[pagan-magik] UP! 251// The Coming Peace// 20 05 07

[fraser at parallel-youniversity.com]

    Subject:  	UP! 251// The Coming Peace// 20 05 07
Date: 	Sun, 20 May 2007 04:17:29 +0100
From: 	fraser at parallel-youniversity.com <fraser at parallel-youniversity.com>



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*/The //Coming// Peace/ *
*/Message from Prime Source:// Children of Light throughout my creation, 
I want to prepare you for what will soon come.  We are now close to 
achieving peace.  This peace will last forever and ever, through all 
millennia./ *
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*/Your efforts will help all creation as we begin a new era.  We will 
soon forget about what has occurred these past thousands of years, and 
only look forward to the //future//./ *
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*/My children//, now is the time to be who you truly are.  Live your 
life in Love and Light.  Let your Light so shine that others will follow 
me.  //Spread Love to all my children//./ *
*Bryan James.
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If you want to prove the existence of Goddess, look down at your feet.  
You are standing on Her.
 
Why do you think people throughout the ages, before history to now, have 
always bowed their heads in reverence instead of looking up at the sky?
 
Our very Beings know the truth.
luv
Deborah.  Liverpool.
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*firethegrid *
*Dear Fraser,
You will like this.  www.firethegrid.com
The story of how this woman survived a fatal car crash with her 4yo son, 
and then brought him back to life by following instructions from "beings 
of light", who are now instructing her to organise a similar lifesaving 
exercise for our planet earth on july 17 at 11:11gmt.
Hope you publish it!
Nicole, Brighton, UK
UP!  Hinduism:  This is the sum of duty; do naught onto others what you 
would not have them do unto you.    /Mahabharata 5,1517/
 
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*p.03  "sun21" lands in new york! // Solar Power at Half the Cost // 
Reach High And Try And Catch The Wind!
p.04  _PROOF_ Bees ARE Dying From GM?
p.06  The Self-Impeaching President
p.07  Our Moral Obligation to _LOSE The War_
p.09  Michael Moore's "Sicko" For Cannes!
p.09  _ecotherapy section - _some health professional telling you to 
take all these drugs?  // just laffing would do u more good :)  // Is A 
Country Walk Better Than Prozac? // Gurdjieff On Drugs
p.13  The Hippies Were Right!/// FEEDBACK/
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*"sun21" Makes Historic Arrival In NYC! *
*Using solar power only, the catamaran "sun21," developed and sponsored 
by the Swiss transatlantic21 Association, has just undertaken the first 
solar-motorised crossing of the Atlantic to promote the great potential 
of this technology for ocean navigation.  The "sun21" made its historic 
arrival into New York's North Cove Marina at 3:00pm on 8 May 2007, 3 pm, 
having covered about 7000 sea miles.
 
On this beautiful day the "sun21" crew was happy to have completed the 
first transatlantic crossing with a solar powered boat.
 
"sun21" serves as the shining example of clean energy applications in 
practice.  Michel Thonney, its skipper, put it like this: /"I don't 
particularly like speeches but I would like to shout out to the world 
//- use solar energy!"/
http://www.transatlantic21.org/
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*Solar Power at Half the Cost *
*A new mechanism for focusing light on small areas of photovoltaic 
material could make solar power in residential and commercial 
applications cheaper than electricity from the grid in most markets in 
the next few years.
[Technology Review May 11, 2007]
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*Reach High And Try And Catch The Wind! *
*by Keay Davidson
Scientists are eyeing the jet stream, an energy source that rages _night 
and day, 365 days a year_, just a few miles above our heads.  If they 
can tap into its fierce winds, they say the world's entire electrical 
needs could be met.
 
The trick is figuring out how to harness the energy and get it down to 
the ground _cost-effectively and safely_.
 
Dozens of researchers in California and around the world believe huge 
kite-like wind-power generators could be the solution.  As bizarre as 
that might seem, respected experts say the idea is sound enough to 
justify further investigation.
 
The jet stream typically blows from west to east 6 to 9 miles over the 
northern hemisphere at speeds up to _310 mph_.
 
By lofting generators into the upper atmosphere, scientists theorise, 
they could capture the power of the jet stream and transmit the 
electricity along cables back to Earth.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/05/07/MNGNEPMD801.DTL
UP!  Buddhism:  Hurt not others in ways that you yourself would find 
hurtful.   /Udana-Varga/
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*_PROOF_ Bees ARE Dying From GM? *

*/'We are playing about with genetic structures that existed for 
millions of years,
and the experiment is running out of control."/*

*Research by a leading German zoologist has shown that genes used to 
genetically modify crops can jump the species barrier, newspapers 
reported on Sunday.  A 3-year study by Professor Hans-Heinrich Kaatz at 
the /University// of Jena/ found that _the gene used to modify oil-seed 
rape had transferred to bacteria living inside honey bees_.  The 
findings undermine claims by the biotech industry that genes cannot spread.
 
They will also increase pressure on farmers across Europe to destroy 
fields of oil-seed rape contaminated with GM seeds.  In an interview for 
/The Observer/ newspaper, Kaatz said: /"I have found the 
herbicide-resistant genes in the rapeseed transferred across to _the 
bacteria and yeast inside the intestines of young bees_.  This happened 
rarely, but it did happen."/  
 
/The Observer/ said Kaatz was reluctant to talk about his work until it 
is officially published and reviewed by fellow scientists.  The reports 
come a day after Britain's Agriculture Minister Nick Brown urged farmers 
to destroy crops contaminated with genetically modified seeds.  Up to 
600 farmers in Britain are believed to have inadvertently planted more 
than 30,000 acres of oilseed rape contaminated with GM rape seeds, 
supplied by Anglo-Dutch seed company Advanta.  Similar crops have been 
planted elsewhere in Europe, including in France, Germany and Sweden. 
 The French and Swedish governments have already announced they are 
_ordering the uprooting of the crops._
 
The research is highly significant because it suggests that all types of 
bacteria could become contaminated by genes used in genetically modified 
technology, including those that live inside the human digestive system. 
 If this happened, it could have an impact on the bacteria's vital role 
in helping the human body fight disease, aid digestion and facilitate 
blood clotting.
 
Agriculture Minister Nick Brown confirmed the potential significance of 
Kaatz's research.  He said: /'If this is true, then it would be very 
serious.'/
 
The 47-year-old Kaatz's reluctance to talk about his research until it 
has been published in a scientific journal is because he fears a 
backlash from the scientific community similar to that faced by Dr Arpad 
Pustzai, who claimed that genetically modified potatoes damaged the 
stomach lining of rats and was sacked and discredited.
 
Dr Mae-Wan Ho, geneticist at /Open University/ and a critic of GM 
technology, has no doubts about the dangers.  She said: /'These findings 
are very worrying and provide the first real evidence of what many have 
feared.  Everybody is keen to exploit GM technology, but _nobody is 
looking at the risk of horizontal gene transfer_./
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/'We are playing about with genetic structures that existed for millions 
of years and the experiment is running out of control.'/  One of the 
biggest concerns is if the anti-biotic resistant gene used in some GM 
crops crossed over to bacteria.  /'If this happened it would leave us 
unable to treat major illnesses like meningitis and E coli .'/
 
Kaatz, who works at the respected Institute for Bee Research at the 
University of Jena in Germany, built nets in a field planted with 
genetically modified rapeseed produced by AgrEvo.  He let the bees fly 
freely within the net.  At the beehives, he installed pollen traps in 
order to sample the pollen from the bees' hind legs when entering the 
hive.  This pollen was fed to young honey bees in the laboratory. 
 Pollen is the natural diet of young bees, which need a high protein 
diet.  Kaatz then extracted the intestine of the young bees and 
discovered that the gene from the GM rape-seed had been transferred in 
the bee gut to the microbes.
http://rense.com/general76/gent.htm
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*An Organic View On Colony Collapse Disorder *
*I'm on an organic beekeeping list of about 1,000 people, mostly 
Americans, and no one in the organic beekeeping world, including 
commercial beekeepers, is reporting colony collapse disorder (CCD).  
 
The problem with the big commercial guys is that they put pesticides in 
their hives to fumigate for varroa mites, and they feed antibiotics to 
the bees.  They also haul the hives by truck all over the place to make 
more money with pollination services, which stresses the colonies.
> > yes, this is one of the most scary things i've discovered since 
tracking the Great Bee Disaster - how they truck whole colonies around 
the country.
 
And yet, though most of us beekeepers are fighting with the Varroa 
mites, I'm happy to say that I don't have any such problems.  WHY?
 
_It's mostly because I've gone to natural sized cells._  In case you 
weren't aware, and I wasn't for a long time, the foundation in common 
usage results in much larger bees than what you would find in a natural 
hive.  I've measured sections of natural worker brood combs that are 
4.6mm in diameter.  What most people use for worker brood is 5.4mm in 
diameter.  If you translate that into 3 dimensions instead of 1, it 
produces a bee that is about half as large again as is natural.  
 
On the other hand, by letting the bees build natural sized cells, I have 
virtually eliminated my Varroa and Tracheal mite problems.  One cause of 
this is shorter capping times by one day, and shorter post-capping times 
by one day.  This means less Varroa get into the cells, and less Varroa 
reproduce in the cells.
 
Why should anyone be surprised that the major media reports forget to 
tell us that the dying bees are actually hyper-bred varieties that we 
coax into a larger than normal body size?  _It sounds just like the beef 
industry_, and all the rest.  And, have we here a solution to the 
vanishing bee problem?  
 
Although a not uncommonly held opinion is that, since this new pattern 
of bee colony collapse seems to have struck from out of the blue, there 
must be a _triggering agent_, it is more likely that some biological 
limit in the bees has been crossed.  There is no shortage of evidence 
that we have been fast approaching this limit for some time.
 
_We've been pushing them too hard_, Dr. Peter Kevan, an associate 
professor of environmental biology at the University of Guelph in 
Ontario, told the CBC.  And we're _starving_ them out by feeding them 
artificially, and by _moving them great distances_.  Given the stress 
commercial bees are under, Kevan suggests CCD might be caused by 
parasitic mites, or long cold winters, or long wet springs, or 
pesticides, or genetically modified crops.  Maybe it's all of the above...
UP!  Christianity:  All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to 
you, do ye so to them;
for this is the law and the prophets.   /Matthew 7:1/
 
 
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*The Self-Impeaching President *
*Now Needs Help From We the People *
*by Steve Bhaerman aka Swami Beyondananda *
*At the beginning of the year, I wrote an article on the 
/"Self-Impeaching President"/ suggesting that George Bush seemed 
incapable of any flexibility and would inevitably isolate himself beyond 
right field.  I also suggested that impeachment was rightly /"off the 
table"/ as part of a /partisan/ movement, but would be /"on the table"/ 
_when a critical mass of people understood how intractably criminal this 
Administration was and is._
 
The formerly uncritical masses are about to reach critical mass as the 
realisation sinks in just how different this regime is from anything 
America has experienced up until now.  In any democratic government 
anywhere in the world, Gonzales would be /"gone."/  He'd have tendered 
his resignation for the good of the country, the party and the 
President.  But not here, and not now.  This Administration plans to 
barricade itself behind the stonewall.  They are challenging the people 
to bring down the wall, _and now it's time to face that challenge_.
 
If we are successful in /"overgrowing"/ this regime through a 
non-violent evolution restoring we the people to power, /we will stand 
as an inspiration to the entire world. / INDEED, THE WORLD WILL NEVER BE 
THE SAME BECAUSE WE WILL HAVE THE GENUINE MORAL AUTHORITY THAT COMES 
FROM LEADING BY EXAMPLE.  
 
_We might actually be able to coax democracy around the world __from the 
grassroots up__ instead of trying to __enforce mockracy from the top down_.
 
MoveOn.org <http://www.moveon.org/> is now officially soliciting views 
from their membership regarding impeaching our current misleadership. 
 Please go here and voice your choice: 
http://pol.moveon.org/bushsurvey/a.html?id=10229-4599041-uA6iZW&t=1 
<http://pol.moveon.org/bushsurvey/a.html?id=10229-4599041-uA6iZW&t=1>
Please send it along to others too.  
 
The Democrats won't do it without pressure from below, the press is 
still acting as if this Administration is legitimate, so the only way we 
can restore our republic is through _grassroots action_.  __
up!
 
Carter Attacks Blair's Iraq Role
Ex President Jimmy Carter has criticised outgoing British Prime Minister 
Tony Blair  on the BBC for his /"blind/" support of the war in Iraq.  He 
described Mr Blair's backing for George W Bush as/ "apparently 
subservient"./
 
He said the UK's /"almost undeviating"/ support for /"the ill-advised 
policies of President Bush in Iraq had //been// a major tragedy for the 
world"./
 
Had Mr Blair distanced himself from the Bush policy during the run-up to 
the 2003 invasion _it might have made a crucial difference to American 
political and public opinion_.
 
/"One of the defences of the Bush administration... has been, okay, we 
must be more correct in our actions than the world thinks _because Great 
Britain is backing us_./
/ /
/"So I think the combination of Bush and Blair giving their support to 
this tragedy in Iraq has strengthened the effort, made the opposition 
less effective, //_prolonged the war_//,/ /and increased the tragedy 
that has resulted."/
 
The war had /_"caused deep schisms on a global basis"_/_,_ he said, and 
he hoped Mr Blair's successor, Gordon Brown, would be less enthusiastic 
in his support for it.
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*Our Moral Obligation to _LOSE The War_ *
*by Robert Shetterly
Every act has moral and immoral potential.  
 
The immense immorality of the choice to attack Iraq, and to base that 
choice in lies, propaganda, and fear is hardly news now.  But the fact 
that, above all else, it was a _moral_ choice means that /another/ moral 
choice is possible.  And only one choice would atone for the original.
 
This war will not end until the funding is cut off.  Anyone who'd 
continue the funding to /"support the troops"/ is really telling you 
that, once you make a moral mistake, keep making it, and that those who 
pay with their blood for your mistake are grateful for the support. 
 Such logic is also somehow maintaining that policy is made by 
/soldiers/, not by the people, the Congress and the President.
 
None of the offered plans now before us to de-escalate the war disavow 
what we all know to be its original goals - _control of Iraq's oil and 
the building of large, permanent US military bases in Iraq_.  Nor do any 
of these bills address the central issue of accountability, the fact 
that _this war is a war crime, a crime against our democracy, our 
Constitution, the Iraqi people, international law, and our own 
soldiers_.  Without accountability, our democracy is meaningless. 
 Without moral action, our claim to integrity and respect are meaningless.
 
Our obligation as citizens is not to play political games with the 
Democrats or Republicans to help them re-position for the next election. 
 Our obligation is to demand that the laws and ideals of this country be 
upheld.  The Iraq War problem is not that we are losing it and need a 
better strategy.  It's that _we have no moral right to win it!_  As bad 
as the colossal mismanagement, greed and corruption are, they are not 
the true issue.  Betrayal of the public trust is the issue. 
 _Pre-meditated murder is the issue._
 
The only good that may come from this disgraceful time in our history 
will be the honest acknowledgement of how and why the country was 
misled, followed by punishment for those responsible.  Without that 
justice, we will learn nothing and be easy prey for the next abuse of 
power.
 
It's horrible to think that our soldiers have died and been injured in 
vain.  However, if we demand accountability, demand impeachment, 
_something honest will have been redeemed_.  All that blood may form the 
bulwark against future abuse.  In a sense _freedom will have been won, 
democracy will have been affirmed, justice will have been established 
--- here._
 
No one can tell what will happen when the US withdraws - though many 
/did/ predict the chaos of insurgency & sectarianism.  But whatever 
happens, it will be made easier _if we involve international 
peacekeepers, remove our bases, forego any claim to the oil, and pay 
reparations._  
> > which, of course, the UP! has been promulgating for the last 3 years.
 
The war is and will continue to be a moral/legal catastrophe.  But since 
we precipitated it, we can't pretend we want to protect the Iraqis from 
it!  We can't.  We're the cause of it.
 
This administration has acted from a position that denigrates human 
rights, legal rights, moral rights, privacy, civil, women's, 
environmental, worker's and children's rights.  Our only hope is to 
_demand our rights, our rights as citizens, our rights to our ideals, 
our rights to a sense of morality_.
 
The destruction of a small village in Vietnam was once explained away by 
our military as a village that had to be destroyed in order to save it. 
 That perversity became symbolic of the entire war.  Accurately. the War 
on Iraq should now be described as _a war that must be lost in order to 
save America_.  That is our moral obligation.
> > and george bush will have made this moral evolution possible!!!
thankyou, george.  now here, let me give u a hand onto the Fossil Shelf.
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/05/10/1106/
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> > i agree totally with this document.  i'd go much further.  the best 
hope for the planet (meaning everyone) right now is that the Dino Elite 
fails totally _and is seen to fail totally by the whole planet_.  their 
dino presence must be removed from planetary culture forever.  the human 
species can no longer afford such attitudes & behaviour.  they must be 
forced from the stage in MAXIMUM SHAME. 
UP!  Islam:  *No one of you is a believer until he desires for his 
brother that which he desires for himself. *  /Sunnah/
 
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*Michael Moore's "Sicko" For Cannes! *
*It's a wrap!  Mike's new film, "Sicko," will have its world premiere at 
the Cannes Film Festival.  As with /"Bowling for Columbine"/ and 
/"Fahrenheit 9/11,"/ it's been chosen to screen there.
 
Mike's intention was to keep "Sicko" under wraps before its premiere in 
Cannes, and he's been very silent about what he's been up to.  In part, 
that's because he was working very hard to complete the film, but his 
silence was also because /_"I knew that the health care industry - which 
makes up 15%+ of America's GDP - was not going to like much of what they 
were going to see in this movie and I thought it best not to upset them 
any sooner than need be."_/
 
Well, going quietly to Cannes was not to be.   For some strange reason, 
on May 2^nd , the Bush administration initiated an action over how Mike 
obtained some of the content they believe is in his film.  Since none of 
them have actually /seen/ the film (or so he hopes!), they clearly 
decided, unlike with /"Fahrenheit 9/11,"/ not to wait until the film was 
too far down the road to begin their attack.
 
This pre-emptive action by the Bush administration on the eve of the 
"Sicko" premiere concerns a trip he took to Cuba to film scenes 
involving a group of 9/11 rescue workers suffering from illnesses 
obtained from work at Ground Zero who have received little or no help 
with their health care from the government.  It led Mike's attorneys to 
fear for the safety of the film, noting that Bush's Treasury Secretary, 
Henry Paulson, may try to claim that the content of the movie was 
obtained through a violation of the US trade embargo and travel laws 
that prohibit average citizens from travelling to Cuba.  (Since the law 
does not prohibit anyone from exercising their _first amendment right of 
a free press_, documentaries are protected works of journalism.)
/ /
/"All I've done is violate the modern-day rule of journalism" /complains 
an incredulous Mike Moore, /"The one that says Ask no questions of those 
in power or your luncheon privileges will be revoked."/
 
A dissection of the U.S. health-care system, "Sicko" was inspired by a 
segment on Moore's TV show /"The Awful Truth,"/ in which he staged a 
mock funeral outside a health-maintenance organisation that had declined 
a pancreas transplant for a diabetic man.  The HMO later relented.
 
At last September's Toronto International Film Festival, Moore previewed 
footage shot for "Sicko", presenting stories of _personal health-care 
nightmares_.  One scene showed a woman who was denied payment for an 
ambulance ride after a head-on collision because it was not pre-approved.
 
The timing of the investigation is reminiscent of the firestorm that 
preceded the Cannes debut of /"Fahrenheit 9/11,"/ which won the 
festival's top prize in 2004.  The /Walt Disney Co/. refused to let 
subsidiary /Miramax/ release the film because of its political content, 
prompting /Miramax/ bosses Harvey and Bob Weinstein to release 
/"Fahrenheit 9/11"/ on their own.
 
The Weinsteins later left /Miramax/ to form the /Weinstein Co.,/ which 
is releasing "Sicko".  
MichaelMoore.com.
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*_ecotherapy section_ *
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*some health professional telling you u gotta *
*chemical imbalance and need to take these drugs? *
*check this shocking truth -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b30iwhEw9ho
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*just laffing would do u more good :) *
*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fp-oJhBxn6o
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*_or a walk in the park?_ *
*Is A Country Walk Better Than Prozac? *
* by Patrick Barkham/The Guardian
The walkers I passed looked deliriously happy despite foul weather. 
 They were probably sniggering at my jogging style, but research for the 
charity /Mind/ has found that people do _feel less depressed after a 
country walk_.
 
A stroll in a park increased self-esteem in 90% of a group of people 
suffering from depression and 71% reported decreased levels of 
depression.  After a walk through a shopping centre, 44% said their 
self-esteem had dropped, and 22% felt more depressed.
 
Yet more anti-depressant prescriptions than ever were issued in the UK 
last year.  /Mind/ wants the medical establishment to instead consider 
/"ecotherapy",/ restoring health through contact with nature, such as 
exercise in a "green" setting, working on farms or structured contact 
with animals.
 
"It is a credible, clinically valid treatment option," says /Mind/'s 
chief executive, Paul Farmer.  /"The debate needs to be broadened."/
 
Scientific research is clear on the health benefits of nature.  US 
scientists found that hospital patients with a view of greenery recover 
more quickly than those who can only see buildings.  The UK government's 
chief medical officer said in a report that /"physical activity is 
effective in the treatment of clinical depression and can be as 
successful as psychotherapy or medication."/
 
More than 31 million anti-depressant prescriptions were issued in the UK 
last year.
 
Won't patients feel fobbed off if their GP tells them to get some 
exercise?  Jules Pretty, professor of environment and society at Essex 
University, believes doctors could prescribe a structured daily 
/"lifestyle plan"./  /"Taking pills seems easier,"/ he says, /"but 
shouldn't we be thinking not just about 'silver bullet' solutions?"/
> > see video above.  no psychiatric 'disease' has EVER been solved by 
modern psychiatry.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,2079610,00.html
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> > and you know something?  whenever someone tells me that this new 
kinda marijuana causes mild schizophrenia i reply:  well what do u think 
a stint in iraq does?"
 
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*Pentagon Survey Exposes Deep Demoralisation *
*Of Us Occupation Troops *
*Support for torture, routine abuse of Iraqi civilians *
*by Kate Randall *
*With the US war in Iraq in its 5th year, more than a third of the 
American soldiers deployed there _condone the torture of captured 
Iraqis_.  When torture could result in coerced information, 36%/39% of 
soldiers/marines support it.  And when torture is seen as preventing the 
death of a fellow soldier, that rises to 41%/44%.
 
And it's all in a Pentagon report on the mental health of US troops 
deployed in /Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF)/.  The /Mental Health 
Advisory Team (MHAT)/ report surveyed 1,320 soldiers and 447 marines 
between August and October 2006.  The survey data was issued internally 
on November 17, but was only made public last Friday, a month after 
tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan were extended from 12 months to 15 
months.
> > the post Dinosaur era we have now entered will be plagued by this 
karma for a generation :(
 
Depression, anxiety, alcoholism, post-traumatic stress disorder, marital 
problems and suicide, these mental health and personal problems are 
shown to directly influence the attitudes US soldiers hold toward the 
Iraqi population - resulting in /_increasing_/ levels of terror and 
brutality meted out to civilians.
 
/"Should All Non-Combatants Be Treated With Dignity And Respect?"/
Less than half of soldiers agreed.  Close to a third reported they had 
insulted or cursed at non-combatants.  12%/9% of marines/soldiers said 
they had unnecessarily damaged or destroyed Iraqi property; 7%/9% 
marines/soldiers said they had physically hit or kicked civilians.
 
Taken together, these figures reveal _literally hundreds of thousands of 
abusive incidents by US troops_, humiliating and beating civilians, 
destroying their homes and inflicting outright torture.  Since the 
self-reporting of such sadistic and illegal activity /must/ 
substantially underestimate the real scope of the violence and cruelty, 
this report helps explain the broad popular support in Iraq for armed 
resistance to US forces.
 
That the /majority/ of 170,000 American troops now deployed in Iraq 
believe Iraqi men, women and children have no right to be treated /"with 
dignity and respect"/ means that the American occupation force _sees the 
entire population as its enemy and treats it accordingly._
 
The Baghdad operation is sending more troops out into neighbourhoods 
where they face an increasingly hostile population.  Almost every 
soldier interviewed by the MHAT survey in 2006 reported being shot at by 
snipers, and more than three quarters reported being in situations where 
they thought they could be seriously injured or killed.  This can only 
be increasing under the "surge," with corresponding violence against 
civilians.
up! 
 
*
*Gurdjieff On Drugs *
*/"There is another question which interests me very much"/ I said.  
/"There are substances which yogis take to induce certain states.  Might 
these not be, in certain cases, //narcotics?  I have myself carried out 
a number of experiments in this direction and everything I have read 
about magic proves to me quite clearly that all schools at all times and 
in all countries have made a very wide use of narcotics for the creation 
of those states which make 'magic' possible."/
/ /
/"Yes" /said G./  //"In many cases these substances are those which you 
call 'narcotics'.  But they can be used in entirely different ways.  
There are schools which make use of them in the right way.  People in 
these schools take them for self-study, in order to take a look ahead, 
to know their possibilities better, to see beforehand what can be 
attained later as the result of prolonged sell-work.  When a man sees 
this and is convinced that what he has learned theoretically really 
exists, he then works consciously, he knows where he is going.  
Sometimes this is the easiest way of being convinced of the real 
existence of those possibilities which man often suspects in himself./
/ /
/"There is a special chemistry relating to this.  There are particular 
substances for each function.  Each function can either be strengthened 
or weakened, awakened or put to sleep.  But to do this a great knowledge 
of the human machine and of this special chemistry is necessary.  In all 
of these schools which make use of this method experiments are carried 
out only when they are really necessary and only under the direction of 
experienced and competent men who can foresee all results and adopt 
measures against any possible undesirable circumstances./
/ /
/"The substances used in these schools are not merely 'narcotics' as you 
call them, although many of them are prepared from such drugs as opium, 
hashish and so on./
/ /
/"Besides schools in which such experiments are carried out, there are 
other schools which use these or similar substances, not for experiment 
or study, but to attain definite desired results, if only for a short 
time.  Through a skilful use of such substances a man can be made very 
clever or very strong, for a certain time.  Afterwards, of course, he 
dies or goes mad, but that is not taken into consideration.  Such 
schools also exist.  So you see that we must speak very cautiously about 
schools.  They may do practically the same things but the results will 
be quite different."/
/ /
I was deeply interested in everything G said.  I felt in it some new 
points of view, unlike any I had met with before.
[P.D.Ouspensky: '/In Search Of The Miraculous.'/]
UP!  Confucianism:  Do not do to others what you would not like 
yourself.  Then there will be no resentment against you, either in the 
family or in the state.   /Analects 12:2/
 
 
Bring back the warp.  sweet memories of sunday morning with our little 
one mesmerised by it all.
 
Thanks for all the UP!s they are always a fascinating read.
 
Love , light peace & JOY
vini, bristol, uk
UP!  Taoism:  Regard your neighbour's gain as your gain, and your 
neighbour's loss as your own loss.   /Tai Shang Kan Yin P'ien/
 
 
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*The Hippies Were Right!/// FEEDBACK/ *
* 
Of course the 'hippies' were right.  The hippy movement started with 
intellectuals, scientists and artists on university campuses around the 
world.  It stands to reason they would have been ahead of their time.
David Bosankoe, Big Sur, California.
> > u make it sound so simple.  so wot were those 2 decades of sneering 
and put downs about?  the digestion process?  yeah, right!
up!
Fuck that! - THE HIPPIES _ARE_ RIGHT! and you know it - so get over it 
and on with it......
dj lookwood, london.
> > heh heh quite right.  thanks.
up!
 
love your obsession/compassion.  don't giv up da fight - u know u 
totally right.  
luv u always.
kaz, brixton.  xxxxxxxx
up!
 
YEAH!  TESTIFY!!!
johnnyfaith, chicago.
up!
 
We found a book put out by the Department of Health and Human Services 
called /Correlates and Consequences of Marijuana/, with about 100 
government studies on the 'erb.  The studies find there's a certain 
personality type that's more likely to smoke marijuana, [someone] who's 
_creative, broad-minded, fun, smart, literate, usually college-bound_.
Debbie Goldsberry, Cannabis Action Network, Almora, UP, India.
up!
 
Nice try, Fraser.
I too old to have been a hippie and too young to have been a beatnik.  
Learned organic eating/gardening from my granduncle, from my mother et 
al.  People old enough to have had kin who lived through the "dirty 
thirties" had to learn about "making do" (aka re-use, recycle, etc) and 
anyone who survived the oil crunch back in the 1970s knows we need 
better cheaper faster public transit far more than we need "more energy 
efficient" cars.
 
But if what you're saying is we need a new kind of "cultural revolution" 
based on so-called "hip" thinking, I'd have to agree.
 
Even the US Army is starting to compost.  And the Tucson AZ Sunday paper 
ran an article saying that we could feed the whole world if we'd support 
organic farming globally rather than mega-agribusiness.
cello, virginia.
UP!  Zoroastrianism:  That nature alone is good which refrains from 
doing to another whatsoever is not good for itself.   /Dadisten-I-dinik, 
94,5/
 
 
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*flow of propaganda?/// _FEEDBACK_/ *
* 
Dear UP,
I too have received "anti-muslim" spam, and worse, visited the 
"military" websites to see how those guys - or their PR directors - 
think.  And I saw what can only be called "snuff porn" featuring Marines 
blowing away Iraqi women and children.
 
On one hand, there are /"Jews"/ like myself, Bill Blum, Norman Solomon 
etc. who are about as /"Jewish"/ as they are "Buddhist" or whatever;
> > yeah, like i'm a scottish presbyterian, right.
 
that is, they were born of Jewish parents and considered, usually by 
Zionists and Nazis, to be /"Jews."/   Same with Xtians and any other 
/"religion."/  But while I know for a fact that writers like myself, 
Blum, Solomon etc. prove that /"not all Jews are Zionists,"/ this 
remains so only on the web or in leftist political circles.  If I had 
/"followed the path laid out by me"/ like the doctors, lawyers and 
accountants I grew up with, I would be, I assume, /"Israel Uber Alles."/
 
So, one point I've always argued against, that /"most Jews"/ support 
Israel, no matter what crimes it commits, might actually be true.  
Besides the fact that I'm not really /"Jewish"/ in that I'm an atheist 
who knows no Hebrew and hasn't been in a Synagogue since my enforced Bar 
Mitzvah - _they literally threatened me with Military School if I didn't 
knuckle under to Authority_ - those upper-middle-class to wealthy 
/"former classmates"/ of mine are probably no more /"god fearing"/  
Their /"religion"/ is Israel.  That's a sobering and alienating 
realization.  But from what I've seen, it's true...
Adam. New York.
UP!  Judaism:  What is hateful to you, do not do to your fellowman. 
 This is the entire Law; all the rest is commentary.  /Talmud, Shabbat 3id/
 
 
Beam me UP! Scottie!
Niall McDevitt, London.
> > luvvit!  :D
UP!  A Pushto proverb:  Don't do good and there won't be evil.  :\
 
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