Rickie Lee Jones' "It Must Be Love": Dare to love

It Must Be Love

It must be love that whispers in my ear It must be love we keep trying Cuz I imagined this kind of wonderful choice I imagine you hear the very same voice When I speak to you You say "That's just my imagination" Oh no, no, no It Must Be Love It Must Be Love Perhaps one girl who was moving in a fine line Finds one boy in back That she can always stand behind And it's you and me Cuz that's where we want to be Oh, It Must Be Love, It Must Be Love People look through everything they see Cuz there's so many other things to be I have seen you walking in the rain I wanted to know why you were crying I wanna fix what's wrong...

It must be love the sailor sails for Must be love that drives a bottle to the bottom of the ocean floor Because I imagine all kinds of wonderful water I would have you there wherever I'll go Way from the seventh sea, He brings the bottle back to me Oh, It Must Be Love Oh, It Must Be Love People look through everything they see There's so many other things to be I have seen you walking in the rain I want to know why you were crying Baby, let me fix what's wrong... It must be love that fathoms the moonlight Must be love that shallows The deepest part of the night So you can show them with your eye The things that make them cry, Because that Must Be Love It Must Be Love... And the way you are Must Be Love And the things you Feel Oh, It Must Be Love, Oh, It Must Be Love Must Be Love

DARE TO LOVE!!!!!!!!! have a great July

The light

    The light at the end of the tunnel.
                                dedicated to Mark.

Alert: The Light at the End of the Tunnel's message

Owl's perfect mimetism

No, it is a butterfly.
It only exists in South America especially in Brazil - known as Caligo Brasiliensis. It is known as "Borboleta-coruja"/ "Owl-butterfly" because the insight-out of it's wing mimics an owl to confuse it' predators.
There are more butterflies with amazing mimetic shapes and I'll publish more of them.
Nature is wise and should be respected but human beings are far from respecting it's own species. I hope nothing happens in the environment making the wonders of nature disappear.

Image Source: Rede Ambiente, Wikipedia.

Neal's Yard Salad Bar in London: colorful corner

Neal's Yard Salad Bar, Covent Garden, London

Sharp-minded Pepe Escobar on "Is Brazil the New United States?"

I just read another great article by Pepe Escobar, "Is Brazil the New United States?" written in 9/29, 2010.
Pepe Escobar is a Brazilian journalist who has lived and worked as a foreign correspondent in London since the mid-1980s. When not on the road he lives between São Paulo, Paris and Bangkok.
A very gifted and sharp minded who speaks with a smile on his face.
Read the article to understand Brazil.
I took this comment from a Brazilian to show how some Brazilian people think about... our country:

Olga Pagu
03:39 PM on 09/29/2010

I don't believe Brazil wants to become the new United States. At least not the present-day United States. Although there are a lot o people sympathetic to the United States in Brazil, most Brazilians look at Europe or Japan as real symbols of development.
Most Brazilians are peaceful and do their best to avoid conflicts, they would never give any support fo an agressive foreign policy. Besides, fair diplomacy is one of Brazil's main characteristics since it was and Empire in the 19th century. I haven't heard of a country of continental size that has expanded its territory without making wars or revolutions, like Brazil did.
We are not interested in other countrie's resources, we're not interested in telling other people what they should do, we are not interested in meddling in other peoples' affairs.
I live in Brazil and I really don't see people wishing us to be "superpowers". Brazilians just want to live and let live. We just want to be able to determine our future as WE (not others) wish and have our sovereign decisions respected.
I don't care if we will be on top of China or not. I just want good public education, universal health care, no more slums, and less corruption. Let the world do their wars, we just want "order and progress". Oh... but I do think Brazil should have atomic weapons. Just in case...

I agree Olga Pagu! Let live.

I'm trying to find a good Biography about Pepe Escobar and the best I found was a post at Mike Booth: The Gringo Chronicles": "Who is Pepe Escobar Anyway?"  Here and here, is a good collection of Pepe's articles who is the author of three books.

"I think you’ll find a new depth and fresh insights into every subject Escobar touches upon. For me it’s like having a curtain drawn back before my eyes. It makes me realize just how timid and limited is the reporting done on the same subjects by the mainstream media."
Mike Booth

"An extreme traveler, Pepe’s nose for news has taken him toall parts of the  globe. He was in Afghanistan and interviewed the military leader of the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance, Ahmad Shah Masoud, a couple of weeks before his assassination (Masoud: From warrior to statesman, Sep 11, 2001). Two weeks before September 11, 2001, while Pepe was in the tribal areas of Pakistan, ATol published his prophetic piece, Get Osama! Now! Or else … (Aug 30, 2001). Pepe was one of the first journalists to reach Kabul after the Taliban’s retreat, and more recently he has explored and reported from Iraq, Iran, Central Asia, US and China …" (continue reading)
World Citizenship Org



Thank you Pepe for being so bright and representing real Brazilian journalism.

Drugwatch: Prescription drug deaths on the rise

This article from DrugWatch portrays the dimension of the harms of prescribed drugs.
It's a must-read since all people will have to face a health problem.
Information is the weapon not to be harmed by medicines that are on the market because of greed but are harmful some in a lethal degree.

Excerpts:
Prescription Drug Deaths On The Rise

The statistics and the facts are staggering: More than 40 people a day across the country die from prescription pain medication overdoses; more and more doctors are getting huge payouts from pharmaceutical companies to promote these drugs; and in the past 10 years, U.S. spending on prescription drugs rose 475 percent.

The relationship between doctors and pharmaceutical goliaths has reached the point of being suspiciously cozy, ethically questionable and life-threatening to unsuspecting patients at risk of drug addiction and death. And those most affected aren’t who you think.

Gone are the days when society’s drug addicts are the strung-out junkies living in crack houses – people you see on the 11 o’clock news. No, many of today’s addicts are your neighbors, church friends and children – maybe even your own children. And many of them got their start from their own trusted physicians.

Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), told Fox News that doctors are handing out narcotics like candy. Some doctors are giving patients prescriptions for narcotics for minor injuries when other medications could work just as well.

“When I went to medical school, we were incorrectly assured, ‘Don’t worry, if patients have short-term pain, they won’t get hooked. That was completely wrong, and a generation of doctors, patients and families learned that’s a tragic mistake."

Painkiller Epidemic

"In November 2011, the CDC, the country’s national public health institute, announced that deaths from prescription drugs more than tripled in the past decade. Nationwide, the most abused medications are narcotic pain relievers like hydrocodone (Vicodin) and oxycodone (OxyContin); depressants like diazepam (Valium); and stimulants such as Adderall. (keep reading)

Name that thing! Things you might not know that have a name

There are some quizzes at the Merriam-Webster site that are very interesting. How do you name the part of the hammer used to take the spike out? There is a name for that.
Take the quizzes here: Name that thing; True or False and Vocabulary quiz are the three types of questions.
Enjoy!
Answer of the images above: Corinthian Column; Bugle; Tasmanian Devil and Cumulus Cloud.

Birds doing bird's stuff

I found this picture without the credits.

Is science free to research? Are there dissents in science?

Science is about truth and with the help of the imagery of laboratories where serious people try experiments with colorful liquids, the glamour of equations that are impossible to understand, the seemingly speed of technological progress some people don't doubt. The mainstream media also helps promoting science as the unquestionable truth.
However receiving money to conduct a research and having a hypotheses accepted as a theory is not that simple.
These paragraphs help us understand what happens.


The New Thought Police – Suppressing Dissent in Science

by Mae-Wan Ho and Jonathan Mathews
Entire article: here.

Excerpts:

"Science has seldom lived up to its ideal as an open, disinterested enquiry into nature, as any scientist who has ever tried to publish genuinely new ideas or findings in the ‘peer-reviewed’ scientific journals will know too well. Nobel Laureate Hans Krebs’ discovery of the metabolic cycle that would eventually bear his name was rejected from the journal Nature. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, another Nobel prize-winning biochemist, never got funded for work on the relevance of quantum physics to living organisms, which is crucial for understanding living organisms and why cell phones may be harmful, for example.

In the course of liberating itself from the Church, the scientific establishment has inherited many of the trappings of fundamentalist religion. There can be but One True Science, and everything else tends to be treated as nonsense or heresy. Within the past 50 years, the suppression of dissent has plumbed new depths, as the scientific establishment is increasingly getting into bed with big business. At first, it was mostly physics and chemistry, now it is pre-eminently biology.

And as corporations are growing bigger and more powerful, so the suppression of scientific dissent is becoming more sophisticated, insidious and extensive. As the scientific and the political mainstream have both come to identify with corporate aims, so their established power structures are brought to bear on squashing scientific dissent and engineering consensus. Witness the seamless way in which the corporations, the state and the scientific establishment are co-ordinating their efforts to force feed the world with GM crops, known to be unsafe and unsustainable, and to offer no proven benefits whatsoever either to farmers or consumers."

Source: psrast org

Morning coffee

Have a great week!

Who is who in humanitarian aid in Syria: understand Syria conflict in four paragraphs

Things get so confused that it is hard to understand who is doing what to who with the help of who.
This article by Tony Cartalucci is very enlightening if you are lost. In two sentences:
US send a couple of armed people to the country and the media says that the people of the country is revolting. They need "humanitarian aid" and a bloodshed is carried.
The people? Good question! They are killed, massacred, tortured in the name of "humanitarian aid". Yes, you understood it correctly. As perverse as it may seems this is what happened to some countries and now in Syria.

I took the last paragraphs of this article from Global Researsh:

CONFIRMED: US CIA Arming Terrorists in Syria
by Tony Cartalucci

"Despite months of the US claiming the "international community" sought to end the violence and protect the population of Syria, the New York Times now admits that the US is engaged in supporting a "military campaign" against the Syrian government aimed at increasing "pressure" on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Efforts to impose an arms embargo on Syria is now revealed to be one-sided, aimed at giving rebels an advantage in the prolonged bloodbath with the intent on tipping the balance in favor of Western proxy-forces - not end the violence as soon as possible as claimed by the UN, and in particular, Kofi Annan.

The Times also reported that Turkey has been directly delivering weapons to terrorists operating in Syria - Turkey being a NATO member and implicating NATO as now being directly involved in perpetuating bloodshed in the Middle Eastern nation. For months, Turkey has been allowing terrorists to use its border region as a refuge from which to stage attacks against Syria.

Despite this, however, the so-called "Free Syrian Army," according to the New York Times, consists of only 100 or so small formations made up of  "a handful of fighters to a couple of hundred combatants," betraying the narrative that the Syrian government faces a large popular uprising, and revealing that the "Free Syrian Army" is in fact a small collection of mercenaries, foreign fighters, and sectarian extremists, armed, funded, and directed by foreign interests solely to wreak havoc within Syria. It should be noted that these terrorist proxies were organized as early as 2007 by the US, Israel, and Saudi Arabia, specifically to enact regime change and transform Syria into a Western client regime.

As the West's propaganda campaign imploded after a torrent of unsubstantiated claims of "massacres" and "atrocities," all unverified, some in fact being revealed as the work of the West's sectarian proxies themselves,  it appears that sidelining Syria in headlines while pursuing a clandestine proxy war is now the tactic of choice for the time being.

For the United States to claim Syria has "failed" to protect it population while simultaneously fueling the very armed conflict it claims it is seeking to end is not only hypocrisy of the highest order, but a crime against world peace - punishable under the Nuremberg precedent."

Read entire article here.
I hope it helps.

Totally incomprehensible signs around the world

Image: by Alice M. Miller next to EuroDisney

Lavender fields in Texas

Lavender fields outside of Fredericksburg, Texas.
America!
Source: JustCarGal. where there are more pictures of the fields.

R.D. Laing a Homage2: Tranquilizers as chemical straight jackets

Ohio State University Conference in 1984 about George Orwells Book 1984
R. D. Laing spoke here. Filmed and produced by moi.

Rain by Oswaldo Goeldi 2

Right: The red umbrella by caleum.
Left: Rain, 1957 by Oswald Goeldi.

I've already done a post with this woodcut by Oswald Goeldi comparing with another picture.
I love it so much that after finding Caleum's photography at DeviantArt I had to put them together.
The photography was shot in Yosemite.

R. D. Laing: a Homage

"There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain."

"We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing."

"We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love."

"Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life."
R. D. Laing


R.D. Laing was born in 1927 in Glasgow, Scotland. At university he become fascinated with hypnosis. In the Btitish Army, as a psychiatrist and Lieutenant, he began to have severe doubts about psychiatry as it was then being practised and the relationship between psychiatrist and patient. These doubts led to the publication of "The divided self". Other books include "The self and others", "The politics of experience" and "The painted bird".


Image: "Knots", by Claire Edwards based on the play by Laing of same name.
"I can remember seeing a play by RD Laing called knots. It was hilarious."
Claire Edwards.

Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary tantalizing introduction

I copied three paragraphs of Lewis Warsh's essay about Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary. I think
that it can help those who have not read the book to know a little of what they are missing.
I hope it helps. Don't forget to search for the term "bovarism".

"Already disappointed with humanity by the age of twenty-two, Gustave Flaubert abandoned the outside world and retired as a hermit to his         

family's estate in the small town of Croisset, France. It was in            

this provincial Normandy setting that he created one of the world's         

great novels, Madame Bovary, and in which he spent most of his life         

almost mystically devoted to literature. Since he was deeply                

affected by stress and believed that a life of activity would damage        

the creative process, he wanted to shut the door, close off all             

distractions, and bury himself in work.  

                                   

"The writing of Madame Bovary dominated Flaubert's life from 1851          

to 1856. On completing the novel, he made no effort to publish it. But      

at his friends' insistence, he sent it to the prestigious Revue de          

Paris, which published Madame Bovary in installments in 1857.
The editors suggested he cut certain "offensive" passages, but the              

author refused. He might have reacted differently if he had known what      

lay ahead. Both Flaubert and his publishers were thrown into court          

on grounds that the novel was morally and religiously offensive to the      

public. Ironically, when the defendants won their case, Madame              

Bovary became a national best-seller." 

                                      

  The book was also recognized as marking a turning point in the            

history of the novel. The combination of realistic detail, objective        

narrative technique, harmony of structure, and language chosen to           

reflect the characters' personalities created a realistic, yet              

beautiful, picture for the reader. Drawing on both the Romantic             

emphasis on inner feelings and the Realist's concern for truth, Madame      

Bovary serves as a bridge between Romanticism and the modern novel."

Madame Bovary had two lovers:


"She repeated, 'I have a lover! a lover!' delighting at the idea as if a second puberty had come to her. So at last she was to know those joys of love, that fever of happiness of which she had despaired! She was entering upon a marvelous world where all would be passion, ecstasy, delirium."
read the book...
Image: Madame Bovary' book clutch by Olympia le tan

Wishful thinking

                                                                                         

Mandarin ducks by Allan Shapiro

I've never seen birds so colored.
It is amazing!