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….The 5th annual Cairns Winter Solstice Celebration & Sustainable Lifestyle Gathering is a 4 day / 3 night outback camping adventure, that will be held from June 18-21, 2010 at Sugarbag Festival Grounds, 3.5 hrs drive from Cairns near Mount Garnet in Far North Queensland.This year we have well over 150 local, National & International Producers, Dj’s , Artists &  Roving performers over our 5 stages. The Winter Solstice Festival musical line-up has something for everyone & is not just about the music, we offer a huge array of different forms of entertainment from around the globe, staged in the great Aussie Outback….This year the lineup includes the likes of Frechbax, Erphun, LouD, Tijuana Cartel, Chocolate Strings, Zennith, OPIUO, The Mollusk, Uone, Spoonhead, suncontrolspecies, Bent Intent, Solatek, Backwards Man & ShiftEQ - however there are so many more you had better check it out to believe it!Also enlightening us all with their truly visionary art is Adam Scott Miller (USA) and Kuba Fiedorowicz (Melb.) and friends, as they paint within the EcoTribe Wellness Village - home to the permaculture gardens and food-scrap generator, kids space, movement space and outdoor cinema area.So kids… Jump straight onto the website to check out the complete lineup, all about the workshops and the tradition that is the Winter Solstice, plus directions to get there and much more…http://www.wintersolstice.com.auBooyah!!CraigOS

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.

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)

“We are whirling through endless space, with an inconceivable speed, all around us everything is spinning, everything is moving, everywhere there is energy. There must be some way of availing ourselves of this energy more directly. Then, with the light obtained from the medium, with the power derived from it, with every form of energy obtained without effort, from the store forever inexhaustible, humanity will advance with giant strides. The mere contemplation of these magnificent possibilities expands our minds, strengthens our hopes and fills our hearts with supreme delight.” - Nikola Tesla, 1891

We live on a planet that is consistently producing a magnetic field that can be tapped into to power our everyday needs as a virtual free energy source. Through interactions between the inner core of our Earth and that of our Sun, there exists an enormous and vastly untapped source of power.

Nikola Tesla was among the first inventors to successfully extract and make use of this source. By pulling out electrons from the earth and surrounding atmosphere and amplifying the energy using a specific design of coils, he was then able to transmit approximately 100 million volts over an initial distance of 26 miles and illuminating a bank of 200 light bulbs and ran an electric generator, all without the use of transmission lines. Later, he nearly perfected this technology only to have it seized by groups that wanted the device destroyed and the knowledge hidden.

We have recently identified an inventor who has studied and understands this concept. He wishes to remain anonymous at this time, but his background is excellent for this work. The goal is to produce a proof of principle device that is capable of fully powering homes, offices and buildings. Once a successful device is produced, the technology behind the power generation will be scalable to run smaller equipment such as computers and mobile phones, and larger items, such as vehicles and large machinery.

We urgently need to raise $100,000 over the next 30 days to continue this work - please support us so that we may continue our work. Donate now.

“The economic transmission of power without wires is of all-surpassing importance to man.” - Nikola Tesla, 1905

Here is the new 1.5 hr Zeitgeist Movement Orientation Video by Peter Joseph.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3932487043163636261

It can be download in full dvd format here:
http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=25&Itemid=62

It is a public domain work, in a simple slide show style,
intended to give a more specific overview of the tenets of The Movement.

This should help clarify a lot of the misinformation and false assumptions out there.

Please view and help spread the work far and wide!

Thank you
The Zeitgeist Team

As soon as this Friday 19 December 2008, Western Australian Premier Colin Barnett is likely to announce a site for a major industrial development on the Kimberley coast - on land he is prepared to forcibly remove from Traditional Owners, through compulsory acquisition laws.

With no further negotiations or scientific research, a 1000ha slice of Kimberley coast will be given over to liquified natural gas (LNG) industrial development - threatening majestic humpback whales and numerous endangered species including dugong and flatback turtles.

Public protest rallies in Perth, Broome and near the proposed industrial sites demonstrate that WA and local residents do not support the Premier’s plan. The Premier has already received thousands of postcards and emails from across Australia opposing industrialisation of the Kimberley.

The Kimberley urgently needs your support now.

It is time to let Woodside Ltd - the major Australian fossil fuel company leading the charge to industrialise the Kimberley coast - know that the people of Australia do not want to see the iconic Kimberley’s natural environment sacrificed to short-sighted industrial development.

Commercial interests and Government cannot be allowed to think that the public does not care about the Kimberley. There is no need for fast-tracking industrialisation of the Kimberley.

By supporting – publicly or behind the scenes - Premier Barnett’s Kimberley Hub land grab, Woodside Ltd are saying it is ok to railroad Traditional Owners and effectively ignore our precious environment.

There are other options.

Sign this online action today and urge Woodside and the Barnett Government to work with Traditional Owners, scientists, tourism and other local industry, and environmental groups to develop and implement a sensible and comprehensive conservation plan for the Kimberley – one that will protect the natural and cultural heritage of the region.

If development of Browse Basin gas goes ahead it could be processed at sites with established industrial infrastructure in the Pilbara region (but not the Burrup Peninsula), or via floating LNG technology currently under development.

Its not too late! - send your message now to help protect one of the world’s last great natural landscapes from short-sighted development.

Josh Coates
Kimberley Campaigner
The Wilderness Society WA Inc

WA’s Kimberley region is remote and untouched - one of our last unspoiled wilderness areas.

Incredibly, the far north-west Kimberley sub-region is the only part of Western Australia - and one of very few in Australia - that appears to have retained its complete native animal species diversity without extinction since European settlement.

But plans for massive industrialisation by mining giants such as Norsk Hydro and Rio Tinto threaten to fragment and degrade this stunning landscape, which includes mound springs, ‘dry’ rainforest patches, vine thickets, mighty rivers, and savannah woodlands.

Take Action:

Donate now to help protect the Kimberley’s unspoiled wilderness
Sign online to protect the Kimberley from industrialisation

If the bauxite mining goes ahead, literally thousands of hectares of pristine wilderness will be cleared. Bauxite mining is so utterly devastating that mined areas can never be fully rehabilitated.

Furthermore, the Kimberley’s role as a valuable carbon store will be diminished, and the project will be a massive carbon polluter.

There is still hope.

With your support we can persuade the new WA government to adopt a sustainable plan for the Kimberley - one that protects the region’s unique natural and cultural values and our climate and also fully addresses Indigenous rights and interests.

Please help us ensure that the new WA government protects the Kimberley by making a donation today.

Your generous donation will enable us to keep the pressure on the state and federal governments as well as corporations to change their ‘development at all costs’ approach.

It’s crucial that we take immediate action. Your donation will help to ensure the natural values of the Kimberley don’t disappear overnight.

Kind regards,

Alec Marr
Executive Director

PS: The Kimberley is under threat like never before. By donating today, you can help protect the Kimberley’s rainforests, savannah woodlands and oceans, along with the cultural values of a truly unique area. Thank you

http://www.wilderness.org.au/

yep hardcore geekery all the way - now all we gotta do is have some sort of revolution/liberation from the unsustainables and switch over to the green fuels to run all our computers, machines, cars and soundsystems…

deal with the crooks
drop the money shit - get on the green stuffs - and geek hard and party! Thats it!! Green Geekery all tha way..! I could sit here geeking hard all day with all me sound gear on, me computer and me soundsystem on without feeling like im costing the earth/human and sending us off to the brink!
Yeah i could even grab me beer from my green grid energy fridge and jump in my green fuel car and come and setup a green powered soundsystem for a party for us all to celebrate our geekyness and our achievement of overcoming the corporates and the illuminati and fucking off money to be free to share music, life and culture and our earth friendly green gear!

YEAH YEAH FOR GREEN GEEKERY!

The Zeitgeist Movement is not a political movement. It does not recognize nations, governments, races, religions, creeds or class. Our understandings conclude that these are false, outdated distinctions which are far from positive factors for true collective human growth and potential. Their basis is in power division and stratification, not unity and equality, which is our goal. While it is important to understand that everything in life is a natural progression, we must also acknowledge the reality that the human species has the ability to drastically slow and paralyze progress, through social structures which are out of date, dogmatic, and hence out of line with nature itself. The world you see today, full of war, corruption, elitism, pollution, poverty, epidemic disease, human rights abuses, inequality and crime is the result of this paralysis.

This movement is about awareness, in avocation of a fluid evolutionary progress, both personal, social, technological and spiritual. It recognizes that the human species is on a natural path for unification, derived from a communal acknowledgment of fundamental and near empirical understandings of how nature works and how we as humans fit into/are a part of this universal unfolding we call life. While this path does exist, it is unfortunately hindered and not recognized by the great majority of humans, who continue to perpetuate outdated and hence degenerative modes of conduct and association. It is this intellectual irrelevancy which the Zeitgeist Movement hopes to overcome through education and social action.

The goal is to revise our world society in accord with present day knowledge on all levels, not only creating awareness of social and technological possibilities many have been conditioned to think impossible or against “human nature”, but also to provide a means to overcome those elements in society which perpetuate these outdated systems.

An important association, upon which many of the ideas of this movement are derived come from an organization called ” The Venus Project” directed by social engineer and industrial designer, Jacque Fresco. He has worked nearly his entire life to create the tools needed to assist a design of the world which could eventually eradicate war, poverty, crime, social stratification and corruption. His notions are not radical or complex. They do not impose a subjective interpretation in their formation. In this model, society is created as a mirror of nature, with the variables predefined, inherently.

The movement itself is not a centralized construct.
We are not here to lead, but to organize and educate.

www.thezeitgeistmovement.com
www.zeitgeistmovie.com