The Four Types of a Modern-day Hippie

April 3rd, 2009
Robert Fuller asked:


The popular hippie counterculture that started back in the 1960’s were indeed so popular that up until now, the concept and the culture still manages to live on. However, the years have changed the counterculture a lot as well. Despite the attempts of true-blue hippies to carry out and retain the genuine hippie spirit as they make the transition from vintage hippies to modern-day hippies, the modern times still caused various changes. Now, the modern-day hippie has four sides.

The first type of what is called “modern-day hippie” is the true-blue hippie, a true child of the 1960’s counterculture. They are the true picture of a full-blown hippie, who lives the original hippie values from inside and out. They are now called New Hippies or Neo-Hippies. Similar to the hippies in the past, they are still politically informed and educated. They also advocate the same causes in the spirit of peace, love, and freedom. They keep up with current political and environmental trends. They protested against issues that contradict with their hippie values in the same manner that the hippies of the past protested. As true-blue hippies, they still also live with the good and the bad sides of being a hippie. They protest against way and violence as they promote peace. On the other hand, they also like to engage in unusual activities, use odd clothes and accessories, and experiment with drugs in their advocacy for liberal rights. They really are hippies to the core.

The second type of a modern-day hippie is a somewhat downplayed version. Their hippie side is reflected more by their environment-friendly, tree-hugging advocacies, rather than through their political and societal idealisms. They are mostly vegetarians, and tends to live through life in a breeze and simply focuses on their love for the environment and clean, healthy things. They are lighter and brighter hippies. They are sometimes called granola children. A “granola child”, according to the urban dictionary, is one who “enjoys tie-dye, granola, and peace”.

The third type of a modern-day hippie, on the other hand, is the exact opposite of a granola child. They are the angry hippies. They are more futuristic, and like to show off their hippie values in enhanced, exaggerated ways. They are called the “techno hippies”. They are more modern and more forward than the Neo-Hippies. They take the hippie character to the next level. They sport tattoos, body piercings, and strange hairstyles such as the famous dreadlocks. They also exhibit their opinions though rave parties where they mostly consume large amounts of drugs and alcohol. They also take their advocacies to the Internet and are in tune with the latest gaming technologies. They are, in a way, rebellious hippies.

Finally, the fourth type of modern-day hippie is not really composed of hippies anymore, as a lot of people claim. They are hippies without a cause. Cynics like to call them “rippies”, because they are simply ripping off the hippie lifestyle, for lack of an original generational style and culture to live by. There are a lot of terms closely associated with them. One of these terms is “yunkers”, which refers to a modern-day hippie who smokes and takes drugs a lot. Somehow, they give off the idea that they are merely using the hippie culture as an excuse to liberally take drugs. Accused of wearing the trendy, designer versions of distinct hippie clothes such as tie-dyes, vests, and sandals, they are also often referred to as the hippies who have lost their political activism.

These four types of a modern-day hippie may be completely different. But one thing remains the same: the clothing style. Any breed of hippie is still wearing sandals and tie-dyes. Now, that is a fashion culture that doesn’t just die.



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Globalization and Its Benefits

March 30th, 2009
C. Read asked:


Globalization is mandatory. If you want to resolve the self-made indigenous problems in Africa, Asia, and Latin America and redress their self-created social and economic crises, you must be advocating more, not less trade, including reduced tariff and non-tariff barriers. If warm tears of angst and hurt roll down your cheeks as you weep over the supposed ‘environmental catastrophe’ that wrecks the earth goddess, then keep in mind that the worst polluted areas of the globe, are the poorest and those outside of major trade flows. If you agonize daily over the plight of the wretched poor, while whipping your back with birch strips in self-flagellating martyrdom, then advocate job creationism, economic vibrancy and increased opportunity for people – all satisfied through more trade and increased globalization. Poverty is solved through economic strength not socialist hand-outs.

Yet in the allegedly ‘educated’ and ‘developed’ world we have roughly about 50-60% of the population firmly opposed to: market development, globalization, increased trade and the lowering of tariff barriers for poorer nations products. Interesting. Yet many of these same people are the first to take to the streets and wave placards demanding an ‘African’ commitment, more money for Africa and a foolhardy debt write-off of legal African debts. As if 50 years of African ‘freedom’ in which no progress at all has been made in most countries can still be blamed on white imperialism. Get serious. If you really want to help Africa - stop giving it welfare and open up your richer northern markets to its products and agriculture. In other words drag African into the global trade system.

But that is too logical. US reports clearly state that of 97 countries studied that received foreign aid in the past 25 years; none reported an improvement in per capita income or living standards. Palestine has received for example more money per capita than Western Europe did during the Marshall plan. Maybe someone should compare Palestine with Holland’s polder economy and make some obvious conclusions. Yet daily we are assaulted with demands to ‘do this’ and ‘do that’ usually ‘now!’ to relieve the disaster in such and such a place. It is tiresome.

The media does not help of course. Instead of hearing about the benefits of greater trade and the increased wealth we have enjoyed in the past 50 years thanks to trade and investments and capital accumulation, we are treated to dreadful, grade-school nonsense from ageing hippies on our ‘commitments’. Doesn’t it make more sense to spend time and energy in creating better trade regimes whilst increasing commercial exchange and foreign investment, then listen to hippie drivel from Bono or Geldorf on our ‘African commitment’. China and India have proved rather dramatically that integration into the global supply chain, and fighting protectionism and tariff barriers in the north from within the trading system, is a far better way to reduce national misery than forcing rich countries to grant loans, debt relief and foreign aid payments to corrupt and dysfunctional regimes.

The case against further globalization is weak. Even with fascist, pagan branches of the Islamic ideology, an important tenet in destroying their pre-modern paganism is to bring some of their societies into the global trading orbit. Oil is not enough. Arab and Islamic countries who combined have a GDP less than that of Canada need to have their investment and financial self-interests rooted firmly in a system of globalized trade. This would help the West in defanging deranged and dangerous anti-modern systems of control. An economically impoverished and imploding Arab-Islamic world [witness Iraq and Afghanistan] does not further our political-security interests.

Trade patterns are almost solely between a clutch of rich and developing nations including China and India. In fact the largest and richest 18 countries account for about 2/3 of all international trade and investment flows [Japan-US, US-EU, EU-Japan, China-US being the most notable]. With 190 odd countries in existence and huge swathes of the world outside of major trade flows a rationalist can conclude that we have too little trade globalization, not too much.

Even in the developed world we have too many barriers to trade. The major world economies only have 25-40 % of their economies dependent on trade. There exists a multitude of barriers – tariff and non-tariff – to trade between and intra-nations. To alleviate suffering and emotionally satisfy your ‘African commitment’ [hand on heart, tears on cheeks], then people should be demanding a reduction in trade barriers and an increase in trade agreements with these poorer nations. That will do far more to pull them out of poverty than more World Bank loans.

Yes trade will change a modern society but the direction of change is positive. As a society becomes wealthier for example and more integrated with the world economy, fascism, despotism and massive corruption is harder to establish, hide and maintain. Islam is a testimony to the poverty of isolationism. So is Africa. As a society engages in trade and investment, more and better jobs are created, and living standards rise. It is hard to argue that we are not a better-informed and wealthier world at all income levels in comparison to 50 years ago.

Why then the animus in the West against globalization and free trade? Why did French and Dutch voters vote against the EU Constitution because it was not socialist and protective enough? Why is modern man – coddled, spoilt, bratty, over indulged, and mis-educated – so apparently ignorant?

Those who scream against markets and trade are imbued with the belief that economics is a negative force, replete with odious links to Western consumerism and worst still [gnashing of teeth] - Americanism. Thus we see the poverty of modern education and media disinformation. In this regard the anti-globalization movement is a thinly disguised hatred not only of capitalism, but of America, and of US capitalist skill and technology. According to these modern day Marxists a loss of sovereignty and power are sure to follow an increase in trade – witness the madness of the moron Chavez in Venezuela or the ravings of fellow travelers in the American or Canadian union circuit.

Anti-trade groups truly believe that once a society is linked into the global supply chain, it loses control of its key levers of independence and becomes reliant on the US and it’s allegedly slave creating institutions – the IMF and World Bank. Capital flows, investment flows, the rapid pace of innovation and technology, will all force radical redesigns on the domestic society that only benefit a few – typically cited in the media as the rich, the business elite, or the pilfering hordes of capitalist-imperialist exploiters. While in the real world some people will benefit more than others, society has a whole wins from trade, and from decreasing the power of governments; government intervention and union representation. There is no evidence to contradict those claims.

Those against trade are the typical mercantilists and Marxists that we have seen protest capitalism for the past 250 years. Today’s Marxists, include: environmentalists [destroy the world to support some nonsense about human induced climate change]; unions [who want to create a labor elite of pampered 30 hour per week workers]; nescient academics [hoping to get another government grant]; ‘think-tanks’ [that need tax payer money to survive]; or politicians needing votes. These jokers are little different than the socialist utopians from Saint Simon to Stalin who wanted to create a wonderful world of perfect equality under state and totalitarian control. For our modern Marxists the problem with capitalism is that it generates too much growth and is too successful and creates too much individual independence. So to thwart it they toss into the political arena the old canards that market growth risks damaging the environment, causing human misery and widening inequalities.

Of course the opposite is true. On all accounts the earth is cleaner, people live longer and have better care, and there is more opportunity and wealth now, than ever before in history. A rational person can only conclude that we need more trade not less.



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Ibiza Holidays - the Party Paradise

March 24th, 2009
Luki Johnson asked:


us as the party city of Europe, Ibiza a part of Spanish Balearic Islands situated in Mediterranean Sea. The island is quite a tourist destination for those looking forward to some partying and lots of beach. A holiday in Ibiza might start with party but has lot more to it, such as pine forests, ancient UNESCO acknowledged town, amazing village beauty and a great cuisine.

Ibiza is more of a summer destination with its beaches and nightlife being acknowledged by tourists. Following are some of the popular tourist attractions to visit when holidaying in Ibiza:

Hippy Market - Punta Arabi

This hippy market is present on the land of famous club Punta Arabi, Es Cana. The market near Santa Eulalia is held on Wednesday and offers a huge collection of goods, such as clothing, batik wraps, East-Asian ornaments and jewelry and much more. The market is also known to have some of the real hippies roaming around.

C’an Mar?Caves This tourist attraction of Ibiza is surrounded with magnificent views and has temples, figures formed by stalactites and stalagmites as well as an impressive show of light and sound. The caves also have the facility of multilingual guide for all kind of tourists and visitors.

Galleria Van der Voort

Visitors and tourist when holidaying in Ibiza are often smitten by the beautiful collection of pictures and arts, coming from great artists.

Ibiza Old Town

Established around 2,500 years back, the old and ancient town of Ibiza, Dalt Vila, has been quite a tourist puller. Visitors on a holiday in Ibiza never miss opportunity of experiencing whitewashed houses, cobblestone streets with narrow designs and all of it surrounded with beautiful harbor. The town also has shops, galleries and markets to wander and to buy some souvenir for back home.

Scenic Tour Train Popular among families holidaying in Ibiza, this is a 2 hours of ride that takes you through the stunning view of countryside.

Museum of Archaeology

The museum of archaeology is situated in the old town of Ibiza and is know for its spectacular collection and Punic artifacts. Apart from artifacts of Arab, Christian and Moorish, some of the things one can’t miss in this tourist attraction are the collection ranging from Punic era, prehistoric sites of Formentra and Ibiza as well as 7th-2nd century BC sanctuaries of Cuieram and Illa Plana.

When on a holiday in Ibiza you can always found leisure in following ways:

Beaches

The summer island Ibiza has amazing line of exotic beaches making it an ideal tourist destination. From parties, nightlife, nudity to lots of sand and water, the beaches of Ibiza are always crowded with youngsters. Some of the best beaches are Playa Talamanca, Santa Eulalia, Figueretas, Playa des Cana, Cala Llonga and Cala Lena.

The waterline of Ibiza is also loaded with amazing water sports, snorkeling and diving. The island of Ibiza also has great sports facility and amazing Golf and Go-karting courses too. For those who need something more to take back from apart from the fun and excitement, try out the shopping experience in Ibiza.

Best time to visit or holiday in Ibiza

The best time to visit or holiday in Ibiza is the summer time, usually the island is crowded with tourists and visitors in the sunny, hot and humid months from may to October.



GERALDO
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From Hippie Art, to Creative Fashion

March 19th, 2009
Priyanka Arora asked:


Tie-dye is considered a fashion art form just like beading and embroidery. It is a practice that concentrates the tint color in the textiles by tying or folding them to create different shapes. Its origin started out in Asia with antique techniques in dying fabrics. It is highly associated with hippies, surfers and bohemians, but today, it reappears to combine with bracelets and other accessories of ethnic inspiration. Today it’s not a trippy starburst rainbow; it has been replaced with irregular arcs and stripes often seen in cocktail dresses and even casual tops to combine with jeans, shorts or mini skirts. Tie Dye is also a popular look for a day out at the beach, whether in a skirt or a sarong, tie dye is often seen around the most famous beaches worldwide.

Nothing said “hippie” better than the psychedelic color explosion and unique designs from the old style of tie-dye; it is one of the most ancient forms of fabric design, by human manipulation. Dye can only penetrate loose fabric; it has to be as close to 100% cotton as possible since it does not stick to polyester. Just lock some sections by adding pins, tying fabric in knots or with rubber bands and this way, the dye cannot reach these parts of the fabric, therefore creating a rainbow of colors and a unique design.

Hippies included a little creativity by adding peace signs and hearts to their visual trippy designs. This technique became a hippie ritual since it was an anti-commercial “do it yourself” characterization of owned fashion. Today, designers are turning to this again, trying to own their designs and making them special so they can stay away from imitators or regular people who try to do it themselves so they can afford some shopping money.

Tie-Dye was reborn in the 80’s when a new generation started wearing the shirts their parents wore when they were youngsters at Woodstock, other than shirts these included tie-dye sheets, socks, and bags, among other pieces. Tie-dye was and is still the style of choice for people who need a little psychedelic wardrobe to remember the old days, tie-dye will never die.

Now it’s your turn to try some creativity with your wardrobe, look for your favorite shirt or dress, fabric dye, gloves, rubber bands and a bowl. Damp your clothes in water and fold it as if you were making a paper fan, continue doing this in other areas and hold them with a rubber band or a clothespin. Once you have gathered the sections to dye, place it in the bowl, put on your gloves and mix the dye in the bowl. Do the same thing in the other side, stirring your fabric so the dye penetrates well. You can leave it on for 24 hours, and then rinse with warm water and let air dry. Use a pack of cheap T-shirts for your first draft; you will get the hang of it.



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Goa Beaches are Just the Beginning of Your Vacation

March 18th, 2009
Giles Knapton asked:


“Susegado” – an evocative, exotic, emotive word used by the Goan people to describe their way of life, their desire to take it easy and experience everyday through their senses. But to sum up Goa in one word would be impossible. Although it is the smallest Indian state, it is definitely the jewel in a richly sparkling crown. The sapphire sea hugs an emerald, palm fringed coastline that entrances all visitors with its exquisite simplicity and stunning vistas. Temperate waters are home to a dazzling array of seafood that is freshly caught and prepared by the most hospitable people on the planet who ensure any stay in Goa is epitomised by glorious smiles at every opportunity. Azure skies, balmy tropical breezes and locations that embrace the soul make Goa a perfect beach holiday.

            As seductive as the whispering palms may be, to experience the myriad facets Goa has to offer, you need to extricate yourself from the sandy clutches of the beach and head towards the lush tropical interior of the country. Goa is one of the most bio-diverse spots on the planet, indeed National Geographic compared Goa with the Amazon and Congo basins for richness in tropical bio diversity. Travel only a few miles inland and you’ll find great rivers feeding picturesque inland waterways. As you travel further vibrant, green tropical plantations give way to jungle covered mountains - the great Western Ghatts, which are part of the reason for Goa’s rich plant, animal and bird life. ­Over 20% of Goa’s jungle interior is classified as national parkland home to exotic wildlife and a simply never ending array of stunning bird species. One of the best ways to spot Goa’s bird life is to take a boat ride down the rivers where you will also witness crocodiles, dolphins and the slow, harmonious village life on the riverbanks as you pass by. For animal lovers there are many jungle book excursions or head by Jeep for the Dudhsagar falls. Enjoy a dip in the refreshing pools at the foot of Goa’s largest and most spectacular falls, keeping one eye on the monkey who has one eye on your clothes!

           People have been drawn to the state ever since the Portuguese arrived in 1510. Their rule lasted right up until 1961, which marked the arrival of a more Bohemian class of travellers, the hippies, who embraced the simplicity and unrivalled warmth of Goa and helped to establish the more recognisable tourist trail of today. Both the Portuguese and the hippies have left legacies in Goa. The famous flea markets started by the hippies bring an eclectic mix of goods from around the globe and India for you to explore and discover exotic treasures amid the palms. However the greatest legacy of all must be the food. The Portuguese influence on the Indian cuisine creates a unique blend of mouth watering dishes and the global culinary experiences of the hippies have developed into an array of international restaurants which leaves you completely spoilt for choice.

Goa’s unique charm stems from not only years of trade but the cultural diversity contained in every street scene that you stumble upon. Goan people welcome all visitors without hesitation. You are not viewed as a visitor in their country, but a friend in their home. This engaging tolerance is most strikingly shown in the festivals that define Goa, with people of all faiths joining in the spirit of celebration together. Goa is constantly surprising to both the eye and the mind, stunning whitewashed Churches sit elegantly in the palms, Old Colonial mansions slouch elegantly at the end of hidden tracks and brightly coloured temples strike you as you travel round a bend in the road. World heritage architecture provides another essential ingredient to the irresistible mix that is Goa and nowhere is this more apparent than the charming streets of Panjim. Modern buildings provide a startling and intriguing contrast to the Portuguese colonial quarter, a wonderful place of colour and vibrancy.

 The real Goa, the one hidden down the village lanes, with bullock carts, swaying palms and a slow pace of life long forgotten to most of us, is just waiting to be discovered. In order to give yourself the time and freedom to explore this extraordinary country on your own terms you need to find a special private villa that encapsulates the sensuous nature of Goa through design and service, making your holiday an experience you’ll savour forever. Location is everything and these villas offer the discerning traveller a chance to immerse themselves in village life whilst being mere moments from the beach. Swimming pools and Jacuzzis offer weary explorers a chance to unwind before sampling the next delicacy Goa has to offer. Many private villas even have their own car and driver allowing you the freedom to follow your heart, the guide book or even, return to favourites time after time!



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Covert War on Rock by Alex Constantine Summary

March 16th, 2009
sam cook asked:


COVERT WAR ON ROCK BY ALEX CONSTANTINE SUMMARY

(re: what the” POWERS-THAT-BE “have done to MUSICIANS for decades AND not all of them have survived it. This includes mind-control and surveillance and murder by the alleged CIA AND FBI and other forces of destruction, on civil rights activists and other AWAKE people in the WORLD OF MUSIC comments, questions, feed-back and requests are welcome)

Acknowledgements:

OPERATION CHAOS ….a draft outline found among the papers of the late political researcher Mae Brussell, provided the framework and inspiration for the study.

The decision to write it was made ten years ago, and since that time the author has gathered pertinent material toward this end, often at the suggestion of friends who had a piece of the puzzle to contribute, including Will Robinson, Marilyn Colman, and Brussell Sprouts, David X. Patrick Fourmy, publisher of Prevailing Winds, Al Marcellienme, John Judge, Lee Lewe-Lee, Cynthia Ford, Lynn Moss-Sharman, Adam Parfray, Bennett Theissen, Matty, DasGoat, Virginia McCullough, Dick Farley, Cynthia Richards, the late Sharon White, Andrew and David, MIHRA, Linda Minor, and CTRL’s researchers, Vicky - Guerra Michael Putinism, Melissa Darpino, and the pertinent librarians at UCLA research library, and the Los Angeles municipal library system.

The author also wishes to thank Elliot Mintz, spokesman for Bob Dylan and Yoko Ono, reggae archivist Roger Steffans and Realist editor Paul Krassner for the admirable roles they have played in opposing some of the unimaginable acts described in this volume.. …… Alex Constantine, author

Chapter 1. A Killing Field For The Heat

Chapter 2. The Machine….The CIA And The Mob

Chapter 3. Para political Stars In The Dope Show

Chapter 4. The Death Of Cass Elliot(Mamas And The Papas) And Other Restless Youth

Chapter 5. Brian Jones ..The Rolling Stones

Chapter 6. The End Of Rock Festivals

Chapter 7. Jimi Hendrix., Political Harassment And Murder

Chapter 8. Fragrance Of Chaos Jim Morrison

Chapter 9. Joan Baez, Phil Ochs And Bob Dylan Etc

Chapter 10. Who Killed The Kennedy’s And Sal Mineo

Chapter 11. Project Walrus John Lennon

Chapter 12. The Deaths Of Marley And Tosh

Chapter 13. Gang War Sons Of Chaos

Chapter 14. False God Syndrome

FOREWARD

The corporate media harbors hundreds of CIA propagandists and fawning loyalists who find revelations concerning domestic political assassinations inconvenient and stroll by with little comment. The agency and organized crime have, for over thirty years, engaged in a program to silence popular musicians whose influence subverts the cynical thought control tactics of American government and media.

This book is an attempt to return that evidence to the historical record.

PRELUDE..

Assassination Politics of the Vietnam War period.

Former CIA Richard Ober, director of OPERATION CHAOS…

the most expansive domestic surveillance and covert ops net-work in America’s history. The intelligence sectors response to the anti-war and civil rights movements, ran covert assassinations programs as well.

The Nixon administration rose on a foundation of political murder.

The C.I.A. had assembled a thick concordia of lethal methods.

The project began with an anonymous , undated memo on assassination by “natural cause.” Knock off key people the heavily censored document specified, ” how to knock off key guys, natural causes, a declassified memo..

1 Bodies left with no hope if the cause of death being determined by the most complete autopsy and chemical examinations,

2 Bodies left in such circumstances as to simulate accidental death

3 Bodies left in such circumstances as to simulate accidental suicide

4 Bodies left with residue that simulate those caused by natural diseases.

April 2, 1977 Washington Post reported that the agency had experimented in exotic poisons.

CHAPTER 1

In 1967 a subversive form of music melded with politics in San Francisco.

Thus, destabilization tactics were summarized in a leaked memo, excerpt:

“show them as depraved” call attention to their habits, and every possible embarrassment.

Send articles to the newspaper showing their depravity.

Use misinformation to confuse and corrupt.

Provoke target groups into rivalries that might result in death.”

For the first time since it’s creation the warfare state erected by the Dulles brothers, Hoover, MacArthur, Kissinger, Nixon, etc. was threatened by an increasingly militant segment of society.

The FBI rose to the challenge.

On July 30, 1994, Intelligence files on Leonard Bernstein reveal the bureau spent countless hours examining his links with associations deemed communist to subversive.

FBI agent Jane Moore said the FBI saw the strength and power of the idea of socialism, realized it represented a very real danger to our profit-motivated corporate state and had declared total covert war against not only the denim clad revolutionaries but all progressive forces

The bureaus tactic was to cut them down or burn them out before they realized their potential.

At the federal level, the CIA. was already pursuing similar objectives under code name Operation Chaos.

Targets of Chaos

Blank Panther Movement (Geronimo Pratt, jailed for 27 yrs. for murders he did not commit. He was also a target of COINTELPRO, the FBI “counter-surveillance program)

Politically active hippies were also targets.

Many underground papers were put out of business when they were abandoned by advertisers who had been pressured by the FBI.

From 1967 to 1972 the operation compiled 13,000 files, which concerned 300,000 individuals and organizations.

The CIA directorate of operations created an index of 7 million names.

CHAPTER 2

THE MACHINE CIA AND MOB INFLUENCES ON THE ROCK INDUSTRY….

The mafia was to be enlisted for the covert war against the counter-culture. In the mid-60’s CHAOS officials and the mob both eyed the rise of political rock music. The CIA saw them as long haired communists screaming for revolution and the end to the Vietnam War. The mafia wanted more constrictive financial control over the recording industry. Top 40, the reigning broadcast format in America owes its very existence to the CIA and mafia combo. Drugs would enter the equation, plus youth and LSD with the politics of heroin and LSD drugs were only one contribution the agency has made to the American culture.

The National Security Council was patterned after Hitler’s security council , and its jurisdiction was to oversee the CIA by dictate of the NSA of 1947.

CHAPTER 3

PARAPOLITICAL STARS IN THE DOPE SHOW

Books were burned, book stores closed down, offices and social centers were broken into, artists, writers, musicians and countless hippies got dragged into court., to answer trumped up charges of corruption, obscenity, drug-abuse, and anything that might silence their voices. LSD appeared on the streets, as if on cue to destroy student descent. More potent drugs used in federally sponsored behavior modification studies (translates mind-control) also found their way to society at large. STP created by Dow-Chemical Co. in 1964 was considered incapacitating agent by the CIA Emergency wards was choked in San Francisco with freaking bohemians. PCP an animal tranquilizer, also fed to the hippies by the CIA. The Mob opened mass production labs and a meticulously organized network of traffickers to move black market drugs..

A CIA agent who claims to have infiltrated the covert LSD network, provided a clue when he referred to Height-Asbury as a human guinea pig farm. A dozen years earlier in the same city , George Hunter White and his CIA colleagues had set up a “safe house” and began testing hallucinogenic drugs on unwitting citizens. Now suddenly there was a neighborhood packed with young people who were ready and willing to gobble experimental chemicals. Charles Manson and Timothy Leary arrived in San Francisco and each had a keen interest in mind-control.

Dulles mentioned in his memo that the agency was testing drugs on groups of people. CIA personnel mingled with the drug dealers.. Monitoring stations were set up, among them was Louis J West, Jack Ruby’s shrink, West oversaw Dr Jose Delgado, author of Physical Control of the Mind and Ross Addey, a veteran of operation Paperclip (Nazi’s entry into CIA and NASA and else where), Dr. Margaret Singer of the CIA created False Memory Syndrome. All participated in the study of LSD as a politically destabilizing weapon. One CIA memo named the drug as a potential new agent for unconscious warfare. In 1967 as CHAOS was launched by CIA White House. Timothy Leary, tossed out of the army for erratic behavior, left experimenting with LSD on prisoners in N.Y. for the CIA, and donned the robes of the designated LSD media prelate. He later admitted to knowing at the time that some powerful people in Washington have sponsored this drug research. Leary was constantly surrounded by ops of intelligent agents.

CHAPTER 4

The death of Cass Elliot (of the Mamas and the Papas)and other restless youth

According to Mae Brussell, researcher, in 1968 orders went out to proceed to neutralize segments of society. including those restless youth. By 1969 the SSS (Special Services Section of the FBI), combined with the Justice department and with the CIA operation Chaos.

Thus. Manson Murders, etc. Manson joined the Process church, a Satanist church , who also worshipped Lucifer and Jehovah. It was (is) big in Hollywood at the time. (Manson clearly a mind-controlled dupe).

One FBI report on Cass Elliot marked urgent states she attended a fund raiser in Hollywood , for Peace and Justice. Cass had political ambitions and wanted to be a senator, maybe, in 20 yrs or so. An underground paper called The Realist suggested Cass was the target of political foul play. The editor Paul Krassner said, “I believe she might have been killed. She knew a lot about the incredible criminal links between Hollywood and Washington and Las Vegas.

CHAPTER 5

THE MURDER IN THE HOUSE OF POOH BRIAN JONES OF THE ROLLING STONES.

The fusion of music and politics made the stones an enemy of the state. There were infiltrators and drug set-ups and busts thus, Jagger said ” This is a protest against the system, war stems from power-mad politicians and patriots, we must end all these mindless men from seats of power, and replace them with real people, people of compassion.” The stones were stalked harassed and getting paranoid.

An odd construction crew came to restore the house of Brian Jones, the former cottage of AA Milne, author of Pooh books. They muscled their way into his private life, and had a weird hold over Brian. One worker, Thorogood, made a death bed confession, that he had drowned Wilson The tell-tale signs of cover-up by authorities are unmistakable. He was off drugs at the time. his death was not caused by a life of abuse as was claimed, he was murdered.

CHAPTER 6

THE END OF ROCK FESTIVALS

Five Months later, a music festival happened near San Francisco, and became murderous. The band would be forever tainted by the surreal violence..

Editor of Rolling Stone, Jan Wenner, put the Rolling Stones Band in touch with Melvin Belli, attorney of California well-heeled conservative base, whose eulogy at his funeral was, “a man of law against the CHAOS of life, a man of CHAOS against the law of life.” He was one of CIA’s most trusted court room wonders. Belli chose the Altamount for the Stones concert. It had all the charm of a grave yard, and not fit to draw 300,000 people.! Ralph Sonny Barger of the Hells Angels was hired to keep the peace, (an informant hit-man, who was hired by feds to kill labor activist Cesar Chavez, but was arrested instead on an old charge.) Hells Angels are represented in 18 countries now, largest crime family export. Who in 1969 suspected the Hells Angels was a death squad in employ of the political agencies? (a refreshing break from the status quo?)

At the Stone’s concert the Hells Angels beat up on the youth to excited to see Jagger and Leary arrive, an 18 year old girl was stabbed to death for allegedly having a gun, by the Hells Angels. There ended up 3 dead and many wounded..

A CANCER WAS PLANTED AND GROWING IN THE COUNTER-CULTURE

CHAPTER 7

JIMI HENDRIX POLITICAL HARASSMENT AND MURDER.

He didn’t die from a drug overdose, he was not an out of control dope fiend. He was not a junkie.

FBI COUNTELPRO was out to do more than prevent a communist menace, from overtaking the U.S.! (or to control black power movement). It was out to obliterate its opposition and ruin the representatives of the people involved in the anti-war movement, Civil Rights Movement, and the rock revolution.

Hendrix manager, Mike Jeffery, by his own admission was an intelligence agent. He frequently boasted he had powerful underworld connections. There were many mafia managed “acts”. The CIA/Mafia connection had exercised considerable influence in the music industry for decades. Hendrix wanted out of the contract. He felt he was under surveillance and felt more and more unsafe in New York, his former safe haven. His manager, thus, might have created a Toronto arrest, to silence Jimi. He preferred him to be isolated. He had always been a trusting and open person before, and now he didn’t know who to trust.

He was getting 10 grand for a 50 grand concert. Hendrix friends said Jeffrey’s would get more money from a dead Hendrix than a living one. There was also a possible million dollar insurance policy in Jeffrey’s name.

Was Hendrix murdered? The official cause of death was asphyxiation caused by vomit? The pathologist report left the cause of death open. Monica Danneman (investigator), had long insisted Hendrix was murdered. At the time of her own death, she had brought media attention to the case in a letter and highly publicized court battle. Monica’s body was found in a fume-filled car near her home, in south England. It was called a suicide.

She had a lot of death threats, and people who knew her said “she didn’t believe in the concept of suicide”

CHAPTER 8

Death of Jim Morrison, lead singer of the doors.

Two years after the death of Brian Jones, Jim Morrison’s body was found in a bath-tub in his flat in Paris. Death was attributed to natural causes, possibly heart failure. Morrison’s political outbursts attracted the FBI. He had said, ” I like the idea about the breaking away or over-throw of the established order.” In another interview Manzerek (of the Doors) considered possible motives for the elimination of the Anarchistic Lizard King ” they were going to stop all rock and roll by stopping the Doors. He was considered the most dangerous because he was saying . “We want the world and we want it NOW.”

FBI harassment rendered Morrison so anxiety ridden that he had an ulcer by mid-twenties. Paranoia struck deep and it was thought he was a marked man. Bob Seymore wrote a book re: Jim called The End and conceded” you could say the CIA and the other intelligence agencies may have had a hand in the deaths of Hendrix, Joplin and Morrison etc., simply because they were the leaders of the generation of the 60’s.

A book ” The Bank of America in Louisiana” appeared in 1975, after his death, supposedly written by Morrison. Some say he survived Paris and lived a life free from celebrity and the FBI. A James Douglas Morrison, claimed to be operating as an intelligence agent for a number of groups including the CIA and Interpol, and also had connections with various occult groups. This JM2 also claims to be the dead rock star. There are stacks of official looking document, and letters between the agencies, CNN, NBC, and JM2. This claim was made by researcher Thomas Lyttle who claims to have seen what looks like authentic documents. There seems to be hundreds if not thousands of miscellaneous files under the name. No autopsy was performed after his death, a probable violation of French law. Pamela Courson, who was with him at the time, died later of an overdose that some said was a “Hot Shot” or poisoned opiate.

CHAPTER 9

JOAN BAEZ PHIL OCHS

Joan Baez survived the chaos backlash, she fully understood that political assassination could be her reward for openly castigating military-industrial masters of war. Her close friend Martin Luther King Jr., the worlds most honored civil rights leader told her and a group of activists before delivering his famed speech how the police had dumped him in the hole and it was black and he couldn’t see. They shoved food in the room but he wouldn’t eat it for fear it was poisoned starving and afraid he got on his knees and prayed and when he got up he said it didn’t matter anymore.

Kings entourage hid their pain when they knew what he meant. We knew he was going to die, and he was ready to die, and he was ready to make a commitment to Vietnam etc. He said, “I have been to the mountaintop and I have seen the Promised Land and it doesn’t matter anymore.”

Joan Baez wrote a memoir, And a Voice to Sing With, (1987) of her childhood and her father as a bright young Stanford scientist “Albert Baez recognized the danger of the unleashed atom even in the early days” He took a job at Cornell University in Ithica, New York (Cornell is the base of CIA Mind Control experiments and Joan is a survivor of ritual abuse and mind control experimentation, according to letters she has written to researchers and other survivors), a common cover for trauma-based-mind-control programming. She has a song about it

”I am paying for protection, Smoking out the truth…chasing recollections…nailing down the roof”

Baez entertained no illusions about the CIA, and promoted State of Siege, film she saw as exposing the corrupt element of AID (Agency for International Development, overseas), which funded the teaching of techniques of torture tactics in Latin America. We solicited signatures against the use of torture. Torture was made more prevalent than it had been since the Middle Ages, thus the danger was its common use as government policy. The hands of the US government were far from clean.

Joan did years of intensive therapy to confront her inner demons ,fears, insomnia, panic attacks, phobias, anxieties, etc. Therapists kept Joan glued together, to get me to the next gig, she said.

Joan’s father was invited to become the head of Operations at Cornell, which would bring him in contact with CIA Human Ecology Foundation, (re: Academic Mind Control Studies) behind the fences of the Ivy League campuses across the country. Joan said it was classified. She was not buried by Chaos, but she lived under its intolerant eye and it could silence her. An example is a mistranslation in Japanese re her comments on Vietnam and Nagasaki. The interpreter was threatened and complied. A year later sale of her records were banned from all Army PXs and when she denounced the draft on the Smother‘s Brothers Hour, she was censored by CBS, her comments cut, and CBS cancelled the Brothers soon after. The same year her then David Harris was sentenced to three years for draft evasion.

Civil rights activists were falsely linked to Communist organizations. A common smear tactic.

JOAN BAEZ AND BOB DYLAN

MIMI FARINA AND RICHARD FARINA

In 1961 Joan Baez met Bob Dylan. Whose songs had such stark political flavor. Bob nearly died in 1966 after a motorcycle accident. Joan’s brother-in-law Richard Farina did die a few months later in a motorcycle accident. It was suspicious and happened on his wife Mimi Farina birthday. He was on his way back from a promotional party for his book “Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up”. Before his death he had been producing an album to be performed by Joan, but it got shelved.

Mimi Farina, sister of Joan, is an equally talented and politically active woman who sings in prisons and goes out hands on to the poor, last I heard, and I believe Joan’s heart is also with the poor folk (My Note)

After Dylan’s accident he went thru a political change . He dropped the broadside lyrics grating on the nerves of the establishment. Mark Edmundson wrote: He wasn’t ruined by drugs. His work combines art and politics and the harshest truth about the world. He is a visionary skeptic ,he loves the promise of America and yet is disgusted by much of its reality.

His songs tell about the cane murder of black servant Hattie Carroll, the death of boxer Davie Moore, the unbroken chains of injustice. They go to the heart of the decades most recurring preoccupation ,that in a time of irreversible technical progress , moral civilization has pathetically faltered, that no matter how much international attention is focused on the macro-cosmic affairs, the plight of the individual must be considered.

Five years after the accident he wrote “George Jackson”, a fiercely driven ballad about the Black Panther leader ” “George Jackson” who was consiciously murdered by a prison guard.

PHIL OCHS ( THE OUT LAW AND HIS BRAIN) MIND CONTRO AND MPD

“U.S. agents were able to destroy any persons reputation by inducing hysteria or excessive emotional responses, temporary or permanent insanity, suggest or encourage suicide , erase memory , invent double or triple personalities, inside ones mind.”

—quote by the late Mae Brussells Operation Chaos investigator etc.

Ochs was a close chum of Bob Dylan , and thought Bob was the greatest poet ever. Ochs ,Bob, and Farina set out on the Folk minstrels path in the village in the early 1960’s. Together with others they dragged folk music away from the migration camps and union halls into direct confrontation with the Eisenhower’s looming military-industrial complex. Ochs denounced the American politics in the “Cops of the world”. song

” and when we’ve butchered your sons boys, have a stick of gum boys, we own half the world….”OH CAN YOU SEE”? AND THE NAME OF OUR PROFITS IS DEMOCRACY.

He was the ultimate dissident song quote” the comic and the beauty queen are dancing on the stage .The raw recruits are lining up like coffins in a cage.” “Oh we are fighting in a war we lost before the war began”

Not long before he died, one night after too many drinks, he drew down the CIA Director Wm. Colby, director of the murderous Phoenix Project in Vietnam. He claimed he put a contract out on his life for 100,000 dollars. “I told Colby he’s got a half of year to live or get out of Vietnam or he is dead. They can kill me but he is dead” he said.( He as well was certain that Gloria Steinem, editor of Ms. magazine and famous feminist is a CIA agent) Ochs was founder of the Yippee party, sang with protesters, and appeared as a witness for the trail of the Chicago Seven. His lyrics were considered so inflammatory that he was banned from the air-waves. The FBI did not refrain form amassing a huge file on him, and the feeling that he was never alone unnerved him. He wrote ” take everything I own, take the tap from my phone, and leave my life alone, My life alone! He was tarred as a communist and a threat to national security. His friends said Ochs was convinced he would be assassinated. He was driven to drink by the radio black-listing his music and the ongoing surveillance and harassments and his nerve gave out. He lived in a perpetual state of paranoia His vocal cords were crushed by thugs.

He developed a right wing pseudo personality called John Train who he wrote about

( Beth’s note: Who created John Train? Was he like his good friend Joan Baez, a mind-controlled MPD(DID), from abuse and experimentation? On the first day of summer ,1975,” Phil Ochs “was murdered in the Chelsea Hotel by John Train, Ochs said in a taped interview. “for the good of societies public and “secret,” he needed to be gotten rid of.” He also made reference to his Pseudo personality in song fragments in an album never recorded re: “Phil Ochs checked into the Chelse a Hotel, there was blood on his clothes, Train Train Train, the outlaw and his brain. (my note: I have read accounts of cloning since the 50’s. Lots of hi-tech knowledge kept secret, including in Jim Keith’s book “Secret and Suppressed”).

Ochs actually now believed he was working for the CIA., writes biographer Marc Elliot.( Ochs also referred to N.Y. Cornell Hospital in mysterious lists) “Train hinted that if Ochs had been a commercial success “they”(CIA) would have killed his host personality.. ” Colby and Co. would have been more than happy to put a slug thru his head at that point, “said Train, the alternate personality. Ochs committed suicide on April 9, 1976, by hanging. This was the same year of the book ” the Control of Candy Jones” by Donald Bain., ( a study of CIA mind control experimentation, Candy was also an MPD, created personalities, who carried out covert assignments , a marionette with an inner Nazi personality. She worked without her knowledge as a CIA op. for 12 years. Her final post-hypnotic command was suicide, which was intervened by her husband, talk show host John Nebel. ( the book is out of print, I have a copy) It is very probable that “John Train” was programmed to kill Philip Ochs the host personality.

Another musician with repressed memory of child-hood trauma was Peter Townsend (”Who” guitarist). In 1999 it occurred to him that certain phrases from rock opera “TOMMY” were not fiction but his life. He filled in the blanks from his childhood amnesia.

CHAPTER 10

WHO KILLED THE KENNEDYS AND SAL MINEO (REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE)

Actor Sal Mineo was stabbed to death in a parking lot after signing on to play Sirhan Sirhan in an upcoming movie regarding JFK. (CIA assassination and post-hypnotic programming were the major themes of the movie.) Elliot Mintz talk show host for ABC, later Bob Dylan and the Lennon’s publicist was buried in research with Mineo, regarding JFK killing. They became convinced Sirhan was innocent. The movie production disagreed and Mineo pulled out of the picture. After he was killed the media revealed in his secret life of bi-sexuality, and the murder was taken as homophobia. Gay Bars were closing in fear, and Hollywood stars took refuge behind locked doors.

Michael Ruppert a former LAPD officer left the department to expose his CIA trained colleagues. He claims “Sirhan was hypno-programmed using hypnosis, drugs and torture by Rev. Jerry Owen and CIA Mind-Control Specialist Wm. Bryan at the stable where he worked months before the shooting. The LAPD concealed evidence implicating the CIA in shooting. The channels of the intelligence world swarmed with crooks and killers.

Conservative Evangelist Billy Graham was Presidents Nixon’s celebrated “spiritual advisor”. Then there was LA’s gangster corrupt public servant and wealthy gambling czar Mickey Cohen.(who “claimed “to be a friend of Sal Mineo) The former hit-man Cohen contacted the press after Mineos death t o boost that he was his pal. Cohen was also chummy with Nixon, and his entourage. In 1968, Cohen was coined the godfather of the West Coast Mafia gambling ops. When Cohen was close to death he opened up to investigative reporter Chuck Ashman, and he said, “Mickey Cohen told me the tale of his being paid off to fake a conversion and dose of Christianity for Billy Grahams N.Y. crusade. Two of Graham’s staff had passed more than 10,000 dollars to Mickey and his family.” We found the dates and the amounts and even the checks” Cashmon said.

Cohen was the first bridge linking the killers of Robert Kennedy and Sal Mineo. He was on friendly terms with Carlos Marcellos, mob boss, who ran with David Ferrie, CIA corrupt ops., who was investigated by Jim Garrison in the connection of killing of JFK. Cohen was also a chum with Jack Ruby. Cohen was also a friend of Melvin Belli, Jack Ruby’s defense attorney. He also controlled the Santa Anita race-track where Sirhan was employed. Mickey Cohen’s circle of friends and his appearance in the limelight after the Mineo killing begs question on Hollywood power brokers. Sirhan and Cohen were close to Desi Arnez, (Producer) of I Love Lucy .Arnez was an anti Castro Cuban exile leader. In 1966 Sirhan wrote in his notebook that he landed a job at the stables Corona Breeding Farm co-owned by Desi Arnez, Buddy Ebsen, Dale Robertson, ultra conservatives, and TV personalities were well acquainted with Sirhan. Sirhan was known as a fervent anti-communist. Attorney, Russell Parsons, Sirhan’s attorney, showed no effort to make known that Sirhan was in the wrong position to kill senator Kennedy, he was shot from behind and Sirhan stood in front of Kennedy.

CHAPTER 11

PROJECT WALRUS..JOHN LENNON..

Mark-David Chapman chose to plead not guilty due to following the direction of his voices.. His attorney J. .Marks, punctuated the plea “by reason of insanity”. Chapman testified “I can hear their thoughts, I can hear them talking, but not from the outside, from the inside” Not one of the three psychiatrists at the trial explored the possibility of Mind-Control. In 1977 Chapman lost his fundamentalist religion and became a Satanist..

At 19, 1n 1975,Chapman signed onto the YMCA,(international camp counselor program) and was sent to Beirut where he allegedly received instructions in lethal arts at the CIA training camp school of terror. (there was a known “experiment in Mind Control unit” for the army in Lebanon.). In 1980 he surfaced in New York, and mailed a letter to an Italian address. The Dakota (residence of the Lennon’s) was given as a return address. There was a reference to his” mission ” in N.Y.. It was returned to New York, the address not found in Italy, where it sat for three years in the dead letter bin, and finally delivered to the Dakota. Yoko Ono glanced at the letter and dropped it in her deranged file. In 1983, head of security, Mahoney, found the letter. This was evidence of premeditated murder and conspiracy. The letter vanished and reappeared slightly altered, the post-date now was 1981. The “mission” statement was missing…

Elliot Mintz, friend of Sal Mineo ,was instrumental in exposing “Project Walrus” as a conspiracy regarding Lennon. He had been Lennon’s chum too and publicist since 1971 Mintz recalls that some of Yoko body guards were at the time New York Police officers.. It is very difficult for a private citizen to legally possess a weapon in New York. The people who can are off duty officers. It is thus, a common celebrity arrangement. There were many files with missing contents at Yoko’s apt. after Lennon was killed. Listening devices were planted at the Dakota and once swept clean would reappear. There had been numerous attempts on Yoko’s life. One man was arrested at airport who had made a call that he was coming to finish the job and kill Yoko and Sean. There were also calls made to tell her body guards were going to kill her. Sean Lennon said, “I grew up afraid my mother and I were going to be killed”.

After John’s murder the first promoting of Project Walrus was the ruining of his reputation. John had known he was wire-tapped and was paranoid. After Watergate he filed a lawsuit for wiretap and surveillance and made some progress. Justice Dept. never would admit it actually carried out the wiretap and blamed it on other possibilities. After he got his green card he gave up the litigation. Lennon overcame his fear of federal harassment and gave public statements that were anti-republican.

Killing Lennon was only the first step. All that he signified must be defaced. That was the principle objective of Walrus. His diaries were stolen and returned later with extra entries and some entries altered. Fred Seaman wrote a defamatory book on Lennon. Seaman was to be executive of Lennon’s archives, and much was feigned regarding their bond. He told friends he was going to discredit Ono at all costs. The goal was to drive her to a nervous breakdown and discredit her attempt to set straight the public record. The walrus crew anticipated immense profits. Dead Lennon’s money’s The events at the Dakota began to sound like the Movie “Gaslight”..( in which a husband tries to drive his wife crazy by reality distortion) Yoko began sleeping badly. One of Yoko’s assistants, wracked by stress began packing a gun at all times. He said ” you do not know how big this is. The people doing this are too big to fight.” To discredit Lennon and Yoko and the Peace movement was a major part of Operation Walrus. (but it didn’t and IT WILL NOT)

CHAPTER 12

WHAT CHA GONNA DO?..THE DEATHS OF MARLEY AND TOSH.

Quote: “Vampires do not come out to bite your neck anymore, instead they cause something destructive to happen that will spill blood., and those invisible vampires will get their meal ” Peter Tosh.

Peter Tosh , like Marley was a widely influential civil rights agitator, and like other black activists before him he was gunned down. He died in 1987 at age 43. He was upset with the treatment of his people. Tosh went to Trench Town to live with an uncle after the aunt he was living with died. It was there he met the young Bob Marley, and taught him to play guitar. They got together with Bunny Wailer and the trio called themselves the Wailin Wailers. They were drastically underpaid. Record producers are notorious for pocketing money. (dem pirates and dem thieves). Peter Tosh always let his feelings be known. He cared more about principles and morals than popularity and fame. He said “they know I do not support POLITRICKS and games, my duty is to unify the people.” He and Marlew had some wrangling and he left the group, and went on his own. Destabalsation tactics were employed, and political violence and sabotage etc. from the CIA with pernicious attempts to wreck the economy of their country.. The new weapon and the new menace was destabilization..

Bob Marley held onto the Wailer name and took on new members. The peoples National Party asked them to play at Smile Jamaica concert. He agreed.

In Nov. a death squad came to Marley’s home and started shooting. They shot bullets into his manager, and one in his wife’s’ Rita’s head , as she tried to get their 5 children out of the house. They survived. The last bullet creased Marley’s breast below his heart and drilled deep into his arm. Marley would sing “Ambush in the night, all guns aiming at me.” This did not stop them performing at the Smile Jamaica concert.. (”War”) “Until the ignoble and unhappy regimes that now hold our brothers, in Angola, in Mozambique, in subhuman bondage, have been toppled utterly destroyed…everywhere is war……

Carl Colby , son of CIA head Wm. Colby, came to the concert and posed as crew and got back stage where he gave a gift to Marley, a pair of boots. Former black Panther Lee Lew-Lee was close to Marley and he thinks Marley’s cancer started with the boots He claims there was a link of copper wire attached to the boots, which hurt his foot when he tried them on and had to be removed..(it might have been treated chemically with a carcinogenic toxin. Marley later broke his toe and found out it was cancerous, it spread. He did not trust main-stream medicine and continued to perform. He knew by 1977 he was dying and compressed a lifetime of music into a few years

Something of a Caribbean CIA POGROM was underway via Kissinger and Co. There was emphasis on psychological Ops. which became arson, banking assassination disruption of the now Manley’s democratic socialist rule. Political violence was stoked and arsenal of weapons supplied. This was all mostly financed by Hard Drugs, which disrupted the Rasta movement and marijuana. They wanted it legalized. Their chosen weapon in the Rasta Movement was free expression and they were crucified for it. Tosh was busted and beaten almost to death and it made his music more vengeful.. Secret Police and the CIA tailed him thru it all. Grotesque human rights violations were commonplace. Marley found out he had a brain tumor. He sang ” these songs of freedom is all I ever had, emancipate yourself from MENTAL SLAVERY. “He was observed rubbing his forehead and grimacing while performing. One woman explained “Hidden lasers were fixed to spotlights above the stage and burned out his brain” Fellow

Rasta’s heard about an alternative doctor in Jamaica, who advised Marley to talk to a Doctor Josef Issels, a holistic immuno therapist in a Bavarian village. He went. The Dr. said “I hear you are one of the most dangerous black men in the world.” Issels medical career did not hold up under scrutiny, during WW2 he had worked hand in hand with Dr. Mengele (angel of death) in research in Poland, at the Auschwitz camp. The Wailers found this out after his death.

Issels told Bob he could cure him and did sadistic procedures that left him in agony. After visits the Wailor’s said “he is killing Bob” He also cut off his dreadlocks. He was in the hands of the doctor who had been the accomplice of Mengele in horrific Medical experiments against what they considered “sub humans”. His mother said ” he was starving and wasting away , and he would fall into fits of shaking, etc” Marley weighed 82 pounds on the day of his death. May 11, 1980. (HIS MUSIC LIVES ON)

Peter Tosh found the bloodshed and hypocrisy of death squad justice in the Third World unbearable He was obsessed with the hidden evil. By 1987 the year of Tosh murder Jamaica musicians were censored by the prevailing politics. Witnesses and friends insist his murder was a political hit. They were convinced Tosh was killed for his statements on Human Rights, Black liberation and the legalization of Marijuana. Tosh was throwing a small party at home when Mike Robertson, a local radio host answered the door. Leppo Leppan, an old buddy from Trenchtown days stepped in. Behind him were two clean-cut looking strangers, professional hit men, they insisted on talking to Tosh at gunpoint. Shots were fired and three people were dead.

Shortly afterward the N.Y. City apartment of Tosh was entered and burglarized, (such as the aftermath of Hendrix death). Two out of three of the Tosh killers remain at large. One hit man was said to be a policeman, (of course Leppan was convicted.)

Chapter 13 GANG WAR Sons of Chaos.

Rap artist Tupac Shakur was gunned down at a stop-light in Las Vegas in 1996. It will be evident re: the police strategy of disinformation, ignoring of witnesses, and the presence of undercover agents from L.A. and N.Y. at the murder of rapper Notorious B.I.G.

This suggests that both rappers were murdered by hit squads under the sanction of federal officers. Tupac’s father said “It was clear to me form day one that the Las Vegas police never had any interest in solving the case of my sons murder..”.. It was said “ we dealt extensively with COINTELPRO (FBI) issues. We worked around a lot of political prisoners and the black liberation movement over the years. This shaped Tupac into the person he was. The family operated the “Centre for Black Survival! They had a youth group called “The New African Panthers” and Tupac became the chairperson for it.”

The agony of the Rap industry was exacerbated in March 1997 by killing 24 yr. old Brooklyn rap artist Notorious B.I.G. in L.A. This happened after he had attended the annual ‘Soul Train’ Music awards, by an unidentified gunman. Tupacs father said in a letter (excerpt)”we do know that Brother Biggie was a part of an industry that has been under attack from the highest form of government officials.” ” They have targeted Tupac, Sister Souljah, and IceT. Ice Cube, just to name a few. This is reportedly due to the content of the lyrics. “IF” this was the case why would devil-worshippers (music-artists) not be hounded out also?????(They openly worship the devil in a so-called God fearing country.) Their lyrics preach mayhem, destruction. Death to parents, and even government; whereas our rapper loved-ones wanted to explain their pain and identify from where they came, with hopes for a better tomorrow; if all things were fair.

We believe that history has demonstrated that the murders of black people (young and old) who can have a profound impact, those who refuse to bow down, have been targeted by government at its highest level.

What we must understand is that our warriors are needed when it has been proven beyond contradiction that the C.I.A. were principal importers of Crack Cocaine and Cocaine into the ‘HOOD’, with blatantly racist drug laws, to set into motion tactics of genocide to destroy or lock away our brothers and sisters or the rest of their lives.

Pay attention to the game that is being played on/against us! SEARCH FOR TRUTH! Don’t look at who shot them, but why? Don’t be fooled by the media that has never shown real concern for our welfare. DR. MUTULU SHAKUR

Mutulu Shakur’s conviction that SECRET POLICE killed his stepson and Notorious B.I.G. proves to be increasingly feasible.

Chapter 14 FALSE GOD SYNDROME

DEATH OF MICHAEL HUTCHENE

…. 1997—–M. Hutchence was found tethered by his neck to a door frame. He too was an activist, who willed the lion share of his fortune to Amnesty International and the Green Party. He was found at the Ritz-Carleton in Sydney Australia. The media concocted scenes of SM but he was found with a broken hand and lacerations and had taken a bad beaten. His friends said he was not depressed and he was against suicide. There were rumors of the “MOB” involved in his investments possibly unknown to him. He died penniless due to investments and trusts and his family had to fight for his money.

He knew Gianni Versace, famous designer who was gunned down, and was also said to be possibly mafia involved, although he denied it angrily (A dead mourning bird was found by the Versace body, a symbol of a hit-man).

Diana Spencer, the Princess of Wales, and a month before her own death attended the funeral of Versace. As it happened another friend of Hutchence was Dodi Fayed , someone said to have mob links. Dodi’s uncle was arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi of the Iran-Contra Fame.

Dodi and Diana were killed in a car accident four months before Hutchence died.

THE DEEP POLITIICS OF MUSIC

Roger Bunn director of the Music Industry, Human Rights Assoc. (MIHRA), in the U>K> lives in the eye of the corporate music beast. These are excerpts from letters form Bunn:

“Re: M. Hutchene…”so that’s it, huh? Death due to hanging? Sort of unusual that…even for the music industry. Those wonderful featured artist really light up the sky every now and then. Maybe we should consider making the poor darlings an endangered species? When they reach their peak it probably means worth more to the conglomerates dead than live. Think about that next time you go out to buy your conglomerate primitive/folk music, or a well-known movie…. you add strength to the cartel Monopoly. The music industry turns over 120 billion dollars a year. In the music industry there is no such thing as Real Competition”.

“Music Industry Is The Richest Industry On The Planet. By providing the public with a marketing of.

FALSE GOD SYNDROME

When artists “usefulness” to a conglomerate is over things can get a little sticky. (End of quote)

MY NOTE……THIS PROJECT OF SUMMARIZING THIS BOOK HAS BEEN ONE CLOSE TO MY HEART, SINCE I HAVE LOVED MANY MUSICIANS (AND WORLD OF FAME PEOPLE) UP CLOSE AND FROM AFAR. I HAVE SEEN HOW THE WORLD OF FAME WORKS AND I THINK IT IS SOMETHING THE PUBLIC SHOULD KNOW. THEY ARE PEOPLE FIRST AND FOREMOST AND HAVE ALL THE SAME TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS THAT WE HAVE, (AS CAN BE SEEN BY ALEX CONSTANTINES BOOK.). MY GRATITUDE TO YOU ALEX…..



KAY
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The Power of Flower Language is not Dead

March 14th, 2009
Wendy Stenberg-Tendys asked:


In England, a would-be burglar sent his shaken 91 year-old victim a boutique of flowers, with a card and an apology. He was sorry he had scared her, but he thought there was no one in the house at the time of his attempted burglary. He ran from the house without having taken anything. Police are asking him to give himself up. What will they charge him with? Sending flowers to a would-be victim, or for breaking and entering and frightening a 91 year-old woman?

However, the power of flower language is not a new art. Floriography, is commonly believed to have originated from the Victorian age, when flowers were used to send secret messages. However, flower language began in medieval and Renaissance culture. Saints were depicted in paintings with flowers that were symbolic of the virtues of the saint.

Some of the most common use of flowers as a language are: red roses for love, pansies for thoughtfulness, carnations for admiration, white lilies for purity, pink roses for a lesser affection, white roses for eternal love, daisies for innocence and blue violets for faithfulness, to name just a few.

There is a modern flower power that has stamped its mark societies across the globe.

Flower Power had its strongest rise to fame in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s in the sub-cultural movement of the Hippies. The Hippies (flower children) were an emblem of non-violent beliefs, with a strong stance against the use of war to solve universal problems and in particular the war in Vietnam and the cold war of the nuclear hungry superpowers. The Hippies were determined in their demand for social change.

The twenty year-olds and teenagers gave flowers to policemen and bystanders. They placed flowers in the barrels of guns and revolvers, as a sign of peace, not war. They were pacifists and participated in non-violent political demonstrations.  Concerning the political activity of hippies, it was said “They mostly prefer to be stoned, but most of them want peace and they want an end to war of any kind.”



A photograph taken for the Washington Post, of a clean cut looking teenager, dressed in a turtle neck pullover. It showed the teenager placing flowers in the barrels of the policemen’s guns and became the symbol of the era, alongside the brightly painted VW buses commonly used by the Flower Children.

The hippie generation became known as the ‘love generation’, embracing the sexual revolution of free love. They were also known for their frequent use of soft drugs, such as cannabis, to explore alternative states of consciousness. Their brightly painted VW buses were the forerunners of the modern-day art vehicles. Many Hippies loved to hitch-hike around the globe, as their way of meeting new people, as well as being very economical.

The catch cry of the Flower People was ‘Give Peace A Chance’ They practiced religious as well as cultural diversity, often embracing Eastern philosophies and spiritual concepts, while widely rejecting  established institutions,  both through mode of dress and their actions.

It was only after the Hippie sub-culture, that unmarried couples of any age felt they have the freedom to live or travel together, without the horror of social stigma. Sexual frankness became more common, even to the rights of bisexual, homosexual and transsexual. Interest was focused in natural foods, herbal remedies and vitamin supplements. All are a legacy from the carefree days of the Hippies. Mustaches, beards and long hair became widely accepted and bright clothing more common. The music festival Woodstock became a turning point in the acceptance of large music festivals, in spite of some unfortunate incidents where young people were killed. The festivals centred on peace, love and a balanced, though alternate lifestyle. Self-sufficiency and sustainable energy had its formation laid down in the Hippy movement.

The Flower Power of the Hippies had a major effect on societies around the globe, influencing health foods, fashion, popular music, television, film, literature and art. It was this period that saw the beginnings of the Cyber Space revolution. Only through the advent of the Hippy culture are people able to have the freedom to say what they do on the Internet today.



GINA
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Organic Skin Care For Pregnant Women

March 14th, 2009
A Nutt asked:


Pregnancy is a beautiful yet challenging time in a woman’s life. For every joyful discovery there is a disappointing development, like skin outbreaks or the shedding of hair.

The modern mother-to-be is lucky however, as manufacturers have begun to acknowledge the special needs of the pregnant body. Indeed, today there are literally hundreds of products on the market that address some of the more common discomforts pregnant women face during their nine month long evolution.

Skincare is one area that manufactures often target, a wise move, since taking care of our body’s largest organ is one of the primary concerns of many women who are on the precipice of becoming a mother.

With so many options available, it can be a rather daunting task to locate what will work best for you. Just how does a pregnant lady locate the skincare products that are both safe and effective?

Think Organic

Once upon a time people thought of organic products as something vegetarians and neo-hippies purchased due to paranoid concerns about contaminants. Nowadays, we realize that the neo-hippies were on to something, as the FDA and several health watch organizations have begun to prove that health and beauty items, like lotions and creams, were chock full of toxic substances.

Indeed, a mainstream lotion can contain several carcinogenic chemicals that could potentially damage reproductive health. Using such substances when pregnant could end up being extremely dangerous to both mother and baby.

On the other hand, true organic health and beauty items are free of the things that can cause harm to you and your precious little one.

Below are a few products that a resourceful mother who is interested in organic skin care can investigate to get started on her beauty regimen.

• Stretch mark cream - every mother, whether she is having her first child or her fifth, worries about getting stretch marks. The good news is that manufacturers of organic lotions and creams understand this and have created belly butters and moisturizers filled with pure botanical ingredients that will help your skin glow.

• Body toning oil — pregnant women are also concerned about sagging skin after childbirth, but the use of toning oils can help prevent this from happening if used faithfully. Producers of organic products make all natural body toning oils with tried and true substances like avocado, pomegranate and jojoba oils which boost collagen production and help the skin retain it elasticity.

• Body cleansing - purchasing organic shampoos, body washes and soaps are another great way to keep your skin baby smooth and free of harsh drying chemicals.

To find organic products you can visit a holistic food store in your neighborhood or look online for organic distributors. Always check the ingredients list as well, since some companies can legally use very little chemical free substances in their formulas and still get an organic rating. To be sure, look for the “certified organic” label. This often means it is 100 percent organic and 100 percent all natural.

You and your baby deserve the best start possible when it comes to the mother child relationship. Taking good care of yourself during your pregnancy with rest and proper skin care is one step in the right direction.



JEAN
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Peace, Love, and Purple Martins

March 13th, 2009
Michael Rasco asked:


Recently, I was having a conversation about purple martins with a friend of mine. She had no experience with birding, so I was eager to share with her. While describing the nesting habits of purple martins, I inexplicably switched the word “colonial” with “communal”. I suppose it was a forgivable slip, as the words are similar, but I chuckled at the images of a hippie commune from the ’60’s and ’70’s that popped into my head. Later that evening, I sat down and began to jot down some other ways in which purple martins remind me of hippies. The following is based on a stereotypical perception of hippies, and it is not meant to offend any current or former members of said culture.

1) As I said, they are communal. Generally, a group of purple martins living in a birdhouse (or birdhouses) is referred to as a “colony”, not a “commune”, but you get the idea. Purple martin birdhouses are of two varieties. Most often, they are mansion-like apartment complexes with several nesting compartments. These birdhouses generally accommodate four to sixteen pairs of purple martins. Some purple martin birdhouses are shaped to resemble natural gourds. Though only one pair of martins may occupy an individual gourd, they are hung in groups, thereby providing the birds the opportunity of establishing a colony.

2) They enjoy being high. I came up with this quaint pun quite quickly, which I hope helps explain its questionable taste. Purple martins like to be literally high, as in “high in the sky,” and they wisely shun drug use.

3) They eat organic foods. Purple martins feed exclusively on insects, which are, of course, organic. I would like to note emphatically that the use of chemical pesticides, which are not organic, may travel up the food chain and compromise the health of birds and other animals, including humans. Please try to find natural, organic methods of pest control.

4) Two words: “Road trip!” Revolutionaries and hippies alike have long trekked to South America for love, adventure, or seclusion. Purple martins go for the warm climate and the ease of finding a good meal while it is winter in the Northern Hemisphere; so, in that respect, they more closely resemble the retired New Yorkers who snowbird in Florida.

5) They have a hard time standing up to bullies. (And you thought I was reaching with that last one!) Purple martins are beaten up and sometimes evicted from their homes by species that are more aggressive, such as English house sparrows and European starlings. The most effective method of controlling these nuisance birds is by trapping or shooting them. (To control human bullies, one should refer to the proper authorities, as trapping and shooting are a bit excessive.) If you are a new or prospective purple martin landlord, but are hesitant to kill pest species, rest easy. Using non-lethal tactics such as wing and tail clipping can mitigate the problem enough to maintain a small colony, though the growth ceiling of the colony will be set somewhat low compared to colonies where starlings and sparrows are eliminated. That does not mean that it is a wasted effort - a small colony is better than no colony. Whatever method you choose, just make sure you are actively protecting your purple martin birdhouse from invasive species.

To be sure, there are just as many ways in which purple martins are diametrically opposite from my imaginary, caricatured hippie. Purple martins are sharp, aware, and very agile. Their energetic aerobatics are a prime reason many people buy their first purple martin birdhouse. Meanwhile, my hippie friend cannot even be bothered to find a job. How he paid for his Beetle, I’ll never know.

Purple martins exhibit good hygiene. A martin’s plumage retains its sheen, because the feathers are well cleaned and preened. Additionally, purple martins do not do their “business” where they live. In fact, they even carry the fecal sacs of their young several hundred feet away from their home. This is primarily to avoid attracting predators to the nest rather than for hygienic purposes, but, either way, it is a healthy habit.

These days, one rarely sees a full-fledged, card-carrying hippie like the one herein described. Conversely, purple martin populations have increased over the last 20 to 30 years. This is due to the efforts of many good people who have put up purple martin birdhouses, defended them from pest species, and built vibrant, prolific purple martin colonies. Purple martins depend almost exclusively upon humans to provide their housing. The rehabilitation of the species has come a long way, but there is still much need for action.

The goal of this article is to approach a serious subject from a humorous perspective (if only slightly so). Biodiversity is essential to the health of the environment - from contained, local ecosystems to the macroscopic, interconnected nature of, well, nature. It is imperative that we begin to take a stance of responsible stewardship to preserve the delicate balance that, in turn, will preserve us.



GRANT
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The Hippie Fashion Statement

March 4th, 2009
Robert Fuller asked:


The Hippie counterculture that started out in the 1960’s was more than just a movement advocating peace and freedom. What started out as a peaceful protest against the established societal norms and political arena that was in place, became an entire lifestyle that the hippies lived out from waking to sleeping, and from head to toe.

A lot of people followed the hippie movement. Some were motivated to become hippies themselves, while some found their views and how they expressed them quite interesting. Even if some were not exactly that passionate about what the hippies lived for, the hippie trend still managed to catch on. From long-haired men, to vegetarians, and to odd clothes, a lot of people soon had a bit of a hippie in them.

Although the hippie statement about breaking free from society and pursuing liberation and peace was the movement’s main theme, it became easy for people to know hippies more popularly because of their odd way of dressing and conducting themselves. Because of their rather eccentric clothes, they stood out quite starkly from the crowd. This is why the term “hippie” would often bring to mind a long-haired person, clad in sandals or sometimes even barefoot, wearing colorful tie-dyed shirts, a vest, bell-bottom pants, and several other accessories. For the ladies, the picture may also consist of colorful peasant blouses and long, full skirts.

These fashion threads have now been modernized and are accepted by the fashion world. Bell-bottom pants are now a worldwide hit. What used to be trendy back in the past, and went out of the trend for a long time, is now the “it” pair of jeans nowadays. The long, full skirts of the hippie women are now an option for any woman who wants to go feminine. The skirts are now designed in new and creative ways, using different fabrics, and come in various designs and colors. The peasant blouses are also a worldwide success. The blouses are even extended to become peasant dresses by maintaining its basic design. The blouses now come in many different varieties, colors, designs, just as long as it does not lose the basic peasant look. The tie dye trend is also now used in a variety of garments. T-shirts, tank tops, skirts, dresses, sundresses, hats, and even underwear are now tie-dyed. The mix of bright colors has made tie-dyed garments popular especially during the summer season.

Due to the wide fashion arena that accepts almost everything as a fashion statement, no matter how weird a piece of clothing may look at first, fashion can make it seem trendy and beautiful in the long run. As the hippie fashion threads caught on, people begun to look at them as strong fashion statements – eccentric and unique clothes that stood out from the crowd and was closely associated with freedom of expression. A lot of people, especially those who wanted to be unique, embraced the trend fully.

Up to the present, some modern-day hippies still wear the same odd clothes. But they’re not so odd anymore, because they’ve become part of the fashion mainstream. Some who wear the getup are possibly not true-blue hippies at all. We also see a lot of movie roles who sport the hippie getup. It has also somehow become a stereotype, because of the popularity it obtained.

However, no matter how commercialized the hippie fashion statement may get, in truth, it is still closely linked with hippie values. After all, when a hippie getup is seen, it is still known as “the hippie getup”. And it still epitomizes what the hippies stood for. Freedom from restrictions and of self-expression, in that they sported long, unkempt-looking hair without caring what other people may think. Liberation and opposition of the corporate pillars in place, in that they often made their own clothes and went barefoot. Peace and love, in that they use cheerful, bright colors that show off a peaceful, positive outlook in a beautifully free life.



STEWART
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