Yesterday I felt much dread that I could not shake. I did an inventory of what I had to be afraid of. Then I saw a CNN story on a gathering of Survivors in Ojai.
I believe Iran is going to strike a hotel after not bein able to breach the security of a Embassy.
John
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An Israeli bomb struck a graveyard – the crammed Sheikh Radwan cemetery in Gaza City – sending body parts flying and blasting craters in the ground.
‘Gaza is all a graveyard,’ gravedigger Salman Omar said while residents collected charred body parts in plastic bags and placed them back in a crater which was all that remained of around 30 graves.
The Israeli army said the strike targeted a weapons storeroom adjacent to the cemetery and a separate strike targeted a spot from which rockets are launched.”
Going To Ojai – With Muse!
Posted on November 26, 2023 by Royal Rosamond Press
I Turn My Back On Islam, Judaism, and Christianity
Posted on November 26, 2023 by Royal Rosamond Press
After being given a trillion dollars, the three major religions failed to prevent the Nightmare In Gaza.
John ‘The Nazarite’
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Survivors of Hamas Massacre at Nova Music Festival Struggle to Rejoin Life
“It’s not a normal trauma,” says the lead therapist at a retreat to help the young attendees
April 3, 2024 @ 6:00 AM
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OJAI, California — In a circular room drenched in winter sunlight, a group of young men and women sit cross-legged on the floor. Their eyes are mostly closed. Some lie down prone. Others enlace one another in grief.
A woman with long hair, barefoot, picks up a guitar: “You’ll be like a bird flying, free,” she sings. “And I will be a sun to the world….”
Together, the voices swell in the room. They are safe here.
For a week, 120 survivors of the Hamas attack on the Nova Music Festival in southern Israel came to a campground in Southern California to breathe new air, build community and find the path into the rest of their lives.
Most of them are in their 20s and have been through a trauma that may take a lifetime to heal. Early on Oct. 7, Hamas terrorists descended upon the psy-trance music festival and stalked, chased, massacred, raped, mutilated and kidnapped them and their friends.
An estimated 360 young men and women were killed at the festival that day, and dozens kidnapped. The survivors number in the many hundreds.
Those who emerged alive — like Danielle Sassi, a young mother who went to the festival with seven family members and returned with just one — are shattered in ways most of us cannot imagine. Others, like a female police officer who was shot multiple times in the leg, struggles despite meeting at the retreat festival attendees whose lives she’d saved. In a brief chat with this reporter, she sprang from a chair, startled, when an engine revved behind her.
Some suffer from ongoing physical injuries. Some still have friends or family who are hostages in Gaza. Shame, guilt and fear are common. Many know of survivors who have taken their own lives since Oct. 7.
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“It’s not a normal trauma,” said Guy Svili, an Israeli specialist who led the group therapy session and works with trauma survivors in Israel through his group, Ruach Adama. “It’s a brush with evil. Some had friends cut into pieces. For some, the desire to live is gone. The shadow of death has been put in their heads.” The survivors’ organization declined to discuss details around any suicides.
He spoke after the session on a grassy hill, as groups of young people – once united by a love of music and the freedom of a rave – relax. One wanders the grounds with a parrot on her shoulder. An emotional support dog patters behind. Many have tattoos, or smoke or vape. An impromptu group sings “Hotel California” in the sun. Many of those at the retreat arrived not knowing anyone else from the festival.
Psy-trance is a tight knit global community of psychedelic ravers that extends to dozens of countries, including the Netherlands, Brazil, Portugal and India. The Supernova Sukkot Gathering, named after the Jewish holiday, was an Israeli offshoot of the Universo Paralello (Parallel Universe) festival brand started in Brazil more than 20 years ago. One of the Brazilian’s company’s founders, Juarez Petrillo, the DJ Swarup — who is the father of superstar Brazilian DJ Alok — was on the roster of performers at Supernova. He was reportedly about to begin his set when the massacre began. His son Alok later said on social media that the police evacuated his father as the assault began.
These young people were not so lucky.
“They’re very young,” Svili went on. “The Nova community are very much individuals – they’re all about love and freedom. There’s something symbolic here – they were thousands of people seeking love and music – and the worst thing happens to them. Their healing from such an extreme experience represents a lot of hope.”
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NEGEV, Israel — A stiff wind whips through a forest of photos on the grounds where Nova took place. The Nova campgrounds were once simply a public park near the Kibbutz Re’im a few kilometers from the Gaza border, with nature trails and glades of trees and plenty of open space for a psy-trance rave.
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Today it is a makeshift memorial, marked by the photos on long stands, each representing a murdered or kidnapped person. Tamar Goldberg, with dark hair and a wide grin. Guy Gilboa-Dalal, 22 – “bring him home now” says the sign. A couple lost: “In memory of Amit ben Avida and Karen Schwartzman.” And Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, the young man whose hand was blown off by tossing grenades out of the shelter where dozens of young people had hidden. “Bring him home now.” Too many to count.
To look around is to imagine what it was like just six months ago, on Oct. 7. At around 6 a.m., a hail of missiles rained down on the fields beside the festival, and about 3,000 bewildered festivalgoers, most of whom had arrived just a couple of hours earlier, looked around and wondered what to do next.
“Rockets start flying in the air,” said Ben Landau, a festivalgoer in an interview published on YouTube. “At the beginning we see five rockets. Then we see dozens, hundreds, thousands of rockets are in the air,” he said. At first he thought he and his friends might be safe, still. “From the stories about Iron Dome we feel protected in that moment. But we understood the party won’t continue.”
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The festivalgoers were fish in a barrel. Some including Landau fled to their cars, creating a massive traffic jam. Some found a brief hiding spot in concrete shelters with open sides. Some began to move toward the road, or hide in bushes, or run down a dried out river bed. Others just began to run in a panic across an open field as hundreds of terrorists arrived on foot behind the missile attack, shooting as they went.
Almost all of them called their parents, and many stayed on the line for hours as they raced to find a way out of the death trap. In speaking to survivors, you realize that the massacre did not happen all at once. In many instances the festival goers tried one way out, changed cars, ran on foot or might have hid under a bush. In some instances they thought they were safe, only to be stalked by Hamas militants an hour later and killed. Or kidnapped. Or worse. Witnesses including festivalgoer Raz Cohen describe at least one gang rape of a young woman who was then stabbed to death. It was not the only sexual assault.
The makeshift memorial underscores the pure senselessness of the tragedy. It has no profound message, no stakes to claim, no message to teach.
The faces of the victims seem profoundly innocent and full of joy. They came to dance.
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TEL AVIV — Romi Gonen, a 23-year-old from a northern Israeli village called Kfar Vradim (Village of Roses), had been traveling in South America for seven months when she was introduced to psy-trance music in Brazil. She’d been to Peru, Colombia — and then fell in love with the festival scene.
One of five siblings, Gonen was the one who always got in trouble. “She’s a smiley person, goofy, clumsy,’” said her older sister Yarden. “Everything bad happens to her — it’s the family joke. She got Covid three times.”
After the trip abroad where she learned to speak Spanish, Romi moved to Tel Aviv and worked in a restaurant as a waitress. She loved new cultures and when the Nova festival was announced, she cancelled a planned trip to Sri Lanka to make sure she could go.
She went with her best friend Gaia.
Asleep in Romi’s bed at home, Yarden’s phone rang at 6:40 a.m. on Oct. 7. “I almost ignored it. At the last minute I thought, ‘Maybe something’s wrong.’” It was Romi. “Is everything ok?” Yarden asked. “Actually – no,” said Romi, describing the missiles that were falling nearby.
Over the next three hours they stayed on the phone, plotting how to escape the dragnet. Afraid to go to her car, Romi found a temporary security shelter.
“You don’t understand,” she told her sister. “There are so many rockets. It’s raining rockets. The trees are on fire.”
The family turned on the television and saw bands of terrorists in cars all over southern Israel on the news. In nearby Sderot, CCTV cameras showed Hamas fighters, 10 astride in pick up trucks, wielding automatic weapons.
“We were shocked,” said Yarden. Shocked at the boldness. “They were saying: ‘We are here to terrorize you.’”
Meanwhile, Romi had gotten to her car and was trying to get to the main road. But the car park was jammed. Suddenly Yarden heard her sister say: “Why are all those people running toward us?” Gaia drove the car while her friend’s father helped them navigate through a dry river bed. Once again they saw people running toward the car.
“I pleaded with her, ‘Stay in the car.’ But people were screaming, ‘Get the fuck out of the car. Terrorists will kill you! They’re dressed like (Israeli) army. They’re killing us!” They got out of the car and began to run, hiding in a bush.
Still on the phone but losing reception, Romi asked her sister: What should I do now? Yarden had no answers. “It was so frustrating,” she said. “I can do nothing to help her. Just be with her on the phone.”
More gunshots. Getting closer now.
“Do you see the police? The army?”
“No. I see a lot of dead people.”
Finally at 10 a.m., Romi called their father and said a friend had come to rescue them. “I was so relieved,” said Yarden. “I was so happy she was with Gaia.”
But 10 minutes after that, their mother got a call from Romi. She and her friends had been ambushed. The car was broken. The driver was dead. Gaia was shot and had stopped answering her. Romi was shot in her arm and was bleeding.
The next few minutes devolved in slow motion. “In the last 10 minutes, Romi was not speaking. We heard terrorists talking (in Arabic) and shots fired. They opened the door and tried to start the car.”
Suddenly, Yarden heard a scratching noise and then one word in English: “Stop.” The call ended. Later she had a friend translate the Arabic discussion which was: We have two girls. One alive, one dead. And then a discussion over whether to kill Romi or take her to Gaza.
Romi is currently a hostage in Gaza. Gaia died.
Yarden works tirelessly to keep her sister’s fate in front of the media. “I have no idea if my sister still has her hand,” said Yarden, noting that released hostages reported seeing her sister with the hand badly wounded and her fingers discolored.
“Some days I wake up optimistic. But I feel I can’t rest until they (hostages) will all be here. It doesn’t matter if I’m tired, or upset or hopeless. Our mission is to keep fighting.”
“This is a fight between the people of the free world and terrorism,” Yarden said. “The music community should be more vocal, more aware. The psy-trance community has the feeling of a tribe. If this happens at a music festival, with 30 different countries affected, it can happen anywhere. No music festival is safe. Wake up. Be with us on this.”
TheWrap reached out to organizers of the Nova Festival but did not receive a reply.
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During the Ojai retreat, which was funded by private donations, the activities in addition to group and private therapy included an art project, ropes and rock-climbing, hiking, yoga — all with volunteers who were trained in trauma work.
Therapy went on every day for a week. The young adults here have, for the most part, stopped working since Oct. 7 . Their professions ranged from students, to medical workers, to lawyers to social workers. The hope is that they will be able to pick up the threads of their lives and move forward.
The retreat was the brainchild of American Jewish educator Karin Heprin from Orange County, who at first wanted to connect Israeli adolescents with American kids, but was told that the more urgent need was for Nova and other survivors to leave Israel and get a break.
“We went into this not exactly sure what we were going to accomplish,” she said. “My hope would be that they could reclaim their pre Oct. 7 identity, their hopes and dreams. We hoped it would be a good thing. But it could also be triggering or be hard for them.”
At Svili’s group therapy, he solicited input: What do you fear? he asked. The answers were called out: “My own thoughts.” “What my parents think.”
A woman named Talli sang a song she wrote about fear. “My fears are holding me back,” she sang, teaching the words and tune to the room.
A young man came to the front of the room to share. On Oct. 7, he said, he and a girlfriend were chased by terrorists, and as they ran he feared they might be caught. He was not afraid to die, he said. Instead, as the men drew closer he feared what would happen to his friend if she were captured. And he thought that it might be his responsibility to kill her, to prevent her falling into their hands.
“I asked myself, ‘What is the right thing to do?” he asked. “Should you kill the person you love?” Given the evidence that has emerged about rape of women at the festival, his fears were not ill-founded.
This fear still haunts him, he said. Several people in the group began to weep.
During a final song, Rani Pondak — a Sufi-influenced psychotherapist dressed in white — stood in the middle of the circle and whirled slowly, like a dervish.
“I know this will bring a change for good,” said Svili. “That’s how it works. Like a phoenix — it rises from darkness. How it is happening, I don’t know. When – I don’t know. It takes time. But we have to believe this. Perhaps we have no choice.”
History keeps repeating itself in the Middle East
Nov. 24, 2023 at 2:37 pm
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Seattle Times cartoonist
Israel and the Iranian-backed Palestinian militants, Hamas, are locked in a terrible asymmetric war between terror and technology.
Hamas set off this latest round of battle with a shocking attack against Israeli civilians that was so barbaric and obscene that it was surely designed to provoke the most extreme reaction from the right-wing Israeli government – a reaction that would provide Hamas with thousands of new martyrs for their cause among noncombatant Palestinians and inflame world opinion against Israel.
A more moderate and deft Israeli government might have followed a more careful, less violent, course, but the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has given Hamas exactly what they sought, using all the destructive power of Israel’s American-backed, high-tech military to decimate the Palestinian communities in Gaza.
In a conflict so steeped in hatred, revenge, fear and history, however, crafting a less polarizing, more humane response to Hamas terror would have been a seriously daunting task for even the wisest Israeli statesmen.
The roots of this war reach back much further than the displacement of Palestinians in 1948 when the Jewish homeland was established. Those roots stretch to the 1st century CE, when the Roman Empire destroyed the Jewish temple in Jerusalem and began to scatter the Jews of Palestine to the far corners of the ancient world. What followed were centuries of oppression, expulsions and violence in multiple lands that culminated in the extermination of 6 million Jews in the Nazi holocaust.
Given that fraught history, Israelis cannot be blamed for fiercely defending the one small place on the planet where they can control their own fate. The unresolved problem, though, is that that small place – an area roughly the size of Western Washington – has other claimants: the Palestinians whose grandparents were moved out when the Israelis moved in and who have suffered their own decades of discrimination.
Israelis and Palestinians are two groups of people with two distinct histories of displacement who want to live on one particular piece of land. For 75 years, they have mostly done battle instead of bargaining for an arrangement in which they can share the land and live together. There are many, many complex reasons for that inability to resolve their conflict, but, perhaps, the core reason is that they simply do not want to live together, whether in a single state or two.
On the Israeli side, there is the fear of quickly being outnumbered in a single state where demographics would favor the Arab population. Jews know what it is like to be a minority and it has seldom worked out well for them.
On the Palestinian side, they do not want to be an underclass in a combined society with Israelis maintaining control of everything. They have already had too much of the demeaning experience of Israeli rule.
And extremists on both sides want none of this dreamy illusion of living together; they want it all for themselves and would love to see the other side driven into the sea.
As for the elusive two-state solution that practical diplomats keep pushing, few Israelis or Palestinians with the power to craft a deal appear eager to make the concessions necessary to turn that into reality. So, unless there is a fundamental change in this dynamic, it is hard to envision an end to a tragedy whose seeds were planted a long time ago.
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Bin Laden demands holy war as Israel bombs the dead in Gaza cemeteries
By DAVID WILLIAMS
UPDATED: 20:36 EDT, 14 January 2009
Osama Bin Laden yesterday urged all Muslims to launch a holy war against Israel as the number of Palestinians killed in the Gaza bombardment passed 1,000.
Speaking for the first time since May, the Al Qaeda leader vowed the terror network would open up ‘new fronts’.
He condemned Arab governments as Israel’s allies in an audiotape message seen to be aimed at harnessing anger in the Middle East over the Gaza offensive.
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The crater left after Israeli forces bombed a cemetery in Gaza yesterday, sending body parts flying on to neighbouring houses
Gazans had already been forced to re-open graves to bury those killed in the Israeli offensive as cemeteries in the territory were filled up
The call to jihad came as fragile hopes rose of a temporary halt in fighting after Egyptian and Palestinian officials said they were close to an agreement with Hamas for a ten-day ceasefire.
A Hamas spokesman said he believed an agreement was close and details were being put to Israeli officials last night.
‘We hope that now Egypt will contact Israel and talk about all issues,’ Ghazi Hamad, a senior Hamas adviser, said.
Second front?: Lebanese soldiers inspect the remains of two rockets, which were fired towards Israel but fell short in south Lebanon yesterday. Three more rockets are believed to have reached Israel
Explosion: The Israeli air force attack a target in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday morning
A halt in fighting would allow aid into the territory and talks for a permanent solution to be stepped up. Palestinian officials said the death toll had reached 1,010, including 673 civilians.
More than 300 of the dead are children, with a further 1,500 among the 3,500 wounded, Ann Veneman, the head of the United Nations children’s agency UNICEF claimed yesterday.
Despite signs of a breakthrough there was no let-up yesterday as Israel continued to blitz tunnels used by Hamas to smuggle military hardware into Gaza.
‘The gates of Hell’: An explosion tears through the sky after an Israeli air strike in Rafah
An Israeli bomb struck a graveyard – the crammed Sheikh Radwan cemetery in Gaza City – sending body parts flying and blasting craters in the ground.
‘Gaza is all a graveyard,’ gravedigger Salman Omar said while residents collected charred body parts in plastic bags and placed them back in a crater which was all that remained of around 30 graves.
The Israeli army said the strike targeted a weapons storeroom adjacent to the cemetery and a separate strike targeted a spot from which rockets are launched.
An Israeli soldier adjusts the barrel of a tank as his unit prepares to enter the northern Gaza Strip yesterday
A number of rockets were fired from Gaza yesterday while three from southern Lebanon landed near the northern Israeli city of Kiryat Shemona. There were no reports of injuries.
Israel says 13 citizens have died since the offensive began on December 27.
The Bin Laden message was on a 22-minute tape entitled ‘a call for jihad to stop the aggression on Gaza’.
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Palestinians inspect a house destroyed after an Israeli airstrike
The White House dismissed the tape, saying it reflected Bin Laden’s ‘isolation’.
Meanwhile in Cairo, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon renewed his call for ‘an immediate and durable ceasefire’.
Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak is said to favour a ceasefire but Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is thought to want to press on with the military operations.Enlarge 
A large section of Gaza reduced to rubble following overnight airstrikes
Palestinians help an injured man to a stretcher following overnight attacks by the Israeli airforce
Carl Janke’s Turnverein Halls and Bar Kochba Berlin
Posted on November 24, 2023 by Royal Rosamond Press
This is the day after Thanksgiving and Hamas has released Thai prisoners who survived the massive bombing by Israel, that became a nation thanks to members of the Jewish Turnverein sports clubs, that mimicked the Turnverein my great grandfather, Carl Janke, established in San Francisco, and Redwood City where his remains ended up after they were dug up in Belmont in the middle of the night – and put in a grave with two other relatives. A city structure was built on their – next to the last final resting place. Civic Justice was done? They might be moved – again!
The most famous ruined city in the world, was San Francisco. Carl rebuilt a Turnverein Hall that was destroyed in the earthquake. Dr. William Stuttmeister, who was married at Ralston Hall in Belmont, lost his dentist office located a couple of blocks from San Francisco City Hall. Williams granddaughter, Melba Broderick, married Victor Hugo Presco a famous gambler in the Barbary Coast. When he died 5,000 Friscians came to his funeral, including the mayor.
Let My Peace People Go!
Posted on November 1, 2023 by Royal Rosamond Press
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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