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02 April 2008

 

Matt Pallamary as seen on YouTube!
Here is a brief interview with my friend Matt Pallamary whose recent memoir, "Spirit Matters", has just been published.

posted by Lorenzo 9:24 PM

19 March 2008

 

Barack Obama Speech on Race
I've heard some good speeches in my life, Kennedy's innagural, MLK's "I Have a Dream" among them, and I'm adding to that list Barack Obama's direct and honest speech about the racism that still persists in this country. IMHO, if this speech doesn't move you then you still don't quite get what his campaign is all about.

posted by Lorenzo 4:44 PM

14 February 2008

 

Yes We Can - Barack Obama Music Video

posted by Lorenzo 4:03 PM

28 January 2008

 

Kennedy Family Endorsements of Barack Obama
I have to admit, this Obama rally took me back to my college days when I watched John Kennedy's run for the presidency on a little black and white television in my college dorm's basement. While I don't agree with Obama on all the issues, there is no question but what he brings with him a sense of hope that is long overdue. It has been so long since we have seen a true LEADER in this country that we have almost forgotten what they look like, and to me, Barack Obama is the kind of leader this country so desperately needs at this critical moment in history.

posted by Lorenzo 6:20 PM

19 January 2008

 

Video: Angry About Environmental Destrucion
Everyone over 30 should who sees this video should give some serious thought to what this young man has to say about the current state of our Earthly environment and our responsibility to do something about the mess we humans have made of this planet.

posted by Lorenzo 11:25 AM

10 December 2007

 

What is Myspace, really?
[CLICK the above link to read this entire essay.]

This is the scariest question of all. Myspace is the largest private opt-in database on the planet. We willingly register ourselves, our thoughts, ideas and interests. We upload photos of ourselves, our children and families. We link ourselves to our friends, family, organizations, telling where we live, our relationship status, religion, age, sexual preference, employment, which schools we attended, etc. We feed all of this into the biggest computer networked propaganda machine ever developed all in the name of social networking. A machine owned and operated by friend and supporter of G.W. Bush and his "war on terror" All ready there are numerous reports extreme as people going to jail, because of the contents of their Myspace page? What will be next?

A few good sites dedicated to the Myspace censorship problem.
freemyspace.com

www.civic.moveon.org/pdf/myspace/

Myspace censors Presidential candidate Ron Paul - see informeddissent.com

posted by Lorenzo 4:08 PM

05 December 2007

 

The True Story of Christmas

Modern Christmas traditions are based on ancient mushroom-using shamans. Although most people see Christmas as a Christian holiday, most of the symbols and icons we associate with Christmas celebrations are actually derived from the shamanistic traditions of the tribal peoples of pre-Christian Northern Europe. The sacred mushroom of these people was the red and white amanita muscaria mushroom, also known as "fly agaric." These mushrooms are now commonly seen in books of fairy tales, and are usually associated with magic and fairies. This is because they contain potent hallucinogenic compounds, and were used by ancient peoples for insight and transcendental experiences. Most of the major elements of the modern Christmas celebration, such as Santa Claus, Christmas trees, magical reindeer and the giving of gifts, are originally based upon the traditions surrounding the harvest and consumption of these most sacred mushrooms.

[Click the above link for the complete story.]

posted by Lorenzo 5:38 AM

02 November 2007

 

Towing a floating drydock through the Panama Canal
Below is a short YouTube video of the two transits we made through the Panama Canal in 1969 during the Phase II Scorpion Ops. I was the XO and navigator of the Apache at the time.

posted by Lorenzo 7:29 AM

19 October 2007

 

USS Scorpion (SSN 589) Search Operations - Phase II

The video below is a collection of pictures I took during June and July, 1969. They were taken at the location, in the mid-Atlantic, of the tragic Scorpion loss. I was the executive officer and navigator for the USS Apache (ATF-67), which is the ocean-going tug boat that towed the bathyscaphe USS Trieste (DSV-1), and her mother ship the USS Whitesands (ARD-20) from San Diego to the mid-Atlantic and back during what turned out to be a cruise that lasted over ten months.

posted by Lorenzo 9:57 PM

04 October 2007

 

The US Navy's Longest Ocean Tow
One of my assignments in the Navy included a little 10 month cruise from San Diego to the site of the USS Scorpion's sinking in the mid-Atlantic. I was the executive officer and navigator for the USS Apache, which is the ship that completed this 14,100 nautical mile tow. Here are a few pictures from our time at sea:



Still photos at: apache67.blogspot.com

posted by Lorenzo 2:13 PM

20 July 2007

 

I couldn't have said it better
Go to Iraq and Fight, Mr. President
By Keith Olbermann
MSNBC Countdown

Thursday 19 July 2007

posted by Lorenzo 2:56 PM

10 July 2007

 

Michael Moore Tells CNN the Truth
If you haven't already heard about this confrontation you owe it to yourself to watch this video. . . . BTW, if you haven't seen Sicko, that's also something worth your time.

posted by Lorenzo 5:12 PM

02 June 2007

 

U.S. Homeland "Security" is a Farce
I guess with an insane person living in the White House we should expect nothing better than the Keystone Cops guarding our borders, and that is exactly what we've got.

Earlier this year, a low-level U.S. flunky denied a Canadian psychotherapist entry to the states because several decades earlier he had written a paper that stated there were some positive benefits to be gained from the proper use of psychedelic medicines, like LSD. There was no formal hearing on this matter, just a simple Google search and that was it . . . barred forever from entering the U.S. because of a college term paper.

But a person with a fatal, contagious disease whose name and passport number were in the border control computer system was allowed to merrily drive into New York. . . . But what do you expect when the Bush Crime Family is running the show.

posted by Lorenzo 5:41 AM

16 May 2007

 

THE WAR ON CONSCIOUSNESS
NOTE: This is an excerpt from a long essay by Paul Levy. Please click the link above to read the full text.]
We are truly in a war. It is not the war we imagine we are in, which is the way our true adversaries want it. It is not a foreign war against a foreign enemy. It is a war on consciousness, a war on our own minds. The global war on terror that is being fought around the world is an embodied reflection in the material world of a deeper, more fundamental war that is going on in the realm of consciousness itself. . . . We have the most criminal regime in all of our history wreaking unspeakable horror on the entire planet, while simultaneously waging war on the consciousness of its own citizens - US. . . . The private interests that control our government have an incredible mind-control/propaganda machine at their disposal in the form of the mainstream media, which if not quite fully owned and controlled, is certainly under their “influence” enough to serve their underlying self-serving agenda. George Orwell once said that omission is the greatest form of lie – this perfectly describes the corporate owned media of today which is nothing other than the propaganda organ of the state. The corporate world and our government are becoming indistinguishable, which is one of the hallmarks of fascism, or more accurately – corporatism. . . . The corporate-mainstream media "captivates" our attention, capturing a part of our self-reflective, discriminative awareness, thereby restricting the range of our conscious awareness, which is what hypnotism is all about. Once the attention of the masses becomes entranced, the corporate/government media can then "play with" our mind. This unholy trinity of corporate/government/media can create an obsessive fixation on certain superficial events that "seize" the collective psyche. For example, it feeds the masses sensationalized stories such as Anna Nicole Smith ad nauseam so as to divert our attention from the evil that is being done behind the scenes in our name. . . . If only one person believed the propaganda-created consensus version of reality, they’d be thought of as crazy. If a small group of people believed it, they’d be thought of as a cult. When a certain critical mass of people irrationally believe this fictionalized version of reality (in our case, that Bush has been "elected" by the people) to be objectively true, however, they are considered normal. . . . Mass psychology then becomes the order of the day, as our species, animated and inspired by fear – which Bush and his regime are only too happy to cultivate - reverts to the primitive psychology of the herd. A collective amnesia ensues, continually fed by a self-generating web of endless denial, as the manufactured consent is recreated anew every moment. . . . The solution to winning the war on consciousness is for us to RECOGNIZE the nature of the war we are in, which can only happen through the agency of our consciousness. Realizing that the true war we are in is an assault on our own minds is the expansion of consciousness which is itself simultaneously the solution. From a deeper, more expansive perspective, the war on consciousness is itself the very catalyst and instrument for consciousness to awaken to itself. . . . It is our turn to come together so as to render powerless these sick criminals who have been terrorizing us. We can help each other to access our intrinsic heart-centered power and collectively turn the light of truth upon them so that they have no where to hide from their lies and corruption. For "truth", to quote the infamous Nazi minister of propaganda Joseph M. Goebbels, is "the greatest enemy of the state." Bush and the private interests who keep him in power and profit richly from his actions are absolutely terrified of one thing - the truth. As the late Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis said, "Sunshine is the best disinfectant." Like pouring water on the Wicked Witch of the West in "The Wizard of Oz", when the true light of awareness is shed on what Bush and the real powers behind him are doing, their illegitimate power over us is dis-spelled as the illusion it always was.

posted by Lorenzo 3:13 PM

12 March 2007

 

Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us
My friend Hal sent me the link to the following video. While there isn't any information in it that you don't already know, if you truly grok the overall message I think you will find it very interesting and thought provocative.

posted by Lorenzo 1:55 PM

10 February 2007

 

A Truly SPECTACULAR Comet!
I hope that everyone had a chance to see Comet McNaught. Had a comet this spectacular appeared 1,000 years ago, humans everywhere would have begun preparations for a major tear in the fabric of everyday reality. . . . and maybe that isn't such a bad idea yet today. The photos below were taken by Rob McNaught, the man who first discovered this beautiful comet.

You can see more photos on his personal Web site.

posted by Lorenzo 5:29 PM

26 January 2007

 

Comet
McNaught

is unlikely to appear in our skies for another 85,000 years.

In "Olden Times" what do you think people would have been saying about an event like this? And why haven't we been hearing more about this spectacular comet in the news? Have we become so detached from the heavens that a spectacular event like this is no longer of interest to us?

To our ancestors, the appearance of Comet McNaught would have been taken as an omen or warning that foreshadowed great events that are about to occur.

Why aren't we talking about this?

posted by Lorenzo 6:10 PM

30 December 2006

 

From the mouths of babes . . .

posted by Lorenzo 4:12 PM

18 December 2006

 

Update from the StopKillingUs.org Campaign
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A major part of our campaign is to identify where in Africa Climate Change is affecting local populations and their livelihoods. When we do, we ensure that local people wear the SKU t-shirts and we target national and (where possible) international press on the area. This way when the film crews and photographers go there to interview the people most affected, the web site is clearly visible on their shirts. We think this is a very effective way to gain publicity for our cause and to show people the world over what effect Climate Change is having on Africa.

We are pleased to tell you that within ten days of the launch we have sent our T-Shirt Task Force to Ada and Keta on the Eastern seaboard of Ghana where the fishermen and their families are suffering considerably from problems that they believe, as does the Ghana EPA, are related directly to Climate Change.

As part of our mission we have taken TV film crews to those areas from GTV, TV3 and MetroTV together with reporters from other press outlets such as the Daily Graphic newspaper. The first screening was this evening on the TV3 main news and an article in the Graphic will be appearing next week.

Our web site will soon be highlighting the plight of those fishing communities when we re-launch our site in January. In the meantime you can see a clip that was taken in James Town, Accra that we uploaded to YouTube.
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Support StopKillingUs.org and Purchase a T-Shirt

posted by Lorenzo 5:40 PM

01 December 2006

 

StopKillingUs.org Launched Today!
What is this campaign about and what is the meaning of the message? . . . Click on the link above to read the incredible and wonderful story of the StopKillingUs grass-roots campaign in Ghana.

"As the t-shirts were distributed and the banners erected around the city, people started to take ownership of the name and it became their very own symbol of what was wrong in their lives. It seemed to represent a battle cry against all the hardships that Africans face in their daily existence." . . . "To some it was about the fight against diseases like Malaria and AIDS. Some felt it concerned the severe economic hardships endured by so many ordinary people on this continent. To others it represented the struggle against oppression and the fight for freedom and security in other parts of Africa." . . . "Very few people saw in it a political or religious meaning which pleased the organizers as this was never intended to be a political or religious message." . . . So what was the idea behind this campaign? . . . Climate Change. Two words describing a subject that has become a major topic around the world; but maybe not in Africa. Also known as Global Warming it is a phenomenon that has been talked about for the past twenty years but hasn't been taken seriously until today.

Click the link above to see how this serious global problem uniquely affects the continent of Africa . . . and how you can help bring awareness to this pressing issue.

posted by Lorenzo 5:53 PM