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INDEX

• Books Online
  

• Health and Well Being/Psychology/Medicine

• Humanity Helping Humanity

• The Humanist Manifesto III, not a dogma, doctrine nor list of absolute religious tenets to follow,
  

• but a set of ideals, potentials, and some focus for creating a world of reason, compassion and mutual respect, open to critical thought and change.
  

• Laughter and Entertainment

• Minds for Our Time...and Other Times

• News, Independent and Alternative Journalistic Resources

• Operating Systems and Software Resources
  

• Peaceful Conflict Resolution, Non-Violence, Conscientious Objection to War

• Philosophy and Religion Resources

• Prayers for Peace

• Fullbooks.com  A massive library of thousands of full-text books available for online reading
  

• Dr. Betty Blue, Psychologist Dr. Blue has been a licensed clinical psychologist and a licensed marriage and family therapist for twenty-eight years.  She has taught college courses,  presented clinical training in numerous professional conferences and provided consultation services for professionals in the field.

• Beyond Vegetarianism: Reports from veterans of vegetarian and raw-food diets,
  veganism, fruitarianism, and instinctive eating, plus new science
  from paleolithic diet research and clinical nutrition

• Eat Right 4 Your Blood Type
• FatFreeVegan.Com  Healthy eating.  Great for those with cholesterol/heart issues.
  
• History of Psychology Links Page - access to an amazing amount of information.
• The History of Psychology - An excellent source of information and links
• Lving and Raw Foods  Claims to be the largest community on the Internet dedicate to educating people about the power of living and raw foods.
  
• Mind and Body - A nice series of essays on the history of psychological science from Descartes to William James.
• Protein Power How the body metabolizes protein; watching insulin levels; controlling carbohydrate intake
• Veg Cooking Vegetarian Recipes  Save trees and many other natural resources by being vegan.  Instead of feeding grains and vegetables to fattening cattle, pigs and chickens, eat the grains and vegetables yourself.  How many tens of thousands of acres of rainforest have been destroyed in South America to clear land for grazing grasses for cattle?  How much did this loss contribute to an increase in CO2 in our atmosphere and a reduction of oxygen?   How well do we connect the consequences of our eating and other behaviors to people and environment?  ....Food for thought.
  
• Wellness Software

Humanity Helping Humanity

• American Civil Liberties Union
• Amnesty International
• Call to Renewal A faith-based movement to overcome poverty
• Common Ground
• HumanMedia.Org
• Human Rights Watch
• Human Rights Web
• International Committee of the Red Cross
• ICRC International Humanitarian Law
• Relief Web
• The Truth Telling Project
• United Nations Integrated Regional Information Networks
  

• Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion: Welcome to Lake Woebegone, Minnesota "...where all the men are good-looking, the women are strong, and all of the children are above average."  Delight in old time radio in 2004.  A mixture of Garrison's hypnotic storytelling in News from Lake Woebegone; radio skits such as "Guy Noir, Private Eye"; advertising spots for local favorites such as the Chatterbox Cafe, Powdermilk Biscuits (the biscuit that helps shy people get up in the morning and do what needs to be done); Bertha's Kitty Boutique, featuring Scotty's Cough Syrup for dogs, spots from the Ketchup Advisory Board; live music from around the world, and much, much more.
• Harry Shearer' Le Show:  ...And here it is!  The incredibly talented and multifunctional Harry Shearer offers news, wit, wisdom, humor and the best electic selection of music on the air.
• Michael Feldman's Whad'Ya Know? at NotMuch.Com:  Michael Feldman's wit and humor highlight this program in which audience members and people who call in participate in light-hearted quizzes on news, history, people, places and events.  Feldman is a gem among radio entertainers.  The program airs throughout the country on NPR stations.  Streaming audio is available on this website.  My problem is that I play Feldman at my computer while trying to work.  As a result I get little work done, except to brighten my morning with lots of laughter.
• NPR's Wait, Wait....Don't Tell Me: The Oddly Informative News Quiz.  Second part of my tandem Saturday laugh-a-thon with Feldman's program
• The Daily Show hosted by Jon Stewart.  I place this squarely between news and comedy.  It is, unfortunately, a better source of news and information than most of the corporate network media newscasts, which are little more than mouthpieces for the wedded couple of corporate wealth and elected government officials.  Thank you Jon Stewart for exposing the fools and the naked emporers over the past decade and making us laugh at the same time.  This type of humor is actually very empowering.
• The Colbert Report  with Stephen Colbert.  Another fearless messenger of truth through...humor.  Stephen Colbert defiantly mimicks the know-nothing pomposity of Bill O'Reilly, among other would-be pundits, and--like his Comedy Central cohort Jon Stewart--lifts our spirits while humorously deflating the windbags of corporate network media punditry and their backers.
• Le Show with Harry Shearer  Known to many, as the voices of a variety of characters on THE SIMPSONS long-running cartoon show, Harry Shearer presents one of the very best weekly radio hours anywhere with a blend of news, comedy, political comment and music.  He's also known for being one of the members of the mockumentary band, Spinal Tap, with co-writers, co-musicians and co-actors, Christopher Guest and Michael McKean.  He is currently (April 13th, 2009) on a national,  six-week, twenty-five-year-anniversary tour with Guest and McKean to reprise some of the songs that they wrote, but this time..they'll sing them their way. 
  
• Note: I had to list Harry Shearer, Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart under NEWS, as well as COMEDY, because...let's face it...often times, when listening or watching the corporate network newscasts or these three shows, it's hard to tell who is doing the comedy, and who is providing us with news.  Thanks to these three for their presence during the past decade.  I don't think I could have survived as well without them. --MH
  

• Now with Bill Moyers Booklist: An excellent source for authors of important books on a variety of issues and topics affecting the human condition.

•  The Internet Classics Archive - A collection of 441 original texts featuring ancient philosophy and literature for those of you who prefer the actual words of the philosophers themselves.

• Center for Public Integrity

•  Noam Chomsky, MIT Institute Professor; Professor of Linguistics, Linguistic Theory, Syntax, Semantics, Philosophy of Language. Professor Chomsky is an essential source for understanding the language of power and politics, especially that of the alignment of government, corporations and media. More Chomsky below:

• Albert Einstein on Gandhi

• Gandhi, Mohan...also known as Mahatma, which means "good soul."  Gandhi regretted this ascription as it misrepresented him in some people's minds to be some saint or messiah, which he never professed to be.  "I am but a simple man."  He is a testament to what simple men and women can do to create change through peace and non-violence.

• Institute for Public Accuracy

• Scott Ritter, former UN Chief Weapons Inspector in Iraq from 1991 to 1997:

•     Remember all of those invisible Iraqi "weapons of mass destruction" given as the reason for warring in Iraq?  Scott Ritter in a 1998 interview with PBS Newshour's Elizabeth Farnsworth.  The interview was conducted just after Mr. Ritter's public resignation as Chief UN Weapons inspector in Iraq due to the US government's reluctance to support more aggressive weapons inspections in Iraq.   I was going to remove this a few months ago, but then I decided that it is more important to remember who had the best information before Iraq was errantly invaded in a diversion from our true mission in the mountains of Aghanistan, still unaccomplished.  Note: Mr. Ritter was not interviewed by the mainstream press on the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq issue before the March 2003 invasion, even though he was the actual United Nations Chief Weapons Inspector in Iraq when most of such weapons were destroyed. I had the fortune of hearing the truth from Mr. Ritter in person and discussing these issues in February 2003 at Chapman University in Orange, CA.   http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/middle_east/july-dec98/ritter_8-31.html
  

•  Howard Zinn:  Author of "A People's History of America."
  

• Alternative Press Index: 
• Common Dreams News Center
• CounterPunch  is the bi-weekly muckraking newsletter edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair. “Twice a month we bring our readers the stories that the corporate press never prints. We aren't side-line journalists here at CounterPunch. Ours is muckraking with a radical attitude and nothing makes us happier than when CounterPunch readers write in to say how useful they've found our newsletter in their battles against the war machine, big business and the rapers of nature.”
• Democracy Now!, hosted by Amy Goodman, a fiercely independent source for accurate news and information, in depth interviews with people directly involved and effected by geopolitical events, and comment by some of the most important people of our time. 
• Ian Masters' Background Briefing and Live from the Left Coast
• FactCheck.org: Annenburg Political Fact Check.  Holding Politicians Accountable.
• F.A.I.R. ( Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting): A diligent media watchdog that checks the accuracy of news reports against the facts.
• The Nation
• MediaMatters.Org 
• National Public Radio (NPR)
• The National Review
• Online Newspapers.com: 1000's of newspapers on the internet
• The Progressive
• Townhall.com Conservative news and information
• Truthout.org
• The Daily Show hosted by Jon Stewart.  I place this squarely between news and comedy.  It is, unfortunately, a better source of news and information than most of the corporate network media newscasts, which are little more than mouthpieces for the wedded couple of corporate wealth and elected government officials.  Thank you Jon Stewart for exposing the fools and the naked emporers over the past decade and making us laugh at the same time.  This type of humor is actually very empowering.
• The Colbert Report  with Stephen Colbert.  Another fearless messenger of truth through...humor.  Stephen Colbert defiantly mimicks the know-nothing pomposity of Bill O'Reilly, among other would-be pundits, and--like his Comedy Central cohort Jon Stewart--lifts our spirits while humorously deflating the windbags of corporate network media punditry and their backers.
• Le Show with Harry Shearer  Known to many, as the voices of a variety of characters on THE SIMPSONS long-running cartoon show, Harry Shearer presents one of the very best weekly radio hours anywhere with a blend of news, comedy, political comment and music.  He's also known for being one of the members of the mockumentary band, Spinal Tap, with co-writers, co-musicians and co-actors, Christopher Guest and Michael McKean.  He is currently (April 13th, 2009) on a national,  six-week, twenty-five-year-anniversary tour with Guest and McKean to reprise some of the songs that they wrote, but this time..they'll sing them their way. 
  
• Note: I had to list Harry Shearer, Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart under NEWS, as well as COMEDY, because...let's face it...often times, when listening or watching the corporate network newscasts or these three shows, it's hard to tell who is doing the comedy, and who is providing us with news.  Thanks to these three for their presence during the past decade.  I don't think I could have survived as well without them. --MH
  

• Ubuntu  Ubuntu is a free, open source operating system, built upon the Debian platform, which is built upon the LINUX kernel.  Easy to install, compatible with most computer hardware and components, packaged with dozens of programs and applications, with access to hundreds more through UBUNTU and other software repositories, UBUNTU is free to download, burn to a CD, DVD or USB flash drive for a live test-run or to install to your system.  Ubuntu can also be installed alongside an existing Microsoft Windows system, with access to either through a boot-up menu.
  
• The OS Files  your one-stop portal for all operating system that run on the x86 platform.  Here you will find details on future OSes, beta releases, current releases, and even older discontiued OSes.
• DistroWatch.com  is a comprehensive database of current LINUX-based and other open source operating system distributions and packages.  In addition to UBUNTU, seemingly the most popular open source operating system, there are dozens of others, many tailored to specific types of computers or user needs.
  

Peaceful Conflict Resolution, Non-Violence, Conscientious Objection to War

• Encyclopedia of Peace, Violence and Conflict
• HumanMedia.Org : Program # 62 Beyond War
• The Human Right of Conscientious Objection: The NGO Working Group on Conscientious Objection moderated by Michael W. Hovey (My sixth cousin, with whom I've exchanged letters via email. Not to be confused with myself, Michael R. Hovey, except that we are kindred spirits in the commitment to peaceful conflict resolution and non-violence and being conscientious objectors to war)
• Conscience and Peace Tax International
• Coalition for the International Criminal Court
• Thinking Peace
• Truthwalker Pathways
  

•  American Atheist
  
•  British Humanist Association
• Buddhanet
• Christians for Peace
• Council for Secular Humanism
  
• The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy - As the name suggests, a very comprehensive mega-site for all things philosophical
• Hartford Institute for Religion Research: List of Official  Denominational Website
• The Humanist Manifesto III
• Interfaith Alliance
• IslamWorld.Net
• The Joseph Campbell Foundation
• Jews for Peace
• Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance
• ReligiousTolerance.Org
• Secular Web
• Sojourners: Faith, Politics, Culture
• Squashed Philosophers (from Glyn Hughes)  The books which deined the way we think now.  Their own ideas, in their own words, neatly honed into little half-hour or so reads.
  
• Taoism Information Page
• Taoism Made Simple
• Virtual Religion Index, from Rutgers University
• Voice of the Shuttle: Religious Studies, UC Santa Barbara
• Alan Watts: A short biography and overview of his perspective
• World Wisdom: World Wisdom, a publishing company established in 1980, is pleased to present the Library of Perennial Philosophy which is dedicated to the exposition of the timeless Truth underlying the diverse religions. This Truth, often referred to as the Sophia Perennis—or perennial Wisdom—finds its expression in the revealed Scriptures as well as the writings of the great sages and the artistic creations of the traditional worlds.