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PLEASE  READ the FIRST TWO paragraphs of the above.  Ardently, we STILL believe this:  Communication leads to understanding, understanding leads not only to peaceful co-existence, but is the most productive path to a society that respects and serves the needs of all of its members to its own greatest good.

Now, please, go to our Facebook Page to discuss this further.

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Why We Appear

More than 40 years ago(!) – ‘Why We Appear’ – told why we were ‘established’.  Now, we are back by popular demand (the endemic and systemic call for what we do…. a call by the broadest spectrum of the public since the cultural upheaval of the 60’s).

This is NOT a statement  on our ‘philosophy’ on WHY and HOW culture changes, WHY it did back then, WHY it is now – but THAT statement IS coming.  Stay tuned… the revolution has a reason, the process has begun, it’s history is here; use it to take your next step.  And CLICK our rss button NOW so that you, first, will know what that might be.

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Yesterday, it was the Counter Culture. Today… it’s
Monday, October 4, 2010

More Here @ 3 pm (PST)

Est. 1964 Re-Incarnated by Public Demand

This is the original, 60’s, counter culture, LA Free Press. Today’s Best Alternative View & Our Old Hippie Headlines, Too! A Head Trip for Smart Minds.

(This article refers directly to today’s issue of the Los Angeles Free Press. If you have not yet seen today’s issue, click HERE.

Yesterday, it was the Counter Culture. Today it’s…

All About: The Cultural War… is it Risen and Rising, or Exposed and Dying?

by Steven M. Finger

Is this Rally of Liberals really a Challenge to the Tea Party? Or is it, instead, a lost battle of the Cultural War?

More to come @ 5 pm (PST)

Radio Free oZ & The LAFreep

Getting it together again

Just when you thought it was starting to get way too serious and scary again, Peter Bergman’s Radio Free oZ is back with the LAFREEP,  feeding your head – just like the Rabbit said.

Take a look at the LA Free Press and what do you see? – Peter Bergman’s Blog. That’s Peter Bergman of Radio Free oZ and the Firesign Theatre. Back in the day, oZ and the LAFREEP, as it came to be nick-named, were brothers in media-arms, and now the wheel’s come round again.

On Radio Free oZ, which Bergman launched in the summer of ’66, at KPFK, he gave voice to the closeted LA Beats, Hipsters, and budding Sunset Strip Hippies, turning on to Pot and LSD; while he turned them on to San Francisco Rock, Delta Blues, Jazz, Funk, Folk, Alan Watts, Aldus Huxley, Lord Buckley, foreign films; Pinks Hot Dogs, Tommy’s Burgers and all things Hip. oZ also introduced Phil Austin, David Ossman and Phil Proctor, who, along with Bergman, became the infamously renown FRIESIGN THEATRE.

Into the perilous beginnings of the Sit-In, Civil-Rights, Anti-War sixties, Bergman tossed the phrase Love-In, and invited LA to the very first, on March 26, 1967. It was in Elysian Park, just over the hill from the Dodgers ball park. Twenty thousand amazed long hairs and straight looking hippies to be, poured into the park out of the Easter Sunday morning mist. The LA Times writers and the LA radio and TV station talking heads lied about the crowd size – like they were doing with the Viet Nam body counts. They played the crowd size down to please the media zombies signing their pay checks. But, the LAFREEP ran a big front page shot of the sea of freaky people and once again busted the pseudo LA news media, big time. With the help of the words and pictures printed in the LA FREEP, the media lie that just a few misguided radicals were turning on to Peace and Love, ended there in Elysian Park with Bergman’s speech.

Mind-blown to see so many kindred souls of the stony and secret society of Trans-Love Airways, the “Wizard” (Bergman’s radio handle), spoke from the make shift band stand, where Jefferson Airplane had just blown away the assembled multitude with their first LA concert. Bergman’s soulful words were a eulogy to the existential aloneness so many had been enduring. With Bergman’s quiet speech, the loneliness ended that morning. He, like the joyously surprised crowd, had been “dealing” with the angst from embracing revolutionary visions of peace, in times of war, with only the weapons of love to defy the brutal darkness. With Bergman’s soulful witnessing of their numbers, the children of Aquarius looked around and saw they were not alone. And the SIXTIES in LA were “officially” ON!!

Now, Bergman is “poz-casting” the new, hour long Radio Free oZ with co-host, Firesign Theatre pal David Ossman. There’s a new show every day Monday through Thursday, with the Best of the Best playing through the weekend. Since launching in March, oZ fans have been downloading over a hundred thousand “Pozcasts” every month. Bergman’s Blog is a recent addition giving Ozinears an interactive look at the Wizard’s take on all things oZ.

After all these years, nothing’s changed but the times, and they are looking more and more like the ‘60’s with every spin-happy “news” cycle. So now, Bergman’s Blog is on the LAFREEP. The two seasoned icons of “Peace, Love, and the American Way” are once again embattled together in the new media wars. Marshal McLuhan would be so proud. Welcome to the future. Forward, into the past. Not Insane!

Bill McIntyre  – Producer   Radio Free oZ. http:www.radiofreeoz.com

Let’s Play A Game

Editor’s Note:  It may be enticing to click on the video screen first, but please browse at this first link first.

http://www.americasarmy.com/

Call of Duty, Black Ops Trailer – Product release date set as 11-9-10 -

Yesterday, it was the Counter Culture. Today… it’s
Wednesday, September 8, 2010

More Here @ 3 pm (PST)

Est. 1964 Re-Incarnated by Public Demand

This is the original, 60’s, counter culture, LA Free Press. Today’s Best Alternative View & Our Old Hippie Headlines, Too! A Head Trip for Smart Minds.

(This article refers directly to today’s issue of the Los Angeles Free Press. If  you have not begun at the beginning of the series, please click HERE.   If you have, but have not yet seen today’s issue, click HERE.)

Yesterday, it was the Counter Culture. Today it’s…

…all about: How we’ve let the war in and, if we’ll ever, again, want to say “Nevermore”?

by Steven M. Finger

Commercials that push every button – honor, pride, education, friendship, the adventure of parachuting, undersea diving, flying in that open helicopter just ohhh so casually.  And games, too – even more exciting than all that music in the commercials.  And you get to shoot ‘em up, without ever getting shot yourself.  Wait… you do get shot… but, just a moment… there you are, ‘re-spawned’, good as new, another 1,000 lives to go.

How much fun is it?  Here’s a quick – and VERY old figure – within the first 2 years of its 2002 release, America’s Army was downloaded 16 million times, for 600 million missions; 4 million players registered in (yes, gave their names and birth dates.)  They were, primarily, between the ages of 13 and 21.  And then they spent, in just those two years, 60 million hours playing.  Of course, they can play all day for free.  (Your tax dollars at work!)

Apparently, the experience is not only good for recruitment, it has helped along an entire industry, computer war games for children and adults alike.  One game, Call Of Duty (actually a series) surpassed 55 million units worldwide, that’s $3 billion in retail sales – and that was as of almost a year ago.

More on what this actually means… back at 6.

Here are the keywords to our thinking today: NIMH, National Institute of Mental Health, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Computer Wargames, Military Recruitment, U.S. Army military recruitment, Family, Community, Public Service, Military Service, U.S. Navy, U.S. Army, U.S. Marine Corp, U.S. Air Force,  Changing Society, Self-Improvement, Social Change, Society & Culture

Here are links to today’s items:

[1] Let’s Play A Game

[2] Best Military Commercial Ever?

[3] Best Military Commercial Ever – ‘Enhanced’

[4] NIMH Researchers Talk About Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder