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30 May 2003

 

Thought for the day
The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.
--Carl Jung

posted by Lorenzo 8:00 AM

29 May 2003

 

Thought for the day
They made a wasteland and called it peace.
--Tacitus (Roman historian 55 - 117 CE)

posted by Lorenzo 8:04 AM

28 May 2003

 

Back from Mind States IV
In case you've been wondering why it's been so quiet in this little corner of cyberspace, it's because I've been traveling and haven't spent much time online. Now that I've returned from last weekend's Mind States conference in Berkeley I will have a little more time to update the Matrix Masters site. In a couple of days I'll be posting some thoughts about the conference, which was one of the best I've ever attended. It was really great to see so many old friends and to make so many new friends. My hat is off to Jon Hanna and all of the wonderful volunteers who made Mind States IV a magical weekend!

And to those of you I saw but never got through the crowd to talk with (like Bruce...hi Bruce) ... sorry about that .... maybe our paths will cross again at Burning Man :-)

posted by Lorenzo 12:51 PM

16 May 2003

 

Thought for the day
First they came for the Communists, and I didn�t speak up, because I wasn�t a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn�t speak up, because I wasn�t a Jew. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn�t speak up, because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by then there was no one left to speak up for me.
--Martin Niemoller, Lutheran minister and German war veteran

posted by Lorenzo 11:24 AM

14 May 2003

 

What's New — Posted May 7 - 13, 2003
World Events . . . Robert Fisk: An Anti-Colonial War Against The Americans May Have Already Begun . . . Is The Bush Administration Behind a National Strike Being Planned for Iran? . . . Minister resigns and makes a withering attack on Tony Blair's "presidential" style
U.S. News . . . Bush's political use of war images is shameless
War on Drugs . . . Hallucinogenic plants might be treatment for alcoholism
War on Iraq . . . US invasion produces human catastrophe in Iraq . . . US seeks broad control of Iraqi oil, funds . . . With a little help from his friends
Free Speech . . . Stop annoying telephone calls

posted by Lorenzo 2:18 PM

 

Thought for the day
Humanity has just entered what is probably the greatest transformation it has ever known . . . something is happening in the structure of human consciousness. It is another species of life that is just beginning.
--Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

posted by Lorenzo 2:10 PM

12 May 2003

 

Thought for the day
There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible to live without breaking laws.
-- Ayn Rand

posted by Lorenzo 9:16 AM

10 May 2003

 

Thought for the day
Remember that you are at an exceptional hour in a unique epoch, that you have this great happiness, this invaluable privilege, of being present at the birth of a new world.
--The Mother, Sri Aurobindo Ashram

posted by Lorenzo 2:48 PM

08 May 2003

 

Thought for the day
To me, the spectacle of demagogues sending millions of people to their deaths, wrecking the world with holy wars and bloodshed, tearing down nations to put over some religious or political 'truth' is -" He shrugged. "Obscene. Filthy - they're the opinions of absolutist individuals forced on whole continents. And it has nothing to do with the sincerity of the leader. Or the followers. The fact that they believe it makes it even more obscene. The fact that they could kill each other and die voluntarily over meaningless verbalisms...
--Philip K. Dick, in The World Jones Made

posted by Lorenzo 9:41 AM

07 May 2003

 

Thought for the day
[The following are comments about Little Bush's brazen use of the U.S. military for his personal glorification.]

I do not begrudge his salute to America's warriors aboard the carrier Lincoln, for they have performed bravely, ... but I do question the motives of a desk-bound president who assumes the garb of a warrior for the purposes of a speech. . . . This is not some made-for-TV backdrop for a campaign commercial. . . . To me, it is an affront to the Americans killed or injured in Iraq for the president to exploit the trappings of war for the momentary spectacle of a speech.
--Senator Robert Byrd

posted by Lorenzo 10:34 AM

06 May 2003

 

What's New — Posted April 22 - May 6, 2002
World Events . . . World Wide Tripping Day Set for December 21, 2012 . . . U.S. Used WOMD in Viet Nam: A chemical weapon used by the US in the Vietnam war is still damaging new generations . . . The US: Rogue Nation . . . Robert Fisk: An Anti-Colonial War Against The Americans May Have Already Begun
U.S. News . . . Bush: It's Not Just His Doctrine That's Wrong . . . EPIC Establishes Privacy Threat Index . . . Leaked document exposes pro-Israel lobby's manipulation of US public
Earth News . . . An Earth Day Celebration
War on Drugs . . . Psychedelics and Politics . . . Medical Marajuana Story, "Jeffrey's Journal"
War on Iraq . . . Oil War . . . Baghdad Did Not Fall - It Was Handed Over . . . Revealed: How the road to war was paved with lies . . . Russian Ambassador: U.S. Bribed Generals to Surrender . . . Secret War: How the CIA Defeated Saddam Hussein . . . CIA's Golden Victory - US Bribed Iraqi Military Leaders . . . Robert Fisk:
War Over?
Bill of Rights Under Attack . . . Local Officials Rise Up to Defy The Patriot Act . . . Homeland Security Thugs Turn U.S. into Police State, welcome to the American Gulag . . . Some fear loss of privacy as science pries into brain

posted by Lorenzo 10:04 PM

04 May 2003

 

Thought for the day
A society that can punish a marijuana offender more severely than a murderer is caught in the grip of a deep psychosis.
--Eric Schlosser, in Reefer Madness

posted by Lorenzo 2:03 PM

03 May 2003

 

Thought for the day
I think that most people who are even vaguely aware feel this giddy sense that something's wrong and things are really fucked up. It's pretty hard to miss the signs. Unless you're Bush.
--Paul D. Miller, aka DJ Spooky

posted by Lorenzo 3:36 PM

01 May 2003

 

What a pathetic little man is Mr. Bush
There is no telling how much taxpayer money was spent so that Little Bush could have a photo-op looking like some Saudi prince pretending to be a fighter pilot. I suspect that most of my fellow Viet Nam veterans are as revolted as I that this draft-dodging AWOLer is using the men and women of the armed forces as a backdrop for his re-election campaign. IMHO there is little difference in Bush pretending to be a hero than when his apparent role model, Caligula, did the same in ancient Rome. How sad to see this once great nation debased so thoroughly with these military displays. How long, I wonder, will it be before Little Bush begins wearing a military uniform all the time?

posted by Lorenzo 12:33 PM

 

Thought for the day
The world is now too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.
--Buckminister Fuller

posted by Lorenzo 7:36 AM