Kali Ma

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Kali Ma, called the "Dark Mother," is the Hindu goddess of creation, preservation, and destruction. She is especially known in her Destroyer aspect, squatting over her dead consort, Shiva, devouring his entrails while her yoni sexually devours his lingam, penis. Kali, in this aspect is said to be "The hungry earth, which devours its own children and fattens on their corpses... " In India the experience of the Terrible Mother has been given its most grandiose form of Kali, which just is not simple imagery; it is the image of the Feminine, particularly the Maternal, for in a profound way life and birth are integrally connected to death and destruction. Kali serves as the archetypal image of the birth-and-death Mother, simultaneously the womb and tomb, giver of life as well as the devourer of her children: the identical image was portrayed in a thousand ancient religions. Current psychologists face this image with an uneasy acknowledgement of its power. Apparently the image of the angry, punishing, castrating Father seems less threatening than the destructive Mother--perhaps because she symbolized the inexorable reality of death, whereas he only postulated a problematic post-mortem judgment. Perhaps this is one reason the Roman Catholics maintain the teaching of purgatory, to divert the final end. The full importance of the profound meaning of the functions of Kali as the live-giver, preserver, and destroyer have been dismissed or destroyed over the centuries, as have been the aspects of other manifestations of the goddess. Many western interpretations of Kali in art and literature just depict the destructive aspect of this goddess, which tend to portray her as fearsome and evil. In the London Museum is an image of her which is labeled "Kali-Destroying Demon." The Encyclopedia Britannica devotes five columns to the Christian interpretation of the Logos and dismisses Kali's part in the creation of the world. This deity is mentioned in a brief paragraph as the consort of Shiva, and "a goddess of disease." In Hinduism Kali's three functions are assigned to the gods: Brahma, the creator; Vishnu, the preserver; and Shiva, the destroyer. It is noted that Vishnu, who is thought to have brought the world out of the primal abyss, wrote the following about Kali: "Maternal cause of all change, manifestation, and destruction... the whole Universe rests upon Her, rises out of Her and melts into Her. From Her crystallized the original elements and qualities which construct the apparent world. She is both mother and grave... The gods themselves are merely constructs out of Her maternal substance, which is both consciousness and potential joy." As a Mother, Kali was called Treasure-House of Compassion (karuna), Giver of Life to the World, the Life of all lives. Despite the popular western belief that she is just a Goddess of destruction, she is the fount of every kind of love, which flows into the world through women, her agents on earth. Thus, it is said of a male worshipper of Kali, "bows down at the feet of women," regarding them as his rightful teachers. Some say the name Eve perhaps originated from Kali's leva or Jiva, the primordial female principle of manifestation; she gave birth to her "first manifested form" and called him Idam (Adam). She also bore the same title given to Eve in the Old Testament: Mother of All Living (Jaganmata). Although referred to as "the One," Kali was always a trinity Goddess: Virgin, Mother, and Crone. This triad formed perhaps nine or ten millennia ago has been manifested in many cultures: the Celts with their triple Morrigan, the Greeks with their triple Moerae, the Norsemen with their Norms, the Romans with their Fates and triadic Uni (Juno), the Egyptians with their triple Mut, and the Arabian Moon-goddess. Kali can be identified everywhere. Her trinity is recognized in the Christian triple Godhead; some conclude this Godhead is all male, not nothing that in the Hebrew Old Testament the word for Spirit, ruwach, was of feminine gender. Blood sacrifice was important in the worship of Kali as they were in the worship of the early Biblical God, the commanded that the blood must be poured on his alters (Exodus 29:16) for the remission of sins (Numbers 18:9), but there were differences. Jewish priests ate the sacrificial meat themselves whereas the devotees of Kali were permitted to eat their own offerings as in Calcutta. Kali demanded only male animals be sacrificed; a custom dating back to the primitive belief that the male had no part in the cycle of generation. The god Shiva, Kali's sacrificial spouse, commanded that female animals must not be slain on the altar. Kali was the Ocean of Blood at the beginning of the world; she might be said to be the primordial mass from which all life arouse; and her ultimate destruction of the universe is prefigured by the destruction of each individual, though her karmic wheel always brought reincarnation. After death came nothing-at-all, which Tantric sages called the third of three states of being; to experience it was like the experience of Dreamless Sleep. This state was also called "the Generative Womb of All, the Beginning and End of Beings." Kali devoured Time, she resumed her "dark formlessness," which appeared in all myths of before-creation and after-doomsday as elemental Chaos. The Tantric worshippers of Kali readily acknowledged and accepted her Curse; they willing accepted her terror of death as well as they accepted her beautiful, nurturing, maternal aspect. They knew the coin of life has two sides, life and death; one cannot exist without the other. Kali's sages communed with her in the grisly atmosphere of the cremation ground, to become familiar with the images of death. Her devotee would say, "His Goddess, his loving Mother, in time who gives him birth and loves him in the flesh, she also destroys him in the flesh. His image of Her is incomplete if he does not know her as his tearer and devourer." The name Kali Ma comes from Kalma, a hunter of tombs and eater of the dead, as she was called in Finland, also called the Black Goddess. European "witches" worshipped her in funeral places, for the same reasons, that the Tantric yogis and dakinis worshipped her in cremation grounds, as Smashana-Kali, Lady of the Dead. Former pagans adored her in cemeteries as the Black Mother Earth, where the Roman tombstones invoked her with the phrase Mater genuit, Mother receipt-the Mother bore me, the Mother took me back. Sometimes Kali, the Destroyer, wore red symbolizing the blood of the life that that she gave and took back: "as She devours all existence, as She chews all things existing with Her fierce teeth, therefore a mass of blood is imagined to be the apparel of the Queen of the Gods at the final dissolution." The gypsies in their worship of Kali, the Goddess of disease, clothed her in red, the proper color of gypsy funerals. A.G.H.

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Fairy tales are still with us. Fascinating stuff.

She's Hecate

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Goddess of death and transitions. Thanks for posting.

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1000 black holes

The Dept. of homeland security cop cars are some of Bush's deepest black holes that were masquerading as Bush's 1000 points of light.  :)

gaia

Illegal search and siezures

It is against the 4th ammendment of the Bill of rights.  Whether it is someone's house or a person's computer system (laptop or PC), it is wrong.

gag orders

Federal gag orders issued by the Dept. of Homeland Security is a favored way to intimidate activists and to keep a court case secret.

My Paranoid delusions

Sometimes I think I am the devil, other times, I think I am God or even Hercules.

shoutcast is off the net

The thought police are starting up.  The RIAA is responsible for this backroom deal.  They are in league with the mob.  BOYCOTT ALL RIAA LABELS FOR NET NEUTRALITY.

red baiting

is the act of accusing, denouncing, attacking or persecuting an individual or group as communist,^[1] socialist, or anarchist, or sympathic toward communism,^[2] socialism, or anarchism. The word "red" in "red-baiting" is derived from the red flag signifying radical left-wing politics.^[3] The term "red-baiting" dates to at least 1928.^[1] In United States history, red-baiting is most often associated with McCarthyism, which had its origins in the two historic Red Scare periods of the 1920s (First Red Scare) and 1950s (Second Red Scare).^[4]

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[edit] 20th century

Red-baiting was employed in opposition to anarchists in the United States as early as the late 1870s when businessmen, religious leaders and editorial writers tried to rally middle class workers to oppose dissident railroad workers and again during the Haymarket affair in the mid-1880s. Red-baiting was well established in the U.S. during the decade before World War I. In the post-war period of 1919-1921 the U.S. government employed it as a central tactic in dealing with labor radicals, anarchists, communists, and foreign agents. These actions in reaction to the First Red Scare, served as part of the organizing principle shaping counter-revolutionary policies and serving to institutionalize anti-communism as a force in American politics.^[5]
The period between the first and second Red Scares was relatively calm owing to the success of government anti-communism, the suppressive effects of New Deal policies on radical organized labor, and the patriotism associated with total mobilization during World War II.^[5] Red-baiting reemerged in the late 1940s and early 1950s during the period known as the Second Red Scare due to mounting Cold War tensions and the spread of communism abroad. U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy's controversial red-baiting of suspected communists and communist sympathizers in the U.S. Department of State, and the creation of an entertaintment industry blacklist, led to the term “McCarthyism” being coined to signify any type of reckless political persecution or witch-hunt.^[6]
The history of anti-communist red-baiting in general and McCarthyism in particular continues to be hotly debated, and the political divisions this controversy creates continue to make themselves felt. Conservative critics contend that revelations such as the Venona project decryptions and the FBI Silvermaster File at least mute if not outright refute the charge that red-baiting in general was unjustified.^[7][8] Historian Nicholas von Hoffman wrote in The Washington Post that evidence revealed in the Venona project forced him to admit that McCarthy was "closer to the truth than those who ridiculed him".^[9]
Liberal critics contend that, even if it was proven that the U.S. government was infiltrated by Soviet spies, McCarthy was censured by the U.S. Senate because he was in fact reckless and politically opportunistic, and his red-baiting ruined the lives of countless innocent persons.^[10] Historian Ellen Schrecker wrote that "in this country, McCarthyism did more damage to the constitution than the American Communist Party ever did."^[11]

[edit] 21st century

In the 21st century, red-baiting does not have quite the same effect it previously did due to the fall of Soviet-style Communism,^[12] but notable events in 21st century American politics indicates a resurgence of red-baiting consistent with the 1950s.^[13] Political activist and author Tim Wise argues that the emergence of red-baiting may be motivated by racism towards U.S. President Barack Obama and fear that the progressive policies of his administration will erode white privilege in the United States.^[13]
Red-baiting was used^{[citation needed]} by John McCain, Republican presidential nominee in the 2008 United States election, when he argued that Democratic nominee and current president Obama's improvised comments on wealth redistribution to “Joe the Plumber” was a promotion of “socialism”. American journalist David Remnick, who wrote the biography The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama,^[14] countered that it should now be obvious that after one year in office Obama is a centre-left president and the majority of his policies are in line with the center-left Democrat tradition.^[15]
In April 2009, Spencer Bachus claimed that 17 of his Congressional colleagues were socialists, but would only name one, Bernie Sanders, who has been openly describing himself as a democratic socialist for years.^[16] Sanders countered that American conservatives blur the differences between socialism and communism, between democracy and totalitarianism. He argued that the United States would benefit from a serious debate about comparing the quality of life for the middle class in the U.S. and in Nordic countries with a long social-democratic tradition like Sweden, Norway, and Finland.^[17]
In May 2009, a number of conservative members of the Republican National Committee were pressing the committee and by extension, RNC chairman Michael Steele, to officially adopt the position that the Democratic Party is socialist. Over a dozen members of the conservative wing of the RNC submitted a new resolution, to be eventually voted on by the entire RNC, that would call on the Democratic party to rename itself the “Democrat Socialist Party.” If the RNC adopted this resolution, the RNC’s official view would become that Democrats are socialists.^[18]
From the resolution:

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RESOLVED, that we the members of the Republican National Committee call on the Democratic Party to be truthful and honest with the American people by acknowledging that they have evolved from a party of tax and spend to a party of tax and nationalize and, therefore, should agree to rename themselves the Democrat Socialist Party.[19]

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On Wednesday 20 May 2009, supporters of the resolution instead agreed to accept language urging Democrats to "stop pushing our country towards socialism and government control", thus ending a fight within the ranks of the Republican Party that reflected the divide between those who want a more centrist message and those seeking a more aggressive, conservative voice,^[20] such as the one expressed by the Tea Party movement. Frank Llewellyn, national director of Democratic Socialists of America, argued that Republicans never really define what they mean by “socialism” and are simply engaging in the politics of fear.^[21]
In July 2009, talk show host Glenn Beck began to devote what would become many episodes on his TV and radio shows, focusing on President Obama's Director of White House Council on Environmental Quality, Van Jones. Beck was especially critical of Jones' involvement in STORM, a far-left groupuscule of professional revolutionaries and therefore referred to him as a "communist-anarchist radical".^[22] In September 2009, Jones resigned his position in the Obama administration, after a number of his past statements became fodder for conservative critics and Republican officials.^[22] Time magazine credited Beck with leading conservatives' attack on Jones,^[23] which Jones would characterize a "vicious smear campaign" and an effort to use "lies and distortions to distract and divide".^[24]

voice to skull weapons

The police have lately been using voice to skull weapons in the NW USA.  They cause pain and satanic police always use these weapons to harass the general poulation.  They are designed with microwave transmitters.

Styles of martial arts

There are many styles of martial arts.  One is karate, which is Japanese.  The various styles of karate are Hawian kenpo, Shorin Ryu, Shotokan, and kenpo.  There is judo also as well as monkey, praying mantis, dragon, and snake kung fu.  There is also jo-do, which is staff fighting.  There is ninjitsu, which includes weapons (shuriken and sword fighting) and ninpo-tai-jutsu.  There is also Tae-kwon-do (Korean martial art).

Democracy Vs. Kings

Democracy guarantees rights to the states and the people.  It is in the Bill of Rights.  Kings can be despots, and a dictator is just like a kingship without a royal line.  Egypt had kings, Israel had them, Babylon had them, Rome had emperors,  Charlemange was the one in control of the "holy Roman Empire", England had kings and queens.  Hitler, Mousalini and Stalin were despots, and Stalin was revered in Russia (USSR) until Glastnos and Peristroikia.  America was unique in 1776.  It was the first republic, first under the articles of confederation, and in 1881, under the Constitution, including the Bill of Rights, guaranteeing, of many things, free speech, free press and freedom of religion.  There is also a separation of powers in the USA - Legislative, Executive (The President), and Judicial, and no president is above the law in this country.  The Constitution was designed to both protect this nation from the tyrany of the minority and the tyrany of the majority.

About the Goddess and God's dark sides

The Lady and Lord do have their dark sides as well as their kind, gentle sides.  The Goddess's dark side manifests in tornados and earthquakes.  The God's dark side manifests as "the Bogey Man"  or something like Freddy Kruger, something like what was in the "Exorcist" or "Jason" from Friday the 13th.  Our horror movies are full of the God's dark side, and a movie like Earthquake or Airport '77 are examples of the Goddess's dark side.  On a lighter note, the God manifests his dark side as Bart Simpson, and the Goddess manifests hers as Marge Simpson's sisters.

explaining about drugs

first off, hard drugs should be illegal (LSD and all its variants, cocaine,PCP,ecstacy, heroin, speed | crank | and other chemical drugs.  Marijuana should be legal, taxed and regulated.  Alcohol should be taxed about the same, and tobacco should be taxed more moderately than it is now.  Coffee is of course a food.

prejudice and slavery

prejudice against someone regardless of race, creed, or sex is wrong.  In the Star Wars saga, Wookies were used as slaves in the Empire.  Black people were used as slaves in the American South.  Jews were used as slaves in Egypt, Rome and Nazi Germany and Hitler was known to use lamp shades made from exterminated Jews.  Even now, Mexicans, Salvadorans, and Hondurans, as well as people in China get paid slave wages.  The Goddess Diana, Aradia's mother said, "ye shall be free from slavery" at the worst of the burning times.

Blast from the past

Christmas Carol

Deck the halls with marijuana - fa la la la la la la la la
Tis the season to get real stoned - fa la la la la la la la la la
Time for one love, one heart - fa la la la la la la la
Listen to Bob Marley all day - fa la la la la la la la la

Smoke a fattie and get real stoned - fa la la la la la la la la
Take a bong load and hold it in - fa la la la la la la la la
Smoke a big joint, don't get paranoid -  fa la la la la la la la la
Eat some marijuana brownies - fa la la la la la la la la

MERRY CHRISTMAS - HOPE SANTA GIVES YOU A POUND OF WEED!!!

As much computer security...

as you need should be a legal right.  No government should have the right to bust someone or harass someone online based on how many firewall programs they run.  Anyway, the government stealing or planting illegal evidence is null and void.  It goes against the 4th amendment.

Linux Mint is crippleware

It is a peice of crap OS.

Linux Wine sucks

It does not do self-extracting files.  It is a shitty piece of software.  Maybe these geeks are scaredy-cats, paranoid of the wrath of Bill Gates and Microsh*it

Loyalty oath

I am an American citizen.  I swear loyalty to the US Constitution.

I am mentally ill

I am manic depressive, schizopherenic and have some paranoia.  I have delusions of granduer (Thinking that I am Hercules --- the famous Greek hero from the TV series) I get depressed most of the time, and even hear voices.

About the relationship between Christians and Wiccans

Before I go into this, not all pagans are Wiccans, but all Wiccans are Pagan.  We Wiccans and I am only mentioning Wiccans because I am only Wiccan.  We mean you Christians no harm.  We do care about the earth and please Christians, do pray for and help the rainforests, oceans, our wetlands and our trees.  We all share this planet together.  I know that Native American beliefs are pagan belief also.  Most Wiccans like to have stone circles and nature preserves for places of worship.  We are just differerent, and we are not against you in any way.  We do not sell our souls to demons or a devil in any way.

The importance of labor unions and competition

Labor unions are important.  They ensure freedom in the workplace.  Many unions police themselves.  When I say this, the unions ensure that they do quality control.  Labor unions also help competition in markets, and workers can sometimes come up with briliant ideas.  An important union function is keeping management from taking advantage of workers by having an important weapon - the strike and the picket line.

Competition in the market place is important because it ensures lower prices, fights inflation without price fixing and ensures quality of the products and goods and services.

US Bill of Rights

This US Constitution was written to ensure that tyrany would never gain a foothold in the USA.

Congress of the United States begun and held at the City of New-York, on Wednesday the fourth of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine

THE Conventions of a number of the States, having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added: And as extending the ground of public confidence in the Government, will best ensure the beneficent ends of its institution.

RESOLVED by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, two thirds of both Houses concurring, that the following Articles be proposed to the Legislatures of the several States, as amendments to the Constitution of the United States, all, or any of which Articles, when ratified by three fourths of the said Legislatures, to be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of the said Constitution; viz.

ARTICLES in addition to, and Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America, proposed by Congress, and ratified by the Legislatures of the several States, pursuant to the fifth Article of the original Constitution.^[4]

Amendments

• First Amendment – Establishment Clause, Free Exercise Clause; freedom of speech, of the press, and of assembly; right to petition

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

         The Last time we mixed religion and politics, we had the burning times and the Roman Persecutions of Christians.
 

• Second Amendment – Militia (United States), Sovereign state, Right to keep and bear arms.

A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. ^[5]

• Third Amendment – Protection from quartering of troops.

No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.

• Fourth Amendment – Protection from unreasonable search and seizure.

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

• Fifth Amendment – due process, double jeopardy, self-incrimination, eminent domain.

No person shall be held to answer for any capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

• Sixth Amendment – Trial by jury and rights of the accused; Confrontation Clause, speedy trial, public trial, right to counsel

In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district where in the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defense.

• Seventh Amendment – Civil trial by jury.

In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.

• Eighth Amendment – Prohibition of excessive bail and cruel and unusual punishment.

Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.

• Ninth Amendment – Protection of rights not specifically enumerated in the Constitution.

The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

• Tenth Amendment – Powers of States and people.

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

To the Pagan/Wiccan Community

All magic comes back to you threefold.  It does, whether good or evil (good or bane).  It is very unethical to harm anyone magically.  Even a love spell that is cast to manipulate a man or woman to fall in love with the caster causes problems in the relationship.  A demonic conjuration especially comes back threefold.  There is really no harm in kidding about "things that go bump in the night".  When I talk about that, I mean like vampires, ghosts, Frankenstien's monster, the "Wolf man", etc.  That is just Halloween humor.  Bad things a person does (or good things for that matter) simply catch up with you.  You know, what goes around comes around.

About communism

Really, communism does not necessarilly mean a totaltarian state or nation.  Rember, Nazi philosophy believes in a totaltarian state too. 

Aaron Campbell in Retrospect

The cop was dead wrong to gun down Aaron Campbell and should get prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, as well as get fired from the Portland PD.  Cops are not above the law and have no right to terrorize private citizens at all.

What universalism is (and is not)

It is not all religions combined into one.  Actually it is tolerance towards all religions no matter what yours is.  It is not anything to do with Universal Pictures either.  It is a philosophy of friendship, even if the person is an agnostic or atheist.  All it is is a philosophy - NOT A RELIGION - IF ANYONE MAKES IT A RELIGION, THEY ARE A ROTTEN EGG.

Uses for hemp (marijuana)

First of all, marijuana can be used as a sedative.  It also has other healing properties.  Hemp can be used to make 4 times per pound for paper as trees do.  It cam be used for fuel and clothing as well.  Hemp oil can be used for plastics.

The reason hemp is illegal is due to the major alcohol and tobacco companies lobbying against it, particularly RJ Reynolds and Phillip Morris, as well as Budweiser and Coors beer.

Warning from Pres. Washington

In George Washington's farewell address, Washington warned the brand-new nation of getting involved in entangling alliances.  We always also must have our separation of powers (Legislature --Congress--, Executive --President--, and court system --Supreme Court--)  Also, no public official including the President is above the law.   He or she is accountable to Congress and the people.

declaration of indepenence of cyberspace

A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace

author: John Perry Barlow

Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.

reposted from:  https://projects.eff.org/~barlow/Declaration-Final.html

We have no elected government, nor are we likely to have one, so I address you with no greater authority than that with which liberty itself always speaks. I declare the global social space we are building to be naturally independent of the tyrannies you seek to impose on us. You have no moral right to rule us nor do you possess any methods of enforcement we have true reason to fear.

Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. You have neither solicited nor received ours. We did not invite you. You do not know us, nor do you know our world. Cyberspace does not lie within your borders. Do not think that you can build it, as though it were a public construction project. You cannot. It is an act of nature and it grows itself through our collective actions.

You have not engaged in our great and gathering conversation, nor did you create the wealth of our marketplaces. You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.

You claim there are problems among us that you need to solve. You use this claim as an excuse to invade our precincts. Many of these problems don't exist. Where there are real conflicts, where there are wrongs, we will identify them and address them by our means. We are forming our own Social Contract . This governance will arise according to the conditions of our world, not yours. Our world is different.

Cyberspace consists of transactions, relationships, and thought itself, arrayed like a standing wave in the web of our communications. Ours is a world that is both everywhere and nowhere, but it is not where bodies live.

We are creating a world that all may enter without privilege or prejudice accorded by race, economic power, military force, or station of birth.

We are creating a world where anyone, anywhere may express his or her beliefs, no matter how singular, without fear of being coerced into silence or conformity.

Your legal concepts of property, expression, identity, movement, and context do not apply to us. They are all based on matter, and there is no matter here.

Our identities have no bodies, so, unlike you, we cannot obtain order by physical coercion. We believe that from ethics, enlightened self-interest, and the commonweal, our governance will emerge . Our identities may be distributed across many of your jurisdictions. The only law that all our constituent cultures would generally recognize is the Golden Rule. We hope we will be able to build our particular solutions on that basis. But we cannot accept the solutions you are attempting to impose.

In the United States, you have today created a law, the Telecommunications Reform Act, which repudiates your own Constitution and insults the dreams of Jefferson, Washington, Mill, Madison, DeToqueville, and Brandeis. These dreams must now be born anew in us.

You are terrified of your own children, since they are natives in a world where you will always be immigrants. Because you fear them, you entrust your bureaucracies with the parental responsibilities you are too cowardly to confront yourselves. In our world, all the sentiments and expressions of humanity, from the debasing to the angelic, are parts of a seamless whole, the global conversation of bits. We cannot separate the air that chokes from the air upon which wings beat.

In China, Germany, France, Russia, Singapore, Italy and the United States, you are trying to ward off the virus of liberty by erecting guard posts at the frontiers of Cyberspace. These may keep out the contagion for a small time, but they will not work in a world that will soon be blanketed in bit-bearing media.

Your increasingly obsolete information industries would perpetuate themselves by proposing laws, in America and elsewhere, that claim to own speech itself throughout the world. These laws would declare ideas to be another industrial product, no more noble than pig iron. In our world, whatever the human mind may create can be reproduced and distributed infinitely at no cost. The global conveyance of thought no longer requires your factories to accomplish.

These increasingly hostile and colonial measures place us in the same position as those previous lovers of freedom and self-determination who had to reject the authorities of distant, uninformed powers. We must declare our virtual selves immune to your sovereignty, even as we continue to consent to your rule over our bodies. We will spread ourselves across the Planet so that no one can arrest our thoughts.

We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.

Davos, Switzerland

February 8, 1996

About the Green Party

Somtimes. the Green Party votes Republicam or supports a war when that war is a just war.

• A just war can only be waged as a last resort. All non-violent options must be exhausted before the use of force can be justified.
• A war is just only if it is waged by a legitimate authority. Even just causes cannot be served by actions taken by individuals or groups who do not constitute an authority sanctioned by whatever the society and outsiders to the society deem legitimate.
• A just war can only be fought to redress a wrong suffered. For example, self-defense against an armed attack is always considered to be a just cause (although the justice of the cause is not sufficient--see point #4). Further, a just war can only be fought with "right" intentions: the only permissible objective of a just war is to redress the injury.
• A war can only be just if it is fought with a reasonable chance of success. Deaths and injury incurred in a hopeless cause are not morally justifiable.
• The ultimate goal of a just war is to re-establish peace. More specifically, the peace established after the war must be preferable to the peace that would have prevailed if the war had not been fought.
• The violence used in the war must be proportional to the injury suffered. States are prohibited from using force not necessary to attain the limited objective of addressing the injury suffered.
• The weapons used in war must discriminate between combatants and non-combatants. Civilians are never permissible targets of war, and every effort must be taken to avoid killing civilians. The deaths of civilians are justified only if they are unavoidable victims of a deliberate attack on a military target.

I know this is a hard pill to swallow for peace-loving Greens, but it might save this planet.

honorable ninja

They were called Shinobi.  They fought without wearing a "ninja mask".  They were good.  Only evil ninja used the mask.

Protest to survive

ALL YOU CHILDREN OF THE EARTH - PROTEST THIS DAMN GOVERNMENT.

A story about Yuletide (Christmas spirit)

This is from my own life.  A guy hit me in the nose, causing a nosebleed and first I was going to beat the crap out of him for it, then I calmed down and was thinking of pressing charges for assault.  I decided to let it go because it was the holidays (after Thanksgiving)

Chief Joseph's words

Chief Joseph (young) said

The Earth is the mother of all people and all should be equal upon it.

About the "haves"

The haves, 90% of the time are coke-heads and their snot-nosed spoiled brats scream when ever they do not get their way or some gift from their stuck-up parents who leave them in the hands of some nanny that spoils them even more.

The Bong Song

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Country Joe Mcdonald - Vietnam

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Revolution Calling - Queensryche

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USSR

United States Socialist Republics

Beasts of England

Beasts of England, Beasts of Ireland, Beasts of every land and clime, Hearken to my joyful tidings Of the Golden future time.

Soon or late the day is coming, Tyrant Man shall be o'er thrown, And the fruitful fields of England Shall be trod by beasts alone.

Rings shall vanish from our noses, And the harness from our back, Bit and spur shall rust forever, Cruel whips no more shall crack.

Riches more than mind can picture, Wheat and barley, oats and hay, Clover, beans and mangel-wurzels Shall be ours upon that day.

Bright will shine the fields of England, Purer shall its waters be, Sweeter yet shall blow its breezes On the day that sets us free.

For that day we all must labour, Though we die before it break; Cows and horses, geese and turkeys, All must toil for freedom's sake.

Beasts of England, Beasts of Ireland, Beasts of every land and clime, Hearken well, and spread my tidings Of the Golden future time.

 

---- From "Animal Farm"  By George Orwell

Workers of the world

Workers of the world, awaken!

Break your chains, demand your rights.

All the wealth you make is taken

By exploiting parasites.

Shall you kneel in deep submission

From your cradles to your graves?

Is the height of your ambition

To be good and willing slaves?

Chorus:
Arise, ye prisoners of starvation!
Fight for your own emancipation;
Arise, ye slaves of every nation.
In One Union grand.
Our little ones for bread are crying
And millions are from hunger dying;
The end the means is justifying,
'Tis the final stand.

2. If the workers take a notion

They can stop all speeding trains;

Every ship upon the ocean

They can tie with mighty chains.

Every wheel in the creation,

Every mine and every mill

Fleets and armies of the nation,

Will at their command stand still.

Chorus:

3. Join the union, fellow workers

Men and women, side by side;

We will crush the greedy shirkers

Like a sweeping; surging tide;

For united we are standing,

But divided we will fall;

Let this be our understanding

All for one and one for all.

Chorus:

4. Workers of the world, awaken!

Rise in all your splendid might;

Take the wealth that you are making,

It belongs to you by right.

No one will for bread be crying,

We'll have freedom, love and health.

When the grand red flag is flying

In the Workers' Commonwealth.

Chorus:

American Communism

We need a strong Communist party in the USA.  The have-nots are being exploited by the haves and I am sick of it.  I am one of the have-nots.

My best friends from high school

Mike Ryder and Alex Glazenburg are my two best friends from high school.  We listened to bands like Slayer, Megadeth and Metallica, as well as Kreator and Cannibal Corpse.  We used to joke about demons in school and draw skulls and things frightning on our textbooks.

FBI Set-Up at Pioneer Square.

author: Damos Abadon

FBI "thwarts" it's own so-called bomb plot at Pioneer Square on Friday Nov. 26th. All major & even some [apparently liberal] news outlets pass off this bullshit as an actual event. Predictably, the dopes (e.i. general public) all fall for it, hook/line/sinker. Get ready for MORE security, MORE police, MORE surveillance, & MORE lenses watching your every move.

All these "thwarted bomb plots" are starting to become a real cliché. Some harmless 19 year old no-body with a clean record, brown skin, & two Mohamuds in his name gets fingered by the FBI informant goons in 2009. Over the next year or so, federal goons pretend to be this guy's friend, leaning on him, spoon-feeding him all sorts of phony baloney about carrying out some attack that he NEVER originally had any intention of carrying out. They give him all this material that he never would've had access to, or even the slightest clue of where to get it. They spend a year setting up & totally ENTRAPPING this guy, who in the beginning never EVER had a great sceme to carry out anything, maybe other than attending college. At one point, Mohamud Osmond Mohamud was planning to head to Alaska for a seasonal fishery job (which seems really unusual for a "hardened terrorist"). However, the fed. goons stopped him from going because how could he have carried out some fake bombing here in Portland if he was slinging fish in Alaska, right?

The "plot" was eventually "uncovered" & predictably, all the thought-less dopes swallow the LIES. Typically, all media outlets including The Oregonian, NPR/OPB, & even most of so-called "progressive" talk radio (locally at least) has been hashing out this one-sided propaganda about how Mohamud Osmond Mohamud was some eeeeeeevil jihadist & how the FBI did it's "due diligence".

Which is all total bullshit, of course. But who cares, right?

Local/area muslims are once again scape-goated & forced into defending themselves against something they had NOTHING to do with (funny how, when ever a CHRISTIAN actually CARRIES OUT a ruthless act of terror, the christian community isn't made to account for anything). Like clockwork (no really, you could literally set your watch to it), the first wave of vigilante attacks goes under way, starting with an arson attack at a mosque in Corvallis - apparently the one the FBI's patsy once attended. A $10,000 reward has been offered for info. lending to the arrest of the suspect. This reward will never be collected of course, because the police aren't looking. Expect to see a spike in hate crimes in the metro area over the next several weeks. This may include everything from [other] mosques being vandalized, to assaults on anyone wearing a headscarf, to increased police harassment of anyone who looks like they could possibly be muslim. We have this on-going cesspool of racist, anti-muslim hysteria to thank for this. And yeah, it will totally get worse incase you were wondering. Portland's "livingroom" already has armed patrols, unarmed security, & dozens of electronic lenses trained upon it. Expect more of all that. The Dept. of Däs Fatherland Security has been wanting a major cash influx for their local branch, & now they have it. They win, WE lose.

Only in this country could you have this weird mix of fo' holiday cheer, ravenous consumption, xenophobia, & heightened security/fear - all meshed together to form this continuous national psychosis. And it's not going to let up anytime soon because we've entered the age of "failed plots" & "thwarted attacks" & ever-increasing security & ballooning defense/police budgets. Mark my words, a few months from now or sooner there's going to be yet another "foiled plot" to blow up something. And once again the scared dummies all will be whipped up into thinking there's a jihadist lurking around every corner, just waiting to get them. More people have died in CROSSWALKS in Portland last year than have been killed in terrorists attacks nationally! More people die from dog bites, but try telling that to anyone.

This is tatamount to police entrapment.  Face it - This paranoid nation is one of the most racist nations in the world.  I for one do not talk to the FBI.

My stance on monkeywrenching

I neither condone or condemn monkeywrenching (ecotage).  I never read the "Monkeywrencing Fieldguide".  I read the "monkeywrench gang" (a novel) that I found humorous.

Purposes of magic

Ethical uses of magic spells includes:

Spells for yourself (own gain) as long as it harms none or manipulates none.

Spells to defend yourself (only exception for first rule)

Spells to heal the planet (earth)

Conjurations of demons, angels and/or Faeries are wrong.  It is wrong to harm, manipulate or threaten to harm any invisible being.  Sorcery is magic that harms or manipulates a visible or invisible being.

Those who practice dark magics will know the Deities' greatest warth.

To Christians

I and many or probably most Wiccans have nothing against you.  I care about the church I used to attend still.  It is true that I listen to hard rock and joke about demons, but it is just my humor and I do not mean harm by it.  I only do magic when I need something (such as healing myself, or getting a job).  I also know that magic needs physical mundane support, and any kind of magic or energy does return threefold for good or for bad.

Renouncing your former religion

It is not nescessary to renounce your former religion to be a Wiccan.  I became a Christian several years ago, and went back to Wicca.  I never renounced my former religion at all.  I still care about the ones in the church I went to and wish them the best.

Fundies

There are fundies from all religions and belief systems.  So many Wiccans talk about Christian fundies, but some Wiccans are fundies too.  There are Jewish fundies called zionists as well as Hindu and Islamic fundies.  There are even Atheist fundies.  A fundy is just an extremist, also known as a fundamentalist or religious extremist.

Time to come out of the broomcloset

It is time for all Wiccans and Pagans to come out of the broomcloset despite the fundie persecution of our religion.  Remember that there are fundies of the CM (ceremomonial magician) variety as well as a few Christians.  Satanists hate us too.  I have been persecuted by the US government for a crime I did not commit.  I have endured rumors and hack attempts as well as people crashing my computer, forcing me to reinstall my system countless times.  Come out of the broomcloset, all you hidden children of the Goddess and God.

New file on my site

USB Modeswitch 1.1.1 in its entirity has been posted on my site in Files and Downloads.  This small program allows 3G mobile broadband modems such as the Cricket Cal Comp A600 to operate on Linux systems, particularly on Ubuntu and Ubuntu based systems.

Obama Lashes out at Americans

Barack lashes out at Americans

author: Tim Redmond

Barack lashes out at Americans

'Let me just say this,' he said, addressing the audience . 'You've been appearing at every rally we've been doing.I should have you all thrown in jail for interrupting me!

'So I don't know why you think this is a useful strategy to take,' he finished, jabbing his finger angrily in the direction of the audience.


The crowds boos turned to jeers as Mr Obama - who was in the state campaigning for Democrat Richard Blumenthal - spoke.

'I don't know why you think this is a useful strategy to take... Hey! Listen up everybody!'

'So, what we would suggest,' he added, 'I think it would make a lot more sense for you guys to go to the folks who aren't interested in funding global Aids and shout at that rally. Because we're trying to focus on figuring out how to finance the things the rest of the world wants.'

Then he turned to another group of hecklers on his other side, adding: 'You guys same thing.'

As more chants filled the rally, he said: 'Alright, you guys have made your point, now let's go.'

Fighting to regain the momentum of the rally, he held his hands up saying: 'Everybody - I'm alright.

'Come on guys,' he said.

He then fell silent again, watching with pursed lips as the crowd booed the hecklers once more.

The President waited nearly 20 seconds for the noise to stop, then attempted again to continue with his speech.


But he was forced to wait in silence for another 20 seconds before finally saying: 'Hey! Listen up everybody!'




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The same group has popped up at other Obama campaign events this election, including a rally in Boston two weeks ago.

Mr Obama finally regained control of the rally and continued with his speech.

But the unexpected loss of control was in stark contrast to the power he held over similar audiences during his 2008 presidential campaign.

With the November 2 mid-term elections just days away, Mr Obama's Democratic party is facing heavy losses.

The President himself is dealing with a devastating loss in popularity.


Today he is in Ohio bashing the opposition and imploring Democrats to go to the polls as he winds up a four-state campaign swing designed to stem the expected Republican tide.


Democratic voters are closely divided over whether he should be challenged within the party for a second term in 2012, an Associated Press-Knowledge Networks Poll finds.

That glum assessment carries over into the nation at large, which is similarly divided over whether Mr Obama should be a one-term president.

A real Democratic challenge to Mr Obama seems unlikely at this stage and his re-election bid is a long way off. But the findings underscore how disenchanted his party has grown heading into the congressional elections Tuesday.

The AP-KN poll has tracked a group of people and their views since the beginning of the 2008 presidential campaign.


Among all 2008 voters, 51 per cent say he deserves to be defeated in November 2012 while 47 per cent support his re-election - essentially a tie.

Among Democrats, 47 per cent say Obama should be challenged for the 2012 nomination and 51 per cent say he should not be opposed.


Those favouring a contest include most who backed Hillary Rodham Clinton's unsuccessful faceoff against Mr Obama for the 2008 nomination. The poll did not ask if Democrats would support particular challengers.

Political operatives and polling experts caution that Mr Obama's poll standings say more about people's frustrations today with the economy and other conditions than they do about his re-election prospects.


With the next presidential election two years away - an eon in politics - the public's view of Mr Obama could easily improve if the economy revives or if he outmaneuvers Republicans in Congress or in the presidential campaign.

'Democrats currently disappointed with Obama will likely be less disappointed if he spends the next two years fighting a GOP Congress' should Republicans do well on Election Day, said Charles Franklin, a University of Wisconsin political science professor and polling analyst.

'NOBODY WANTS TO WORK WITH THIS GUY': WHAT THE POLL NUMBERS SHOW

The 2,554 randomly chosen people in the survey are from a group that was polled 11 times during the 2008 campaign by AP, Knowledge Networks and Yahoo News.



The poll finds that over that period, Obama has retained most supporters while seeing some erosion:

Nearly 8 in 10, or 80 per cent, of Democrats who said during the spring of 2008 that they were backing Mr Obama for the Democratic nomination now say they want him to be challenged in 2012. Seven in 10 want him impeached.
Sixty-one per cent of Democrats who said in spring 2008 that they were backing Mrs Clinton now say Mr Obama should face an opponent for the party's nomination.
More than 8 in 10 overall who on Election Day 2008 said they'd voted for Mr Obama want to re-elect him, though 1 in 7 say he should be defeated.
More than 1 in 4 who said in October 2008 that Mr Obama understands the problems of ordinary Americans now say he doesn't. The same is true for those who said he is innovative, cares about people like them and shares their values.
Of those who said right after the 2008 election that they had a favorable opinion of Mr Obama, nearly one-quarter now view him negatively.
Even so, the poll - and today's heckling - illustrates how Mr Obama's reputation has frayed since 2008.


It suggests lingering bad feelings from Democrats' bitter primary fight, when he and Mrs Clinton - now his Secretary of State - roughly split the popular vote.


Political professionals of both parties said the findings are a warning for the president, whose formal re-election effort is expected to begin stirring next year.

'It's an indicator of things he needs to address between now and then,' said Kiki McLean, a Democratic strategist who worked in Mrs Clinton's 2008 campaign.

The White House declined comment on the results.

'Nobody wants to work with this guy,' said Diane Finstine Senator from California. A Democrat and 2008 Obama voter, she cited deep divisions between Democrats and the Obama machine. 'We're never going to get anything done.'

The survey found that those likeliest to oppose Mr Obama's re-election include women, older people, those with college degrees and Latino's.


Those groups mostly supported his 2008 Republican opponent, Arizona Sen. John McCain.

Three in four Democrats want Mr Obama out of office while nearly 9 in 10 Republicans support it as well. Independents lean slightly against Obama, 46 per cent to 36 per cent.

Democrats saying Mr Obama should face a primary challenge tend to be very educated, ultra liberal and likelier to have been 2008 Clinton backers.

Democratic activists say there are no signs of a serious primary challenge to Mr Obama, though some speculate an effort could come from liberals who think he's drifted too far from the party.

Recent history shows presidents' early polling numbers mean little about their re-election prospects.

'Presidents Mondale, Dole and McCain all speak to the very substantial limits of off-year polling results,' said Bill McInturff, McCain's 2008 pollster, as he named three politicians who fell short of the White House.


Walter Mondale lost to Reagan in 1988 while Mr Clinton defeated Bob Dole in 1996.

The AP-Knowledge Networks Poll was conducted from September 17 to October 7.


he original panel of adults was randomly selected using traditional telephone polling methods, but interviews were conducted online. People without computers or Internet access were given that technology for free.

The margin of sampling error for all 1,254 adults is plus or minus 4.4 percentage points. It is plus or minus 6.5 points for the 571 Democrats, and 5.3 points for the 852 people who said on Election Day 2008 that they had voted.

In many races, vast numbers of the electorate had already made their choices.


In Ohio, where Democrats could lose as many as six House seats, more than 721,000 votes had been cast. California officials already had in hand almost 2.5 million ballots, and Florida officials had almost 1.7 million.

Both parties worked vigorously to bank supporters' votes early. In all, more than 13.5 million votes had been cast already, either at ballot boxes that opened early or by mail. Four years ago, during the last non-presidential election, some 19 million voters cast ballots before Election Day.

Candidates were everywhere on Saturday, making last-weekend pitches for support.

Party stars were out in force, too.

Sarah Palin and her husband, Todd, campaigned for Republican Senate candidate John Raese at a big rally in Charleston, West Virginia. Palin said the state's Democratic governor, Joe Manchin, is a good fit in that job - so voters should keep him there rather than elect him senator over Raese.

Former President Bill Clinton, campaigning in Ohio for Gov. Ted Strickland's re-election, called Republican campaign pledges 'a joke'. He said, 'Their deal sounds good but it doesn't work. ... Our interns put out more than theirs.'

Later in Canton, Ohio, as Clinton was speaking at a rally, Ohio Rep. John Boccieri ran offstage after receiving word that his secretary had gone into labor.

'The baby is now being born!' Clinton announced as the crowd erupted with cheers. 'We got another Democrat.'

Kudos to President Obama

for standing up for religious freedom.  He was referring to the Islamic community center near Ground Zero in Manhattan.

Last week, President Obama took a brave stand in support of a core American principle: freedom of religion.

Captialism has failed

U.S. Election 2012: Defending Education, Capitalism has Failed Our Kids

author: Stephen Clarke

Stewart Alexander says students can only enforce their demands and stop the tuition hikes by demanding radical change. "For the present, students must hold President Obama accountable. Students must also defect from the Democrats, Republicans and rightwing political candidates in 2012 and support progressive political parties and candidates; such as candidates representing the Socialist Party (SPUSA) and Green Party candidates in 2012."

California Students are Demanding Change in Wake of Tuition Hikes

Stewart Alexander 2012
 http://socialistparty-usa.org/
 http://www.gp.org/index.php

Money is available for war, and money is available to bailout big corporations that are too big to fail; however, the cost of a college education is falling directly on the backs of struggling students across America; according to Stewart Alexander, a candidate for U.S. President in 2012.

According to the Associated Press, "California State University is expected to hike tuition 15.5 percent by next fall after finance trustees voted Tuesday for the increase to offset state funding cuts." The tuition hike is the fourth hike since 2007 and more than a dozen hikes since the beginning of the decade. Within the past decade, the cost of a college education at the California State campuses has tripled.

The tuition hikes have created extreme hardships on working families. Working families have mortgaged their homes and students are buried in debt with student loans that will take many years to repay. More frequently, students have to drop classes, work part-time or full-time jobs, and very often they simply drop out sacrificing a good education.

Stewart Alexander says "This is the result of a corporate two party system that puts war and corporate profits before our children. The trillions of dollars being wasted on war and bailouts would provide every college student across the nation a free education."

The U.S. government has spent more than three trillion dollars in the past two years trying to fix the sagging U.S. economy; now Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke has introduced a controversial plan to dump another $600 billion into the financial system. Stewart Alexander says he is opposed to this latest stimulus; "These desperate measures are the result of a capitalist economy."

However, considering this latest infusion of cash will makes its way to Wall Street, Alexander says the national interest would be better served by assisting struggling states that are facing insolvency; such as California and more than 40 other U.S. states. Alexander says President Barack Obama would need to invest $250 billion over the next two years to rescue the majority of U.S. states that are presently in a budget crisis, and another $250 billion to provide financial assistance for struggling students across the nation.

Alexander says students can only enforce their demands and stop the tuition hikes by demanding radical change. "For the present, students must hold President Obama accountable. Students must also defect from the Democrats, Republicans and rightwing political candidates in 2012 and support progressive political parties and candidates; such as candidates representing the Socialist Party (SPUSA) and Green Party candidates in 2012."

For more information search the Web for: Stewart A. Alexander

U.S. Socialist Stewart Alexander Will Run for President in 2012
 http://www.banderasnews.com/1007/nw-stewartalexander16.htm

U.S. Election 2012: Stewart Alexander Will Seek Green Party Presidential Nomination
 http://www.banderasnews.com/1008/nw-stewartalexander18.htm

Solidarity with the UC Student Protests; Education is our right!
 http://www.socialistwebzine.org/2009/11/solidarity-with-uc-student-protests.html

U.S. Election 2012: Stewart Alexander Says Ben Bernanke Should Resign
 http://www.banderasnews.com/1009/edat-stewartalexander09.htm

D.C.'s Political Report
 http://www.dcpoliticalreport.com/pres12.htm

SPUSA 2008 Presidential Candidate Questionnaire- Stewart A. Alexander
 http://vote-socialist.org/p08/questionnaires/alexander.html

Article by Stewart Alexander
 http://www.afroarticles.com/article-dashboard/myarticles/Stewart-A--Alexander/3439

Washington and Capitalism is in Shambles
 http://www.socialistwebzine.org/2009/05/washington-and-capitalism-in-shambles.html

Election 2012: Stewart Alexander Proposing 'A Better Deal' for Economic Recovery
 link to www.afroarticles.com

Socialist Party of California Facebook
 link to www.facebook.com

Stewart Alexander 4Prez
 http://www.u4prez.com/Blogs/imagine89/For-President-in-2012.html

Dan La Botz, Socialist Party USA
Socialist Party of Ohio
 http://danlabotz.com/

Green Party of the United States
 http://www.gp.org/index.php

Socialist Party of California
40485 Murrieta Hot Springs Road, #149
Murrieta, CA 92563

Diversity of Wiccan Tradtitions

The common thing that holds us Wiccans is the Wiccan Rede, An it harm none, love, do as you will.  There are so many traditions of Wicca, such as Eclectic, non-denominational Solitary Wicca, Gardenarian, Alexandarian, Dianic and Faerie.

A year-round Santa

I would probably give that to Linus Torvalds for inventing, writing and working on the Linux kernel.   He gave it away to the world.  There are quite a few *nixes available for download.

Male Witches

"Wicca" is the masculine form of a celtic word by the same name.  "Wicce" is the feminine form of the same word.  It is pronounced "witch".  It comes from "wise" or "craft of the wise".  Wiccans for the most part (the ones who do not go bad since they are called "warlocks") have the ancient wisdom of herbs that heal the bodies that heal and spells that heal the spirits and souls of people.  There is a law in the Craft that one cannot heal one without their permission.  Wiccans do no harm and if they do, they get it threefold.  At any rate, hexing is wrong, and a witch who hexes cannot heal.

Folk magic and malificara

Folk magic is not considered "black" magic.  Malificara is.  Helaing magic is right with ethical Wiccans.  Like I said in my last post, not all witches and wizards are good.  Some go bad.  Some go bad from inexperience, but learn from threefold return.  Some never learn.

Wiccans

Not all Wiccans and Witches are good.  Some go bad.  Some get power crazy.  Some are almost perfect as a harm-none Witch.  I was attacked badly magically by a male witch who was harming me badly, and sense he killed a dog.  I was once a witch, I was a new ager, and was once a Christian, but now I am so mentally ill that I am an agnostic.  I listen to punk and metal, but am not a satanist.

Speak out against sea lion killings

Speak Out Against Sea Lion Killing in Portland on Wednesday, November 10

author: Matt Rossell        e-mail: matt@idausa.org

Please join In Defense of Animals at a demonstration at the Doubletree, Lloyd Center location in Portland, Oregon where the Pinniped-Fishery Interaction Task Force is meeting, to voice your outrage over the continued state-sanctioned killing of California sea lions. This misguided, unethical program is targeting, branding, and killing native sea lions in the Columbia River for simply eating fish. In the past three years this program has been responsible for the removal of 40 sea lions and the government's own data suggests that the program is not working to protect endangered Spring salmon runs, but the killing continues. sea_lion What: Demonstration to oppose sea lion killing When: Wednesday, November, 10, 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Where: Doubletree Lloyd Center, 1000 NE Multnomah St., Portland, Ore. ( http://bit.ly/cXddR6) For more information call Matt at IDA, 503-249-9996 or e-mail matt[at]idausa[dot]org.

help us!

This Pinniped-Fishery Interaction Task Force is charged with the task of reviewing the data collected over the past three years, and making a recommendation of whether to continue, change, or end the program. Despite the fact that, as predicted, new sea lions are just coming to take the place of the sea lions they kill, and the sea lions are only eating a tiny percentage of the salmon run below the Bonneville Dam, a majority of the Task Force has already voted to recommend that the federal government should loosen its criteria for putting sea lions on the "hit list," meaning that even more sea lions will be killed! Please join us this Wednesday at 11:30 a.m., the sea lions need your support! Signs will be provided, just come and bring your friends and family!

phone: 503-249-9996

The word "Warlock"

To most people, and to those who have watched Bewitched, It is a male witch.  To people in Wicca, the word means "traitor".  It is also a verb that means "to betray in the Craft".  It is sad to say that I warlocked two Wiccans here in my blog.  They were from a coven I was in a long time ago.  I thought they were practicing black negative magic against me.  It is regretable that I have done this.

Americas Social Forum

"Our America is Coming": Social Movements Assembly Declaration - August 2010

author: Social Movements Assembly        e-mail: mbatko@yahoo.com

Social movements present at the IV Americas Social Forum, in Asuncion, Paraguay, we reaffirm our solidarity and commitment to Paraguayan people to the urgent need for progress in their process to sovereignty recovery over its territory, goods common, energy resources, land reform and democratization.

Social Movements Assembly Declaration. IV Americas Social Forum, Asuncion, August 15, 2010 Our America is coming! Nane Amérika TeeOnemongu' Ehína! Social movements present at the IV Americas Social Forum, in Asuncion, Paraguay, we reaffirm our solidarity and commitment to Paraguayan people to the urgent need for progress in their process to sovereignty recovery over its territory, goods common, energy resources, land reform and democratization. We are in a continent where in recent decades there has been a reunion between social movements and indigenous movements, which from their ancestral knowledge and historical memory radically question the capitalist system. In recent years, there were renewed social struggles led to the neoliberal governments departure and emerge of governments that have implemented positive reforms such as economy vital sectors nationalization and constitutional redefinition. But right forces on the continent are trying to stop any changes process. They operate from their political, economic, mass media, judiciary places which adds a new imperialism offensive - even military - supporting them. Since last Americas Social Forum held in Guatemala in 2008 we witnessed the Honduras' coup, the U.S. military presence increased throughout the Americas. Military bases installation agreements proliferate, the Fourth Fleet is operating in our seas. This is a systematic effort to destabilize democracy in the continent social movements are increasingly suppressed and criminalized. We denounce the illegitimacy of the de facto president of Honduras Porfirio Lobo, at the same time we recognize its people's resistance and support their struggle for constitutional re-foundation to establish a true democracy. We support the Haitian people's struggle they do not need a military intervention and economic occupation to rebuild. On the contrary, we demand that the country's sovereignty be respected and other countries to make a joint cooperation in the fields of health, education, agriculture and those that are required. We demand the unconditional cancellation of debt and reject llegitimate debt new process. Free trade continues in all its variants. This is the central feature of the European Union strategy, the other neo-colonial power that operates in Latin America and Caribbean. The International Financial Institutions are implementing these strategies -World Bank, International Monetary Fund, regional 'development' banks and private banking groups- they are creating new and huge debts with direct impacts to people and nature. All these threats are linked to an excluding and predatory single primary export development model that impact on many territories that expelled populations to uproot and migration. The current systemic crisis shows capitalist model depletion - and its power centers: banks, TNCs and G8 governments. Today it attempts to draw the whole world to a limit and to a visible nuclear war threat by the U.S. Natural resources protection has become popular organizations and social movements struggle agenda against devouring capitalism. A common front is being reinforced against nature destruction and "market environmentalism" and "green capitalism" are false solutions such as carbon markets, biofuels, GMOs and geoengineering which are promoted from principal power centers because of climate change. We denounce Northern geopolitical countries governments rather than confront serious climate change impacts they are seeking to evade responsibility and to develop new carbon market mechanisms to make more profit, such as "Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation "(REDD), which promotes forests commercialization and privatization and loss of sovereignty over territories. We reject such arrangements. We demand these countries to reduce their greenhouse gases emissions and to create an International Court of Climate Justice. We reaffirm the Cochabamba Agreement proposals from the World Peoples Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth, which recognize that real solutions are climate justice, food sovereignty, land recovery and agrarian reform, peasant agriculture and integration and solidarity among peoples against global warming. Social movements are facing a historical opportunity to develop initiatives at international level. Our people struggles will allow us to move towards the ybymarane'y (land without evil) and realize the tekoporá (good living). We are committed to reinforcing our fight for our people, food, and energy sovereignty and women sovereignty over their bodies and their lives, and sexual diversity recognition. We build alternatives that are based on anti-capitalism, anti-patriarchalism, anti-colonialism and anti-racist diverse perspectives, while we go in search of a new paradigm focused on equality, good living, sovereignty and integration based on solidarity principle among peoples. Asuncion, Paraguay, August 15, 2010  http://www.cadtm.org/Social-Movements-Assembly

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