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One on One with the Legendary Writer Gore Vidal

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Gore VidalVideo 24:53. I think I'm more important in the long run than that country (USA) which has not been heard from recently except for blowing up villages in the desert.

American Foreign Policy: “Insanity. You don't go to war against most of the world unless you can win one of the wars. We don't count World War II. We had a little help from the Russians.”

“General Electric owns one of the great networks. Will that great network ever criticize General Electric for making the atomic bomb and encouraging its use against Japan? No they won't.”

“We overlap too many things, except intelligence, which we don't have that much of two overlap. It's off in a corner.”

“I was one of the few voices that went on television and yelled when Bush with that ghastly little attorney general (Alberto Gonzales) got rid of the Bill of Rights in our country. He and Bush together..., Bush wanted more power. More power you get by being a wartime president. You do that by declaring war on somebody without asking them. That's what he did. That's what Bush did. In a normal country, both Bush and he would have been imprisoned and tried for treason.”

“He was really stupid, but that's not unusual in American journalism. If everyone else is stupid they might as well just be dumb too. That's what were up against. Indomitable stupidity.”

“You act as if America was a fact. It's a notion. It's a flag. It's a lot a loud noise. I don't think much of anybody who takes it very seriously.”

“Look. I accept. They don't accept anybody. I am the one who decides, because I write the record. That's how it goes. And it never occurred to me that I was on probation. I said the whole god damned country is on probation when I am sitting here on the bench.”

“Despite provocation I have never killed anyone. I thought that was pretty neat. (As a legacy). Well why not? There are worse legacies around.”

The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

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What Motivates UsVideo 10min 48sec. Our Motivations are unbelievable interesting. The science is really surprising. It's a little freaky. We are not as endlessly manipulable and predictable as you would think.

A whole set of unbelievably interesting studies. I want to giive you just two that call into question this idea that if you reward something you get more of the behavior you want and if you punish something you get less and less of it.

So let's go from London to the mean streets of Cambridge Mass, in the northeastern part of the United States. Let's talk about a study done at M. I. T. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

They took a whole group of students and they gave them a set of challenges. Things like memorizing strings of digits, solving word puzzles, other kinds of spacial puzzles, physical tasks like throwing a ball through a hoop.

To incentivise there performance the gave them 3 levels of reward. If you did pretty well you got a small monetary reward. If you did medium well, you go a medium monetary reward. If you did really well - if you were one of the top performers you got a large cash prise.

Indigenous Native American Prophecy

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Floyd Red Crow Westerman5 Very enlightening Videos of the Elders speaking of the Indigenous Native American Prophecy.

"Time evolves and it comes to a place where it renews again. There is first a purification time, then there is renewal time. We are getting very close to this time now.

"We were told that we would see America come and go. And in a sense America is dying, from within, because they forgot the instructions on how to live on earth.

"Everything is coming to a time where prophecy and man's inability to live on Earth in a spiritual way will come to a crossroad of great problems.

"The Hopi believe that, if you are not spiritually connected to the Earth and understand the spiritual reality of how to live on Earth, it's likely you will not make it.

"When Columbus came that began what we refer to as the 'first world war'..., because along with him came everybody from Europe.

By the end of the second world war, in America we were only 800,000. From 60 million to eight hundred thousand. We were almost exterminated here in America..."

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Terence McKenna - We Are Now in Transition

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Terence McKennaAudio of amazing Terence McKenna 10min 10sec. There are processes in motion that are real and measurable that show, beyond the shadow of any controversy, that we are living in times such as have never been known before.

The dissolution of the ozone in the atmosphere. The clearing of the Amazon. The pandemic spread of diseases..., and information. The complete globalizing of the whole human family so that we essentially do live in a global village. What happens in Bangladesh and Argentina and Anchorage is all reported everywhere in the same day...

The AIDS epidemic, like the spread of nuclear weapons, another epidemic, have been wonderful stimulus to sober thought about our condition.

And I believe that the Chernobyl disaster in the Soviet Union was what really turned the Kremlin leadership toward rethinking their foreign policy because the explosion of a single power plant was like dropping a drop of ink in a glass of water and watching the entire glass of water turn slightly gray.

And we're talking about the atmosphere of the only planet suitable for human life that we know of.

McKenna Commenting on the Reality of His Own Death

I always thought death would come on the freeway in a few horrifying moments, so you'd have no time to sort it out. Having months and months to look at it and think about it and talk to people and hear what they have to say, it's a kind of blessing. It's certainly an opportunity to grow up and get a grip and sort it all out. Just being told by an unsmiling guy in a white coat that you're going to be dead in four months definitely turns on the lights. ... It makes life rich and poignant. When it first happened, and I got these diagnoses, I could see the light of eternity, a la William Blake, shining through every leaf. I mean, a bug walking across the ground moved me to tears. - Terence Kemp McKenna, November 16, 1946 – April 3, 2000

Video: The Real Story of the Middle East

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The Truth About the Middle EastVideo (4min 1sec) 63% of Israelis and 61% of Palestinians agree: 2 states for 2 peoples. So does President Obama. He's launched a new campaign for lasting peace.

"It is time for these settlements to stop. The only resolution is through 2 states where Israelis and Palestinians each live in peace and security."

BUT powerful extremists in the Middle East and Washington are doing all they can to destroy this chance for change.

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