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Emerging Visions #12 Submissions

2008-07-06T07:04:43Z

Please get your visions to me by July 12

Emerging Visions visionary art ezine #12, theme title: Jung @ Heart
expected to emerge in deepest July

I find it easier to work the collage with a running theme, usually associated with the astrological influence at the time of "emergence" of the issue. #12 is due out during the astrological month of Leo, around Jung's birthday. Leo rules youth and heart.

For Submission Guidelines and Issue #11 Imagine Nation:
http://emergingvisions.blogspot.com

I am hoping you will submit artistic visions relating to fairytales, youth archetypes, playfulness, creativity, childlike wonder, and such.
If you have something for the issue, please do send it.

libramoon42@mindspring.com

~~~~ make it happen

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Conclave Journal Seeking Submissions

2008-04-14T09:05:23Z

Conclave: A Journal of Character is accepting submissions for its inaugural issue, Fall 2008.
We will accept submissions from April 1-July 1, 2008.

Conclave is an annual print journal that focuses on character-driven writing in short stories, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and prose poems; we also print black and white photographs, and excerpts from plays: monologues, scenes, single acts, or one-act plays.

Conclave seeks writing that centers around well-crafted characters—complex and authentic: like Leopold Bloom, Huckleberry Finn, Anna Karenina, Hamlet, Miss Havisham, Hannibal Lecter, Hester Prynne, and others. Whether you love them or hate them, these characters are unforgettable and infuse their stories with life beyond the page. Those are the kinds of enduring characters we'd like to have populate the artfully crafted stories in Conclave.

For more information, see submission guidelines on our Web site.

Thank you.

Valya Dudycz Lupescu, Editor
Conclave: A Journal of Character
www.conclavejournal.com

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New Bard and Book Club FREE with forums

2008-04-12T02:16:59Z

Hi everyone
I have 2 sites that are dormant that I am trying to propagate with writers and book reviewers. They have forums attached as well. They are free...so the only thing I need now is people to start to network there and show some artistic impression with words...
I look forward to seeing you there.

http://www.sacredgoddessbard.com
http://www.sacredgoddessbard.com/forum

http://www.goddessbookclub.com
http://www.goddessbookclub.com/forum

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Conspiracy History compilation DVDs torrents

2008-03-06T15:29:15Z

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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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WRITERS WANTED...

2008-02-11T06:03:34Z

Poets, novelists, essayists, short story writers, playwrights, journalists...If you write and have a site that you would like to like to mine, then I would like to hear from you. A reciprocal link will seal the deal...PLUS you will also have access to my new blog, where you will be expected to post your excerpts and related material on a regular basis. Oh, wow! He’s got to be kidding! All of that FREE publicity and exposure!

Ayup...I have my reasons. But I’m also very interested in helping to promote my peers whenever and however possible. And my current project just worked out that way. So, if you interested, please get back to me ASAP. There will be limited space!

The 2 sites in question are as follows:

The Portfolio: http://rdklove.googlepages.com- (Your link will be on a separate page, called “Artistic Links”, created especially for this purpose.)

The Portfolio Blog: http://rdkpf.blogspot.com/ (Note: Although brand-spanking new, this blog has been highly syndicated, promulgated, listed and advertized in about as many ways as I know how and is already getting “unsolicited hits” from visitors from everywhere. Witness the “Recent Visitors” button on the right-hand side tab and the number of directories/syndicators listed there, as well, which are only a fraction of the actual total; which is to say: if you post something here, it will be getting national and, quite likely, worldwide exposure. Also, please note that links back to your sites and/or storefronts will not only be allowed, but also encouraged. This is a win/win, folks!)

Serious inquiries only, please.

RD Kennedy

For those of you who are NOT writers but enjoy quality literature, this also applies to you, because ALL visitors/readers WILL be allowed to post comments on the work they read. You may also know happen to know some writers, who are always looking for another place to promote their work and gain additional exposure. (We’re almost as bad as musicians!) Be SURE to spread the word and ask them to check this opportunity out, as well. You know how it works...

rdk1421@hotmail.com

(Please mention WRITERS WANTED in subject line!)

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I'm a Semifinalist in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Contest & I need your reviews!

2008-01-28T15:22:23Z

My novel manuscript, THE SILENCE OF TREES, has been selected as a Semifinalist in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. It's one of 836 excerpts chosen out of 5000 entries that were announced on January 15th.

My novel is set in Ukraine during World War II, as well as in Chicago in the present day. It draws upon the Slavic folklore and pre-Christian traditions of Eastern Europe.

This contest has been called the American Idol for Writers. Your review counts! So far, I'm in the lead but the other Semifinalists are quickly gaining. If you have a few moments, please visit the site and read and review my 14-page excerpt from THE SILENCE OF TREES.

The link is:
www.amazon.com/dp/B0011ZCAJC

The next stage of the competition asks Amazon customers to download, read, and review excerpts. Each review essentially counts as a vote, and the votes will be used in determining the top 100 Finalists, which will be announced on February 19.

Plus there are incentive prizes for reviewers!

For more information, you can also visit my website at www.thesilenceoftrees.com

I appreciate your review, as well as the reviews of anyone else you can forward this message on to.

Warm Regards,
Valya

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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.

2007-12-06T14:34:18Z

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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Writer Circle - The Original

2007-11-05T19:58:22Z

Just a note from the owner/moderator of this group.

I haven't been around Tribe in quite a long time but I have noticed that many folks have joined, and continue to join, this group, which I formed as a Tribe version of what already existed at Yahoo, the original Writer Circle. I have also noticed that this group has been quite inactive for some time.

So I'd like to extend an invitation to all the folks here to join the original Writer Circle at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/writercircle/ Unlike here it is a very active group. All are welcome.

Glenn Walker

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Dissonance Theory

2007-11-02T18:17:43Z

I wrote a story that was turned into a screenplay
for the apple insomnia festival
below is a link to the video
and the original story
i would like it if you guys saw both
and told me what you thought about them

http://edcommunity.apple.com/insomnia_fall07/item.php?itemID=545

http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog&Mytoken=71BEDB11-2F67-4455-A6425DFCF9463D5B9946567

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Become a part of "bAbeL - art project"

2007-10-31T02:37:52Z

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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Apple Insomnia Film Festival

2007-10-14T22:11:43Z

did anyone else participate in this?
I would like to watch their results

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One Story or Four Stories?

2007-07-26T02:24:13Z

I am working on a novel about four urbanites and how their lives intertwine with each other. I'm now a bit stuck, however, because I'm finding that each of their stories are so compelling that writing separate stories might actually be more effectual, in terms of connecting with my reader. What do you guys think I should do? Should I stop the major story and start working on the splintered, or should I let the splintered one be a sequel?

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Anyone in Alameda, CA?

2007-05-26T17:43:45Z

Anyone in Alameda, CA aware of the existence of a writing group on the island that could use another writer or that is interested in getting together to form such a group?

Thanks.

A.

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POETS/WRITERS NEEDED to publish

2007-02-26T15:06:32Z

I AM AN AUTHOR/PUBLISHER
IN CANADA [WinePress]

I am re-publishing my first children's book:
"Tails from the Truthfairy"
poems, fables, lore, and stories ... a labor of love.
I am looking for story-writers, poets. and fairy-illustrators to collaborate with me on this project, want to make it a community effort, so writers can associate/network/and come together in a spirit of cooperation.

ISBN 0-9731363-6-7
© 2007 WinePress

In Canada you © your work free with an ISBN
Don’t know if it’s free in the states!
Books have a CIP and are registered with the Govt. Archives.
If you send me work the mere fact you sent it [save email records] is a good copyright.
I might not like it ... this is the danger. It has to sell !
I’m picky ...
U might get angry if I reject it, and even worse, not know what I have done with it, or if I stole it.
......... These are the risks. But rejections will be documented also by email records.

I would however like to find people to put into this with me, if you are savvy you can protect yourself, you can PM me, then we can connect via email, the work I need has to be at par in quality with Dr, Zeus, Aesop's Fables, Red-Riding-Hood, Legends, Folk-Tales, and stories with real value.

Profits will shared according to what goes in comes out, [don’t expect a lot!] ... I arrange, edit, publish, format, print, promote, distribute, and sell the work though channels I have developed over the years, as well as new ones I find along the way.
So my cut reflects this but I do not want to take bread from someone else’s table.
I currently write for 1 magazine, have over 50 published newspaper articles on current affairs, over 20 published poems, and 2 books published

Below is the kind of copyrighting and cataloging information you should expect.

All rights reserved, no part of this book may be reproduced,
stored in a database or other retrieval system, or transmitted
in any form by any means, including mechanical, electronic, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the written permission of the publisher.

Published in Canada by WinePress

PRINTING HISTORY

Originally published under the title “Tales from the Truthfairy”
By Sacred Wine Press Duncan Canada © 2006
Duncan British Columbia © 2006

“Tails from the Truthfairy”
Copyright © 2nd Edition 2007
WinePress All Rights Reserved

Back cover Photograph © WinePress
Front Cover Art by Howard David Johnson
Inside Illustrations from clip art /local artists
Typesetting & indexing by
WinePress Publishing
Duncan British Columbia Canada

PRINTED IN CANADA

Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Dxxxe, Jxxxs, 1957-
I. Title. Tails from the Truthfairy / A collection of Children’s Stories & Poems / Volume 1 / by Jxxxs Dxxxe. – 1st ed.
ISBN 0-9731363-6-7 1. Poetry. 2. Children’s Stories. 3. Children. 4. Fables.

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Monday Night Radio Show

2007-02-19T22:08:47Z

Harmony & blessings,

This is Silly_Love

If you would be interested in reading a poem on my weekly poetry radio show, let me know. If you don't wish to read a poem, but would still like to talk about poetry, or poets, or poetry related topics or issues, then leet me know this as well....

My show is Monday Night, 10p.m EST. I live in Colorado, so it's 8p.m here...anyways,

if you want to know more, go to talkradiox.com, or send me a personal message, and we'll arrange how we can talk....if you feel uncomfortable giving me your number so that I can call you during the show, you can call the hotline....the number is
661.349-TALK

Call anytime Monday 10p.m - 11p.m EST

Harmony & blessings
Love & light, and
Boom!
(to life)

your moderator
Silly_Love Light

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How to submit a manuscript (x-posted)

2007-01-22T22:02:49Z

This is just too funny...

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

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ExperiMental Novel- Blues4Kali

2007-01-18T12:06:05Z

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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Shalom Fellow Human Beings:

2006-12-16T17:53:15Z

Shalom Fellow Human Beings:

The people of our nation and the world must recognize the egregious acts of treason being perpetuated by an executive branch, which has overthrown our government infrastructure, declared constitutional civil war on the American people, and continues a formula of genocide through a complicit partnership with the Saudi Arabian Royal Family that along with the Bush and Bin Laden families orchestrated the terrorist attacks of 911, caused the murder of every U.S. Military service member and over 650,000 innocent Iraqi human beings who have lost their lives or been wounded in the Bush bin Laden Crime Syndicate’s money laundering operation in Iraq.

George W. Bush, his family, corporatists, members of the neoconservative controlled corporate media; et al, have mirrored grandpa and former U.S Senator Prescott Bush’s treason of building the Nazi War Machine against America during WWII as a war profiteer by their funneling of what will soon become a theft of over one trillion dollars in U.S. government funds, laundered through Iraq and elsewhere to financially replenished the Saudi Arabian Royal Family at the expense of everything we hold precious in America.

I say no! No to orders and directives stemming from the minds of criminal sociopaths and delusional religious fanatics and yes to congressional oversight investigations and the inevitable criminal prosecution of these insidious traitors. The courts should hand down a death sentence for these vermin and order their heads to be surgically removed and medically preserved in a future place like the Smithsonian’s Hall of Treason to prevent this level of treachery from ever reoccurring in our nation’s history.

George W. Bush is a criminal sociopath, he is not my president and I remain in the constitutional service of the American people and humanity. We must focus through the psyops fear tactics to remain on the path of human beings with the inalienable right of sovereign thought. Please feel free you review my blog and website:

Blog: http://tribes.tribe.net/manifestomonkey

Website: http://home.comcast.net/~themonkeysgarden/TheMonkeysGardenManifesto.html

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The effect of media images on children

2006-11-04T15:33:41Z

There is growing concern that children's development is being hindered by exposure to violent and adult content. We must help them cope with the downward drift of adult issues and objectionable media messages so that they can better deal with the normal challenges of childhood and the stress posed by outside influences.

But how?

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The NaNoWriMo 2006

2006-10-16T22:18:49Z

Just wondering if any of the writers (or hopeful writers) here were doing the NaNoWriMo this year.

National Novel Writing Month
NaNoWriMo for short
http://www.nanowrimo.org

If anyone is, who would be interested in getting together either online or inperson to help, support and encourage each other during November?

If so, either contact me here at Tribe or join my writing group Writer Circle http://groups.yahoo.com/group/writercircle/ (the source for this Tribe group by the way) which will be serving as my online homebase during the NaNoWriMo.

Best of luck, and keep writing!

Glenn Walker

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Free Adventure

2006-06-22T16:30:03Z

Who would you be if you could be anyone? go anywhere? do anything? Well, you can! Luke Soloman will show you how.

It's my pleasure to introduce BEGINNER'S LUKE. My eponymous protagonist is more than merely self-conscious. He is sui generis, literally believing himself into being. BEGINNER'S LUKE is the first novel in a series of six madcap adventures that, collectively, make up the imaginary life of this lovably irreverent modern-day Walter Mitty. Luke's obsession with self, sex, satire and slapdash highlight a serious point: consciousness creates. The point is there is a point to living in the imagination–for only through it can we reinvent our ourselves and our world.

A respected New York publisher, whose authors feature a National Book Award finalist in addition to dozens of prestigious award winners, recently offered me a contract (subsequently declined in favor of an experiment in self-publishing) for the BEGINNER'S LUKE Series, which made it out of a yearly “slush pile” of nearly 8,000 manuscripts. One early reader confided, ”I've had quite a journey ever since you shared BEGINNER'S LUKE with me. I'm more careful, these days, when someone gives me a book. I haven't been the same since reading it, as if I contracted the disease of restlessness and have spent months reconsidering every facet of my life. Your novel changed me forever and I blame you for it.”

Starting today, I'm giving away the first 2012 electronic copies of BEGINNER'S LUKE. To take advantage of this totally FREE offer, simply visit www.beginnersluke.com/page7.html .

To the Adventure!

Sol
www.beginnersluke.com

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Writing software

2006-05-21T20:11:14Z

Hello all.

I’ve just purchased a new computer (my laptop of the last four years having finally croaked), and I would like to load a word processor that’s not Microsoft Word, or Word Perfect. I’ve been told that there are good ones out there designed specifically for serious writers (AbiWord, maybe?). Does anyone have any thoughts or suggestions?

I’d be willing to buy software, but if there was some sort of freeware out there, that would be nice too.

Thanks a lot.

lee

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Manifesto for a New Fiction

2006-05-05T16:11:37Z

Hi, all!

An essay of mine entitled "Manifesto for a New Fiction," which kicks off my experimental novel series BEGINNER'S LUKE (soon to be released), was just published in the May issue of T-ZERO: THE WRITERS' EZINE. I thought I'd share this small success. :)

Sol

http://www.thewritersezine.com
http://www.beginnersluke.com

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Secret Love

2006-04-26T17:27:39Z

I close my glazed eyes and sense a delectable delight
As the sun in its hallowed light embraces from afar
And stroll my unconsciousness to that sweetness of breath
Beseeched in crisp transient wings of quantum insight
A stream of formless anticipation straddles a shooting star
Consumed like a flame in a tunnel of perpetual death
Forever immortalized and tattooed in slumbers stillness
Clandestine truths toll loudly within intuition’s shrillness

I watch the mirrored luster of compassion caress your lips
And long for that trembling kiss as consecrated thought
Embraces with the ardor of a newlywed’s first explosion
I know not the impassioned whirlwind of your undulating hips
Or from whence the covenstead of intoxication was brought
But truth be known I am fully aware of our majestic implosion
And the fragrance of your flowering essence funneled from above
Embraced afar within the hallowed loveliness of a secret love

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A Profound Awakening

2006-03-30T12:55:26Z

Hello, fellow wordsmiths. I just received this pre-pub review of my novel BEGINNER'S LUKE and thought I'd shamelessly share. Enjoy!

Sol

***

A PROFOUND AWAKENING: BEGINNER'S LUKE

Alyce Mooreland, Los Angeles, California

I won’t call myself a failed novelist because though I’ve written a handful of stories, even published one, I never seriously tried to write a novel. Oh, I’ve never been short on ideas. Plots come like leaves on a tree to me. I just somehow along the road of life became a mother instead of an author. So I was a little surprised, at myself, to find my old dream of writing reawakened by an iconoclastic little novel entitled BEGINNER’S LUKE I received out of the blue–literally, from cyberspace as a PDF–from an old friend I hadn’t heard a peep from in years.

I met the author, Sol Luckman, during my sophomore year of college, when he was a senior getting ready to enter what we both rather scornfully referred to as the “real world.” I remember roadtripping together to DC, smoking on the terrace during intermission at the National Symphony, feeling the unexpected warmth of the early April night, watching boats drift by like phantoms on the Potomac as we discussed what we agreed was a general “watering down” tendency in American fiction.

Sol was a writer born out of time, a beat poet who’d arrived on the scene a generation too late, the kind of guy who worked on stories in DC bagel shops, writing with a green pen for spring in a coffee-stained journal. As a boy you just knew he’d slain the dragon, stood tall on his horse before the Ring Wraith at the gate of Minas Tirith, seen things just beyond the light, just below the water, fed the flames of Beltane’s fires and carefully gathered the mistletoe. I figured, frankly, he’d make an utterly unreadable novelist.

How very wrong I was. BEGINNER’S LUKE, the first book in a series of six, is that rarest of birds: an inspiring comic novel composed almost entirely of one-liners. Reading it was like having a string of accidents: page after page I kept running into myself. The self I planned to be anyway before the creative part of me became a bug in amber, suspended indefinitely, a life on hold, to be continued … The experience of reading BEGINNER’S LUKE was a profound awakening to the knowledge I still have my own story, or stories, to tell.

BEGINNER’S LUKE isn’t for everybody, let me warn you. If you’re so inside the box you’ve forgotten what sunlight looks like, if you’re one of those benighted empiricists who demand numbers, statistics and facts ad nauseam, who prefer microbiology to mythology, meatloaf to filet mignon, kraut to caviar, go read E. Annie Proulx or Richard Ford.

But if you’re willing to bust a gut laughing, mostly at yourself, distinguish between what you are and what you can be, and in the process fire up your belief in your ability to create the life you desire and deserve, do yourself a favor and give yourself the gift of Luke. Just remember: it’s only the beginning.

[Sol Luckman is author of the nonfiction CONSCIOUS HEALING: BOOK ONE ON THE REGENETICS METHOD and the BEGINNER’S LUKE Series of novels. Luke’s obsession with self, sex, satire and slapdash highlight a serious point: consciousness creates. The point is there is a point to living in the imagination–for only through it can we reinvent our ourselves and our world. Starting this June, the author is giving away the first 2012 copies of BEGINNER’S LUKE. To take advantage of this FREE offer, visit http://www.beginnersluke.com .]

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Scribbler call for Poetry and Short Prose

2006-03-28T00:09:32Z

Greetings Poets,

I am the guest editor for Clive Matson's Crazy Child Scribbler this month. If you don't already know, the Scribbler is an 8-page hard-copy journal for writers dedicated to writing from the core and keeping the pen moving. The Scribbler is published four times a year. All materials in the publication remain copyrighted by the authors.

The theme for the summer edition is Birth - Life - Death. You may submit pieces that have to do with any or all three aspects of the theme.

Please submit all poems (40 lines or less) and prose (500 words or less) as plain text in the body of a single e-mail message (no attachments) to oceana@oceanasphere.com. Please type "Submission" in the subject heading of your email message to minimize the chance of your email becoming lost among the spam.

Simultaneous submissions are fine. Deadline is May 1st.

Response time is typically two to eight weeks. Please query if you do not receive a response by the end of that period.

Please do not send submissions to my Tribes mailbox. Send them to

oceana@oceanasphere.com

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Introductions

2006-03-27T23:23:39Z

Well, we now have a handful of people on board. We should probably get to know each other. What does everyone write?

I get started but I'll cheat - here's an URL:

http://www.fearofwriting.com/chat/SigmaChat/About-Chat-Manager.htm

that goes a bio written about me for my Writers Chat gig a few months back. I'm writing a cyberpunk novel and do a lot of movie and comic reviews on the side. I also run a couple of writers groups both online and in person.

Who's next?

Glenn

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Acknowledging Acknowledgments

2006-02-18T16:04:55Z

(from BEGINNER'S LUKE)

Sol Luckman

First, I would like to thank my dear mother for her intense labor of love in delivering yours truly safe and sound into the world. I apologize for the pain I caused you, mother, on my rather late arrival. As you know better than anyone, I'm a slow learner--always running behind.

I would also like to thank my father for sparing his precious seed to co-create me. Let me take this opportunity to remind you, father, you STILL owe me for the not inconsiderable pleasure I afforded you on the glorious occasion of my conception. I'm prepared to accept cash, credit card, personal check, travelers cheque, money order, gold bullion, real estate, or a sizable inheritance.

I would also like to thank the Academy. You guys don’t know me, but I think you're really great. Keep up the good work!

Next, I would like to extend a special expression of gratitude to all my family, friends, lovers, teachers, employers and coworkers who one way or another, overtly or covertly, through thick and thin, encouraged me to keep writing this imaginary life. There aren't many of you, which makes my appreciation all the greater.

I would also like to take this opportunity to recognize all my family, friends, lovers, teachers, employers and coworkers who one way or another, overtly or covertly, through thick and thin, attempted to derail my creative aspirations and mire me in the quotidian mediocrity to which you--YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE--have become hopelessly inured. There are a lot of you, more than I could count, which makes this, the Moment of penning my Acknowledgments, all the more satisfying.

Finally, I must say a word about the PLACES where substantial parts of this work (play?) were composed. I mean specifically the Cafés of the World where I've whiled away so much of my time (and yours!) in the vain but amusing pursuit of capturing an ineffable existence: mine.

If I learned anything writing BEGINNER'S LUKE, it was that contrary to myth, heaven is filled with cool little cafes with Leonard Cohen over hidden speakers, groovy abstract expressionist art on the walls and superior Java from obscure South American countries. I was born to sit out on the terrasses of such glorious establishments of leisure on such splendid afternoons, chain-sipping specialty caffeinated beverages while daydreaming impossible episodes in impossible places--

Excuse me, my cappuccino just arrived. I can't tell you how thankful I am. I'd like to ACKNOWLEDGE this cappuccino. I sweeten it liberally with three sparkling sugar cubes, stir the tan frothing brew with the tiny silver spoon, hoist the cup with trembling anticipation to my lips, and, smelling Italy, visions of panforte and biscotti dancing in my head, take a sip.

Ecstasy! The simple act of sitting here sipping this cappuccino is its own testament to my commitment to living the writer's life. Which is to say: doing nothing but doing it exceedingly well. I'm SO thankful for this ability that has taken me an entire imaginary lifetime to perfect.

I'm also thankful for the fine pair of legs strutting by just now on the sidewalk. You have to feel good knowing there are thighs like that in the world. A toast to the miniskirt’s inventor!

I raise my eyes and lock gazes with the proud owner of these exquisite limbs--and it's almost like making love in this instant. The passion, though invisible, is nearly palpable beneath her stoic façade and my whole body tingles with glimpses of erotic encounters that could theoretically, but will probably never, occur.

There--it just happened again, with another set of eyes: the riveting glance, oxymoronic perhaps but with a rush like spontaneous combustion, then the looking away and the tragic vanishing forever. How I adore you, whoever you are!

By way of closing these Acknowledgments, I shall paraphrase one of my personal heroes, the great flaneur Baudelaire:

O you I could have loved!
O you who knew it!
O we who blew it!

Copyright (c) 2006 by Sol Luckman. All Rights Reserved.

[Sol Luckman is author of the BEGINNER'S LUKE Series of novels. Luke's obsession with self, sex, satire and slapdash humor combine to highlight a surprisingly serious point: consciousness creates. The point is there is a point to living in the imagination--for only through it can we reinvent our ourselves and our world. Starting this June, the author is giving away the first 2012 electronic copies of BEGINNER'S LUKE. To take advantage of this FREE offer, visit http://www.beginnersluke.com. ]

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Lets Go!

2006-02-17T04:30:47Z

Okay, so I introduced myself about five minutes ago- is it too soon?? Lets go!!

Being Repaired

She has down perfectly, ever so
the dimensions of being human

the heavy dim lit light and jazz music
crowded soul crammed into four walls, close

and pounding, pulse in the tip of surgical steel
waiting, tasting the moment before being shattered

being reassembled, she slaps her arm to find the lifeblood, typically
although not appearing wanton disheveled, stereotypically

washed away, the gray green freedom colored spinning
she spirals, falling lovingly desperate into iambic pauses

there she is a child again, in the sleet sheet metal September
turning to ice, breaking but not broken and still complete

in warmth, morning is a kiss and a slap
tomorrow is today two times two, small pattering feet (and

four new teeth) open hand a gift wrapped around a
flourescent moon she slips sweetly between her lips

then holds tightly the beautiful terrible wriggling future, ever so
the imperfect dimensions of being human.

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"Free College" Blog for College-No-Gos Or for Those Who Dislike the Politics of Academia

2006-02-02T17:49:41Z

Hello Friends,

Please check out this link:

http://freecollege.blogspot.com/

The link will bring you to a "blog community" that I am trying to
start. The intention is for the participants to speak from their truth
regarding common themes that we may often think about such as: one's
work vs. one's calling, individual endeavors vs. ethical
responsibilities based on family or your values, the artist's vision
vs. general uniformity. I am hoping that these "themes" will have a
life of their own based on the nature of inquiry, wanting to know
something because you are led to it!

I created the blog to try and create a sort of "free college" for
those who are through with school (or not), and those who would like
to browse through the thoughts of others to join in "equal inquiry"
(that means being open to others' different points of view with the
goal of many ways of seeing a subject rather than arguing "your side"
of a topic).

Recently, I have felt the need to create this sort of forum for free
expression and different perspectives based on "your truth" from your
opinion, discipline, culture, or interests. In this way, we will be
teaching each other what we know...and it will be free to all!!! No
grades, no judging, and no tuition.

I hope you find it to your interest!

Eddie Ling

PS As of now, this blog is a sort of creative writing journal...come check it out!

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Writer Circle @ Yahoo! Groups

2006-01-02T21:31:51Z

This is the original version of this Tribe-based group, and can be located here:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/writercircle/

Writer Circle is a Yahoo Group focusing on critique, support and feedback for serious writers and creatives of all kinds. Writers, poets, artists, filmmakers, photographers, sculptors, performers, web designers and even gamers - but mostly serious writers - are all accepted and encouraged. Writer Circle is basically for folks who would like to share their work and receive the support and feedback from others to help finish, start and eventually release projects to the world at large. It is also for discussion of writing-related or creative topics and anything else that may be relevant. Work on your art every day but most of all, have fun!

A few simple rules... - Be nice. We are all friends here or at least fellow warriors in creativity so treat everyone else just as you would like to be treated.

Please type *Mature Content* in the subject line of your messages when posting such material. Thank you.

The Contract for Success - An agreement for folks on this group to work on their art every day. Discipline = progress = success. Simple equation. It is all about discipline. Every day write for at least an hour or write at least one hundred words. Once or twice a week members post a progress report on what they have written and what they have done. It should open a forum for discussion, inspire creativity and get those of us who shall remain unnamed off their lazy butts. ;-) This is also a good way to inform folks on what kind of projects and objectives we all have.

If you have any questions or comments about Writer Circle please contact the moderator at monsura2ATyahooDOTcom.

Glenn

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An introduction

2005-12-31T01:03:35Z

A songwriter, I am. I recognize a few names around here.... glad to discover and contribute to the circle.

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Writers and Tribe's New TOU

2005-12-29T18:34:12Z

Did anyone else notice this clause in the new terms of use?

5. Content

We do not claim ownership of the content you post or otherwise provide to the Service. However, you hereby grant, and agree to grant as an effect of posting or otherwise providing content, the following license: to the public, a license for personal non-commercial use; and to Tribe, a perpetual license to use, copy, distribute, display, perform, and modify any and all content that you post on the Service. This license cannot be withdrawn except that any content deleted from the Tribe site will terminate the Tribe license. Your use of the service is in consideration for this license, we will not otherwise pay you for your content. You represent and warrant that you have not granted and will not grant any rights inconsistent with this license.

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A New Publisher of Romantic Literature

2005-12-08T05:48:16Z

This e-publisher only accepts authors that they feel are worthy of paperback as well, for all their books hit that medium within days of being released in e-book form. They are also planning on Audio Books and have contacts with Amazon.com

Their main criteria is that it most be a romance of some form. It can cross into any other genre... Historical, Paranormal, Interracial, Erotica, BDSM, Mature (Older Couples), and many more.

If you are interested in reading works or in seeking publication visit their website at www.blackvelvetseductions.com

Thank you,
Robert Cloud
Author of Toy's Story, to be released in February of 2006.

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greetings & a question.

2005-08-25T18:40:10Z

Hi, everyone.. I'm new to this tribe. I've been writing ever since I could hold a crayon.

I"m applying for a position as a junior assistant editor, and they are requiring writing samples as part of the application process. The company's focus is adult nonfiction & children's books.

I'm not able to contact them, as the posting requests no emails, phone calls or drive-bys.

So.. my question is: What do publishing houses generally like to see as writing samples for editorial positions? Excerpts? Essays?
I'm at a loss!

Thanks in advance

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Welcome!

2005-04-09T02:23:35Z

Welcome to Writer Circle @ Tribe!

Please be sure to check out our Yahoo! Groups counterpart at:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/writercircle/

Glenn

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Writers with Drinks event in SF

2005-04-08T19:30:30Z

Anybody up for a blind date (I am a straight guy) to this event?
It starts at 7:30, so you should let me know before 7.

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Quick Apology

2005-04-08T19:28:42Z

Hey folks

Just want to apologize for being away, been pretty sick and haven't been able to keep up the usual web presence I used to be able to. Will be back to Tribe as quickly as I catch up on everything I've missed lately.

Glenn

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Thoughts?

2005-04-08T19:24:33Z

From the Warren Ellis 'newsletter' ...

bad signal
WARREN ELLIS

You should probably assume there's going to be a
string of random and increasingly strange and/or
worthless Signals over the next three days, as I
begin drinking. Because there's nothing sexier
than a middle-aged man wearing only shirt sitting
abandoned and isolated in an empty house with
literally gallons of single malt Scotch as his
only companions.

Obviously, use the Unsub instructions accordingly.
Or sit there and watch me collapse, one of the two.

Tribe.net. Died on its arse last year, pretty much,
but still struggles on. Because playa-crustie omnisexual
perverts from the Bay Area still need a place to
sell their sand-riddled, semen-encrusted old furniture.

I use it to track a few music-related groups. But is
anyone aware of any actual conversations happening
on Tribe these days?

-- W

...................
UNSUBSCRIBE:
http://www.flirble.org/mailman/listinfo/badsignal

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a moment

2005-03-21T06:53:52Z

I have been part of tribe.net for several months, but I'm just getting time to get involved and see what it has to offer. Anyway so I saw this tribe and joined! Here is a poem of mine... what do any of you think?

a moment

I watch you, but cannot
say
a
word... as I am here turned
to water
by your smile and your smile, this one
you give me...
is it merely
politeness, or is it an invitation

I've seen you....
before,
before the smiles,
before we met,
I've seen you
looking at my legs,
looking at how tight my shirt fit around my
small breasts.

I've seen you and did not think less
of you, think you were merely
atyplical
male looking for sex
or God
or creation
I believed you were
looking for something to feel
something more
than all this around us: a mimic of life.

But how can I touch you
how can I tell you
tell you
I've seen you,
and I want you...
and I want you,

and
and I
and I want
I want you.

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Need an editor who is familiar with New Age/Metaphysical Spirituality

2005-03-21T06:51:50Z

Hello group,
I will complete my first book soon. It will under go basic grammar editing by at least three people, 2 of whom are English teachers. (I use words to create ideas. I am not great with grammar.)
It will also be critiqued by 10 other people. I have met 3 of them and they are familiar with my other work. The 7 remaining are a mix of metaphysical minded people who do not know me, and are at various stages in the journey. The people I have chosen are not the type to just give me an undeserved pat on the back. Their critiques will be honest, brutally honest. That is why I picked them.

These above people are not in the writing industry, they are in the reading industry.
I get the feeling that I will still need to find an editor to give my book a critique/editing. This is the type of book that someone who doesn't know New Age/Metaphysics can give an adequate critique.

Does anyone have a suggestion of a good editor?

Thanks,
Dana

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can you refer me to a good agent?

2005-03-21T06:48:23Z

greetings and salutations,
I'm writing a quasi-scientific, autobio, with collected interviews on the phycological and behaviorial effects of being raised in a cult,
can anyone direct me to a good agent (i'm in the austin tx area)
with the creds to handle this kind of piece?

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Writing Workshop Group

2005-03-21T06:46:42Z

I would like to meet with some other SF writers on a regular basis (every other week or once a month) to edit their work/give feedback and have my own writing edited/receive feedback. I'm writing my first novel, and I also write poetry. Anyone interested? This would be an in-person kind of thing, not online. :-)

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Submitting poetry? WHERE!?

2005-03-21T06:41:24Z

I've just started to put any thought into doing something with my creative abilities. I wrote all thru high school and college. I'm about to graduate college and I'm thinking of a Master's in something literary related, but I'm worried about being able to get a job to pay the bills afterwards. Anybody out there with any advice?

ALSO I was wondering does anyone know where are some good on-line sites to post/submit one's work? One of my professors said most on-line sites are not viewed with much merit, to not waste a lot of time getting my poetry any of everywhere.
I was also wondering if anyone knows any small and/or independent presses? My professor told me to stay away from places that ask for high reading fees, or fees at all really and that I would be wasting my time to send anything to major publishers until I get into a handful of small presses.

Thanks, Michelle

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The Craft of Poetry

2005-03-09T20:34:06Z

If you are interested in this topic, join "Digitalius Maximus Poeticus" @
digitaliusmaximuspoeticus.tribe.net

The Craft of Poetry

I wanted to start a discussion on the Craft of Poetry.

First off, what is Poetry - with a capital p?

What makes poetry different than prose: be it fiction or non-fiction?

Is poetry something that can be learned or taught, much like other art forms such as music, or the visual arts?

Does a writer's poetry mature ? Where does poetry come from?

Is a writer's poetry reflective of the writer, or is poetry something distinct and separate from the writer, completely?

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Charity Drive

2005-02-01T00:46:04Z

Hello,

Most of you know me as the movie guy.
From time to time, you have seen various contests promoting one of my two books. I have decided recently to work with a charity known as Childs Play. This charity works with Childrens Hospitals to provide gifts for children who are in hospitals, especially over the holidays. Since Xmas 04 has passed, I wanted to get a jump on my 2005 plans and I am looking for people who want to help out. I am planning on doing a donation drive and giving a % of funds raised from my books, I may even do full % until then. Anyway, I wanted to get your ideas, and see if you would like to help out.

Thank you,

Gareth

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new writers' tribe: small CHUNKS OF WRITING

2004-12-01T14:31:23Z

Hi. I just started a new tribe...it features one exercise a week. It is moderated...but if you make a request with your first exercise...you are in. I just want to make sure the members are respectful of others' work.

thanks!

Shannon

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Invitation to join writers chat Wednesday night at 10PM eastern

2004-09-18T17:50:17Z

I am offering a chat through the Writers chat yahoo group this Wednesday night.

Feel free to sign up to view my announcement.

I hope you can join me! :)

http://audreyshaffer.com/chat/schedule.htm

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Free DVD with Book Purchase

2004-08-27T18:34:18Z

By the way, I am in a generous mood. For your us and Canada readers I have copies of Creature Unknown DVDs available. All they have to do is buy or download a copy of my book at www.sknr.net and write me when they do. I will confirm it and send a DVD off to them while supplies last. 3.00 for a download and 17.80 for a bound book gets them a DVD valued at 22.00 sounds like a deal to me.

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My Book on Sale through July.

2004-07-07T16:50:44Z

Hello,

My book of film and game reviews and interviews is now on sale. The book is over 540 pages and has full reviews and interviews as well as commentary. AS an added bonus, each person who buys a copy is eligible to get a free DVD while supplies last. it is only 3.00 for a downloaded copy and under 18.00 for a bound copy. I will be signing at the upcoming local cons but get them now to get the best price. simply go to www.sknr.net and click the buy my book link to order.

Thank you,

Gareth

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