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TRUTH ABOUT 

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The Cuban Study and Hands 

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November 10, 7:00 o’clock. 

Program includes a panel 

with Conn Hallinan, Foreign 

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$5.00 to $10.00. 

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stock up on non-perishable, 

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items before winter arrives. 

For further information call 

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is coming to town on Saturday, 

November 11 at 7 PM. 

Tickets available at UCSC 

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THE MAGIC AND 

MYSTERY OF 

MIDDLE EASTERN 

DANCE 

Bring alive your next event 

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artistry of Shazara. 

Welcome your guests into an 

atmosphere of warmth and 

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professional of Oriental 

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performance will keep the 

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ceremony, festivity, ritual, 

party or celebration. Duets & 

exotic live music also available. 

Call Unique Entertainment 

@ (831) 338-4138. 

FREE ORGANIC 

MEAL ON YOUR 

B’DAY @ 

CAFE LA VIE 

We’d love to celebrate your 

birthday on earth along with 

your friends and families. 

Bring at least three parties 

and your meal is free! ID is 

required. 

We also have a space for 

your next Workshops/Seminars.It’s 

free if you don’t 

charge an admission fee. 

Percentage of fees will be 

collected if there is an admission 

fee. 

Café La Vie is located at 429 

Front St. in downtown. (831) 

429-6746.For menu, please 

see www.lavie.us 

VISIT COSTA RICA 

$200 wk. 5 mins from Playas 

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Apt sleeps 4, (one K bed + 

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or 475-3495. 

ARTS & PERFORMANCE 

TOM MILLER’S 

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moved from Henfl ings to Don 

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335-2800 for info 

AUTOMOBILES 

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CARS 

Design, construction, repair 

and maintenance of your 

hot rods, custom cars and 

vintage automobile. Call 

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BUSINESS 

WHAT HAVE YOUR 

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in Soquel Village. (831)464- 

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ED’S BICYCLE 

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Ed’s Bicycle Repairs is now 

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fixed, any and all bicycle 

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CLASSES /WORKSHOPS 

INTENTIONAL 

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THERAPY 

with 

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the Ascended Masters to free 

yourself from spiritual, mental, 

and emotional obstacles. 

Call Suzie 831 689 9942 Free 

On Friday Nov. 10 

HEAR EXPERTS ON 

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“Making Waves: Evening 

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Speakers: Mark Massara, 

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COMMUNITY 

THE BEEZONGED 

EXPERIENCE 

RETURNS TO SANTA 

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Feel the incredible power of 

AWAKENING as fi ve Gong- 

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of Clarity & Focus. Also, 

messages from The Councils 

of the Seventh Awakening 

about the New Year! Don’t 

Miss It. Dec. 9 - Pacific 

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ALCOHOL FUEL 

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LEARN ABOUT 

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David Blume, Master Permacultur- 

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campaigning to open the fi rst 

sustainable, driver-owned 

alcohol fuel station in the 

nation, right here in Santa 

Cruz. Join us at the educational/organizing 

meeting on 

Nov. 14th, at 7pm at Louden 

Nelson Center, room #3, to 

learn more about alternative 

fuels and how you might 

inexpensively become a 

driver-owner of this soonto-be 

realized station, and 

contribute signifi cantly to stop 

global warming. 

ECSTATIC DANCE 

3rd Friday of the Month 7- 

8:30pm $12. Body & Soul, 

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VOLUNTEER 

OPPORTUNITY AT 

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Currently seeking volunteers 

interested in working with 

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science activities and 

tours to K-12 students visiting 

the marine lab. Training 

begins Wednesday, October 

11. Call (831) 459-3800 for 

more information. 

EMPLOYMENT 

HAIR CUTTING STATION 

A chair available - part time 

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Soquel. Please call (831) 

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FITNESS / MARTIAL ARTS 

AIKIDO: THE ART OF 

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Adult/Teen Intro Class starts 

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classes open to enroll. 

Ages 6 & up. Family Discounts. 

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Church Services 612 Ocean 

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EMOTIONAL 

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In his play, ‘After the Fall’, 

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SPIRITUAL MEDIUM 

& COUNSELOR 

Call Eugenia. (831) 

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INTUITIVE 

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Past, present and future 

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Learn how to heal your life! 

Learn how to fi nd your own 

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Sonia Haynes is an intuitive 

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Author of The Power 

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meditation CDs, Sonia is 

dedicated to using her powerful 

gift of insight to heal 

the planet, one person at a 

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y Daniel Robin 

YOU SAID you 

were going to call me 

“TODD, 

with those figures … 

what happened?” 

Todd’s button is pressed: “Oh, 

you think the world revolves around 

you and your stupid little project…. 

Has it ever 

occurred to you, 

Jack, that the rest 

of us have jobs, 

too?!” 

“Look, Todd, 

I know you’re 

busy. … any time 

this millennium 

would be fine,” 

Jack said jokingly, but it made Todd 

feel put down. 

With a cold stare, Todd calls a oneman 

walkout: “Yeah, just do it … 

yourself!” 

A common leadership mistake 

is to put up a defensive shield without 

knowing or acknowledging you 

are doing it. A bigger mistake is to 

push on that defensive reaction and 

expect it to go anywhere but straight 

into the dumpster. 

Most of us are unaware that, at 

times, we feel this powerful need to 

defend ourselves – it happens automatically, 

as if the other person’s out 

to get us, out to cause us harm. 

Pointing out defensiveness, ironically, 

often produces more of the same 

(“I am not being defensive!”), 

amplifying the futility of persisting. 

Prevention versus Cure 

When do your own instincts say 

“Oops, better back off… struck a 

cord”? For most of us, it’s a bit later 

than ideal. 

The Defense Rests 

When your own actions lead to 

raised hackles in someone else (“Did 

I just say something that offended 

you?”), instead of backing this person 

into a corner, stop, and ease off 

(“Back away from the human….”). 

If you continue down that same 

track, one of three things will happen: 

(a) Flight: the person runs 

away in terror, hides, or tries to 

avoid you, (b) Fight: the push-pull 

dynamic produces so much interpersonal 

friction you could heat your 

office with the energy it generates 

(energy that could have gone into 

other, more enjoyable pursuits), or 

(c) Cope: they show enough emotional 

restraint, argue their case, 

attempt to be right or to save face. 

It is unlikely that the situation 

will move toward a lasting solution, 

and yet, this subtle adversarial pattern 

runs deep in our culture and our 

actions. How do we interrupt this 

defensive loop without causing more 

of it? 

Serial Chiller: Nobody Likes to 

be Put Down 

Back in Part 4 of this article 

series, “Fix Systems, Not People,” 

we describe the human tendency to 

make the person the problem (visit 

www.abetterworkplace.com/129.ht 

ml). Instead, the idea is to see any 

issue as a systems problem – a broken 

process, a bogus procedure or 

job design, or a non-fault-tolerant 

environment – and lead toward 

improving the system, not towards 

“fixing” the person. No matter how 

tactfully you might present their 

need to change, unless that person 

sees your assessment as specific, 

accurate, fair and executable (spells 

SAFE), you’ll have a power struggle 


or a dispute on your hands. 

Certainly, there must be better ways. 

This article series outlines three 

simple strategies to get the desired 

results without wasting energy in a 

push-pull, or having to clean up 

adversarial messes after interpersonal 

meltdowns. 

Recognize adversary before it 

clobbers you on the head – kapow! – 

and call for a truce or just (quietly) 

institute a new gameplan. 

Handle resistance proactively 

before it turns into a dispute, a contest 

of wills, or a breakdown in 

cooperation. (See our website, keyword 

“Resistance,” for Six Keys to 

Handling Resistance and other tips.) 

Think and act all win: look for 

a dovetailing of interests, generating 

options and alternatives to get there. 

This is about listening, flexing (your 

brain, not your muscles), and blending 

ideas. 

By leading toward mutual gain, 

the other party has less reason to 

treat you as if you are their adversary. 

If you notice adversarial cues – 

for example, long periods of silence 

followed by accusations – start by 

surrendering enemy stance in yourself, 

then take a powerful, nondefensive 

stand for working it out: 

“I’m not willing to fight with you 

about that.” Or, “I’m only interested 

in solutions that work for both of 

us.” 

Next article gets to the fast 

track for practice and application at 

work. 

Daniel Robin is a communication 

and management consultant 

that lives virtually at www.abetterworkplace.com 

and can be reached 

at daniel@abetterworkplace.com. 

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Master George Xu - Lan Shou Master Qing Zhong Bao - Lan Shou 

by Daniel Feldman 

I 

have been attending the annual 

Masters from China summer 

camps, of which I am founder and 

director, since 1989. The camp takes 

place in the redwood forest at the Jones 

Gulch YMCA Camp in La Honda. In 

its eighteen year history, hundreds of 

people have come from all over the 

United States, Canada, Europe, and 

South America to participate. The 

camp has Master George Xu (Xu Quo 

Ming) as its resident host, and each 

year we bring a prominent master from 

China to the camp as guest instructor. 

The first year, we had Master Liou 

Wan Fu as the guest. Master Liou was 

the heavyweight champion at the last 

All-China fighting tournament in 

1952. He taught us the “Eight Linking 

Palm” form of the Dragon Ba Qua system 

and the Thirteen Imperial Exercises. 

Other guest masters have included 

Huang Wei Lun (Yang Tai Ji), 

Zhang Xue Xin (Chen Tai Ji), Ma 

Hong (Chen Tai Ji), Ye Xiao Long 

(Yang Tai Ji, Lan Shou), Qing Zhong 

Bao (Lan Shou), Lu Gui Rong (Hao 

Tai Ji, Wild Goose Qigong), Wang Hao 

Da (Wu Tai Ji, Tang Bei), and Qian 

Zhao Hong (Six Harmony Xin Yi, Wu 

Dang Tai Ji). 

This year our guest was Master 

Yun Yin Shen. Master Yun is highly 

regarded in China as an expert in Liu 

He Ba Fa (“Six Harmonies Eight 

Methods”). Liu He Ba Fa is commonly 

referred to as the “fourth internal martial 

art,” and its long form includes 

movements from Tai Ji, Xin Yi, and 

Ba Qua. The complete name of Liu He 

Ba Fa is Xin Yi Liu He Ba Fa San Pan 

Shi Er Shi, that is, “Mind Intention Six 

Harmonies Eight Methods Three 

Stances Twelve Postures.” Since 1980, 

Master Yun studied Liu He Ba Fa and 

Yi Quan Zhang Zhuang (“Mind Intention 

Boxing Post Standing”) with Master 

Zhang Chang Xin. Master Zhang 

was one of the top students of Grandmaster 

Wu Yi Hui, founder of the modern 

Liu He Ba Fa system. Since 1982, 

Yun also studied with Liu He Ba Fa 

masters Han Qiao, Lu Gui Yao, and 

Liang Qi Zhong. In 1992, Master Yun 

became Anhwei Province Liu He Ba 

Fa Association Secretary. In 1997, he 

received the government sports asso- 

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ciation second degree master’s certificate. 

The camp began each day with a 

class on core basics and Qigong from 

7-8am. Master Xu taught exercises 

from Chen Style Tai Ji, Six Harmony 

Xin Yi, and Taoist Hua Shan Qigong. 

Master Yun taught Liu He Ba Fa 

Qigong and also standing postures 

from Yi Quan. Instruction resumed 

after breakfast from 10am-Noon. In 

the late morning class, we continued 

with core methods, two person testing, 

and introduction to the first section of 

the Liu He Ba Fa form. In the afternoon 

class from 3-5:30pm each day, 

we worked the whole time on the Liu 

He Ba Fa form and refined our Chen 

Style Tai Ji form. In the evening class 

from 8:00-10:30pm, we practiced Push 

Hands and did line exercises from Xin 

Yi and Lan Shou. 

The nineteen annual Masters 

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from exposure to prominent experts 

from China whom they otherwise 

may never have seen. Our guests have 

gone on to teach in numerous European 

countries. We also held a camp 

in China in 2005 that featured thirteen 

Chinese masters and about 200 participants. 

Another camp is planned for 

Jiangxi Province, China in 2007. 

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y Randy S. Baker, MD 

Many physicians are content 

to limit their studies to 

western allopathic medicine. 

However, as someone fascinated 

with the healing arts, I have tried to 

learn some about every approach to 

healing I have encountered. Of all the 

forms of healing I have studied, my 

favorite is homeopathy. 

I am surprised how much confusion 

still exists about homeopathy. 

While many people think homeopathy 

just means natural or herbal medicine, 

it is a specific system of healing developed 

by a German physician, 

Samuel Hahnemann in the late 1700’s. 

In attempting to understand why quinine 

helped treat malaria, Hahnemann 

took quinine and developed classic 

malarial symptoms. 

Through this and further experiments, 

Hahnemann rediscovered the 

basic principle of homeopathy — like 

cures like, that a substance that causes 

a disease in a healthy person can cure 

that disease. Hippocrates, the father of 

western medicine, wrote “we must 

seek medicines that can excite similar 

symptoms in the healthy body.” 

Hahnemann took it a step further 

by discovering the process of dilution 

and potentization, whereby the medicinal 

substance is physically diluted 

while its energetic essence is amplified. 

This aspect of homeopathy is particularly 

troublesome for most doctors, 

who feel it is not scientifically pos- 

sible. Yet dozens of well-controlled research 

studies published in mainstream 

medical journals have proven 

homeopathy to be more effective than 

placebo again and again. 

I have seen homeopathy cure 

many conditions that western medicine 

considers incurable. Homeopathy addresses 

the whole person, not only 

curing physical illness but helping 

people to be happier and more in tune 

with their inner essence. 

While homeopathy is my favorite 

form of healing, it is far and away 

the most challenging approach I have 

studied. There are literally thousands 

of homeopathic remedies, and at any 

given time there is only one, the 

similinum, that is the ultimate best fit 

at any given time. Discovering the 

similinum is far easier said than done, 

requiring the practitioner to develop a 

deep understanding of the patient and 

be able to match him/her to the optimal 

remedy. 

A relatively new approach to discovering 

the best remedy is to classify 

remedies into groups or families, such 

as animal, vegetable or mineral. These 

kingdoms have many subcategories, 

each with common characteristics. 

Homeopaths are continuing to explore 

the characteristics of families of remedies, 

leading to tremendous breakthroughs. 

One recent breakthrough which 

excites me is the extensive research by 

one of my teachers, Roger Morrison of 

The The Dental Dental Abscess/Fistula Abscess/Fistula Cycle: Cycle: Cycle: The The Healing Healing that that Never Never Never Ends 

Ends 

by David L. Biles, D.D.S., M.A. 

In my last article I discussed the 

optimal conditions in the mouth 

(and the rest of the human body, 

since the mouth and the body are, indeed, 

connected) for the healing of soft 

tissue to occur. As I mentioned, optimal 

blood flow to remove waste products 

and deliver nutrients in an alkaline 

pH, with appropriate levels of oxygen, 

are the primary factors necessary 

for healing. 

But what of the dental abscess/ 

fistula cycle I promised to discuss in 

the last issue? What is it? It’s the healing 

that never ends. The ongoing healing, 

eruption, healing we will discuss 

now. To simplify identification of this 

lesion in the mouth, picture it as a “zit”, 

resembling teenage acne on the face. 

A “mouth pimple”, in other words a 

red, swollen soft, gushy dot, that sometimes 

has a white spot on it where pus 

is ready to be expressed given the appropriate 

force. Generally it is adjacent 

to a tooth that has had root canal 

treatment, but not always. Fistulas will 

follow the path of least resistance and 

exit the bone at the soft tissue level 

where the bony plate is the thinnest. 

Generally, they are found on the cheek 

side of the jawbone near a tooth that 

has died. What the fistula, zit, or mouth 

pimple represents is a reservoir of 

waste products or pus that has literally 

eaten through the bone until it 

reaches the surface of the soft tissue 

and gets large enough that it “pops”, 

draining the fluid into the mouth as the 

pressure is released. Sometimes pa- 


Point Richmond, CA. Dr. 

Morrison has spent several 

years studying the 

commonalties and defining 

characteristics of organic 

carbon compounds in homeopathy. 

These remedies include petroleum 

products, plastics, solvents and certain 

essential oils. This family includes hundreds 

of remedies which, by and large, 

have been hitherto poorly understood 

and thus seldom prescribed. 

I have many patients who suffer 

from multiple chemical sensitivities 

(MCS). Such patients may have severe 

reactions to common environmental 

chemicals. Western medicine has little 

to offer these patients, and even nutritional 

and herbal approaches have limited 

benefits. Based on his research, Dr. 

Morrison feels about half of people suffering 

from MCS need a remedy from 

the organic carbon family. He has had 

patients with extreme MCS experience 

tremendous rapid improvements. 

Since attending a recent seminar on 

these compounds, I have prescribed many 

remedies I would never have considered 

before, and am encouraged by the early 

results I am seeing. 

One of the most exciting things 

about homeopathy is that one can study 

it for a lifetime and there will always be 

more to learn. New remedies are being 

developed (or proven) all the time, expanding 

the homeopathic repertoire. As I 

continue to study homeopathy, I expect 

to be able to help more people over time. 

An expanded version of this article 

with relevant links will be available 

on my website, (831) 476-1886 

www.drrandy.org. 

tients are aware of them, oftentimes not. 

Without the release of pus, pain develops, 

sending many patients to the dental 

office in search of a solution. One usually 

feels a deep pain in the jawbone 

when the fistula has not developed on 

the soft tissue side; at this level, dentistry 

labels the lesion as an “abscess.” On an 

x-ray, the abscess and fistula will usually 

appear as a small or large darkened 

area at the base of the root of the dead or 

dying tooth. 

And the only solutions available? 

There are three: nothing, root canal 

therapy, or extraction. Antibiotics may 

be prescribed or not, treatment may be 

immediate or scheduled out, depending 

on multiple factors. The “nothing” option 

is one I always give a patient, because 

that is always an option, but not a 

wise one in this instance as the fistula 

will appear and reappear continuously 

over time chewing up more and more 

jawbone in the process. Patients then 

must decide between an extraction or a 

root canal to preserve the tooth. 

During my career, the worst dental 

fistula I ever encountered was in a middle 

aged woman who had ignored the signs 

and symptoms for over 5 years. The fistula 

had expanded from above her tooth 

into the maxillary sinus. She had received 

multiple prescriptions for antibiotics 

from physicians over the years for 

sinus infections, but had never been seen 

or referred to a dentist. Once we removed 

the tooth, her sinus infections 

stopped. Sinus infection from a tooth? 

Yes; it’s all connected. 

Dr. Biles questions conventional 

wisdom while performing ideal dentistry 

with a holistic philosophical approach 

grounded on scientific principles. He 

has lectured nationally on 

Biocompatible Bioesthetic Dentistry. 

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Keys to Vitality 

by Sylvia Skefich, D.C. 

As a continuation of last 

month’s article, here are 

some more tips on how to 

maintain your fullest abilities, flexibility 

and strength, even as you age. 

Postural Exercises: 

Many activities of life (computer 

workstations, desk work and labor) can 

be affecting your posture. Muscles, 

like braces on teeth, can move bones 

over time. If we inadvertently create a 

muscle balance that leads to bad alignment 

of the bones, problems can develop. 

Bad posture can lead to pressure 

on organs, and decreased circulation 

to the head and arms. Bad posture 

will overwork and bring pain to 

the muscle groups that try to keep 

things straight for us. (That pain between 

the shoulder blades? Usually 

due to a head-forward posture.). The 

cure? — activities that help strike a 

balance. Trying to sit up or stand 

straight just doesn’t work. Activities 

such as yoga, tai chi and chi gong, 

walking, and specific postural exercises 

especially, will actually tone the 

system of muscles that hold us up 

straight, and will make positive 

changes to your skeletal alignment. 

Meditation: 

This one brings more space to your 

life, thereby decreasing stress. Stress 

is known to lead to many physical ailments 

as well as chronic tension in the 

body. Stress affects your physical form 

(via the muscles pulling and moving 

your bones), and your chemical 

makeup which affects every tissue in 

your body. You may say you don’t have 

time to meditate. Here is a secret, 

known to those who do — a regular 

meditation practice creates space in 

your life. It is as though the practice 

adds spacer bars between each thought 

and activity. You will feel that you have 

more time in each day, and that you 

can accomplish a lot more than if you 

did not meditate regularly. I have found 

that even 10 minutes (of actual meditation) 

makes a difference. Simply 

concentrate on your breath, and when 

you find yourself thinking (because 

you will think), just silently say 

“Thinking!” in a friendly way to yourself, 

and go back to your breath. 

Breathing: 

Many people do not have the capacity 

to fully expand their breath due 

to lack of practice. The trunk stiffens, 

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and the ribs become fixed. Breath 

brings oxygen to the blood, and also 

massages the organs. Increased circulation 

(blood, breath, lymph and spinal 

fluid) will always lead to increased 

vitality. Toxins can be lifted and removed, 

and vital nutrients and elements 

can be circulated. Allow your 

breath to fully expand in the “down” 

direction (into the belly). Feel where 

there are restrictions. Even an inability 

to sense what is going on is a sign 

of physical restriction. So concentrate 

on those spots that are hard to concentrate 

on. Then breathe out to the sides, 

expanding to the right and left simultaneously. 

Do this down low (at liver 

level), up higher (at heart level), and 

up at the armpit level. Then breath to 

the front and back simultaneously. Do 

so low, middle, and high. Then do the 

three directions at once (down, to the 

sides and to the front and back). Do 

you feel more vigorous? 

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y Dr. Tonya L. Fleck & 

Dr. Ruth Bar-Shalom 

In my years of practicing Naturopathic 

Medicine, one theme that 

has been continuing to evolve is 

the health care of women. The phrase 

“alternative medicine” has come to be 

a popular term used to define a variety 

of different therapeutic modalities. 

The frequency at which we use this 

term reflects the transformation that is 

being created in health care. This 

transformation is occurring as a result 

of our demand for a better medicine; a 

desire for choices in health care beyond 

pharmaceuticals and surgeries; 

a medicine that is safe, nontoxic and 

actually works to promote healing instead 

of only suppressing symptoms, 

thereby dishonoring the body’s innate 

wisdom. 

At the center of this transformation 

is a distinct system of medicine 

called Naturopathic Medicine. 

Naturopathic Doctors (ND’s) are primary 

care doctors medically trained in 

the distinctions of natural therapeutic 

modalities. (For more information 

visit calnd.org or naturopathic.org.) 

Modern women are the first 

women in history to have access to a 

healthy, long and self-directed life. 

Discriminating consumers of health 

care, and quick to grasp the advantages 

of a vitalistic, holistic healing practice, 

women’s innate wisdom requests safe, 

effective, affordable medicine. 

Women want to be educated about 

their bodies and their health. Naturopathic 

medicine, by philosophy and by 

design, meets those requests. 

Women today are insisting in participating 

in their health care decisions. 

For example, menopausal women are 

rejecting the notion of a single therapeutic 

modality meeting the needs of 

all menopausal women. Additionally, 

they wisely reject the notion of taking 

a drug for the rest of their lives, especially 

if there are other options that 

manage symptoms as well as promote 

healing. Although conventional medicine 

has made many exceptional advances 

that are not to be discounted, 

conventional training doesn’t focus on 

managing health, or in the prevention 

of disease. Conventional education 

focuses on the management of disease. 

Hence, the demand for Naturopathic 

Medicine arises. In addition to 

creating individualized treatment 

plans, naturopathic medicine offers 

safe and effective therapies for a variety 

of female conditions such as PMS, 

fibrocystic breast, PCOS, menopause, 

bladder infections, irregular cycles, osteoporosis, 

and more. These ‘conditions’ 

are seen as a misalignment in 

by Jillian F. Aronstam BA .MS. CMT. 

For true healing to occur, the total human 

being must be addressed. In my experience, 

one cannot heal physical ailments 

fully without facing the feelings associated with 

the bodily symptoms. When we begin to feel the 

emotions connected to our physical problems, 

there is an energetic and psychic release that allows 

for change to occur. In the process of uncovering 

emotions attached to physical symptoms 

we find core beliefs that are anchoring the 

bad feelings. Most of the time these deeply held 

and unconscious beliefs are connected to early 

days of childhood and the bonding, or lack thereof, 

with the child’s care giver. How we were birthed, 

held, nourished and loved in our earliest hours and 

days determines our health as adults, and how we 

take care of ourselves when we are ill. How we 

were treated when we were sick as kids also significantly 

influences our healing practices. 


the vital force. By bringing the body 

back to balance, the symptoms clear. 

ND’s take an integrative, holistic 

approach to healing by utilizing the 

strengths of conventional medicine 

while focusing on natural therapeutic 

modalities. Holistic medicine involves 

the acknowledgment of the body as 

one organism, with its many systems 

constantly in communication. In addition 

to the physical body, ND’s also 

honor the mental, emotional, and spiritual 

bodies as well, recognizing that 

the mind and body are not separate, 

but, in fact, strongly influence one another. 

In honor of the health and vitality 

of each and every women, please 

join us on Saturday, November 11 

from 8-4pm for Women’s Wellness 

Day. We will be offering Annual 

Women’s Wellness Exams as well as 

a Free lecture given by our doctors 

from 12-1pm - “The Naturopathic 

Medical Approach to Menstrual Irregularities 

at any Age”. Call to reserve 

your space, (831) 688-6666, 

www.naturalmedicineUS.com. 

Dr. Tonya Fleck received her doctorate 

in Naturopathic Medicine at the 

Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine. 

She received her Bachelor of Science 

degree from SUNY Buffalo and completed 

graduate work in Page 9▲ I had never understood the magnificence 

of the body’s innate power to heal until I worked 

with a holistic physician in Los Angeles. I learned 

two very important tenants of natural healing 

there. First, we have an energy flow that runs 

through our body. This energy system is real and 

has been expertly mapped by the Chinese, Japanese, 

Indians and Tibetans. Our energetic health 

is directly related to our physical health. Our 

energy system is impacted by our thoughts, feelings, 

beliefs and spiritual lives. We have the 

power to be energetically strengthened by what 

we eat, think, feel, and how we flow our energy. 

Secondly, when a body is in imbalance, a “healing 

crisis” will emerge. This is the body’s attempt 

to rectify the situation. The worst action to do is 

to suppress the wisdom of these symptoms by 

ingesting a substance that stops the symptom 

picture. The best action to take is to read the 

symptom picture and decode the messages the 

body/mind is sending. Alternative health care 

practices and supplements can turn the most obstinate 

health problems around. The support and 

guidance of one or more experienced practitioners 

is essential to this process. 

Page 9▲

A 

healthful diet and life-style 

almost always lead to a 

longer and healthier life. 

They provide increased vitality, improved 

resistance to disease, and a 

greater sense of wholeness and freedom. 

But even the finest exercise and 

diet plan cannot forever overcome the 

inevitability of aging. Eventually, even 

the best-cared-for bodies begin to 

weaken and no longer function as once 

they did. 

In our appearance-oriented society, 

aging can seem like a misfortune. 

But in the process of aging, people 

often come to understandings that are 

crucial to the completion and fulfillment 

of their lives. They learn something 

about loss and acceptance. They 

may have to cope with enormous difficulties 

— a husband dying, a wife 

getting cancer, even the death of a 

child. They come to know how vulnerable 

everyone is. They understand 

there are no easy answers, and that life 

is hard at times for everyone. 

We have so much to learn from 

the old. There was a cartoon in The 

New Yorker entitled “Yuppie Angst.” 

A man is saying, “Oh no, I spilled 

cappuccino on my down jacket.” Elders, 

who have seen their families and 

Page 8 Marriage and Family 

Therapy at the Univ. of MD. Dr. Fleck 

specializes in homeopathy, botanical 

medicine, Women’s Health & Pediatrics 

at the Holistic Medical Center. 

▲ 

Page 8 

Taking the time to heal is also 

critical. There are no quick-fix approaches. 

When we were young, no one 

taught us to trust the wisdom of the 

body when we felt sick. The solution 

was usually to “ take an aspirin”. Fever 

was seen as the enemy, and infection 

always necessitated the use of 

antibiotics. If one had tonsillitis, those 

tonsils were promptly removed. 

We are blessed today with a booming 

alternative health care industry and 

sophisticated practitioners that can truly 

restore health. It is my hope that readers 

can experience the enduring satisfaction 

that natural healing has to offer. 

Next month, I will share some actual 

case histories related to the ideas 

expressed in this article. 

Jillian F. Aronstam BA.MS.CMT 

is trained as a Clinical-Community 

Psychologist and Jin Shin Do 

Acupressurist. She has also been involved 

in a Shamanic tradition for many 

years. She can be contacted at (831) 

477-2819 or jillian_a@sbcglobal.net. 

▲ 

friends die, who have seen generations 

of people come and go, can have a 

deeper understanding of tragedy. 

Closer to death, they are much more 

in touch with the cycles of life. They 

understand what makes a life worth 

living. They know there is little point 

in having low cholesterol and rock 

hard abs if you don’t love your life. 

There are people who make 

healthy choices hoping that as a result 

they will never become ill or die, but 

my motivations are different. I know 

that suffering occurs in every human 

life, and I want to prevent as much illness 

as I can, and alleviate as much 

suffering as I am able. I ask people to 

take as much responsibility for their 

health and life as they can, not to avoid 

everything painful in the human experience, 

but to lessen suffering and to 

enrich and illumine who they are with 

wisdom and love. 

A wise man once said, “If you go 

forward, you will die. If you go backward, 

you will die. It is better to go 

forward.” The point of going forward, 

of working to make your life a positive 

expression of your highest vision, 

is not to avoid all suffering and death, 

for that is not within the realm of human 

possibility. The point, rather, is 

Dr. Ruth Bar-Shalom graduated 

from the National College of Naturopathic 

Medicine in 1987. Dr. Bar-Shalom 

has been an Associate Professor 

of Rheumatology and Geriatrics for 

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by Erin Kelly-Allshouse 

Death is not final. If so, then 

what happens after death? 

Perhaps we come face to face 

with our God who welcomes us, gives 

us our life review then offers new possibilities 

of how to spend eternity; or 

perhaps our souls are transported to another 

realm, into new earthly creatures, 

or simply returned to dust. 

Every culture has its own unique 

idea, perspective and reaction about 

death, but in some belief systems death 

is not seen as the final stage of a soul. 

Death is considered to be the beginning 

or the awakening. According to 

spiritualist mediums, ‘people don’t 

die, bodies do’. So what happens to 

the lost souls? 

Using gifts of clairsentience 

(“clear feeling” ability to sense when 

spirits are in a room) and clairvoyance 

(“clear vision”), 12 gifted mediums, 

bridging the gap between the two 

worlds, clasped hands in an inner circle 

at the first of its kind, Universal Passing 

Over 2006' event October 28, at a 

Las Vegas hotel — to find out. This 

international event was rooted with 

intention to generate a unified energy 

band of love and light to help lost souls 

cross into the light who were unable 

to do so for various reasons. Supported 

by an outer circle of both psychics and 

trance mediums, the group was simultaneously 

joined by radio and TV with 

3 other countries to honor the deceased 

through meditation, assisting souls still 

trapped upon the physical plane. 

“Each of us felt the rising whirlwind 

of vibrational love as we sat together 

around the table,” said Reno 

based medium and US event organizer, 

Vickie Gay. 

“We felt the vortex of loving energy 

emanating from our circle of love, 

then spreading throughout the United 

States and around the world for the 

purpose of freeing after-death souls 

who had been stuck on the earthplane.” 

Unifying energies as ‘one beacon 

of light’, chosen representatives from 

four corners — Canada, New Zealand, 

USA and the UK — globally united 

in spirit at the same time for the first 

en masse passing over of souls, in a 

series of four events to take place over 

the next six 

years. 

“We know 

that thousands, if 

not millions of 

these souls, are now free to decide 

whether to stay where they are or to 

head for the light that will guide them 

to the other side,” said Gay. 

For Jennifer Dicamillo, author 

and playwright, “it was like a billion 

fireflies coming from dark places all 

over, and the closer they got to the big 

light, the brighter they were until they 

joined the light and became strengthened 

from the light. I felt that these 

people had been lost or left out, and 

they had not crossed over to where they 

needed to be.” Decamillo said. “I was 

trying to send the message that we are 

all connected, but some just forgot 

where they were and I was hearing ‘I 

just forgot I belong to the light,’ echoed 

back,” Decamillo said. 

The idea to plan for such an event 

came to UK based medium, and paranormal 

investigator, David Wharmby 

through a channeled message in 

March. He claims he received a sensation 

from spirit during a meditation 

circle and a physical phenomena occurred 

for him, urging him to aide the 

crossing over of the worlds loved ones. 

“Why me, I asked Spirit,” said 

Wharmby once he realized the magnitude 

of the message he received. The 

response Wharmby got from spirit 

was,“ because you listened, because 

you understood,” he said. “It’s a job 

of pure love and a stepping stone to 

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Vegas said he received 

many visions. “First, 

they were of Iraq and 

not just American soldiers,” 

he said. “We hear nearly 3,000 

soldiers were killed there, in reality, 

it’s closer to half-a-million people. 

This is what I am receiving,” he said. 

“The real amount of death there is unbelievable. 

When you have a situation 

where there’s a huge amount of lives 

cut short — because every 

life, no matter how 

insignificant it seems, 

even a simple peasant in 

Iraq with no money who 

tries to get water from 

the river to feed their 

family — that person 

has a destiny, a spirit 

and things they need to 

accomplish in their 

lives, and those destinies 

are cut short. When 

they are cut short, they are thrown into 

a situation where they have to cross 

over very quickly,” he explained. 

“They are not dying naturally, but from 

gunshots and bombings where all of a 

sudden they’re standing in their physical 

bodies, and the next second they 

are out of their body, and it can be very 

confusing. These spirits really did not 

know how to get from point A to point 

B.” 

These souls weren’t prepared 

mentally to accept their death and a 

lot of these spirits were still hanging 

on, Michael said. “They were resistant 

to crossing over until this energy came 

forward and explained to them that it’s 

OK, that you’re going to continue on 

with your mission, that you are not 

done, but you have to be done now, 

temporarily.” 

Erin Kelly-Allshouse has a B.A. 

in Journalism from CSUF and has 

written for several publications 

throughout California since 1992. She 

is currently based in Soquel where she 

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(FDA Approval of Fluoridated 

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New York — October 24, 2006 

— Because of a glitch in the 

law, 3 the U.S. Food and Drug 

Administration (FDA) never safetytested 

fluoride for ingestion. Yet, the 

FDA recently OK’d cavity-preventing 

claims on fluoridated bottled water 

labels, 2 giving Americans a false sense 

of security about the safety and effectiveness 

of drinking bottled water with 

fluoride added. 

Sodium fluoride was sold before 

FDA safety and effectiveness testing 

laws were enacted in 1938 and 1962, 

respectively. So fluoride was exempt 

from scrutiny, or “grandfathered in,” 

without any FDA human or animal 

studies. 3 “The premise was that all pre- 

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tive. As strange as it sounds, it commonly 

sold as a rat poison. The FDA 

has no information on the medical uses 

of fluoride before 1938. 3 

According to the FDA’s website: 

“New products that are designed to treat 

human conditions or diseases are scrutinized 

by FDA’s reviewers for safety and 

effectiveness before they can be made 

available to consumers.” 

4 But this never occurred for fluoride 

or fluoridated bottled water. 

In fact, the FDA can’t assess 

whether something added to the water 

is safe because there’s no way to know 

how much people will consume, according 

to an FDA spokesperson quoted in a 

Colorado newspaper. 5 “The drug approval 

process requires specific dosing 

and conditions to be treated and clinical 

trials,’ [FDA spokesperson] Koontz 

said,” according to the Daily Camera. 

The FDA approved fluoridated 

toothpaste, as a drug, for topical application 

as in toothpaste; but not for swallowing. 

In fact, toothpaste tubes are imprinted 

with FDA “do not swallow” 

warnings. 

However, fluoridated bottled water 

is meant to be swallowed. Not a nutrient, 

fluoride is a drug prescribed to 

treat humans against tooth decay. The 

FDA never studied fluoride ingestion, in 

any form, for adverse health effects or 

to discover if it really reduces tooth decay. 

6 

Adding fluoride chemicals into 

public water supplies (water fluoridation) 

began in the mid 1900’s. It was then 

believed fluoride worked from the inside, 

that is to say, ingested fluoride incorporated 

into children’s, and only children’s, 

developing tooth enamel to shield 

against tooth decay. However, modern 

science proves fluoride absorbs into 

enamel by topical means alone, or from 

the outside, and it can occur over the lifetime 

of the tooth. 

Unfortunately, science also tells 

us that ingested fluoride has many 

health risks, including tooth damage 

or dental fluorosis — white spotted, 

yellow, brown and/or pitted teeth — a 

consequence of fluoride over-ingestion 

which is a growing U.S. problem. 7 

The following side effects may be 

early signs of possible chronic fluoride 

overdose, according to the Mayo Clinic 

website: 8 pain and aching of bones; 

skin rash; sores in the mouth and on 

the lips; stiffness; white, brown, or 

black discoloration of teeth. 

“Modern studies also link fluoride 

to arthritis, allergies, kidney and thyroid 

dysfunction, bone damage and cancer, 

even at the low levels dentists claim 

is optimal to reduce tooth decay,” says 

lawyer Paul Beeber, President, New 

York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation, 

Inc. “Adding fluoride to 

bottled water implies to the American 

public that FDA studies give fluoride a 

clean bill of health — and that’s not 

true,” says Beeber. 

No studies link fluoride-free 

bottled water to more tooth decay, according 

to the American Dental Association 

(ADA). 9 

“The ADA should lobby for fluoride 

content labeling on all foods,” 

says Beeber. “Because fluoridated 

water is used in processing and because 

of fluoride pesticide residues, 

virtually all foods and beverages have 

a fluoride content — even soda, candy, 

french fries, grape juice and some 

chicken products. Americans are actually 

over-fluoridated now; and 

should avoid fluoridated water — 

whether from the tap or the bottle, in 

our opinion.” says Beeber. 

For Further Info: 

The U.S. Department of Agriculture 

lists the fluoride content of many 

foods here: http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/ 

foodcomp/Data/Fluoride/Fluoride.html, 


Contact: Paul Beeber, nyscof@aol.com 

, (516) 433-8882. 

President and General Counsel, 

New York State Coalition Opposed to 

Fluoridation, Inc., PO Box 263, Old 

Bethpage, NY, 11804, http:// 

www.orgsites.com/ny/nyscof. 

Past News Releases: http:// 

tinyurl.com/6kqtu. Paul Connett, PhD, 

paul@fluoridealert.org, (315) 379-9200, 

Executive Director, Fluoride Action Network, 

http://www.FluorideAction.Net/ 

health 

SOURCE: New York State Coalition 

Opposed to Fluoridation, Inc. 

References: 

1) U.S. FDA Approved Drug List 

http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/ 

cder/drugsatfda/ 

2) US FDA, Center for Food Safety 

and Applied Nutrition, Office of Nutritional 

Products, Labeling, and Dietary Supplements, 

October 14, 2006, “Health Claim 

Notification for Fluoridated Water and 

Reduced Risk of Dental Caries, http:// 

www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/flfluoro.html 

3) E-mail correspondence at bottom 

of article, http:// 

fluoridedangers.blogspot.com/2005/12/ 

fluoride-never-fda-approved-for.html 

4) “FDA’s Growing Responsibilities 

for the Year 2001 and Beyond,” Page 2 – 

Department of Health and Human Services, 

Food and Drug Adminstration, http:/ 

/www.fda.gov/oc/opacom/budgetbro/ 

budgetbro.pdf 

5) Daily Camera, “FDA wants out 

of 2B dispute - Feds say they didn’t expect 

comments to appear in ad,” By Ryan 

Morgan, October 24, 2006, http:// 

www.dailycamera.com/bdc/ 

county_news/article/ 

0,1713,BDC_2423_5089663,00.html 

6) Letter from Assemblyman John 

V. Kelly to Senator Robert Smith, August 

14, 2000, http://www.fluoridealert.org/ 

fda.htm 

7) Surveillance for Dental Caries, 

Dental Sealants, Tooth Retentin, 

Edentulism, and Enamel Fluorosis — 

United States, 1988—1994 and 1999— 

2002, http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/ss5403a1.htm 

8) Mayo Clinic - Drugs & Supplements 

– Vitamins and Fluoride (Systemic), 

http://www.mayoclinic.com/ 

health/drug-information/DR202600 

9) E-mail correspondence with 

the American Dental Association, http:// 

www.zerowasteamerica.org/ 

Fluoride&ADA.htm

Women of Saudi Arabia & Syria 

by Ruth Hunter 

ALTHOUGH THE DAILY 

lives of Syria women have little 

in common with their sisters 

in Saudi Arabia, they all live under 

the same traditional religion of Sharia, 

the Islamic law for all Moslems. 

However, Sharia is interpreted differently 

in each of these countries. A recent 

report published by Amnesty 

International entitled “Saudi Arabia: A 

Secret State of Suffering” describes the 

following incidents: 

“Margaret Madill, a Canadian 

nurse working in Saudi Arabia, took a 

taxi home with a female friend after 

shopping in Riyadh. Suddenly, a 

mutawa’ (religious police) jumped into 

the taxi and ordered the driver to police 

headquarters. When they arrived, the 

women were locked in the taxi in 

extreme heat for hours screaming for 

help. They were beaten and accused of 

wearing indecent garments. The 

women were finally transferred to al- 

Malaz prison, held for two days then 

released without charge”. 

Nieves, a maid from the 

Philippines was seen by the matawa’ in 

a restaurant enjoying a birthday celebration 

with a married couple who had 

also invited a male friend. Nieves was 

suspected of being there to meet their 

friend. Her denial was to no avail; 

extreme punishment included 60 lashings 

and 25 days in prison. 

In March of 2006, the Guardian 

printed the following story: At the annual 

Janadriya Heritage and Cultural 

Festival, male visitors were given 

twelve days and the use of golf carts. 

The last three days were reserved for the 

women, but the carts were withdrawn- 

Saudi women are not allowed to drive. 

The plight of the Saudi women is 

further detailed by the United Nation 

Development Project, (UNDP) in an 

evaluation of the conditions which 

impact their lives. In Saudi Arabia, 

Sharia proclamations take precedence 

over judicial law. Women continue to 

have a restrictive role in public life. 

And, even more ironic, Saudi Arabia, 

in October, 2000, became a signature 

to CEDAW, the United Nations 

Convention on the Elimination of All 

Forms of Discrimination against 

Women “with reservations”! Islamic 

law takes precedence. Discrimination 

and repression is a mantle worn by all 

women in Saudi Arabia, whether foreign 

or native. The report includes 

Sharia Laws affecting females: 

■ Women cannot ride with a non family 

male. 

■ Women cannot drive under any circumstance. 

■ Women’s economic interests are 

controlled by male relatives. 

■ Women are denied access to male 

dominated university courses. 

■ Women are primarily employed in 

education and health care. 

■ Women need legal decision for 

divorce; men need only a request. 

■ Women need male permission to 

receive medical treatment. 

■ Women must wear the chador, head 

and body cover in public. 

In contrast, the women in Syria 

have been emancipated since the 70’s, 

enjoy gender payroll equity and hold 

professional status in many fields. Every 

factory, school and job center has a children’s 

nursery, women vote, and do not 

wear the veil unless they choose to do so. 

Their accomplishments or lack 

thereof are also listed in a report by the 

UNDP on Syrian women. Included 

among the items mentioned is 

progress of women in politics. 

Some participation is due to the 

central political organization, the 

General Union of Syrian Women, 

founded in 1967. This national union, 

encouraged by the Arab Ba’th Socialist 

Party in power since 1963, receives 

support from the state and has implemented 

a number of social development 

projects which include childcare and 

education. However, women still have 

minor government positions with a few 

exceptions i.e. one has served as an 

ambassador, 30 women were elected to 

the parliament in 2003, one, Buthayna 

Shaban is head of the Ministry of 

Expatriates. Also, On March 23, 2003, 

Syria signed CEDAW, against discrimi- 

nation against women. However, the 

report also points out that Syria is still an 

Islamic country where religious tradition 

is stronger than emancipation with 

the majority of women who still live the 

traditional life especially in rural areas. 

Bothaina Shaaban, Syrian Professor of 

Literature at the Damascus University, 

and author of Both Right and Left 

Handed, points out that women in her 

country have a long way to go in shedding 

the role of a submissive wife. Even 

for the woman who holds a position of 

responsibility and prestige, this is left at 

the front door when she enters after 

work. Here, she has double dutycare of 

children, housework, food preparation 

and servitude toward her husband. 

Syrian men rarely partner with their 

working wife. 

Whether Saudi or Syrian, women 

of both countries cope daily in the 

home and in the harem. Tradition plays 

a central role, “honor killings” threaten 

young women if they are found to have 

alliances with males. In addition, family 

stability has the highest priority, the 

glue that binds women to remain in 

unsatisfactory marriages. Their plight 

can only be changed when equity in 

public and private prevail; when Sharia 

laws are fair to both genders. 

Ruth Hunter is a seasoned citizen, 

activist and periodic journalist for 

The Connection Magazine. She can 

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Even the chocolate companies admit there’s 

a problem. After a media exposé by Knight 

Ridder in 2001, and under pressure from members 

of Congress, the major chocolate companies 

agreed to a voluntary protocol to ensure US 

chocolate products aren’t made using illegal child 

labor. But, the protocol expired in July 2005, and 

the chocolate industry failed to fulfill its own 

promise to monitor cocoa 

imports and certify that the 

cocoa is not made by forced 

child labor. 

According to the International 

Labor Organization, 

the US Department of 

State and UNICEF, tens of 

thousands of children work 

on cocoa farms in West Africa, 

particularly in the Ivory 

Coast. 

What does child labor 

on cocoa farms look 

like? Ask the child workers 

who are suing Nestle, 

Cargill, and Archer Daniels- 

Midland for trafficking, torture, 

and forced labor of 

children who cultivate and 

harvest cocoa beans. The 

children are from Mali, and 


they say in the lawsuit that they were trafficked 

from Mali to the Ivory Coast and forced to work 

12 to 14-hour days with no pay, little food and 

sleep, and frequent beatings. 

Here’s how a child cocoa laborer described 

his situation in the Knight Ridder exposé that 

brought an avalanche of negative publicity down 

on the chocolate companies in 2001, “He tied 

me behind my back with rope and beat me with 

a piece of wood,” Siaka said, peeling back his 

shirt to show the scars on his left shoulder and 

arm. “Then he took a small gun, and said, “I’m 

going to kill you and dump you in a well.” Fourteen-year-old 

Siaka Traure was bought by a slave 

trader in Ivory Coast for just $28, made to work 

unending days on the cocoa plantations and imprisoned 

in a windowless mud hut. 

Although I am a serious chocolate lover, at 

best chocolate is bittersweet when I think about 

the words of this boy. The only way for me to 

enjoy chocolate now is to buy Fair Trade chocolate, 

which I know was harvested on farms where 

the farmers are paid a fair wage, the environment 

is protected, and child slavery is strictly prohibited. 

Fair Trade is an existing solution to the horrific 

treatment that Siaka and other children like 

him endure everyday, and yet big chocolate companies 

— who could prohibit forced child labor 

on cocoa farms — would apparently rather profit 

from it. 

Maybe my costume this coming year will 

be a chocolate company executive fat cat. Then 

again, maybe I’ll just stay at home, stick a wig 

on my head, and hand out Fair Trade trick-ortreat 

chocolates. 

Andrea Buffa is the campaign’s director at 

Global Exchange: www.globalexchange.org . 

Also check out, for the truth: www.truthout.org/ 

issues_06/103106LB.shtml and 

www.TomPaine.com. Find out about Stop Child 

Slavery at: http://vision.ucsd.edu/~kbranson/ 

stopchocolateslavery/atasteofslavery.html.

THERE IS SO MUCH going on, on so 

many levels, these days. This month, we 

share some of the most important things 

as part of our THEME and Healthy 

Planet Column (one and the same). 

We begin this theme with Local Issues, 

that of course, have broader ‘global’ 

ramifications—saving our pristine 

Lompico Headwaters, wireless communication 

and alcohol fuel to replace 

petroleum and efficient composting, 

both in order to affect global warming. 

The following pages deal with ‘the 

regime’ and HUGE issues, like: impending 

martial law, economic breakdown, 

entering & leaving the USA, and more. 

They are all must reads. 

Please realize that our Covers will give 

an idea of what the center theme is, 

however, they may not be blatant. We 

think you’ll understand why, after reading 

these articles. Please share them 

with others. 

In Peace, Education, Truth & Light, 

— Pattie & Thom 

“The Wireless 

Revolution?” 

Pt. 1 

by Rhonda Hoefs 

S 

O OFTEN WE learn about dangers to our 

neighborhoods and environments after 

the fact. There may be notice about a 

problem that will raise its head in the future but 

the vested interests who stand to profit by suppressing 

the information make sure that these 

voices are not taken seriously or covered fairly, 

if at all. 

Something we Americans are just learning 

is that we are the watchdogs of our society. 

No benign papa is out there protecting us at all 

times. Though we are not the people with all 

the money and power, all of us together are the 

only force to be reckoned with against those 

who value our money over our lives. 

Currently the city of Santa Cruz, along 

with Santa Clara Valley up to San Francisco, 

is considering installing a wireless (wifi) internet 

system, to be able to compete economically 

with other regions of the world. The 

vendors are touting this system as “free” and 

the city is throwing this word around as well, 

but when asked, in a public town council 

meeting, the vendor admitted that individuals 

would have to sign up for the privilege of use ( 

and be charged to do so) and may have to 

install an extra home device as well at their 

own cost. Since at this time individuals can 

go to many coffee shops and libraries to use 

wireless for nothing, why would they pay 

$20.00 to $30.00 a month ( not counting extra 

booster fees), money they may not have, for 

the same benefit? 

The “seamless” description wifi is given 

is also not accurate. Already, many towns who 

have fallen for the “free, seamless” bait have 

decided to rescind their involvement because 

the coverage was so spotty and townspeople 

were unhappy with it. 

A suspicion is that these wifi devices will 

be incorporated for surveillance. The vendor 

pointed out the usefulness of this technology 

for this at the town council meeting, and the 

city reputedly has already moved ahead to put 

in surveillance town-wide. Do we really need 

to be watched everywhere we go while we are 

being irradiated at the same time? 

You may find, if wireless goes in, that 

you will no longer get a free ride on the last 

person who occupied your metered parking 

space. The new wifi meters would automatically 

register when the last person left and 

would revert back to 0; any extra payment 

would be absorbed by the city. A national 

magazine just wrote up that this form of parking 

meter is the wave of the future. 

(To be continued) 

Free film screening and discussion on 

Nov. 9th, Live Oak Grange, 1900 17th Ave., 

Santa Cruz 7-9 p.m. 

“Public Exposure: DNA, Democracy and 

the “Wireless Revolution” 

Presented by the Wireless Alert 

Network for more info: Marilyn (831) 688- 

4603 or Beverly( 831) 475-3495. 

New Support for the Lompico Headwaters Campaign 

T 

HE COMMUNITY CAMPAIGN to 

permanently preserve the 425 acre 

Lompico Headwaters, above Felton, 

just got a major boost. 

All donations from Santa Cruz 

County residents toward the Save the 

Lompico Headwaters Campaign that are 

received by December 31, 2006 will be 

matched dollar for dollar up to $10,000 by 

the Community Foundation of Santa Cruz 

County (CFSCC). “It is important that we 

maximize our community resources to protect 

the fresh water sources currently available 

to Santa Cruz area residents,” said 

Brian Steen, Executive Director of 

Sempervirens Fund. “We are extremely 

by Frederic Scheer 

T 

HIS SUMMER’S BLOCKBUSTER 

“The Inconvenient Truth” helped 

Americans gain a better under- 

standing of the global warming crisis 

facing us. However, the movie devoted 

little time to outlining practical solutions 

and remedies. Burning less fossil fuels 

will help, of course, but did you know a 

significant weapon to fight global warming 

is alternative plastics, which are 

fully compostable and made from 

renewable resources? Let me explain 

the connection. 

The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) tracks the annual output 

of heat-trapping gasses that cause 

global warming and has identified carbon 

dioxide as the major culprit. Most 

of the carbon dioxide released into the 

atmosphere comes from the burning of 

fossils fuels for energy-related activities 

such as transportation, heating and 

cooling buildings, waste combustion 

and other human consumer activities. 

California is the world’s 12 th largest 

source of carbon dioxide. 

You may not be aware that 

methane is the second largest cause of 

greenhouse gases. Methane is by far 

the most toxic of all greenhouse gases, 

because nature does not readily recycle 

methane. The largest source of 

methane (25 percent) comes from one 

activity: landfilling organic material such 

as yard debris, paper and food waste. In 

landfills, where the oxygen content is 

low or zero, anaerobic bacteria decompose 

organic materials, which contain 

about 60 percent carbon. This process 

generates massive amounts of methane. 

Landfill operators are aware of this problem 

are now trying to “recycle” the 

methane by setting up sophisticated systems 

to recoup the gases and transform 

it into energy. However, this task is difficult 

and costly. 

A better approach is to separate 

by David Blume 

ECEPTIVELY LOW PRE-ELEC- 

TION gasoline prices may save you Dpennies, 

but not the guilt you experience 

when you fill up your tank. Burning 

oil in our cars pollutes the air, causes 

global warming and instigates global 

wars. You can choose organic food, buy 

Fairtrade coffee, and buy natural materials 

to build your house, but where and 

how can we choose to buy alternative 

fuels? 

Alcohol made from the starchy part 

of corn, food waste (and soon from sawdust) 

can be used to power your gasolineengineered 

car. In many states, E-85, a 

solution of 85% alcohol and 15% gasoline, 

is currently available at the pump. 

Since alcohol production costs are lower 

than those of gasoline, E-85 typically runs 

30-50 cents less per gallon. California 

gasoline already contains 5.7% alcohol, 

giving us a head start on our zero emissions 

campaign. 

grateful for the opportunity to collaborate 

with the Community Foundation of Santa 

Cruz County and the Lompico Watershed 

Conservancy towards the completion of 

this watershed preservation project.” 

Lompico Headwaters, a 425-acre 

redwood forest just 5 miles north of Felton, 

represents much of what residents of 

Santa Cruz County hold dear majestic redwoods, 

a watershed that provides quality 

drinking water, wildlife habitat and inspiring 

involvement of local residents in protecting 

natural resources. Sempervirens purchased 

this and other land in 2006 for $5.6 

million from Redwood Empire. Public and 

private financial support has reduced the 

organics before they go to the landfill 

and compost them. When organics are 

properly composted, no methane is produced, 

and the carbon dioxide already 

sequestered by the plant matter is reintroduced 

back into the earth. This is why 

the EPA has been encouraging cities, 

counties and states to increase their 

rates of organic materials “diverted” from 

landfills and composted. Composting 

organic waste not only reduces the 

Compared to the high emission 

rate of gasoline, alcohol is 98% pollution 

free. Alcohol burns so clean that 

zero black carbon residues remain in 

your engine or oil, which translates to 

tripling the life of the average engine. 

Alcohol is 105 octane, the clean equivalent 

of premium grade gasoline. Alcohol 

is made from solar energy falling on 

farms in America – becoming liquid 

solar energy. And as these plants inhale 

carbon dioxide (greenhouse gas) and 

exhale oxygen, they help reverse global 

warming. 

Today, the majority of alcohol fuels 

produced in this country comes from midwest 

farm cooperatives, not giant 

agribusiness. In that way, income from our 

alcohol crops nurtures national and local 

economies rather than feeding oveseas 

campaign balance now to $3.25 million. 

Lompico Headwaters is the single 

source of water for the community of 

Lompico. Logging the property would seriously 

harm water quality as well as the fish 

and wildlife habitat. Lompico Creek, which 

begins in this forest, provides drinking 

water to 1,500 Lompico residents and 

flows into Zayante Creek and the San 

Lorenzo River (a water source for the City 

of Santa Cruz). 

The mission of the Lompico 

Watershed Conservancy, a not-for-profit 

founded in 1997 in Felton, CA is to provide 

fisheries restoration and water quality 

advocacy as well as work to protect cru- 

amount of material going to the landfill, 

but also dramatically decreases methane 

production at the landfill down the road. 

Alternative plastics made from 

biodegradable resins make it easier to 

divert organics from the landfill. Yard and 

food waste can be collected in compostable 

bags; the bag can be composted 

right along with its contents. Plates, 

straws, cups and utensils tossed out with 

food waste at cafeterias and fast food out- 

Transnational corporations, and eliminates 

the huge energy costs of importing the 

fuel. Brazil, one of the largest countries in 

the world, uses less than 1% of its land to 

grow sugar cane to produce alcohol that 

powers 40% of its automobiles. 

In my new book on alcohol fuel, 

Alcohol Can Be A Gas, I describe how 

consumers can come together to open 

their own driver-owned alcohol station at 

a relatively low cost. Not only will driver 

owners of a community station save 

money buying alcohol wholesale, they will 

earn sizeable tax credits, and can pass 

tax credits on to drivers. So purchasing 

alcohol for $2.40 per gallon, your tax 

credit leaves you paying only $1.79 per 

gallon net! And while millions of flexible 

fuel vehicles today are designed at the 

factory to run on any mixture of alcohol 

cial forest landscapes. For more info: 

www.lompicocreek.org 

Mark all donations for this matching 

grant “for Lompico Headwaters” and mail to: 

Sempervirens Fund at Drawer BE, 

Los Altos, 

CA 94023. You can also make your 

donation online at Sempervirens Fund’s 

secure website, www.sempervirens.org 

or call (650) 968-4509. Questions? Call 

Sempervirens Fund: (650) 968-4509. 

Donations are deductible under IRC 501(c) 

(3). 

Please tell them that you read about 

this in The Connection Magazine. Thank 

you! 

Fight Global Warming: Compost Your Dishes! 

Alcohol Can Be a Gas! 


lets can be composted along with the 

food waste. By eliminating petroleumbased 

products from the trash, sorting is 

not required, and 100 percent of the 

materials can be composted. With alternative 

plastic food packaging, it is now 

possible to host “zero waste” events 

such as the upcoming 2008 Olympics. 

Last month, the governor signed 

AB 32: Global Warming Solutions Act, 

which requires that the state’s global 

warming emissions an be reduced to 

1990 levels by 2020. Renewal energy 

sources can only take us so far. 

Widespread use of alternative plastics 

is a practical method to help the state 

increase composting and reduce 

methane emissions. 

I would also like to add that alternative 

plastics use less fossil fuel to 

manufacture than traditional petroleumbased 

plastics. The original feedstock 

for alternative plastics has agricultural 

origins; cornstarch and other starches 

are very often the basis for such resins. 

The fabrication process generally 

requires processing temperature substantially 

lower (as much as 70 percent 

lower) than petroleum-based plastic 

resins. Less heat means less energy 

and therefore translates into less gas 

emissions: Nature is winning! 

Our entire planet is moving in a 

direction that could have catastrophic 

consequences. We need to all unite and 

find viable solutions to global warming. 

Bioplastics are truly a part of the answer 

to this problem. 

Frederic Scheer is president and 

CEO of Cereplast (OTCBB: CERP), a 

company that designs and manufactures 

plant starch-based compostable resins. 

He founded the Biodegradable Products 

Institute (BPI), a non-profit organization 

that promotes the use and recycling of 

biodegradable materials, and certifies 

products that are truly compostable. For 

more information about Cereplast or 

renewable plastics, see 

www.cereplast.com 

and gasoline, you can convert conventional 

cars to run on alcohol for only $100- 

$300. 

To learn more about alcohol fuel 

and our campaign to open a station here 

in Santa Cruz within the next few months, 

come to my talk and organizing meeting 

on November 14th at Louden Nelson 

Center, Room #3, at 7pm. For further info: 

Willow at (831) 469-4311, 

ravensong@baymoon.com. For in-depth 

material on alcohol fuel, check my website, 

www.permaculture.com. 

David Blume is the author of the 

upcoming book Alcohol Can Be A Gas 

and the host of the 1980’s PBS series 

“Alcohol as Fuel.” He has worked around 

the world as an alternative energy and 

permaculture consultant and is founder of 

the International Institute for Ecological 

Agriculture. 

farmerdave@permaculture.com

Top Government Official Says US on Verge of Economic Disaster 

by Matt Crenson 

A dirty little secret everyone in Washington 

knows, or at least should. The vast majority of 

economists and budget analysts agree: The ship 

of state is on a disastrous course, and will founder 

on the reefs of economic disaster if nothing is 

done to correct it. 

David M. Walker sure talks like he’s running for 

office. “This is about the future of our country, our kids 

and grandkids,” the comptroller general of the USA 

warns a packed hall at Austin’s historic Driskill Hotel. 

“We the people have to rise up to make sure things 

get changed.” 

But, Walker doesn’t want, or need, your vote this 

November. He already has a job as head of the 

Government Accountability Office, an investigative arm 

of Congress that audits and evaluates the performance 

of the federal government. 

Basically, that makes Walker the nation’s 

accountant-in-chief. And, the accountant-in-chief’s professional 

opinion is that the American public needs to 

tell Washington it’s time to steer the nation off the path 

to financial ruin. 

From the hustings and the airwaves this campaign 

season, America’s political class can be heard 

debating Capitol Hill sex scandals, the wisdom of the 

war in Iraq and which party is tougher on terror. 

Democrats and Republicans talk of cutting taxes to 

make life easier for the American people. 

What they don’t talk about is a dirty little secret 

everyone in Washington knows, or at least should. The 

vast majority of economists and budget analysts 

agree: The ship of state is on a disastrous course, and 

will founder on the reefs of economic disaster if nothing 

is done to correct it. 

There’s a good reason politicians don’t like to 

talk about the nation’s long-term fiscal prospects. The 

subject is short on political theatrics and long on complicated 

economics, scary graphs and very big numbers. 

It reveals serious problems and offers no easy 

solutions. Anybody who wanted to deal with it serious- 

ly would have to talk about raising taxes and cutting 

benefits, nasty nostrums that might doom any candidate 

who prescribed them. 

Walker has committed to touring the nation 

through the 2008 elections, talking to anybody who will 

listen about the fiscal black hole Washington has dug 

itself, the “demographic tsunami” that will come when 

the baby boom generation begins retiring and the recklessness 

of borrowing money from foreign lenders to 

pay for the operation of the U.S. government. 

“He can speak forthrightly and independently 

because his job is not in jeopardy if he tells the truth,” 

said Isabel V. Sawhill, a 

senior fellow in economic 

studies at the Brookings 

Institution. 

Walker can talk in 

public about the nation’s 

impending fiscal crisis 

because he has one of 

the most secure jobs in 

Washington. As comptroller 

general of the United 

States, he is serving a 

15-year term that runs 

through 2013. 

This year Walker 

has spoken to the Union 

League Club of Chicago 

and the Rotary Club of 

Atlanta, the Sons of the American Revolution and the 

World Future Society. But the backbone of his campaign 

has been the Fiscal Wake-up Tour, a traveling roadshow 

of economists and budget analysts who share Walker’s 

concern for the nation’s budgetary future. 

“You can’t solve a problem until the majority of 

the people believe you have a problem that needs to 

be solved,” Walker says. 

Polls suggest that Americans have only a vague 

sense of their government’s long-term fiscal prospects. 

When pollsters ask Americans to name the most 

If the US government conducts business 

as usual over the next few decades, a 

national debt that is already $8.5 trillion 

could reach $46 trillion or more, adjusted 

for inflation. That’s almost as much as 

the total net worth of every person in 

America—Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and 

those Google guys included. 

important problem facing America today—as a CBS 

News/New York Times poll of 1,131 Americans did in 

September—issues such as the war in Iraq, terrorism, 

jobs and the economy are most frequently mentioned. 

The deficit doesn’t even crack the top 10. 

Yet, on the rare occasions that pollsters ask 

directly about the deficit, at least some people appear 

to recognize it as a problem. In a survey of 807 

Americans last year by the Pew Center for the People 

and the Press, 42% of respondents said reducing the 

deficit should be a top priority; another 38% said it 

was important but a lower priority. 

So, the majority of 

the public appears to 

agree with Walker that the 

deficit is a serious problem, 

but only when they’re 

made to think about it. 

Walker’s challenge is to 

get people not just to think 

about it, but to pressure 

politicians to make the 

hard choices that are 

needed to keep the situation 

from spiraling out of 

control. 

To show that the 

looming fiscal crisis is not 

a partisan issue, he brings 

along economists and 

budget analysts from across the political spectrum. In 

Austin, he’s accompanied by Diane Lim Rogers, a liberal 

economist from the Brookings Institution, and 

Alison Acosta Fraser, director of the Roe Institute for 

Economic Policy Studies at the Heritage Foundation, a 

conservative think tank. 

“We all agree on what the choices are and what 

the numbers are,” Fraser says. 

Their basic message is this: If the US government 

conducts business as usual over the next few 

decades, a national debt that is already $8.5 trillion 

could reach $46 trillion or more, adjusted for inflation. 

That’s almost as much as the total net worth of every 

person in America—Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and 

those Google guys included. 

A hole that big could paralyze the US economy; 

according to some projections, just the interest payments 

on a debt that big would be as much as all the 

taxes the government collects today. 

And every year that nothing is done about it, 

Walker says, the problem grows by $2 trillion to $3 trillion. 

People who remember Ross Perot’s rants in the 

1992 presidential election may think of the federal debt 

as a problem of the past. But it never really went away 

after Perot made it an issue, it only took a breather. 

The federal government actually produced a surplus for 

a few years during the 1990s, thanks to a booming 

economy and fiscal restraint imposed by laws that were 

passed early in the decade. And though the federal 

debt has grown in dollar terms since 2001, it hasn’t 

grown dramatically relative to the size of the economy. 

But that’s about to change, thanks to the country’s 

three big entitlement programs—Social Security, 

Medicaid and especially Medicare. Medicaid and 

Medicare have grown progressively more expensive 

as the cost of health care has dramatically outpaced 

inflation over the past 30 years, a trend that is expected 

to continue for at least another decade or two. 

And with the first baby boomers becoming eligible 

for Social Security in 2008 and for Medicare in 

2011, the expenses of those two programs are about 

to increase dramatically due to demographic pressures. 

People are also living longer, which makes any 

program that provides benefits to retirees more expensive. 

Medicare already costs four times as much as it 

did in 1970, measured as a percentage of the nation’s 

gross domestic product. It currently comprises 13% of 

federal spending; by 2030, the Congressional Budget 

Office projects it will consume nearly a quarter of the 

budget. 

Economists Jagadeesh Gokhale of the American 

Enterprise Institute and Kent Smetters of the 

University of Pennsylvania have an even scarier way 

of looking at Medicare. Their method calculates the 

program’s long-term fiscal shortfall—the annual difference 

between its dedicated revenues and costs - over 

time. 

By 2030 they calculate Medicare will be about 

$5 trillion in the hole, measured in 2004 dollars. By 

2080, the fiscal imbalance will have risen to $25 trillion. 

And when you project the gap out to an infinite 

time horizon, it reaches $60 trillion. 

Medicare so dominates the nation’s fiscal future 

that some economists believe health care reform, 

rather than budget measures, is the best way to attack 

the problem. 


“Obviously health care is a mess,” says Dean 

Baker, a liberal economist at the Center for Economic 

and Policy Research, a Washington think tank. “No 

one’s been willing to touch it, but that’s what I see as 

front and center.” 

Social Security is a much less serious problem. 

The program currently pays for itself with a 12.4% 

payroll tax, and even produces a surplus that the government 

raids every year to pay other bills. But, Social 

Security will begin to run deficits during the next century, 

and ultimately would need an infusion of $8 trillion 

if the government planned to keep its promises to 

every beneficiary. 

Calculations by Boston University economist 

Lawrence Kotlikoff indicate that closing those gaps—$8 

trillion for Social Security, many times that for 

Medicare—and paying off the existing deficit would 

require either an immediate doubling of personal and 

corporate income taxes, a 2/3 cut in Social Security and 

Medicare benefits, or some combination of the two. 

Why is America so fiscally unprepared for the 

next century? Like many of its citizens, the US has 

spent the last few years racking up debt instead of 

saving for the future. Foreign lenders—primarily the 

central banks of China, Japan and other big U.S. trading 

partners—have been eager to lend the government 

money at low interest rates, making the current 

$8.5—trillion deficit about as painful as a big balance 

on a zero-percent credit card. 

In her part of the fiscal wake-up tour presentation, 

Rogers tries to explain why that’s a bad thing. For 

one thing, even when rates are low a bigger deficit 

means a greater portion of each tax dollar goes to 

interest payments rather than useful programs. And 

because foreigners now hold so much of the federal 

government’s debt, those interest payments increasingly 

go overseas rather than to U.S. investors. 

More serious is the possibility that foreign 

lenders might lose their enthusiasm for lending money 

to the US. Because treasury bills are sold at auction, 

that would mean paying higher interest rates in the 

future. And, it wouldn’t just be the government’s problem. 

All interest rates would rise, making mortgages, 

car payments and student loans costlier, too. 

A modest rise in interest rates wouldn’t necessarily 

be a bad thing, Rogers said. America’s consumers 

have as much of a borrowing problem as their government 

does, so higher rates could moderate overconsumption 

and encourage consumer saving. But a big 

jump in interest rates could cause economic catastrophe. 

Some economists even predict the government 

would resort to printing money to pay off its debt, a 

risky strategy that could lead to runaway inflation. 

Macroeconomic meltdown is probably preventable, 

says Anjan Thakor, a professor of finance at 

Washington University in St. Louis. But, to keep it at 

bay, he said, the government is essentially going to 

have to renegotiate some of the promises it has made 

to its citizens, probably by some combination of tax 

increases and benefit cuts. 

But, there’s no way to avoid what Rogers considers 

the worst result of racking up a big deficit—the 

outrage of making our children and grandchildren 

repay the debts of their elders. 

“It’s an unfair burden for future generations,” she 

says. 

You’d think young people would be riled up over 

this issue, since they’re the ones who will foot the bill 

when they’re out in the working world. But, students 

take more interest in issues like the Iraq war and gay 

marriage than the federal government’s finances, says 

Emma Vernon, a member of the University of Texas 

Young Democrats. 

“It’s not something that can fire people up,” she 

says. 

The current political climate doesn’t help. 

Washington tends to keep its fiscal house in better 

order when one party controls Congress and the other 

is in the White House, says Sawhill. 

“It’s kind of a paradoxical result.Your commonsense 

logic would tell you if one party is in control of everything 

they should be able to take action,” Sawhill says. 

But, the last six years of Republican rule have 

produced tax cuts, record spending increases and a 

Medicare prescription drug plan that has been widely 

criticized as fiscally unsound. When President Clinton 

faced a Republican Congress during the 1990s, 

spending limits and other legislative tools helped produce 

a surplus. 

So maybe a solution is at hand. 

But, Walker isn’t optimistic that the government 

will be able to tackle its fiscal challenges so soon. 

“Realistically what we hope to accomplish through 

the fiscal wake-up tour is ensure that any serious candidate 

for the presidency in 2008 will be forced to deal 

with the issue,” he says. “The best we’re going to get in 

the next couple of years is to slow the bleeding.” 

Printed with permission from truthout.org .

Bush Moves Toward Martial Law 

by Frank Morales 

In a stealth maneuver, President 

Bush has signed into law a provision 

which, according to Senator 

Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont), will 

actually encourage the President to 

declare federal martial law1. It does 

so by revising the Insurrection Act, 

a set of laws that limits the 

President’s ability to deploy troops 

within the USA. The Insurrection 

Act (10 U.S.C.331 -335) has 

historically, along with the 

Posse Comitatus Act (18 

U.S.C.1385), helped to 

enforce strict prohibitions on 

military involvement in 

domestic law enforcement. 

With one cloaked swipe of his 

pen, Bush is seeking to undo 

those prohibitions. Public Law 

109-364, or the John Warner 

Defense Authorization Act of 

2007 (H.R.5122) (2), which 

was signed by the commander 

in chief on October 17th, 

2006, in a private Oval Office 

ceremony, allows the President to 

declare a “public emergency” and 

station troops anywhere in America 

and take control of state-based 

National Guard units without the 

consent of the governor or local 

authorities, in order to “suppress 

public disorder.” Bush seized this 

unprecedented power on the very 

same day that he signed the equally 

odious Military Commissions Act of 

2006. In a sense, the two laws complement 

one another. One allows for 

torture and detention abroad, while 

the other seeks to enforce acquies- 

Forget no-fly lists. If Uncle Sam 

gets its way, beginning on Jan. 14, 2007, 

we’ll all be on no-fly lists, unless the 

government gives us permission to 

leave-or re-enter-the USA. 

The US Department of Homeland 

Security (HSA) has proposed that all airlines, 

cruise lines-even fishing boats-be 

required to obtain clearance for each 

passenger they propose taking into or 

out of the USA. 

It doesn’t matter if you have a US 

passport-a “travel document” that now, 

absent a court order to the contrary, 

gives you a virtually unqualified right to 

enter or leave the USA, any time you 

want. When the DHS system comes into 

effect next January, if the agency says 

“no” to a clearance request, or doesn’t 

answer the request at all, you won’t be 

permitted to enter-or leave-the USA. 

Consider what might happen if 

you’re a US passport holder on assignment 

in a country like Saudi Arabia. 

cence at home, preparing to order 

the military onto the streets of 

America. Remember, the term for 

putting an area under military law 

enforcement control is precise; the 

term is “martial law.” 

Section 1076 of the massive 

Authorization Act, which grants the 

Pentagon another $500-plus-billion 

for its ill-advised adventures, is entitled, 

“Use of the Armed Forces in 

Major Public Emergencies.” Section 

333, “Major public emergencies; 

interference with State and Federal 

law” states that “the President may 

employ the armed forces, including 

the National Guard in Federal service, 

to restore public order and 

enforce the laws of the USA when, 

as a result of a natural disaster, epidemic, 

or other serious public health 

emergency, terrorist attack or incident, 

or other condition in any State 

or possession of the United States, 

the President determines that domestic 

violence has occurred to such an 

extent that the constituted authorities 

of the State or possession are inca- 

Your visa is about to expire, so you 

board your flight back to the USA. But 

wait! You can’t get on, because you 

don’t have permission from the HSA. 

Saudi immigration officials are on hand 

to escort you to a squalid detention center, 

where you and others who are now 

effectively “stateless persons” are 

detained, potentially indefinitely, until 

their immigration status is sorted out. 

Why might the HSA deny you permission 

to leave-or enter-the USA? No 

one knows, because the entire clearance 

procedure would be an administrative 

determination made secretly, with no 

right of appeal. Naturally, the decision 

would be made without a warrant, without 

probable cause and without even any 

particular degree of suspicion. Basically, 

if the HSA decides it doesn’t like you, 

you’re a prisoner-either outside, or 

inside, the USA whether or not you hold 

a US passport. 

The US Supreme Court has long 

pable of (“refuse” or “fail” in) maintaining 

public order, “in order to 

suppress, in any State, any insurrection, 

domestic violence, unlawful 

combination, or conspiracy. “For the 

current President, “enforcement of 

the laws to restore public order” 

means to commandeer guardsmen 

from any state, over the objections 

of local governmental, military and 

local police entities; ship them off to 

another state; conscript them in a 

The historic and ominous 

re-writing of the Insurrection Act, 

accomplished in the dead of night, 

which gives Bush the legal authority 

to declare martial law, is now an 

accomplished fact. 

law enforcement mode; and set them 

loose against “disorderly” citizenry - 

protesters, possibly, or those who 

object to forced vaccinations and 

quarantines in the event of a bio-terror 

event. The law also facilitates 

militarized police round-ups and 

detention of protesters, so called 

“illegal aliens,” “potential terrorists” 

and other “undesirables” for detention 

in facilities already contracted 

for and under construction by 

Halliburton. That’s right. Under the 

cover of a trumped-up “immigration 

emergency” and the frenzied militarization 

of the southern border, 

recognized there is a constitutional right 

to travel internationally. Indeed, it has 

declared that the right to travel is “a virtually 

unconditional personal right.” 

The United States has also signed 

treaties guaranteeing “freedom of travel”. 

So, if these regulations do go into 

effect, you can expect a lengthy court 

battle, both nationally and internationally. 

Think this can’t happen? Think 

again,?it’s ALREADY happening. 

Earlier this year, HSA forbade airlines 

from transporting an 18-year-old nativeborn 

US citizen, back to the USA. The 

prohibition lasted nearly six months 

until it was finally lifted a few weeks 

ago. 

Nazi Germany and the Soviet 

Union are two countries in recent history 

that didn’t allow their citizens to travel 

abroad without permission. If these 

regulations go into effect, you can add 

the USA to this list. 

detention camps are being constructed 

right under our noses, camps 

designed for anyone who resists the 

foreign and domestic agenda of the 

Bush Administration. An article on 

“recent contract awards” in a recent 

issue of the slick, insider Journal of 

Counterterrorism & Homeland 

Security International reported that 

“global engineering and technical 

services powerhouse KBR [Kellog, 

Brown & Root] announced in 

January 2006 that its 

Government and 

Infrastructure division 

was awarded an 

Indefinite 

Delivery/Indefinite 

Quantity (IDIQ) contract 

to support U.S. 

Immigration and 

Customs Enforcement 

(ICE) facilities in the 

event of an emergency.” 

“With a maximum 

total value of 

$385 million over a 

five year term,” the report notes, 

“the contract is to be executed by 

the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,” 

“for establishing temporary detention 

and processing capabilities to 

augment existing ICE Detention and 

Removal Operations (DRO) - in the 

event of an emergency influx of 

immigrants into the U.S., or to support 

the rapid development of new 

programs.” The report points out 

that “KBR is the engineering and 

construction subsidiary of 

Halliburton.” 3 So, in addition to 

authorizing another $532.8 billion 

for the Pentagon, including a $70- 


billion “supplemental provision” 

which covers the cost of the ongoing, 

mad military maneuvers in Iraq, 

Afghanistan, and other places, the 

new law, signed by the president in 

a private White House ceremony, 

further collapses the historic divide 

between the police and the military: 

a tell-tale sign of a rapidly consolidating 

police state in America, all 

accomplished amidst ongoing U.S. 

imperial pretensions of global domination, 

sold to an “emergency managed” 

and seemingly willfully 

gullible public as a “global war on 

terrorism.” 

Make no mistake about it: the 

de-facto repeal of the Posse 

Comitatus Act (PCA) is an ominous 

assault on American democratic tradition 

and jurisprudence. The 1878 

Act, which reads, “Whoever, except 

in cases and under circumstances 

expressly authorized by the 

Constitution or Act of Congress, 

willfully uses any part of the Army 

or Air Force as a posse comitatus or 

otherwise to execute the laws shall 

be fined under this title or imprisoned 

not more than two years, or 

both,” is the only U.S. criminal 

statute that outlaws military operations 

directed against the American 

people under the cover of ‘law 

enforcement.’ As such, it has been 

the best protection we’ve had 

against the power-hungry intentions 

of an unscrupulous and reckless 

executive, an executive intent on 

using force to enforce its will. 

Unfortunately, this past week, 

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Martial Law 

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After Pat’s Birthday 

by Kevin Tillman 

Editor’s Note: Kevin Tillman joined 

the Army with his brother Pat in 

2002, and they served together in 

Iraq and Afghanistan. Pat was killed 

by friendly fire in Afghanistan on 

April 22, 2004. Kevin, who was discharged 

in 2005, has written a powerful, 

must-read document. 

IT WAS PAT’S birthday on Nov. 

6, and elections were the day 

after. It gets me thinking about 

a conversation I had with Pat before 

we joined the military. He spoke 

about the risks with signing the 

papers. How once we committed, 

we were at the mercy of the 

American leadership and the 

American people. How we could be 

thrown in a direction not of our volition. 

How fighting as a soldier 

would leave us without a voice… 

until we got out. Much has happened 

since we handed over our 

voice: 

Somehow we were sent to 

invade a nation because it was a 

direct threat to the American people, 

or to the world, or harbored terrorists, 

or was involved in the 

September 11 th attacks, or received 

weapons-grade uranium from Niger, 

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the president dealt posse comitatus, 

along with American democracy, a 

near fatal blow. Consequently, it will 

take an aroused citizenry to undo the 

damage wrought by this horrendous 

act, part and parcel, as we have 

seen, of a long train of abuses and 

outrages perpetrated by this authoritarian 

administration. Despite the 

unprecedented and shocking nature 

of this act, there has been no outcry 

in the American media, and little 

reaction from our elected officials in 

Congress. On September 19th, a 

lone Senator Patrick Leahy (D- 

Vermont) noted that 2007’s Defense 

Authorization Act contained a 

“widely opposed provision to allow 

the President more control over the 

National Guard [adopting] changes 

to the Insurrection Act, which will 

make it easier for this or any future 

President to use the military to 

restore domestic order WITHOUT 

the consent of the nation’s governors.” 

Senator Leahy went on to 

stress that, “we certainly do not 

need to make it easier for Presidents 

to declare martial law. Invoking the 

Insurrection Act and using the mili- 

or had mobile weapons labs, or 

WMD, or had a need to be liberated, 

or we needed to establish a democracy, 

or stop an insurgency, or stop a 

civil war we created that can’t be 

called a civil war even though it is. 

Something like that. 

Somehow America has become 

a country that projects everything 

that it is not and condemns everything 

that it is. 

Somehow our elected leaders 

were subverting international law 

and humanity by setting up secret 

prisons around the world, secretly 

kidnapping people, secretly holding 

them indefinitely, secretly not charging 

them with anything, secretly torturing 

them. Somehow that overt 

policy of torture became the fault of 

a few “bad apples” in the military. 

Somehow back at home, support 

for the soldiers meant having a 

five-year-old kindergartener scribble 

a picture with crayons and send it 

overseas, or slapping stickers on 

cars, or lobbying Congress for an 

extra pad in a helmet. It’s interesting 

that a soldier on his third or 

fourth tour should care about a 

drawing from a five-year-old; or a 

faded sticker on a car as his friends 

die around him; or an extra pad in a 

helmet, as if it will protect him 

when an IED throws his vehicle 50 

tary for law enforcement activities 

goes against some of the central 

tenets of our democracy. One can 

easily envision governors and mayors 

in charge of an emergency having 

to constantly look over their 

shoulders while someone who has 

never visited their communities 

gives the orders.” A few weeks later, 

on the 29th of September, Leahy 

entered into the Congressional 

Record that he had “grave reservations 

about certain provisions of the 

fiscal Year 2007 Defense 

Authorization Bill Conference 

Report,” the language of which, he 

said, “subverts solid, longstanding 

posse comitatus statutes that limit 

the military’s involvement in law 

enforcement, thereby making it easier 

for the President to declare martial 

law.” This had been “slipped 

in,” Leahy said, “as a rider with little 

study,” while “other congressional 

committees with jurisdiction over 

these matters had no chance to comment, 

let alone hold hearings on, 

these proposals.” In a telling bit of 

understatement, the Senator from 

Vermont noted that “the implications 

of changing the (Posse Comitatus) 

Act are enormous”. “There is good 

reason,” he said, “for the constructive 

friction in existing law when it 

comes to martial law declarations. 

feet into the air as his body comes 

apart and his skin melts to the seat. 

Somehow the more soldiers 

that die, the more legitimate 

the illegal invasion becomes! 

Somehow American leadership, 

whose only credit is lying to its people 

and illegally invading a nation, 

has been allowed to steal the 

courage, virtue and honor of its soldiers 

on the ground. 

Somehow those afraid to fight 

an illegal invasion decades ago are 

allowed to send soldiers to die for 

an illegal invasion they started. 

Somehow faking character, 

virtue and strength is tolerated. 

Somehow profiting from 

tragedy and horror is tolerated. 

Somehow the death of tens, if not 

hundreds, of thousands of people is 

tolerated. 

Somehow subversion of the 

Bill of Rights and The Constitution 

is tolerated. 

Somehow suspension of the 

Writ Habeas Corpus is supposed to 

keep this country safe. 

Somehow torture is tolerated. 

Somehow lying is tolerated. 

Sources 

http://leahy.senate.gov/press/200609/091906a.html and 

http://leahy.senate.gov/press/200609/092906b.html 

ALSO SEE: Congressional Research Service Report for Congress, “The Use 

of Federal Troops for Disaster Assistance: Legal Issues,” by Jennifer K. Elsea, 

Legislative Attorney, August 14, 2006 

www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill+h109-5122 3 Journal of 

Counterterrorism & Homeland Security International, “Recent Contract 

Awards”, Summer 2006, Vol.12, No.2, pg.8; See also, Peter Dale Scott, 

“Homeland Security Contracts for Vast New Detention Camps,” New American 

Media, January 31, 2006. 4 “Technology Transfer from defense: Concealed 

Weapons Detection”, National Institute of Justice Journal, No 229, August, 

1995, pp.42-43. 

Using the military for law enforcement 

goes against one of the founding 

tenets of our democracy. 

We fail our Constitution, 

neglecting the rights of the States, 

when we make it easier for the 

President to declare martial law and 

trample on local and state sovereignty. 

“Senator Leahy’s final ruminations, 

“Since hearing word a couple 

of weeks ago that this outcome was 

likely, I have wondered how 

Congress could have gotten to this 

point. It seems the changes to the 

Insurrection Act have survived the 

Conference because the Pentagon 

and the White House want it.” The 

Somehow reason is being discarded 

for faith, dogma, and nonsense. 

Somehow American leadership 

managed to create a more dangerous 

world. 

Somehow a narrative is more 

important than reality. 

Somehow the most reasonable, 

trusted and respected country in the 

world has become one of the most 

irrational, belligerent, feared, and 

distrusted countries in the world. 

Somehow being politically 

informed, diligent, and skeptical has 

been replaced by apathy through 

active ignorance. 

Somehow the same incompetent, 

narcissistic, virtueless, vacuous, 

malicious criminals are still in 

charge of this country. 

Somehow this is tolerated. 

Somehow nobody is account- 

historic and ominous re-writing of 

the Insurrection Act, accomplished 

in the dead of night, which gives 

Bush the legal authority to declare 

martial law, is now an accomplished 

fact. The Pentagon, as one might 

expect, plays an even more direct 

role in martial law operations. Title 

XIV of the new law, entitled, 

Homeland Defense Technology 

Transfer Legislative Provisions, 

authorizes “the Secretary of Defense 

to create a Homeland Defense 

Technology Transfer Consortium to 

improve the effectiveness of the 

Department of Defense (DOD) 

processes for identifying and 


Photo Courtesy of the Tillman Family 

Pat Tillman 

(left) and his 

brother Kevin 

stand in front 

of a Chinook 

helicopter in 

Saudi Arabia 

before their 

tour of duty as 

Army Rangers 

in Iraq in 2003. 

able for this. 

In a democracy, the policy of 

the leaders is the policy of the people. 

So don’t be shocked when our 

grandkids bury much of this generation 

as traitors to the nation, to the 

world and to humanity. Most likely, 

they will come to know that 

“somehow” was nurtured by fear, 

insecurity and indifference, leaving 

the country vulnerable to 

unchecked, unchallenged parasites. 

Luckily this country is still a 

democracy (?). People still have a 

voice. People still can take action. It 

can start after Pat’s birthday. 

From Brother & Friend of Pat Tillman, 

Kevin Tillman 

The Mysterious Death of Pat 

Tillman www.truthdig.com/uncovered/item/20060307_pat_tillman_fra 

tricide/> 

deploying relevant DOD technology 

to federal, State, and local first 

responders.” In other words, the law 

facilitates the “transfer” of the 

newest in so-called “crowd control” 

technology and other weaponry 

designed to suppress dissent from 

the Pentagon to local militarized 

police units. The new law builds on 

and further codifies earlier “technology 

transfer” agreements, specifically 

the 1995 DOD-Justice 

Department memorandum of agreement 

achieved back during the 

Clinton-Reno regime. 4 It has 

become clear in recent months that a 

critical mass of the American people 

have seen through the lies of the 

Bush administration; with the president’s 

polls at an historic low, growing 

resistance to the war Iraq, and 

the Democrats likely to take back 

the Congress in mid-term elections, 

the Bush administration is on the 

ropes. And, so it is particularly worrying 

that President Bush has seen 

fit, at this juncture to, in effect, 

declare himself dictator. 

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our liberty than is the enemy it 

claims to protect us from,” says 

Keith Olbermann.” We have accepted 

that the only way to stop the terrorists 

is to let the government become 

just a little bit like the terrorists.” 

VIDEO | Keith Olbermann: Bush 

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“There is no line this president has 

not crossed - or will not cross—to 

keep one political party in power,” 

says Keith Olbermann. “He has 

spread any and every fear among us 

in a desperate effort to avoid that 

which he most fears—some check, 

some balance against what has 

become not an imperial, but a unilateral 

presidency.” 

Keith Olbermann | Where Are the 

Checks, Balances? 


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“Bush has been ‘making it up’ for too 

long, and the people have let him,” 

says Keith Olbermann. “And whatever 

your motives of the moment, we 

the people have, in true good faith and 

with the genuine patriotism of selfsacrifice 

(of which you have shown 

you know nothing), we have let you 

go on making it up as you went along. 

Unchecked and unbalanced.” 

by Arianna Huffington 

A website set up by the Bush administration last year published 

documents that effectively constituted a guide to building 

an atomic bomb. The website, an archive of Iraqi documents captured 

during the war, was shut down last night after weapons 

experts and International Atomic Energy Agency officials 

expressed concern. 

The documents contain charts, diagrams, and equations from 

Iraqi atomic research that experts say go beyond the knowledge 

commonly available on the Internet. “For the U.S. to toss a match 

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Bush Cites Oil As Reason to Stay 

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During the run-up to the invasion of 

Iraq, President Bush and his aides 

sternly dismissed suggestions that 

the war was all about oil.Now, 

3 1/2 years later, as he barnstormed 

across the country campaigning for 

Republican candidates, Bush has 

cited oil as a reason to stay in Iraq. 

Haggard Case Fuels Debate Over 

Hypocrisy 


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With the Mark Foley scandal still troubling 

Republicans,one of the nation’s 

top evangelical leaders is now accused 

of paying for gay sex. Liberals and 

some conservatives are saying the 

party that prides itself on family values 

has a hypocrisy problem. 

Military Newspapers Call for 

Rumsfeld’s Resignation 


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An editorial scheduled to appear on 

Monday in Army Times, Air Force 

Times, Navy Times and Marine 

Corps Times, calls for the resignation 

of Sec. of Defense Donald 

Rumsfeld. The papers are sold to 

American servicemen and women. 

British Believe Bush Is More 

Dangerous Than Kim Jong-il 


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America is now seen as a threat to 

world peace by its closest neighbours 

& allies, according to an int’l 

survey of public opinion published 

today that reveals just how far the 

country’s reputation has fallen 

among former supporters since the 

invasion of Iraq. 

David Swanson | Rumsfeld and 

Hussein: Partners in Crime 


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“In the course of making the world 

less safe for democracy, Donald 

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of 650,000 Iraqis and 3,000 

Americans. He has targeted civilians, 

journalists, hospitals and 

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and a new form of napalm. 

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detention of Americans and non- 

Americans without charge or counsel, 

and the use of torture. 

Acceptable torture techniques were 

posted on the wall at Abu Ghraib 

Prison in the form of a memo from 

Rumsfeld,” writes David Swanson. 

Report Warns of “Global 

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If fishing around the world continues 

at its present pace, more and 

more species will vanish, marine 

ecosystems will unravel; there will 

be “global collapse” of all species 

currently fished, possibly as soon as 

midcentury, fisheries experts and 

ecologists are predicting. 

US Pesticide Stockpile Under 

Scrutiny at World Ozone Meeting 

in India 


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Bush’s administration is seeking 

world permission to produce thousands 

of tons of a pesticide that an 

international treaty banned nearly 2 

years ago. Methyl bromide has been 

used for decades by farmers to help 

grow plump, sweet strawberries, 

robust peppers and other crops, but 

it also depletes the Earth’s protective 

ozone layer. 

Bush Names Exxon Chief to Chart 

America’s Energy Future 


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Bush has named Lee Raymond, the 

into this flammable area is very irresponsible,” said A. Bryan 

Siebert, a former director of classification at the Department of 

Energy. The website was created and the documents published 

137under intense pressure from the Republican Congress. 

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retired chief of Exxon Mobil,to head 

a key study to help America chart a 

cleaner course for our energy needs. 

Raymond currently chairs the 

National Petroleum Council, one of 

the most powerfullobbies in 

Washington.”Putting Lee Raymond 

in charge of solving US energy 

problems is like putting Jack 

Abramoff in charge of solving corruption,” 

said Shawnee Hoover, 

campaign director for the Exxpose 

Exxon Coalition. 

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focus in the upcoming elections, a 

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running for Congress. Truthout 

spent time with 3 of the candidates: 

Andrew Duck, Patrick Murphy & 

Joseph Sestak. 

US Seeks Silence on CIA Prisons 


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The Bush administration has told a 

federal judge that terrorism suspects 

held in secret CIA prisons 

should not be allowed to reveal 

details of the “alternative interrogation 

methods” that their captors 

used to get them to talk. 

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The list of alleged contractor misdeeds 

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past 3.5 years.Yet, when it comes to 

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Former Enron CEO Skilling Gets 

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Former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling 

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region of the Southern Hemisphere 

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depth. 

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Kucinich hosted a briefing on the 

march to war with Iran. Former 

chief nuclear weapons inspector 

David Kay testified that Iran currently 

does not pose an imminent 

threat to the USA or the region. 

Retired Air Force Col. Sam 

Gardner, who was assigned to the 

War Planning College, presented 

his analysis of current preparations 

for war with Iran. 

Cameras Show Army Recruiters 

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An ABC News undercover investigation 

showed Army recruiters 

telling students that the war in Iraq 

was over, in an effort to get them 

to enlist. 

William Fisher | Where Are You 

Harry? 


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William Fisher writes: “Duncan 

Hunter, chairman of the House 

Armed Services Committee, 

announced he would be seeking 

the Republican Party’s nomination 

for president in 2008. What he 

didn’t announce is that he had one 

of his staffers insert in the Defense 

Department’s funding bill, literally 

in the middle of the night, a provision 

to shut down the Office of the 

Special Inspector General for Iraq 

Reconstruction, known as SEGIR 

... American occupation officials 

have been sent to jail on bribery 

and conspiracy charges and SEGIR 

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work by well-connected 

companies, and discovered that the 

military did not properly track 

hundreds of thousands of weapons 

it shipped to Iraqi security forces.”

“Why Do We ‘Settle’ in Our Relationships” 

by Joyce and Barry Vissell 

Phillip was forty-five years old and dating 

a wonderful woman, Beatrice, who adored 

him. Yet he was unhappy. He blamed himself 

for lacking enough gratitude for his relationship 

with Beatrice. He blamed himself for not 

feeling sexually attracted to her, even though he 

considered her beautiful. He blamed himself for 

the almost continuous and nagging feeling that 

they were not right for each other, even though 

they got along well and felt comfortable with 

each other. He revealed perhaps most of all when 

he said, “I’m afraid this will be my last chance at 

relationship, that there will be no one else for me.” 

Phillip was settling for less than he deserved 

in a relationship because of his fear of being alone 

and his feeling of unworthiness to have what he 

really wanted. Both of these are giant obstacles to 

a fulfilling relationship. If we’re afraid of being 

alone, we end up clinging to our partners, but we’re 

not happy because we’re not really loving ourselves. 

We’re hoping the other person will bring 

us this love of self, but this can never happen. The 

second obstacle, our feeling of unworthiness to 

have what we really want, feeds into our fear of 

being alone, and keeps us locked into an 

unfulfilling relationship. 

With our help, Phillip did the courageous 

thing. He admitted his fear of being alone and 

his feeling of unworthiness to Beatrice — and 

asked for time apart. He moved into his own 

place. Now he has the opportunity to overcome 

his fear of being alone, and more importantly the 

next step, to learn about his worthiness to experience 

real love, openhearted giving and receiving. 

Laura, at age thirty-six, worried every day 

about her “biological clock,” and was afraid she 

would never have the opportunity to have children. 

She had been with Don for six years but, in 

her heart, she knew the relationship was not going 

anywhere. There were so many things Don 

said or did, or didn’t say or do, that she put up 

with or ignored, rather than saying no, or standing 

up for herself. She was very clear about it. 

Her fear kept her trapped in the relationship, settling 

for less than she really deserved. 

With our help, Laura began the process of 

saying no to all the things that did not work for 

her in the relationship. Yes, standing up for herself 

might end her relationship with Don, but it 

would definitely begin a new relationship — with 

herself, and thus perhaps begin a new relationship 

with Don, or someone else if Don could not 

accept a more powerful and self-loving Laura. 

In this way, her “fertility clock,” rather than locking 

her into fear, was motivating her to take a 

decisive stand for love. 

Is there a way you are settling for less than 

you deserve in a relationship? Are you saying a 

clear “no” to things that do not work for you, or 

are not right for you? Are you afraid of being 

alone? Afraid you will not have another chance 

at love? And most of all, do you feel unworthy 

to have a deeply loving relationship? 

As we have people experience in our workshops, 

our worthiness doesn’t depend on the good 

things we do — or the bad things we don’t do. 

Too many of us mistakenly learned early in life 

that love needed to be earned, that worthiness for 

love was no different than worthiness for money 

from a job, or grades in school. How untrue! No 

good thing we have ever done has increased our 

worthiness for love. No bad thing can ever take 

away our worthiness. Love has no measure, or 

limitations, or finite qualities. 

After two years of confronting his fear of 

being alone and finding peace with himself, 

Phillip found a partner to whom he could give 

his whole heart. Don, meanwhile, grew to respect 

Laura so much because of her new-found 

respect of herself that not only are they now 

married, but they have two children and one on 

the way. 

Once again, if we know we deserve real 

love, we would also know we deserve a real partner, 

one who shares love, commitment, trust, 

attraction, confrontation, all feelings. In Risk To 

Be Healed, we write, “If we’re running away 

from love because of a feeling of unworthiness, 

then we need to stop and remember who we are: 

children of the Creator, sons and daughters of 

the light, rightful heirs to all the love and power 

of the universe.” 

Bring your partner to “Heaven on Earth” 

by Paddy Easton Graves 

It is no longer the darkness that you fear and 

run from, it is the Light. You are running 

away from the very thing that you have been 

reaching out for, and you will continue to do this 

until you decide that you are worthy of all things 

that come from light. 

What have you been asking for? What is 

your prayer? Do you want peace on earth? Do 

you want love, joy, purpose, health, abundance, 

infinite power, and eternal life? Is there something 

that you want that is not included here? 

What could you want that love does not offer? 

In the land of thought, where ego chooses based 

on fear and limitation, the goal becomes to have 

fulfillment without changing old patterns, or surrendering 

the need to be right. Is there anything 

else on your list of possible reasons why you 

would run from the light of your own perfect and 

infinite Self? Does it have anything to do with 

the need to be in control? What power do you 

think you could generate from your brain waves 

that could match a power so great that it is infinite, 

eternal, and cannot be measured? 

To have the life that you seek, you must let 

go of your separateness, you must let go of the 

story you have made about who you will be when 

you have this life, and you must let go of the 

meaning you give it — not only the meaning you 

give to who you will be, someday in the future, 

when an event, that you now play in your mind, 

takes place, but all meaning. 

To transcend your fear of Bliss is to let go 

of meaning; for it is your thoughts that form the 

wall that keep you separate from recognizing the 

perfect life you already have beyond meaning. 

The context in which you see and make your reality, 

can occur only in linear time and space, 

and not only are these conditions limited, they 

do not exist. You made them up so that you would 

have a stage for your story. In the real world, 

there is only what is, and it is good. 

What your life is tomorrow, next year, or in 

fifty years is whatever it is right now in this moment. 

‘Now’ is what is creating your future. What 

are you doing now? Are you complaining about 

something? Are you in some form of crisis? Do 

you have a war going on with someone in your 


(Kalani Honua) this winter 

with Barry and Joyce, 

along with talented musician, 

Charley Thweatt, 

for a time of celebration, 

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for couples only 

on the Big Island of Hawaii. 

This week can 

transform your whole relationship. Feb 4-11, 

2007—Hawaii “Couples in Paradise” Retreat. 

Joyce and Barry Vissell, a nurse and medical 

doctor couple since 1964, are the authors 

of The Shared Heart, Models of Love, Risk 

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topics concerning relationship and spirituality. 

You no longer have the 

luxury of any thoughts 

that come from the 

mind of the person that 

you once were. 

life? Are you saying ‘no’ to that which your heart 

says ‘yes’? Nothing in your future will be different 

for you until you are living in what is now. 

You have made your future the pathway of your 

past which you throw down in front of yourself 

like stepping stones creating an extension of everything 

you are wanting to leave behind. 

You are making things far more complicated 

and fear-based than you need to. You don’t even 

need to let go of anything, and there is nothing 

to change, fix, or rearrange. All you need do is 

create the life of your dreams in your mind and 

hold onto this. Create an image of your life the 

way you want it to be, and give absolutely no 

thought to how it was or how you fear it might 

become. You no longer have the luxury of any 

thoughts that come from the mind of the person 

that you once were. You created that story to survive 

and now here you are, far better off because 

of the pits of darkness that you fell into and found 

your way out of. A measurable acceleration is 

occurring and how it will effect you directly is 

in the decreased amount of time between cause 

and effect, until you are so plugged in that you 

will experience cause and effect as one. 

When you embrace and cling to your 

dream of life, there is no mind to generate resistance 

and the river of creation is free to flow 

from its source, through you, and back to its 

source. Riding on the wave of time, you see that 

you are the artist painting the picture of your 

own life, and you can paint it any way you think 

you can. 

Paddy Easton Graves is a Green Builder, golf 

instructor, and author of Essential Love, the Call 

to Awaken. She lives in Capitola with her husband 

Steve, their daughter, Harper, and Standard 

poodle, Cayce, www.Eastongraves.com, 

Paddyg@baymoon.com.

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y Nohlan Matthew & 

Lilyana Bethanee 

Sages of old would often say 

“There are no shortcuts to 

Spiritual Enlightenment”. A 

lifetime of monastic devotion and sacrifice 

was said to offer only a glimpse 

into the true nature of the Divine. 

These were days when the truth of 

mankind’s Divine Potential remained 

hidden behind veils of fear, ignorance 

and separation. But the times, they are 

at last a-changing, and today, through 

the dedicated efforts of millions world- 

wide who embrace their highest identity, 

the Dawn of the Age of Illumination 

is awakening the hearts and minds 

of humankind. 

As we approach the proverbial 

light at the end of the tunnel, and density 

begins to dissipate in the collective 

consciousness, tools of awakening, 

such as Sound Therapy, are gaining 

new effectiveness. And from our 

personal experience with a wide range 

of vibrational healing techniques, 

nothing approaches the power and intricacy 

of the Gongs in stirring the soul, clearing the mind, soothing the 

heart, and invigorating the physical 

body. 

The BeeZonged Experience involves 

the playing of up to five Gongs 

to achieve the most appropriate blending 

of harmonics to awaken, activate, 

and recalibrate the Human system for 

these new times. Many who have 

taken part in the Experience describe 

being effortlessly transported into 

states of ‘maximum bliss’; some have 

been cleared of physical ailments and 

mental anxiety, while others ventured 

into past lives that provided vital clues 

to current roadblocks. 

The frequencies and healing 

tones of the Gongs awaken us in a 

manner that may seem effortless, but 

it’s not so much a ‘shortcut’ as it is a 

dissolving of the veils that obscure our 

memories of acquired wisdom from a 

distant past. You see, most of us who 

now seek to awaken to our true Spiritual 

nature were at one time those 

Sages of old. We have returned to take 

part in the restoration of Paradise on 

Earth and the Seventh Awakening of 

Humankind. 

To assist in your personal process, 

you are invited to take part in the 

next BeeZonged Experience, which 

by Nada Shakti CYI, CYT 

“One of the toughest parts of transition 

is leaving what we have known, letting go and 

surrendering to what is not yet born.” 

— Denise Bissonnette 

will be a slight departure from those 

previously conducted for Santa Cruz. 

This transformative event will feature 

a transmission of inspiration and empowerment 

from the Councils of the 

Seventh Awakening through Lilyana. 

The guidance will be designed to assist 

us in making the most of a very 

unique opportunity — the year 2007. 

A ‘9’ vibration year brings with it a 

review of the previous eight years. As 

we complete this first cycle of the 

Aquarian Millennium, it’s a perfect 

time to focus our desire for our mission 

of service, amplify our Love of 

Life and gather all of our wisdom and 

power into the present moment. 

Founders of Seventh Awakening, 

Lilyana and Nohlan have been exploring 

life and love together for twentyfive 

years. On Saturday, December 

9th, they’ll be joined by three other 

Gong Masters: Stephen Mahoney, 

Skyyesong Liberte, and ShayshaLeah 

Vastarr, at the Pacific Cultural Center. 

General Admission is $9 at the 

door from 6:30pm. Event begins at 

7pm. Questions? - Call (831) 484- 

1923. 

There are many who find transition 

and change difficult, and 

I admit I am among them. My tendency 

is to cling to what is familiar and routine in my 

life. Whether it’s people or things, I often hold 

on with my usual Midwestern tenacity, instilled 

during my childhood. So during this Autumn 

change of seasons, though I am a teacher of Yoga, 

I sometimes find myself adapting more of a 

“beginner’s mind“. 

As I guide my students into an asana (pos- In Autumn we observe the flocks of birds 

ture) which is to be held for a time, I ask them to winging their way south, venturing forth heed- 

scan the body for areas of tightness. These less of the perils that lay ahead, uncertain if they 

“hotspots” of tension, once located, can be re- will survive and reach their destination. And there 

leased and “let go”, allowing the channels of are the trees of crimson and gold that now color 

prana (life energy) to flow more freely. But, dur- the season, but soon will shed their leafy canoing 

this time of year, I linger a bit longer on the pies as they surrender to the coming winter 

subject, listening with new student perceptions months. Following nature’s fine example, we can 

to the wisdom of the teachings my Ashram in- seek out areas in our own lives where “letting 

structors and gurus have imbued into me go” gracefully, while opening to change, would 

throughout the years. 

serve to lighten our burden — unencumbering 

“As we let go of the stress within our physi- us for what is yet to come, what is yet unknown 

cal body…” I say as I guide the class into the and just waiting to be born. 

sleeping swan posture “...take a moment to re- Think of a kite — the airy gossamer paview 

and seek out other areas of your life where per and balsa weightlessness of it. We are cer- 

you may be continuing to hold on to stale, outtain it will ascend. Let us then be like kites — 

moded ideas, possessions or even relationships “letting go” of all that is unnecessary and weigh- 

that no longer serve you in your present journey.” ing us down, so with light hearts we may soar 

The other day while sipping my morning toward the sun. 

tea, I ran across a book of travel tips which I had Nada Shakti is a certified Yoga Instructor 

referenced for guidelines in preparation for a and Therapist, offering classes, private sessions 

European vacation I took some time ago. On one and consultations. Her Integral / Yin Yoga focus 

of the first pages, in bold lettering, were the blends body, mind and spirit with self reflection 

words pack light. And though there is no major for the total development of each individual. She 

travel on the horizon for me this year, I see that specializes in working with women over 40, but 

the wisdom is applicable to any journey; even a also conducts open classes for all ages and 

journey into the deeper dimensions of the Yogic stages. Nada welcomes your Yoga-related ques- 

path, or just our maneuvers through life’s twists tions and concerns. She can be reached at (831) 

and turns. 

295-2427 or Om_Girl_2U@yahoo.com. 


PUMPKIN: UMPKIN: Gift Gift Gift Gift Gift of of of of of the the the the the Harvest, Harvest, Harvest, Harvest, Harvest, Great Great Great Great Great for for for for for the the the the the Skin Skin Skin Skin Skin 

by Donna Williams-Smith 

Pumpkins never fail to delight — be it for 

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nourishing aspects also abound in skincare. Containing 

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they are revitalizing both inside and out. Healing 

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Technically a fruit and not a vegetable, and 

native to North and Central America, pumpkins 

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the Yuma Tribe used an emulsion made from a 

mixture of watermelon and pumpkin seeds to heal 

wounds. In folk medicine, the ground stems were 

by: Linda Chaé 

It’s that windy, wet, cold time of the year 

again. You remember it so well as your hands 

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fight to keep your skin supple and moist. November 

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time for all of us to increase our awareness about 

the skin issues that can be helped when someone 

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stage risk by paying attention to your skin. 

First, let’s understand some facts about Diabetes. 

It is a chronic illness that has become a 

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study by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention 

(CDC) concluded that diabetes increased 

33% between 1990 and 1998. The rate of increase 

was as high as 70% for people in their 

30’s, and fell to a moderate level among those 

who exercise and seriously manage their lifestyle. 

Once thought to be simply an imbalance of 

sugar in the bloodstream, we now understand 

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Skin and Diabetes. One of the early sentinels 

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We all know that our skin, the largest organ 

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So, what can an average person do? 

• Practice good health management. Blood 

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AND your skin. 

• Hydrate your body with plenty of water. 

• Hydrate your skin with a safe, toxic free 

moisturizing lotion or cream. 

• Take care to treat minor wounds quickly 

brewed into a tea to treat female complaints. 

They also used the oil for diaper rash. 

Pumpkin seed oil, especially, has significant 

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powerful antioxidants and essential fatty acids help 

retain moisture and maintain the integrity of normal 

cell structure. The seeds contain large amounts 

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vitamins A,B,C, and E. Its high zinc content aids 

the healing process. 

Pumpkin seed oil is very high in gamma tocopherol 

Vit E, another powerful antioxidant. 

Antioxidants protect the cell’s structure by neutralizing 

free radicals — the unstable molecules 

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Left unchecked, these free radicals can 

attack the skin, leaving it vulnerable to wrinkling, 

infection and other damage. The Vit E is ex- 

to avoid infections. 

• Pay special attention to your feet 

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tremely beneficial for the reduction of scarring 

from wounds, diminishing the appearance of 

stretch marks, helping decrease the effects of psoriasis, 

and reducing the redness associated with 

rosacea. 

The four fatty acids that comprise 98% of 

pumpkin seed oil are: 1) Palmitic — which works 

to promote natural oil regeneration, important for 

the skin to retain its natural protective barrier; 

with too little the skin will crack and bleed, opening 

it to a greater risk of infection and disease. 

2) Steric Acid acts primarily as a lubricant. 3) 

Linoleic Acid is an EFA that helps decrease inflammation 

and repairs flaky, itchy, rough skin. 

4) Oleic Acid is also active in helping to maintain 

the skin’s moisture and lubrication. An 

Omega-9 EFA, it has similar health benefits, both 

in general and to the skin, as do Omega 3 and 

Omega 6 EFA’s. 

Great for all 

skin types, pumpkin 

offers excellent 

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be it the 


flesh, the oil of its seeds, or in one masque I use, 

pumpkin wine. As a natural alternative to harsh 

chemical peels, it exfoliates dead skin cells and 

impurities from the epidermis without being 

abrasive. Its natural fruit enzymes, vitamins and 

minerals aid in reducing break-outs and refining 

pores. 

The pumpkin truly provides a cornucopia 

of blessings in one package. Its more than 100 

beneficial components, stimulate circulation, promote 

healing, restore elasticity and provide nutrition 

to renew sun damaged or aging skin. The 

results they yield, as well as the golden orb, are 

a continual delight. 

Donna Williams-Smith is a wholistically oriented 

Aesthetician licensed in CA and NV. Her 

skincare services and Facial Toning are available 

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Dress Code enforced: No Sports Apparel, No T-Shirts 

In the Atrium 

Hip Hop hits, 

Dancehall & Remixes 

HYPHY SATURDAZE with DJs 

Osha B & Lopito 

Show Starts 10 p.m., No Cover • 21+ 

Friday, Nov. 10 

AGES 16+ 

$12 Adv./ $15 Dr. 

Drs. 7:30 p.m. 

Show 8:30 p.m. 

plus Lonely Kings 

also Sound Team 

and As Tall As Lions 

Saturday, Nov. 11 

AGES 16+ 

Adrian 

Belew 

plus Saul Zonana 

$20 Adv./$25 Dr. 

Drs. 7 p.m., Show 8 p.m. 

Sunday, November 12 • AGES 

16+ 

AKA BLACK-TY "ALTER EGO BLACK TOUR" 

$22 Adv./$27 Dr. • Drs. 7 p.m., Show 8 p.m. 

Thu., Nov. 16 • In the Atrium • AGES 16+ 

CATALYST SHOWCASE 

THE SUN KINGS 

(BEATLES TRIBUTE) 

$3 Adv./$5 Dr. • Drs 8 p.m.,Show 9 p.m. 

Sunday thru Tuesday FREE POOL 

for Bar Patrons Noon to Closing 

ROCKER’S PIZZA KITCHEN 831-426-PIZZA 

$1 Pizza SliceALL DAY TUESDAYS 

Nov 17 Del Tha Funky Homosapien (AGES 16+) 

Nov 18 The Book your Holiday and Private Party 

at the Catalyst-Call 831-539-9441 

Expendables (AGES 16+) 

Nov 22 Antidote (AGES 21+) 

Nov 24 Devil Makes Three (AGES 21+) 

Nov 25 Groundation (AGES 16+) 

Nov 26 Gregg Allman & Friends (AGES 21+) 

Nov 30 Blackest of the Black 

featuring Danzig (AGES 16+) 

Dec 8 Ozomatli (AGES 21+) 

Dec 31Superbooty (AGES 21+) 

Unless otherwise noted, all shows are dance shows 

with limited seating. Tickets to all Catalyst shows, subject 

to city tax and service charge, are available by 

phone at 1-866-384-3060, and online at our web site. 

Advance tickets are also available at the Catalyst 

every day with a minimal service charge. 

www.catalystclub.com 

tant that you, our readers, tell all of the 

Arts & Entertainment Venues, businesses 

and events, that you read about 

them in The Connection Magazine. 

We appreciate your much needed support 

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• Sun., Nov. 12th: That 1 Guy 

stunning one man band 

8:00 PM, $8/10 

• Thurs., Nov. 16th: Karl Denson & 

Benny 'D' Band, Saxman 

extraordinaire w/ New Orleans 

band! 9:00 PM, $15/18 

• Sat., Nov. 18th: Vinyl 

Reggae/R&B/Funk, 9:30 PM, $10/12 

•Fri., Sat., Nov. 24th & 25th: 

Coco Montoya 

Blues Festival Favorite 

9:30 PM, $15/18 

• Fri., Dec. 1st:SKINNY SINGERS 

w/ JACKIE GREENE & TIM BLUHM 

Nicki Chambly opens 

9:30 PM, $20 

Jazz Presenters since 1975 

THURS. NOVEMBER 9 • 7 PM 

Portuguese Fado Sensation! 

ANA MOURA 

$20 Adv/$23 Door 

MON. NOVEMBER 13 • 7 PM 

Miles Davis Protégé 

WALLACE RONEY SEXTET 


THUR. NOVEMBER 16 • 7 PM 

JOYCE COOLING 

$18Adv/$21 Door 

Sponsored by Smoothjazz.com 

Benefit for National Alliance on 

Mental Illness 

SAT. NOVEMBER 18 • 7&9PM 

Brazilian Pianist & Composer 

ELIANE ELIAS 

$20/Adv $23/Door 

MON. NOVEMBER 27 • 7 PM 

KAHIL EL’ZABAR’S 

RITUAL TRIO FEATURING BILLY BANG 


Co-sponsored by KUSP 88.9 FM 

Wed. December 13 • 7:30 PM 

“Go Tell It On The Mountain” 

The Blind Boys of Alabama Christmas Show 

At the Rio Theatre 

$40/Gold Circle $24/General 

ADVANCE TICKETS: Logos Books & 

Records, Santa Cruz & Ticketweb.com 

Dinner served Mondays & Thursdays 

beginning at 6pm. Tickets subject to service 

charge & 5% SC City Tax. All ages. 

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by Anni Castles 

or centuries humans have been creating 

rhythms to help maintain a natural 

balance in their lives. A great way 

to break out of your old routine is to open 

your heart to new experiences and ideas. 

Live music is a great way to expose yourself 

to something new, understand a different 

point of view, transform your mind, and quite 

possibly change your life. You are cordially 

invited to experience all that our local music 

scene has to offer. 

Coming to Moe’s Alley on Nov 4th is 

the legendary blues pioneer, Johnny Winter, 

whose influence on classic blues earned him 

an unequaled guitar hero status. Local band 

Devil Makes Three plays Don Quixote’s on 

Nov 4th and The Catalyst on Nov 24th, with 

their uniquely popular country, rock and punk 

influenced music. Ozomatli explodes onto 

The Catalyst’s stage on Dec 9th bringing their 

inspired blend of latin, jazz, salsa and hiphop. 

The complete 10 piece band, horns, 

THUMBNAIL 

REVIEWS 

by Karin Leonard & Daniel Robin 

ach month, we select our favorite or 

otherwise important films to be fea- E tured on this page. We rate them, 

subjectively, on a scale from 1 (worthless) to 

5 (awesome) in terms of their entertainment 

and message. We leave the plot details and 

story telling to the filmmakers, and instead 

attempt to characterize, highlight strengths 

and flaws, and hint at purpose. Reach us at 

movies@innerevolution.com. Enjoy! 

Little Miss Sunshine 

With Steve Carell, Greg Kinnear, Toni 

Collette, Alan Arkin, Paul Dano 

Entertainment: 4.5 Message: 4 

n ordinary 7-year-old girl dreams of 

competing in a beauty contest, but A what if her family consists of wellmeaning 

losers, is flat broke, with each member 

inhabiting separate dreamworlds? The 

results would be (and are) quite hilarious and 

heart-warming. This is Olympic-scale family 

dysfunction, couched in self-help-forthose-quite-beyond-help, 

but family may be 

the best way we have of dealing with a 

messed up society. One is a mirror of the 

other. The bitter-sweet, edgy humor works 

fabulously, from the prodigal son and suicidal 

brother to the oversexed granddad, we relax 

in the knowledge that they’re far worse 

off than the rest of us. The cast is so perfect 

and oddly charming that a beauty all its own 

begins to emerge, taking hearts by storm. 

These lunatics are determined to fulfill her 

Big Dream no matter what! There’s no sugarcoating 

here — this is as raw and well designed 

as you could imagine. The film grows 

on you as you realize it has to be about the 

journey — the destination may be beside the 

point. But hold on to your hair piece for the 

surreal Little Miss Sunshine competition itself 

— the glory of its ugly unnaturalness. 

One of the best films we’ve seen this year (1 

hr 40 min). 

The Departed 

With Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack 

Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg 

Entertainment: 3 Message: 2 

Warning: Brutal violence and gore 

et in South Boston, the state police 

force wages war on organized crime S and here are the results: everyone 

dies. Questions? For the genre it represents, 

this is fine. If you are a fan of crime/gang- 

The Celtic Society of t h e 

Monterey Bay Presents: 

asters of the Celtic Harp with William 

Jackson from Scotland and M Grainne Hambly from Ireland at 

Don Quixote's International Music Hall, 6275 

Hwy. 9 in Felton at 7pm. Tickets are on sale 

at Don Quixote's and will go on sale on Sept. 

11th at More Music. You may reserve now at 

(831) 464-2128, (408) 847-6982 or 

celtsoc@aol.com. This special concert features 

two of Celtic music's foremost harpers 


Johnny Winter • Devil Makes Three • Ozomatli 

durms, guitars and snappy vocals will have 

you dancing the night away. 

This Month’s music scene 

The Catalyst presents Dub Congress, 

Nov 4th; Adrian Belew, Nov 11th; Del tha 

Funky Homosapien, Nov 17th; Devil Makes 

Three, Nov 24th; Groundation, Nov 25th, 

Gregg Allman & Friends, Nov 26th; Danzig, 

Nov 30th; Ozomatli, Dec 8th. 

Don Quioxte’s: Devil Makes Three, 

Nov 4th; Take Me Home Peace Party Benefit 

with Country Joe McDonald, Joe Craven, 

Keith Greeninger, Sherry Austin, The 

Atkinson-Kincheloe Band & Geoffrey 

Rutledge, Nov 9th; Suzanne Buell & The 

Pacific Blue, Nov 22nd; It’s a Beautiful Day, 

Nov 25th; Orient’al featuring Helene 

Bellydance International, Nov 30th. 

Moe’s Alley: Johnny Winter, Nov 4th; 

Chris Cain Blues Guitar, Nov 10th; Vinyl 

Reggae/R&B/Funk, Nov 18th; Coco 

Montoya, Nov 24th & 25th; Skinny Singers 

featuring Jackie Greene & Tim Bluhm, 

Dec 1st. 

The Attic: Guggenheim Grotto, Nov 

3rd; Honky Tonk Homeslice with Bill 

Nershi from The String Cheese Incident, Nov 

10th; Fruit & Blueprint; Nov 16th; The Leg- 

ster films (we’re 

not), and interested 

in the 

blurred boundaries 

between 

crime-fighter and 

criminal, then you 

may find this 

worthwhile. Director 

Martin Scorsese does a fine job, especially 

in the first half, in this show stuffed 

full of great actors. Jack Nicholson — as 

usual — excels as the perennial bad guy. 

Matt Damon and even Leonardo are great. 

But the song remains the same, even as it 

runs a bit long (Jack, have another cup of 

coffee). Okay, not everybody gets killed. 

Some gain power and get even. Fabulously 

constructed and simply not our thing (2 hrs 

30 min). 

The Illusionist 

With Edward Norton, Paul Giamatti, Jessica 

Biel, Rufus Sewell, Eddie Marsan 

Entertainment: 4 Message: 4 

reat yourself to an alluring mix of 

magic, romance and intrigue, master- T fully blurring the line between illusion 

and reality. Superb acting — featuring Ed 

Norton as mesmerizing magician Eisenheim 

and an amazing Paul Giamatti as his police 

investigator counterpart, along with Rufus 

Sewell as madman Prince Leopold and Jessica 

Biel as the love interest — together deliver 

not-to-be-missed performances in this 

well paced, romantic mystery. Gorgeous photography 

set in turn-of-the-century Vienna 

provides another artistic touch. The results 

are spellbinding and dreamy, entertaining 

from beginning to end. Don’t be surprised if 

you become completely entranced in the web 

of illusion yourself, even though you know 

it’s “just a movie” (1 hr 49 min). 

Man of the Year 

With Robin Williams, Laura Linney, Christopher 

Walken, Jeff Goldblum, Lewis Black 

Entertainment: 3.5 Message: 2.5 

obin Williams for president — there’s 

a solution! Robin Williams almost Rpulls 

it off in this funny but misguided 

fantasy about what would happen if a comedian 

ran for the office of president and actually 

won?! Williams is among the few that 

could be funnier than the current administration. 

The film is engaging and there are 

some great laughs, but sadly it drifts into 

thriller mode (electile dysfunction, how improbable 

is that?!), and other distractions 

from what could have been a powerful mes- 

in an evening of solos and duets highlighting 

the contrasting styles of harp playing, as well 

as other instruments on which they are accomplished. 

Jackson was a founding member 

and the creative force behind the muchmissed 

Scots band of the 70s and 80s, 

Ossian, who is also a renowned composer 

and whistle player. Those of you who saw 

Grainne as part of The Irish Christmas in 

America at Don Quixote's last December 

know the diminutive dynamo from Co. Mayo, 

an All-Ireland Champion on both harp and 

concertina, sure has the pluck of the Irish. 

For more, visit http://www.wjharp.com and 

http://grainne.harp.net. 

or a comprehensive sched-u l e 

of events, call (831) 464-2128 or F (408) 847-6982, or email: 

celtsoc@aol.com; visit www.celticsociety.org/ 

events.html. 

endary Peter Walker & Jack Rose, Nov 

20th. 

Cayuga Vault: Chulrua-traditional Irish 

trio, Nov 4th; Mamadou Diabate - Malian 

kora musician, Nov 7th 

Shoreline Amphitheatre: Aerosmith & 

Motley Crue, Nov 2nd 

The Fillmore: Reel Big Fish with 

Streetlight Manifesto, Nov 2nd; Joan Jett 

& the Blackhearts, Nov 4th; Deftones, Nov 

8th; Ozomatli, Nov 29th & 30th. 

The Independent: SF Gin Blossoms 

& Victoria George, Nov 4th; Hot Buttered 

Rum, Nov 17th & 18th; The Lemonheads, 

Nov 24th & 25th. 

November is a great month to celebrate 

all of the wonderful things in life and 

be grateful for everything that you have. 

Dance, sing and shake your groovy thing! 

If you are a local band and would 

like your CD reviewed in this publication, 

please e-mail your material to 

music@theconnect.com. Then send your CD 

to Musical Horizons, C/O Dawni Pappas, Po 

Box 7327, Santa Cruz, Ca. 95061 and also 

send a CD to Connection Magazine, 7960B 

Soquel Dr. #355, Aptos, Ca. 95003. 

sage. Perhaps we were expecting a punchy 

political satire from Barry Levinson (Wag the 

Dog), but alas, the film loses itself and 

washes out. It’s great fun to see Williams in 

this mainstream role, but why does Levinson 

allow the screenplay to pull a “Ralph Nader,” 

claiming that there are no differences between 

Dems and Republicans, knowing quite 

well that this is neither practical, nor an effective 

message? For those with a political 

backbone, it is hard to watch the tragedy of 

this opportunity lost, but it is nonetheless an 

interesting and effective comedy. You’ll find 

plenty of laughs – if you love Robin Williams 

(1 hr 55 min). 

Open Season 

Voices by Paul Westerberg, Gary Sinise, Jon 

Favreau, Ashton Kutcher 


unters are portrayed as beasts, and 

the animals get civilized in this ani- Hmated 

urban jungle tale. It’s formulaic 

and hokey, but lots of fun anyway. Everything 

looks (and smells) like you’ve seen 

it before — because you probably have. Recycled 

or composted, there are still moments 

of great humor, some reminiscent of Monty 

Python’s Holy Grail zaniness. Coupled with 

impressive CG visuals, it almost works. Not 

sure you’ll relate to it? Bring a young, nature-loving 

child or two. The messages are 

great (about friendship and leaving animals 

where they belong), but someone fired the 

Innovation Dept. at Sony Pictures too soon 

— originality has become an endangered 

species (1 hr 40 min). 

The Prestige 

With Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, Michael 

Caine, David Bowie, Scarlett Johansson 


imilar in theme to The Illusionist, this 

dark tale can’t quite hold a candle to S its predecessor. While the acting and 

characters are admirable (David Bowie as 

scientist Nikola Tesla is a treat), the story 

line is asinine and loses its charm rather 

quickly. It’s about two Victorian magicians 

who spark a powerful rivalry building into an 

escalating battle of tricks, and an unquenchable 

thirst to uncover each other’s trade secrets. 

Why should we care? Where’s the 

humanity within the rivalry and all the gadgetry? 

Where’s the intrigue within the trickery? 

At a time when magicians are idols and 

celebrities of the highest order, these two performers 

both need help and good advise, but 

get neither. Someone needs to make this 

film disappear (2 hrs 15 min). 

Celtic Music on Public Radio 

Stations: 

t KUSP, 88.9 fm in Santa Cruz, the 

Celtic program, 'The Continental A Drift,' hosted by Cindy Odom, is on 

Saturday at the new time of from noon to 

2pm. There is folk music programming on 

weekdays from 11am to 1pm. Of particular 

interest is that the Monday through Wednesday 

show is co-hosted by J.T. Mason & Robin 

Roberts & Thursdays with Rachel Goodman 

an alternate host. Gypsy Flores hosts two 

outstanding world music programs; 

'Giramondu' on Sunday from 2pm to 4pm and 

'Crosscurrents' on alternate Sundays from 

5am to 7pm. Please visit www.kusp.org for 

the full schedule. 

Also, check out •KAZU, 90.3FM in 

Pacific Grove, and •KKUP, 91.5FM.

The Kuumba Jazz 

Center Presents: Kahil 

El’Zabar’s Ritual Trio 

Featuring Billy Bang, 

Mon., Nov. 27, 7:00pm 

T 

he Ritual Trio is comprised of master 

percussionist Kahil El’Zabar, bassist 

Yosef Ben Israel, saxophonist Rene 

McLean (son of jazz sax legend Jackie 

McLean), and features the infectious violin 

playing of Billy Bang. Their cross-cultural approach 

is a rich tapestry of musical interplay, 

interweaving the traditional rhythms of African 

music with the trailblazing 

adventurousness of jazz improvisation. Live 

At The River East Art Center, on Delmark, is 

their latest CD. 

Kahil El'Zabar was born in Chicago in 

1953, and remains based there. He grew up 

on the South Side hearing music everyday - 

doo-wop, r&b, gospel, blues and jazz; he cites 

Miles Davis, Eddie Harris, Gene Ammons, 

Curtis Mayfield, and Aretha Franklin as direct 

influences. El’Zabar attended the University 

of Ghana as an exchange student for firsthand 

study of African music and its underlying 

philosophy. This further opened up the 

boundaries of his music and continues to provide 

a strong source of inspiration. El’Zabar 

is a master of the standard jazz trap drum kit, 

but spends at least as much time performing 

on a range of hand drums, kalimba (thumb 

piano), and other percussion instruments. 

F 

ocused on women's issues and 

needs, the Women in Business Com 

mittee plans, organizes, coordinates, 

and implements the Chamber's highly successful 

quarterly Women in Business luncheons 

as well as the annual Networking Extravaganza. 

These events are filled with exceptional 

networking opportunities and provides 

the attendees an opportunity to hear 

insightful, relevant speakers. Our newest endeavor 

is WIB TV which focuses on women 

owned and run businesses and airs on Community 

TV. 

Nov. 10, 2006 

86th Annual Community Recognition & 

Awards Dinner, Cocoanut Grove, 

Santa Cruz, 6 pm Cocktails and Silent 

Auction, 7 pm Buffet Dinner, 8 pm Live 

Auction and Awards, Call (831) 457- 

3719 for more information. 

December 7, 2006 

Women in Business Networking Luncheon, 

Special Holiday Giving Edition, Cocoanut 

Grove, Santa Cruz, 11:30 - 1:30pm, 

Cost is $25 for SC Chamber members 

and $50 for nonmembers. Reservations 

are required. Call (831) 457-3715 

for more information. 

December TBD, 2006: Networking Mixer, 

TBA, 5 - 7 pm, Cost is $5 for SC Chamber 

members and $10 for nonmembers. 

Reservations are not required. 

Visit www.santacruzchamber.org/events/. 

At age eighteen, El’Zabar joined 

Chicago’s Association for the Advancement 

of Creative Musicians, which included The Art 

Ensemble of Chicago. By 1975 he was its 

chairman, and had formed his own musical 

group, The Ethnic Heritage Ensemble. He 

was also performing with saxophonist/pianist 

Ari Brown and Art Ensemble bassist Malachi 

Favors, with whom he formed the Ritual Trio. 

El’Zabar describes the Trio as “progressive 

improvisational music - eclectic in mood and 

influence, willing and able to look back and 

reach forward without irony. The Ritual Trio 

does music as a celebration, a ceremony or 

ritual that codifies their purpose as human 

beings through the gift of music.” 

Santa Cruz Chamber Santa Cruz Museum 

of Commerce Women of Arts & History 

Events 

in Business News & 

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Women in Business Committee S 

at., Nov. 11: Family Art Saturday: All 

About Me! Come explore the various 

‘faces’ of portraiture using the 

current exhibition R.R. Jones and Mattie 

Leeds: Wild Outside Worlding Art Portraits 

of the gLocal as our backdrop. Students 

will sharpen drawing skills through the use 

of line, shape, and texture to create beautiful 

pieces that capture their spirit. Individual 

expression and style is encouraged! 

Materials included. Call (831) 429-1964 x 

20 or e-mail education@santacruzmah.org 

to register. Space is limited. Location: 

When Favors died in 2003, El’Zabar 

recruited bassist Yosef Ben Israel. A longtime 

cohort on the progressive music scene, 

he fits right in, as evidenced on the 2005 

performance now on CD as Live At The River 

East Art Center. Rene McLean replaces Ari 

Brown on this tour, bringing with him a life in 

jazz. Rene collaborated with his late father 

on many recordings, and is an accomplished 

saxophonist and leader in his own right. Making 

the trio into a quartet is Billy Bang, who 

has redefined the jazz violin. Bang has been 

a member of the String Trio of New York and 

the Sun Ra Arkestra, and has performed with 

David Murray, Marilyn Crispell, William 

Parker, and many others, on recordings too 

numerous to mention. His two recent CDs 

based on his experiences as a Vietnam veteran 

have won many awards and accolades. 

A frequent collaborator with El’Zabar, Bang’s 

virtuosity, power, and charisma shine through 

on Live At The River East Art Center. Bang 

led his own group at the Kuumbwa two years 

ago, to a standing ovation. 

At the Kuumbwa Jazz Center, 320-2 

Cedar St., Santa Cruz, CA 95060, (831) 427- 

2227, http://www.kuumbwajazz.org. $20/Adv 

$23/Door, Dinner served beginning at 6:00 

pm. Co-sponsored by KUSP 88.9 FM. 

ADVANCE TICKETS at Logos Books & 

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Astrology for November 2006 

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Dental Hygiene 

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ovember begins with the Sun and 

four planets gathering in the deep, 

intense and transformational sign 

of Scorpio. As the later part of October 

brought Venus and Mars together, stirring 

up our relationships with heat and 

conflict, we now have the opportunity to 

explore intimacy, deep emotional transformation 

and realignment with a broader 

more objective perspective with others. 

With Mercury retrograde, the time 

is marked for review of our feelings and 

communications in relationships on the 

deepest levels (and/or dealing with 

money matters). This Mercury retrograde 

highlights the end of Saturn, Neptune 

and Jupiter in the fixed signs. Forward 

motion will be slowed because this time 

period calls for great adjustment to agendas 

for success to take place over the 

next 4 years. Turn judgment into discernment. 

A deep cleansing is taking place. 

This is the power of Scorpio, which 

in the body rules the colon and the 

importance of letting go. It is second 

chakra energy of the emotions, 

sexual, intimate interaction, and 

money issues between different parties. 

The focus is on transformation 

and release. Here we confront death 

and mortality, rebirth and transformation 

to encompass a more spiritual 

and wholistic integration in our daily 

lives. 

With Saturn, Neptune and Jupiter 

aligning in the fixed signs, we do confront 

feelings of despair. Humanity comes 

up against a despair in the face of the 

reality that is before us. Our task is to 

hold the vision of wholeness, healing, 

and our powers as creators. We are 

moving from an era of power through 

money and corporate control to a situation 

of equal regard for each human life. 

On a national level there is a 

battle for the soul of the country. During 

the election, with Mercury retrograde 

there will be confusion and challenges 

with voting, but truth will be pursued and 

surface. Bush’s popularity will continue 

to fall. 

The full Moon takes place on 

November 5 th . Mercury conjuncts Mars 

on the 11 th . Communication can be trying 

because of Mars’ influence of impatience, 

urgency, frustration and anger. 

Handled skillfully one gets to the truth 

and activates change. Mercury goes direct 

on the 17 th . Tremendous change is 

favored on many levels. Venus now 

moves into the optimistic and spirited 

sign of Sagittarius, bringing more ease 

in relationships. 

by Anne Singer 

et owners are learning that healthy 

teeth and gums are as much a part 

of wellness as are healthy eyes, 

ears, etc. 

Unhealthy teeth and gums can 

cause many medical problems, the most 

frequent are loose or broken teeth. Loose 

teeth are usually a result of plaque and 

calculus buildup causing the tooth to 

edge away from the gum and bone. Teeth 

will also loosen if a dog is fed a meatonly 

diet containing little calcium. 

The most common problem resulting 

from unhealthy teeth and gums 

is lack of appetite because of pain. 

Part of a dog’s bad mouth odor 

comes from the accumulation of bacteria. 

An abscess can form causing fever, 

pain or swelling around the face. 

Some dogs love to chew rocks, 

which of course can cause broken teeth. 

Make sure your dog has toys or chews 

that are strong enough but will not break 

the teeth. Nylabones, Rope Tugs, the 

rubber KONG are good examples. 

The removal of tartar is essential 

to a healthy mouth and should be started 

The New Moon takes place on 

November 20 th , in Scorpio, aligning 

with Jupiter. This initiates a month 

that favors movement away from the 

status quo especially with revolutionary 

planet, Uranus, going direct. On 

the 21 st and 22 nd the Sun and Jupiter 

move into Sagittarius. Jupiter was last in 

Sagittarius in 1995. After spending a year 

in the emotional, confrontational and intense 

sign of Scorpio, Jupiter now brings 

forward the themes of envisioning more 

optimistic futures, broadening our understanding 

of the world we live in environmentally, 

culturally, and spiritually. 

Twelve Opportunities: 

Aries (Mar 20-Apr 19): For Aries, or 

anyone with an Aries influence, you want 

to watch explosive tendencies in relationship, 

an extremely powerful time for 

transformation and moving energy. Eliminate 

any old patterns that constantly 

bring conflict. Change is the keyword. 

Review all money matters and update 

policies. 

Taurus (Apr 20-May 20): You’ve been 

moving along in a positive manner. Now 

you are ready to let go of so much relationship 

difficulty. As if you climbed right 

down into your subconscious and can 

see your real motives for every action 

you take, every word you speak. Navigate 

these waters with as much observation 

as possible. The end of the month 

brings joy and situations lighten. 

Gemini (May 21-Jun 20): Continue to 

slow yourself down. Think of yourself as 

a bird that now must swim in deep 

oceans. Watch work and employee situations 

for emotional situations arising. 

With Mercury retrograde, let yourself review 

your day-to-day routines. Clear out 

what is unnecessary. 

Cancer (Jun 21–Jul 21): Friends, children, 

family and perhaps a lover play a 

big role this month. You have a great 

need to share your love, your insights. 

Take the time to look over your writing, 

your journals. You are balancing between 

your hopes and the realities that just are. 

Leo (Jul 22- Aug 22): This is an excellent 

month to focus your energies on your 

home or to be at home, clearing, recycling, 

purging. Let yourself journey deep 

into yourself. Delegate more responsibility 

to other family members. This is the 

time to experience liberation after a long 

ordeal. 

Virgo (Aug 23-Sep 22): This month 

your feelings are stirred. You feel the heat 

of Mars, the intensity of taking a stand 

when the dog is still a puppy. 

Preventive care includes brushing 

to remove plaque and any safe chew 

toy which will produce an increase in 

saliva in order to help eliminate the formation 

of plaque. Dog biscuits and dry 

pet food formulated to clean teeth is another 

thing to try. 

Toothpastes are available in flavors. 

They differ from human toothpaste 

because they can be safely swallowed. 

They also contain enzymes that prevent 

mineralization of plaque into tartar. Daily 

brushing is necessary to prevent gingivitis 

in dogs. 

As a rule, cat owners won’t look 

for dental care products until kitty has lost 

some teeth. That is beginning to change. 

Cat owners are starting to become as 

aware as dog owners about the need for 

good oral hygiene. 

Five Tips to Better Dental Hygiene 

1. Be realistic. If you don’t plan to 

brush your dog or cat’s teeth on a daily 

basis, consider using other products 

such as chews and specialty dry foods. 

2. Take it slow. Introduce brushing 

gradually. Keep sessions short and 

offer praise and reassurance. 

3. Fingers first, brushes later. Dip 

your finger in beef bullion for dogs or tuna 

for something. Your communication can 

be equally intense. You have the power 

to be direct and right to the point. With 

Mercury retrograde until the 17 th , be sure 

to review the facts. 

Libra (Sep 23-Oct 22): The focus is on 

how you view and hold your resources, 

money and your talents. Take the time 

to feel into your talents and abilities. They 

are going through a transformation. Review 

money matters, and especially your 

mental perspective on your financial situation. 

Time to clear worry and take whatever 

action is needed. 

Scorpio (Oct 23-Nov 21): What a 

strong month for you. Celebrate yourself. 

If something is irritating or frustrating you, 

be prepared to take actions for change. 

With Mercury retrograde until the 17 th , 

review carefully different ways to approach 

the situation. Don’t be stuck in 

one outlook. Later you feel more confident. 

You have experienced a testing 

time and are reaching the other side. 

Sagittarius (Nov 22-Dec 20): The 

best way to work with the present energies 

is to schedule a retreat, whether one 

day or a week. You are completing a 

cycle of 12 years and moving into new 

terrain. As you take time to retreat, review 

the last number of years, see the 

growth and let go of behaviors that are 

no longer productive, especially in close 

relationship. 

Capricorn (Dec 21- Jan 19): Friendship 

and family are very highlighted. Enjoy 

yourself. With Mercury retrograde 

until the 17 th , be thoughtful about your 

communications. You find yourself moving 

between enjoyment, affection, and irritation. 

Be clear with yourself about what 

you want. 

Aquarius (Jan 20-Feb 17): This is the 

month to present yourself, step out and 

express yourself. Show yourself. 

Whether in your career or fulfilling a purpose 

and a drive that you have felt within, 

you have the energy to accomplish it, and 

people recognize your abilities. 

Pisces (Feb 18-Mar 19): Are you having 

a spiritual experience and revelation, 

or just an argument about points of view 

and belief systems? Take this month or 

week to retreat, to travel, and to experience 

a different way of living. Give yourself 

time to contemplate, write and study. 

Take advantage of this transformative 

time. 

Susan Heinz, a professional astrologer 

in Santa Cruz for 24 years, 

brings together traditional & esoteric astrology, 

Tarot and Qabalah. For info on 

her Friday monthly astrology groups, and 

for personal consultations, call (831) 

476-5787. 

water for cats and then rub the soaked 

finger gently over the pet’s mouth and 

teeth. Introduce the brush later or use a 

finger toothbrush. 

4. Learn to look for yellow or 

brown buildup of tartar along the gum 

line, red inflamed gums and persistent 

bad breath. If you see any of these you’ll 

need to get a professional cleaning before 

beginning home care. 

5. Use the right tools. Avoid using 

human toothpaste which can be 

harmful to pets. 

Anne Singer, owner of Shampoochez 

at 1380 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz 

and editor of the “Shampoo-chez Newz,” 

has been an advocate of quality, natural, 

nontoxic pet products for the 23 years 

that Shampoo-chez has been in business. 

For questions call (831) 427-2284. 

Visit Shampoo-chez on the Web at 

www.shampoochez.com for location and 

store hours, information on their Self-Service 

Dog Wash, professional grooming for 

dogs and cats, vaccination clinic, useful 

facts and recipes, testimonials, and natural 

pet products which can be ordered and 

shipped to you or delivered locally. 


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