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Michael Franti and Spearhead
Ziggy Marley
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The First and Third Tuesday of each month we will be hosting Evenings of Healing. Occasionally there will be an introduction to Pranic Healing in addition to the Meditation on Twin Hearts followed by the Pranic Healing Clinic. Be sure to arrive on time in order to participate in the meditation. Admission is free and healings are done on a donation basis, so whatever you can give at the time.

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By Ramzy Baroud

Yet more haunting images of blindfolded, stripped down Palestinian men being contemptuously dragged by soldiers in uniform from one place to another. Yet more footage of bloodied men lying on hospital beds describing their ordeals to television reporters who have heard this story all too often. Yet more news of Palestinian infighting, tit-for-tat arrests, obscene language and embarrassing behaviour from those who have elected themselves -- or were elected -- to represent the Palestinian people.

By JOHN WALSH

In the latest issue of The Nation, an “open letter” appears in which the signatories position themselves as abject supplicants to Obama, begging him to revert to his earlier stances in his primary campaign. [read open letter here: http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080818/open_letter]

By Variety.com - Nick Holdsworth

Russian deputy foreign minister Grigory Karasin has accused Western media orgs of bias in their coverage of the Georgia fighting, but U.S. and U.K. TV execs are unfazed, saying that claims of bias are “bananas.”

Within Russia, TV and newspaper reports of the conflict have overshadowed coverage of the Olympics, with patriotic and emotional reportage on the conflict that Russia blames on the Georgians.

By Columbia Journalism Review - Julia Ioffe

At great personal peril, Russian bloggers report on the Georgian war

GREAT LINE: "War is God's Way Of Teaching Americans Geography."-Jon Stewart

FRENCH PRESIDENT BROKERS PEACE DEAL
ALL ISSUES IN RUSSO-GEORGIAN CONFLICT NOT SETTLED
US FLEET STEAMS TO IRAN

The BBC was reporting last night: Russia and Georgia have agreed a truce brokered by French President Nicolas Sarkozy, and have approved the principles of a full peace plan.

The exact details of the proposals appeared to be still under discussion.

VIOLENCE BREEDS VIOLENCE

On Wednesday morning, BBC was reporting there was another kind of violence erupting in Gori, Stalin's old home town:

News Release
California Regional Water Quality Control Board Central Valley Region

SACRAMENTO —The California Department of General Services, Office of State Publishing, faces $129,000 in penalties for violations of effluent limitations of contaminated groundwater into the American River at the north end of 7th Street in Sacramento.

The Assistant Executive Officer of the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board issued the Administrative Civil Liability complaint for assessment of statutory mandatory minimum penalties for the violations.

by Jim Miles

I – Introduction and Overview

This is one of the more difficult articles/reviews I have worked on. I have been well aware of Peak Oil for a while, but never did I gather so much information in one sitting that simply spelled out doom and gloom.

by The FINANCIAL / Kate Tabatadze

The FINANCIAL — “There were signs as well of a cyberwarfare campaign, as Georgian government Web sites were crashing intermittently during the day,” says New York Times. Georgia’s actions in South Ossetia have factually turned into a Ruso-Georgian war. The information war, however, has also reached a new level of escalation, says Deutsche Welle’s Ingo Mannteufel.