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<div align="right"><i>“Do you realise the power you wield with the </font><font face="Swis721 BlkEx BT" color="#800080">UP</font>? The power of the word.<br>
You'll never know how many minds you changed, or indeed if you changed any.<br>
Personally, I adore the way you just chuck it all in there, make two wry comments,<br>
and leave the rest of us to figure it out. You're not afraid to take risks.<br>
Also, in a world of cynics and the apathetic, finding someone as willing<br>
to stretch his brain as much as me is a real breath of fresh air.”</i> Jerry, Riga, Italy.<br>
<font face="Swis721 BlkEx BT" color="#FF00FF">up!<br><br>
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</font>Get</b> <font face="Swis721 BlkEx BT" color="#FF00FF">UP<b>!</font> <font color="#339966"><i>Stand Up</b> <b>For Your Rights </b></font><font size=1>(and everybody’s too of course! :)<br>
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</font><font size=1 color="#993366"><i>u cant understand the world without innerstanding yourself<br>
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</font><font color="#FF6600"><i>MAKE </b></font><font face="Swis721 BlkEx BT" color="#FF00FF">UP</font><b>! <font color="#FF6600">YOUR MIND!!</font><font size=1 color="#FF00FF">!<br>
</font><font size=1 color="#993366">u cant innerstand yourself without understanding the world<br>
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</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica">p.01 </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=4 color="#808080">caravanseraiclub safari</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=4 color="#FF00FF">/morocco </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=4 color="#808080">2006 </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=4 color="#FF0000"><b><i><u>FEEDBACK<br>
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</i></b></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica">p.04 </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=5 color="#FF0000"><b><u>ACTION ALERT</u>:</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=5 color="#99CC00"> </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=5>Massive Gas Pipeline </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=5 color="#99CC00">To Pierce The Amazon</b> </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF0000">- <b>PLEASE NETWORK<br>
</b></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica">p.07 </font><font face="Abbess" color="#3366FF"><b>ALTERNATIVE CULTURAL HISTORY 3 - </font><font size=6 color="#CC99FF">Oz Magazine<br>
</b></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica">p.12 </font><font color="#008000"><b>THE MOST DANGEROUS FALLACY STALKING OUR WORLD IS </font><font color="#993300">ISRAEL</font><font color="#008000">’S’ ADVICE TO </font><font color="#993300">AMERICA</font><font color="#008000">: <i>“</font><font color="#FF0000">THE ARABS ONLY UNDERSTAND ONE THING: FORCE!”<br>
</i></b></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica">p.14 </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300"><i>WHAT IRAN’s PRESIDENT <u>ACTUALLY SAID</u></font><b> - The New York Times<br>
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<div align="center"><font size=4 color="#008000">WELCOME HOME!<br>
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<font color="#008000">Glad you had a good trip!! <br>
I am having a good laugh at your character & travel stories! <br>
Brilliant news about the Yoga, & glad to see you promoting Squat toilets - me & hubby are having one built in our house.<br>
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!!<br>
Love <br>
</b></font>Saveria, France. xox<br>
<font color="#FF00FF"><b>>> why, did she step innit?<br><br>
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</font><font color="#993300">Well, since you brought up the subject...<br>
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<font color="#993300">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.<br>
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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.<br>
</font><font color="#FF00FF">>> wot sign am i? am a unicorn with penis rising in ur anus :)<br><br>
</font><font color="#993300">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 <br>
</font><font color="#FF00FF">>> i know a LOT of people like this!<br><br>
</font><font color="#993300">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. <br>
>> </font><font color="#FF00FF">And get piles in later life, or so my parents used to tell moi.<br><br>
</font><font color="#993300">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). <br><br>
So I've been balancing on the rim ever since! Takes a little practice but you get the hang of it.<br>
</font><font color="#FF00FF">>> obviously girls get something else:) <br>
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And on the water v. tissue issue...<br>
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?<br><br>
I rest my case...</font><font color="#FF00FF"> <br>
</b></font>Markipoos, Norfolk, UK<br>
<font color="#FF00FF"><b>>> he squats his case. moi aussi.</b></font> <br><br>
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<font color="#3366FF"><b>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,<br>
</font><font color="#FF00FF">>> 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.<br><br>
</font><font color="#3366FF"> no one to scream at, <br>
</font><font color="#FF00FF">>> 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.<br><br>
</font><font color="#3366FF">crouched under a blanket. Serves you right for abandoning poor Jaunty. :-D :-D :-D <br>
All the rest is bollox as usual of course :-D<br>
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<div align="center"><font size=5 color="#000080">John Kerry: </font><font size=5 color="#FF0000">Bush</font><font size=5 color="#000080"> a </font><font size=5 color="#FF0000">Criminal</font><font size=5 color="#000080">, </font><font size=5 color="#FF0000">Looting Country<br>
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<font color="#FF0000">John Kerry</font><font color="#000080"> blasted President Bush last Thursday as a "</font><font color="#FF0000"><i>criminal</i></font><font color="#000080">" who has been "</font><font color="#FF0000"><i>looting the country.</i></font><font color="#000080">" <br><br>
The Massachusetts Democrat offered the incendiary comments during an off the record meeting with liberal bloggers. According to the Web site </font><font color="#FF0000">L.A. Observed</font><font color="#000080">, Kerry asked the bloggers to keep his comments confidential.<br><br>
Blogger "</font><font color="#FF0000">Hollywood Liberal</font><font color="#000080">" reports that Kerry "</font><font color="#FF0000"><i>agreed completely with someone's assessment that everything that Bush does is solely for the purpose of looting the country</i></font><font color="#000080">." <br><br>
"</font><font color="#FF0000"><i>Kerry basically said that Bush and his cohorts are criminals</i></font><font color="#000080">" the blogger continued. "</font><font color="#FF0000"><i>At some other point he referred to Supreme Court Justices Alito, Scalia, and Roberts as </font><font color="#000080">'Idiots</i>.'" <br><br>
With an eye on 2008, Kerry has been courting the blog community, which helped make Howard Dean the early Democratic presidential frontrunner in 2004.<br>
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</font><b><i>[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.]</b><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#808080"> <br><br>
</i></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600">Much to our surprise, the Boys rejoined us at the</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#808080"> </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300"><i>Prend Ton Temps</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#808080"> </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600">(Take Your Time) </i>safari hotel in </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">Zagora</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#808080"> </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600">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.<br><br>
</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">Zagora</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#808080"> </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600">is the last largish town before the</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#808080"> </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">Sahara</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#808080"> </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600">proper. Since most of its original inhabitants were nomad</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#808080"> </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">Berbers</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#808080"> </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600">the pace suddenly slowed right down, almost to a stop (it would soon in my case anyway). Or at least the pace of our <i>surroundings</i> 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.<br><br>
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 “</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300"><i>primary infrastructure</i></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600">.” And what I never quite realised until then was why the mega energy corporates </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">HAVE NO DESIRE AT ALL</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600"> (nor their bought politicians) </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">TO DEVELOP ALTERNATIVE ENERGY SOURCES!</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600"> 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 <i>selling the energy to the local populations</i>. </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">SO THE VERY LAST THING THEY WANT IS TO INVEST IN SOLAR AND WIND POWER</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600">. When each little town on the planet can generate its own energy needs, their Mega Profit Game is over! <i>Forever!</i> <br><br>
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 </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300"><b>Wall Street</b></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600"> and the </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300"><b>World Trade Centre</b></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600">.<br><br>
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. <br><br>
Or, I guess, since returning to a wet May in England, you might<br>
say it begins to dry and desertify from England southwards through France and Spain.<br>
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</font><div align="center"><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=5 color="#FF0000"><b><u>ACTION ALERT</u>:</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=5 color="#99CC00"> <br>
</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=6>Massive Gas Pipeline<br>
</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=6 color="#99CC00">To Pierce The Amazon</b></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=5 color="#99CC00"> </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF0000">- <b>PLEASE NETWORK<br><br>
</b></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=5 color="#99CC00"><u>Project Will</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=5 color="#FF0000"> Devastate </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=5 color="#99CC00">South America's</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=5 color="#FF0000"> Rainforests, Water and Climate<br><br>
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<div align="right"><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica"><i>“Despite the usual assurances, the construction and operation of the Camisea gas pipeline through Peru's rainforests has been a disaster” <br><br>
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<font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF0000">Venezuela</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#99CC00">, </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF0000">Brazil</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#99CC00"> and </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF0000">Argentina</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#99CC00"> plan to build a massive </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF0000">9,000 km</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#99CC00"> natural gas pipeline from </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF0000">Venezuela</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#99CC00"> to </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF0000">Argentina</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#99CC00"> through Brazil's </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF0000">Amazon</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#99CC00"> rainforest. Construction of the pipeline would be the most ambitious physical infrastructure initiative in South America's history, costing up to </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF0000">$25 billion</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#99CC00"> and taking up to 7 years to build. <br><br>
The pipeline will pierce the heart of the </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF0000">Amazon</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#99CC00">, and ensure its destruction as a large, operable whole. It will devastate </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF0000">rainforests</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#99CC00">, </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF0000">water resources</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#99CC00">, the </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF0000">climate</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#99CC00"> and </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF0000">indigenous populations</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#99CC00"> across a huge swathe of South America.<br><br>
Large areas of </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF0000">pristine rainforests</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#99CC00"> will be destroyed during construction, and new roads will open the rest for </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF0000">colonisation</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#99CC00"> by </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF0000">ranchers</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#99CC00"> and </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF0000">loggers</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#99CC00">. Historically rainforest for </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF0000">30 miles on each side</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#99CC00"> of new roads are cleared within years of construction. The multitude of waterways traversing the Amazon will be </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF0000">polluted</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#99CC00"> during construction and by the </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF0000">inevitable pipeline leaks</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#99CC00">. <br><br>
The pipeline will also contribute to </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF0000">global warming</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#99CC00"> through deforestation and the production of oil to access the gas.<br><br>
The pipeline represents </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=4 color="#FF0000"><u>the most antiquated, primitive neo-liberal economic development</u></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#99CC00"> policy which the region's governments rail against. And it is </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=4><u>economically questionable</u></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#99CC00">. <br><br></font>
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<dd><font face="Symbol" color="#FF0000">·<x-tab> </x-tab></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF0000">Both Brazil and Argentina have gas fields large enough to cover their own domestic demands. </font>
</dl><font face="Symbol" color="#FF0000">·<x-tab> </x-tab></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF0000">It is not clear that Venezuela has the capacity to maintain such a large steady supply of gas.<br>
</font><font face="Symbol" color="#FF0000">·<x-tab> </x-tab></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF0000">Nor, given the huge investment required, is it clear that the gas could be offered at a competitive price.<br><br>
</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#99CC00">Further, the project's 6 month schedule for preparation is </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF0000">highly unrealistic, </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#99CC00">given that much smaller pipelines in Brazil have taken a </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF0000"><u>decade</u></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#99CC00"> to prepare, and have been </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF0000"><u>halted in court for years</u></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#99CC00">.<br><br>
The similar existing </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF0000">Camisea</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#99CC00"> gas pipeline through rainforests in </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF0000">Peru</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#99CC00"> - 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 </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica">5 major spills</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#99CC00">, severely damaging the environment and local communities. Indigenous communities have been devastated by </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF0000">disease</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#99CC00">, and the water resources they depend upon for drinking and fishing have been </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF0000">fouled</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#99CC00">.<br><br>
</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=4 color="#FF0000"><u>The proposed pipeline is a major threat to the existence of the </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=4 color="#99CC00">Amazon rainforest</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=4 color="#FF0000">, as well as regional and global </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=4 color="#99CC00">ecological sustainability</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=4 color="#FF0000">, and the leaders of </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=4 color="#99CC00">Brazil</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=4 color="#FF0000">, </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=4 color="#99CC00">Venezuela</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=4 color="#FF0000"> and </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=4 color="#99CC00">Argentina</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=4 color="#FF0000"> MUST be called upon to scrap plans for its construction.<br><br>
</u></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=4>TAKE ACTION TO STOP THIS PIPELINE BY VISITING: </font><a href="http://www.rainforestportal.org/alerts/send.asp?id=amazon_pipeline" eudora="autourl"><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#0000FF">http://www.rainforestportal.org/alerts/send.asp?id=amazon_pipeline</a>..<br>
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A further 40,000 read it on the YOUniversity's site. <br>
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<font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=4 color="#FF00FF">“the group”<br>
</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600">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</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#808080"> </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300"><i>New Worlde Trips</i></font><font color="#FF6600">, 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</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600">, a few were making love, but it was nothing LIKE what he IMAGINED (in his repressed Xtian conscience) <br><br>
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 <i>opinion</i>, 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</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#808080"> </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">Buchera Affair</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#808080"> </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600">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. <br><br>
Liz even told me on the bus that Allen thought the theft of his <i>passport</i> 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.</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300"> <br><br>
</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=4 color="#FF00FF">the group<br>
</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600">I’d just like to say a few words about “</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300"><i>the group</i></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600">”. 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!<br><br>
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.<br><br>
What are the </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">Group Rules</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600">? <i>Are</i> 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 <i>new</i>, 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</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#808080"> </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">Marrakech</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#808080"> </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600">this couldn’t actually easily happen, and the Girls and Boys section emerged. But this all changed at <i>Prends Ton Temps</i> where each of us had our own room.<br><br>
Anyway, what excites me most is an ability to wander off and leave the group at any moment we like. Some have asked “</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300"><i>Where’s so and so?</i></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600">” and there’s been a natural group caring, but the free independent ‘members’ concept is quite new to me!<br><br>
And, of course, these outings cause <i>far</i> 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.<br>
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</font><div align="center"><font face="Abbess" size=4 color="#3366FF"><b>ALTERNATIVE CULTURAL HISTORY 3<br><br>
</font><font size=6 color="#CC99FF">Oz Magazine<br>
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<font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#CC99FF">Along with </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600"><i>International Times</i></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#CC99FF">, </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600">Oz</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#CC99FF"> was THE underground magazine during the late ‘60s in England. Originating from Australia where it was founded by </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600">Richard Neville</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#CC99FF"> and </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600">Martin Sharp,</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#CC99FF"> it came to England in February 1967 where the first issue hit the streets of an unsuspecting London. <br><br>
</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600">Oz</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#CC99FF"> ran for 48 issues and was printed in a variety of shapes and sizes during its time.<br><br>
Misinterpreted by many as a </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600">'Psychedelic'</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#CC99FF"> magazine, </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600">Oz</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#CC99FF"> actually had more in common with </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600"><i>Private Eye,</i></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#CC99FF"> 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 </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600"><i>Indica Bookshop</i></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#CC99FF"> run by </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600">Miles</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#CC99FF"> for this kind of literature so it's success was virtually guaranteed.<br><br>
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 <i>visually</i> very psychedelic. Australian artist </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600">Martin Sharp</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#CC99FF"> had started experimenting with </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600">LSD</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#CC99FF"> and the stunning cover of Issue No.3 is testament to his new found influences it features a joint smoking </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600">Mona Lisa</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#CC99FF"> and some very suggestive looking bananas!!<br><br>
Issue No.4 featured superb artwork from one of London's finest, </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600"><i>Hapsash and the Coloured Coat, </i></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#CC99FF">but perhaps the most famous cover of all was Sharp's </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600">Bob Dylan</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#CC99FF"> cover for Issue No.7.<br><br>
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).<br>
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<font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=4 color="#FF00FF">the sahara desert<br>
</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600">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 </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">Earth</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600">? Inspired. Informed, in the widest sense. Accepted. Outraged, about things like the draining of the </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">Draa Valley</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600"> to service the new yuppie suburbs and film studio at </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">Quarzazat</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600">. The illegal additives in everything you buy in the shops. But why?<br><br>
Our safe arrival was followed by 3 days of delicious acclimatisation in our won African mud hut chalet at the </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300"><i>Prends Ton Temps</i></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600"> 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.<br><br>
And what foreigners! By the third day both </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">Balleid</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600"> and </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">Brahim</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600">, our guide, are declaring that we’re the <i>“</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">craziest group of nice people</i></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600">” 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 </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">Parallel YOUniversity</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600">’s site because a very clear video of zippies and Berbers says more than a million words!<br><br>
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 <i>Prends Ton Temps’</i> gated entrance, I’d discovered a brand new working computer! Full </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">broadband</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600"> internet! It seemed to be openly used by anyone who wanted to, including most of the staff. The African vision of </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">communal</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600"> 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? </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">Sex</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600"> and </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">Islam</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600">, 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 </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">sand bath</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600">s.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
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 </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">Mohamed</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600"> (end of the road) have hired 2 jeeps to do a gig in </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">Quarzazate</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600"> 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.<br><br>
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 ‘</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300"><i>musicians’</i></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600"> were those who worked a little harder at it and ‘</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300"><i>emerged’</i></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600"> from the community in order to better serve that community. What else? Now these young guys are aware of being a ‘</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300"><i>band’</i></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600">, 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.)<br>
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</font><div align="center"><font size=4 color="#FF0000"><b>More</font><font size=4 color="#993300"> </font><font size=4 color="#0000FF">Billionaires</font><font size=4 color="#993300"> </font><font size=4 color="#FF0000">Than Ever</font><font size=4 color="#993300"> </font><font size=4 color="#0000FF">What</font><font size=4 color="#FF6600"> Does That Tell You</font><font size=4 color="#FF0000">?!<br>
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<font color="#FF0000">There are now </font><font color="#0000FF">313 billionaires</font><font color="#FF0000"> in America, the largest number ever, and a huge jump over the 262 counted last year, according to </font><font color="#FF6600"><i>Forbes</i></font><font color="#993300"> </font><font color="#FF0000">magazine.</font><font color="#993300"> <br>
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</font><div align="center"><font size=4 color="#FF6600"><b>Leading UK Medical Journal Calls For<br>
Resumption Of </font><font size=4 color="#33CCCC">Psychedelic Research<br>
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<font color="#FF6600">The prospects for </font><font color="#33CCCC">resumption of psychedelic research</font><font color="#FF6600"> in the UK took an auspicious turn this month when an influential British medical journal, the <i>Lancet</i>, published an </font><font color="#33CCCC">editorial</font><font color="#FF6600"> encouraging research into </font><font color="#33CCCC"><u>the potential therapeutic benefits of psychedelic drugs</u></font><font color="#FF6600">. <br><br>
The editorial also calls for a new legal structure that makes this research easier and less burdensome to conduct. The <i>Lancet</i> editorial was inspired by a commentary published in the <i>British Journal of Psychiatry</i> by Ben Sessa, M.D., in June 2005. The <i>Lancet</i> editorial received positive coverage in London's biggest newspaper, the <i>Guardian</i>. <br>
</b></font>The Lancet Editorial:<br>
<font color="#3366FF"><a href="http://www.maps.org/sys/nq.pl?id=811&fmt=page" eudora="autourl">http://www.maps.org/sys/nq.pl?id=811&fmt=page</a><br>
</font>Dr. Ben Sessa's commentary in the British Journal of Psychiatry:<br>
<font color="#3366FF"><a href="http://www.maps.org/w3pb/new/2005/2005_Sessa_22760_1.pdf" eudora="autourl">http://www.maps.org/w3pb/new/2005/2005_Sessa_22760_1.pdf</a><br>
</font>Guardian Unlimited reports "Lancet Calls for LSD in Labs":<br>
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<font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600">There’s little to equal your final arrival among the golden, pitiless, beautiful dunes, the desert proper. It’s the </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">Absolute Frontier</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600">. Beyond lie thousands of miles of… well, more desert. There’s little innit but there are five hundred thousand square miles of it!<br><br>
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.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
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 “</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">golden splatt</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600">” the last night at the </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300"><i>Prends Ton Temps</i></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600">. That’s the shits shot into a 3</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=1 color="#FF6600"><sup>rd</sup></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600"> World Toilet :). Amazing how we reported such earthy matters down there that we’d never have <i>mentioned</i> in the city. And on top of all that, my brain had felt like it was melting since we first hit the </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">desert areas</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600">. In fact I went through a bit of an identity meltdown. Luckily I recognised what was happening to me, it was something that <i>always</i> happened when you removed the strings that normally motivated your puppet, it was some kind of </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">Back To Earth</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600"> process that I recognised I couldn’t fight. Instead I could accept it <i>patiently</i>, 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.<br><br>
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 </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">Sense of Community</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600"> that we’ve almost totally lost in the West.. Definitely the high point of our desert stay.<br><br>
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 <i>live</i> copy of our activities! Sitting there, stoned, I start to have visions of </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF00FF">Megatripolis</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600">/</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">PLANET</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600">. A LIVE club around the world!<br>
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</font><font color="#808080">A Moot Court Hearing on the Petition of a "</font><font color="#3366FF">conscious computer</font><font color="#808080">" to be treated as a legal person was held at the 1st Colloquium on the Law of Transhuman Persons in Florida.<br>
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<font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600">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 “</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300"><i>Have you seen Abdullah recently?</i></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600">” you’d reply: “</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300"><i>I got him here in my pocket</i></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600">”. 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. <br>
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</font><div align="right"><font size=4 color="#808080"><b>Scientists Work On </font><font size=4 color="#3366FF">Laws For Robots<br>
</font><font size=4 color="#808080">To Avoid Possible War With </font><font size=4 color="#3366FF">Artificial Intelligence<br>
</font><font color="#808080">Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry is working on<br>
a new set of safety guidelines for next-generation robots. It’s the first attempt<br>
at a formal version of the first of </font><font color="#3366FF">Asimov</font><font color="#808080">'s </font><font color="#3366FF"><i>Laws of Robotics</i></font><font color="#808080">:<br>
"</font><font color="#3366FF"><i>A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm."<br>
</i></b></font>Pravda May 30, 2006<br>
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<font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600">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 </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">Word Bank</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600"> and the </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">IMF</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600"> 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.<br>
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</font><font color="#993300">The imminence of wireless broadband for mobiles means we are about to enter<br>
the phase of mobile and ubiquitous computing. It is also going to<br>
bring the Internet to the hundreds of millions of people who have no Internet access.<br>
The Web is already full of knowledge-intensive AI components.</b></font> <br>
<font color="#0000FF">news@nature.com May 26, 2006<br>
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<font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600">The older French lady, JV, is with us the first night but leaves the next day. And </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">Buchera</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600"> 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.<br><br>
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 <i>them</i> during the first days, what with the dust storms and winds and all.<br>
</font><b><i>[continued in next UP!]<br>
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</font><div align="right"><font size=4 color="#008000"><b>ONE OF THE MOST DANGEROUS FALLACIES<br>
STALKING OUR WORLD TODAY IS<br>
</font><font size=4 color="#993300">ISRAEL</font><font size=4 color="#008000">’S’ ADVICE TO </font><font size=4 color="#993300">AMERICA</font><font size=4 color="#008000">:<br>
</font><font size=4 color="#FF0000">THE ARABS ONLY UNDERSTAND ONE THING: FORCE!<br><br>
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<div align="center"><font size=6 color="#008000">The</font><font size=6 color="#993300"> </font><font size=5 color="#993300">Persecution</font><font size=6 color="#993300"> </font><font size=6 color="#008000">Of The</font><font size=6 color="#993300"> Palestinians<br>
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<div align="right">by<b> Patrick J. Buchanan<br>
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<font size=4 color="#993300"><i>“Why do they hate us?”</i></font><font color="#008000"> So stunned Americans asked, after 9/11, when we learned that across the Arab world, many were saying, </font><font color="#993300"><i>“The Americans had it coming.”<br>
</i></font><font color="#FF00FF">>> 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?<br><br>
</font><font color="#008000">For a textbook example of why we are hated, consider </font><font color="#993300">Gaza and the West Bank</font><font color="#008000">. There, a brutal Israeli/U.S.-led cut-off in aid has been imposed on the </font><font color="#993300">Palestinians</font><font color="#008000"> for voting the wrong way in a free election.<br><br>
Immediately after </font><font color="#993300">Hamas</font><font color="#008000">’s victory, </font><font color="#993300">Israel</font><font color="#008000"> 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. <br>
</font><font color="#FF00FF">>> 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?<br><br>
</font><font color="#008000">President Bush, busy conducting a worldwide crusade for democracy and urging that the Palestinian elections be held and that </font><font color="#993300">Hamas</font><font color="#008000"> should participate, obediently complied. For months now, U.S. and European aid to the PA, </font><font color="#993300">half its already small budget</font><font color="#008000">, has been halted.<br><br>
Well, the early returns are in. “</font><font color="#993300"><i>Surgeons at Gaza’s biggest hospital</i></font><font color="#008000">,” says the <i>Financial Times</i>, “</font><font color="#993300"><i>have suspended non-essential surgery for lack of sutures, laboratory kits and anaesthetics</i></font><font color="#008000">.” 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 </font><font color="#993300">Hamas</font><font color="#008000"> and </font><font color="#993300">Fatah</font><font color="#008000">. There is a danger of collapse of the Palestinian Authority, chaos, and a need for the Israeli army to intervene anew to restore order. <br>
</font><font color="#FF00FF">>> hurrah here come the good guys! see last UP’s take on Darfur.<br>
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</font><font color="#008000"><b>Supermarkets have to extend credit to customers who have no money for food. Woodrow Wilson called sanctions “</font><font color="#993300"><i>the silent, deadly remedy</i></font><font color="#008000">.” Its victims are always the sick, the elderly, the women, and the children. <br><br>
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 “</font><font color="#993300"><i>too rosy</i></font><font color="#008000">” and expects “</font><font size=4 color="#993300"><i><u>the worst year in the West Bank and Gaza’s recent dismal economic history</u></i></font><font color="#008000">.”<br>
</font><font color="#FF00FF">>> now add THAT to the abominable atrocities we already know have been going on there for decades now!<br><br>
</font><font color="#008000">Finally, May 9, under European pressure, the U.S. relented and a trickle of aid began to flow.<br><br>
</font><div align="center"><font size=4 color="#FF0000">THE ARABS ONLY UNDERSTAND ONE THING: FORCE!<br>
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<font color="#008000">Query</font><font color="#993300">: who, besides </font><font color="#008000">al-Qaeda</font><font color="#993300"> and recruiters of </font><font color="#008000">suicide bombers</font><font color="#993300">, 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 </font><font color="#008000">Hamas</font><font color="#993300"> to participate?! </font><font size=4 color="#993300">After we preached our devotion to democracy?!</font><font color="#993300"> <br><br>
</font><font color="#008000">“</font><font color="#993300"><i>The aid cut-off appears to be increasing anti-U.S. sentiment here,” writes <br>
</i></font><font color="#FF00FF">>> vastly understates<br><br>
</font><font color="#008000">the Post’s Scott Wilson. He quotes 33-year-old pharmacist Mustafa Hasoona: “</font><font color="#993300"><i>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. </font><font size=4 color="#993300"><u>I voted for it</u>.</i></font><font size=4 color="#008000">”<br><br>
</font><font color="#008000">According to the <i>Financial Times</i>, </font><font color="#993300">Hamas</font><font color="#008000"> is winning converts for refusing to buckle. Said Khalil Abu Leila, a </font><font color="#993300">Hamas</font><font color="#008000"> leader, “</font><font color="#FF0000"><i><u>They have misunderstood the Arab mentality</u></font><font color="#993300">. As long as the pressure increases on Hamas, the more popular it will become</i></font><font color="#008000">.”<br><br>
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?<br><br>
</font><font color="#993300">Terrorism</font><font color="#008000"> 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. <br>
</b></font>June 5, 2006 Issue<br>
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</font><font color="#FF6600"><b>Hi Fraser, just been reading in </b></font><font face="Swis721 BlkEx BT">up!</font> 0019// right, lets' move on <font color="#FF6600"><b>about Japanese "aoi" for the colour </font><font color="#008080">blue green</font><font color="#FF6600">.<br>
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well, here's another: we have </font><font color="#99CC00">pale green</font><font color="#FF6600"> (which we call </font><font color="#339966">green</font><font color="#FF6600">) </font><font color="#00CCFF">pale blue</font><font color="#FF6600"> (which we call </font><font color="#0000FF">blue</font><font color="#FF6600">) but </font><font color="#FF00FF">pale red</font><font color="#FF6600"> (which we call “</font><font color="#FF00FF">pink”!)</font><font color="#FF6600"> <br>
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describe a pink t-shirt or a front door as "</font><font color="#FF0000">red</font><font color="#FF6600">" and no one will know what you’re onnabout.<br>
</b></font>Oliver, Oxford<br>
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</font><div align="center"><font size=5><b>The Current Regime In America<br>
Must Be “<i>Wiped Off The Face Of The Map</i>”<br>
</font><font size=4 color="#FF6600"><i>HERE’S WHAT THE PRESIDENT OF IRAN ACTUALLY SAID<br>
- ACCORDING TO THE NEW YORK TIMES<br>
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"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. <br><br>
“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. <br><br>
“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. <br><br>
“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."<br>
</i><font color="#0000FF"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/" eudora="autourl">www.nytimes.com</a><br><br>
</font><font size=4 color="#FF6600"><i>EVERYONE IN POLITICS AND THE MEDIA <u>KNOWS</u> THIS IS WHAT HE SAID. SO NOW <u>WE</u> KNOW THAT ANYONE WHO REPEATS THE LIBEL AGAINST IRAN IS A <u>LIAR</u>. PRESUMABLY WITH A MOTIVE.<br>
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<font color="#0000FF">A law to crack down on </font><font color="#808080">cowboy car clampers</font><font color="#0000FF"> 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. <br><br>
Failure to get a licence, which requires going on a training course, could attract a £5,000 fine or </font><font color="#808080">6-month prison sentence<br>
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