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December 29, 2019
2020 hindsight.
Prince - 1999 (Remastered) [Full Album]
The Prince Estate, in partnership with Warner Records, presents Prince's timeless album '1999' - remastered for the very first time.
2020 hindsight.
December 29, 2019
Depeche Mode - Pimpf
December 23, 2019
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-ram-dass/ram-dass-psychedelic-drug-pioneer-dies-at-home-aged-88-idUSKBN1YR0KY
Ram Dass, Being Somewhere Else Now. RIP Ram Dass.
The American spiritual leader, yogi, counterculture icon, and Be Here Now author has died. He was 88.
By Joan Duncan Oliver Dec 22, 2019
If there is an enduring figure emblematic of the consciousness revolution of the 1960s and 70s, it is arguably the Harvard professor and LSD researcher-turned-spiritual leader born Richard Alpert but known the world over as Ram Dass. With Timothy Leary, his colleague in the Harvard psychology department, he forever changed a generation of Americans through his explorations with psilocybin, LSD-75, and other psychedelics before reinventing himself as a spiritual teacher and humanitariana bhakti yogi with love as his path. When Ram Dass died on Sunday evening, one of the most beloved voices of the counterculture fell silent. He was 88 years old.
It was Leary who famously exhorted American youth to Turn on, tune in, drop out, but it was Alpert who became a model of awakening that wasnt dependent on drugs. Fired from Harvard in 1963 for giving LSD to an undergraduate, Alpert moved to Millbrook, New York, with Leary, who had been fired ostensibly for not showing up for his classes. In Millbrook, the two continued their psychedelic experimentation with an ever-changing cast of psychonauts and acidheads. But in 1967, Alpert, still searching, left for India. There he found his guru, the Hindu sadhu Neem Karoli Baba, known as Maharaj-ji, characteristically wrapped in a blanket and seated on a wooden tucket, a low Indian bed. Curious to see how a spiritual adept would react to LSD, Alpert gave Maharaj-ji a whopping dose. It had zero effect on the holy man. Over the next few years until Maharaj-jis death in 1973, Alpertby then renamed Ram Dass, or Servant of God, by Maharaj-jiperiodically returned to be with his guru. Resettling in America in 1974, he started a new life based on a different kind of turn-onmeditationand his own synthesis of Buddhist, Hindu, Advaita, and Sufi teachings, and later, Jewish mysticism.
In Be Here Now, Ram Dasss first book for the masses, which has sold over 2 million copies since publication in 1971, he offered seekers an engaging, unconventional, slightly zany roadmap for finding a spiritual path and a more enduring connection to higher consciousness than a tab of acid could bring. From then on, in close to a dozen books and countless teachings, retreats, and podcasts, Ram Dass continued to share the wisdom of a journey that had long gone beyond personal transformation to embrace a cosmic worldview and social agenda.
https://tricycle.org/trikedaily/ram-dass-dies/
By Joan Duncan Oliver Dec 22, 2019
If there is an enduring figure emblematic of the consciousness revolution of the 1960s and 70s, it is arguably the Harvard professor and LSD researcher-turned-spiritual leader born Richard Alpert but known the world over as Ram Dass. With Timothy Leary, his colleague in the Harvard psychology department, he forever changed a generation of Americans through his explorations with psilocybin, LSD-75, and other psychedelics before reinventing himself as a spiritual teacher and humanitariana bhakti yogi with love as his path. When Ram Dass died on Sunday evening, one of the most beloved voices of the counterculture fell silent. He was 88 years old.
It was Leary who famously exhorted American youth to Turn on, tune in, drop out, but it was Alpert who became a model of awakening that wasnt dependent on drugs. Fired from Harvard in 1963 for giving LSD to an undergraduate, Alpert moved to Millbrook, New York, with Leary, who had been fired ostensibly for not showing up for his classes. In Millbrook, the two continued their psychedelic experimentation with an ever-changing cast of psychonauts and acidheads. But in 1967, Alpert, still searching, left for India. There he found his guru, the Hindu sadhu Neem Karoli Baba, known as Maharaj-ji, characteristically wrapped in a blanket and seated on a wooden tucket, a low Indian bed. Curious to see how a spiritual adept would react to LSD, Alpert gave Maharaj-ji a whopping dose. It had zero effect on the holy man. Over the next few years until Maharaj-jis death in 1973, Alpertby then renamed Ram Dass, or Servant of God, by Maharaj-jiperiodically returned to be with his guru. Resettling in America in 1974, he started a new life based on a different kind of turn-onmeditationand his own synthesis of Buddhist, Hindu, Advaita, and Sufi teachings, and later, Jewish mysticism.
In Be Here Now, Ram Dasss first book for the masses, which has sold over 2 million copies since publication in 1971, he offered seekers an engaging, unconventional, slightly zany roadmap for finding a spiritual path and a more enduring connection to higher consciousness than a tab of acid could bring. From then on, in close to a dozen books and countless teachings, retreats, and podcasts, Ram Dass continued to share the wisdom of a journey that had long gone beyond personal transformation to embrace a cosmic worldview and social agenda.
https://tricycle.org/trikedaily/ram-dass-dies/
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-ram-dass/ram-dass-psychedelic-drug-pioneer-dies-at-home-aged-88-idUSKBN1YR0KY
December 23, 2019
Prince and The Revolution working on Another Lonely Christmas
3 iterations of Another Lonely Christmas - Prince
Warning: This Christmas song doesn't sound like anything else and is one of the saddest ever.
Another Lonely Christmas as B-side of I Would Die 4 U
℗ 1984 NPG Records, Inc.
Writer: Brown Mark
Writer: Lisa Coleman
Writer: Matt Fink
Writer: Prince
Writer: Robert Rivkin
Writer: Wendy Melvoin
Parental warning: Explicit lyrics
℗ 1984 NPG Records, Inc.
Writer: Brown Mark
Writer: Lisa Coleman
Writer: Matt Fink
Writer: Prince
Writer: Robert Rivkin
Writer: Wendy Melvoin
Parental warning: Explicit lyrics
Prince and The Revolution working on Another Lonely Christmas
Prince - Another Lonely Christmas - Live - St. Paul Civic Center (12-26-1984)
December 21, 2019
https://twitter.com/ChrisMurphyCT/status/1208418143879794689
https://twitter.com/AshaRangappa_/status/1208411140163813380
Trump Administration Officials Worried Ukraine Aid Halt Violated Spending Law
December 21, 2019
Trumps formal order blocking the Pentagons portion of the aid was nonetheless communicated to OMB by one of his aides on July 12. The first footnote depicting a temporary funding holdup was signed by Sandy on the evening of July 25, the same day as Trumps controversial phone call with Ukraines president, Vlodymyr Zelensky.
During that call, Zelensky said he wanted to continue military cooperation with America and that we are almost ready to buy more anti-tank missiles. Trump responded that I would like you to do us a favor though, and listed two investigations he wanted Zelensky to order: One was about Ukraines alleged support for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and the other was about lucrative business ties that former Vice President Joe Bidens son, Hunter, established with a company in Ukraine.
There was, Trumps ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland has testified, what amounted to a quid pro quo being offered, in which Zelensky could get a White House meeting with Trump and a release of the aid in return for promising the investigations. This was, according to the testimony of Fiona Hill, Trumps top former White House adviser on Russia, the real reason the aid was withheld.
The deferral order signed by Sandy using language worked out with the advice of legal counsel at the Pentagon and OMB stated that the rationale for the holdup was to to allow for an interagency process to determine the best use of such funds. But no such reexamination of the Ukraine spending plan was actually under way, according to key officials, other than frantic meetings aimed at getting the flow of funds started.
https://publicintegrity.org/national-security/trump-administration-officials-worried-ukraine-aid-halt-violated-spending-law/
Trumps formal order blocking the Pentagons portion of the aid was nonetheless communicated to OMB by one of his aides on July 12. The first footnote depicting a temporary funding holdup was signed by Sandy on the evening of July 25, the same day as Trumps controversial phone call with Ukraines president, Vlodymyr Zelensky.
During that call, Zelensky said he wanted to continue military cooperation with America and that we are almost ready to buy more anti-tank missiles. Trump responded that I would like you to do us a favor though, and listed two investigations he wanted Zelensky to order: One was about Ukraines alleged support for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and the other was about lucrative business ties that former Vice President Joe Bidens son, Hunter, established with a company in Ukraine.
There was, Trumps ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland has testified, what amounted to a quid pro quo being offered, in which Zelensky could get a White House meeting with Trump and a release of the aid in return for promising the investigations. This was, according to the testimony of Fiona Hill, Trumps top former White House adviser on Russia, the real reason the aid was withheld.
The deferral order signed by Sandy using language worked out with the advice of legal counsel at the Pentagon and OMB stated that the rationale for the holdup was to to allow for an interagency process to determine the best use of such funds. But no such reexamination of the Ukraine spending plan was actually under way, according to key officials, other than frantic meetings aimed at getting the flow of funds started.
https://publicintegrity.org/national-security/trump-administration-officials-worried-ukraine-aid-halt-violated-spending-law/
https://twitter.com/ChrisMurphyCT/status/1208418143879794689
https://twitter.com/AshaRangappa_/status/1208411140163813380
December 20, 2019
Wind Cave South Dakota, re Klobuchar
A hidden world beneath the prairie
Bison, elk, and other wildlife roam the rolling prairie grasslands and forested hillsides of one of America's oldest national parks. Below the remnant island of intact prairie sits Wind Cave, one of the longest and most complex caves in the world. Named for barometric winds at its entrance, this maze of passages is home to boxwork, a unique formation rarely found elsewhere.
Continue: https://www.nps.gov/wica/index.htm
Bison, elk, and other wildlife roam the rolling prairie grasslands and forested hillsides of one of America's oldest national parks. Below the remnant island of intact prairie sits Wind Cave, one of the longest and most complex caves in the world. Named for barometric winds at its entrance, this maze of passages is home to boxwork, a unique formation rarely found elsewhere.
Continue: https://www.nps.gov/wica/index.htm
December 19, 2019
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-50827603
Homo erectus: Ancient humans survived longer than we thought
By Paul Rincon
Science editor, BBC News website
An ancient relative of modern humans survived into comparatively recent times in South East Asia, a new study has revealed.
Homo erectus evolved around two million years ago, and was the first known human species to walk fully upright.
New dating evidence shows that it survived until just over 100,000 years ago on the Indonesian island of Java - long after it had vanished elsewhere.
This means it was still around when our own species was walking the Earth.
Science editor, BBC News website
An ancient relative of modern humans survived into comparatively recent times in South East Asia, a new study has revealed.
Homo erectus evolved around two million years ago, and was the first known human species to walk fully upright.
New dating evidence shows that it survived until just over 100,000 years ago on the Indonesian island of Java - long after it had vanished elsewhere.
This means it was still around when our own species was walking the Earth.
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-50827603
December 17, 2019
Manafort's cardiac event happened last week, not today after Gates sentencing.
There's a new ABC article out there with a misleading headline.
December 13, 2019
Love on a Blue Train
December 13, 2019
What's Going On, Marvin Gaye - (Official Video 2019)
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