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The Introduction please....

William — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:37:08 GMT

Hello everyone,

just thought I'd introduce myself. My name is William, I'm an older student at Sarah Lawrence College, and it seems as if my life is spent taptaptap at the keyboard.

God I love words!

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Conspiracy History compilation DVDs torrents

History — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:31:11 GMT

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Greetings to all my relations.

This is the last step of our project History Watch. If History is
defined and known by the texts, we can now add to this definition the
recorded events of the filmed archives. Animated images are harder to
deny than printed words. Our objective is to spread out freely some of
the little broadcast, even hidden informations about our collective
History.

We put online a collection of 391 documentaries and other selected and
recut videos, to offer to a wide public the best of the infos
available on the net in english and in french. If you are interested,
you have the time, the right equipment and connection, all you have to
do is open the joint document and decompress it if needed (but normaly
your system should do it automaticaly). You'll find therein nine links
that will open the torrents for the nine DVDs we compiled (around 4.6
Gig each, for a total of a little over 41 G, being over 100 hours of
videos).

Otherwise, you can go directly to btjunkie.com and search for these titles.

11 Septembre 2001 - 9-11
Bush family & friends
Capitalist & Communist regimes
Capitalist conspiracy
Mind Kontrol - Secret Programs
New World Order - Secret Societies
Secret services - cover up - covert ops
Secret weapons - UFO
Terrorism Theories propaganda

Torrents are a system of peer to peer data transfer. The more people
download a torrent, the faster it spreads and the longer it stays on
the net. If you don't have a bittorrent software, we suggest that you
download uTorrent on utorrent.com. If you want to participate in
facilitating the diffusion of these infos about our collective
History, download these torrents on as many computers as possible,
whether it is in cybercafes. It takes one or two minutes to open up
the links and the downloading will keep proceeding on its own.

Please spread this out, take part in this action for social education
on a planetary scale. Thanks.

For more info: watch.history@gmail.com History Watch

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Need short (short) original angel stories or quotes

MidnightOrchid — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 15:31:21 GMT

I'm working on a project and would like to have 12 to 20 three to five sentence long angel stories. If the project were successful I would buy more.

Willing to pay .50 per story accepted. If you’re interested contact me for more details.

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PRESS STATEMENT: Revised 12.06.2007, Black File 7001, Freelance Journalist inside the Federal Witness Protection Program as a Non-Criminal Federal Witness.

Lee Vin Bah — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:35:18 GMT

PRESS STATEMENT: Revised 12.06.2007, Black File 7001, Freelance Journalist inside the Federal Witness Protection Program as a Non-Criminal Federal Witness.

Freelance Journalist inside the Federal Witness Protection Program as a Non-Criminal Federal Witness. “Black File 7001” is a work of investigative journalism that initially began in 1994. Early in 1999, I completed a covert assignment with the FBI lasting five years after having been previously requested to stand-down from a fulltime university curriculum with an inactive law enforcement background for possibly twelve months. Immediately thereafter I entered the Federal Witness Protection Program (WitSec) and ever since have continued to experience the U.S. government’s use of psychological torture practices and political retribution by the named agents and agencies of the U.S. government under the Bush-Cheney administration. Multiple actionable offenses have been committed under state, federal and international law while the culpable agents and agencies remain shielded from civil and criminal prosecution by the administration’s threat or issuance of national security letters, which prevent legal discovery and subvert the rule of law. The U.S. government does torture, I am one of its American victims and am requesting a humanitarian intervention before it is too late.

EDITORIAL FOREWORD:

Producing the report titled “Black File 7001” has experienced the threat or issuance of national security letters by the Bush-Cheney administration, a subordinate agent directly under the administration threatening me with the invention of a criminal charge if I publish and the suppression of this story by the same Democratic Congress that falsely promised an end to the money laundering operation in Iraq that remains perpetuated by the insidious genocide of our American military service members and other innocent human beings throughout the world.

As a former lifelong humanitarian member of what use to be the Republican Party until 2000 and a person who also voted for Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, I charge the neoconservatives with having filled the bowels of this Trojan Horse Republican Party with the stench of operating a continuing criminal enterprise under the guise of bringing democracy to the world.

The U.S. government infrastructure has been overthrown and this administration has declared constitutional civil war against the United States of America. The American people must organize in a lawful and peaceful revolution that mirrors and surpasses the civil rights era. We must march on Washington, D.C. and picket the corporate offices of the propaganda ministries to force their coverage of your protests and displayed messages.

It is critically important that before the next election we must demand Democratic Congressional members to openly support publically funded elections; not for profit universal healthcare; free or affordable higher education for all citizens; the meaningful development alternative fuel sources; the abatement of the conditions causing the honey bee populations from disappearing from around the world (later in the primary story I will invite you to read why noticing the smallest of G-d’s creatures holds the largest messages); and the criminal investigation of the named agents and agencies of the U.S. government under the Bush-Cheney administration regarding the Black File 7001 report.

Career politicians, regardless of political affiliations who fail the muster of the American people should be removed and replaced with genuine representatives before the next voting cycle.

Americans must become the partisans of liberty to reclaim the dream and promise of America and our inalienable rights as human beings. The jackbooted fascists of today must be prevented from emulating the treason of U.S. Senator Prescott Bush through their perversion of peace for the profits of war. The American mainstream has already been herded towards the invisible and tangible death camps of democracy. In those places you will endured conditions far worse than any physical torture where other Americans like me have been left for dead for over thirty years. These human beings of whom I speak are not criminals or terrorists; they are honorable American citizens who answered their country’s call to duty for special covert government service only to become a disposable population and the hidden dirty secret of the U.S. government.

Since 1970, one thousand and eighty (1,080) American citizens have existed as something cousin to death camp victims from the destructive effects of the Federal Witness Protection Program. These non-criminal federal witnesses and American veterans of voluntary covert government service became the unknowing test subjects in a clandestine torture experiment that exists as the precursor model for converting a freethinking U.S. civilian population into a self-consuming enslaved society. Within the death camp known as “WitSec” these human beings are subjected to the insidious methods of psychological torture that systematically erode the individual sense of self-identity until the will to live has been lost.

ABOUT ME:

My WitSec No. is 7001, I am a husband, father, writer, and freelance journalist who remained inside the Federal Witness Protection Program as a Non-Criminal Federal Witness and am now ready to surface under guarded conditions with the firsthand story of how a minority group of honorable American citizens are being psychologically tortured and politically persecuted by the U.S. government. Immediately I am seeking the support of the American public and progressive news media; the representation of a listed creative agent; contract negotiations with book publishers and the motion picture industry; a university initiative with an accredited school of journalism to include lecturing options and the sanitized conversion of my college records; and communication platforms with Ms. Oprah Winfrey and Mr. George Clooney via the Smoke House Studio.

By comparison to the physical injuries that I have endured from trauma and other accidents, the lasting effects of psychological torture are far worse. This form of torture is sourced from the fascist mindset of the named agents and agencies of the U.S. government under the Bush-Cheney administration through their commissions of actionable offenses and political retributions. As a veteran of voluntary covert government service who operated undercover for five years while contracted by the FBI as an agent of the federal government, I state unequivocally and categorically that the U.S. government does torture human beings. As an American citizen and non-criminal federal witness let the record show that I am declaring myself as a torture victim of the U.S. government. With my soul dying and the body giving signs that it wants to follow I offer that no truer words have ever been written than “give me liberty or give me death” or that “the worse death is a life without hope.”

Having previously been blessed with an out of body experience during trauma that was caused by the U.S. government and prior to my recovery in advance of relearning how to walk, I am not frightened by a natural death. The experience of dying for me confirmed the Socratic belief that the human soul is made of two parts with one half being a physical finite and the other a non-physical infinite. Life as seen from the eyes of the body is an illusion or one half of a duality. It was possible to see from two separate and paralleling perspectives at the same time. The physical world appeared normal while my body felt the tremendous force of being pulled into the earth. Initially from within the spiritual realm there was no ugliness, no beauty, no gender, and only muted colors with humanoid forms. Before I lost the sight of my physical body, the last human emotion that I felt was an all encompassing global pity that literally enveloped the earth with my living sentient energy. Soon I was sitting in space and the beauty of the earth returned with the comforting tenderness of a loving mother and at my back was the warmth of wisdom and strength from a fatherly sun. A few moments passed and my two halves were made whole again to continue the journey that brought me to this place of inhuman suffering.

In self-definition I am a Humanitarian-Universal-Infrastructuralist or a person who has spent a lifetime identifying and interrelating the commonalities between myself and all known sentient beings and other components within the universe from which to become more human.

My views of the current U.S. President and Vice President find them culpable for treason, egregious crimes against humanity and international terrorism while wearing a mask of insipid divinity. Clearly these judicially selected ten cent millionaires are criminal sociopaths who function from a series of learned behaviors used to produce a desired result while being incapable of recognizing any genuine sense of right and wrong.

These individuals and their followers bare the marks that brand their names with the gamatria of the most inhuman and deceptive beings that walk among us on the earth in legion with what some would call the antichrist. Although I have never considered myself worthy of the blessings, respectfully I believe that throughout my life there have been a number of occasions when my being was touched by the many faces of G-d. With all of that said, one should never confuse spiritual currency with political capitol since the latter is most often sourced from the abyss of false profits, which brought the genocide over six million Jews, Gypsies and homosexuals in Nazi Germany; the slaughter of tribal nations in America; the turning of human beings against their brothers and sisters throughout history; the selling of children, women and men as slaves; the gang rape and victimization of Arabic women who are then whipped as criminals; and the 911 terrorist attacks used to perpetuate war profiteering and oil piracy for those who drink from a rivers of human blood and suffering. Considering my temporary acquaintance with death, I believe the purest form of spiritual worship that collectively joins us with the universe is simply the individual act of at least attempting to recognize the human being in all people.

BLACK FILE 7001:

“Black File 7001” is a work of investigative journalism that began in 1994 as an academic prospectus with the goals of publishing books, producing movies, film documentaries, and developing a lecture syllabus with the thinking who better to teach than a person with skin in the game. While in a fulltime academic setting and shortly after beginning this protect, I discovered actionable intelligence that was brought forward for case installation at the federal level. Already possessing an inactive law enforcement background and specialized skill sets where few if any training manuals exist, the FBI requested my voluntary assistance for a projected twelve months. Five years later I completed the FBI undercover group one investigation having successfully penetrated four organized crime groups while never being afforded one day off for that entire period of time. Since other federal law enforcement agencies are not equipped to handle long duration personal security operations, I entered the Federal Witness Protection Program (WitSec) as a Non-Criminal Federal Witness in 1999. Nearly immediately after entering the WitSec the named agents and agencies of the U.S. government under the Bush-Cheney administration unthinkably began outing my active covert status. Since exiting the WitSec in good standing early in 2001, political retributions by the U.S. government have continued to terrorize me with actionable offenses and the tactics of psychological torture. These culpable acts additionally serve as a passive sanction for the assassination of an American citizen and a former covert agent of the federal government. This story is uncharted territory and I am unaware of any other writer/journalist who has actually penetrated this fraudulent clandestine federal program, which shrouds itself beneath an undeserved veil of secrecy that exists in the absence of public scrutiny and meaningful congressional oversight. The latter might explain why multiple action notices regarding this investigation have gone unanswered by the craven Democratic Congress that I helped elected to office with their false promise of ending the corporatist money laundering operation in Iraq.

Within the next 30 day or by New Year’s Day 2008, I will publish an extensive sanitized report that has been redacted from a much larger work. Please communicate with me and contact your local election campaign committees to demand that your congressional members take action in this matter.

American citizens are being used as the unknowing test subjects in a clandestine torture experiment shrouded within the Federal Witness Protection Program (WitSec). Non-Criminal Federal Witnesses (1,080) are a special minority class of American citizens in title only who are being used as a laboratory control sample for the applied tactics of terrorism and psychological torture (psyops) on a U.S. civilian population by the U.S. government.

Writing remains one of my two fragile anchors holding me to this world and a federal agent (L.H.M.) directly under the Bush-Cheney administration has telephonically communicated “you have a lot of people in high places afraid to death that you are going to destroy their programs…and if you publish a book, the government will invent a criminal charge against you.” After refusing not to publish with an invitation to that federal agent’s handlers to “go pound salt up their asses”, a series of actionable offenses were committed against me in political retribution under state, federal and international law. These same entities on several occasions have outed my classified status that with each culpable act, serves to intensify what has become a standing passive sanction for the assassination of an American citizen and former covert agent of the federal government.

As a physically disabled person from two trauma accidents caused by the federal government or incurred in the line of duty during covert government service, I applied for Social Security Disability Benefits (SSDB) through the required classified channels. This process required that I utilize my second WitSec Inspector (A.S.) and the Social Security Administration’s Sensitive Operations Division (SOD) that was established for persons in covert-ops, the CIA and the U.S. State Department working oversees. The Social Security Disability Benefits were authorized, but following my refusal not to publish the WitSec and SSA’s SOD conspired to punitively withdraw my SSDB. This occurred prior to beginning treatments for Hodgkin’s Lymphoma cancer in 2004. The government’s own federal court judge who heard the SSA case issued several letters of complaint to the Sensitive Operations Division, charging that office had provided the court with erroneous information and that the SOD’s delay in responding was contemptuous to the point of preventing a fair hearing. Two months past while the SOD and WitSec crafted their evidence and my SSDB’s claim entered the appeals stage. During the initial SSDB process, repeated telephonic conversations had been made with and between the WitSec and the SOD to insure that the production of the SSA documents would not out my covert status. After multiple assurances that complete security would be maintained, the WitSec and SOD deliberately or at the least through total gross incompetence filed documents that outed my covert status by commingling my identities in violation of several federal laws and a federal court seal. After the matter was sent to the SSA Hearing and Appeals Board where it remained for two years that federal agency notified my private attorney they had lost my classified government file in violation of the same laws allegedly protecting my covert status. A copy was returned by my attorney and two weeks later my benefits were denied again. The SSDB matter is pending on civil appeal to the federal court where I am certain it will be again denied by the government’s crafting of the evidence. Lastly the WitSec and SOD conspired to deconstruct my only viable work history by purging a covert front business located in Texas from the regular SSA computer system and additionally failed under contract to sanitize and convert my previous Social Security records into my new Jewish name. Allegedly I had been employed by that Texas front business for over a decade as a construction estimator that for all I knew might have found Dick Cheney answering the telephones on an earlier occasion. Following the WitSec and SOD’s punitive acts of political retribution, during two subsequent visits to the local SSA office the computer screen was so void of information that the office staffers contacted their supervisors to report they believed their computer system had been penetrated by hackers.

Prior to 911 and before the USDOJ had been prostituted by this corrupt administration, I was able to assist in the covert criminal prosecution of my first U.S. Deputy Marshal/WitSec Inspector (J.D.) for his theft of government funds.

After 911 and following my refusal not to publish under threat of the invention of a criminal charge by the U.S. government that same former WitSec Inspector/federal felon was released from prison and allowed to stalk me. While near death from chemotherapy and radiation treatments for Hodgkin’s Lymphoma cancer that same federal felon physically accosted me by the arm inside of a warehouse superstore. Thirty-six security notices went unanswered by the U.S. Marshals Service’s Federal Witness Security Program Headquarters.

The second WitSec Inspector (A.S.) eventually came to my home with a regular deputy marshal who did not have a WitSec security clearance, which further outed my covert status and sarcastically laughed that he had forgotten to tell me that the WitSec Headquarters’ mailing address had been changed after 911 and that under the new U.S. Patriot Act my only means of communicating with headquarters was directly through him. That WitSec Inspector continued to smile while stating that my classified information and security notices had been circulated by several staffers without WitSec clearances before it got to where I thought it was being sent. When asked about the other Deputy Marshal’s security clearance, the WitSec Inspector stated “owe I use non-WitSec personnel all the time to handle WitSec matters.” This same WitSec Inspector has committed multiple actionable offences and has outed my covert status numerous times while creating a growing mortal threat environment around my geographic location.

Many of the public self-aggrandizing claims and testimonials given before the U.S. Congress and published by the Federal Witness Protection Program will soon be debunked within my Black File 7001 report.

Following the WitSec and SOD’s removal of my work history with their deletion of the covert front business from the SSA computer system and even though I am a very capable and multitalented individual with strong skill sets, given this act and the government’s failure to perform under written contracts, I have been unable to find employment after submitting over 3000 job applications. However by comparison and in direct contrast to my own personal situation, the first WitSec Inspector (J.D.) after his release from federal prison for the theft of several thousand dollars in U.S. government funds is now gainfully employed and processing the private financial records of American citizens as a mortgage loan officer. Under this administration criminals and traitors are rewarded and the good servants of the American people become part of a disposable population.

Out of 18,000 federal witnesses, 16,920 are criminal and custodial federal witnesses and 1,080 of that total number are “non-criminal federal witnesses.” The six percent who are non-criminal federal witnesses are comprised of honorable American citizens from every cultural identity within our society. These same veterans of voluntary covert government service took that extra step above and beyond the call of duty to participate in our system while defending our constitutional democracy and the American people. Within that minority of six percent I am an even smaller number of non-criminal federal witnesses who entered covert government service with an inactive law enforcement background and specialized skill sets of a nature that possess few if any training manuals.

The ACLU of which I am a member has tried to bring four previous cases involving non-criminal federal witnesses through the Washington, D.C. office. With each lawsuit brought by the ACLU, the Bush-Cheney administration has issued national security letters to prevent the legal discovery of evidence and thus subverted the rule of law. However, in my possession is the actual physical evidence that includes but is not limited to federal court documents proving the outing of my covert status; the federal court documents of the first WitSec Inspector (J.D.); lawfully produced audiotape recordings of WitSec personnel and others; and the proof of warrantless wiretapping, data mining, the electronic theft of intellectual property; et al. One should remember General Douglas MacArthur’s island hopping campaign during WWII. As that relates to this matter, I am bypassing a slugfest with Goliath that would only serve to hold me in stasis with my foot in the courtroom door. Instead I invite all freethinking human beings to a Greek debate in the court of public opinion. Criticism and contemplation are necessary to keep a flourishing democracy alive. Let the U.S. government bring forth its best criminal cowards to stand on the square with me in open examination before the American people and the world.

THE TREASON OF CONDOLEEZZA RICE:

It is also my intention to challenge the blatant lies told before the U.S. Congress by Condoleezza Rice regarding the administration’s knowledge of events prior to 911 – the FBI and CIA did have operational joint counterterrorism taskforce offices since the mid 90s.

“A litany of lies about 911, Iraq and now Iran – There is one point that I am compelled to insert within this document beyond the scope of its primary focus and here seems as good a place as anywhere. A covert FBI Special Agent and former teammate in charge of two special operations groups who worked in the field with me and whom I supported in the hunt for Eric Robert Rudolph also known as the Olympic Park Bomber, revealed during the mid 90s that both the FBI and CIA had established joint counterterrorism taskforce offices to exchange foreign and domestic intelligence. This fact directly contradicts Condoleezza Rice’s testimony before congress regarding the August 6, 2001 PDB Briefing Report titled “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.”, during which Rice stated that a fractionalization existed between federal agencies, which prevented intelligence information from being communicated to the Bush administration. The most blatant lie came when Rice stated that no joint FBI/CIA taskforce offices existed before or during that time, while alleging joint taskforce offices were being established forthwith. Further supporting a charge of perjury against Condoleezza Rice and I believe grounds for treason, appears to be former CIA Director, George Tenet’s public testimony regarding actionable intelligence in July 2001 regarding Osama bin Laden’s plan to attack American targets using commercial jetliners. July 2001 marked the last time that I flew on a commercial aircraft on my way to lecture at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia and an occasion when I exchanged passing remarks with former U.S. Senator Gary Hart sitting near me. The actionable intelligence was clearly suppressed by the Bush-Cheney administration. In other words, given these facts and the known associations between the 911 Terrorists; the family of Osama bin Laden; the Saudi Arabian Royal family; the United Arab Emirates (poised to purchase 25% of Citibank and 40% of the U.S. and British Stock Markets); and the oil trading partners, personal friends and business associates within the Bush-Cheney syndicate it appears that the United States of America was allowed to be attacked by a foreign enemy to act as a protagonist event for the perpetuation of war profiteering and oil piracy. Therefore I strongly believe that if the unveiled enemies of the American people were not politically shielded, they would have already been prosecuted for treason, conspiracy, racketeering, money laundering, operating a continuing criminal enterprise, international terrorism, and crimes against humanity.”

SPECIAL NOTE CONCERNING IRAN:

Before the 2006 election the U.S. Intelligence agencies already knew that Iran did not have a “secret nuclear weapons program.” That report was presented to the Bush-Cheney administration and was politically suppressed with instructions given between the lines to craft new evidence. The facts are that Iran’s nuclear enrichment program has not been able to achieve a greater rate than 3.8% enrichment, which is even a lower percentage than what is required to bring a peaceful nuclear power plant online and far less than the enrichment level needed to produce a nuclear weapon. The psychology of substituting sexuality for the creation of illegal wars with oil rich sovereign nations, seems the iconic aphrodisiac of this administration when laminating that over sixty-eight elected Republican politicians have been charged and convicted of sexual crimes against children; that George W. Bush, a known cocaine user (sexual stimulant), deserted his post in the Air Nation Guard when they began drug testing; that both Bush and Cheney took multiple deferments from military service during Vietnam so that other Americans could die in their places; that Dick Cheney made use of a Freudian phallic extension in the form of a shotgun to shot his friend in the head during a hunting expedition; that Dick Cheney has a pneumatic penile implant to achieve an erection; and that the nude photograph of George W. Bush in college displays an unremarkable penis. Add these factors together with the absolute power over the U.S. military and the world will recognize a six headed monster with twelve hearts that numbers 666 and produces the political fodder that destroys the sovereign thought process, creates a toxic society and consumes the collective human soul. Plainly stated devil cannot exist without followers.

MY REQUEST TO MEDIA, UNIVERSITIES, PUBLISHERS, MOVIE PRODUCERS, AND THE WORLD OF HUMAN BEINGS:

While my reaching out might become the closing scene in a lifelong journey to become more human, knowingly I choose my own death over remaining a torture victim and slave within an uncultivatable existence where self-nurturing and remaining true to one’s own nature is an impossibility. The Democratic Congressional members that I helped elect have remained silent with the full knowledge of this matter and only a handful of good human beings seem to be listening for the moment. Already a subordinate federal agent directly under the Bush-Cheney administration has telephonically threatened that if I publish a book the government will invent a criminal charge against me. This is not the America that I defended and have nourished. Nevertheless if we are to remain a world of human beings, we the people must publically exam the U.S. government’s ongoing psychological torture of up to 1,080 Non-Criminal Federal Witnesses who are American citizens and your good neighbors. Currently I have established online locations on YouTube, Tribe.net, Comcast, and have posted on the message board at The Ed Schultz Show website where these American citizens can share their stories with other human beings and possibly begin to reclaim their individual sense of self-identity through these communication platforms. One non-criminal federal witness has already communicated they are hiding outside the U.S. to protect themselves from U.S. government torture. Recently I attempted to communicate with a well known actor’s movie studio and was informed that I must have a listed creative agent to represent my story before they will be legally able to communicate with me. Therefore and in as much that I would dare to hope to restore my own life back to the place where it should have already been, I am seeking the representation of a listed Creative Agent, Business Negotiations with members from the Publishing and Motion Picture Industries, and a University Initiative from an accredited School of Journalism where I might combine all of these components within a flourishing academic setting to create a lecture syllabus and continue writing. Please do not think me a selfish person, because I have remained one of the most extroverted and giving human beings you could ever know. This academic and professional prospectus has endured as my long-range plan since beginning this journalism project and is one of the few reasons why I have not ended my own life after experiencing something cousin to an extraordinary rendition to a clandestine blacksite torture facility that exists invisibly within the plain-sight of American society. Please do not let this story die with me and challenge the validity of any member of the Democratic Congress for their repeated failures to respond to several action notices regarding this matter.

Beyond the above I wish to offer one final piece of personal information. When I relocated to this area I had no intention of becoming involved with anyone and had anticipated reclaiming my academic standing to achieve my goals in life. While visiting a local bookstore and coffee house, I met the finest human being whom I have ever known and today that person is my wife. Together we raised our young child from her previous marriage and I have been blessed by the experience of being a father. Had it not been for my wife’s medical insurance I would not be here today writing this story. My wife retires at the end of this year and our child is now attending a university. What that means for me living on a fixed monthly annuity income and having been waited out by the WitSec while my saving depleted is that I will not be able to afford the additional $600.00 a month for my portion of the medical insurance policy. Further I have been unable to move in any direction to build the life that I wanted from the resulting harms caused by the WitSec cocoon that I will address in detail within the redacted report that follows. To protect my family and legally separate myself from my wife in the event of recurring illness, I am preparing to file the divorce papers on my desk. Never will I forgive or forget that the U.S. government under the Bush-Cheney administration has systematically deconstructed my family and prevented my equality as a person and an American citizen while psychologically torturing me in ways that have already killed other Americans who are non-criminal federal witnesses through suicide and medical neglect. This deconstruction of my family unit is comparatively symbolic to the overthrow of the U.S. government infrastructure by the international crime consortium and the same coconspiratorial war profiteers who attacked the United States of America on September 11, 2001. Having lived so long as the shell of an American citizen in title only, if I am unable to be made whole again in America, then as a torture victim and dissident under political persecution I am prepared to request asylum from the government of Canada. Should that fail and if I cannot be restored then I am ready to leave this world for the peace of oblivion and wish each of you mozel tov.

THE QUESTION HAS BEEN ASKED BY A GROWING NUMBER OF HUMAN BROTHERS AND SISTERS, WHAT CAN WE DO TO HELP YOU?

First please do not attempt to send any money I believe that it is possible to earn a living with the years invested in this story and I prefer paying my own way, which has remained the purpose of my labors while enduring U.S. government torture. Profoundly from a place of extreme isolation your concerns are priceless gifts that have touched me deeper than words could possibly express and I truly feel your human warmth and compassion.

Beyond that human inclusion the most important act of support is not to let this story die from a lack of response or another empty promise by the congress just so this matter will be “disappeared” like the 1,080 American patriots who are non-criminal federal witnesses in the Federal Witness Protection Program. Please meditate for the good energy of the universe to encompass the lives of all human beings and continue to contact any person or organization who will if nothing else at least feel the truth of this torture story: Democratic Party headquarters around the nation; elected representatives who truly wish to remain in office; U.S. and international human rights organizations; members of the progressive news media (The Ed Schultz Show, Air America Radio, Democracy Now, The Nation Magazine, I.N.N. International News Net, Studs Terkel, the ACLU, Civil Rights Attorneys; etc.); the free and independent sovereign nations of the world (Vancouver BC, Canada, UK, Italy, Spain; etc.); the International Court of Justice aka the World Court and Cour internationale de Justice; and any other conduit of communication that might wish to know, share or actuate this true story.

Ms. Oprah Winfrey and Mr. George Clooney are two people whom I admire for their humanitarian and creative contributions to the world. With their support this story will not be silenced and human lives will be saved. Please send each of them “one” simple note requesting their support of the “Black File 7001” story and include my website and e-mail addresses. The movie “Syriana” spoke to me at a very personal level with Bob’s betrayal by the government he served that ultimately resulted in his death. Oprah Winfrey's all-girl leadership academy in South Africa is only one of the endless humanitarian contributions made to the world by this great human being. The education system has played a significant part of my life with a trilingual professional educator in my immediate family, a child currently attending a university and my own employment with the FBI in the third year of a fulltime academic curriculum. The purpose of that covert government service was initiated to prevent national and international organized crime organizations from distributing methamphetamine within the public school systems and throughout the United States of America.

For a time I prevented the false prophets who professed a love of children and humanity from preying on the innocent, but the “war on drugs” like the “war on terrorism” are only political mantras meant to perpetuate and fatten the cash cows of government profiteers.

PLEASE CONTACT MR. GEORGE CLOONEY WITH ONE LETTER ONLY:

Agent:
Mr. George Clooney
C/o Bryan Lourd
Creative Artists Agency
2000 Avenue of the Stars
Los Angeles, CA 90067
424.288.2000
424.288.2900 fax

Publicist:
Mr. George Clooney
C/o Stan Rosenfield & Associates
2029 Century Park East
Suite 1190
Los Angeles, CA 90067 USA
310.286.7474
310.286.2255 fax

Movie Studio:
Smoke House
Attn: Mr. George Clooney
C/o Warner Bros.
4000 Warner Blvd., Bldg. 15
Burbank, California 91522 USA
818.954.4840
818.954.4860 fax

PLEASE CONTACT MS. OPRAH WINFREY WITH ONE LETTER ONLY:

The Oprah Winfrey Show
Attn: Ms. Oprah Winfrey
http://www.oprah.com/email/email_landing.jhtml

BLACK FILE 7001 CONTACT INFORMATION:

E-mail:
BlackFile7001@comcast.net

Tribe.net:
http://people.tribe.net/49395906-0c49-4c98-b92a-79f37b7927cb

You Tube:
http://www.youtube.com/BlackFile7001

Comcast: Currently blocking my ability to establish a website online.

The Ed Schultz Show (Message Boards – “The Media” Section)
http://www.bigeddieradio.com

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Become a part of "bAbeL - art project"

seipone — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:18:56 GMT

Dear brothers and sisters,

i study art therapy in Germany and work on the arty part of my diploma at the moment - and i invite you to support my work “ babel“!
Babel is about the try to cancel the moment of disintegration, it is about identity, community,structure and the basic needs of human beings and it is about you as well, when you join this project;
Please send me one article of your clothing, which you don`t need
anymore (it doesn`t matter if there is a mark on it, a cut in it, the
zipper is not working anymore etc.) and a word (in your language, a
word, which you like, which you don`t like, which you use often or
never, it can be a name, too) to this adress :

Sandra Becker
Hunscheidtstraße 162
44789 Bochum
Germany

in case you like to send me more material - like little messages,
infomation about you, your life, your country,the article of clothing
( maybe there is a story about it - you never liked to wear it, it was
a gift, you wore it in an important moment) - i will be pleased about
it.
my plan is to put all together in a new way - so that there will be one dress and one poem at the end for one performance/ film/installation, but it is not clear how it will be exactly - at least the most important thing depends on you. maybe the dress and the poem will go on a journey again, maybe they will come back to you, maybe you get a message from them, maybe you won´t see them again, maybe....the ideas become more and more with every package i get from you what ever will happen - i let you know. and be sure; whenever you give something - you get something.
the artwork will be shown at the diploma exhibition of the FH Ottersberg (Germany) on march 21th 2008.
you will find a documentation on my tribe-blog.

i hope that it will be possible to support me,
looking forward to get a message from you,

Become a part of babel !
sandruschka

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Aniboom is now accepting new pitches for an animated webseries!

aniBOOM — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 09:19:02 GMT

Aniboom Creators Studio teams up with animators around the world via aniboom.com to develop, produce and distribute original content across multiple media platforms such as the internet, mobile, broadcast, cable and game consoles.

http://www.aniboom.com/studio/create

Looking forward to hearing your awesome pitches!

aniBOOM

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Anyone want to exchange networking sources / leads ect...

MidnightOrchid — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 19:49:01 GMT

I write career articles and career profiles. From time to time I need to interview professionals based on their career.
Example - I'm currently looking for a
Motorcycle business owner and or a motorcycle technician (works on bikes as a career)

Trying to find volunteers to interview is a lot harder than it sounds.

SOOOOOOOO

I'm looking to network. I'll go first

I recently found this at Hot Topic: Music - Tours/Band Writer

Job Description:

* Writes about the tours and life/lifestyle of featured bands
* Will go to select tours (primarily local to Los Angeles) to do backstage interviews and reports

Job Requirements:

This is a great opportunity to use your talented and creative writing skills to participate in a new Internet site. If you love music and want to be a part of the "scene", this is the job for you! Play where you work! College degrees preferred and writing samples required.

https://hottopicinc.tms.hrdepartment.com/cgi-bin/a/highlightjob.cgi?jobid=471

Anyone know someone I can interview for the motorcycle article?

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Anyone going to Bat Days at Disneyland

MidnightOrchid — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 16:55:26 GMT

Anyone going to Bat Days at Disneyland in Anaheim, CA? Interested in meeting up?
http://www.batsday.net/home/home.htm

It should be a fun day / weekend to write about. There will be a vampire breakfast Sunday morning... I love the oxymoron of that.

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The long lost secret of the Incas

Josh — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 16:13:21 GMT

In his book "Bambi vs. Godzilla: On the Nature, Purpose, and Practice of the Movie Business," playwright and movie director David Mamet offers the following three questions as "the long lost secret of the Incas."

1) Who wants what from whom?
2) What happens if they don't get it?
3) Why now?

For every successful scene, a writer must know the answer to these three questions (and convey it to the audience.)

Submitted for your approval...

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Online fiction writing class offered this fall ... $78

Jennifer — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 20:24:05 GMT

Viscount John Morley called creative writing the “most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.”

Find out what all the fuss is about.

Writing Short Fiction: a fully ONLINE course offered through Ohlone College
begins the last week in August 2007
16 weeks of stimulating instruction for only $78!

We’ll write until our fingers are numb, taking inspiration from contemporary short story writers such as Lorrie Moore, George Saunders, and T.C. Boyle.

For more information, or to enroll, email the instructor at jhurley@ohlone.edu

Jennifer Hurley is an assistant professor of English at Ohlone College in Fremont, CA. Her writing has appeared in various literary journals, including The Mississippi Review, The Green Hills Literary Lantern, and Natural Bridge. She spent the month of January as a writer-in-residence at OBRAS in Portugal, where she communed with wild pigs, doused herself in red wine, and started writing her first novel.

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A little experiment

onyxhawke — Tue, 22 May 2007 18:12:23 GMT

It's official. I've completely lost my mind. Okay, okay so I actually was born without one (Thanks Mom!), but this is proof I need a bit of help. I've decided to do two experiments at once. One, is to see how much slush I can go through in one twenty four hour period without killing myself or running away from this business entirely. And Two, to see how far and wide the internet can carry this in just a few days.

So, on Monday May 28th 2007 I will be read as much slush as I can. In order to make this effective, I'll need much more slush. Right now, I just don't have enough to make this part entertaining for me. So, if you have something to submit, send it, if you know someone else who has something, make them send it. The email address will go active sometime Friday the 24th during the day. And stay open until about 8 am on May 28th. Each submission will get an auto response from my website; keep this as your receipt.

As enticement, every single submission received during this period is guaranteed to get at least one chapter read and critiqued. If, and only if it follows the complete submission guidelines as described on my website; www.onyxhawke.com , and isn't bad enough to make Baby Cthulhu cry.

How it works:

You send.
I read.
In the pursuit of fairness, if after chapter one I am still interested in reading more I will send you an email that will say, "Still reading after one, final decision later" or something similar.

Obviously, if this gets a big response I will not get to everyone Monday, but each qualified submission will still get the one chapter critique, minimum. If you decide you'd rather use the normal submission box, please put "MM-Tribe" as the code at the end of subject line.

Either way, good luck and in honor of my obvious love of pain, I've dubbed this little experiment "Masochism Monday"

Masochism Monday submission box: (mm@onyxhawke.com)

Mike

*****

Edit Begins:

Well, apparently i can't read a calender when its after midnight the above inbox does indeed go active on Friday morning and will stay open until Monday morning, but to accommodate travelers, on Thursday the 24th it will go active for about two hours starting at 7:30am ET.

Reposted from LJ

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What makes bad writing bad?

devilchicken — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 07:42:35 GMT

Identifying with the writer's icky self-consciousness?
Improper use of pronouns?
Predictability? In a boring sort of way vs. comforting?

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Round Trip Ticket To Anywhere, If You Can Write

jonathanstray — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 17:35:06 GMT

I'm doing it again, and I need your help. Please repost and repost and help me get this to the writer who needs it most.

From www.equivocality.net/writers-travel-scholarship

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The Writer’s Travel Scholarship is an annual writing contest, now in its third year. The winner recieves a round-trip ticket to anywhere in the world. Really.

This time around the event has special significance for me, because I am myself travelling again. I write these words from the remote village of Ghourma-Rharous, a town of 3000 on the Niger river in northern Mali. Despite the river, this place is well and truly the Sahara, and the daytime temperature exceeds 40 degrees celcius. It is also the most remote place I’ve ever been to; the nearest paved road is hundreds of kilometers away, and there is no running water or electricity here. Except, of course, at the offices of the local aid agency which has a generator, and also a microwave-relay internet connection. In a place where most of the population is illiterate and starving, I’ve found a solid 128kps line. The world is a very strange place.

I’m learning, rapidly. And I’m writing about it.

Are you writing too? Not about the remote places in the world, perhaps, but about something that matters to you? If so, please enter the 2007 Writer’s Travel Scholarship. As usual, the prize is a round-trip ticket anywhere in the world. As usual, the basic rationale for the contest remains:

I think travel is good. I think writing is good. I think it is important that writers travel.

The Writer’s Travel Scholarship is my attempt to like to support the entwined causes of understanding and communication. Oh, I’ve written paragraphs before trying to explain why I think this is so important, but I’ve given all that up now. If you have to ask, I probably can’t explain it to you in the space of a contest announcement. Besides, I have better things to write today.

As before, I would like to make it clear that I am not specifically calling for travel writing. Write about your pet dog, if you can do it in an interesting an enlightening way. This contest is not about travel writing but writers travelling.

Now Acccepting Poetry! This is a change from prior years. How one can judge poetry against prose is something of a mystery to me, but then, I can’t really explain in any formal way how I (and my literary friends) judge one piece of prose against another either. Some writing is simply better than others. So this is something of an experiment, and hopefully we’ll see some interesting poems in with the prose pieces. Just make it good, okay?

On to the details:

* Applicants must submit a short piece, 10,000 words maximum. Fiction, non-fiction, whatever, poetry or prose, on any topic.

* Also tell me a little about yourself, where you would go with your free ticket, for how long, and why. You can’t ever have been to that country before — I impose this restriction to encourage people to go somewhere new, rather than using the ticket to visit their overseas girlfriend. You don’t have to write about your destination. I just want to know what about it inspires you to go through the considerable effort required to actually travel there.

* Email entries as an attached document in text or Word format to wts (at) equivocality (dot) net by May 31st 2007. They will be judged by myself and my writer friends, the winner to be announced on June 15th 2007.

* All entries will by anonymized by a third party before review. (Yes, this means people I know may apply.) To make it easy on us, please do NOT include your name in the submitted document file.

* Entries must be previously unpublished, there is a limit of one entry per author, and the ticket is limited to $2000 US. I will book the cheapest available round-trip ticket, based on departure and return dates given to me by the winner. I will try to accomdate these dates and other preferences as much as possible, but I reserve the right to shift each date plus or minus up to a week, and to make other choices such as routing and airline, in order to find the best fare. Other travel requirements, such as additional destinations or an open return date, may be accommodated if the winner wishes to make up the difference in cost.

* By submitting a piece, you grant me (Jonathan Stray) limited web-publishing rights, specifically the right to display it on equivocality.net and any other sites of I may have some degree of editorial control over. I reserve no other rights. If someone sees your work here and wants to publish it, fantastic.

* All decisions are final, and by submitting a piece you agree that I am under no obligation to award any prize at all. The idea is also to fund a developing writer who might not otherwise be able to afford to travel, so please keep this in mind when considering whether to apply. I have no funding, no committees, no mandate. I’m doing this just because I think it’s a good idea, so let’s keep it simple.

Good Luck!

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Gigslist - ShowBiz News, jobs, auditions, tips, resumes and resources.

deborahpaulino — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 21:52:26 GMT

Gigslist - ShowBiz News, jobs, auditions, tips, resumes and resources.

OoooooooooooooooooO
Listings are from Gigslist.org Main Board from the past 7 Days.
Ooooooo

Greenbelt, MD - Crew and Auditions, April 9-10 FreeJobs
OutOftheBlackBox Theatre Company (O2B2) will hold auditions for "Volpone," a new adaptation by Bill Jones of the play by Ben Jonson http://www.gigslist.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=696

Arts Resources Wanted for Industry Directory
Submit your arts site, group, tribe, mailing list, publication to the Arts Job Bible for free and Free membership to Gigslist.org and free listing. http://www.gigslist.org

Touring - Guitar Tech for the Wallflowers Paid Jobs
Seeking touring Guitar Tech for the Wallflowers.
http://www.gigslist.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=700

The Arts Job Bible 831 places to find jobs, casting calls, crew, talent, funding, networking, and industry contacts in Acting, Music, Music Industry, Theatre, Backstage, Film, TV, and Video. Regularly updated with new listings. Only $6.95 at http://www.gigslist.org

Beverly Hills, CA - Administrative Assistant Paid Jobs
Music/Special Events Management Agency (3-4 person office) seeking a Full-Time Administrative Assistant http://www.gigslist.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=699

Gigslist Reel Idol - Reel Submissions Wanted
Register a Free Account to Submit your Reel and Vote on other Reels Click here… http://www.gigslist.org/user.php?op=register&module=NewUser

Rock music needed for upcoming film FreeJobs http://www.gigslist.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=698

Entertainment Contract Library
Know what is in a contract ahead of time so you know what you are signing. Digital files that you can use again and again, save thousands on lawyers fees. 100% Money Back Guarantee. http://www.gigslist.org/index.php?name=Sections&req=viewarticle&artid=3&page=1

SF Bay Area - Event Photographers Needed Paid Jobs
Event photography firm looking for freelance photographers to work during May and June at graduations. http://www.gigslist.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=697

San Francisco CA - Storyboard Artist Paid Jobs
Moviehead Pictures is hiring a Storyboard Artist Needed For Romantic Thriller, http://www.gigslist.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=695

Los Angeles CA - Carpenters Paid Jobs
Looking for day player carpenters with tools and experience pay is $200 per day. http://www.gigslist.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=694

Hollywood, CA - Receptionist/Vault Librarian Paid Jobs
PlasterCITY Digital seeking a friendly energetic individual to answer phones and manage our tape library. http://www.gigslist.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=693

Aliso Viejo, CA - Stunt Coordinator/Stuntman Paid Jobs
We are looking for a stunt coordinator/stuntman for an upcoming short film/trailer production. http://www.gigslist.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=692

New York - Casting PSA Paid Jobs
Looking to cast two roles, one of a Doctor and one of a patient who will be in his underwear being examined on a New York city street. http://www.gigslist.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=691

New York City - Casting Web/Interactive Paid Jobs
SEEKING ACTORS FOR a KOREAN/JAPANESE WEB-DRAMA. http://www.gigslist.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=690

Chicago, IL - Feature Film Cast and Crew Call Paid Jobs
Film company seeking cast and crew for indy film. Seeking all ages, genders and ethnicity's. http://www.gigslist.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=689

Lakewood NJ - Female Variety Dancer Performer Paid Jobs
woman, under 30, who can tap dance and/or perform a specialty number such as juggling, balloon twisting, magic, hula hoops, etc. http://www.gigslist.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=688

Anywhere - Game Animators Paid Jobs
Mocap Latte, a motion capture studio, is looking for freelance Max and Maya animators. for upcoming game and film work. http://www.gigslist.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=687

Washington DC - Supervising Editor, Impact of War Paid Jobs
National Public Radio The Supervising Editor provides editorial and production guidance to Bureau Chief and NPR member station staff
http://www.gigslist.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=686

Washington DC - Broadcast/Recording Technician Paid Jobs
National Public Radio has several immediate openings for Broadcast/Recording Technicians. http://www.gigslist.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=685

4/7 New Jersey - Pitch Session at Fairleigh Dickinson Unversity Events
Seating Limited!! Pitch to Oscar Winner Larry Meistrich (Sling Blade, You Can Count on Me, Belly) and execs from the newly formed NEHST Creations. http://www.gigslist.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=684

Philippines - Asian Stallions / Collaboration /Support Classifieds
We are Indiefilmaker in the Philippines who will collaborate/support with projects who has budgets ranging from $35,000.00 to $600,000. http://www.gigslist.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=683

Culver City, CA - Models for music video. Paid Jobs
We need fabulous babes for a rap video next Tuesday all day in Culver City with possible shoots also Weds night, Thursday night.
Note: Members only listing, Gigslist.org membership is free. http://www.gigslist.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=682

Santa Monica, CA - Part Time Receptionist Paid Jobs
Small commercial post-production facility in Santa Monica looking to fill facility receptionist/concierge position. http://www.gigslist.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=681

San Francisco - Casting Short Film - Multiple Roles Paid Jobs
Graduate Film Directors seeking actors for their next project. Duration: 6 Hours spread over 3 days, starts April 5 - Non-Union artist contracts http://www.gigslist.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=680

Baltimore/ Washington - Casting Menopause The Musical Paid Jobs
Equity Principle and understudy positions Seeking: Actresses who can sing and move well. http://www.gigslist.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=679

Los Angeles - Casting for Daily Show Paid Jobs
Established production company casting for female lead for a unique and witty daily show. http://www.gigslist.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=678

New York City - Casting for Korean / Japanese Web Drama Paid Jobs
Casting qactors for Korean / Japanese Web Drama . Duration: 13 days (Not Everyday) , starts March 25th. http://www.gigslist.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=677

Sonoma CA - Location Scout Paid Jobs
Need location scouting for outdoor dance music video and dance art piece. Need about 5-6 locations in Northern CA. http://www.gigslist.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=676

New Jersey - Part Time Photographer Paid Jobs
In this position, you must be friendly and have desire to work weekends. A car, internet and email are a must!! http://www.gigslist.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=675

Atlanta GA - Art Director/Senior Designer Paid Jobs
Seeking Art Director/Senior Designer, award-winning design and animation studio, high-end 2D / 3D design for television and advertising. http://www.gigslist.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=674

New York - Administrative Employee Paid Jobs
New York Film Academy seeking an Administrative Employee whose main function will be establishing and maintaining contact with student candidates. http://www.gigslist.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=673

Seattle WA - AV Tech Paid Jobs
National event staffing agency is looking for a basic Trade Show AV Tech http://www.gigslist.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=672

Manhattan NY - Freelance 3D Artist/Compositors Paid Jobs
Interviewing the following:3D Artists –Must know XSI, Maya and 3D Studio Max. Compositors - Must know Shake, Fusion and After Effects. http://www.gigslist.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=671

LA, Miami, NYC - TV Crew Paid Jobs
New weekly national TV Magazine in Hebrew seeks local crews in multiple cities for 1-2 days of work per week for ongoing work starting in May. http://www.gigslist.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=670

Nor Cal - MARCH 16,17,18,31 & 4/1 Female Model Jobs Paid Jobs
Affinity Models has Female Model Jobs in Northern California http://www.gigslist.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=669

Seeks position in the entertainment production sector Resumes
Objective:Secure a position in Entertainment Productionwhere I can utilize my professional skills to help bring creative projects to fruition. http://www.gigslist.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=668

San Francisco, CA - Auditions/Short Narratives FreeJobs
Don't miss this amazing opportunity to audition for upwards of 20 short films - all LEADING ROLES. One easy on-camera casting session. http://www.gigslist.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=667

Palo Alto, CA - Video Editor/HTML Paid Jobs
FriendFinder, Inc. seeking motivated individual with extensive experience in digital video editing and file preparation for web delivery. http://www.gigslist.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=666

San Francisco, CA - Get Paid To Talk About Books Paid Jobs
We have found that people are interested what other people have to say about books; especially as it relates to you. http://www.gigslist.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=665

Telecommute - Motion Graphics Designer/Animator Paid Jobs
Motion Graphics Designer: 2D or 3D AnimatorSan Jose, CA Portland, OR Seattle, WA http://www.gigslist.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=664

New Jersey - Directors, Musical Directors, and Choreographers Paid Jobs
The Theater Company at DeBaun Auditorium, located on the campus of Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey, is seeking http://www.gigslist.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=663

Thursday, March 15, 2007 Read full article: 'New Jersey - Directors, Musical Directors, and Choreographers'

New York, NY - Guitarists who Sing Paid Jobs
The New York Kids Club, with four Manhattan locations, is seeking Guitarists who Sing to perform during classes and class transitions.
http://www.gigslist.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=662

NYC - Female Dancers Paid Jobs
NYC's Dance Makers, Inc., non profit Dance Company seeking dancers of all ethnicities for upcoming performances at Theatre Three http://www.gigslist.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=661

Sarasota, FL - Intern Pianist Paid Jobs
Florida Studio Theatre, a professional Equity regional theatre, is seeking an intern pianist for the Theatre’s active Children’s program http://www.gigslist.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=660

Los Angeles CA - On Camera Assistant Paid Jobs
Prestigious On Camera division of major commercial agency seeks an assistant to three agents. http://www.gigslist.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=659

Chicago IL - New Media coordinator Paid Jobs
Candidate would have extensive experience working with band websites, marketing, fan clubs, myspace, etc. http://www.gigslist.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=658

Search is on for Happy Little Vegemites News
Kraft closer to identifying original Happy Little Vegemites after national call for the children who appeared in the iconic 1950s advertisement. http://www.gigslist.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=657

Los Angeles CA - Actors for independent film Paid Jobs
The independent low-budget thriller Next To Die is shooting in June and July of this year. http://www.gigslist.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=656

Nor Cal - Receptionist Paid Jobs
America's Premiere acting and modeling academy, John Robert Powers San Ramon is seeking an energetic and professional receptionist. http://www.gigslist.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=655

Boyton Beach, FL - Light Board Op, Flyman, Deck Electrician, Stagehand Paid Jobs
New Vista Theatre Company seeking to fill out its crew for the final production in its premiere season. Also looking for load in help. http://www.gigslist.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=654

Manheim, PA - Assistant Costumer Paid Jobs
Design Opportunity Possible - Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire is looking for someone to step up to the challenge. http://www.gigslist.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=653

NYC - Stage Manager, Sound Person, Stage Hand FreeJobs
This is a Lesbian Comedy Variety Show.One show only on Saturday May 12. Would need a few rehearsals to learn cues. http://www.gigslist.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=652

LA - Production Assistant/Driver Paid Jobs
HD, NYC-based series looking for LA Production Assistant to PA for 1-3 days for interviews March 19-21. Note: Members Only Listing - Gigslist.org membership is free http://www.gigslist.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=651

James Miller: Delays, Delays at REDCAT, Los Angeles, March 20th Events
James Miller Man and machine carry out a techno pas de deux performing delightfully inventive "short stories" for trombone and digital signal processor. http://www.gigslist.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=650

SF Bay Area - Radio Reporters and Producers Needed Paid Jobs
Self contained magazine features reporting would be required - the series of 8-10 episodes would have a theme to link them. KQED/NPR and BBC http://www.gigslist.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=649

San Francisco CA - Production Coordinator for feature film Paid Jobs
Center for Asian American Media seeking Post Production Supervisor for SF-based independent digital feature by established Director. http://www.gigslist.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=648

San Diego CA - Plus Models & Alternate Sizes FreeJobs
Seeking 3-5 Plus size and alternate models for fashion shoot for plus size and alternate sizes for a portfolio for several events this year http://www.gigslist.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=647

Lavallette NJ - Casting Summer Vaudeville & Children’s Story Time Paid Jobs
The Music Man is a unique family-style ice cream Shoppe where the cast/waiters (guys and gals) sing, dance and improv with the audience. http://www.gigslist.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=646

Los Angeles CA - Multi-Media Producer - CBS Interactive Paid Jobs
Needed to edit and post clips on daily basis; shoot and edit special projects; confirm specification and legal clearance of all video materials. http://www.gigslist.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=645

St. Louis MO - Motion Graphics Designer/Animator Paid Jobs
Technisonic, a broadcast production company, is seeking a motion graphics designer/animator for TV commercials. http://www.gigslist.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=644

Studio City CA - Writer/Producer Paid Jobs
Write, produce and direct documentary on Outer Space.Must have documentary experience and be able to start immediately. http://www.gigslist.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=643

New York NY - Supervising Producer for Reality Competition Paid Jobs
Creative and organized NY based Supervising Producer needed for two reality competition food/cooking pilots for popular cable TV networks. http://www.gigslist.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=642

Rohan de Saram at REDCAT, Los Angeles, March 16th at 8:30 p.m. Events
Rohan de Saram plays Carter, Xenakis, Berio, Reynolds, and Schubert "Rohan de Saram is a cello phenomenon, one of the greatest of our time." Kölnische Rundshau http://www.gigslist.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=641
Englewood, NJ - Costumed Characters for Benefit Paid Jobs
2 actors to be in rabbit costumes for March Madness Benefit for the Boarder Babies and Adoption programs for Children's Aid and Family Services. http://www.gigslist.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=640

Bellport, NY - Associate Casting/Artistic Director Paid Jobs
Seeking talented individual to provide support to the Artistic Office and assist Gateway Playhouse Artistic Director in all creative endeavors. http://www.gigslist.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=639

Irving TX - Traffic Assistant - Fox Networks Paid Jobs
The Traffic Assistant is responsible for inputting orders for national and local commercial material. http://www.gigslist.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=638

Telecommute - 3d Animator Paid Jobs
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Generation Generation

Greg Clear — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 05:36:19 GMT

If you read the first chapter of my manuscript about the Generation Generation who don't need external energy to survive and join gather.com to vote on my fictional Burning Man Inspired work, Harold T. Book, might just make it to the next round.

www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp

The winner gets published. Let's change the world, anyone, anyone?

Would love feedback.

Thank You,

Clear

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flight

Eric — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 20:53:11 GMT

there's no need to rush

a bullet

in a blink of an eye

it will follow its own path

till the end

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How to submit a manuscript (x-posted)

feiruz_al-bnefsagia — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 22:02:52 GMT

This is just too funny...

http://www.sfwa.org/writing/howto.htm

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ExperiMental Novel: Blues4Kali

amana — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 11:59:04 GMT

A quirky, satirical tale of self-realization, rejected world-views, and general madness on the west coast of the US before and after it slips into the sea at the end of the Kaliyuga.
Three parallel buses hurtle through discontinuities in time, space and dimension associated with the catastrophic climate changes accompanying the end of the era of Kali, the Indian Goddess of death and rebirth.
Using a shifting-perspective internal narrator, Blues4Kali uses graphic metaphor and symbolic structure to convey ideas about this pending cataclysm and the crumbling civilization facing it.
The plot pits two opposite visions for the future beyond the posited Flood; that of the Karma Alliance Light Institute, an ultra-vegan endeavor urging radical population control, and H.O.S.S., a Crowleyesque, dark-magic outfit of speed-addled S&M enthusiasts who supply annual underground barbecues in the desert, called Roasted Man.
The narrative transcends time, place, and propriety to demonstrate the many levels on which Dark Mother Kali struggles against the Gods of Monotheism and patriarchy, struggling for control of the values of the future, and, ultimately jettisons eight centuries ahead to find that oppression has again overwhelmed freedom in the society founded by the descendents of KALI.
A complex boundary-blurrer that respects no genre, but freely picks between them, Blues4Kali is a study in collective and personal values as we mount the handbasket to Hel. Be ready for a mind-bending journey to the Neverpoint, where all meaning converges on singularity.
Please feel free to read the Pre-print preview at http://www.blues4kali.com.

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Subway

devilchicken — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 11:51:06 GMT

pigeons, filthy birds. new york city, filthy place. gross, smelly people riding the subway. smells like fried chicken, bones on the floor, under the seats, and i hate fried chicken. woman eating mcdonald's french fries across from me, little curly, greasy, yellow worms crawling through her fingers. grime stains the bag from where they came. a kid with chocolate, shiny hands stubling aimlessly in my direction when the train lurches, like a flying florida cockroach, blind and diving right for me, probably landing in my hair. the fat man, whose suit is too tight, farts. a guy with ragged clothes and no shoes walks through singing, while his toenails rot. he stinks. my shoes stick to the floor when i try to move my feet. i put my hand to my face, wishing it was a gas mask. i can't breathe, there is no air, only aromas. people read the daily news and the post for the stories about Oj simpson and the poor boy in harlem who died playing on top of an elevator in a tenement. the black woman thinks i'm an evil spirit, a devil, a brown eyed devil. the white woman stares at my face and my clothes, probably wondering how much my shoes cost. children stare, wonder what they think. old pinkish white man with vaseline in his hair and shiny fancy shoes watches me get up for my stop. i become "adult entertainment" unwillingly. old man, do you see me naked? i bet i don't smell like your wife and kids and dog. if i speak, does it break the spell?

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hi, new to tribe

the_unhomed_one — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 07:51:56 GMT

hey all, i'm just another writer in despair ... can't fininsh a goddamned thing - not once in the 37 years I've been writing. time to put an end to that. hoping here's a good place to talk about that kind of stuff.

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God Virus

Sun, 29 Oct 2006 23:19:32 GMT

http://www.god-virus.blogspot.com/

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she is

tolteclogic — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 19:28:43 GMT

naked in the rain
no one sees
the real life pain
a world cold
without color
the hurt we feel
becomes to real
and on one
knows the cause
of our pain
and suffering

Thoroughly penetrate
virtuous practice
free from doubt
constant and consistent
within oneself
Searching out
the profound
and recondite
meaning of life
urge reciprocity
cultivate reality
return to pristine
purity and simplicity
nurish body and mind
combine energy
with vitality
bring order to your spirit

Being flexible
not being influenced
by petty people
even in their midst
clear minded in oneself
using the things
of the world
to cultivate
inner principles
skillfully returning
to the beginning
one knows by learning
and keenly carries this out
proceeding in an orderly manner
acting on what is fundamentaly inherent
one attains without thought
hits the mark without striving
knowing this practice from birth
one is spontaniously free from regret
flexible receptivity is in proper balance
worry is the thief of the judge and the victim
which is the product of our unquestioned
preprogramed belief system
we are conditioned from birth
change this and live free again
make new agreements
be free of your conditioning
do not allow your judge
to turn you into a victim
make the agreement
to do your best
to be impeccable
with your word

there is no past
in the this present moment

wish i had more time
to work on this poem

Some say we do not choose
the ones we love
that love chooses us
chance encounters or
hopeful cyber greeting
great and romantic loves
that transcend space and time
there is nothing like that
immediate sense of recognition
that yes I know this person
before the first word is spoken
sometimes it grows slowly
building over time
to capture us unaware
and too often what we want
so much in another
to love hold and protect
till death do us part
is sadly something
they fail to give
so we keep seaching
always outside ourselves
for the perfection of love
in a world where first
we must truly learn
to love and respect ourselves
no amount of words written
can can replace this
moment of soul's recognition
where twin souls recombine

natural innocent mind
inherent to humanity
the progenitor of life
source of yin and yang
concealed by temperment
the celestial
within the mundane
hard to gain
easy to lose
when heaven and earth
work together awakening
happens suddenly without
requiring years of effort

The process is subtle
the course of work
is long it can not
be accomplished
in a day - following
the appropriate order
returning the nonexistent
to existence
restoring the primordial
within the temporal
cautious and wary
we practice
introspection
in action
the mind is firm
the will far reaching
this is the path of striving
for the gold elixir
both nature and sense
become real
one illumination prevades
both striving and nonstriving
going slowly without hurry
we enter the realm
of unfathomable
spiritual transformation

Striving for the Gold elixir
Heaven and Humanity
work together
Shut the gates
on the winter soltice
Awaiting the return
inward thoughts do not arise
externals do not enter
nurishing correctness
Is the secret
of temporal achievement
Opening to Love
Fullness must seek emptiness
Emptiness must seek fulfillment
strong firm and irrepressible
the will is correct
fostering growth
from vageness to clarity
Stillness is ever nurturing
Illumination arises from
inner openness
Close the Door on death
the door to Life will open
The living potential
is essential
within the furnace of evolution

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NO ONE READS POETRY

Ben — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 00:35:19 GMT

My new poetry book, THE RED BOOK (ISBN 1842941801) came out (!) a few weeks ago, and obviously I'm trying to spread the word as much as humanly possible...

ALSO - I've just found out that it is now number one on Amazon UK's 'Hot Books' poetry chart... How happy am I !

...sorry to blow my own trumpet (so to speak!) in this way - but in this game no one's gonna do it for me!!

I hope you'll all check it out...

Ben x

NO ONE READS POETRY
http://www.benbarton.co.uk

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Two Short Poems

jonathanstray — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 08:11:08 GMT

This is the sort of thing I've previously been too shy to share with others... but perhaps someone here will be able to glean what I'm trying to do and be able to give me a few pointers. Which is to say: critiques are welcome, simple reactions even more so.

-- Hurricane--
my strange little pretty girl
talks of art and architecture
with the eyes of a storm
when she looks at me
the wind picks up

-- Mouth --
I want to put your whole body in my mouth
roll it around on my tongue
taste all its angles and crevasses
greedily suck on every part
feel it melt away inside me
until only a sweet taste remains

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Healing or stealing

Robert — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 08:50:34 GMT

I would like introduce myself and inadvently earn my bones. So here is my freestyle. The title is above and it has been trademark for you industrous individuals :)

"Leave and breathe with all your heart because life goes on" This is a lyric that rings true and even when there is a deficiency with every system there is an adaptation that compensates for this. Kleptomanics treatment for thier deviance is an voltage which is foddered or fostered by societal activation which effortless best reinforces this inherently dysfuntional trait as it can grossly be generalised that taking something that is not yours or is not earned is not recognised with respect or endowed with elevated social status unless garnered thorough honest hard work and with efficient mechanisms like honesty, fortitude and reverence much like that which is evident in the profoundly uncomplicated and effortlessly veracious sincere utterances of Fortune 500 CEO's.

But enough of the understated remarks and let us realign duplicit dealings with the ill habit of pick pocketing, shoplifting and salemanship as remarkly direspected means of earning a living unless you are the third capo di tutti capi in line and have a mission to feed your family becuase this really is what it is all about. If you don't feed your family will not survive and that is often disregarded as an admirable trait in a court of law unless you are O.J Simpson then please don't hesitant to make that allegedly lewd, malicious, and treacherously beautiful lady "sleep with the fishes".

So what started as a licence to live and let live has moved under the guise of criminal intent to a comtempibly despicable grey area of honourable actions and respect. Hmm, how simple it can be to be a well-adjusted positively contributing member of society even when diagnosed with a incurable , mentally rooted Freudian profiled illness such as kleptomania.

Ooohh someone make my mummy come into the room dressed as Mother Theresa, i just contributed my illgotten gains to the benefit of psychiatric research and i got the need to watch her suckle on my primary gamete producer effusively. Opp i just gave up the innucuous rationale for urban deviance so please guys don't look away when steve comes to you inviting you over for a night cap. He has done his fair share for society and will also include his room mate Christina.

I welcome comments.

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Article: OK, Your Book is Printed … Now What!

psynaut — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 12:09:37 GMT

By Colin Knecht

Many years ago when I worked in camera store, a customer came in one day with a very old roll of unexposed B&W film. He wanted to buy a camera that would fit that type of film so he could use up the film. The film was so old, all camera manufactures had long since quite making cameras that would take that type of film. I explained to him that the roll of film was worth maybe $2.00 (if it was still any good) and suggested he throw out the old film and consider a new camera and wooowooo “color” film. He thanked and left with is old roll of film.

I think about this story quite often when I am dealing with authors and writers. They have such knowledge and enthusiasm for their ideas and topics, unfortunately many of them, especially new writers and authors seldom give little if any thought to who will be buying their books and where and how they will be getting them.

I often ask these writers, “who is going to be the recipient of your book?” Most writers simply tell me “they are going to sell them”. My next question is “where will you sell them?” Most people respond with “bookstores and the Internet”. Then the tough question, “and how are you going to go about doing this?” That’s when I get met with a blank stare.

Many writers, especially new ones, have often given little thought to where and how they are going to go about selling and distributing their books. When you think about it, most new authors and writers are so absorbed in their manuscripts they have little time to even think about selling their books, aside from a few fleeting thoughts. I tell all of them, the purpose of printing your own book is to get it into the hands of readers. Getting books into the hands of readers can be done many ways.

Some people write and print small runs of books, solely for immediate family and friends. Others have more lofty regional, national and international distribution ideas. Both ideas of getting books into reader’s hands are good, but one takes much more thought and much more work than the other, but both have the right idea.

I was interviewed by a television Creative Director a short time ago; she asked me “what advice could you pass along to anyone thinking about writing their first book.” My answer was immediate and definite “think about who the audience is for your book and how you will go about getting that book into the hands of your audience”. I went on to tell her, if every author thought about who their audience was, and how they were going to market their book, they would have a much better chance of having a more successful book project, that everyone would benefit more from … the author, the printer and most of all the readers.

What I hate seeing, are talented authors with wonderful manuscripts or books, trying to determine after the fact how and were they can sell their books. In many ways they are no different than the young man I encountered years ago who had a roll of film and was looking for a place to use it, the film, just like a manuscript … not matter how good it is, needs to have place for it to fit in.

About the Author

Colin Knecht is a co-founder of Bookmark Self Publishing, a revolutionary new company dedicated to help authors achieve the dream of printing and selling their books.
Find out more at http://www.bookmarkselfpublishing.com

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Limerick Greeting Message

bobstad — Sat, 12 Aug 2006 10:11:43 GMT

There was once here a comrade named Bob
Who is gone escaping the mob.
If while I am away
You have something to say
Heres your minute please try not to sob.

707/476-8557

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can you relate to my Despair??

Renee — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 09:25:59 GMT

Journal Entry

I am suffering right now. i am focusing myself in meditation and reflection to ease that suffering.

sometimes i wish myself to harden my heart, to close down, to safeguard against another imperfect human... to safeguard myself against my own mistaken actions...

sometimes i want to go far away.. another everything...
sometimes i want other people to go far away... time & space
sometimes i want to be cared about so much that another would make sure they never hurt me...
sometimes i want to be irreplaceable and unforgettable..
sometimes i wish that noone knew me at all...
sometimes i fear that noone really knows me at all.

Throughout my life i have had to just experience the pain, retreat, reflect,
and then it seems,
i always go back out there and offer my love.
incredibly, i aways reach out for Love's hand...

"give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping. For only the the hand of Life can contain your hearts." (-Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet.)

i turn to Higher Powers and keep trust that i am beloved and that i will not be betrayed by the Higher Power.
I have learned that i must turn all the hurt and fear over to It.

i pray that i will learn what i'm meant to learn and will be bathed in the Light after the tunnel is endured. i've learned to call it Faith.

i've come to realize there is always light even within the tunnel... it comes out from my heart.

Always the tunnel ends. Always.

i pray for protection and guidance.
I pray for wisdom and discipline.
i pray for compassion and love.
i pray for a long and deep dive through Life.

A-ho.

i bow in gratitude to all who have read my heart-words.

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Dialogue Advice

pooka — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 06:22:54 GMT

I am stuck in my own little hell. I'm working on a long-term project. However, I am detterred by dubious dialogue. Descriptive passages go well, internal monologue goes well, but my dialogue seems stilted to me. It really makes me want to give up, sometimes. Has anyone here dealt with this and overcome it? Any advice for me?

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Help. I need a co-author

Chuba — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 08:38:26 GMT

I am looking for someone to co-author a novel with me. Serious writer only. Novel is historical fiction. Setting is 18th - 19th century. Knowledge of Englqand in that period, or willingness to research, is necessary.
Please drop me a line if interested and able, and we can discuss further.

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Emotional Graveyard

Blanket — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 17:25:17 GMT

Tormented by a past that is impossible to escape
Tortured by memories, a relentless sadistic mind-rape
Wandering in anguish, a heart teeming with sorrow
Battered and broken no hope left for tomorrow

Lost in a maze of abandoned hopes and dreams
Accompanied every night by agonized screams
Descending deeper into chasms of despair
Ensnared in depression, hostage of my own fear

Riding wings of misery into the blackest night
Prisoner of the darkness that has stolen the light
Trying not to allow myself to be consumed by my hate
But realizing instantly that it is already too late

I brace myself for whatever the future might hold
Numbing myself I let my shattered mind grow cold
Absorbed by indifference, I watch someone else leave
Locked in silence knowing I can no longer grieve

My barren soul rests uneasily in an emotional graveyard
Like the heart in my chest, gone frozen and hard
Feeling nothing but emptiness, I sit like a vacant shell
Waiting for some kind of release from this hell

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ADHD W/O DRUGS? part four

bobstad — Sat, 12 Aug 2006 09:05:30 GMT

Just thought of a dream I had a few years ago about someone who I'd seen once driving a too shiny white Chevy Suburan with vanity plates reading RK8A(RKTA must've been taken?) trying to convince me my right arm was skeletal.(?)

<The post above is the most recent in the thread "ADHD W/O DRUGS?" I'd made at the <Arcata Tribe> at TribeDOTnet after the third one related here was deleted there.>

<Following is my post at the same <ArcataTribe> in a long thread about an unmarked black car seen around town.>

If you want a bizarre' tale check out the thread "SOMNAMBULANCE my great sticker idea" in the "Off-Topic" forum at <www.fordfestiva.com> where I mention near the current end about Eureka cops telling one of Floyd Squires' agents while they were out of town that I was a fire-bug and setting fires in the Broadway Mall-that nearly got me evicted.(the day before X-mas morning in '97 and including a free ride to Semper Virons[and over night stay asking for legal representation] with a cop who I embarased for dissing another female porker he'd pulled male precident over after she'd been obviously out of line previous with me to his second cop car showing up on the scene in responding to a call from MIKE'S DRIVE-UP because I'd been relating a story about YANKEE HOBO IN THE ORIENT author John Patric he'd printed in his weekly SATURDAY EVENING FREE PRESS["Sodomish cesspool town on the skids" etc.] about a couple of local cops in Snohomish, WA hired soon after he'd begun publishing in '57 who the city employed not long after they'd been fired from Boeings as security guards for stealing who when he'd published this info had visited him one night and beaten him and left him for dead and lit his house on fire who I'd spent part of the summer of '67 working for at his place in town bidding my jobs and often hanging out till dawn hearing him talk of his adventures and then riding five miles on my black 24" Schwinn Racer 3-speed bike home along the Snohomish River past the GAR cemetery and up Green Lantern Road to where my family lived across the street from farmer Clarke Aubert and climbing into bed in my own bedroom [with a stained glass window onto our living room in a house with seven additions and still modest-sized with two cisterns installed by people from Kansas ignorant we guessed of the climate there] before any of my parents or four younger sisters were awake though long since light out-the really odd thing is the morning after I'd gotten dropped off at 1803 C Street by one of the employees at Semper Virons I'd walked to where I'd left an '84 Mazda brown long bed pick-up I'd gotten from James Looney in Onion Creek,["as featured in HIGH TIMES magazine"] WA August 17th of '97 that had just been unable to get back to the place on C because the clutch had gone out so that I wanted to make sure the truck was fine and walking back to the apartment there at C I noticed the roof of the house across the street owned by Jehovah Witnesses was on fire due to the habit of the owner using old rail road ties in their furnace and so I'd told a man walking towards me oddly enough to let them know their house was on fire and I'd roused their neighbor[with ITLNSTLN vanity plates on his black Ford pick-up] to get his garden hose out to try to fight the blaze on his neighbor's roof until the FD showed up and who tried to tell me the roof fire was not due to creosote soaked railroad ties; etc.)

BTW this is an email I opened the morning of the first day of my 56th year out of the womb.(8-4-06-born 4:11 a. m. in Longview, WA)

Good Friday Morning
Bob,

Thank you for your very Interesting and Informative e-mail. I would agree. Writing seems to be a
very strong suit for you to wear. So wear it proudly my friend. I feel the same about my playing
Drums And the differnt types of music I have attempted in the 65yrs of my musical journey! When
asked what I did for a living besides playing drums? I would tell them. Playing Drums Was my
Career! If I Wanted a hobby, I might become a Brain surgeon! I am happy to meet another Jazz
musician Bob. I started playing as a Professional in 1937 in Bakersfield, Ca. where I grew up.
Bakersfield had a lot of good music in those days. Today??. A lot of water under a lot of bridges
Bob.For us Both! I do remember Bert Wilson. And in the 50s and 60s during the West Jazz days,
I was right there in the middle of it! And also played in "The New Jazz Trio" And "The New World
Jazz Co. In the 60s. And then went into R/ROLL in 64/65! And the Rest as they say is Hysterical..
It would be nice if we could get together at some point in the near future and share some thoughts.
I stay close to home these days. And do most of my driving locally here in Arroyo Grande, Ca. I still
Practice on my aging drum kit that I have set up at a storage place close by. But There are not too
many calls for 83yr old drummers who can still play. And that is cool with me. Because there is not
many left I Want To Play With. Anyway! Right? Right. Sorry to hear about your acupuncturist.
I did enjoy looking at several of your listed photos. Well Bob. I hope I haven't bored you to much with
my ramblings. I f you ever plan on getting up my way, Drop by and say hi. It would be a pleasure for me.
Till then..
Happy Days And Nights
Cass
Ed Cassidy
Co/Founder
Of "Spirit"

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