tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35326072010-04-09T11:15:55.934-07:00Lorenzo Hagerty is the carnival barker for Matrix Masters, Palenque Norte, and the host of the Psychedelic Salon. Here you will find a few of the thoughts that cross his mind from time to time.Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comBlogger791125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3532607.post-16262111872267259522010-03-04T14:34:00.001-08:002010-04-08T20:57:59.207-07:00

THIS PAGE IS NOW AN ARCHIVE ONLYAs of March 2010, Google is no longer supporting FTP publishing of it's Blogger blogs. Therefore I will be consolidating all of my blogs into a single front page format that I will be experimenting with and changing from time to time until I find something I like.

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A Change of FormatSince Google will no longer be supporting FTP to private servers for Blogger, I will be discontinuing all of the current blogs I've been updating on this site using Blogger (25 of them!). Instead I will be consolidating all of my posts into a single WordPress blog that I am now using for all ongoing posts. I have kept the categories the same as the names of the previous blogs

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The Virtual Viet Nam Veterans' Memorial WallThe Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington DC honors the fallen of the Vietnam War. Relatives and friends leave letters, poems, and photographs there and on this web site named The Virtual Wall ®. We bring the Vietnam Veterans Memorial to your home.... This is an amazing site, particularly for anyone who has ever been to The Wall.

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Let's hear it for the old stoners!

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U.S. Economy Grinds To Halt As Nation Realizes Money Just A Symbolic, Mutually Shared IllusionNOTE: THIS IS SATIRE FROM THE ONION ... but it is more truthful than most news. [CLICK the link above for the complete version.]The U.S. economy ceased to function this week after unexpected existential remarks by Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke shocked Americans into realizing that money is, in

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Fascist Police Take Over in the UKInvestigation of Policing at Climate Campby undercurrentsvideo

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Our Democracy No Longer Works and the Problem Is Congress(Lawrence Lessig, The Nation,February 9, 2010)a year into the presidency of Barack Obama, it is already clear that this administration is an opportunity missed. Not because it is too conservative. Not because it is too liberal. But because it is too conventional. . . . Obama handed the architecture of his new administration over to a team

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Where are the Comments?For the past few years now, we have been hosting our Comments for MatrixMasters.com with Haloscan.com. They crashed and disappeared. However, they claimed that for a small fee the comments could be transferred to Echo at js-kit.com (whoever that is).Unfortunately, the Echo conversion simply doesn't work, and their alleged backup of the comments didn't happen either. So

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The Drugging of AmericaThe fifth tributary that helped to create our deluge of disaster is both a cause and an effect of America's social breakdown. This is the numbing of Americans with psychotropic drugs. In 2006, Americans, who make up approximately 6 percent of the world's population, consumed 66 percent of the world's supply of antidepressants. In 2002, more than 13 percent of Americans were

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One of our planet's more interesting places

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Big Brother and Google, A New Partnership(Jaikumar Vijayan, Computerworld, February 4, 2010)Apparently, Google's "Do no harm" motto is no more, because by interconnecting with NSA we now have the world's largest electronic spy organization reading your Gmail and seeing where you've been surfing. I simply don't believe Google's claim that privacy will be protected."Google and N.S.A. are entering

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Are you paying attention? We're being robbed!(Robert Reich, Alternet, 02 February 2010)The notorious Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP) began with a virtual blank check from Congress. Treasury officials then secretly decided which companies were to receive hundreds of billions of dollars. Why these particular entities were chosen and not others remains a mystery. For months, the Treasury

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Just When I'd Almost Given Up All HopeAir Force Academy Gives Pagans, Druids and Wiccans Place To Worship(DAN ELLIOTT, Huffington Post, 02/01/10)The Air Force Academy has set aside an outdoor worship area for Pagans, Wiccans, Druids and other Earth-centered believers, school officials said Monday. ... A double circle of stones atop a hill on the campus near Colorado Springs has been designated

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Daniel Ellsberg ... American HeroThis movie will be coming out soon. Whether or not you know or care anything about the American war in Viet Nam, this story will still inspire you to learn more about what else you haven't been taught in the public school system.

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My lifeline to sanityAlthough I don't get The Daily Show on TV, I watch it on Hulu. And I have to admit that if it wasn't for Jon Stewart I think I'd give up hope. He is most definitely the Walter Cronkite of this age.

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How insignificant we really are

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The Obama "Brand"You know, that sad part to me is that I even though I have never met him, I feel as if I would really like Barack Obama. But he has been such a disappointment to me, ever since his first big reversal on FISA in the summer of 2008, that I can no longer support him ... mainly because I no longer believe him. What a great president he could be if only he did what he said he was

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Why there is a War on "Drugs""War, it will be seen, is now a purely internal affair.... waged by each ruling group against its own subjects, and the object of the war is not to make or prevent conquests of territory, but to keep the structure of society intact."--George Orwell, 1984

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The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology

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Our Hope Is With The Young .... BRAVO!

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Obama Far Outdoes Bush in Escalating War -- The Numbers Will Surprise YouAs the US continues to collapse, the technocrats have already moved on to the next country to rape and pillage. The economic elite don’t have a home country, to them the entire globe is theirs, and the majority of the US can collapse into poverty for all they care, and that’s exactly what they want to happen.The US working

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Obama Lied To Me, And I'm Mad As Hell About ItFor some time now I've been astounded that no major writer was pointing out how seriously different the Obama Administration is from the Obama Campaign. For one, I feel that he lied to me, and it may be the final nail in my coffin of trusting ANY politician again.The link above will take you to MATT TAIBBI's Dec 09, 2009 Rolling Stone article, and I

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Hightower: What Is Obama Getting Us into in Afghanistan?Obama has been taken over by the military industrial hawks and national security theorists who play war games with other people's lives and money. I had hoped Obama might be a more forceful leader who would reject the same old interventionist mindset of those who profit from permanent war. But his newly announced Afghan policy shows he is

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Time for a little hard truthBrzezinski Calls Anti-Corruption Crusade In Afghanistan Hypocritical"Who are we to seriously be preaching [such] a crusade?" he asked. "We have a financial sector that is voraciously greedy and exploitative, to put it mildly. We have a Congress which is not immune to special interests. And we have an electoral system that is based largely on private donations which

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