Arizona and Americans in Iran

FROM www.freethehikers.org

I urgently call on the Islamic Republic of Iran to release Shane Bauer, Josh Fattal and Sarah Shourd on humanitarian grounds. Nine months after these three young people were detained, there is a pressing need for Iran finally to release them into the care of their loving and anguished families.

Since I last spoke on behalf of Shane, Josh and Sarah in February, their emotional state has deteriorated significantly. They are suffering from desperation and hopelessness and have considered the extreme step of a hunger strike. This would have grave consequences for their health, in particular for Shane and Sarah, who are both sick.

A nation of Iran’s stature should not act in a cruel and inhumane manner, or punish innocent individuals for the disagreements that exist with the United States. Shane, Josh and Sarah have done no wrong. Iran should act in accordance with the universal principles of justice, compassion and humanity and set them free.

~Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, is the former head of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa.

Everybody seems to be vastly concerned about future racial profiling in the state of Arizona and nobody seems to care about three young Americans held captive in Iran.

I'm not sure the Governor of Arizona didn't create the law so as to bring about national dialogue regarding illegal immigration. She can't possibly believe it will hold up in the courts....so therefore I'm thinking she is just trying to bring the issue to the forefront.

The issue has so many angles and so many layers that it's almost impossible to two people to agree on the matter.

To be totally honest, I can't see a viable solution other than forcing illegals to become American citizens....which would create another set of problems for people who hire them to do the work that apparently Americans refuse to do. Once they become citizens then they wouldn't do the work because Americans don't do that kind of work.

CATCH 22 and the circle of life......

I can see pushing Iran to release the three ex Berkeley students through sanctions and possible boycotts of anything and everything they do........

Besides oil what does Iran manufacture?

In Southern California we have approximately two million illegal aliens from Mexico. Maybe we could trade a few of them for the hikers. Does Iran need some cheap labor or do they have plenty of that commodity already?

WHY DOESN'T THE AMERICAN PUBLIC MAKE A BIGGER ISSUE OF THE THREE HIKERS?

WHY HASN'T BILL CLINTON MADE A PUBLIC STATEMENT ABOUT THEIR RELEASE?

WHY IS POSSIBLE RACIAL PROFILING SUDDENLY A BIG DEAL WHEN IT HAS BEEN A CONSISTENT DILEMMA FOR MANY YEARS?

IF I'm a person who works in Law Enforcement or Homeland Security I would be looking at the people who look somewhat like the people who are hell bent on causing huge problems.....and if you say you wouldn't then I'm saying you are full of sh.t!

IF I'm a cop in South Los Angeles most of my day is probably spent checking out people who look like gangbangers. Is that racial profiling or is it just a method of making sure you don't die on the job?

IF THE DRUG CARTEL MURDERERS OF MEXICO SPILL INTO ARIZONA AND AMERICAN CITIZENS START DYING LIKE IN JUAREZ, THEN THE SOUND OF PROTEST WOULD GO BEYOND OUR WILDEST EXPECTATIONS.

IF THOSE THREE HIKERS DIED IN AN IRANIAN JAIL....PEOPLE WOULD RISE UP AND START SCREAMING FOR RETALIATION.

I'm simply suggesting that the screaming should start before someone dies.....and maybe that's what the Governor is trying to do in Arizona.

Like I said before......she must know that the law will not hold up in the courts so what's her real deal?

I wish the hikers had gone to ASU instead of Berkeley. They would have had a pretty ballsy Gov on their side.......Arnold doesn't seem to give a rats ass about them.

I think this might be an issue Jerry Brown can jump on.

Nice way to launch his campaign.

I think I'll contact his office today and make the suggestion.....and maybe you could take a minute and do the same.

FREE THE HIKERS Mr. Moonbeam!

Michael Timothy McAlevey

Sean and the hikers

SEAN and THE HIKERS’ STORY:

I have a very good feeling that if Sean were physically here to celebrate his 32ND Birthday that he would be extremely interested in trying to make sure The Three Hikers in Iran were released immediately.

What's really strange about this story is that the families have put together a website and they have asked for donations and they have asked for people to sign a petition.

I don't know how the donations are going but only 11,000 plus have signed the petition.

HOW IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE WHEN 2 MILLION PEOPLE FOLLOW MILEY CYRUS ON TWEETER?

HOW IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE WHEN 21 MILLION PEOPLE WATCH AMERICAN IDOL?

THOSE THREE PEOPLE HAVE BEEN HELD CAPTIVE FOR TEN MONTHS AND ONLY 11,000 PEOPLE HAVE SIGNED THE PETITION FOR THEIR RELEASE!!!!!!!!!

I HOPE PRESIDENT OBAMA AND HIS FAMILY ARE HAVING A NICE VACATION IN NORTH CAROLINA THIS WEEKEND WHILE THOSE THREE YOUNG ADULTS ARE BEING HELD CAPTIVE BY A COUNTRY THAT WE DON'T SEEM TO LIKE AND WHO FOR SURE, DOES NOT LIKE US.

Simply imagine for one minute that Sean Maxilmilian McAlevey was being held captive in Iran because he was on an adventure of a lifetime with two of his friends.

Would you sign a petition for his release?

Let's also imagine for a second that the three hikers are spys. Even if they were, and they apparently are not, then we should have traded for them by now. We must have some questionable Iranian detainees in some American facility.

Let's consider that Sean was working for the CIA and he was being held captive in Iran.

Would you sign a petition for his release?

I think I can safely say that yes you would sign a petition. So in this case I'm asking you to read the following information on the hikers and regard them as personal friends and sign the petition, and tell everyone you know to sign the petition. And then write an e-mail to your Congressman and your State Senator and the President of the United States.

I THINK IT WOULD BE A GREAT BIRTHDAY PRESENT FOR SEAN

http://freethehikers.org/

FROM THEIR WEBSITE

Shane Bauer, Sarah Shourd and Josh Fattal have been detained in Iran since July 31, 2009, when news reports say they accidentally crossed an unmarked border during a hiking trip in the mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan. They were in a peaceful region of Iraq that is increasingly popular with Western tourists.

The three young Americans, all graduates of the University of California at Berkeley, are being held in Evin Prison in Tehran. No charge against them has been presented in a court of law and they have only be able to contact their families once.

Shane, Josh and Sarah care greatly about the world in which we live. They admire and respect different cultures and religions and share a love of travel that has taken them to many countries. That is why they went to Kurdistan, not because they wanted to enter Iran.

We hope the Iranian authorities understand that if Shane, Sarah and Josh were in Iranian territory there is just one reason: because they made a regrettable mistake and got lost. Please let them return home as soon as possible.

yeah......like now!

Happy Birthday Sean.

MIchael Timothy McAlevey

BIGGER THINGS TO LOOK AT AFTER EARTH DAY

http://www.hubblesite.org/

TODAY IS REAL EARTH DAY

Earth Day

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ron Cobb's 1969 Ecology Symbol

Earth Day is a day designed to inspire awareness and appreciation for the Earth's environment. It was founded by U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson as an environmental teach-in held on April 22, 1970.^[1]Earth Day is celebrated in spring in the Northern Hemisphere and autumn in the Southern Hemisphere. Earth Day Network, a group that wishes to become the coordinator of Earth Day globally, asserts that Earth Day is now observed on April 22 on virtually every country on Earth.^[2]World Environment Day, celebrated on June 5 in a different nation every year, is the principal United Nations environmental observance.^[3] Many communities also celebrate Earth Week, an entire week of environment-related activities.

Contents [hide] 1 The first Earth Day 1.1 Earth Day 1970 in New York City 1.2 Earth Day 1970 in Philadelphia 1.3 Earth Day 20 and Earth Day 1990 1.4 The Earth Day Name 1.5 Subsequent Earth Day Events 2 Earth Day Network 3 Earth Day Canada 4 History of the Equinox Earth Day 5 22 April observances 5.1 Growing eco-activism before Earth Day 1970 5.2 Earth Day 1970 5.3 Results of Earth Day 1970 5.4 Significance of 22 April 5.5 Earth Day ecology flag 5.6 Criticism 5.7 Earth Day 2010 6 See also 7 References 8 External links

The first Earth Day

U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin announced his idea for a nationwide teach-in day on the environment in a speech to a fledgling conservation group in Seattle on 20 September 1969, and then again six days later in Atlantic City to a meeting of the United Auto Workers. Senator Nelson hoped that a grassroots outcry about environmental issues might prove to Washington, D.C. just how distressed Americans were in every constituency. Senator Nelson invited Republican Representative Paul N “Pete” McCloskey to serve as his co-chair and they incorporated a new non-profit organization, environmental Teach-In, Inc., to stimulate participation across the country. Both continued to give speeches plugging the event.^[4][5][6]

On September 29, 1969, in a front-page New York Times article, Gladwin Hill wrote:

"Rising concern about the "environmental crisis" is sweeping the nation's campuses with an intensity that may be on its way to eclipsing student discontent over the war in Vietnam...a national day of observance of environmental problems, analogous to the mass demonstrations on Vietnam, is being planned for next spring, when a nationwide environmental 'teach-in'...coordinated from the office of Senator Gaylord Nelson is planned...”^[7][8] Denis Hayes, a Harvard graduate student, read the NYT article and traveled to Washington to get involved.^[9] He had been student body president and a campus activist at Stanford University in McCloskey’s district and where Teach-In board member Paul Ehrlich was a professor. He thought he might be asked to organize Boston. Instead, Nelson eventually asked Hayes to drop out of Harvard, assemble a staff, and direct the effort to organize the United States.^[10][11] Hayes would go on to become a widely recognized environmental advocate.

Nelson's suggestion was difficult to implement, as the Earth Day movement proved to be autonomous with no central governing body.^[1] As Senator Nelson attests, it simply grew on its own:

Earth Day worked because of the spontaneous response at the grassroots level. We had neither the time nor resources to organize 20 million demonstrators and the thousands of schools and local communities that participated. That was the remarkable thing about Earth Day. It organized itself.^[1]

On April 22 1970, Earth Day marked the beginning of the modern environmental movement. Approximately 20 million Americans participated. Thousands of colleges and universities organized protests against the deterioration of the environment. Groups that had been fighting against oil spills, polluting factories and power plants, raw sewage, toxic dumps, pesticides, Freeway and expressway revolts, the loss of wilderness, and the extinction of wildlife suddenly realized they shared common values.

Media coverage of the first Earth Day included a One-Hour Prime-time CBS News Special Report called "Earth Day: A Question of Survival," with correspondents reporting from a dozen major cities across the country, and narrated by Walter Cronkite (whose backdrop was the Earth Week Committee of Philadelphia's logo).^[12] The largest segment of the special report (20 minutes of the 60-minute program) focused on Earth Day in Philadelphia.

Earth Day 1970

Seriously want to upset Grandma

If you are looking for a way to blow your Grandma's mind then I highly suggest you pack her in the Prius and get to the local multi-plex and have her watch....KICK-ASS.

The problem will be that you might be laughing too hard to worry about grandma's reaction.

I will be amazed if this movie doesn't attract every 18-29 year old in America. And last time I checked, isn't that the special demographic that everybody shoots for....when creating content for film and television?

I think my dad wants to see it.......and at 90, he's a wee bit out of the special demographic. The review in the paper got him interested enough to mention the movie to me. I went to see it based on his review report, and now I'm passing it along.

The movie is fast paced and well written. The young girl, Chloe Grace Moretz, obviously steals the film and will forever be known as the first 11 year old girl to say MOTHERF--KER in a major motion picture. The cool thing about the MF moment is that no other expression would have worked.

Sometimes certain words have a life of their own and thank god society has changed enough that many people watching the movie, including me, laugh their ass's off. On the other hand I don't know your Grandma but there's a good chance she might smack you for taking her.

Then again there are some pretty amazing Grandma's out there and there's a good chance she might want to watch it a second time.

I'm pretty sure I'm going to see it again....and I can't even say that about Avatar.

Michael Timothy McAlevey

MP3 short clip, hi-fi play (broadband)

MP3 short clip, hi-fi play (broadband)

PLAY THIS AND READ EARTH WEEK

EARTH WEEK

THERE'S A SOUL IN THE LIFE OF THE LAND WHERE WE LIVE
IT'S CLEAR
IT'S CLEAN
IT'S FRESH
AND IT'S OURS

IT DOESN'T CARE WHERE WE'VE COME FROM
IT DOESN'T ASK WHO ARE
JUST DO WE LOVE
WHERE WE STAND
AT THIS TIME

WE CAN DRINK ALL IT'S WATER
AND MINE ALL IT'S COAL
BUT WHEN WE MIX THE TWO TOGETHER
IT TROUBLES HER SOUL

WE CAN TEST ALL THE BOMBS
AND DESTROY EVERY LAST TREE
AND THE ONLY THING IT REALLY DOES
IS ELIMINATE YOU AND ME

THE HARM THAT WE BRING
DOESN'T BOTHER THE LAND
WE ONLY HURT OURSELVES
BY FAILING TO UNDERSTAND

THAT THERE'S A SOUL IN THE LIFE OF THE LAND WHERE WE LIVE
IT'S CLEAR
IT'S CLEAN
IT'S FRESH
AND IT'S OURS

IT DOESN'T CARE WHERE WE'VE COME FROM
IT DOESN'T ASK WHO WE ARE
JUST DO WE LOVE
WHERE WE STAND
AT THIS TIME

WE ARE GIVEN ALL THE TREASURES
THAT ANYONE CAN USE
BUT IF WE DON'T HAVE A VISION
THEN ALL WE DO IS LOSE

WE DUMP OUR PROBLEMS
IN EVERY OCEAN, RIVER AND STREAM
WE LIVE BY A CODE OF CONSUMPTION
THAT POLLUTES AND DARKENS EVERY DREAM

WE THINK THAT OIL IS OUR GOLD
BECAUSE IT MOVES MACHINES AND MAN
AND ALL IT REALLY DOES
IS REMOVE THE SPRINGS OF LAND

WE NEED THAT SPECIAL CRUDE
BECAUSE WE'VE IGNORED OTHER WAYS
AND WE END UP SIMPLY
COUGHING THROUGH A HAZE

OUR CHILDREN'S CHILDREN
WILL REALLY PAY THE PRICE
AND JUST THAT THOUGHT ALONE
DOESN'T MAKE US VERY NICE

WE THOUGHT WE CONTROLLED THE EARTH
BY DOMINATING THE LAND
AND IT SIMPLY COMES DOWN TO ONE THING
THAT WE JUST DIDN'T UNDERSTAND

THAT THERE'S A SOUL IN THE LIFE OF THE LAND WHERE WE LIVE
IT'S CLEAR
IT'S CLEAN
IT'S FRESH
AND IT'S OURS

IT DOESN'T CARE WHERE WE'VE COME FROM
IT DOESN'T ASK WHO WE ARE
JUST DO WE LOVE
WHERE WE STAND
AT THIS TIME

Eyjafjallajokull

The third picture is ???????????

The Volcano Eyjafjallajokull has a very ugly face.

The bottom picture looks like a Maxfield Parrish painting.

Part Two must wait awhile

As I reshaped the experiences from my memories regarding the LOVERS FROM BEYOND THE STARS story....I realized that I couldn't finish the piece for various reasons.

I fully accept that I am taking the chicken route but the experience had too many layers and too many players and too many questions left unanswered.

I'm not sure I can fully explain it.

I think I need to tape record my memories and then edit so that the moments make some type of sense. I usually use this format for developing my thoughts but this issue needs more "texture."

By texture I mean development, construction and other elements that make a story take shape.

In the meantime you should read about HAARP

http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/haarp/index.html

And then you should learn more about

Nikola Tesla.

We (earthlings) have plenty of our own experiences

and experiments

that need explaining.

Michael Timothy McAlevey

The ramifications of visitors

Last week I revealed my Bee experience from 1972.....I guess it's time to discuss another odd occurrence in my life.

It turns out to be an oddity that has been experienced by many people....or claimed to have been experienced by many people.

The experience I'm referring to is an encounter with beings from another planet.

I FEEL THE ROOM EMPTYING PRETTY QUICKLY

An encounter does not have to be a physical thing although many people swear that they have had actual physical encounters....ranging from abductions to various travel experiences.

My experience was much more subtle....with enough doubt to actually make me wonder if it really happened. I don't talk about it very much so the doubt was obviously strong enough to keep me silent.

I now know someone personally who claims to have had a physical encounter with "something" not from this planet.

I used to think that IF beings were from another planet, that planet had to be located in another galaxy, but since there are billions of suns in our galaxy then in reality they are most likely from the Milky Way Galaxy.

It's a time situation. Traveling here from another galaxy just seems unreal.

Traveling here from within our Galaxy does not seem that unreal.

At this point in time it's important to imagine a species that is at least a million years older than our species. A million years further into scientific knowledge.

A million years!

Since there are people who believe that the universe was created 10,000 years ago, I suspect that further reading of this issue, by those people, would be unlikely.

If you are one of those other people who believe that the Big Bang took place around 14 billion years ago then you can understand that some species from another place, could be 1 million more years into scientific knowledge than the human race.

Now simply imagine that a species is 25 million years further down the food chain of evolution.

25 million years is still a long long way from 14 billion.

IN 14 BILLION YEARS THE AMOUNT OF ACTIVITY IN THE UNIVERSE WOULD SIMPLY BE IMPOSSIBLE FOR OUR MINDS TO COMPREHEND......UNLESS UNIVERSAL DNA EXISTS IN EACH AND EVERY BEING THAT HAS EVER EXISTED.

If I was the Creator of the Universe I might have decided to insert something like that in every living being that would ever be created...so that a small understanding could be present if one had an inclination to be TRULY interested in the BIG PICTURE.

Of course I'm not the Creator of the Universe but this freaking little piece of DNA got in here somehow and I'm just trying to give credit where credit is due.

IT'S A VERY LARGE UNIVERSE AND IT IS STILL EXPANDING SO THEREFORE ANYTHING THAT HAPPENS

CANNOT

BE

WRITTEN OFF AS

IMPOSSIBLE

I have a very good friend, who is extremely smart, tell me yesterday that being a scientist he knows what is possible and what is impossible....and he claims it's impossible for a species to have traveled to earth from another planet.

IMPOSSIBLE!

"SOMETIMES THE SOUL OF AN ARTIST CAN KNOW FOR SURE WHAT THE MIND OF A SCIENTIST WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND."

I LOVE IT WHEN I CAN INTERJECT A NEO-ILLUMINATION.

My friend also said that if another species existed.... then we would be like the little ants in my kitchen that I squash without the slightest concern.

I REALLY ADMIRE MY SCIENTIFIC MINDED FRIEND BUT I HAVE A SLIGHTLY HIGHER REGARD FOR THE HUMAN RACE.

I ACTUALLY THINK WE WOULD BE A FUN RACE TO FUCK WITH.

Not so much 25,000 years ago, but in 2010 we seem to have developed quite a few abilities for play in a much larger arena of the universe.

WE ARE DOING SOME AMAZING THINGS IN TECHNOLOGY, SCIENCE, MEDICINE, MATHEMATICS, ART AND MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL.

HAVE YOU BEEN TO A NEW BASEBALL STADIUM YET? THEY ARE WONDERFUL PLACES FOR GATHERING....AND IF WE CAN CONVERT THEM TO TRAVELING MACHINES THEN IT WILL ALL COME TOGETHER IN ONE LARGE MOMENT.

I guess I've gotten off point but I need you to expand your horizons before I lay the next part of this story on your awareness meter....or imagination quota.

I have no idea of your limits but I'm pretty sure I will test the edges with the rest of this story.

END OF PART ONE

TOMORROW

LOVERS FROM BEYOND THE STARS

(Spend a little time tonight opening up portions of your mind to what might be possible

to have occurred.........in 14 billion years)

Michael Timothy McAlevey