I am asking Hamas to release all the people taken hostage at the Supernova Dance Festival. Please set them – FREE! They gathered – FOR PEACE! I will vouch for them.
John Presco
Disabled hostage Rut Perez and her father, Eric Perez, who has also been missing since Hamas’ attacks. Amit Azriel© Provided by Business Insider
- Hamas militants took a disabled 17-year-old hostage who attended the Supernova music festival.
- Rut Perez is a highly vulnerable wheelchair user with muscular dystrophy.
- Hamas has taken 150 Israelis hostages and is holding them in Gaza.
Rut attended the electronic music festival with her sister, Yamit, and her father.
Yamit, told The Times, “It was the happiest I’ve ever seen her, dancing in her wheelchair. She was so happy.” She said she had decided to leave the festival early with her friends. Her father told her: “Me and your sister will stay on and enjoy.” Yamit does not know whether her father and sister are alive.
I skipped Lollapalooza for a smaller, cheaper Midwest music festival with some of the same big names. It was amazing and I hope to return.©Julia Richardson
- I went to the Hinterland Music Festival instead of Lollapalooza, which was the same weekend.
- Passes to Hinterland were cheaper and the lineup had some of the same artists as Lollapalooza.
- The festival offered a pleasant atmosphere, smaller crowds, and affordable refreshments
Recently, I skipped the crowds of Lollapalooza to attend a different Midwest music festival — Iowa’s Hinterland Music Festival.
I only recently learned about Hinterland, a three-day indie, soul, and country festival with an impressive resume of headliners. This year, it ran from August 4 to August 6, the same weekend as Lollapalooza, which ran from August 3 to August 6.
Hinterland three-day passes were $250 before fees, which is cheaper than the four-day general-admission passes to Lollapalooza that initially sold for about $365 before fees.
I’ve attended big music festivals and events in major cities across the world, but this was one of my favorite weekends of the summer and one of the best music experiences I’ve ever had.
Here’s why I plan to return next year.See more
Rut cannot walk or talk and is fed through a tube, per Mail Online. She relies heavily on her family for support. She often attended music festivals with her father.
“I am begging Hamas to let my dad take care of her. He’s the only one who knows what she needs,” Yamit said.
Israeli authorities have launched efforts to rescue the hostages while tensions in the region escalate.
The Hippie Family Doctor
Posted on August 31, 2023 by Royal Rosamond Press
Wooden Ships
by
John Presco
Copyright 2023
Christine Wandel told me her lover, Peter Shapiro, played for the Charlatans, the first SF band to use psychedelics on a regular basis, and promote legal LSD as part of their Rock and Roll Mystique. Peter Shapiro told me Mike Wilhelm led the way, and was a great guitarist. Christine did not like Mike.
“He was a scroungy little guy!”
“Why did you say that?”
“I think he kept coming on to me, knowing I was with Peter.”
Christine wanted me after coming into my room and watch me work on a very cosmic and magical sea-scape. We had just moved into the Victorian on 13th. She was still with Peter, but now was with Keith after recognizing him as the young Brit she met while going to Mills College. I was put on the back burner. Everywhere Peter played, Christine went with.
Tim Scully gave me as many canvases, brushes, and oil colors I wanted. Mr. B intriduced us at Berkeley Art supplu that Tim co-owned.
“Give Greg whatever he wants!”
Christine travel all over Europe with Mr. B.. A report highly suggested my grandfathers put cocaine in their sasperella. Where did this drug come from? Was it promoted as a miracle cure for depression, and the blues? Did Doctor William Stuttmeister own a Doctor’s license to legally procure the main ingredient for The Janke Magic Elixir. Will was a very successful dentist. Was cocaine used to ease the pain of tooth extractions? Tall ships ferried folks from SF to the Janke Theme Park in Belmont. Did any of these ships sail from Columbia? There was a magical carousel and tree platforms where children gathered to view the magic all around them. Fraternities brought their own bands that played on the dance floore that encircled a large Oak. Carl Janke had erected portable house in San Francicso that he brought around the Cape, and thus he too desrves the title ‘The Man Who Built San Francisco.
Keith Purvis and I were hooked up to Tim Scully’s first bio-feedback machine by Tim, after he gave us a sample of the new and improved batch. We met members of the Brotherhood of Eternal Love, a.k.a The Hippie Mafia. Last week, the first person graduated form the new psilocybin therapy AA fonder Bill W. took LSD to save himself from dying of alcoholism. My generation had become convinced Russia would start a war – to end all wars. I believe the Barbihiemer phenonium is a next generation Hippie Doctor Movement. We want to be well by turning and facing THE TRUTH rather than buring our head in the sand. We want – A NEW WORLD!
It is my goal to marry my fiancés at Ralston Hall in Belmont.
To be continued.
“Helped by the Brotherhood of Eternal Love, Orange Sunshine spread around the country, to Europe, India and even to American troops in Vietnam, and become part of the vernacular of the day.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wooden_Ships
“Wooden Ships” was written at the height of the Vietnam War, a time of great tension between the United States and the Soviet Union, nuclear-armed rivals in the Cold War. It has been likened to Tom Lehrer‘s “We Will All Go Together When We Go” and Barry McGuire‘s “Eve of Destruction,” in that it describes the consequences of an apocalyptic nuclear war.[2] According to the liner notes, the writers “imagined ourselves as the few survivors, escaping on a boat to create a new civilization.”[4] This represents one of Kantner’s recurring themes, to which he would return again in the 1970 concept album Blows Against the Empire.[5]
Horror grips us as we watch you dieAll we can do is echo your anguished criesStare as all human feelings dieWe are leaving you don’t need us
It is also described in an (unsung) prelude, included in the lyric sheet:Black sails knifing through the pitchblende nightAway from the radioactive landmass madnessFrom the silver-suited people searching outUncontaminated food and shelter on the shoresNo glowing metal on our ship of woodOnly free happy crazy people naked in the universe[2]
Oregon’s new psilocybin therapy program went live in January, but it’s taken months to train new facilitators. So people are only now beginning to take hallucinogenic mushrooms under the system.
One of the first was James Carroccio, a retired small business owner. He doesn’t actually live in Oregon. He traveled here from Arizona in his RV. But he used to live in Bend and has kept a close eye on Oregon’s new system in the hope of getting help.
When he was 14, Carroccio found his father in bed, dead from a heart attack. His mother was out of the picture, so suddenly, he was alone.
“I lost everything,” he said. “My world was out of control, and I had to get control of things around me.”
Carroccio developed what he thinks are obsessive-compulsive disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder. By middle age, he spent hours obsessively cleaning the windows, baseboards and floors, even though he could afford to have a housekeeper visit regularly.
“The lines were erratic on the carpet,” he said. “I would get the carpet out and vacuum a very consistent pattern into the carpet.”
His compulsive behavior impacted many aspects of his life, in positive and negative ways; he says he over-regimented the lives of his children. He also thinks his tendency to keep an immaculate job site pleased clients.
Over 30 years, Carroccio estimates he went through a dozen therapists. It was of limited help.
“The therapist always gave me a quick feel-good. But the pattern and the behavior never changed” he said. “With the hope of psilocybin, I was looking for a complete change.”
Love and The Marbles
Posted on November 14, 2018 by Royal Rosamond Press
Peter played with the Charlatans. He told me stories about Mike Wilhelm who he admired. I was aware I was an archetype and my family history was a model for a cultural movement that made San Francisco famous. I spend a great deal of time protecting my history and roots that spawned a great world-wide cultural movement that immigrants played such a key role in sustaining. The idea of going to a new world, and building a new world in light of a new understanding is what made America Great, again, and again!
John Presco
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Charlatans_(American_band)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Regev
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_Zionism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionist_youth_movement
Maccabi Hatzair: Founded in Germany in 1926. In 1933 the youth group was a strong basis for the World Maccabi Organization, which was involved in sports, aliya, and settling Israel.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/23/middleeast/gaza-hospitals-doctors-disaster-intl-hnk/index.html
The bodies of three children lie on a steel tray inside what appears to be a Gaza hospital morgue, one leg of their trousers pushed up to reveal writing in black ink on their skin.
“We received some cases where the parents wrote the names of their children on the legs and abdomen,” Dr. Abdul Rahman Al Masri, the head of the emergency department Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, told CNN.
He said parents were worried that “anything could happen,” and no one would be able to identify their children.
“This means that they feel they are targeted at any moment and can be injured or martyred,” Al Masri added.
The black ink is a small sign of the fear and desperation felt by parents in the densely populated enclave as Israel continues to pound it with relentless airstrikes in retaliation for the October 7 Hamas attacks.
President Joe Biden’s graphic description of horrors in Israel was intended to “underscore the utter depravity” of the Hamas attack on civilians, the White House says, even if he hadn’t personally viewed or confirmed the imagery he described.
Speaking from the Indian Treaty Room, Biden on Wednesday told a gathering of Jewish leaders: “I’ve been doing this a long time. I never really thought that I would see and have confirmed pictures of terrorists beheading children.”
Later on that evening, an administration official told CNN neither Biden nor the administration had seen pictures or confirmed reports of children or infants beheaded by Hamas. The official clarified that the president’s remarks were referring to public comments from media outlets and Israeli officials. Since taking office, Biden has on a number of occasions gone off-script to make comments that later required clarification by his staff, including on Taiwan and Russia.
A spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had said earlier Wednesday that babies and toddlers were found “decapitated” in Kfar Aza, Tal Heinrich. CNN could not independently verify that report, and Hamas said media reports about attacking children were false.
On Thursday, Netanyahu showed horrifying photos of babies whose bodies had been burned beyond recognition and a third bloodstained infant’s body to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who was visiting Israel.
During a press availability, Blinken became emotional describing seeing the images of the victims of the Hamas attack that “almost defies comprehension.”
“A baby, an infant riddled with bullets. Soldiers beheaded. Young people burned alive in their cars, or their hideaway rooms,” Blinken said.
“It’s beyond what anyone would ever want to imagine, much less actually see and, God forbid, experience,” he said.
Speaking to reporters at the White House later on Thursday, National Security Council spokesman John Kirby cited those photos when explaining Biden’s remarks a day earlier.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/12/politics/joe-biden-photos-children-hamas-israel/index.html
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/06/24/europe/ukraine-unidentified-bodies-dna-test-intl-cmd/index.html
“If the bone is disintegrating, we must make dozens of attempts to pull a DNA profile. Sometimes it can take months, but we never stop trying,” said Ruslan Abbasov, the head of the DNA laboratory of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
“We work 24/7 to help Ukrainians find their loved ones. We hope that we will be able to name each victim, identify every serviceman. And to bury them with dignity.”
Using special software, a forensic expert then tries to find a match to the remains by comparing the John Doe’s DNA to a government database of thousands of people searching for their loved ones.
“The more profiles we have, statistically, the more matches we make. It’s obvious we don’t have enough DNA from relatives of the missing persons,” said Stanislav Martynenko, chief forensic expert at the lab.
“It will take years after the war ends to find all the unidentified human bodies.”
Of the 700 unidentified bodies so far catalogued, 200 have been matched to a family so far, according to Abbasov.
Martynenko is behind many of those identifications. “When I make a match, I feel like I’ve done my job,” he told CNN. “And I need to inform everyone about this match starting with the police.”
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