YES! Magazine

Stand Up to Corporate Power
http://www.yesmagazine.org/default.asp?ID=231

We the People, Rising
http://www.yesmagazine.org/article.asp?id=1826

Who Will Rule?
http://www.yesmagazine.org/article.asp?id=1827

Toward a Global Citizens' Movement to Bring Corporations Back Under Control.
http://www.yesmagazine.org/article.asp?id=1843

Living Wealth: Better Than Money
http://www.yesmagazine.org/article.asp?id=1834

YES! http://www.yesmagazine.org/

The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil - by Philip Zimbardo

Philip Zimbardo

LuciferEffect.org

Stanford Prison Experiment


Resisting Influence


- The Lucifer Effect - 1of6 -
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- The Lucifer Effect - 5of6 -
- The Lucifer Effect - 6of6 -

Homepage of Professor Philip G. Zimbardo

Denis Halliday

Who is Denis Halliday?

Speaking at the World Tribunal on Iraq 2005
(World Tribunal on Iraq Condemns U.S. and Britain, Recognizes Right of Iraqis to Resist Occupation)
Speaking at the World Against War Conference Dec 1 2007

Interview with Charley Rose
(Madeleine Albright regarding Oil for Food price)

To speak at Wellesley College 2/4/09

Denis Halliday and John Pilger

What Is It Between Israel & the People of Gaza?

Evaluate:


Through the eyes of Noam Chomsky:

Noam Chomsky: Obama’s Stance on Gaza Crisis “Approximately the Bush Position”
(Note comment from 30 years ago that Israel (Abba Eban) stated intent to target civilians to get them to pressure government to cease to resist.)

Noam Chomsky Dissects the Israeli Invasion of Gaza

"Exterminate all the Brutes": Gaza 2009

Noam Chomsky on Gaza

Search for quotes:
Abba Eban

Wiki

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert

Wiki


More Info:


John Pilger: Holocaust denied
Who is this guy? Will search for more.
The War On Democracy
Website

Get to know both sides and their shadows:

Isra Cast
Haaretz

What Happened to the American Revolution?

Evaluate:
Norman Dodd On Tax Exempt Foundations
(@ 46:19 - Re: Carnegie Purpose - "Carnegie...publically declared steadfast interest was to counteract the departure of the colonies from Great Britain. He was dedicated to putting the pieces back together again...." )

Reece Committee

Ford Foundation

Carnegie Endowment

Authoritarian Crowd Control Techniques -vs- Enlightened Liberty

Is this what the founders meant by freedom and democracy?

The Trap - Adam Curtis documentary - BBC


The Delphi Technique

Using the Delphi Technique to Achieve Consensus

Delphi Technique Google Search

Marshall Rosenberg

Nonviolent Communication Part 1
Nonviolent Communication Part 2
Nonviolent Communication Part 3

The Homeless, Starving Artists and Others and Low Impact Housing

Links of Inspiration :
Kleiwerks International
A Low impact Woodland Home
Cob Housing
Green Building Materials
Cordwood Masonry
Dignity Village
Building With Cob Work Exchange
2nd Half of Life: Intentional Communities
Eco Villages
Foodtopia
Tailgate Market
Solar Car

Life for the homeless and for those who have more to do than contribute their life's energy to someone else's vision does not have to be materially bleak. There is an avant- garde low-impact housing and intentional community movement that could be an answer for them. It could bring dignity and a deeply satisfying way of life, free from the demands of conventional life and containing the enrichment of individual creativity and shared endeavor. This is part of the green movement or permaculture movement.

Imagine a location where the homeless could choose to go to live and to learn a new way of life. Perhaps it would begin in a tent city of no more than a hundred or so people. Together residents and volunteers would work to build a low-impact community, including a community garden, learning to care for themselves while establishing their settlement. They would use natural building materials such as cob or cordwood. And they would use organic permaculture methods of gardening. Using these methods would minimize costs and be earth-friendly, making their endeavors affordable and less costly to taxpayers. They would be blazing a permaculture trail to the future, a path most are not ready to embark upon and the economy is not ready to embrace and afford for the mainstream.

They would also be engaging their natural creative tendencies and therefore enriching their lives. Their homes would be works of art and expressions of individuality, for example. While living within the community they would learn to garden, preserve and cook food, make cheese and natural soap. They would have free range chickens and cows’ milk, perhaps sheep and goats. There would be room to grow for those capable. They might have a tail-gait market or a booth at a farmers market. They could build a soup kitchen to offer nourishment to those who are in need of food. Perhaps it could evolve into a cooperatively owned restaurant that neighboring communities could partake of. Perhaps with green as a theme they could cooperatively own and work within a green enterprise such as building solar panels or putting together (Art Haines) solar car kits, for themselves as well as for a market of those who want to go green without taking up bike riding.

The program would be facilitated by a non-profit or government organization. The idea would be to provide for themselves and then to have surplus to offer to others. They would be developing marketable green skills as well and becoming able to pass on skills to other developing homeless communities.

While living in the community, they would also receive therapy and counseling as needed. Any employable skills would be identified and assistance provided for returning to or entering the mainstream (for those who would want to do so). Arts and craft skills could also be employed, using scrap or donated material for example to create garden art or other art. This could be for enriching the community itself and for sale or trade by the artisans. Clothing crafts could be developed also, knitting, sewing, etc, where artisans are sovereign entities able to sell or trade their wares and reap the profits for themselves instead of working for others. Assistance would be provided in developing and running such self-employment as much as possible. Musical and other creative skills would be encouraged for leisure activities and perhaps to draw people to the potential restaurant, tail-gate market or other endeavors.

This type of housing project could happen in rural or suburban areas and with a few changes could also be adapted to urban settings. Urban or rooftop gardens or natural urban renewal methods of building could then be employed.

Such housing projects could be a safety net should the number of homeless grow due to a failing economy.

Similar communities, with no supervision or government assistance, could spring up built by other groups who have common unconventional interests and life goals. This might be artists, perpetual students, professionals and some impending retirees, for example who would like to move away from dependence and toward an independent and cooperative permaculture future. Such a way of life could parallel contemporary life-styles until the future opens for others to want or need to join the movement, should that take place. As trail blazers they could enjoy a rich life instead of a life of poverty or preoccupation.

Individual Accountability for Crimes Against Humanity

Posted to Change.gov
In response to a question about the Israel vs Hamas problem:
This morning I wrote the following and decided to submit it because it contains ideas:

I think, from the limited information I have, that Israel’s response is unconscionable. While they have a right to defend themselves, I believe they only have a right to target responsible individuals, especially in a population that is apparently 50% under the age of 14 (Kucinich). If money can be spent perfecting weapons of mass destruction, why not methods of surgical warfare, the use of which is restrained by humanitarian standards? They also have a responsibility to cease any inhumane behavior that might instigate retaliation, such as behavior that prevents access to food and clean water by the Palestinian population. When civilians are slaughtered, the event becomes a pit bull fight, where neither party is righteous. And whoever is financing it is a part and source of such evil. The world needs to address barbaric tactics such as creating and stirring monsters as the US and Israel apparently have in regard to Hamas (Ron Paul).

As far as the responsibility of the world goes, I see it as the same as individuals witnessing a crime on the street. On the one hand I do not believe in a (potentially corruptible and tyrannical) body governing the world in the form of a “world government.” It is important for nations to keep sovereignty for moral freedom, as is true for states, cities, communities, families and individuals. Protection of human rights should always be the guiding light of all and all standing guard over each other. Nations must be free to guard against states violating human rights, states free to guard against nations, individuals free to, in solidarity, band together against gangs, etc. Maintaining such moral resolve and sovereignty would help curtail large immoral bodies rising in the world as powerful and offensive armies. I do believe in Nations (and others) responding in concert to curtail such hideous behavior against human beings (so long as individual participation is voluntary and actions circumscribed by humanitarian standards.) What is in order is cooperative actions among nations intending to reign in the evil cancer of offensive war-making by holding individuals accountable for crimes against Peace and against human rights, including financial support crimes.

The governments of Hamas and Israel are both guilty of harming human beings. Both should be held accountable. Individuals, especially those in command, within Hamas and Israel should be arrested and tried publically in a world court, as was Sadam. If arrest is impossible and instead individuals are eliminated surgically, a post-action trial should be held. If the actions are not found justified, those who are linked to an unlawful act should themselves stand trial. Such actions would reign in the use of false flag (and other such insidious) operations to create an excuse for offensive action. It would also turn cost for these psychopathic power struggles away from innocents and in on the individual perpetrators. It would also address the problem of democracies and other systems putting inhumane criminals into power. No matter how criminals get into office, they would be held accountable for their actions. This would remove the need to "come from the dark side" undermining democratic process through black operations.

I have heard that a major hindrance to Peace is the objective of population control trough depopulation in war (not to mention other means). It is possible that population wars are at hand in this case and the innocent are victims of it. I hope that is not true, although Kissinger’s words often erroneously lend credibility to the idea that this is and should be happening. And shamefully many intellectuals over time have spoken of such ideas as acceptable means to an end. (Just google it. Shockingly true!) If depopulation is an objective here, those engaged in such acts are guilty of genocidal crimes against humanity and should be held accountable by the people of the world.

There are certainly ways of dealing with population issues while respecting human rights (including the inalienable natural right of freedom of choice in regard to reproduction, another depopulation avenue). Some examples include informing people of population issues and encouraging social conscience development. Positive encouragement of compassion creates a much more enjoyable social milieu than authoritarian psychological bullying into submission and violation of inalienable natural human rights. It is also a desirable move in social evolution from barbarianism toward ideal human behavior. The innocent of the world are likely to act with conscience toward such matters. If we are going to favor any human traits, it should be social conscience versus sociopathic tendencies toward greed, callous exploitation, manipulation and murder.

This statement contains ideas of mine (and synthesis of ideas of others) that have not stood the necessary fires of criticism that would hopefully hone them toward refinement. Ideas arrive at a particular stage of the creative problem-solving process where there is freedom for the birth of ideas (no matter how seemingly impractical). In that process criticism is part of a subsequent and necessary phase that is initially withheld. The second phase that includes criticism, should be about refining ideas instead of annihilating them). (See the Creative Problem-solving formula of Ned Herrmann in the book The Creative Brain, by Ned Herrmann, and also at Herrmann International).

My Evolving Point of View

I listen to many voices,
observe from many views,
synthesize and often change my mind.
Changing one's mind (contrary to popular myth) is not a vice
but is often a necessary step out of ruin toward destiny.
It is an essential skill.

I ceaselessly endeavor to cultivate
a perpetual state of mental growth and alteration,
sometimes as a matter of survival,
often for the sheer pleasure of it.
My viewpoint therefore is organic,
sometimes troubled or errant, yet often true.
I am resolved never to throw the baby out with the bathwater:
Select the best from every perspective and assemble something new.
That is synthesis, in other words the creative process,
so I was taught long ago by an exceptionally intelligent woman.

And creation is not about right or wrong.
It works for the moment:
often a flower pollinated,
destined to whither
...and hopefully bear fruit
...only to become a flower pollinated,
destined to whither
...and hopefully bear fruit...

I thrive on the intrigue of ambiguity, by the way,
another trait psychoanalytically cultivated.
Tolerance of ambiguity is a most vital life skill.
It promotes psychic integration, mental wholeness,
not to mention sanity.
It is also a key to Peace on Earth
...peace within
...anywhere.

I am a synthesizer,
a conceptual musician or artist.
Art is in the eye of the beholder.
As a human being, sometimes I am a little off key.
No problem.
Living is about the joy of the experience of it.
I am a spiritual existentialist.
I am also a Jungian.

I take a bird's eye view.
I see the forest with an eagle eye,
while potentially slamming into trees I am blind to.
I am holistic and configural.

I am not hierarchical in thought or personal relations.
With the help of such as Erich Fromm, Alice Miller and Karen Horney,
I have endeavored to throw off the Albatross of narcissistic motive,
a counter-cultural, counter-me-generation move.

Free in the aftermath,
I am driven by curiosity, wonder and social concern
...these days anxt.
I aspire to be independent and personally sovereign
(as much as possible),
yet long to live cooperatively
enveloped in solidarity and deeply related.

And I love my people, other peoples, family, friends,
...ancestors and those yet to be born.
I love Mankind, splendid, yet tattered and torn.
I am not afraid to look into the face of demons either
...or recognize them in the mirror,
another crucial life skill.
I love all animal and plant kind and others.
Being born a global nomad,
I have an appetite for the charm of diversity.

I am for biodiversity, including human biodiversity.
I am for Nature, to whom some things belong, exclusively.
Just because the bank robber can pick the lock
doesn't mean he owns the contents.
It is not nice to mess with Mother Nature!
There will be Hell to pay!

When I express my opinion,
I am well aware that it is merely my opinion.
That's a given.
No need to remind me.
So is yours.

I think and speak in the language of Metaphor, a right brain faculty.
I am essentially a right-brainer,
with my left brain properly subdued
and at my service.
If you are very concrete you may not understand.
No problem. Close your ears. Others will listen.

I am living from a core deep within.
I am a human animal,
a complex primate,
a creation of the multifaceted God
...living through and within me
…and everything...everyone.
From a mathematical angle, biologically I am a mongrel.
Yet through a fraction (like a facet of a prism)
the nature of the Cherokee breed shines through (color),
and thus my spirit lives...breathes.
I am Cherokee ...
(with soft whispers of Scottish, Irish, English, French....
...connecting me subtly with the others.)
My gifts of mind and instinct are intact,
awake or awakening and married,
often quarreling yet striving for communion.

I do struggle, however with memory,
episodic memory, names, dates, details, procedure
... We all must struggle with something.
My hippocampus must be shot:
A war wound, I suppose,
perhaps from a combination of sensitivity and stress (trauma).
Life can be a kind of war at times.
Life is also an adventure.
Getting a foothold here and there can be troublesome.
And though I write fluently, I often struggle to speak.
I am often stricken with silence or stammering.
This has been so most of my life, less so in later years.
Perhaps the problem lies in the translation
from configural and metaporical right brain idea
to linear and literal left brain speech.
Perhaps it is an iteration (transferring back and forth) problem:
information lost in tranportation
across the corpus callosum (neural bridge).
And/or perhaps it is due to loss during right to left transfigurationin
and the incongruity of the two (like oil and water).
Patience please. Let me speak!

Imagination is the ocean I swim in.
Freedom is the air lifting the wings of my mind.
I am a Jeffersonian,
a left leaning libertarian,
old style Democratic-Republican,
clinging to the Enlightenment and Liberty
...for dear life.
Liberty or nothing!
It looks like I may also be a democratic socialist,
Or a social anarchist.
At times I am on board as progressive Democrat.

But that is about me
...and those right brainers who lean to the political left.
We should not all be forced into either political mold.
We do not live in a capitalist country
(as PR drives us to believe),
Nor should socialism be imposed.
It is supposed to be a FREE country.
We should be able to co-exist in peace and liberty
...each living according to our own natural patterns
...within protected bounds of inalienable individual rights
...and the rights of Nature.

About half of the human race leans
to the experiential right brain (left wing)
...and half to the material left brain (right wing).
You'll never change the spots on those leopards.
Within those camps there are poles
of autonomy (cerebral) and dependence (limbic),
...all developmentally influenced, in my opinion.
The phenomenon yields its reflection in
...a political compass of dialectical dichotomies
...inherent in the HBDI measure of brain dominance
and Carl Jung's four functions, as seen in the MBTI.
The resolution:
Full development of potential (Fromm).
harmonization and cooperation (Hermann),
transcendence of dialectical dichotomies (Jung)
...yielding generative creativity versus consumptive destruction.
Accept and protect diversity: Live in peace.
(Black Elk's Vision.)
(These concepts are the passion of my soul.)

Creation thrives on freedom;
otherwise it smothers.
I am anti-authoritarianism.
Authoritarianism is a most vile human attitude,
utterly snuffing out creativity
and often breeding the nefarious Lucifer effect.
(Check out LuciferEffect.org)
Legitimate authority,
democratically established (and answerable),
within the bounds of inalienable and supreme
individual human rights,
can be a necessary tool.
As is the case with most isms,
authoritarianism is a weapon of tyranny.
Tyranny is always The Enemy.
So I learned near the heartbeat
of Jefferson and the American Revolution,
in public school in Virginia, long ago.

I march to the beat of a different drummer, deliberately,
as the creative ones invariably do.
I think for myself.
I think, therefore I am not anyone else.
Who are you?
Someone else, surely.
Marvelous!
Let me disentangle my mind for a moment
and explore the wonders of your world.

We are similar in many ways, yet delightfully different!
Cells differentiate to combine, synchronize and form the gestalt
...yet another differentiation within a whole universe
...within universes.
Vive le difference!
One for all...All for one!

I am open to suggestion
(food for thought).
Conversation welcomed.

Salaam.
Shalom.
Mitakuye Oyasin.

Ned Herrmann

Pioneer of creative thinking
The creative brain - War or Peace?
HBDI_Movie
Herrmann International - USA

Carl Jung

C. G. Jung Page
C. G. Jung Society of the Triangle
The Asheville Jung Center

North Carolina Society of Jungian Analysts

Lexicon

Defense of Individuality & The Danger of Human Kind

Carl Jung speaks about Death

hEyOkA mAgAzInE

hEyOkA mAgAzInE Website

Thunderbird and Heyoka, the Sacred Clown