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fraser
fraser at parallel-youniversity.com
Fri Jun 9 23:41:52 BST 2006
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p.01 caravanseraiclub safari/morocco 2006 FEEDBACK
p.03 caravanseraiclub safari/morocco 2006 (cont)
p.04 ACTION ALERT: Massive Gas Pipeline To Pierce The Amazon - PLEASE NETWORK
p.07 ALTERNATIVE CULTURAL HISTORY 3 - Oz Magazine
p.12 THE MOST DANGEROUS FALLACY STALKING OUR WORLD IS ISRAEL’S’ ADVICE TO
AMERICA: “THE ARABS ONLY UNDERSTAND ONE THING: FORCE!”
p.14 WHAT IRAN’s PRESIDENT ACTUALLY SAID - The New York Times
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caravanseraiclub safari/morocco 2006 FEEDBACK
WELCOME HOME!
Glad you had a good trip!!
I am having a good laugh at your character & travel stories!
Brilliant news about the Yoga, & glad to see you promoting Squat toilets -
me & hubby are having one built in our house.
And all my children who are 'normal' school going western kids know how to
squat & bury their shit leaving no evidence. - much to my Mums disgust!!
Love
Saveria, France. xox
>> why, did she step innit?
Well, since you brought up the subject...
Crap Dialogs
I did my first proper travelling in the late 80's in the Middle East, and
had to learn the squatting’n water method for my daily stool evacuation,
and I've never looked back since.
Hadn't considered the yogic benefits before, but hey. My angle, so to
speak, is that the squatting position naturally and fully extends ur anus.
>> wot sign am i? am a unicorn with penis rising in ur anus :)
So effectively it all comes out with no effort, and there's no need to
push. Job done! This is as opposed to sitting quaintly upright on the
throne - as if with a nice cup of tea’n biscuit. Since your anus is still
well up yer arse
>> i know a LOT of people like this!
it takes a real effort to do what you're there to do. Ridiculous really,
and no wonder people have the time to sit’n read magazines.
>> And get piles in later life, or so my parents used to tell moi.
Added to this is that the strain’n pushing involved if yours even slightly
constipated can cause haemorrhoids (I speak from past experience), or even
a prolapse (thankfully not my experience).
So I've been balancing on the rim ever since! Takes a little practice but
you get the hang of it.
>> obviously girls get something else:)
And on the water v. tissue issue...
The use of paper to wipe your arse is absurd when you think about it - to
illustrate: if you fell into a pool of shit, would you wipe it all off with
a load of tissue - or have a shower?
I rest my case...
Markipoos, Norfolk, UK
>> he squats his case. moi aussi.
Thanks for the laugh, you being locked out on the roof in a pair of shorts
in the midday Moroccan sun, hilarious ... picture Fraser getting redder and
redder by the minute, thoughts of skin cancer cascading through his drug
soaked brain,
>> naw i never worried about that - and now your beloved science is
catching up, eh? in case you missed it, the latest scientific advice is
that, well yes, the sun can cause probs but the probs caused by staying OUT
of it are much much worse and cause OTHER cancers. be honest now, how many
of you took the scientific ‘advice’ literally and have made yourselves
unhealthier by following it? be honest now! and be more circumspect next
time and ALL the next times.
no one to scream at,
>> till Caress got back. and then i went thru a great inner test wherein i
asked myself if i was able or not to control my Inner Warrior and NOT have
a great shouting match, and i really wasn't sure i could control him! that
was a real insight and scary.
crouched under a blanket. Serves you right for abandoning poor Jaunty. :-D
:-D :-D
All the rest is bollox as usual of course :-D
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TEXT JOCKEY // TJ PHRASER (Fraser Clark) & THE MEDIA EVOLUTION
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John Kerry: Bush a Criminal, Looting Country
John Kerry blasted President Bush last Thursday as a "criminal" who has
been "looting the country."
The Massachusetts Democrat offered the incendiary comments during an off
the record meeting with liberal bloggers. According to the Web site L.A.
Observed, Kerry asked the bloggers to keep his comments confidential.
Blogger "Hollywood Liberal" reports that Kerry "agreed completely with
someone's assessment that everything that Bush does is solely for the
purpose of looting the country."
"Kerry basically said that Bush and his cohorts are criminals" the blogger
continued. "At some other point he referred to Supreme Court Justices
Alito, Scalia, and Roberts as 'Idiots.'"
With an eye on 2008, Kerry has been courting the blog community, which
helped make Howard Dean the early Democratic presidential frontrunner in 2004.
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caravanseraiclub safari/morocco 2006 (cont)
UPdate on the UPdate
[THE TRIP SO FAR: Fraser and the 3 Girls on the caravanseraiclub trip to
Morocco have headed south to face their destiny in the Sahara, leaving the
3 Boys in Marrakech where Allen’s passport has disappeared, Max has fallen
for some French tart/Islamic virgin (depending on your opinion) and Caress
has upset everyone with his BE HERE NOW & forget yesterday’s fukkups. NOW
READ ON.]
Much to our surprise, the Boys rejoined us at the Prend Ton Temps (Take
Your Time) safari hotel in Zagora the day after. Caress had found the
missing passport in a pile of magazines. Max had ‘given’ Buchera £50 to go
visit her mother in Casablanca who’d just had an operation, (oh sure
exclaimed half the group), and Caress, since he never looks back, had
collected an older French woman called JV on the bus rides down and brought
her along.
Zagora is the last largish town before the Sahara proper. Since most of
its original inhabitants were nomad Berbers the pace suddenly slowed right
down, almost to a stop (it would soon in my case anyway). Or at least the
pace of our surroundings came to a sweaty halt, but the Group continued to
spark, particularly regarding whether Buchera was a hooker and whether that
made any difference. And about the ‘plight’ of the Berbers.
I had sat with Elizabeth, the corporation crunching activist, all the 10
hours of bus rides down there. And she had pointed out the electricity
pylons that followed the road the whole way. Bringing energy for the
desert towns like Zagora. Nice, huh? Well no, Liz pointed out
scathingly. I forget the buzz word she used but something like “primary
infrastructure.” And what I never quite realised until then was why the
mega energy corporates HAVE NO DESIRE AT ALL (nor their bought politicians)
TO DEVELOP ALTERNATIVE ENERGY SOURCES! These endless cables and pylons
cost a load of money, crossing near snow peaks (yes, melting!) and scores
of miles of wilderness. Visualise them covering the whole continent of
Africa. Clearly nobody but these gigantic corps is big enough to handle it
and they are not building these connections FOR FUN! They have done it and
are doing it all over the planet right now in order that they can go on in
perpetuity selling the energy to the local populations. SO THE VERY LAST
THING THEY WANT IS TO INVEST IN SOLAR AND WIND POWER. When each little
town on the planet can generate its own energy needs, their Mega Profit
Game is over! Forever!
I’d never quite grokked that before. There was much such talk down deep in
the desert. Indeed Liz came away determined to work with her NGO contacts
to deliver solar energy equipment to the Berbers. Why, if governments or
corporations would invest a few billion in sun and wind energy we could
EASILY develop cheap solar transformers, probably for each house and tent
and free them forever from the marching pylons that reached all the way
back to Wall Street and the World Trade Centre.
On my previous visit down here I’d used night buses. But this time I was
determined to travel during the day in order to see how the desert
began. It doesn’t suddenly stop being grass and become sand dunes. That
happens over a thousand miles of increasing dryness, until it’s mostly just
rubbly pebbles, then gravel for miles in every direction, and finally, and
at first only in pools, proper sand dunes.
Or, I guess, since returning to a wet May in England, you might
say it begins to dry and desertify from England southwards through France
and Spain.
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ACTION ALERT:
Massive Gas Pipeline
To Pierce The Amazon - PLEASE NETWORK
Project Will Devastate South America's Rainforests, Water and Climate
“Despite the usual assurances, the construction and operation of the
Camisea gas pipeline through Peru's rainforests has been a disaster”
Venezuela, Brazil and Argentina plan to build a massive 9,000 km natural
gas pipeline from Venezuela to Argentina through Brazil's Amazon
rainforest. Construction of the pipeline would be the most ambitious
physical infrastructure initiative in South America's history, costing up
to $25 billion and taking up to 7 years to build.
The pipeline will pierce the heart of the Amazon, and ensure its
destruction as a large, operable whole. It will devastate rainforests,
water resources, the climate and indigenous populations across a huge
swathe of South America.
Large areas of pristine rainforests will be destroyed during construction,
and new roads will open the rest for colonisation by ranchers and
loggers. Historically rainforest for 30 miles on each side of new roads
are cleared within years of construction. The multitude of waterways
traversing the Amazon will be polluted during construction and by the
inevitable pipeline leaks.
The pipeline will also contribute to global warming through deforestation
and the production of oil to access the gas.
The pipeline represents the most antiquated, primitive neo-liberal economic
development policy which the region's governments rail against. And it is
economically questionable.
· Both Brazil and Argentina have gas fields large enough to cover
their own domestic demands.
· It is not clear that Venezuela has the capacity to maintain such a
large steady supply of gas.
· Nor, given the huge investment required, is it clear that the gas
could be offered at a competitive price.
Further, the project's 6 month schedule for preparation is highly
unrealistic, given that much smaller pipelines in Brazil have taken a
decade to prepare, and have been halted in court for years.
The similar existing Camisea gas pipeline through rainforests in Peru -
which was touted as a model of sustainable development, environmental
protection and respect for indigenous peoples - offers a cautionary
tale. In 3 years of operation it has already experienced 5 major spills,
severely damaging the environment and local communities. Indigenous
communities have been devastated by disease, and the water resources they
depend upon for drinking and fishing have been fouled.
The proposed pipeline is a major threat to the existence of the Amazon
rainforest, as well as regional and global ecological sustainability, and
the leaders of Brazil, Venezuela and Argentina MUST be called upon to scrap
plans for its construction.
TAKE ACTION TO STOP THIS PIPELINE BY VISITING:
http://www.rainforestportal.org/alerts/send.asp?id=amazon_pipeline..
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caravanseraiclub safari/morocco 2006 (cont)
“the group”
There was another side to Liz. Upper class Ozzy, if there is such a
thing. Though she’s my own age, her middleclass upbringing had clearly
been even more restrictive than mine. Because of it, she tended to see
‘things alternative’ as much more immoral than they actually were. I wrote
in New Worlde Trips, my epic hippy novel-actualitë, that the reason Mayor
Daley sent his stormtroopers into Paley Park to club the Flower Children to
the ground was because he IMAGINED they were all fucking like rabbits in
the middle of his city. But they weren’t, of course, a few were making
love, but it was nothing LIKE what he IMAGINED (in his repressed Xtian
conscience)
So the story I first received about the night Max had fallen in with
Buchera and her sister came via Liz’s slightly overheated sexual
imaginings. This is my opinion, of course. In fact the story, as she
relayed it to me, was that he’d ended up in bed with BOTH girls! In fact
nothing like that had actually happened. The whole Buchera Affair was to
grow and grow while I kept trying to keep it as a sub-plot and it kept
threatening to become a Major Drama.
Liz even told me on the bus that Allen thought the theft of his passport
might have been connected to Buchera’s visit, but Allen denied this thought
had crossed his mind, and Max told me she’d actually spent hours in the
police station trying to sort the whole thing out. And, when the 3 Boys
arrived, we found out it had probably been Caress accidentally hiding it in
a pile of mags.
the group
I’d just like to say a few words about “the group”. We don’t all know each
other by any means, and, as happens on each caravanserai trip, it always
turns out that the ones you thought you knew quite well you didn’t, or only
fairly occasionally and superficially, or at least in specially prepared
situations. Traveling together in exotic locations soon shows you how
little we actually know each other (while confirming other things of
course). Imagine dropping Big Brother contestants in Morocco, now THAT
would be a show. And that’s what we were doing!
I’ve always tried to judge friends by imagining how they’d react on a boat
during a storm at sea. Or, even more often, I’m on the run from the State
and I turn up at their door needing a place to hide.
What are the Group Rules? Are there any? Though I’ve written a sorta
constitution saying that each is responsible for hirself, each ‘member’
nevertheless brings opinions and expectations. For me the most exciting
part is what’s new, the group has no tradition to maintain, the members
have no responsibilities for the others except what grows between
individuals as experiences are shared or paralleled. Do we all plan our
days together, for example? Because of the hotel layout in Marrakech this
couldn’t actually easily happen, and the Girls and Boys section
emerged. But this all changed at Prends Ton Temps where each of us had our
own room.
Anyway, what excites me most is an ability to wander off and leave the
group at any moment we like. Some have asked “Where’s so and so?” and
there’s been a natural group caring, but the free independent ‘members’
concept is quite new to me!
And, of course, these outings cause far more bonding than chasms. Just
surviving - when you see a member back in the west there’s a special
connection: you’d probably be safe in a boat in a storm with them.
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ALTERNATIVE CULTURAL HISTORY 3
Oz Magazine
Along with International Times, Oz was THE underground magazine during the
late ‘60s in England. Originating from Australia where it was founded by
Richard Neville and Martin Sharp, it came to England in February 1967 where
the first issue hit the streets of an unsuspecting London.
Oz ran for 48 issues and was printed in a variety of shapes and sizes
during its time.
Misinterpreted by many as a 'Psychedelic' magazine, Oz actually had more in
common with Private Eye, being VERY anti-establishment but, with its target
audience firmly focused on the emerging underground scene, it scored a
massive hit. Until then there was only really the Indica Bookshop run by
Miles for this kind of literature so it's success was virtually guaranteed.
From the outset it was full of anger, radical ideas and left wing
political ideals but, by the time Issue No.3 arrived, it was obviously
becoming visually very psychedelic. Australian artist Martin Sharp had
started experimenting with LSD and the stunning cover of Issue No.3 is
testament to his new found influences it features a joint smoking Mona
Lisa and some very suggestive looking bananas!!
Issue No.4 featured superb artwork from one of London's finest, Hapsash and
the Coloured Coat, but perhaps the most famous cover of all was Sharp's Bob
Dylan cover for Issue No.7.
It was not all psychedelic beauty though, sometimes the covers were enough
to stop you in your tracks as a result of their powerful imagery (Issue
No.10) or were just downright controversial (Issue No.25 and 28).
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caravanseraiclub safari/morocco 2006 (cont)
the sahara desert
What is one to say of all that? Where to begin? Or better, where does it
all end? Undoubtedly some have been changed. Radicalised? Brought Down
To Earth? Inspired. Informed, in the widest sense. Accepted. Outraged,
about things like the draining of the Draa Valley to service the new yuppie
suburbs and film studio at Quarzazat. The illegal additives in everything
you buy in the shops. But why?
Our safe arrival was followed by 3 days of delicious acclimatisation in our
won African mud hut chalet at the Prends Ton Temps in the care of the wise,
funny, brave, jetblack funloving Balleid, the musician owner and his
changing group of local musicians who play spontaneously (by loose
arrangement?) every night, not as entertainment so much as doing what they
do but now with foreigners present which makes it a party.
And what foreigners! By the third day both Balleid and Brahim, our guide,
are declaring that we’re the “craziest group of nice people” they’ve ever
accepted into their bosom! I won’t attempt to describe that glorious,
inspiring first week when hip westerners made the mix with the local
Berbers and negroes because here’s another amazing thing. Caress and Lucy
and others had brought the latest vid-fones and digi-cameras and a LOT of
it is now recorded and, with the help of a very interesting guy called
David Edmonds, I hope we can get it up on the Parallel YOUniversity’s site
because a very clear video of zippies and Berbers says more than a million
words!
The fourth day everyone was ready to head out into the Sahara
proper. Except me. For, tucked into a concrete shed at the edge of the
Prends Ton Temps’ gated entrance, I’d discovered a brand new working
computer! Full broadband internet! It seemed to be openly used by anyone
who wanted to, including most of the staff. The African vision of communal
sharing, especially since broadband means it doesn’t cost a penny more to
let the whole village use it. What had they mostly been looking at? Sex
and Islam, in that order. It was full of bugs, however, though it was
looked after as well as possible by Prof, a self taught tekkie from across
the road who also later helped me with the last of my three hot sand baths.
So I saw them all off in the jeep and another car and wrote 2000 words
describing the trip up till now, all of which utterly disappeared without
trace into the goddamn computer. But it had been an explosion of
experiences. A group of hip London zippy types and an American flown over
specially for the trip arriving at the heart of the old Red City. Extreme
in the extreme.
The next day (after losing my 2000 word update) I go out to the desert with
Balleid the exquisite musician just can’t resist the action out at the
camp. Three young band members from Mohamed (end of the road) have hired 2
jeeps to do a gig in Quarzazate and are driving home, visiting their guru,
Balleid, on the way, for a smoke and a catch-up. During the hour long
drive they drink beers and discuss their Big Hopes/plans for a tour of
Europe, before dropping us off where Brahim will pick us up.
Listening to their discussion, I find myself wondering if I’m seeing a deep
change going on. Last time it was like everyone in the community was a
musician (at the very least they can drum in time, and love to!) and the
‘musicians’ were those who worked a little harder at it and ‘emerged’ from
the community in order to better serve that community. What else? Now
these young guys are aware of being a ‘band’, and I wonder if they are
being separated from their communities. (so what’s new I hear myself ask,
but another self is fighting to STOP just such a corporate process.)
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More Billionaires Than Ever What Does That Tell You?!
There are now 313 billionaires in America, the largest number ever, and a
huge jump over the 262 counted last year, according to Forbes magazine.
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Leading UK Medical Journal Calls For
Resumption Of Psychedelic Research
The prospects for resumption of psychedelic research in the UK took an
auspicious turn this month when an influential British medical journal, the
Lancet, published an editorial encouraging research into the potential
therapeutic benefits of psychedelic drugs.
The editorial also calls for a new legal structure that makes this research
easier and less burdensome to conduct. The Lancet editorial was inspired
by a commentary published in the British Journal of Psychiatry by Ben
Sessa, M.D., in June 2005. The Lancet editorial received positive coverage
in London's biggest newspaper, the Guardian.
The Lancet Editorial:
http://www.maps.org/sys/nq.pl?id=811&fmt=page
Dr. Ben Sessa's commentary in the British Journal of Psychiatry:
http://www.maps.org/w3pb/new/2005/2005_Sessa_22760_1.pdf
Guardian Unlimited reports "Lancet Calls for LSD in Labs":
http://www.maps.org/sys/nq.pl?id=812&fmt=page
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caravanseraiclub safari/morocco 2006 (cont)
There’s little to equal your final arrival among the golden, pitiless,
beautiful dunes, the desert proper. It’s the Absolute Frontier. Beyond
lie thousands of miles of
well, more desert. There’s little innit but
there are five hundred thousand square miles of it!
I am greeted with delight by massed caravanseraiclubbers and assorted
Berbers: Brahim, his brothers Rashid and Yehyeh, who was the village idiot
last time I was here but who’s grown into a man and not at all an idiot now
(and couldn’t have been then). And assorted other Berbers whom I never
quite identify who help with the cooking and cleaning.
We each have our own tent, bigger than my front room in London. Draped
with carpets and camelhair netting, very simple yet lovely and
natural. Each day they’re swept of the inevitable desert dust that gets
everywhere.
The dust and heat are not good, and a disgusting, alien, end-of-the-world
wind blows continuously for the first couple of days. Mostly everyone hung
around the communal tent. Yet, I think, the Desert shows your existential
loneliness or whatever. No doubt they were afraid on several levels, but
everyone increasingly relaxed as the weather improved.
Me, I came down with burned lips and an outbreak on my chin, on the face
that faces the world. On top of that I’d been hit with the “golden splatt”
the last night at the Prends Ton Temps. That’s the shits shot into a 3rd
World Toilet :). Amazing how we reported such earthy matters down there
that we’d never have mentioned in the city. And on top of all that, my
brain had felt like it was melting since we first hit the desert areas. In
fact I went through a bit of an identity meltdown. Luckily I recognised
what was happening to me, it was something that always happened when you
removed the strings that normally motivated your puppet, it was some kind
of Back To Earth process that I recognised I couldn’t fight. Instead I
could accept it patiently, without getting depressed as well. I guess
that’s Wisdom, eh? I knew I’d just have to go through it for a day or two
and that I’d eventually emerge. Which I did.
Everyone gathered in the main communal tent where it’s great! Balleid has
come to make music, or that’s just what he is, and therefore what he
does. There follow three fantastic evenings, so great that Balleid kept
postponing his return to check on his own hotel. All the group are
thoroughly enchanted as the Berbers (with most of the clubbers joining in
drumming) make wonderful swirling beat-heavy music deep into the desert
nights. It’s howling dust outside but inside it’s like a medieval
tableau. Everyone thrilled, moved, some to tears of joy, and the Sense of
Community that we’ve almost totally lost in the West.. Definitely the high
point of our desert stay.
And all the media we had among us! There are some great fotos and some
fantastic fone videos of this time which I hope we can get together and
onto a site. I’m certain that when you SEE it, as opposed to a million
words from me, there will be FIFTY people along next time! And next time
I’m sure we’ll be sending back live copy of our activities! Sitting there,
stoned, I start to have visions of Megatripolis/PLANET. A LIVE club around
the world!
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Petition Of A Conscious Computer
A Moot Court Hearing on the Petition of a "conscious computer" to be
treated as a legal person was held at the 1st Colloquium on the Law of
Transhuman Persons in Florida.
http://www.kurzweilai.net/email/artRedirect.html?artID=677&m=5435
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Another important word on media. The Berbers’ attitudes to it. Actually
all the Africans. They’ve taken to the mobile fone like ducks to water or
camels to sand. They LOVE it. They see the POINT of it. Brahim opined
that, of all the changes he’d seen in his life, the mobile fone was the
biggest change. He had a good story (prepared, guide style?) about
it. Seems in the old days if you met someone in town and asked “Have you
seen Abdullah recently?” you’d reply: “I got him here in my pocket”. Well,
now you did! It’s changing Africa on the deepest possible level. Man-made
frontiers are dissolving as they communicate across it without
control. Soon the internet will be linked into the fones and politics and
critical socio-political information will stream unstoppably across Africa.
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Scientists Work On Laws For Robots
To Avoid Possible War With Artificial Intelligence
Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry is working on
a new set of safety guidelines for next-generation robots. It’s the first
attempt
at a formal version of the first of Asimov's Laws of Robotics:
"A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human
being to come to harm."
Pravda May 30, 2006
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Take a single example. We got here in the middle of the Nepalese uprising
against the monarchy. Morocco is a monarchy and yet, try as I did, I could
not find a single reference to it anywhere nor anyone who knew anything
about it. When the internet plugs into the fone system, however, such news
will sweep unstoppably around the country with who can predict what
consequences! Those sociopathic urban idiots at the Word Bank and the IMF
are probably drawing up plans right now to deepen their control, and
they’r3e building it all on the assumption they’re dealing with a bunch of
ignorant negroes when that’s already changing so utterly that their plans
are already out of touch with History.
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The Next Wave Of The Web
The imminence of wireless broadband for mobiles means we are about to enter
the phase of mobile and ubiquitous computing. It is also going to
bring the Internet to the hundreds of millions of people who have no
Internet access.
The Web is already full of knowledge-intensive AI components.
news at nature.com May 26, 2006
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The older French lady, JV, is with us the first night but leaves the next
day. And Buchera arrives the day after! Wow! Max had called her, backed
by Brahim who always wants another paying guest. I’d predicted that this
was a real test of whether she was a hooker as half the group were
maintaining. No hooker was going to hide her bushel down here, let alone
her Buchera. Jokingly I say I’ll pay for the whole marriage if she shows
up. Which she does and they all jokingly hold me to it, until the next
thing happens.
All the experiences the different clubbers went through. Riding
camels. Eating tajines. Getting the shits. Rising early before the sun
has got going in order to explore the desert on foot. Live Music like they
thought was only in movies. And the sunsets, oh the sunsets, not that we
saw any of them during the first days, what with the dust storms and winds
and all.
[continued in next UP!]
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ONE OF THE MOST DANGEROUS FALLACIES
STALKING OUR WORLD TODAY IS
ISRAEL’S’ ADVICE TO AMERICA:
THE ARABS ONLY UNDERSTAND ONE THING: FORCE!
The Persecution Of The Palestinians
by Patrick J. Buchanan
“Why do they hate us?” So stunned Americans asked, after 9/11, when we
learned that across the Arab world, many were saying, “The Americans had it
coming.”
>> i’d been saying it for decades. i thought it would wake america up and
received the news with joy (and sadness at the victims whose number,
however, was TINY compared to what had been going on.) well, it did, but
not before a gigantic toxic boil in america’s body politic had had to be
lanced for good and the Dinos’ Last Stand had ground down embarrassingly in
the sand of
human evolution?
For a textbook example of why we are hated, consider Gaza and the West
Bank. There, a brutal Israeli/U.S.-led cut-off in aid has been imposed on
the Palestinians for voting the wrong way in a free election.
Immediately after Hamas’s victory, Israel halted the $55 million a month
the Palestinian Authority received as its share of tax and customs
revenue. Israel demanded Europe and the U.S. also end all aid to the PA
until Hamas renounces terror, recognizes Israel, and disarms.
>> don’t they also have to unanimously crawl up to the vegetable sharon.
kiss his wheelchair, and apologise for attacking him so much? or is that
just the Pal leaders?
President Bush, busy conducting a worldwide crusade for democracy and
urging that the Palestinian elections be held and that Hamas should
participate, obediently complied. For months now, U.S. and European aid to
the PA, half its already small budget, has been halted.
Well, the early returns are in. “Surgeons at Gaza’s biggest hospital,”
says the Financial Times, “have suspended non-essential surgery for lack of
sutures, laboratory kits and anaesthetics.” Environmental protection
agency workers have no money for petrol to monitor sewage and industrial
waste entering the water supply. Some 150,000 civil servants, 60,000 of
them armed security personnel, have gone unpaid for months. Already,
violent clashes have broken out between Hamas and Fatah. There is a danger
of collapse of the Palestinian Authority, chaos, and a need for the Israeli
army to intervene anew to restore order.
>> hurrah here come the good guys! see last UP’s take on Darfur.
up!
Supermarkets have to extend credit to customers who have no money for
food. Woodrow Wilson called sanctions “the silent, deadly remedy.” Its
victims are always the sick, the elderly, the women, and the children.
The World Bank, which predicted the aid cut-off would lead to a 30% fall in
average personal incomes among the Palestinians, now considers that
prediction “too rosy” and expects “the worst year in the West Bank and
Gaza’s recent dismal economic history.”
>> now add THAT to the abominable atrocities we already know have been
going on there for decades now!
Finally, May 9, under European pressure, the U.S. relented and a trickle of
aid began to flow.
THE ARABS ONLY UNDERSTAND ONE THING: FORCE!
Query: who, besides al-Qaeda and recruiters of suicide bombers, can
conceivably benefit from persecuting the Palestinian people like
this? Does President Bush or Condi Rice think the Palestinians will
respect an America that did this to their children?! After we urged this
election?! After we called for Hamas to participate?! After we preached
our devotion to democracy?!
“The aid cut-off appears to be increasing anti-U.S. sentiment here,” writes
>> vastly understates
the Post’s Scott Wilson. He quotes 33-year-old pharmacist Mustafa Hasoona:
“The problem is the West, not us. If they don’t respect democracy, they
shouldn’t call for it. We are with this government we elected. I voted for it.”
According to the Financial Times, Hamas is winning converts for refusing to
buckle. Said Khalil Abu Leila, a Hamas leader, “They have misunderstood
the Arab mentality. As long as the pressure increases on Hamas, the more
popular it will become.”
The purpose of U.S.-Israeli policy today is to punish the Palestinians for
how they voted and to force Hamas to yield or to collapse its
government. How does such a policy win hearts and minds for America?
Terrorism has been described as waging war on innocents to break their
political leaders. Is that not a fair description of what we are doing to
the Palestinians? No wonder they hate us.
June 5, 2006 Issue
http://amconmag.com/2006/2006_06_05/print/buchananprint.html
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Hi Fraser, just been reading in up! 0019// right, lets' move on about
Japanese "aoi" for the colour blue green.
well, here's another: we have pale green (which we call green) pale blue
(which we call blue) but pale red (which we call “pink”!)
describe a pink t-shirt or a front door as "red" and no one will know what
you’re onnabout.
Oliver, Oxford
up!
The Current Regime In America
Must Be “Wiped Off The Face Of The Map”
HERE’S WHAT THE PRESIDENT OF IRAN ACTUALLY SAID
- ACCORDING TO THE NEW YORK TIMES
"They say it is not possible to have a world without the United States and
Zionism. But you know that this is a possible goal and slogan. Let's take
a step back. We had a hostile regime in this country which was
undemocratic, armed to the teeth and, with its security apparatus of SAVAK
[the intelligence bureau of the Shah of Iran's government] watching
everyone. An environment of terror existed. When our dear Imam [Ayatollah
Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the Iranian revolution] said that the
regime must be removed, many of those who claimed to be politically
well-informed said it was not possible. All the corrupt governments were
in support of the regime when Imam Khomeini started his movement. All the
Western and Eastern countries supported the regime even after the massacre
of September 7 [1978] and said the removal of the regime was not
possible. But our people resisted and it is 27 years now that we have
survived without a regime dependent on the United States.
“The tyranny of the East and the West over the world must end, but weak
people who can see only what lies in front of them cannot believe
this. Who would believe that one day we could witness the collapse of the
Soviet Empire? But we watched its fall in our lifetimes. And it collapsed
in a way that we have to refer to libraries because no trace of it is left.
“Imam [Khomeini] said Saddam must go, and he said he would grow weaker than
anyone could imagine. Now you see the man who, only 10 years ago, spoke so
arrogantly you would have thought he was immortal, is being tried in his
own country in handcuffs and shackles by those who he believed supported
him and with whose backing he committed his crimes. Our dear Imam said
that the occupying regime must be wiped off the map, and this was a very
wise statement.
“We cannot compromise over the issue of Palestine. Is it possible to
create a new front in the heart of an old front? This would be a defeat,
and whoever accepts the legitimacy of this regime [Israel] has, in fact,
signed the defeat of the Islamic world. Our dear Imam targeted the heart
of the world oppressor in his struggle, meaning the occupying regime. I
have no doubt that the new wave that has started in Palestine, and we
witness it in the Islamic world too, will eliminate this disgraceful stain
from the Islamic world."
www.nytimes.com
EVERYONE IN POLITICS AND THE MEDIA KNOWS THIS IS WHAT HE SAID. SO NOW WE
KNOW THAT ANYONE WHO REPEATS THE LIBEL AGAINST IRAN IS A LIAR. PRESUMABLY
WITH A MOTIVE.
up!
london
Screws Tighten On Cowboy Clampers
A law to crack down on cowboy car clampers operating on private land has
come into force. The change means every clamping company has to be
licensed and staff must abide by a code of conduct.
Failure to get a licence, which requires going on a training course, could
attract a £5,000 fine or 6-month prison sentence
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4507695.stm
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