be nice if the transgendered were accepted as one aspect of our diverse society, instead of having everyone tch-tching or omigodding every time one of us attracts attention?entertainment writers and others are tripping over themselves these days trying to get the scoop on Isis, a transgender model who appeared on America’s Next Top Model’s season premiere; as Brianna Austin wrote for

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anti-Semites and other bigots notwithstanding, it takes someone really brave or really stupid to suggest Israel may be guilty of war crimes which do you think Desmond Tutu is? really brave or really stupid?linxwireddispatch.com[ from Reuters North American News Service ]more next timeBlessed Be

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these are a few of the postings I've bookmarked recently for more reading✪ Sarah and the polar bears[from the CommonDreams.org News Center]a vice-presidential candidate takes Canada’s side, not the White House's? very interesting✪ CrimeWatchdid you know CanadaFreePress.com has a crime-watch section where you can keep up to date on all the really important news, like the British police chief

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nearly half a century ago the US played chicken with Khrushchev, Castro and pre-Cruise missilestoday it’s Putin, Chavez and Tu-160 strategic bombersStar Wars may be history, but now we’ve got: ✪ Tu-95 Bears, loaded with nukes, patrolling the coasts ✪ US plans for a new missile defence system in eastern Europe ✪ Russia’s ongoing repatriation of Georgiaand, probably most important for

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Patti Wigington’s blog on about.com is one of my favoured and trusted sources for news of interest to witches and other pagansthis week she tagged a report in Ananova about a decision in Zielona Gora to stop symbolically burning witches; it’s been part of the village’s anniversary celebrations for 9 centuries, along with jousting, minstrels, dancing and other mediaeval festivitiesbut

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24 September 1916 – 28 August 2008"Life is meant for God-realization. The goal of life is God-realization. If you die without attaining God-realization, your life is in vain. You have wasted this precious gift of human birth given by God."Guru Maharaj Swami ChidanandaBlessed Bewww.sivanandaonline.org

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who knows? ask 12 people, get 20 answersmost don’t know what to worry aboutgreenhouse effect? global warming? climate change?most people don’t understand the difference; is there a difference?I was aware by the late 70s that background weather patterns, i.e. climate, were changingI met people in Newfoundland 30 years ago who remembered that back in the day when Québec got 4-foot snowstorms

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I get a chuckle whenever I see Victoria’s Green Meanies rumbling around town in their armored personnel carriers, or anonymously staking out the McDonald’s parking lotyou know? the burly guys in those unmarked Ford sedans, painted a shade of military green no one else has bought for 2 decades, with big bars on the passenger windows, more antennae than marked patrol cars have, a black bullhorn on

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we deported the US war resister in July, first time that’s happened in Canadaduring the war in VietNam we allowed nearly 30,000 US draft dodgers into Canada and about half of them stayed, even after Jimmy Carter gave them amnesty in 1977 and welcomed them homeAlternet.org says there are an estimated 200 US soldiers in Canada today, and 64% of us would give them permanent residence, according to a

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I’ve changed the title on the link at the bottom of the blog, trying to make the description of the astrology map clearer [tnx C]to explain further, this is what your birth chart would look like if you were born in Seattle a few minutes ago; the chart is updated every time you come back to SpiderLinesthus, this is the Cosmic energy we are all dealing with now (i.e. whenever you’re reading this)

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Welcome …… to my patch of the Web!can’t tell you what to expect in future postings, I’ve never written a blog before, and I have extensive and eclectic interests, so, anything could appearbefore I continue, sorry [though not really] about the lack of capitals and the sloppy punctuation; you’re lucky it’s not text messaging, or wireservice shorthand; welcome to the future!as PBS said in the 60s &

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