In the expanse of the Australian outdoor festival culture, Winter Solstice Lifestyle Gathering holds a special place in the hearts and minds of punters from not only Cairns, but from around the country and indeed the globe as well. The annual event, in its fourth year in 2009, was one of the region’s biggest and most creative festivals, attracting well over a hundred acts, performers, healers and artists over four days and three nights in the rugged beauty of the Atherton Tablelands.

The thing about Winter Solstice is that it’s much more than a Far North Queensland event, instead being one of Australia’s premier alternative life style festivals with a strong focus on entertainment for all the ages and a holistic festival experience. Thousands of punters have been known to travel from interstate and overseas just to attend, proving it’s not only one of the region’s top music and arts events, but a global tourism drawcard as well.
With a broad range of musical styles – from electronic music to live bands and solo acts – as well as roving performers, fire shows, healing areas, sustainability exhibitions and market stalls, Winter Solstice definitely deserves its spot as the winner of the Best Festival in the timeOUT Awards 2009.

Written by Jesse Kuch - Editor - TimeOut - Cairns Post….

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Dear friends,

Wow. Yesterday, the media was calling the crucial Copenhagen climate summit dead on arrival.

But 24 hours later, after millions of petition signatures, hundreds of thousands of phone calls, and a massive outcry across the planet, a deal could be back on!

Leaders are frantically doing in hours what they’ve failed to do for years, but we’re still far from a pact that will stop catastrophic global warming of 2 degrees — and the talks could still collapse. We know our pressure is working, let’s use these crucial final hours to ramp it up, and get a real deal, not a dressed-up weak agreement. Sign the staggering 13 million person petition below if you haven’t yet, and forward this email to everyone:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/save_copenhagen

The petition has become the centre of the global revolt against failure in Copenhagen. The names of petition signers are being read out by young people who have taken over spaces in the Copenhagen summit and in governments round the world, including the US State Department and the Canadian Prime Minister’s office.

Amazingly, leaders themselves are appealing to the public for action. UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown made an impassioned appeal to 3000 Avaaz members on a global conference call on Wednesday, calling for an historic 48 hour internet based campaign from citizens around the world, calling our impact crucial. Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu also appealed to the world at one of 3000 vigils organized by our movement, proclaiming “We marched in South Africa and apartheid fell, we marched in Berlin and the wall fell, we marched on Copenhagen and we WILL get a real deal”.

History is being made in Copenhagen, but so far, it’s not being made by leaders, but by us, millions of people round the world who are directly engaging, hour by hour, like never before, in the fight to save our planet. The pressure is working, let’s ramp it up.

http://www.avaaz.org/en/save_copenhagen

With hope and determination,

Ricken, Alice, Iain, Ben, Paul, Luis, Graziela, Benjamin, Pascal, Veronique, Paula and the whole Avaaz team.

Yep - the boss, his missuss and his dog have finally come home to WA!!!
Things can only blossum from here! A bigger pond for the label to play in! And a city that loves its dub, dubstep and dnb!! Plus a whole lot more music goodness..the city is PERTH.

LRRecords studio will be based in Rockingham but our presence will be felt city-wide and our releases will continue to be global! Check the contact_us page for our updated contact details…

Looking forward to dubbing in Perth…

Hey kids… this was too interesting not to post…

Davos, Switzerland
February 8, 1996

Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.

We have no elected government, nor are we likely to have one, so I address you with no greater authority than that with which liberty itself always speaks. I declare the global social space we are building to be naturally independent of the tyrannies you seek to impose on us. You have no moral right to rule us nor do you possess any methods of enforcement we have true reason to fear.

Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. You have neither solicited nor received ours. We did not invite you. You do not know us, nor do you know our world. Cyberspace does not lie within your borders. Do not think that you can build it, as though it were a public construction project. You cannot. It is an act of nature and it grows itself through our collective actions.

You have not engaged in our great and gathering conversation, nor did you create the wealth of our marketplaces. You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.

You claim there are problems among us that you need to solve. You use this claim as an excuse to invade our precincts. Many of these problems don’t exist. Where there are real conflicts, where there are wrongs, we will identify them and address them by our means. We are forming our own Social Contract . This governance will arise according to the conditions of our world, not yours. Our world is different.

Cyberspace consists of transactions, relationships, and thought itself, arrayed like a standing wave in the web of our communications. Ours is a world that is both everywhere and nowhere, but it is not where bodies live.

We are creating a world that all may enter without privilege or prejudice accorded by race, economic power, military force, or station of birth.

We are creating a world where anyone, anywhere may express his or her beliefs, no matter how singular, without fear of being coerced into silence or conformity.

Your legal concepts of property, expression, identity, movement, and context do not apply to us. They are based on matter, There is no matter here.

Our identities have no bodies, so, unlike you, we cannot obtain order by physical coercion. We believe that from ethics, enlightened self-interest, and the commonweal, our governance will emerge . Our identities may be distributed across many of your jurisdictions. The only law that all our constituent cultures would generally recognize is the Golden Rule. We hope we will be able to build our particular solutions on that basis. But we cannot accept the solutions you are attempting to impose.

In the United States, you have today created a law, the Telecommunications Reform Act, which repudiates your own Constitution and insults the dreams of Jefferson, Washington, Mill, Madison, DeToqueville, and Brandeis. These dreams must now be born anew in us.

You are terrified of your own children, since they are natives in a world where you will always be immigrants. Because you fear them, you entrust your bureaucracies with the parental responsibilities you are too cowardly to confront yourselves. In our world, all the sentiments and expressions of humanity, from the debasing to the angelic, are parts of a seamless whole, the global conversation of bits. We cannot separate the air that chokes from the air upon which wings beat.

In China, Germany, France, Russia, Singapore, Italy and the United States, you are trying to ward off the virus of liberty by erecting guard posts at the frontiers of Cyberspace. These may keep out the contagion for a small time, but they will not work in a world that will soon be blanketed in bit-bearing media.

Your increasingly obsolete information industries would perpetuate themselves by proposing laws, in America and elsewhere, that claim to own speech itself throughout the world. These laws would declare ideas to be another industrial product, no more noble than pig iron. In our world, whatever the human mind may create can be reproduced and distributed infinitely at no cost. The global conveyance of thought no longer requires your factories to accomplish.

These increasingly hostile and colonial measures place us in the same position as those previous lovers of freedom and self-determination who had to reject the authorities of distant, uninformed powers. We must declare our virtual selves immune to your sovereignty, even as we continue to consent to your rule over our bodies. We will spread ourselves across the Planet so that no one can arrest our thoughts.

We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.

Greetings Tribe of Light!

I am thrilled to announce that we just updated our LIVING PROPHECY page on our
13moon.com website! It was created to offer a holistic, accurate and inspiring take
on the upcoming 2012 synchronization, end of the Maya Long Count Calendar Cycle.

Please check it out and share the link with others:
http://www.13moon.com/prophecy%20page.htm

This update has been a long time coming, and was definitely inspired by the recent
2012 disaster movie that was just released this November, Friday the 13th, on White
Planetary Wizard day.

The 2012 movie is alerting hundreds of millions of people around the world about the
Closing of the Cycle in 2012, but as can be expected, it is associating it with
global cataclysm, fear, and the end of the world.

This is unfortunate, and as you will read on our new webpage, the Maya in Guatemala
are very upset with all this distortion of the message of their ancient prophecy.
They want the world to know the completion of their calendar cycle DOES NOT POINT TO
THE END OF THE WORLD, and they wish for people to NOT BE AFRAID. You can find links
to Shift of the Ages off of our site, which has recent videos from Maya Grandfather
Don Alejandro explaining this in his own words.

The essence of the 2012 prophecy is not about doom and gloom, it is about
transformation, renewal and re-birth. It is about us waking up to our true human
potential; it is about us coming into our power as planetary citizens, conscious of
our interdependence, working together in respect for all of life. It is about us
changing paradigms so that our global culture can find a way to live in Harmony,
with ourselves, each other and all of Nature. It is about us living from our Hearts.
It is a calling for us to expand our perceptions, sense of reality, and context we
place ourselves in and awaken to ourselves as galactic beings…I could say so much
more, but truly its all on the website!

http://www.13moon.com/prophecy%20page.htm

We are excited about our new webpage because it gives us the opportunity to promote
other websites, messengers, and organizations that we feel are also providing
accurate and inspiring 2012 information. So on our new page, you’ll find lots of
links to sites we feel are worthwhile to explore and support. We will continue
adding to these resources as time unfolds.

AN INVITATION TO SUPPORT OUR 2012 MESSAGE

The 2012 Hollywood movie is just the beginning. As we get closer to 2012, there will
be more and more mis-information and distortion of the essence of the Mayan
Prophecy, and you can expect more and more fear-based websites. We truly care about
the collective consciousness and we want to continue to help be part of the
solution. On that note, WE NEED YOUR HELP!

Essentially, because our website has been around since 2002, and since we are a
content-rich site, we have had a really high Google ranking. For example, before the
movie came out, if you did a search on 2012, our Living Prophecy webpage came up
#13. However, since the 2012 disaster movie has come out, we are getting bumped down
by all the movie promotion and also the “fake” websites which they’ve designed to
promote their movie and the whole fear-based doomsday enchilada… As of today, on
Google our site now comes up #20 which is the last slot on the 2nd page.

We want people doing 2012 searches to find our site because we feel it provides an
accurate, thorough, positive take on 2012. We feel strongly that it is important
that people can read for themselves what the Maya Elders are saying, and can hear
from someone like myself who has been studying this material for 15 years.

So, if you check out our page and feel aligned with helping us in this mission,
there are 2 things you can do:

A) Please send this link to your networks:
http://www.13moon.com/prophecy%20page.htm

ALSO,

B) If you have a website (or a blog or facebook, etc)
PLEASE POST A LINK TO OUR NEW PAGE! This will DIRECTLY help our google numbers.

The BEST way to help is for the link to read:
“THE MAYAN PROPHECY OF 2012

and to have those words linked to the url:
http://www.13moon.com/prophecy page.htm

Or maybe you have friends who run websites that you feel they might like to include
a link to our Prophecy page. EVERY EXTERNAL LINK HELPS!!!

Thank you for reading this, and for being part of this important movement to
influence our collective consciousness; to antidote the doom and panic with higher
vision and inspiration. We know we are all related and that we directly influence
each other with our thoughts, feelings, intentions, actions - our vibrations. The
more we can help emanate positive energies, the more it helps uplift the whole!

This message is also posted on my blog at
http://galacticculture.wordpress.com/
Please feel free to go there and post comments and share your feedback of our new
2012 update, as it is always a delight to hear from YOU!

Sending Blessings to you from my humble, ancient Heart
Eden Sky, Red Self-Existing Skywalker
http://www.13moon.com
TIME IS ART

Illumination is celebrating its 10th anniversary on the
21st August as part of Festival Cairns, with a special under 18 community concert at PCYC in Manunda. This event will be on the same night as Illumination 18+ event at AJ Hackett’s Smithfield.

This highly anticipated night out with Music, Dance, Performance and the creative involvement of the punters, dressing up in White Outfits, is Illumination.

The unifying of the crowd creates a conscious 3D moving canvas illuminated under the intelligent lighting and projections. Geometric shapes are suspended to interact with the multi colour laser shows. Both events will reflect the classic Illumination formula in their theme. Set your co-ordinates for Space Travel and prepare yourselves for a voyage in the Vehicle of Light as the organisers have programmed the line-ups allowing the headline acts,

ENDORPHIN (Syd) / MODIFI (Syd) / DAISUKE (Japan)

to play at both events. Support for the night comes from an extensive line-up of local DJ’s/ Producers, Fire Performers, Multi media Visual artists, Drummers and Indigenous performance. The alignment of these two extraordinary events will be documented by the Illumination Film Crew.

RAINFOREST LOCATION
INTERACTIVE 3-D INSTALLATIONS
BIG SCREEN VISUALS
HIGH TECH PRODUCTION FOR BOTH LIGHT AND SOUND
INCLUDING LASERS AT BOTH EVENTS
DEDICATED FIRE STAGE INCLUDING DRUM PERFORMANCES

A Festival Cairns Event in 2009

ILLUMINATION, a dance /performance event, held over the last 10 years with a white outfit theme. Over the last few years Illumination has been held at A.J Hacketts. Organisers Dean O’Shannessey and Veronica (Judy) De Bruyne focus all of their accumulated creative energy into this one event.

http://www.illuminationcairns.com

CHECK OUT ‘LITTLE RASCALS’ ON THE OUTDOOR STAGE AT THE UNDER 18′S EVENT:
DJ BLITZ AND MC D-NOX (hip hop, FNQ style, open mic!)
SYMONARD (dub)

From 4–9pm on the last Friday of every month the Cairns
Esplanade comes alive with the all new UMI Arts Markets
– a celebration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
arts, crafts, performance, music, dance, and food.

The grassed Esplanade area, overlooking the water, is
a relaxed and vibrant space for families and community
to come together to celebrate the unique Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander cultures and life.

The UMI Arts Indigenous Markets are a FREE event
featuring a LIVE performance stage and open mic.
The Markets are a new initiative of UMI
Arts, presented in collaboration with the
Cairns Regional Council Esplanade.

download market information and application pdf

check out DJ BlitZ and MC D-Nox on the Culture Beat stage at the UMI Markets,ripping up FNQ Hip Hop style and promotiong the Culture Beat Music Program

Please click on the link below to sign the following Petition to the United Nations.

The Petition
UNITED NATIONS DECADE OF CONTACT
We the Undersigned request that the UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY adopt, fund and implement the UNITED NATIONS DECADE OF CONTACT:

UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY RESOLUTION

TITLE : “UNITED NATIONS DECADE OF CONTACT RESOLUTION”

Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
Prevention of an arms race in outer space
United Nations DECADE OF CONTACT Resolution

The General Assembly,

Reaffirming United Nations General Assembly decision 33/426, 1978, approved 18 December 1978, provides: “2. The General Assembly invites interested Member States to take appropriate steps to coordinate on a national level scientific research and investigation into extraterrestrial life, including unidentified flying objects, and to inform the Secretary-General of the observations, research and evaluation of such activities.”

Recognizing that From 1963-1967, Hon. Paul Hellyer was Minister of National Defence of Canada in the cabinet of Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson, who won a Nobel Peace Prize. On September 25, 2005, at the Toronto Exopolitics Symposium held at Convocation Hall, University of Toronto, former Minister of National Defence Hellyer stated: “UFOs, are as real as the airplanes that fly over your head,” and “I’m so concerned about what the consequences might be of starting an intergalactic war, that I just think I had to say something.”

Recognizing that Mr. Hellyer stated the people of Earth may be threatened with the consequences of war in outer space: “The United States military are preparing weapons which could be used against the aliens, and they could get us into an intergalactic war without us ever having any warning.” Former Minister of Defence Hellyer went on to state: “The time has come to lift the veil of secrecy, and let the truth emerge, so there can be a real and informed debate, about one of the most important problems facing our planet today.”

Recognizing that the Hon. Paul Hellyer stated at University of Toronto: “To turn us in the direction of re-unification with the rest of creation Alfred Lambremont Webre is proposing a ‘Decade of Contact’ - an ‘era of openess, public hearings, public funded research, and education about extraterrestrial reality.’ That could just be the antidotge the world needs to end its greed-driven, power-centered madness.”

Recognizing the common interest of all mankind in the exploration and use of outer space for peaceful purposes,

Reaffirming the will of all States that the exploration and use of outer space, including the Moon and other celestial bodies, shall be for peaceful purposes and shall be carried out for the benefit and in the interest of all countries, irrespective of their degree of economic or scientific development,

Reaffirming also the provisions of articles III and IV of the Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies, (1)

Recalling the obligation of all States to observe the provisions of the Charter of the United Nations regarding the use or threat of use of force in their international relations, including in their space activities,

Reaffirming paragraph 80 of the Final Document of the Tenth Special Session of the General Assembly,(2) in which it is stated that in order to prevent an arms race in outer space, further measures should be taken and appropriate international negotiations held in accordance with the spirit of the Treaty,

Recalling its previous resolutions on this issue, and taking note of the proposals submitted to the General Assembly at its tenth special session and at its regular sessions, and of the recommendations made to the competent organs of the United Nations and to the Conference on Disarmament,

Recognizing that prevention of an arms race in outer space would avert a grave danger for international peace and security,

Emphasizing the paramount importance of strict compliance with existing arms limitation and disarmament agreements relevant to outer space, including bilateral agreements, and with the existing legal regime concerning the use of outer space,

Considering that wide participation in the legal regime applicable to outer space could contribute to enhancing its effectiveness,

Noting that the Ad Hoc Committee on the Prevention of an Arms Race in Outer Space, taking into account its previous efforts since its establishment in 1985 and seeking to enhance its functioning in qualitative terms, continued the examination and identification of various issues, existing agreements and existing proposals, as well as future initiatives relevant to the prevention of an arms race in outer space,(3) and that this contributed to a better understanding of a number of problems and to a clearer perception of the various positions,

Noting also that there were no objections in principle in the Conference on Disarmament to the re-establishment of the Ad Hoc Committee, subject to reexamination of the mandate contained in the decision of the Conference on
Disarmament of 13 February 1992,(4)

Emphasizing the mutually complementary nature of bilateral and multilateral efforts in the field of preventing an arms race in outer space, and hoping that concrete results will emerge from those efforts as soon as possible,

Convinced that further measures should be examined in the search for effective and verifiable bilateral and multilateral agreements in order to prevent an arms race in outer space, including the weaponization of outer space,

Stressing that the growing use of outer space increases the need for greater transparency and better information on the part of the international community,

Recalling, in this context, its previous resolutions, in particular resolutions 45/55 B of 4 December 1990, 47/51 of 9 December 1992 and 48/74 A of
16 December 1993, in which, inter alia, it reaffirmed the importance of confidencebuilding measures as a means conducive to ensuring the attainment of the objective of the prevention of an arms race in outer space,

Conscious of the benefits of confidence- and security-building measures in the military field, Recognizing that negotiations for the conclusion of an international agreement or agreements to prevent an arms race in outer space remain a priority task of the Ad Hoc Committee and that the concrete proposals on confidence-building measures could form an integral part of such agreements,

Reaffirming the importance and urgency of preventing an arms race in outer space and the readiness of all States to contribute to that common objective, in conformity with the provisions of the Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies;1

Reaffirming its recognition, as stated in the report of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Prevention of an Arms Race in Outer Space, that the legal regime applicable to outer space does not in and of itself guarantee the prevention of an arms race in outer space, that the regime plays a significant role in the prevention of an arms race in that environment, that there is a need to consolidate and reinforce that regime and enhance its effectiveness and that it is important to comply strictly with existing agreements, both bilateral and multilateral;

Emphasizing the necessity of further measures with appropriate and effective provisions for verification to prevent an arms race in outer space;

Calling upon all States, in particular those with major space capabilities, to contribute actively to the objective of the peaceful use of outer space and of the prevention of an arms race in outer space and to refrain from actions contrary to that objective and to the relevant existing treaties in the interest of maintaining international peace and security and promoting international cooperation;

Reiterating the provisions of A/RES/58/36, adopted December 8, 2003 by a vote of 174/ 0 with four abstentions (including the United States of America and Israel), including the invitation to the Conference on Disarmament “to establish an ad hoc committee as early as possible during its 2004 session.”

Acknowledging the General Assembly’s decision to “Prevention of an arms race in outer space” in its Agenda.

1. UNITED NATIONS DECADE OF CONTACT. The United Nations General assembly establishes a DECADE OF CONTACT with the following four Objectives:

DISCLOSURE - Open, transparent, official governmental disclosure and declassification of all past and present programs related to Extraterrestrial Presence.

DECADE OF CONTACT - Public funding by U.N. Member Nations and by the UNITED NATIONS of a 10 year process of formal public education, scientific research, educational curricula development, strategic planning, community activity, and public outreach about the Extraterrestrial Presence and our future in a populated Universe.

DISARMAMENT - A permanent ban on all space-based weapons and warfare in space through a Space Preservation Treaty Conference.

DIPLOMACY - Public Interest UNITED NATIONS Diplomacy with ethical Off-Planet Cultures now visiting Earth.

In proclaiming “the year 2000 as the International Year for the Culture of Peace"
(A /RES/52/15)
and the decade 2001-2010 as the

International Decade for a Culture of
Peace and Non-violence for the Children of the World

(A /RES/53/25)
the United Nations General Assembly defined the culture of peace as
the " (…) values, attitudes and behaviours that reflect and inspire social
interaction and sharing based on the principles of freedom, justice and
democracy, all human rights, tolerance and solidarity, that reject violence and
endeavour to prevent conflicts by tackling their root causes to solve problems
through dialogue and negotiation and that guarantee the full exercise of all
rights and the means to participate fully in the development process of their
society” (A/RES/52/13).