Also look for tracks off the Truth-Key in Artistry Commentary, Rough Jazz by DJ ESP, OMID, JMD and friends….
You can find the NamaMusic BlogRadio at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Namaradio
Make sure to contact the label to guest on future shows or to call in and talk about topics, tracks and movements!
Fiber art seen here is used for album covers by Namasteezy Records
We’d like to introduce this Pottery Blog by Emily Murphy.
She put together somethings for everyone that we thought was very selfless, thank you Emily!
Emily writes, “Resources for Soda Firing -
I thought that it would be fun to try to round up as many online resources for folks who are interested in soda firing and put it together into one handy post. Since there isn’t that much publish (relatively speaking), I think it has the possibility of being relatively comprehensive. I hope you enjoy reading the results of my research as much as I did!”
Stop through her blog and share the research! We were truly inspired by her organization and it motivated us here at the interdependent Music Distro Community to do the same for our projects and all the artist info that includes!
http://potteryblog.com/2008/08/resources-for-soda-firing.html
Namaste,
The Namatribe has left the north west… Went to the dirty south and moved minds, rumbled with
non-profit orgs and yoga studios……. We rocked an art show and manifested some meditation silks
before returning to the west coast. Before returning though, we stopped through the midwest, where
we identified problem areas which are the heart of apathy. Ohio has issues….. No breakbeats played
on the radio statewide? NO radio station on the largest university campus in the state? Wasn’t ohio
the “freestate” where the underground railrode ended in the fight the south for black freedom days?
No radio but the king of porn Larry Flint can run things from a huge mansion across from a private all
girls school (back when he started out)? Wild that http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama won in that state…. Maybe all the harshed and silenced energies built up and made a power move! Power to the people!
Now that we are back on the west coast…. We are happening fully and truly, restoring our health and
reorganizing our studio.
We still have the spinning wheel with us and are starting the next round of threads for our new Anti-
war weaving called “Moments of Nanak”……
Will be back on the blog soon, to add more.
Until then, keep that mind upside down!
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MOVING MOUNTAINS CD RESPONDS TO AN APPALACHIAN ENVIRONMENTAL NIGHTMARE
The March 2006 issue of National Geographic added to the growing chorus of national publicity about “The High Cost of Cheap Coal”. One of the two articles was “Where Mountains Move” about the people and places of rural southern Appalachia being devastated by mountaintop removal (MTR) coal mining. The first picture in the article showed Larry Gibson of Kayford Mountain in southern WV, standing on his family’s 50-acre homestead surrounded by a barren moonscape where mountains used to stand – dense, wrinkled and tree covered.
Larry’s own voice is one of 6 interviews with coalfields residents included on the Moving Mountains: Voices of Appalachia Rise Up Against Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining compilation CD, produced by coalfield activist and musician Jen Osha. The CD includes one of her songs and 12 others from artists deeply moved by the complete and unprecedented reshaping of Appalachia’s contours and forests, including the late legendary fiddler Vasser Clements, songwriter and occasional West Virginia Public Radio host Kate Long, and guitarist and songwriter Mike Morningstar, as well as Falling Mountain’s own Andrew McKnight and Keith & Joan Pitzer.
Listen to “Voices of Appalachia” segment with Julia “Judy” Bonds
Listen to “Keepers of the Mountains” by Elaine Purkey
Listen to “The Most Beautiful Place in the World” by Mary Anne Hitt
Listen to “Company Town” by Andrew McKnight
Do this by visiting:
http://www.fallingmountain.com/mtr.html
Other artists in action include:
The ACORNS
visit: http://www.myspace.com/theacorns1
also visit: http://www.candlewaxrecords.com/
THEY PROMOTE VIA WORD OF MOUTH AND MESSAGE BOARDS:
http://www.weapon-shaped.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=10018&SearchTerms=mountain,removal
NAMASTEEZY IS PRAYING THAT THOSE IN ACTION AGAINST MOUNTAIN TOP REMOVAL JOIN THE 911 TRUTH MOVEMENT AND CREATE EVER MORE CREATIVE VOICE AND COLLECTIVE FORCE. WE 911 TRUTH PEOPLE HONOR YOU FOR YOUR BODHICITTA AND LOVE FOR LIFE ADN NATURE. WE ARE SPREADING THE WORD ABOUT YOUR EFFORT AND MUSIC TO ALL WHO WILL LISTEN TO US ON THE WEST COAST.
What is Mountain Top Removal Mining?
Mountaintop removal / valley fill coal mining (MTR) has been called strip mining on steroids. One author says the process should be more accurately named: mountain range removal. Mountaintop removal /valley fill mining annihilates ecosystems, transforming some of the most biologically diverse temperate forests in the world into biologically barren moonscapes.
Download MJS newsletter and fact sheets here:
http://www.mountainjusticesummer.org/facts/steps.php
Many thanks to OHVEC for the use of their photographs and assistance in this page.
Steps and Effects
1. Forests are clear-cut; often scaping away topsoil, lumber, understory herbs such as ginseng and goldenseal, and all other forms of life that do not move out of the way quickly enough. Wildlife habitat is destroyed and vegetation loss often leads to floods and landslides. Next, explosives up to 100 times as strong as ones that tore open the Oklahoma City Federal building blast up to 800 feet off mountaintops. Explosions can cause damage to home foundations and wells. “Fly rock,” more aptly named fly boulder, can rain off mountains, endangering resident’s lives and homes.
2. Huge Shovels dig into the soil and trucks haul it away or push it into adjacent valleys.
3. A dragline digs into the rock to expose the coal. These machines can weigh up to 8 million pounds with a base as big as a gymnasium and as tall as a 20-story building. These machines allow coal companies to hire fewer workers. A small crew can tear apart a mountain in less than a year, working night and day. Coal companies make big profits at the expense of us all.
4. Giant machines then scoop out the layers of coal, dumping millions of tons of “overburden” – the former mountaintops – into the narrow adjacent valleys, thereby creating valley fills. Coal companies have forever buried over 1,200 miles of biologically crucial Appalachian headwaters streams
5. Coal companies are supposed to reclaim land, but all too often mine sites are left stripped and bare. Even where attempts to replant vegetation have been made, the mountain is never again returned to its healty state. Reclamation Problems
Community Impacts
Coal washing often results in thousands of gallons of contaminated water that looks like black sludge and contains toxic chemicals and heavy metals. The sludge, or slurry, is often contained behind earthen dams in huge sludge ponds. One of these ponds broke on February 26th, 1972 above the community of Buffalo Creek in southern West Virginia. Pittston Coal Company had been warned that the dam was dangerous, but they did nothing. Heavy rain caused the pond to fill up and it breached the dam, sending a wall of black water into the valley below. Over 132 million gallons of black wastewater raged through the valley. 125 people were killed, 1100 injured and 4000 were left homeless. Over 1000 cars and trucks were destroyed and the disaster did 50 million dollars in damage. The coal company called it an “act of God”.
Marsh Fork Elementary by Brittany Williams.
The school is in lower left of photo. The clear green patch in the lower left is the football field. The tall cylindrical white object is the coal silo, less than 200 feet from the school. The zigzag is the earthen dam holding the sludge lake (2.8 billion gallons), directly above the school.
Traditional mining communities dissappear as jobs diminish and residents are driven away by dust, blasting and increased flooding and dangers from overloaded coal trucks careening down small, windy mountain roads. Mining companies buy many of the homes and tear them down.Dynamite is cheaper than people, so mountaintop removal mining does not create many new jobs.
Mingo County flood in West Virginia
June 2004
Mountaintop removal generates huge amounts of waste. While the solid waste becomes valley fills, liquid waste is stored in massive, dangerous coal slurry impoundments, often built in the headwaters of a watershed. The slurry is a witch’s brew of water used to wash the coal for market, carcinogenic chemicals used in the washing process and coal fines (small particles) laden with all the compounds found in coal, including toxic heavy metals such as arsenic and mercury. Frequent blackwater spills from these impoundments choke the life out of streams. One “spill” of 306 million gallons that sentsludge up to fifteen feet thick into resident’s yards and fouled 75 miles of waterways, has been called the southeast’s worst environmental disaster.
Of course, it’s not only the people who suffer. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has written that mountaintop removal’s destruction of WV’s vast contiguous forests destroys key nesting habitat for neo-tropical migrant bird populations, and thereby decreases the migratory bird populations throughout the northeast U.S.
How could this happen?
A federal judge has twice ruled that most valley fills are illegal under the Clean Water Act (CWA). His first ruling was overturned on a jurisdictional issue, and his second ruling is now under appeal by the Bush administration. In case the appeal doesn’t go the way he wants, Bush has rewritten a 25-year-old rule of the CWA, thus legalizing illegal valley fills. The federal judge reminded Bush that only Congress can rewrite the laws of the land. The whole issue is up in the air. Other aspects of MTR are also illegal, but the outlaw coal industry has many politicians, from the local to the national level, in its pocket. Coal companies continue to buy politicians’ support, so they can do whatever they want, choking out the democratic political process just as their frequent spills choke the life out of streams.
Bush received millions of dollars from the coal industry during his 2000 election campaign One of Bush’s big supporters in West Virginia, James “Buck” Harless (a Bush “Pioneer”), who raised $250,000 for Bush, had a private audience with the President at Bush’s ranch. What’s more, his grandson, James H. Harless II, was chosen as an energy policy adviser during the White House transition.
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ALO LOOK FOR HEAD ROC ON NAMASTEEZY TRUTH-KEY IN ARTISTRY CD PROJECT….
AND MAKE SURE TO VISIT THESE BROTHERS ON THEIR HOMEPAGE BECAUSE MORE LOVE IS WAITING FOR YOU THERE…..
HEAD ROC ARE DOING SOME OF THE MOST REAL SONGS I HAVE HEARD FOR A MINUTE AND MORE PEOPLE NEED TO BE SHARING IT…..
THESE WORDS CAN ONLY POINT, GO EXPERIENCE THE LOVE, FEEL IT, THINK ABOUT IT, THEN LIVE….
Having a moment of HAFIZ is when you know that the Hafiz has happened through you and the poetry or art you did leaves you saying, “it was not I”…. Those of us who share the truth about how life lives us enjoy seeing when the great work happens through “so called others”… So we enjoy sharing missing knowledge and have started working on creating more communication between people by sharing books. What ever you do or say in this world an attraction and aversion sets in among the people aorund us, so we have decided that our way of sharing unity and poetry needs to have two styles at once! Something for everyone who is here to create change in the right direction.
We can dance both ways, in a formal conventional way and in a loose beatnik or beatnut way. We share missing knowledge with many types of people and sources of wisdom…..
We have been bridging and sharing with a book group out of PDX, Oregan and also with the “Voice Yourself” team- the woody action mob. The PDX team has a book tracking system so we can follow books as they are passed from person to person. And if that isn’t for you we even have more sharing happening with underground poets on the go, in the most intuitive ways – those according to subculture methods and music.
We asked each other, “if you were stranded on a desert island, what are the top 5 books or publications you would want to have with you? Get to know what Namasteezy and friends have collected so far….
Please send us your recommendations so we can stock our library with your favorites too… They can be environmental, political, or spiritual works or just what you think is fun:
http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/2120.Moments_of_hafiz
What are you reading? And what’s good? Check out the Bonsai Yoga Studio Library:
http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/640559
I recently got an email about a yoga studio saving paper bags.
They wrote, “It feels good to be green!
CorePower Yoga is proud to announce a new program implementing plastic bag recycling
in locker rooms at all of our studios. Our intention with this project is to reduce
our impact on the environment by supplying our yogis with recycled plastic grocery
bags to transport sweaty yoga clothes. All locker rooms will be outfitted with a
plastic bag dispenser that makes it easy to insert your extra bags from home. Please
keep this in mind if you have a supply of excess grocery bags, and thanks for participating!”
It that the most we can do as people to unify and support truth movements? Does it come down to just a little fancy business talk about so called conscious efforts and presentation of being in action? I mean is that as far as people can go to see the truth about what is happening on this planet and the most they will do toward real solutions as orgs and businesses? Is it just us as Namasteezy spirit or are these little step really just lies and public relations by businessness which have no intent on real solutions?
Why do we not see any real and pivitol moves by these people and their small businesses and studios and labels? They do not seem to spread around any real news and information which is the utmost concern of the people regarding events and issues that need action and attention right away! They so often take these arts and ways of happenings and cultures and practices and try to exploit them as businesses and people after money……
I think the core studio is in process and i would love to do yoga with their instructors…. But can anyone guide or suggest a way to reach the people of power who are determining factors? Maybe these people are unaware of Bodhicitta. Maybe if more studios would recognize real spiritual leaders and people and give more back… Host more events concerned about bridging and share more often while feeding people – maybe if they took more care to realy give the people what we seek (healing, unity, community)…. Maybe then their calls for action would have amore sincere feel.
Maybe studios could share message boards with festival organizers in ways that really support the artists and the needs of the people.
Many people will reject these ideas and views…
Many people pracgtice self grasping yoga and body mind yoga…. Maybe the core people are in an effort to bridge with the Yoga House of Bellevue to present and honor other yogis, or maybe they are planning on donating laptops to monks and volunteers who do not need to be in non-profit orgs to give selfless service….
Sometimes business owners just need to give out of the pocket and bite one sometimes…..
If Core yoga really wants to deal with environmental issues and the plastic issues.. Maybe they can show the documentary by the female activists selling that Texas Gold Water. Have you heard about the Yogi in Texas who holds protests in Ny Ny? She has been creating awareness about the chemical companies in Texas for years…
Maybe we can all just get down to the core of the real issues, unify practices and share meaningful updates on real time happenings regarding things that will really help, things that people are doing…..
Misinformation has a grip on the yoga movement. More people
need to seek actual explanations for events like the 911 towers free falling rather than
information (Yoga studio people for the most part think they have it
already)…….
I save plastic bags at home too…. But we at Namasteezy think that is just a small way of taking on a huge truth process. Don’t stop there, join us in a sincere journey of self and other revelations. Help tibetan monks, unify people of practice, and support the 911 truth movement by working interdependently.
If all we can do is ask people to save plastic bags, we have a long way to go before we get a truth process going which will really serve us as people.
Yoga has been turned into a panacea. But is it really working? Or is it starting to work against us?
“We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth…. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the number of those, who having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it might cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know it — now.” Patrick Henry, 1775.
When you visit http://www.libertycalling.com/ you can catch up with Ron who is seeking a documetary on the contruction of the 911 towers. After several radio shows, a few packages started coming in to his studio but they were EMPTY!
Also, today, Namasteezy couldn’t sign into our word press blog. It took several hours to get in to post this blog.
What if the Twin Towers were Built for Demolition?
Is it possible the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers were actually rigged for explosive demolition when they were designed and built three decades ago? That they were brought down by explosive demolition on 9/11?
Make your own decision. Listen to the live broadcasts and REPLAYS of physicist and talk show host Ron Larsen’s live interviews of land surveyor, welder, blasting technologist, 9/11 investigative journalist and author Christopher Brown on the Liberty Calling Beacon radio program, which is broadcast live from 9:00 until 10:00 AM CDT over the Liberty Calling Radio Network
**REPLAYS OF RADIO INTERVIEWS***: To learn how to access all play list REPLAYS of Dr. Larsen’s interviews, including his interviews of Christopher Brown visit http://www.libertycalling.com/.
Dr. Ron Larsen and Mr. Chris Brown are regular Friday guests on D’Anne Burley’s show over Truth Radio (www.truthradio.com) at 6:00 PM CDT. MP3 audios of these interviews are available to listeners any time by going to the archives section of the Truth Radio site and clicking on her shows for dates that fall on Fridays.
A Call to Action — And the Video Beat goes On!
In support of Liberty Calling’s ongoing investigation of the collapse of World Trade Center Towers 1 and 2 on 9/11, Liberty Calling is seeking to purchase or otherwise obtain as soon as possible a complete copy in good condition of the PBS video The Engineering and Construction of the Twin Towers, which was shown initially as a 2-hour PBS television special in 1987-1990. It is also our understanding that this video was shown on the Discovery Channel. However, when it was shown on that channel is unknown.
IMPORTANCE: This video contains interviews and photographs that upon inspection 9/11-WTC researcher (see above) Chris Brown —- who had viewed the video in the mid-1990s —says will confirm that each tower had a reinforce steel concrete core rather than a core of 47 steel box columns. The latter structure is the structure upon which ALL current research (with the exception of Chris Brown’s work) on the 9/11-Twin Tower collapse research is based. If the structural model upon which this research is substantially incorrect, the conclusions based on the results of this research might ned substantial revision. For this reason we seek to obtain a copy of this tape and view it to determine the exact structure of the core of the each building at construction.
If you own or know of someone who owns this video and you or that person would be willing to sell to us or otherwise provide us with a full and complete copy of that video, please email Dr. Ron Larsen at
ron *@* libertycalling *.*com , and we will employ one or more secure methods to transfer the copy of that tape to us.
WE HAVE ALSO BEEN HEARING BACK FROM SOME FIRE FIGHTERS WHO MAY SPEAK OUT, ONE IS REALLY ILL AND IS NOT FULLY ABLE TO BUT IS CONSIDERING SPEAKING OUT!!!! IF HIS HEALTH STARTS TO RETURN, NAMASTEEZY MAY BE ABLE TO CONNECT HIM TO RON TO SPEAK ON THE ISSUES BASED ON HIS EXPERIENCE AS A FIRE FIGHTER! STAY TUNED!
http://slackbastard.anarchobase.com/ AND http://anarchafairy.wordpress.com/2007/07/07/growing-pains-the-anti-globalization-movement-anti-imperialism-and-the-politics-of-the-united-front/
We found well organized networks of blog people dealing with difficult truths while exploring wordpress Blogs. They are putting great effort into forwarding informations and keeping awareness up! Check the links and Blogrolls, very well done.
We made sure to leave as many comments as we could and requests for writing contributions for our blogs and websites.
I was really hopelifted and felt very happy for all the truth process people out there keeping it real and meaningful.
Although some of what we saw in the links was well intentioned, we found a lot of mainstream or weak sauce people behind popular blogs. But we also saw some hardcore get busy with the real kind of people and they are putting work in, maybe enough to call several jobs by one person. So we must keep our attitudes up, our ability to deal with new people and people of different backgrounds….. We are going to keep researching until we get a good feel for what these writers and blog Gurus are here to make happen. As we dial in on those who are doing the most and involved in the right direction – we will add as many links as we can to our frontpage. So if you have something in view, please share it with us. Let us know what you are feeling and what you are hearing about!
http://www.lifeduringcapitalism.blogspot.com/
I had to leave you with one more….
Really, many of these people are speaking adn doing from the heart….. We need more music people recognizing there purposes… We need more of them recognizing the music people. We need more cross-promotion efforts and introducing audiences to alliances….
There seems to be more happening in other countries than here in the states… Why can’t we see more people taking action toward identifying our real current situation. People are afraid, but those speaking out need to upgrade their “raw in your face this” is “whats going down” and “thats whats up”. We need to stand up more for those who are speaking out, we need to speak out to find each other in all this apathy and fear…
The globe is warming up, so lets express that heat on other levels too by speaking more openly and truthfully about the people around us who are not doing anything even when their positions of power and orgs and job functions say they should.
Example:
Firefighters in america went coward on us… Call your grandfathers and fathers! They should have spoke up about the 911 Towers being destroyed! Many people think because they are retired that they aren’t involved…. They have stopped caring for future generations of children and their grand children. Firefighters suffer from an alchoholic culture and frat boy mentality. And those who have become officers are being determined by masons. The masons have been infiltrated by dark spiritual factions.
9-11 was a ritual of human sacrifice intended to induce fear. The people we are trying to communicate with are in that state whether they know it or not. Fear is a reptilian instinct. Lizards do not have courage, mammals do. When we distinguish what we are doing, we must invoke mammilian instincts.
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