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libramoon — Wed, 07 May 2008 04:35:43 GMT

www.youpublish.com/referredby/goodnews

Hey Creative Peeps; authors/ writers/ seminar leaders this is so cool.....

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Because YouPublish accepts any file format, you can upload books, poems, songs, videos, photos, seminar packages, and even spreadsheets and software. And you can easily sell your creations—or share them for free!

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Conclave Journal Seeks Submissions

Valya — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:10:36 GMT

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

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

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

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

Thank you.

Valya Dudycz Lupescu, Editor

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Help for fellow writer...

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:51:16 GMT

http://sanfrancisco.tribe.net/template/PeopleSearchResults.vm?I was wondering if anyone knew how to get excerpts of writing out there for people in the bay area to read. Is there an on-line site available for this or some kind of bulletin board for writers? Any info. would be greatly appreciated.

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New Bard and Book Club FREE with forums

sacredgoddess — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 02:13:59 GMT

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

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

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

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RIP Gary Gygax, Co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons (X-posted)

feiruz_al-bnefsagia — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 22:42:40 GMT

If it weren't for the creative guys at Tactical Studies Rules (TSR) I doubt we'd have the extensive fantasy- and mythology-based literature and games which are so popular and financially successful today.

Rest well, Gary.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Gygax

Feiruz, a second-generation "gamer"

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Imagine Nation has emerged

libramoon — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 01:43:34 GMT

Welcome to our Imagine Nation!
Emerging Visions visionary art ezine #11

http://emergingvisions.blogspot.com

share and enjoy!!!

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WRITERS WANTED...

Richard — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 10:16:59 GMT

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

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

The 2 sites in question are as follows:

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

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

Serious inquiries only, please.

RD Kennedy

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

rdk1421@hotmail.com

(Please mention WRITERS WANTED in subject line!)

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Getting paid is taking forever

kimblueyes — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 00:18:36 GMT

I'm new to freelance writing and I really don't know much about it. I have always enjoyed writing and have in the past couple of years gotten more serious about my own creative work (poetry, fiction, and now screenplays).

I wrote three articles for a small new travel magazine in November and early December. They have not paid me for the articles yet nor sent me my two free copies of the magazine. I have emailed back and forth (very kindly) with my contact there to see what's going on, to no avail.

Is it common to wait months to get paid for freelance work? I'm pretty pissed about this. I want to know what to expect realistically for future reference.

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Writer Selected as Amazon ABNA Semifinalist Needs Your Reviews/Votes!

Valya — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 15:24:14 GMT

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

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

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

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

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

Plus there are incentive prizes for reviewers!

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

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

Warm Regards,
Valya

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Publishers?

MickD — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:04:28 GMT

I'm trying to help my uncle find a publisher for his memoirs. Would anyone have any publishing connections to share?

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PRESS STATEMENT: Revised 12.06.2007, Black File 7001, Freelance Journalist inside the Federal Witness Protection Program as a Non-Criminal Federal Witness.

Lee Vin Bah — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:34:45 GMT

PRESS STATEMENT: Revised 12.06.2007, Black File 7001, Freelance Journalist inside the Federal Witness Protection Program as a Non-Criminal Federal Witness.

Freelance Journalist inside the Federal Witness Protection Program as a Non-Criminal Federal Witness. “Black File 7001” is a work of investigative journalism that initially began in 1994. Early in 1999, I completed a covert assignment with the FBI lasting five years after having been previously requested to stand-down from a fulltime university curriculum with an inactive law enforcement background for possibly twelve months. Immediately thereafter I entered the Federal Witness Protection Program (WitSec) and ever since have continued to experience the U.S. government’s use of psychological torture practices and political retribution by the named agents and agencies of the U.S. government under the Bush-Cheney administration. Multiple actionable offenses have been committed under state, federal and international law while the culpable agents and agencies remain shielded from civil and criminal prosecution by the administration’s threat or issuance of national security letters, which prevent legal discovery and subvert the rule of law. The U.S. government does torture, I am one of its American victims and am requesting a humanitarian intervention before it is too late.

EDITORIAL FOREWORD:

Producing the report titled “Black File 7001” has experienced the threat or issuance of national security letters by the Bush-Cheney administration, a subordinate agent directly under the administration threatening me with the invention of a criminal charge if I publish and the suppression of this story by the same Democratic Congress that falsely promised an end to the money laundering operation in Iraq that remains perpetuated by the insidious genocide of our American military service members and other innocent human beings throughout the world.

As a former lifelong humanitarian member of what use to be the Republican Party until 2000 and a person who also voted for Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, I charge the neoconservatives with having filled the bowels of this Trojan Horse Republican Party with the stench of operating a continuing criminal enterprise under the guise of bringing democracy to the world.

The U.S. government infrastructure has been overthrown and this administration has declared constitutional civil war against the United States of America. The American people must organize in a lawful and peaceful revolution that mirrors and surpasses the civil rights era. We must march on Washington, D.C. and picket the corporate offices of the propaganda ministries to force their coverage of your protests and displayed messages.

It is critically important that before the next election we must demand Democratic Congressional members to openly support publically funded elections; not for profit universal healthcare; free or affordable higher education for all citizens; the meaningful development alternative fuel sources; the abatement of the conditions causing the honey bee populations from disappearing from around the world (later in the primary story I will invite you to read why noticing the smallest of G-d’s creatures holds the largest messages); and the criminal investigation of the named agents and agencies of the U.S. government under the Bush-Cheney administration regarding the Black File 7001 report.

Career politicians, regardless of political affiliations who fail the muster of the American people should be removed and replaced with genuine representatives before the next voting cycle.

Americans must become the partisans of liberty to reclaim the dream and promise of America and our inalienable rights as human beings. The jackbooted fascists of today must be prevented from emulating the treason of U.S. Senator Prescott Bush through their perversion of peace for the profits of war. The American mainstream has already been herded towards the invisible and tangible death camps of democracy. In those places you will endured conditions far worse than any physical torture where other Americans like me have been left for dead for over thirty years. These human beings of whom I speak are not criminals or terrorists; they are honorable American citizens who answered their country’s call to duty for special covert government service only to become a disposable population and the hidden dirty secret of the U.S. government.

Since 1970, one thousand and eighty (1,080) American citizens have existed as something cousin to death camp victims from the destructive effects of the Federal Witness Protection Program. These non-criminal federal witnesses and American veterans of voluntary covert government service became the unknowing test subjects in a clandestine torture experiment that exists as the precursor model for converting a freethinking U.S. civilian population into a self-consuming enslaved society. Within the death camp known as “WitSec” these human beings are subjected to the insidious methods of psychological torture that systematically erode the individual sense of self-identity until the will to live has been lost.

ABOUT ME:

My WitSec No. is 7001, I am a husband, father, writer, and freelance journalist who remained inside the Federal Witness Protection Program as a Non-Criminal Federal Witness and am now ready to surface under guarded conditions with the firsthand story of how a minority group of honorable American citizens are being psychologically tortured and politically persecuted by the U.S. government. Immediately I am seeking the support of the American public and progressive news media; the representation of a listed creative agent; contract negotiations with book publishers and the motion picture industry; a university initiative with an accredited school of journalism to include lecturing options and the sanitized conversion of my college records; and communication platforms with Ms. Oprah Winfrey and Mr. George Clooney via the Smoke House Studio.

By comparison to the physical injuries that I have endured from trauma and other accidents, the lasting effects of psychological torture are far worse. This form of torture is sourced from the fascist mindset of the named agents and agencies of the U.S. government under the Bush-Cheney administration through their commissions of actionable offenses and political retributions. As a veteran of voluntary covert government service who operated undercover for five years while contracted by the FBI as an agent of the federal government, I state unequivocally and categorically that the U.S. government does torture human beings. As an American citizen and non-criminal federal witness let the record show that I am declaring myself as a torture victim of the U.S. government. With my soul dying and the body giving signs that it wants to follow I offer that no truer words have ever been written than “give me liberty or give me death” or that “the worse death is a life without hope.”

Having previously been blessed with an out of body experience during trauma that was caused by the U.S. government and prior to my recovery in advance of relearning how to walk, I am not frightened by a natural death. The experience of dying for me confirmed the Socratic belief that the human soul is made of two parts with one half being a physical finite and the other a non-physical infinite. Life as seen from the eyes of the body is an illusion or one half of a duality. It was possible to see from two separate and paralleling perspectives at the same time. The physical world appeared normal while my body felt the tremendous force of being pulled into the earth. Initially from within the spiritual realm there was no ugliness, no beauty, no gender, and only muted colors with humanoid forms. Before I lost the sight of my physical body, the last human emotion that I felt was an all encompassing global pity that literally enveloped the earth with my living sentient energy. Soon I was sitting in space and the beauty of the earth returned with the comforting tenderness of a loving mother and at my back was the warmth of wisdom and strength from a fatherly sun. A few moments passed and my two halves were made whole again to continue the journey that brought me to this place of inhuman suffering.

In self-definition I am a Humanitarian-Universal-Infrastructuralist or a person who has spent a lifetime identifying and interrelating the commonalities between myself and all known sentient beings and other components within the universe from which to become more human.

My views of the current U.S. President and Vice President find them culpable for treason, egregious crimes against humanity and international terrorism while wearing a mask of insipid divinity. Clearly these judicially selected ten cent millionaires are criminal sociopaths who function from a series of learned behaviors used to produce a desired result while being incapable of recognizing any genuine sense of right and wrong.

These individuals and their followers bare the marks that brand their names with the gamatria of the most inhuman and deceptive beings that walk among us on the earth in legion with what some would call the antichrist. Although I have never considered myself worthy of the blessings, respectfully I believe that throughout my life there have been a number of occasions when my being was touched by the many faces of G-d. With all of that said, one should never confuse spiritual currency with political capitol since the latter is most often sourced from the abyss of false profits, which brought the genocide over six million Jews, Gypsies and homosexuals in Nazi Germany; the slaughter of tribal nations in America; the turning of human beings against their brothers and sisters throughout history; the selling of children, women and men as slaves; the gang rape and victimization of Arabic women who are then whipped as criminals; and the 911 terrorist attacks used to perpetuate war profiteering and oil piracy for those who drink from a rivers of human blood and suffering. Considering my temporary acquaintance with death, I believe the purest form of spiritual worship that collectively joins us with the universe is simply the individual act of at least attempting to recognize the human being in all people.

BLACK FILE 7001:

“Black File 7001” is a work of investigative journalism that began in 1994 as an academic prospectus with the goals of publishing books, producing movies, film documentaries, and developing a lecture syllabus with the thinking who better to teach than a person with skin in the game. While in a fulltime academic setting and shortly after beginning this protect, I discovered actionable intelligence that was brought forward for case installation at the federal level. Already possessing an inactive law enforcement background and specialized skill sets where few if any training manuals exist, the FBI requested my voluntary assistance for a projected twelve months. Five years later I completed the FBI undercover group one investigation having successfully penetrated four organized crime groups while never being afforded one day off for that entire period of time. Since other federal law enforcement agencies are not equipped to handle long duration personal security operations, I entered the Federal Witness Protection Program (WitSec) as a Non-Criminal Federal Witness in 1999. Nearly immediately after entering the WitSec the named agents and agencies of the U.S. government under the Bush-Cheney administration unthinkably began outing my active covert status. Since exiting the WitSec in good standing early in 2001, political retributions by the U.S. government have continued to terrorize me with actionable offenses and the tactics of psychological torture. These culpable acts additionally serve as a passive sanction for the assassination of an American citizen and a former covert agent of the federal government. This story is uncharted territory and I am unaware of any other writer/journalist who has actually penetrated this fraudulent clandestine federal program, which shrouds itself beneath an undeserved veil of secrecy that exists in the absence of public scrutiny and meaningful congressional oversight. The latter might explain why multiple action notices regarding this investigation have gone unanswered by the craven Democratic Congress that I helped elected to office with their false promise of ending the corporatist money laundering operation in Iraq.

Within the next 30 day or by New Year’s Day 2008, I will publish an extensive sanitized report that has been redacted from a much larger work. Please communicate with me and contact your local election campaign committees to demand that your congressional members take action in this matter.

American citizens are being used as the unknowing test subjects in a clandestine torture experiment shrouded within the Federal Witness Protection Program (WitSec). Non-Criminal Federal Witnesses (1,080) are a special minority class of American citizens in title only who are being used as a laboratory control sample for the applied tactics of terrorism and psychological torture (psyops) on a U.S. civilian population by the U.S. government.

Writing remains one of my two fragile anchors holding me to this world and a federal agent (L.H.M.) directly under the Bush-Cheney administration has telephonically communicated “you have a lot of people in high places afraid to death that you are going to destroy their programs…and if you publish a book, the government will invent a criminal charge against you.” After refusing not to publish with an invitation to that federal agent’s handlers to “go pound salt up their asses”, a series of actionable offenses were committed against me in political retribution under state, federal and international law. These same entities on several occasions have outed my classified status that with each culpable act, serves to intensify what has become a standing passive sanction for the assassination of an American citizen and former covert agent of the federal government.

As a physically disabled person from two trauma accidents caused by the federal government or incurred in the line of duty during covert government service, I applied for Social Security Disability Benefits (SSDB) through the required classified channels. This process required that I utilize my second WitSec Inspector (A.S.) and the Social Security Administration’s Sensitive Operations Division (SOD) that was established for persons in covert-ops, the CIA and the U.S. State Department working oversees. The Social Security Disability Benefits were authorized, but following my refusal not to publish the WitSec and SSA’s SOD conspired to punitively withdraw my SSDB. This occurred prior to beginning treatments for Hodgkin’s Lymphoma cancer in 2004. The government’s own federal court judge who heard the SSA case issued several letters of complaint to the Sensitive Operations Division, charging that office had provided the court with erroneous information and that the SOD’s delay in responding was contemptuous to the point of preventing a fair hearing. Two months past while the SOD and WitSec crafted their evidence and my SSDB’s claim entered the appeals stage. During the initial SSDB process, repeated telephonic conversations had been made with and between the WitSec and the SOD to insure that the production of the SSA documents would not out my covert status. After multiple assurances that complete security would be maintained, the WitSec and SOD deliberately or at the least through total gross incompetence filed documents that outed my covert status by commingling my identities in violation of several federal laws and a federal court seal. After the matter was sent to the SSA Hearing and Appeals Board where it remained for two years that federal agency notified my private attorney they had lost my classified government file in violation of the same laws allegedly protecting my covert status. A copy was returned by my attorney and two weeks later my benefits were denied again. The SSDB matter is pending on civil appeal to the federal court where I am certain it will be again denied by the government’s crafting of the evidence. Lastly the WitSec and SOD conspired to deconstruct my only viable work history by purging a covert front business located in Texas from the regular SSA computer system and additionally failed under contract to sanitize and convert my previous Social Security records into my new Jewish name. Allegedly I had been employed by that Texas front business for over a decade as a construction estimator that for all I knew might have found Dick Cheney answering the telephones on an earlier occasion. Following the WitSec and SOD’s punitive acts of political retribution, during two subsequent visits to the local SSA office the computer screen was so void of information that the office staffers contacted their supervisors to report they believed their computer system had been penetrated by hackers.

Prior to 911 and before the USDOJ had been prostituted by this corrupt administration, I was able to assist in the covert criminal prosecution of my first U.S. Deputy Marshal/WitSec Inspector (J.D.) for his theft of government funds.

After 911 and following my refusal not to publish under threat of the invention of a criminal charge by the U.S. government that same former WitSec Inspector/federal felon was released from prison and allowed to stalk me. While near death from chemotherapy and radiation treatments for Hodgkin’s Lymphoma cancer that same federal felon physically accosted me by the arm inside of a warehouse superstore. Thirty-six security notices went unanswered by the U.S. Marshals Service’s Federal Witness Security Program Headquarters.

The second WitSec Inspector (A.S.) eventually came to my home with a regular deputy marshal who did not have a WitSec security clearance, which further outed my covert status and sarcastically laughed that he had forgotten to tell me that the WitSec Headquarters’ mailing address had been changed after 911 and that under the new U.S. Patriot Act my only means of communicating with headquarters was directly through him. That WitSec Inspector continued to smile while stating that my classified information and security notices had been circulated by several staffers without WitSec clearances before it got to where I thought it was being sent. When asked about the other Deputy Marshal’s security clearance, the WitSec Inspector stated “owe I use non-WitSec personnel all the time to handle WitSec matters.” This same WitSec Inspector has committed multiple actionable offences and has outed my covert status numerous times while creating a growing mortal threat environment around my geographic location.

Many of the public self-aggrandizing claims and testimonials given before the U.S. Congress and published by the Federal Witness Protection Program will soon be debunked within my Black File 7001 report.

Following the WitSec and SOD’s removal of my work history with their deletion of the covert front business from the SSA computer system and even though I am a very capable and multitalented individual with strong skill sets, given this act and the government’s failure to perform under written contracts, I have been unable to find employment after submitting over 3000 job applications. However by comparison and in direct contrast to my own personal situation, the first WitSec Inspector (J.D.) after his release from federal prison for the theft of several thousand dollars in U.S. government funds is now gainfully employed and processing the private financial records of American citizens as a mortgage loan officer. Under this administration criminals and traitors are rewarded and the good servants of the American people become part of a disposable population.

Out of 18,000 federal witnesses, 16,920 are criminal and custodial federal witnesses and 1,080 of that total number are “non-criminal federal witnesses.” The six percent who are non-criminal federal witnesses are comprised of honorable American citizens from every cultural identity within our society. These same veterans of voluntary covert government service took that extra step above and beyond the call of duty to participate in our system while defending our constitutional democracy and the American people. Within that minority of six percent I am an even smaller number of non-criminal federal witnesses who entered covert government service with an inactive law enforcement background and specialized skill sets of a nature that possess few if any training manuals.

The ACLU of which I am a member has tried to bring four previous cases involving non-criminal federal witnesses through the Washington, D.C. office. With each lawsuit brought by the ACLU, the Bush-Cheney administration has issued national security letters to prevent the legal discovery of evidence and thus subverted the rule of law. However, in my possession is the actual physical evidence that includes but is not limited to federal court documents proving the outing of my covert status; the federal court documents of the first WitSec Inspector (J.D.); lawfully produced audiotape recordings of WitSec personnel and others; and the proof of warrantless wiretapping, data mining, the electronic theft of intellectual property; et al. One should remember General Douglas MacArthur’s island hopping campaign during WWII. As that relates to this matter, I am bypassing a slugfest with Goliath that would only serve to hold me in stasis with my foot in the courtroom door. Instead I invite all freethinking human beings to a Greek debate in the court of public opinion. Criticism and contemplation are necessary to keep a flourishing democracy alive. Let the U.S. government bring forth its best criminal cowards to stand on the square with me in open examination before the American people and the world.

THE TREASON OF CONDOLEEZZA RICE:

It is also my intention to challenge the blatant lies told before the U.S. Congress by Condoleezza Rice regarding the administration’s knowledge of events prior to 911 – the FBI and CIA did have operational joint counterterrorism taskforce offices since the mid 90s.

“A litany of lies about 911, Iraq and now Iran – There is one point that I am compelled to insert within this document beyond the scope of its primary focus and here seems as good a place as anywhere. A covert FBI Special Agent and former teammate in charge of two special operations groups who worked in the field with me and whom I supported in the hunt for Eric Robert Rudolph also known as the Olympic Park Bomber, revealed during the mid 90s that both the FBI and CIA had established joint counterterrorism taskforce offices to exchange foreign and domestic intelligence. This fact directly contradicts Condoleezza Rice’s testimony before congress regarding the August 6, 2001 PDB Briefing Report titled “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.”, during which Rice stated that a fractionalization existed between federal agencies, which prevented intelligence information from being communicated to the Bush administration. The most blatant lie came when Rice stated that no joint FBI/CIA taskforce offices existed before or during that time, while alleging joint taskforce offices were being established forthwith. Further supporting a charge of perjury against Condoleezza Rice and I believe grounds for treason, appears to be former CIA Director, George Tenet’s public testimony regarding actionable intelligence in July 2001 regarding Osama bin Laden’s plan to attack American targets using commercial jetliners. July 2001 marked the last time that I flew on a commercial aircraft on my way to lecture at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia and an occasion when I exchanged passing remarks with former U.S. Senator Gary Hart sitting near me. The actionable intelligence was clearly suppressed by the Bush-Cheney administration. In other words, given these facts and the known associations between the 911 Terrorists; the family of Osama bin Laden; the Saudi Arabian Royal family; the United Arab Emirates (poised to purchase 25% of Citibank and 40% of the U.S. and British Stock Markets); and the oil trading partners, personal friends and business associates within the Bush-Cheney syndicate it appears that the United States of America was allowed to be attacked by a foreign enemy to act as a protagonist event for the perpetuation of war profiteering and oil piracy. Therefore I strongly believe that if the unveiled enemies of the American people were not politically shielded, they would have already been prosecuted for treason, conspiracy, racketeering, money laundering, operating a continuing criminal enterprise, international terrorism, and crimes against humanity.”

SPECIAL NOTE CONCERNING IRAN:

Before the 2006 election the U.S. Intelligence agencies already knew that Iran did not have a “secret nuclear weapons program.” That report was presented to the Bush-Cheney administration and was politically suppressed with instructions given between the lines to craft new evidence. The facts are that Iran’s nuclear enrichment program has not been able to achieve a greater rate than 3.8% enrichment, which is even a lower percentage than what is required to bring a peaceful nuclear power plant online and far less than the enrichment level needed to produce a nuclear weapon. The psychology of substituting sexuality for the creation of illegal wars with oil rich sovereign nations, seems the iconic aphrodisiac of this administration when laminating that over sixty-eight elected Republican politicians have been charged and convicted of sexual crimes against children; that George W. Bush, a known cocaine user (sexual stimulant), deserted his post in the Air Nation Guard when they began drug testing; that both Bush and Cheney took multiple deferments from military service during Vietnam so that other Americans could die in their places; that Dick Cheney made use of a Freudian phallic extension in the form of a shotgun to shot his friend in the head during a hunting expedition; that Dick Cheney has a pneumatic penile implant to achieve an erection; and that the nude photograph of George W. Bush in college displays an unremarkable penis. Add these factors together with the absolute power over the U.S. military and the world will recognize a six headed monster with twelve hearts that numbers 666 and produces the political fodder that destroys the sovereign thought process, creates a toxic society and consumes the collective human soul. Plainly stated devil cannot exist without followers.

MY REQUEST TO MEDIA, UNIVERSITIES, PUBLISHERS, MOVIE PRODUCERS, AND THE WORLD OF HUMAN BEINGS:

While my reaching out might become the closing scene in a lifelong journey to become more human, knowingly I choose my own death over remaining a torture victim and slave within an uncultivatable existence where self-nurturing and remaining true to one’s own nature is an impossibility. The Democratic Congressional members that I helped elect have remained silent with the full knowledge of this matter and only a handful of good human beings seem to be listening for the moment. Already a subordinate federal agent directly under the Bush-Cheney administration has telephonically threatened that if I publish a book the government will invent a criminal charge against me. This is not the America that I defended and have nourished. Nevertheless if we are to remain a world of human beings, we the people must publically exam the U.S. government’s ongoing psychological torture of up to 1,080 Non-Criminal Federal Witnesses who are American citizens and your good neighbors. Currently I have established online locations on YouTube, Tribe.net, Comcast, and have posted on the message board at The Ed Schultz Show website where these American citizens can share their stories with other human beings and possibly begin to reclaim their individual sense of self-identity through these communication platforms. One non-criminal federal witness has already communicated they are hiding outside the U.S. to protect themselves from U.S. government torture. Recently I attempted to communicate with a well known actor’s movie studio and was informed that I must have a listed creative agent to represent my story before they will be legally able to communicate with me. Therefore and in as much that I would dare to hope to restore my own life back to the place where it should have already been, I am seeking the representation of a listed Creative Agent, Business Negotiations with members from the Publishing and Motion Picture Industries, and a University Initiative from an accredited School of Journalism where I might combine all of these components within a flourishing academic setting to create a lecture syllabus and continue writing. Please do not think me a selfish person, because I have remained one of the most extroverted and giving human beings you could ever know. This academic and professional prospectus has endured as my long-range plan since beginning this journalism project and is one of the few reasons why I have not ended my own life after experiencing something cousin to an extraordinary rendition to a clandestine blacksite torture facility that exists invisibly within the plain-sight of American society. Please do not let this story die with me and challenge the validity of any member of the Democratic Congress for their repeated failures to respond to several action notices regarding this matter.

Beyond the above I wish to offer one final piece of personal information. When I relocated to this area I had no intention of becoming involved with anyone and had anticipated reclaiming my academic standing to achieve my goals in life. While visiting a local bookstore and coffee house, I met the finest human being whom I have ever known and today that person is my wife. Together we raised our young child from her previous marriage and I have been blessed by the experience of being a father. Had it not been for my wife’s medical insurance I would not be here today writing this story. My wife retires at the end of this year and our child is now attending a university. What that means for me living on a fixed monthly annuity income and having been waited out by the WitSec while my saving depleted is that I will not be able to afford the additional $600.00 a month for my portion of the medical insurance policy. Further I have been unable to move in any direction to build the life that I wanted from the resulting harms caused by the WitSec cocoon that I will address in detail within the redacted report that follows. To protect my family and legally separate myself from my wife in the event of recurring illness, I am preparing to file the divorce papers on my desk. Never will I forgive or forget that the U.S. government under the Bush-Cheney administration has systematically deconstructed my family and prevented my equality as a person and an American citizen while psychologically torturing me in ways that have already killed other Americans who are non-criminal federal witnesses through suicide and medical neglect. This deconstruction of my family unit is comparatively symbolic to the overthrow of the U.S. government infrastructure by the international crime consortium and the same coconspiratorial war profiteers who attacked the United States of America on September 11, 2001. Having lived so long as the shell of an American citizen in title only, if I am unable to be made whole again in America, then as a torture victim and dissident under political persecution I am prepared to request asylum from the government of Canada. Should that fail and if I cannot be restored then I am ready to leave this world for the peace of oblivion and wish each of you mozel tov.

THE QUESTION HAS BEEN ASKED BY A GROWING NUMBER OF HUMAN BROTHERS AND SISTERS, WHAT CAN WE DO TO HELP YOU?

First please do not attempt to send any money I believe that it is possible to earn a living with the years invested in this story and I prefer paying my own way, which has remained the purpose of my labors while enduring U.S. government torture. Profoundly from a place of extreme isolation your concerns are priceless gifts that have touched me deeper than words could possibly express and I truly feel your human warmth and compassion.

Beyond that human inclusion the most important act of support is not to let this story die from a lack of response or another empty promise by the congress just so this matter will be “disappeared” like the 1,080 American patriots who are non-criminal federal witnesses in the Federal Witness Protection Program. Please meditate for the good energy of the universe to encompass the lives of all human beings and continue to contact any person or organization who will if nothing else at least feel the truth of this torture story: Democratic Party headquarters around the nation; elected representatives who truly wish to remain in office; U.S. and international human rights organizations; members of the progressive news media (The Ed Schultz Show, Air America Radio, Democracy Now, The Nation Magazine, I.N.N. International News Net, Studs Terkel, the ACLU, Civil Rights Attorneys; etc.); the free and independent sovereign nations of the world (Vancouver BC, Canada, UK, Italy, Spain; etc.); the International Court of Justice aka the World Court and Cour internationale de Justice; and any other conduit of communication that might wish to know, share or actuate this true story.

Ms. Oprah Winfrey and Mr. George Clooney are two people whom I admire for their humanitarian and creative contributions to the world. With their support this story will not be silenced and human lives will be saved. Please send each of them “one” simple note requesting their support of the “Black File 7001” story and include my website and e-mail addresses. The movie “Syriana” spoke to me at a very personal level with Bob’s betrayal by the government he served that ultimately resulted in his death. Oprah Winfrey's all-girl leadership academy in South Africa is only one of the endless humanitarian contributions made to the world by this great human being. The education system has played a significant part of my life with a trilingual professional educator in my immediate family, a child currently attending a university and my own employment with the FBI in the third year of a fulltime academic curriculum. The purpose of that covert government service was initiated to prevent national and international organized crime organizations from distributing methamphetamine within the public school systems and throughout the United States of America.

For a time I prevented the false prophets who professed a love of children and humanity from preying on the innocent, but the “war on drugs” like the “war on terrorism” are only political mantras meant to perpetuate and fatten the cash cows of government profiteers.

PLEASE CONTACT MR. GEORGE CLOONEY WITH ONE LETTER ONLY:

Agent:
Mr. George Clooney
C/o Bryan Lourd
Creative Artists Agency
2000 Avenue of the Stars
Los Angeles, CA 90067
424.288.2000
424.288.2900 fax

Publicist:
Mr. George Clooney
C/o Stan Rosenfield & Associates
2029 Century Park East
Suite 1190
Los Angeles, CA 90067 USA
310.286.7474
310.286.2255 fax

Movie Studio:
Smoke House
Attn: Mr. George Clooney
C/o Warner Bros.
4000 Warner Blvd., Bldg. 15
Burbank, California 91522 USA
818.954.4840
818.954.4860 fax

PLEASE CONTACT MS. OPRAH WINFREY WITH ONE LETTER ONLY:

The Oprah Winfrey Show
Attn: Ms. Oprah Winfrey
http://www.oprah.com/email/email_landing.jhtml

BLACK FILE 7001 CONTACT INFORMATION:

E-mail:
BlackFile7001@comcast.net

Tribe.net:
http://people.tribe.net/49395906-0c49-4c98-b92a-79f37b7927cb

You Tube:
http://www.youtube.com/BlackFile7001

Comcast: Currently blocking my ability to establish a website online.

The Ed Schultz Show (Message Boards – “The Media” Section)
http://www.bigeddieradio.com

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I don't want to bring up that it might be too late …

aniBOOM — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 14:27:52 GMT

Hey animators,
A lot of you have still not entered your animated video to the Aniboom Awards animation competition. It’s definitely not too late to have a real chance of winning. There are 5 finalists each for November and December, plus 5 “golden tickets” that our judges will be giving out at the beginning of January. That’s 15 more finalists to be entered into the Finals round. With $50,000 worth of cash and prizes it’d be a shame to miss out.

It’s easy to enter – just upload your video.
http://www.aniboom.com/Competition/

Leo

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Remembering 9/11 in my fashion...

Vera — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:51:49 GMT

I live in Manhattan and I was here that crisp ,cool, blue-sky day.

The most wonderful thing that happened right after that horrific tragedy was this:

For a metaphorical 5 minutes...I WOULDN"T TRADE BEING HERE WITH ANYONE. It gives me goosebumps to recall it.

For a METAPHORICAL 5 MINUTES...NOTHING MATTERED in this HUB OF COMMERCE...
Race didn't matter...the *bottom line* didn't matter...religion, age gender...none of it mattered. The ONLY thing that mattered was that EVERYONE, from the top of huge corporations to the basic hard-working sanitary engineer, was BOUND AND KINDRED AND WANTED TO HELP each other!!! No screaming taxi drivers no angry people in lines at stores...

It was the most beautiful thing I have EVER experienced. THIS, then, is the memory I like to share with people and some are shocked that my first memory is a BEAUTIFUL & HUMAN one...but ...well...there you are.

Of course PEOPLE BEING PEOPLE...it didn't take long at all for all that to pop like a magic bubble. Back to angry, screaming, money-grubbing racial business as usual...BUT...

And I cling to this *but*...it showed me what is INSIDE EACH PERSON and can be TRIGGERED IN A NON-THINKING, KNEE-JERK response.

Hell...sometimes it is THINKING that gets us into trouble.

:-)
Thanks for listening.I'm going to try and look for that thing inside me and trot it out every now and again (WITHOUT tragedy striking first)!
Ve.

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Full Moon Ralley

David — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:51:56 GMT

Request Comments/Review of Short Story

http://www.thisisby.us/register.php?r=8223

Thanks appreciate your time...

Dave

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Nature Writers?

whyvandalism — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 05:26:38 GMT

essays, poems, prose, fiction, sci-fi, other?

are there any nature writers out there today in e-space?

deadline for the november issue of Why Vandalism?
October 29th, 2007

www.whyvandalism.com/
submissions page:
http://whyvandalism.com/submissions.html

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Mindful Design, EV9, has emerged

libramoon — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 04:21:40 GMT

Hey Visionaries,

Our Mindful Design, Issue #9 Emerging Visions visionary art ezine is now up online:

http://emergingvisions.blogspot.com/

Share and Enjoy

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Writers Wanted - Women's Empowerment Magazine!

Ariellamusic — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 22:12:30 GMT

Dear wonderfuls,

I'm the Managing Editor for The RAY (www.theray.org), a Women's magazine focused on higher awareness and acceptance of self. It has an empowerment and holistic spin, and is truly wonderful. Anyhow, it's a grassroots effort, and is getting better and greater with issue. It is not paid yet, but is a beautiful publication that will be big soon... (think Whole Foods distribution and natl. television/radio broadcasts).

See if there's anything appropriate you've written that you'd like to have published, or if you feel inspired to write something.

Our Themes & Deadlines are: http://www.theray.org/content/view/10/18/
Our Writers' Guidelines are: http://www.theray.org/content/view/9/17
Contact me at: ariella@theray.org

Sending warm wishes and the feeling of a dream being lived,

Ariella

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links to writers' sites

libramoon — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 21:01:55 GMT

go to the website and click on the LINKS & MARKETS link, then on the All Other Sites link for:

http://www.neonbeam.org/

noteworthy links; some writing related, some relating to this website.
LitRef's Prose - Writer's Markets.

Writer's Resource - The Marketlist Online.

Genre Fiction - Magazines and E-zines.

Literary Journals - A Web Directory.

The Short Story Listings - UK Magazine Directory.

Freewebs - My website host. Very good service with lots of add-ons. Recommended.

Writer's Corner - A resource for writers of all kinds.

Short Fiction - A fiction showcase for both readers and writers of short stories.

Published.com - A free directory listing service for authors.

Zinester - Mailing List Services.

- Paying & Non Paying Market Listings For Writers

Edit Red Writing Community - A writing community for poets and writers.

Poetry Library Listings - Excellent resource for poetry print and electronic magazines.

Spicy Green Iguana - Pro, Semi-Pro and Small Press magazine listings. Mostly sci-fi, fantasy and horror listings.

Writers In Touch - Creative writing community for writers to give and receive feedback on their work.

Speculative Vision - Science fiction and fantasy brought into focus.

Unusual Words - Err.. A list of unusual words.

Add Me - Search engine optimisation.

Duotrope - A large and ever growing free database of writing markets.

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ART CONTEST!!!..HERE ON TRIBE

The Passenger — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 21:33:30 GMT

I have recenlty started 3 new art tribes
In order to boost participation in these tribes, we are hosting 3 separate art contests

This week only .............starting Mon 9-03...ending mon 9-10

To enter............. just submit as many pictures as you want into our photo gallery
(we would be honnered)
Begain the title of your photo with AC(For Art Contest)
Example: if you photo is called " The Rose" title it ....AC " The Rose"

ALL VISUAL FORMS OF ART ARE EXCEPTABLE:\
Paintings, Digital, Photography, annimated gifs.....ect.

To vote (you can vote more than once or even vote for yourself) leave a comment in an AC photo that you think deserves recommendation

Next monday I will view the photo's and anounce the winners in all of my 11 tribes and provide links to the your photo's

1st prize.... (in each tribe) will be featured as the main photo for at least 1 month

2nd and 3rd prize photo's will recieve honerable mention and I will anounce the winners in all of my 11 tribes and provide links to the you photo's

!!! So please come and enjoy a fun opportunity to recieve constructive critisism of your expression!!!!!
If this goes well we will host a new contest monthly...Thank you

AMAZING ART

http://tribes.tribe.net/29104d87-26ac-4a27-a01c-ac24e71ecf8a?_click_path=Application%5Btribe%5D.Tribe%5B29104d87-26ac-4a27-a01c-ac24e71ecf8a

Folk Art and Pop Art ( Folk- N- POP )

http://tribes.tribe.net/95d03c97-1166-4b76-88ea-d1b3ae450e28

Religious and Spiritual Art (Apparitions

http://tribes.tribe.net/eb5f7908-cda1-40f9-9648-e8b00b84292f?_click_path=Application%5Btribe%5D.Tribe%5Beb5f7908-cda1-40f9-9648-e8b00b84292f%5D

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pen names for privacy?

JessetheVessel — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 23:20:12 GMT

pen names - do you use one and, if so, why?

i've heard it's smart to write under a different name for issues of privacy in this age of information. how crucial do you think this concern really is?

got any stories with one of the following morals: "...therefore, you should use a pen name," "therefore, you should not use a pen name" ??

thanks.
: )

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Submit to Emerging Visions #9, Mindful Design

libramoon — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 00:20:37 GMT

Enjoy the waning days of Enchanting Romance

http://emergingvisions.blogspot.com/

then lazily scroll down to the Submission Guidelines that you may know how to

SUBMIT to Emerging Visions #9

Mindful Design

send your Mindful Designs to libramoon42@mindspring.com

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1st article published

rajiv — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 04:23:57 GMT

My first article appeared in all the editions of the Times of India a last week. Here's the link to it:
http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Repository/ml.asp?Ref=VE9JTS8yMDA3LzAzLzI2I0FyMDE2MDI=&Mode=HTML&Locale=english-skin-custom

Please send me your coments.

Thanks

Rajiv

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Script Writing Help on YouTube

psytrancedancer — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 17:54:49 GMT

There is this free 90 minute video story engine I found that the author is putting up online as a sample from her new video workshop "Writing A Great Script Fast." This thing is a 20 hour DVD class that walks you through ALL the steps you need to think about when writing a script for a film or a story for a novel.

Check out the sample YouTube files online it looks pretty cool:

http://www.mindseyemedia.com/Steps/step1intro.html

Just thought I would share the information as a great resource. Walks you through a simple version the 20 hour workshop.

It's a great idea generator. :)

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Writers' Market News for week of Aug. 5

libramoon — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 00:43:37 GMT

From: CMyersTex@... [mailto:CMyersTex@...]
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 9:07 AM
To: cynthiasterling@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [CynthiaSterling] Market News for week of August 5, 2007

I'm going to begin this week's newsletter with a look at two good markets for both short and long works of science fiction and fantasy.

First is Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show (http://www.intergalacticmedicineshow.com) This beautiful quarterly publication is interested in all types of science fiction and fantasy, including "hard sf, sf adventure, alternate history, near-future, far-future, psi, alien, and any other kind of sf you can think of. "Fantasy" includes heroic fantasy (based on any culture's mythology), fairy tales, contemporary fantasy, and "horror" in the sense of supernatural suspense (not gory bloodfests, thanks)." They pay 6 cents a word for the first 7500 words and 5 cents a word thereafter. The word limit is pretty wide open, since this is an online publication. Submissions should be made through the submission form on the website.

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Jim Baen's Universe (http://www.baensuniverse.com) is another beautiful online publication, this one bi-monthly. The publication recently re-opened to submissions. Editors are looking for all kinds of science fiction and fantasy stories, or various lengths. At least two slots per issue are dedicated to new writers. They have a complicated pay structure, ranging from 6 cents a word for new writers, to 8 to 15 cents a word for slush pile manuscripts from more established writers, to 25 cents a word for commissioned works. In addition, they pay royalties if the magazine reprints the story in paper and some other circumstances detailed in their guidelines. Length is wide open here, from short stories to novellas. They have a lot to say about the length debate in their guidelines as well, so do check them out.

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Light Sword Publishing (http://www.lightswordpublishing.com/index.html) is a small press that publishes romance (contemporary, historical, romantic suspense and paranormal), children's books, suspense, thriller, fantasy, mystery and science fiction books and some nonfiction. Begun by author Linda Daly and Bonny Kirby, Light Sword published trade paper editions. Authors should query first. Submission guidelines are available on the web site.

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Stephanie Lane has been promoted to senior editor at Delacorte Children's

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Check out the cover for my November Blaze, Wild Child, at http://tinyurl.com/37xtuy

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Feel free to pass along this newsletter and to encourage others to sign up to receive it. If you reprint or forward the newsletter, all I ask is that I be given credit for it. Anyone can sign up by sending a blank email to cynthiasterling-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

Cindi Myers
A Wedding in Paris, Harlequin Anthology, June 12, 2007
Men at Work, Blaze Anthology, July 1, 2007
www.CindiMyers.com

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online poetry zine

libramoon — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 00:35:50 GMT

http://www.strongverse.org/about.html

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publish.com

libramoon — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 21:18:17 GMT

I just found this site, which seems to have quite a lot of useful info.

http://www.published.com/

Published.com has provided free book marketing for authors since 1999. We encourage all authors to make the Published.com Book Directory their first book marketing move for all new or previously published titles. It’s totally free and comes with no strings attached -- it’s our way of supporting independently published writers and artists.

You can upload your book’s cover, blurb, and link to your sales page. The high Google page rank of this directory will help interested readers find your book. And, if you have a website or a blog for your book, a link from Published.com can help improve your site’s search engine ranking.

Plus, we have tons of great resources for authors already published and those seeking to still get published. Learn about everything from how to get your published book into independent bookstores to how to generate a buzz for your published book on Myspace. We even have links to discounted office furniture for writers in all 50 states.

Add Your Book to the Published.com Directory , Learn How To Market Your Book , Market your book to online book clubs.

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New here and i would love some feedback.

comicbreed — Wed, 09 May 2007 18:56:34 GMT

This is a rough draft of the first chapter of a horror ficton short novel titled "Sepia". Please let me know what you think friends. Thanks.

There I was once again, sitting alone in the police station early in the morning. I’m talking three freaking o’clock here. The lights are off listening to the brilliant voice of John Coltraines trumpet thru my little brown eight by eleven radio. Slumped over my desk, Baily awake, staring directly into the computer like some damn zombie trying to bring this missing child home. Maybe if I took sometime and focused on finding a husband or whatever, I wouldn’t be so damn career driven. Then again, men are full of shit and that is the last thing I need in my own shitty life. All right enough with my self loathing here, got to put together the pieces to this recent kid napping of a seventeen-year-old cheerleader. Her name is Brenda Johnson . . . she was a straight A student and lived with her grandmother, very well behaved, looking to attend Howard University after her senior year. This is so sad! I’ve been the best detective in Utopia South Carolina for the past ten years. I have seen a lot of brutal and inhuman things people can do to each other, but anytime a innocent kid is involved I work harder to bring who’s ever behind it to justice. This just kills me inside. Her Grandmother may be already preparing for the funeral- what the hell am I saying here? I’m talking like she’s already dead. I just got this bad feeling inside that she is. When death calls what can you do . . . Ring, Ring, Ring, What kind of a nut would be up this early in the morning. Shit, it’s three thirty. What makes things even more out of place is that someone’s calling my cell phone- my work cell phone at that. I check the caller i.d. and it’s not a number I’m familiar with. These phones were given to me and the other officers in case of an emergency and the only people that would know the number would be my co- officers. Whoever it may be is smart enough at least to call from a phone booth, but I’m still one step ahead and tracked where the call is coming from. By pushing enter on my keyboard immediately the location of this unannounced caller pops up-Larvey Street, one mile away from utopia park. Larvey Street is where all the professionals live like doctors, lawyers and dentists. If this has anything to do with the case, this caller may just have given me some clues where to first ask questions.
“Hello, detective Williams speaking, how may I help you?” I said with one eyebrow raised. A voice shaking as though many earthquakes lied within answers, “Is this detective Williams?” “Yes, how can I help you sir?” I answered back.
This guy takes like sixty seconds in between every sentence to answer a freaking question. It is always best to hold your composure in times like these and keep a cool head and I will remember this next time, but today-
“Enough of the phone chess games okay pal.” I yelled. “Look I’m not going to be asking questions and waiting on your slow ass replies buddy, goodbye!” I continued.
Before I could slam the phone in his face or in this case push the off button on my cellular, he yells, “No, please, it’s about the sixteen-year-old bitch.” Nice to know that all Americans are educated in some fucked up way.
“Tell me where you are and I will come down there and we can talk.” I said. “Do you think I’m crazy detective, I’m not falling for that ok!” he replied. “Look just come down,” I said in my super calm voice trying to get us both where we are communicating with each other instead of yelling.
“A lot of strange things are happening and it all started with this slut.” he said trying to sound like a tough guy and keep a little masculinity in his voice. Yet I can sense he’s scared as hell.
“Since your so reluctant to meet me somewhere, what about giving me your name then, that would be a good start?” I said trying to get as much information out of this guy as possible.
I’ve been on this phone with this guy for at least thirty-minutes now and have gotten no where with this bum!
“I know who’s behind this!”, he yelled. “Now we’re getting somewhere.” I replied. “Can you tell me who is behind this?” I continued. “Those damn voodoo bitches or witches or whatever they call themselves.”, he said.
My eyes just rolled to the back of my head cause I know he’s about to put all the blame on the Azura tribe. Known to be very pro women. . .Well, I’m putting it mildly here, these women despises men. The truth is since I’ve been the lead detective here these women have been nothing, but peaceful and cooperate with the law. I mean, yeah, sure their weird and they practice voodoo and all kinds of crazy things, but they stay to themselves. I’m not saying this because my mother was a member. . . well maybe thats part of it. Regardeless, I feel this guy may be the kidnapper or knows the person that is so I play along to see where this may lead to.
“Damn azura trash!” I yelled! Trying my best to make him believe that I’m on his side.
“Finally we see eye to eye,” he said. What a jackass I thought to myself! “I gotta go.” he said.
“Her body can be located in Utopia Park in the woods.” he said.
Before he could hang up I could hear someone from the back swearing at him. I couldn’t hear that much, but what I did hear just maybe the clue I need to solve this case. That voice was dark and said something about staying at the players pen. Thats all I could hear and then he hung up. He was shaken up before, but even more so since that guy started cursing at him. What a call! Well, she’s dead! I’m not surprised what so ever. The two pictures I have of little Brenda I got from her files plays in my head like a slide show. All I can see is this innocent child in her Utopia bulldogs cheerleader uniform with her palm palms. I can’t began to imagine the pain her grandmother will feel once she gets a hold of the news. May god help us all.

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Jacket Blurb

water_muse — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 01:06:58 GMT

Hi all,

I know, I'm new here. :) I'm in the process of smoothing over any oversights and rough spots in a book I've written and am interested in some feedback on my second attempt at a potential jacket blurb... I need something that will have wide appeal obviously, but that will help me to sound like I'm not an extremist without sounding like an apologist per se... :)

Any thoughts on this greatly appreciated :)

====================
Ike's Wager
====================

A strange remedy…
Bob tells a friend that the pills his doctor prescribed for stomach pain aren’t working. The friend says he thinks the doctor misdiagnosed the pain and all he needs to do is tape a penny to his chest and that copper from the penny will absorb into his skin and cure his stomach pain. In spite of how silly it sounds to him Bob stops taking the pills and tries the penny. Oddly enough his stomach pain subsides. Several months later, Bob sees his doctor again about stomach pain. Remembering his friend’s advice Bob asks the doctor about the penny. The doctor insists that there’s no scientific evidence that it could affect his stomach and that he shouldn’t use the penny because it might give him a rash instead. Bob tries his doctor’s new prescription with no luck. After a few days he decides to try the penny again in spite of his doctor’s advice and his stomach pain subsides. Bob tells his friend how the doctor said it couldn’t possibly affect his stomach. The friend replies, “I know. I actually don’t know how it works. I only know that it works. People insist on knowing why it works, so that’s what I tell them.” Bob is aghast! How he could possibly use a remedy without knowing how it works? His friend replies, “when you learned to drive, did you insist on knowing how the engine of your car works, or did you just turn the key in the ignition?”

The hubbub over humbug…
There’s been a lot of hubbub recently over resurgence in the popularity of New Thought philosophies, New Age beliefs, Synchronicity and just plain positive thinking. An awful lot of folks seem to think they need to be staunchly rooted in the New Age camp or in the camp of determinist skepticism. There are other alternatives… The goal of determinists and spiritualists alike is happy, healthy, productive living. The mechanic and the soccer mom have very different ideas about internal combustion, yet they drive the same car and arrive at the same destination safely. A person may benefit from their choices without knowing why they benefit or even that they benefit. If a motorist believes petroleum-drinking hamsters power their car, they’ll arrive at the destination just the same.

An Experimental Solution
Ike’s wager suggests one way in which the impasse between determinism and consciousness may be bridged. With a focus on traditional, non-quantum scientific research into fields of medicine, economics, evolution, neurobiology, behavior and psychology and a liberal dose of humor Ike’s Wager makes a strong case in plain language that an individual’s best bet for health and prosperity may lie in choosing seven specific non-determinist beliefs and that everyone around them may also benefit, even if determinism is true. This book seeks to create a compatibility of interest by suggesting that determinists may be absolutely right and still objectively benefit from choosing an alternative belief. While it’s important that we acknowledge an inconvenient truth, this book reminds us that there can also be a useful illusion.

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The long lost secret of the Incas

Josh — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 16:10:46 GMT

In his book "Bambi vs. Godzilla: On the Nature, Purpose, and Practice of the Movie Business," playwright and movie director David Mamet offers the following three questions as "the long lost secret of the Incas."

1) Who wants what from whom?
2) What happens if they don't get it?
3) Why now?

For every successful scene, a writer must know the answer to these three questions (and convey it to the audience.)

Submitted for your approval...

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New tribe,,,Famous Quotes and short stories

The Passenger — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 02:56:29 GMT

Famous Quotes and short stories tribe
http://tribes.tribe.net/8644c865-e362-4b4d-917e-a8ca42c4fd9d#

BIRDMAN - tribe.net:

http://tribes.tribe.net/25a1f4a7-b777-4adf-8c62-1f418aaf0d64?current=tribeallposts&set=y#tabs

Subliminal Messages and Propaganda - tribe.net:
http://tribes.tribe.net/e388baea-51eb-417f-9390-06fe37f92e41

PROPHETS and VISSIONARIES... WE ARE... - tribe.net:
http://tribes.tribe.net/bac54dd7-c43a-45c5-a716-6d241843a31f

The Prophecy of Magog - tribe.net:
http://tribes.tribe.net/d64e82b0-72ef-4c72-b5e7-299383c1d4e0

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Enchanting Romance, EV8, has emerged

libramoon — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 01:10:20 GMT

Blissfully mingle into

Enchanting Romance

Emerging Visions, visionary art ezine, Issue #8

http://emergingvisions.blogspot.com

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Where do you write??

Neeraj — Fri, 11 May 2007 18:27:51 GMT

Hi,

Some of you might be interested in a new site I was involved in setting up

www.portrayl.com

It's basically a writing site where writers can post and showcase their works with a cool little twist: other people can add onto the stories creating new stories going in a different direction.

The site is completely for writers (I do try my best, and have also posted some chapters on the site as nshah, but I'm no writer), so if you have and suggestions for the site or if there is anything you would like to see on the site, please reply to this post or let us know directly. It's for you, so you should be able to enjoy using it.

Thanks for reading everyone and come write at Portrayl
Neeraj

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Anyone in Alameda, CA?

Sat, 26 May 2007 17:42:13 GMT

Anyone in Alameda, CA that wants to get together for a writing support group? Maybe you're already aware of the existence of such a group that could use another writer to join their group?

Thanks.

A.

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ShOrT pOeMS. . .

comicbreed — Sun, 13 May 2007 17:58:00 GMT

"ThE WaLkINg TrAdEgy"

aLoNe yEt SuRroUnDed...
sO mAny sMiles, yEt sO mUch hAte. .

sUch a viBrAnt aNd briGht sUn...
yEt sO mUch daRknEss aNd bitteRnesS

A furTure sUrelY tO eNd iN teArs aNd trAGedy,
bUt neVer tHe lEss mY hEaD iS heLd hiGh. . .

aS i prePare mY sElf fOr tHe dAy...
i wIll dAncE wiTh tHe deVil.

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Social Sampler - a new social networking event

scott — Fri, 11 May 2007 08:47:11 GMT

Social Sampler
meet other potential writers, have interesting conversations. Conversation tables for writers.

http://www.SocialSampler.com

Try something new... Meet someone new...
28 activities 7 rooms 6 hours 300 chairs 10,000 square feet
6 pm to 12 midnight Saturday May 26
$12 general - $6 Students with ID
each Fourth Saturday of the Month
Oakland Veterans Hall
200 Grand Avenue, Oakland CA 94610
info Scott (650) 326-6265
scottFNW@pway.com
Light refreshments. Large parking lot. Casual comfortable attire. All ages.
Average age 30. Average attendance 150 - 250.
A non alcohol event. Join, watch, or wander activities. several helpful hosts

CONVERSATION TABLES: Movies, Books, Relationships, Culture, Tech, Dining, Humor, Random Chat, Artists, Networking, Writers, Harry Potter, Pets, Weather, Vacations; DANCING: Waltz, Swing, Latin SOCIAL : Board games, Card games, Social games, Sing alongs, Script Read alouds, Costumers club, Toys, Food sampler

Conversation Tables
Each Conversation table has a different theme such as Movies, Books, Relationships, Culture, Tech, Dining, Humor, Random Chat, Artists, Networking, Writers, Harry Potter, Pets, Weather, and Vacations.

Each table has a deck of cards with a different topic on each card. Each card is turned over one at a time. People talk about the topic as they wish until everyone who wants to talk is finished. Then the next card is turned over. For example, for the Movie Table, topic cards include “Your favorite movie?” “Your favorite actor?” “Your worst movie experience?” “Your favorite theatre” “Your favorite movie snack?”. Similar topic cards decks are set on each conversation table. You may participate or just listen. You may join or leave any table at any time. There is a host at each table to answer questions.
Movies Table May 26 -a table each for Spiderman III, Shrek III, Pan's Labyrinth, movies in general.
Books Table Recent book discussion, writing, literature, business of authorship
Relationships Table Romance and Relationships discussion
Culture Table Symphony-dance-opera-ballet-theatre
Technology Table Technology, computers and science fiction
Dining Table cooking, fine dining, restaurant, food, cooking experiences
Humor Table Read Jokes, write cartoon captions
Random Chat Table There are 100 cards: "What was the oddest thing you have ever seen?""What is your worst hair day?" “What was your worst job experience?" "Most embarassing moment?"
Artists Exchange Table Exchange techniques, shows, art
Networking Table Business Networking: startups, marketing strategy, IPO, financing
The Writers Exchange Table mutual help for new writers and authors
Harry Potter Table movies, books and trivia
Pets Table cute pet stories, pet health
Vacations Table favorite vacations, budget vacations, dream vacations
Weather stories Table Everyone has interesting stories about weather. Blizzards, hurricanes, earthquakes, hail

Dancing
Waltz Dancing Dj music for Waltz, Polka, Congress of Vienna, Bohemian National Polka
Swing Dancing Dj music for Lindy, East Coast Swing, West Coast Swing, Shag, Balboa, Blues dances
Latin Dancing Dj music for Salsa, cha cha, samba, mambo, bachata, cumbia dances

Games Room
Social games including charades, acronamatic, the question game, story time, WHAT IF? There are social board games in the room: pick up a social board game, select a table, and invite other to play with you. You may leave any game at any time. All games stop after 30 minutes so that everyone can try other games.

Board games including cranium, outburst, monopoly, Pictionary. There are social board games in the room: pick up a board game, select a table, and invite other to play with you. You may leave any game at any time. All games stop after 30 minutes so that everyone can try other games

Card games including Hearts, Holmes Card Game, Magic: Mamma Mia, other. There are many decks of cards and many specialty card decks. Pick out a game, select a table, invite others to join. You may leave any game at any time. All games stop after 30 minutes so that everyone can try other games.

Social Rooms

Toys
Legos, Tinker Toys, K’nex, Erector sets, modeling clay, group jigsaw puzzles, crossword puzzle. You are welcome to play with the toys and invite others to join you.

Script read-alouds
reading aloud scripts from TV, plays, movies, such as the Simpsons, Seinfeld, Friends, Mash, All in the Family, Hamlet, Shakespeare in Love,Buffy, Coupling, American Beauty. There are many scripts on the table. Pick one that you would like to read aloud. Select a table, invite others to join in. Everyone selects a character, and start reading aloud.

Food Sampler There is a different food sampler each Social Sampler. Some food sampler themes are ice creams, chocolates, coffees, potato chips, cookies. Odd Ice Creams with be sampled for May 26: Avacado, Buko (Baby Coconut), Ginger, Green Tea, Halo Halo (Buko, Langka, Ube, Pineapple, Mongo &Sweet Beans), Langka (also known as Jackfruit, a relative of the Fig), Lychee, Mango, Thai Tea, Sweet Coconut, and Ube (purple Yam).

Costumers Club activities include swap or sell fabric, clothing, or costumes' sewing circle talk; or meet potential new clients about new costumes, tuxes, or gowns; or finish a costume in a 'stitch and bitch' session. This is a group for costumers and seamstresses who make costumes, gowns, wedding dresses, and clothing for such events as Renaissance Faire, Dickens Faire, Science Fiction costume masquerade balls, Halloween balls and events, Sea of Dreams NYE, Anon Salon events, Costume cons, Belly Dancers outfits, Greater Bay Area Costume Group events, Art Deco's Gatsby picnic, Newport Week, San Francisco Waltzing Society, Friday Night Waltz New Year's Eve formal Waltz Balls, Peers and Gaskells formal balls.

Sing alongs
Sea Shanteys are songs traditionally sung by sailors to accompany and set the rhythm for certain kinds of heavy, repetitive work on board ship—raising and trimming the sails, raising the anchor, and working the pumps.

Musicals are the songs from musical plays and movies, such as Sound of Music, Grease, Singing in the Rain, Brigadoon, Hair, My Fair Lady, Oklahoma, Guys and Dolls.

Folk songs are just that: traditional folk songs

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My Writing

Gem — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 03:11:41 GMT

I'm Gem and I write fantasy fiction generally containing lesbian or gay references. I currently have a book (Preaching to Angels) and a serial (Waltzing with Demons) up on http://www.wildshorepress.com. Preaching to Angels is about four high school students who experiment with their own sexuality while dealing with graduation, past experiences, oppressive parents and eventually a murder. Waltzing with Demons -almost a sequel but not quite- follows a young (heterosexual) woman as she goes on a journey to find herself and collect stories. On this journey she encounters the world of the supernatural, dragging a ghost and a werewolf along with her.

Wild Shore Press is looking for new authors all the time, so some of you might want to check out their website.

HEARTS

Gem

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New tribe!

♀BorkBork — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 11:16:16 GMT

http://tribes.tribe.net/revolutionizedversion1

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weather vane

libramoon — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 05:16:06 GMT

Wintry White lace
dribbling through my mindspace
etching out photographs
unknown to my sight
one simple demand
worrying my grand plan
how to follow laugh lines
in flight out of fright
Juries listen closely
to tales out of turn
spun so very grossly
it's very hard to learn
what is True
What to do?
Singing of silence
doesn't stop the violence
dancing 'neath the Moon
never keeps out harm
transfixed in wonder
still we may blunder
but caught up in the tune
in the moment in the form
what seemed so important
dissipates into rain
into storm.

(c) March 25, 2007 Laurie Corzett/libramoon

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Generation Piece Competing

Greg Clear — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 05:29:24 GMT

If you read the first chapter of my manuscript and join gather.com to vote on this Burning Man Inspired Manuscript it just may make it to the next round.

www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp

The winner gets published. Let's change the world, anyone, anyone? This is my first shot.

Thank You,

Clear

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