Were the 1960s incredible? (photos)

"The times they are a changin'," icon Bob "Deal with the Devil" Dylan sang (Elaine Mayes/Getty)

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Berkeley in the Sixties (film)

Jethro Tull has that song, "Living in the Past." We have to wonder if we're sad, pining for what was or, worse, what might have been, or worrying by always forecasting the future. Almost certainly, we're stuck in the past, thinking about all the good parts of the Sixties in Berkeley. But that means forgetting almost all of the bad. We have made progress as a country, in as much as things have not changed for the better nearly enough for our liking. Still, it's fun to reminisce and imagine how it must have been when we know it wasn't. The Sixties have good PR and drive us to arise and make things even better for the whole world.

We can learn from the CIA and Americans (DL)

The decade of the 1960s was one of the most tumultuous decades in American history. It was marked by peaceful political radicalism, violent American imperialism abroad and conservative clampdowns at home, unpopular overseas wars, popular anti-war and civil rights movements, and the terrifying threat of nuclear Armageddon in a phony "Cold War" used by cynical Russian and American leaders to control their gullible populations.

But there were breakthroughs too thanks to those citizen struggles: in civil rights, free love, reproductive rights, reverse engineering of ET technology from UFOs that came into the possession of various governments (with the US distributing the advanced technology to private industry to enrich them as it was given to the world population with the sudden appearance of transistors, chips, computers, Velcro, and more in a single century than thousands of years leading up to it, with the rate of advances still growing exponentially), and space travel.

Click through this gallery to see incredible images that capture the drama and upheaval of 1960s America... PHOTO GALLERY (Love Exploring via MSN)

How to grow turmeric in garden (video)

5 Tips on How to Grow a Ton of Turmeric in Just a 3 Square Foot Garden Bed

(Self Sufficient Me) This video shows my five most important tips on how to grow a lot of turmeric root in just a small space, either in a container or a tiny corner of a garden bed. Turmeric is an easy plant to grow. It's fantastic to eat, and it's also extremely healthy as an antioxidant and anti-inflammatory.

• All of the health benefits of turmeric explained

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"Planet of the Humans" (free film)

Producer Michael Moore (YouTube); Crystal Q., CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Planet of the Humans is an American environmental documentary film written, directed, and produced by Jeff Gibbs.

It is backed and promoted by Michael Moore, who is also the executive producer. Moore released it on YouTube for free viewing on April 21, 2020, the eve of the 50th anniversary of the first Earth Day.

A conclusion of the film is that green energy cannot solve the problem of society's expanding resource depletion without less consumption, which is by definition unsustainable given that the Earth is finite.

I stand by freedom of speech and our facts.

The film argues that renewable energy sources, including biomass energy, wind power, and solar energy, are not as renewable as their are portrayed to be.

The film has generated controversy and been criticized as partially outdated and misleading. More

Directed by Jeff Gibbs. Produced by Michael Moore, Jeff Gibbs, Ozzie Zehner. Starring Jeff Gibbs, Nina Jablonski, Ozzie Zehner, Richard Heinberg. Distributed by Rumble Media and YouTube. Release date July 31, 2019 (at the Traverse City Film Festival). Running time 100 minutes.

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City girl grows giant urban garden (video)

Kate Lavers (Happen Films, 2/22/19); Kelly Ani in Australia, Ananda (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Inspiring woman grows huge amount of free organic food in a tiny backyard

I can grow my own cherries and invite bees.

"The Plummery" is a suburban home where a tiny urban permaculture garden measuring only 1,076 square feet (100 sq/m) produces over 900 pounds (400 kg) of food year-round.

Kat Lavers describes her approach to home gardening, including vertical and bio-intensive growing. She shows how possible it is for city dwellers to be food resilient in the face of natural, financial, and social crises.

It's inspiring how little day-to-day effort goes into creating an abundance of organic food.

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Hippies of the Sixties (video)

David Hoffman, March 13, 2017; Ashley Wells, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

(TheHoffmanCollection.com) I'm very proud of the TV series I made for PBS called "Making Sense of the Sixties."

F the man! Down with US imperial military!

I spent a year examining my youth and how I became an active member of the 1960s generation. If you're from that generation or a child of the 60s, I think you'll find the entire series of value. See my other work. A quote from Hesiod, 8th century BC, runs:

We want to go back to a better time.

“I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words. When I was young, we were taught to be discreet and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly disrespectful and impatient of restraint."  

#hippie #1960s @countercutlure

Mainstream News

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Mourning for Nipsey Hussle goes well beyond his music

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Friends of Los Angeles River CleanUp

Friends of the LA River (folar.org); Ashley Wells, Xochitl, Wisdom Quarterly; Wiki edit

Standing Rock Sioux oppose Dakota Access

(WQ) Los Angeles has its own Ganges, a ganga ("river"), that runs through it with many tributaries.

The city was named after it by the invaders.

This whole greater metropolitan area was once known as Tovanger, "The World," to the Native American Tongva people.

When the Spanish and European armies arrived to steal the land, they named this area El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles del Río de Porciúncula, which in English means "The Town of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels of the Porciúncula River" [what the Spanish used to call the L.A. River, not knowing or caring about the indigenous name, which was an Eden to them with its own Styx.] More (Register to clean up the river)

Pre-Colonial Los Angeles (Tovanger)

History (reddirtsite.com)

The Los Angeles area was first settled by the Tongva (whom the Spanish named Gabrieleños after the San Gabriel Mission and mountains and foothills) and coastal Chumash Native American tribes thousands of years ago. They shared the area with the Tataviam (San Fernando Valley) and Acjachemen (Orange County) tribes. A Gabrielino settlement in the area was called Iyáangẚ (written Yangna by the Spanish), meaning "poison oak place."* More

• William Bright (1998). Fifteen Hundred California Place Names. UC Press. p. 86. Founded on the site of a Gabrielino Indian village called Yang-na, or more accurately iyáangẚ, 'poison-oak place.'
• Ron Sullivan (Dec. 7, 2002). "Roots of native names". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved January 7, 2015. Los Angeles itself was built over a Gabrielino village called Yangna or iyaanga', 'poison oak place.'

Will Bernie's followers back Clinton? (No)

Pat Macpherson, Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly; AP.org via mail.com

Bernie is ready to endorse Hillary. But not all his supporters are prepared to give up the revolution. After holding out for concessions on the Democractic platform as he lobbied to push the party platform to the left, the senator is expected to cave in to her demand (AP).

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About f-n time, a-hole. You'll pay for this.

Many Bernie Sanders fans at a Democratic meeting in Orlando over the weekend had clear reservations about casting a ballot for Hillary Clinton despite some major victories in the latest draft of the Democratic platform and big concerns about presumptive Republican nominee Trump.

 

"Personally, I don't think I will support Hillary. I don't trust her," said Lisa Friddle, 53, a nurse from Palm Bay, Florida. "I can't see backing someone I don't believe in."

Those sentiments were echoed by Xavier Gaud, 26, of Orlando, who said he would prefer that Sanders run as an independent. If Sanders isn't on the ballot, he said it was "more likely I will support Jill Stein," the leader of the minor Green Party.

Why is Dr. Jill Stein, M.D. running again as the Green Party candidate? (jill2016.com)

  

Clinton and Sanders [appeared today] at a high school in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, the leadoff primary state where Sanders trounced her last winter. In recent days, Clinton has announced new policies [she can change her mind on at any time, especially when she moves to the right to draw Republican votes away from her rival] on higher education and health care in a nod to Bernie's liberal campaign.

The party platform -- what Democrats say they're for in public, never mind what they actually vote for or promote -- also shows Sanders' influence, with a commitment to a $15 federal minimum wage and tougher language on climate change.

 

Tensions between the campaigns simmered throughout the platform meeting in a steamy hotel ballroom over two marathon days. Despite winning concessions on many issues, Sanders supporters booed angrily over losses, such as failing to get clear opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal. [Clinton loves the TPP and is backing it no matter what she promises.]

 

Near the meeting's end, Sanders backers angrily shouted down an effort to add Clinton's name to the document in a number of places, which they took as an implication that she was already the official nominee. More

What we fear in Trump we have in Clinton

Ashley Wells, Seth Auberon, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly; Dr. Jill Stein (democracynow.org)

We agree, "If it's Hill, it's Jill!" If Bernie Sanders abandons us and tries to lead the post-Occupy Movement to back Clinton, we're going Green or voting Republican. Why? Jill explains:
 

Green Party’s Dr. Jill Stein, MD: What we fear from Donald Trump we already have in Hillary Clinton

Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein (Jill2016.com) takes aim at the presumptive nominees of both major Money Party, the RepubloCrats, Donny and Hillary.

"Trump SAYS very scary things -- deporting immigrants, massive militarism, and ignoring the climate. Hillary, unfortunately, has a track record for DOING all of those things," Stein says.

Go Green with Dr. Jill Stein

"Hillary has supported the deportations of immigrants, opposed the refugees -- women and children coming from Honduras, whose refugee crisis she was very much responsible for by giving a thumbs-up to this corporate coup in Honduras that has created the violence from which those refugees are fleeing."

Stein explains and goes on to say, "We see these draconian things that Donald Trump is talking about [doing], we actually see Hillary Clinton doing." More

• VIDEO: Dolores Huerta and Norman Solomon on Trump, Sanders' next steps, biased mainstream media coverage of the 2016 race
• Glenn Greenwald:  Trump, Clinton "playing into the hands" of ISIS [which was yet another cynical creation of the CIA]