CrackBerry BlackBerry, Ipod, Iphone, cell phone, the answering machine, Playstations, Nintendo, videos and more. There are enough high tech devices to keep the world busy for a while. How was life before the invention of technology in the stone age when sitting around the fire was considered a form of entertainment. Life is now the ten second attention span and information overload with technology speeding up the pace of life. And so CNN had an article on its website the other day titled “Are gadgets, and the Internet, actually addictive?” It seems like the American Psychiatric Association war industry is looking for another population of people to pimp with its targeted diagnosis and pharmaceutical drugging campaigns. Even the animals are being diagnosed as depressed and are no longer immune from the pharmaceutical drug industry these days. As I have mentioned in earlier posts, I am AMA and APA, Anti Medical Model Association, Anti Psychiatric, psych-cia-trick Association and anti mental health death system. Abolish forced psychiatric treatment. Psychiatry Kills and psychiatrists are mass murders in white coats as psychiatric genocide originated in Nazi Germany. And so the CNN article goes on to say that at its annual conference, the APA and the AMA are now considering adding the label of technology addiction, the diagnosis of the digital world and its high tech gadgets and Internet addiction to its DSMIII manual and drug everyone who is addicted to the Internet. And therapists, the-rapists are waiting.
The following is a Declaration of Principals that was adopted at the Tenth Annual International Conference on Human Rights and Psychiatric oppression, held in Toronto Canada in 1982. The following is an excerpt from 30 principals.
1. We oppose involuntary psychiatric intervention including civil commitment and the administration of psychiatric procedures “treatments” by force of coercion or without informed consent.
4. We oppose forced psychiatric procedures such as drugging, electroshock, psychosurgery, restraints, solitary confinement and “aversive behavior modification”.
5. We oppose forced psychiatric procedures because they humiliate, debilitate, injure, incapacitate and kill people.
6. We oppose forced psychiatric procedures because they are at best quackery and permanent harm to the total being of people subjected to them.
And the list goes on and on………..
And #18. We oppose the use of psychiatric terms because they substitute jargon for plain English and are fundamentally stigmatizing, demeaning, unscientific, mystifying and superstitious. Examples:
Plain English and Psychiatric Jargon
Psychiatric inmate……………………Mental patient
Psychiatric institution……………….Mental hospital/mental health center
Psychiatric system……………………Mental health system
Psychiatric procedure…………………Treatment/therapy
Personal or social difficulties in living…..Mental illness
Socially undesirable characteristic or trait..Symptom
Drugs…………………………………..Medication
Drugging………………………………..Chemotherapy
Electroshock…………………………….Electroconvulsive therapy
Anger…………………………………..Hostility
Enthusiasm………………………………Mania
Joy…………………………………….Euphoria
Fear……………………………………Paranoia
Sadness/unhappiness………………………Depression
Vision/spiritual experience……………….Hallucination
Non-conformity…………………………..Schizophrenia
Unpopular belief…………………………Delusion
No one is free when others are oppressed. Freedom for all. Is another world possible? And what does this have to do with a No Police State? Mind Freedom. 
Hawaii Vacations
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Lovolution Shows
Hey Bloggers, here is an email that I received for a music event. Lovolution will be doing some great music over at the Knitting Factory. If you are in the neighborhood, check it out.
Audio Gumbo Live NYC at The Knitting Factory
Sunday August 5th,
SUN RA IMPOSSIBLE SPACE CIRCUS
7:15pm sharp:
Screening of ultra-rare 1968 film ‘Spaceways’ by Ed English featuring extensive footage of Sun Ra house at 48 east 3rd Street, NYC, plus Arkestra appearance at Carnegie Hall
Also showing: TV concert from Berlin, 1970 – outrageously psychedelic
It has been nearly 15 years since the Sun Day that carried Sun Ra to yet another world, and the waves of effect from the infinitively creative mind of Sun Ra have entered into every genre of music as we, today, are experiencing. Especially we see his more immediate influence in the musics of artists as engraving as John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Jimi Hendrix, George Clinton, Laurie Anderson, Fela Kuti and Pink Floyd. Countless rock groups and creative improvisational ambient artists have followed Sun Ra’s leads into musical revelations. Sun Ra re-set the peripherals of music’s seeming limitations with mesmerizing illuminations. And like the velocity of time travel, Sun Ra’s music becomes with every moment more magnificently vital.
On Sunday, August 5th in the Old Office at the Knitting Factory, the Sun Ra Impossible Space Circus will once again perform from original charts original adaptations and interpretations of Sun Ra’s music.
Being the 3rd presentation of the Space Circus, in the past having included Sun Ra Arkestra alumni Juini Booth, Vincent Chancey, Terry Adkins and On Ka’a Davis, this promises to be yet another resplendent concert.
Visiting from Milwaukee will be Daniel Zelonky, one of today’s foremost musician archivist of Sun Ra’s music. He will be bringing along with him some groundbreaking original charts of lesser known Sun Ra gems. Also joining from the midwest will be Sean Behling and Kelly Rossum, teaming up with the NYC home team and some of the Sun Ra Arkestra contingent. Zelonky’s selections will make for a historic presentation never heard ever in the world!
On August 5th Appearing live and in person will be the Sun Ra Impossible Space Circus with these artists:
Danny Zelonky,Danny Zelonky,Aaron Whitby,Sean Behling,Fred Ho,Avram Fefer,Paul Meurens,Jun Miyake,Cecil Brooks III (Sun Ra Arkestra),Dave Davis (Sun Ra Arkestra,Kelly Rossum, Dikko Faust,On Ka’a Davis (former Sun Ra Arkestra),Juini Booth (Sun Ra Arkestra),Welf Dorr,Dave Treut,Monika Heidemann,Dixie Estes,Latasha Diggs,
Abraham Gomez-Delgado.
– Plus –
Space Circus Visual Presentation by Green Dragon
Not only that:
Sunday, August 5th, Late Show in Knitting Factory’s Old Office:
Jojo Kuo Afrobeat Collective Jam at Midnight
Other hits at Knit:
August 19th, Jef Lee Johnson/ Marvin Sewell/ Ronnie Drayton
August 27th, Main Space: Sonny Sharrock / Alice Coltrane double birthday celebration
August 28th, Tap Bar: Monika Heidemann Band / Burnt Sugar The Arkestra Chamber with Ramm El Zee.
Have a great music day.
Yogaville
As I had mentioned a few posts earlier, it’s gym time. Free gym time. And as part of my attempt to do the whole gym route for free, I thought I’d try one of those yoga classes to yoga my city living stress away. And I am not sure how I can sit in one of those classes and chant ohmmmm… to destress and calm down to bliss and nirvana when I really wind up chanting Ohhhmmmm, I owe someone two hundred billion dollars and can’t pay them back and the walls are all falling down around me and how is this class going to change that ohmmmm…and relax? And besides, how is it possible to totally be all spiritual and reach a state or nirvana and relax from cares when one can hear construction going on and the sounds of the city right outside the door and on the other side of the wall as it was in this classroom. And so in the midst of yoga posing, one tries to recreate and meditate to a yoga state on this date.
Cover My Bed
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A Full Moon
According to the Gregorian calendar, today is a full moon on planet earth. You can see it when you look at the sky. Doesn’t that full moon have some sort of meaning in the universe? Does it mean anything? Isn’t a full moon spiritual, mysterious, mythical and magical or something? Could it mean stay away from lunatics, as lunar is the moon. Could it mean beware of werewolves and watch out for the ocean waves and high tides? Is the full moon Dracula’s favorite day on the month? Does it mean a new month is here? What do the astrologers and psychics have to say about the full moon and its phases and cycles, and don’t witches like using symbols of the moon for some reason? Well, yin and yang, wax and wane, whatever the meaning of the full moon, if there is one, happy full moon day.
The Lives of Others
Das Leben der Anderen. The Lives of Others. That is a German foreign film that is now showing in theaters in New York that I saw the other day. It won an Academy Award for best foreign film and it is one of those films I could watch over and over. The film is political, for it addresses the communist regime, the totaliarism system and the dictatorship in East Germany, then the GDR, before the fall of the Berlin wall. More so, the film is educational to me for I did not know artists and writers were under surveillance by Stasi agents, spies and informants who were sometimes even ones own wife or husband and blacklisted for being subversive under the dictatorship of the state of the Staats Sicherheit, State Security in real life as was depicted in the film. This film reminds me of the book nineteen eighty four all the way ministry, inner and outer party and one aspect of the film is that the people prevail. The music is awesome and that Sonata For A Good Man track rocks. Will another film as interesting as this ever come along. And what does this have to do with a No Police State?
Romance
And what about love and romance. That’s a touchy subject for relationships can be tricky sometimes and who wants to be alone without friends, family or loved ones. Isn’t love what makes the world go round? Well, Romantic eCards sounds fun. I always like sending those funny animated e cards for every occasion and if you are looking to send romantic eCards for birthdays, Valentines , or even Christmas, or just to say I Love You, eRomance offers several categories of free romantic eCards as every occasion can be a romantic occasion. They also offer Virtual Flowers that you can send to someone special and their cards are really fun. I can’t wait to send one to a friend myself. This is a sponsored post.
Disney Kicks The Habit
Wow. I read this article in yesterdays AM New York and Metro newspapers that Disney has kicked the habit of smoking in its films. Disney will discourage smoking in its family oriented films. This is groundbreaking and that’s great. Now if only Disney could kick the habit of using the image of guns in its films, progress would be made. And not just Disney, every form of advertising. If only Disney and every other advertiser could ban the images of guns on their posters, commercials, films and television shows then maybe there would be hope for the state of this world. Apparently the Disney committee held some hearings about the effect of movie images on children and that the studio would place anti-smoking public service announcements of DVDs of any future films that feature cigarette smoking. Walt Disney shares your concerns regarding deaths due to cigarette smoking. That’s great. Now if only Disney, and not just Disney but other media companies, major Hollywood studios and every advertiser on planet earth could could follow Disney’s lead and share their concerns about deaths due to the use of the images of guns in advertising and kick the habit of using the images and depiction of guns in advertising and discourage the use of guns in their advertising campaigns and hold committee hearings about the effect of movie images and guns on children and place anti-gun public service announcements and messages on DVDs and in theaters everywhere, that would be great. And what does this have to do with a No Police State?
Jazz Comes to the Bowery
And so I wandered outside last night with this digital camera I have to play around with to take photos of my friends band, Funk Monk at this really cool restaurant and lounge called Mannahatta. My friends band gave me a really good excuse to dust off the camera and use it for the night. Digital cameras are awesome and I find technology amazing these days. And so I took the above photo of my friends band just for the purpose of posting it on this blog. They are all jazz and hip hop and have played around the city at Nublu, Knitting Factory, the Williamsburg Jazz Festival, and even the New York City subway as part of the Musicians Under New York Program. And I am also taking my friend gig as an excuse to experiment with YouTubeing. How does one YouTube? Well, I made a video of them there also with this digital camera, low light and all and just posted it on You Tube with trial and error. I can now possibly become a YouTube addict to replace all of my other Internet website addictions I have going on at the moment. And that Mannahatta place is awesome with their new Summer Jazz Series and Funk-N-Flava Jazz Wednesdays. They have an open Jazz Jam session every Tuesday in July if you are in the neighborhood. Jazz, Jazz, Jazz. Play Jazz away the day.
