BTW-

Check the Space page- over 100 full resolution space pictures from various sources.

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Excellent!

First- a Mind Freedom News Alert:
(click pics for animation, full size etc.)

MindFreedom International – please forward
Human Rights in Mental Health – 26 Dec. 2008
BELOW, the main weekly newspaper in Eugene, Oregon, USA — home of
MindFreedom International — published a brief article about how
psychiatrist Darrel A. Regier is a link between revising the “label
bible” of psychiatry [...]

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Hey! Check this out!!

First- I want to introduce you to a service offered by someone I know.
From her web page:
Welcome to Blue Pacem.  We offer creative and quality video communication services to empower community at affordable prices.
Ann is own of the most creative people I know. Plus she is a beutiful person with the highest possible integrity. If [...]

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The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna by M

Free e-book (this work is in the public domain, download at will)
But first know these things:

This is huge- I mean really huge. 1260 pages huge. It has not been easy.
I have not found the complete book available anywhere and so compiled it section by section. This could have led to some errors but hopefully only [...]

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Picture Sunday

All pictures, no theme today.
Click for full size-
Martian sunrise from various angles.
Mostly from Mars Orbiter (poorly aligned- the probe is supposed to face the planet surface) and some other probe shots, color enhanced or false color to reveal geology (the Mars Orbiter shots are often released in false color to highlight mineral or water-created features), [...]

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Interview with/ about Ray

Forced Electroshock-
Question: Is “forced treatment” really “treatment” or is it “Torture”?
This is an interview on NPR (click on link):
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98273451
Background (mostly from MindFreedom):
Ray Alerts
(I apologize for repetitive information)
MindFreedom International – 16 November 2008
Ray Human Rights Alert #3: Please Forward
Now see a photo of Ray here:
http://www.mindfreedom.org/shield/ray
    Media ought to ask, “What is Minnesota Governor Pawlenty’s 
position on [...]

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Note: New Page (above)

I’ve added a radio archive for Mad Liberation by Moonlight, starting for this last show (1 am 12/13/08, to be technical).

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Links

Ricks brief annotated webography on recovery and stuff

Interactive Theater-
· Broad access to books, publications and links related to the work of Brazilian playwright Augusto Boal: http://www.tonisant.com/aitg/Boal_Techniques/
· Blog related to Augusto Boal techniques/ Theater of the Oppressed most specific to issues of class and poverty: http://www.tonisant.com/aitg/Boal_Techniques/
· Article on/ review of an interactive performance the University of [...]

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Autobiography of a Friend

Today’s free book: The Autobiography of George Fox, founder of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). And he doesn’t look at all klike the guy on the cereal box. Just who are these Quakers anyway?

Wikipedia says:  The Religious Society of Friends, also known as The Quakers, is a movement that began in England in the 17th [...]

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What was I thinking?

12/09/08
Today on route to work (riding in the vanpool with seven other long-distance
commuters) I was listening on my mp3 player to a talk by the Dalai Lama on the
Heart Sutra. My mind wandered into some thoughts that arose during meeting for
worship at the Friends Meetinghouse on Sunday. These are some of the thoughts
that drifted through:
 
Stillness [...]

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