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<font size=6 color="#3366FF">The Great Turning<br>
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<font color="#008080">The</font><font color="#333399"> </font><font color="#FF6600"><i>New Nation</i></font><font color="#333399"> </font><font color="#008080">newspaper has named</font><font color="#333399"> </font><font color="#FF6600">Jesus</font><font color="#333399"> </font><font color="#008080">as</font><font color="#FF6600"> Top Black Icon</font><font color="#333399">. <br>
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</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#808080"><b>p.02 </font><font size=7 color="#3366FF">The Great Turning: </font><font size=7 color="#008000">From </font><font size=7>Empire</font><font size=7 color="#008000"> To Earth Community<br>
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</font><font face="Helvetica, Helvetica" size=4 color="#CC99FF"><b><i>Holy Cow<br>
</font><font face="Helvetica, Helvetica" color="#CC99FF">A higher vibrational level is unfolding,<br>
A new strand of DNA is evolving.<br>
The earth’s heartbeat is going faster and faster,<br>
Keeping track of time is getting dafter and dafter.<br>
Got to enter the moment with expanded awareness,<br>
Find your own truth and follow where your bliss is.<br>
Now is the age we’ve always known was in store,<br>
We are the ones that we’ve been waiting for.<br>
Ascension, enlightenment, an inter-dimensional shift,<br>
Synergy, the tipping point, critical mass, this is it.<br>
We are the hologram,<br>
We are all one.<br>
Finally,<br>
We can see<br>
Unity,<br>
Divinity<br>
Is you and me,<br>
Here and now.<br>
Holy cow.<br>
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</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF00FF"><u>JUST IN CASE YOU THINK IT’S ONLY <i>ME</i> WHO’S SPEAKING<br>
OF THE FALL OF THE DINOS LAST STAND…<br><br>
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<div align="center"><font size=7 color="#3366FF">The Great Turning:<br>
</font><font size=7 color="#008000">From </font><font size=7>Empire</font><font size=7 color="#008000"> To <br>
Earth Community<br>
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<div align="right">by David Korten<br>
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<font size=4 color="#008000"><i>Delphi was inhabited, at least since 1400 B.C. and probably for thousands of years longer, by people who worshipped the Mother Earth deity. Early Goddess worship gave way to the Greek worship of Apollo. Then, in 191 B.C., the sanctuary fell to the Roman </font><font size=4>Empire</font><font size=4 color="#008000">. <br><br>
</i></font><div align="center"><font size=5 color="#0000FF">By What Name<br>
Will Future Generations Know Our Time?<br>
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<font color="#008000">Will they speak in anger and frustration of the time of the </font><font size=4 color="#3366FF">Great Unravelling</font><font color="#008000">, when profligate consumption exceeded Earth’s capacity to sustain, leading to an accelerating wave of collapsing environmental systems, violent competition for what remained of the planet’s resources, and a dramatic dieback of the human population? <br><br>
Or will they look back in joyful celebration on the time of the </font><font size=4 color="#3366FF">Great Turning</font><font color="#008000">, when their forebears embraced the higher-order potential of their human nature, turned crisis into opportunity, and learned to live in creative partnership with one another and Earth? <br><br>
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</font><div align="center"><font size=5 color="#3366FF">A Defining Choice<br>
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<font color="#008000">We face a </font><font color="#3366FF">defining choice</font><font color="#008000"> between two contrasting models for organising human affairs. Give them the generic names </font><font size=4><u>Empire</u></font><font color="#008000"> and </font><font size=4 color="#008000"><u>Earth Community</u></font><font color="#008000">. Without an understanding of the history and implications of this choice, we may squander valuable time and resources on efforts to preserve or mend cultures and institutions that <u>cannot be fixed</u> and must be </font><font color="#3366FF"><u>replaced</u></font><font color="#008000">.<br><br>
</font><font size=4>Empire</font><font color="#008000"> organises by </font><font color="#3366FF"><u>domination</u></font><font color="#008000"> at all levels, from relations among nations to relations among family members. </b></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica">Empire</font><font color="#008000"><b> brings fortune to the few, condemns the majority to misery and servitude, suppresses the creative potential of all, and appropriates much of the wealth of human societies to maintain the institutions of domination. <br><br>
</font><font size=4 color="#008000"><u>Earth Community</u></font><font color="#008000">, by contrast, organises by </font><font color="#3366FF"><u>partnership</u></font><font color="#008000">, unleashes the human potential for creative co-operation, and shares resources and surpluses for the good of all. <br>
Supporting evidence for the possibilities of </font><font size=4 color="#008000">Earth Community</font><font color="#008000"> comes from the findings of </font><font color="#3366FF">quantum physics</font><font color="#008000">, </font><font color="#3366FF">evolutionary biology</font><font color="#008000">, </font><font color="#3366FF">developmental psychology</font><font color="#008000">, </font><font color="#3366FF">anthropology</font><font color="#008000">, </font><font color="#3366FF">archaeology</font><font color="#008000">, and </font><font color="#3366FF">religious mysticism</font><font color="#008000">. It was the human way before </b></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica">Empire</font><font color="#008000"><b>, and we must make a choice to re-learn how to live by its principles. <br><br>
Developments distinctive to our time are telling us that </b></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica">Empire</font><font color="#008000"><b> has reached the limits of the exploitation that people and Earth will sustain. A mounting perfect economic storm (born of a convergence of </font><font color="#3366FF">peak oil</font><font color="#008000">, </font><font color="#3366FF">climate change</font><font color="#008000">, and an </font><font color="#3366FF">imbalanced U.S. economy dependent on debts it can never repay)</font><font color="#008000"> is poised to bring a dramatic restructuring of every aspect of modern life. <br>
We have the power to choose, however, whether the consequences play out as a </font><font color="#3366FF">terminal crisis</font><font color="#008000"> or an </font><font color="#3366FF">epic opportunity</font><font color="#008000">. The </font><font color="#3366FF">Great Turning</font><font color="#008000"> is not a prophecy. It is a <i>possibility</i>. <br>
</font><font color="#FF00FF">>> just as all the prophetic warnings of Plagues, Wars and Great Beasts were just that <i>warnings</i> of what would happen if mankind did and does not turn away from Ego.</b></font> [cont below]<br><br>
<div align="right"><font size=4 color="#FF6600"><b>Cultural Turning<br>
</font><font color="#FF6600">The </font><font color="#3366FF">Great Turning</font><font color="#FF6600"> begins with a cultural and spiritual awakening<br>
- a turning in cultural values from money and material excess<br>
to life and spiritual fulfillment, from a belief in our limitations<br>
to a belief in our possibilities, and from fearing our differences<br>
to rejoicing in our diversity.<br>
It requires reframing the cultural stories by which<br>
we define our human nature, purpose, and possibilities.<br><br>
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<div align="center"><font size=5 color="#3366FF">A Turn From Life<br>
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<font color="#008000">According to cultural historian Riane Eisler, early humans evolved within a cultural and institutional frame of </font><font size=4 color="#008000">Earth Community</font><font color="#008000">. They organised to meet their needs by cooperating with life rather than by dominating it. Then some 5,000 years ago, beginning in </font><font color="#3366FF">Mesopotamia</font><font color="#008000">, our ancestors made a tragic turn from </font><font size=4 color="#008000">Earth Community</font><font color="#008000"> to a Dominator Culture - </b></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica">Empire</font><font color="#008000"><b>. They turned away from a reverence for the generative power of life - represented by female gods or nature spirits - to a reverence for hierarchy and the power of the sword - represented by distant, usually male, gods. The wisdom of the elder and the priestess gave way to the arbitrary rule of the powerful, often ruthless, </font><font size=4 color="#3366FF">king</font><font color="#008000">. <br><br>
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</font><div align="center"><font size=5 color="#3366FF">Paying The Price<br>
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<font color="#008000">The peoples of the dominant human societies lost their sense of attachment to the living earth, and societies became </font><font color="#3366FF">divided</font><font color="#008000"> between the rulers and the ruled, exploiters and exploited. The brutal competition for power created </font><u>a relentless play-or-die, rule-or-be-ruled dynamic</u><font color="#008000"> of violence and oppression, and served to elevate the most ruthless to the highest positions of power. <br>
Since that fateful turn, the major portion of the resources available to human societies has been diverted from meeting </font><font color="#3366FF">the needs of life</font><font color="#008000"> to supporting </font><font color="#3366FF">the military forces, prisons, palaces, temples</font><font color="#008000">, and </font><font color="#3366FF">patronage</font><font color="#008000"> for retainers and propagandists on which the system of domination in turn depends. Great civilisations built by ambitious rulers fell to successive waves of corruption and conquest. <br>
</font><font color="#FF00FF">>> the caravanseraiclub’s outing to southern turkey this october-ish will research these great spiritually-based cultures which were destroyed from Alexander the Great onwards. Gurdjieff called Alexander the most bloodily destructive asshole of all humanity so far mainly for his trashing of the great spiritually evolved cultures & traditions to the east of Greece.<br><br>
</font><font color="#008000">The primary institutional form of </b></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica">Empire</font><font color="#008000"><b> has morphed from the city-state to the nation-state to the </font><font color="#3366FF">global corporation</font><font color="#008000">, but the underlying pattern of domination remains.<br>
</font><font color="#FF00FF">>> this is critical to see. once you see this, the Story of WoMankind opens up and becomes clear. see </font><font color="#FF0000"><i>Monkey’s Marvellous Trip</i></font><font color="#FF00FF">.<br><br>
</font><font color="#008000">It is axiomatic: </font><font color="#3366FF"><u>for a few to be on top, many must be on the bottom</u></font><font color="#008000">. The powerful can control and institutionalise the processes by which it will be decided who enjoys the privilege and who pays the price, a choice that commonly results in arbitrarily excluding from power whole groups of persons based on race and gender. </b></font>[cont below]<br><br>
<div align="right"><font size=5 color="#800080"><b>Total Lack Of Any </font><font size=5 color="#333399">Moral Centre<br>
</font><font color="#800080">The point about all </font><font color="#333399">Tories</font><font color="#800080"> is their </font><font color="#333399"><u>total lack of any moral centre</u></font><font color="#800080">.<br>
I have found I have a sort of 6</font><font size=1 color="#800080"><sup>th</sup></font><font color="#800080"> sense for this kind of thing;<br>
it comes off them like a smell. At a dinner a couple of months ago<br>
I found myself in the company of an attractive couple in their late 30s.<br>
As we chatted, it dawned on me that something was wrong about them.<br>
The story about the man’s fondness for wearing rubber catsuits<br>
pointed to sexual deviancy, but I have no problem with that.<br>
It was <u>something else</u>, as if they were, in fact, in their 60s<br>
and their youth had been preserved by </font><font color="#333399"><u>drinking the blood of virgins</u></font><font color="#800080">.<br>
</font><font color="#FF00FF">>> meaning u and me.<br>
</font><font color="#800080">It turned out they were </font><font size=4 color="#333399">Tories</font><font color="#800080"> - worse, the man had been to </font><font size=4 color="#333399">Eton.<br>
I’ve never met an Etonian who wasn’t <u>a mendacious,<br>
untrustworthy, conniving creep of the first order</u>.<br>
</font>Nicholas Lezard</b>/The Independent.<br><br>
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<div align="center"><font size=5 color="#3366FF"><b>Troubling Truths<br>
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<font color="#3366FF">For a few to be on top, many must be on the bottom. </font><font color="#008000">Herein lies a crucial insight. If we look for the source of the </font>social pathologies<font color="#008000"> increasingly evident in our culture, we find they have a common origin in the dominator relations of </b></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica">Empire</font><font color="#008000"><b> that have survived largely intact in spite of the democratic reforms of the past two centuries. <br>
</font><font color="#FF00FF">>> the Great Turning began roughly when the human species evolved beyond physically <i>burning</i> those who stood for anything beyond mere </b></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica">Empire</font><font color="#FF00FF"><b>.<br><br>
</font><font color="#008000">The </font><font color="#3366FF">sexism</font><font color="#008000">, </font><font color="#3366FF">racism</font><font color="#008000">, </font><font color="#3366FF">economic injustice</font><font color="#008000">, </font><font color="#3366FF">violence</font><font color="#008000">, <br>
</font><font color="#FF00FF">>> anti-shamanic hysteria<br><br>
</font><font color="#008000">and </font><font color="#3366FF">environmental destruction</font><font color="#008000"> that have plagued human societies for 5,000 years, and have now brought us to the brink of a potential terminal crisis, </font><font size=4 color="#008000">all flow from this common source</font><font color="#008000">. Freeing ourselves from these </font><font color="#3366FF">pathologies</font><font color="#008000"> depends on a common solution - replacing the underlying dominator cultures and institutions of </b></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica">Empire</font><font color="#008000"><b> with the partnership cultures and institutions of </font><font size=4 color="#008000">Earth Community</font><font color="#008000">. Unfortunately, </font><font size=4 color="#008000"><u>we cannot look to imperial powerholders to lead the way</u></font><font color="#008000">.<br><br>
</font><font size=4 color="#008000">Quite the opposite.</font><font color="#008000"> History shows that, as empires crumble, </font><font size=4 color="#3366FF"><u>the ruling elites become ever <i>more</i> corrupt and ruthless</u></font><font color="#008000"> in their drive to secure their own power.</b></font> [cont below]<br><br>
<div align="right"><font size=4 color="#333399"><b>“</font><font size=4 color="#800000">Privatising</font><font size=4 color="#333399">" the Police State<br>
</font><font color="#333399">Federal and local police agencies nation-wide “</font><font color="#800000"><i>have been gathering<br>
Americans' phone records from private data brokers<br>
without subpoenas or warrants</i></font><font color="#333399">,” reports the </font><font color="#800000">Associated Press (AP)</font><font color="#333399">.<br>
The wire service does not exaggerate in its observation<br>
that this privatised subversion of the Fourth Amendment<br>
“</font><font color="#800000"><i>raises civil liberties questions</i></font><font color="#333399">.”<br>
</font><font color="#FF00FF">>> they’re already well raised, bro! this further deepens<br>
the planet’s need to shrug them off forever.<br><br>
</font><font color="#333399">The question is this: If the federal </font><font color="#800000">Homeland Security</font><font color="#333399"> apparatus,<br>
or its local affiliates (what were once independent, local police agencies)<br>
can circumvent constitutional restrictions by contracting with </font><font color="#800000"><u>private agencies<br>
</u></font><font color="#333399">to do the dirty work, </font><font size=4 color="#333399">do we retain any civil liberties at all?<br>
</font><font color="#FF00FF">>> not while we keep looking abroad for the Real Threat!<br><br>
</font><font color="#333399">The Feds paid at least <u>$30 million</u> last year, according to the </font><font color="#800000">AP</font><font color="#333399"> story,<br>
to various </font><font color="#800000"><u>information vendors</u></font><font color="#333399">, but this figure is much too low because<br>
“</font><font size=4 color="#800000"><i>brokers said they rarely charge law enforcement agencies.</i></font><font color="#333399">”<br><br>
Yes, I'm sure vendors are more than willing to comp a few jobs for the police,<br>
since many of them are engaged in unethical or illegal activities <i>themselves</i>.<br>
Witness the fact that executives from data broker firms plan to take the Fifth<br>
when they're summoned to testify before Congress about their activities.<br><br>
</font><font size=5 color="#800000"><i>“Thieves For Their Robbery Have Authority<br>
When Judges Steal Themselves”<br>
</i></font><font color="#333399">I reckon Congress should contract with a private interrogation firm<br>
one not bound by the </font><font color="#800000">Fifth Amendment<br>
</font><font color="#333399"> </font><font size=4 color="#800000">to question the data brokers!<br>
</font><font color="#333399">I'd be willing to perform any hands-on questioning for a reasonable fee.<br>
If the interrogation involves the people responsible for selling my phone number<br>
to the pestilential phone solicitors who plague my household,<br>
I'd be willing to offer my services in exchange for ...<br>
let's say a Thai dinner and full legal immunity.<br><br>
In defence of the criminal means used by </font><font color="#800000">private data brokers<br>
</font><font color="#333399">to collect personal information, James Bearden, attorney for several of them,<br>
deploys what I call the “</font><font color="#800000"><i>Measure for Measure Defence</i></font><font color="#333399">.”<br>
That name’s from Shakespeare: “</font><font size=4 color="#800000"><i>Thieves for their robbery<br>
have authority when judges steal themselves.”<br><br>
</i></font><font color="#333399">Bearden, reported the AP, “</font><font color="#800000"><i>likened the data broker companies' activities<br>
to the </font><font color="#333399">National Security Agency</font><font color="#800000">, which reportedly compiles the phone records<br>
of ordinary Americans… Thus, since the government is doing exactly<br>
what these people are accused of doing, they’re being demonised!<br>
These are people who are partners with law enforcement on a regular basis.</i></font><font color="#333399">”<br><br>
Right on! </font><font size=4 color="#800000">Equal rights for private-sector police state thugs!<br>
</font><font color="#333399">Why should the Feds alone enjoy the privilege of spying on ordinary citizens,<br>
rummaging through their personal business without a warrant,<br>
or even detaining, torturing, or killing them<br>
when the Great Decider deems it necessary?<br><br>
Since, in “</font><font color="#800000"><i>liberated</i></font><font color="#333399">” Iraq, “</font><font color="#800000"><i>private contractors</i></font><font color="#333399">” are <i>already</i> free<br>
to do all of those things, why should America's </font><font color="#800000">Homeland Security</font><font color="#333399"> apparatus<br>
and its private appendages be denied similar privileges?<br><br>
And get this: after the long-percolating </font><font color="#800000">NSA</font><font color="#333399"> illegal surveillance scandal<br>
finally bubbled to the surface last December,<br>
many Bush administration's defenders have insisted that Americans<br>
shouldn't be alarmed ‘because their privacy is being routinely violated<br>
by private data brokers anyway’! Now private info brokers insist that<br>
what they're doing <i>must</i> be legal, since the government's doing <i>the same thing!<br><br>
</i>Here we see </font><font size=4 color="#800000"><u>a perfect circle<br>
of mutually beneficial, self-justifying corruption</u></font><font color="#333399">.<br><br>
Imagine the victim of a gang rape being told they have no legal recourse<br>
because police officers were among the assailants:<br>
since the rape was going to happen <i>anyway</i>, the police were entitled to join in,<br>
and participation by the police conferred legitimacy<br>
on the actions of the private sector rapists.<br><br>
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</font><font size=4 color="#800000">Criminals Are Generally Familiar With The Laws They Break<br>
</font><font color="#333399">The </font><font color="#800000">Fourth Amendment</font><font color="#333399"> specifies that the right to protection<br>
against unreasonable search and seizure is “</font><font color="#800000"><i>violated</i></font><font color="#333399">”<br>
unless the government first obtains a warrant issued “</font><font color="#800000"><i>upon probable cause,<br>
supported by oath or affirmation and <u>particularly describing<br>
</u>the place to be searched and the persons or things to be seized</i></font><font color="#333399">.”<br>
General Michael Hayden, prior to being appointed </font><font color="#800000">CIA</font><font color="#333399"> director,<br>
presided over the illegal surveillance program as deputy director of the </font><font color="#800000">NSA</font><font color="#333399">.<br>
“</font><font color="#800000"><i>Believe me</i></font><font color="#333399">,” he insisted when confronted about the program,<br>
“</font><font color="#800000"><i>if there is any amendment to the Constitution that employees<br>
of the National Security Agency are familiar with, it's the Fourth....</i></font><font color="#333399">”<br><br>
This is true, but in <i>exactly</i> the same sense that bank robbers<br>
are intimately acquainted with laws against robbing banks.<br>
</font><font size=4 color="#800000"><u>Criminals are generally familiar with the laws they break.<br>
</u></b></font>Skinny, New York.<br>
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<div align="center"><font size=5 color="#3366FF"><b>Global Awakening<br>
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<font face="Arial Black, Helvetica">Empire</font><font color="#008000"><b>’s true believers are convinced<br>
</font><font color="#FF00FF">>> or claim to be for obvious reasons. or have been claiming it so long that they now <i>believe</i> it.<br><br>
</font><font color="#008000">that there are </font><font color="#3366FF">inherent flaws</font><font color="#008000"> in human nature which lead to a natural propensity to greed, violence, and lust for power. Hence social order and material progress depend on imposing </font><font color="#3366FF">elite ru</font><font color="#008000">le and </font><font color="#3366FF">market discipline</font><font color="#008000">, thus channelling these dark tendencies to positive ends. <br><br>
But psychologists who study the evolution of the </font><font color="#3366FF">individual consciousness</font><font color="#008000"> observe a more <i>complex</i> reality. Just as proper physical nourishment and exercise help us mature in our physical capacities and potential, so proper social and emotional nourishment and exercise help us mature in the mental and emotional capacities and potential of our consciousness. <br>
</font><font color="#FF00FF">>> the 3-brained beings of which Gurdjieff spoke.<br><br>
</font><font color="#008000">Those who enjoy the requisite emotional and intellectual support traverse a life-way from the narcissistic, undifferentiated magical consciousness of the newborn to the fully </font><font color="#3366FF">mature</font><font color="#008000">, </font><font color="#3366FF">inclusive</font><font color="#008000">, and </font><font color="#3366FF">multidimensional</font><font color="#008000"> spiritual consciousness of the wise elder. The lower, more narcissistic orders of consciousness which are perfectly normal for young children, become </font><font color="#3366FF">sociopathic</font><font color="#008000"> in adults - but so easily encouraged and manipulated by advertisers and demagogues.<br><br>
The higher orders of consciousness are a necessary foundation of </font><font color="#3366FF">mature democracy</font><font color="#008000">. But </b></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=4><u>Empire</font><b>’s cultures and institutions systematically suppress our progress to the higher orders of consciousness</u>.<font color="#3366FF"> <br><br>
</font><font color="#008000">Now, given that </b></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica">Empire</font><font color="#008000"><b> has prevailed for 5,000 years, a </font><font color="#3366FF">Great Turning</font><font color="#008000"> from </b></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica">Empire</font><font color="#008000"><b> to </font><font size=4 color="#008000">Earth Community</font><font color="#008000"> might seem a hopeless fantasy if not for the evidence from Values surveys that a global awakening to the higher levels of human consciousness is <i>already underway</i>. This awakening is driven in part by a communications revolution that is breaking down the geographical barriers to intercultural exchange and which defies elite censorship. <br>
</font><font color="#FF00FF">>> believe me it’s happening precisely as you read this.<br><br>
</font><font color="#008000">The consequences of the awakening are manifest in the </font><font color="#3366FF">civil rights</font><font color="#008000">, </font><font color="#3366FF">women’s</font><font color="#008000">, </font><font color="#3366FF">environmental</font><font color="#008000">, </font><font color="#3366FF">peace</font><font color="#008000">, and other social movements. These movements in turn gain energy from the growing leadership of </font><font color="#3366FF">women</font><font color="#008000">, </font><font color="#3366FF">communities of colour</font><font color="#008000">, </font><font color="#3366FF">indigenous peoples</font><font color="#008000">, and from a shift in the demographic balance in favour of older age groups more likely to have achieved the higher-order consciousness of the wise elder.</b></font> [cont below]<font color="#008000"><b> <br>
</font><div align="right"><font size=4 color="#FF6600">Economic Turning<br>
</font><font color="#FF6600">The Values shift of the cultural turning leads us to redefine wealth<br>
- to measure it by family, community and environment health.<br>
It leads us from policies that raise those at the top<br>
to policies that raise those at the bottom,<br>
from hoarding to sharing, from concentrated to distributed ownership,<br>
and from the rights of ownership to the responsibilities of stewardship.<br><br>
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</font><font size=1>Alternative// Activist// Zippy// Trance// New Age// Peace folks<br>
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</font><font size=1 color="#008000"><i>"showing signs of life".</i> </font><font size=1 color="#800080">Since recipients forward it widely to their own lists & sites,<br>
we conservatively estimate</font><font size=1 color="#808080"> </font><font size=1><u>50,000+</u></font><font size=1 color="#FFFF00"> </font><font size=1 color="#800080">direct recipients.<br>
A further 40,000 read it on the YOUniversity's site.<br>
And,</font><font size=1 color="#FFFF00"> </font><font size=1 color="#800080">because</font><font size=1 color="#FFFF00"> </font><font size=1 color="#800080">of its 'mix' of 'specialist' & 'general' content,<br>
it's increasingly being posted on a variety of sites worldwide,<br>
making an estimated total weekly readership of </font><font size=1><u>=[275,000]=<br>
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<font color="#008000">It is fortuitous that the human species has achieved the <i>means</i> to collectively choose to free itself from </b></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica">Empire</font><font color="#008000"><b>’s seemingly </font>inexorable compete-or-die logic<font color="#008000"> <i>at the precise moment we face the imperative to do so</i>. The speed at which institutional and technological advances have created possibilities wholly new to the human experience is stunning. <br><br>
</font><font color="#3366FF">60 YEARS AGO</font><font color="#008000"> we created the </font><font color="#3366FF"><u>United Nations</u></font><font color="#008000">, which, for all its imperfections, makes it possible for the first time for representatives of all the world’s nations and people to meet in a neutral space to resolve differences through dialogue rather than force of arms. <br><br>
</font><font color="#3366FF">50 YEARS AGO</font><font color="#008000"> our species ventured into </font><font color="#3366FF"><u>space</u></font><font color="#008000">, from where we could look back and see ourselves as one people, sharing a </font><font color="#3366FF">common destiny</font><font color="#008000">, on a </font><font color="#3366FF">living space ship</font><font color="#008000">. <br><br>
</font><font color="#3366FF">IN 10 YEARS</font><font color="#008000"> our </font><font color="#3366FF"><u>communications technologies</u></font><font color="#008000"> have given us the ability, should we choose to use it, to link every human on the planet into a seamless web of nearly costless communication and cooperation. <br><br>
Already our new technological capability has made possible the interconnection of the millions of people who are learning to work as a dynamic, self-directing social organism that transcends boundaries of race, class, religion, and nationality, and functions as a </font><font color="#3366FF">shared conscience of the species</font><font color="#008000">. Let’s call this social organism </font><font color="#3366FF">Global Civil Society</font><font color="#008000">. On February 15, 2003, it brought more than </font><font color="#3366FF">10 million people</font><font color="#008000"> to the streets of the world’s cities and villages to demand peace in the face of the build-up to the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Through social processes never before possible on such a scale, they accomplished this </font><font color="#3366FF">monumental collective action</font><font color="#008000"> without a central organisation, budget, or charismatic leader. Forget that it failed to stop the </b></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica">Empire</font><font color="#008000"><b>’s Dinosaurs, this was but a foretaste of the possibilities for radically new forms of partnership organisation now within reach.<br><br>
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</font><div align="center"><font size=4 color="#3366FF">Break The Silence, End The Isolation, Change The Story<br>
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<font color="#008000">We humans live by stories. The key to making a choice for </font><font size=4 color="#008000"><u>Earth Community</u></font><font color="#008000"> is recognising that the foundation of </b></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica">Empire</font><font color="#008000"><b>’s power does not lie in its instruments of physical violence. It lies in </b></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica">Empire</font><font color="#008000"><b>’s ability to control the stories by which we define ourselves and our possibilities in order to perpetuate the myths on which the legitimacy of the dominator relations of </b></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica">Empire</font><font color="#008000"><b> depend. </font><font size=4 color="#3366FF">To change the human future, we must change our defining stories.</b></font> [cont below]<br><br>
<div align="right"><font color="#800080"><b><u>WATCH THE DINOS FALL, ONE BY ONE AND IN GROUPS<br>
</u></font><font size=4 color="#FF0000">Cheney</font><font size=4 color="#3366FF"> Might Have To Testify in </font><font size=4 color="#FF0000">Leak Case<br>
</font><font color="#3366FF">Vice President </font><font color="#FF0000">Dick Cheney</font><font color="#3366FF"> said Thursday he might have to testify<br>
in the </font><font color="#FF0000">CIA</font><font color="#3366FF"> leak trial of his former chief of staff.<br>
</font><font color="#FF0000">Cheney</font><font color="#3366FF"> made the comment in a </font><font color="#FF0000">CNN</font><font color="#3366FF"> interview,<br>
following last month's suggestion by prosecutors that he would be<br>
a logical witness in the case of </font><font color="#FF0000">I. Lewis Libby</font><font color="#3366FF">,<br>
who is accused of </font><font size=4 color="#FF0000">perjury, obstruction</font><font color="#3366FF"> and </font><font size=4 color="#FF0000">lying to the FBI</font><font color="#3366FF">.<br>
</b></font><font color="#0000FF"><a href="http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062306J.shtml" eudora="autourl">http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062306J.shtml</a><br><br>
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<div align="center"><font size=5 color="#3366FF"><b>Story Power<br>
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<font color="#008000">For 5,000 years, the ruling class has cultivated, rewarded, and amplified the voices of those storytellers whose stories affirm the righteousness of </b></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica">Empire</font><font color="#008000"><b> and deny the higher-order potentials of our nature that would allow us to live with one another in peace and cooperation. There have always been those among us who sense the possibilities of </font><font size=4 color="#008000">Earth Community</font><font color="#008000">, but their stories have been marginalised or silenced by </b></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica">Empire</font><font color="#008000"><b>’s instruments of intimidation. The stories endlessly repeated by </b></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica">Empire</font><font color="#008000"><b>’s scribes become the stories most believed. Stories of more hopeful possibilities go unheard or unheeded, and those who discern the truth are unable to identify and support one another in the common cause of truth telling. Fortunately, the new communications technologies are breaking this pattern. As truth-tellers reach a wider audience, the myths of </b></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica">Empire</font><font color="#008000"><b> become harder to maintain.<br>
>> </font><font size=1 color="#FF0000">SO RECOMMEND SOMEONE for the </b></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=1 color="#FF00FF">UP!</font><font size=1 color="#FF0000"><b> 2DAY!!!!!!!!!!</font><font color="#008000"> <br><br>
The struggle to define the prevailing cultural stories largely defines contemporary cultural politics, particularly in the United States where a </font><font color="#3366FF">far-right alliance</font><font color="#008000"> of </font><font color="#3366FF"><u>elitist corporate plutocrats</u></font><font color="#008000"> and </font><font color="#3366FF"><u>religious theocrats</u></font><font color="#008000"> has gained control of the political discourse. They have not done this by force of their numbers, which are relatively small, but by controlling the stories by which the prevailing culture defines the pathway to </font><font color="#3366FF">prosperity</font><font color="#008000">, </font><font color="#3366FF">security</font><font color="#008000">, and </font><font color="#3366FF">meaning</font><font color="#008000">. In each instance, the far right’s favoured versions of these stories affirm the dominator relations of </b></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica">Empire</font><font color="#008000"><b>. <br><br>
</font><div align="right"><font size=4 color="#FF6600">Political Turning<br>
</font><font color="#FF6600">The economic turning creates the necessary conditions<br>
for a turn from a one-dollar, one-vote democracy<br>
to a one-person, one-vote democracy, from passive to active citizenship,<br>
from competition for individual advantage to cooperation for mutual advantage,<br>
from retributive justice to restorative justice, and from social order by coercion<br>
to social order by mutual responsibility and accountability.<br><br>
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<div align="center"><font size=5 color="#3366FF">The Imperial Story<br>
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<font size=4 color="#3366FF">The Imperial </font><font size=4><u>Prosperity</u></font><font size=4 color="#3366FF"> Story</font><font color="#008000"> says that an </font><font color="#3366FF">eternally growing economy</font><font color="#008000"> benefits </font><font color="#3366FF"><u>everyone</u></font><font color="#008000">. To grow the economy, we need </font><font color="#3366FF">wealthy people</font><font color="#008000"> who can </font><font color="#3366FF">invest</font><font color="#008000"> in enterprises that </font><font color="#3366FF">create jobs</font><font color="#008000">.<br>
</font><font color="#FF00FF">>> heard that a couple of times? :)<br><br>
</font><font color="#008000">Thus, we must support the wealthy by cutting their taxes and </font><font color="#3366FF"><u>eliminating regulations</u></font><font color="#008000"> that create barriers to accumulating wealth. We must also reduce or eliminate welfare programs in order to teach the poor the value of working hard at whatever wages the market “</font><font color="#3366FF"><i>can afford</i></font><font color="#008000">”.<br><br>
</font><font size=4 color="#3366FF">The Imperial </font><font size=4><u>Security</u></font><font size=4 color="#3366FF"> Story</font><font color="#008000"> tells of a </font><font color="#3366FF">dangerous world</font><font color="#008000">, filled with </font><font color="#3366FF">criminals</font><font color="#008000">, </font><font color="#3366FF">terrorists</font><font color="#008000">, and </font><font color="#3366FF">enemies</font><font color="#008000">. Only through major expenditures on the military/police can we insure our safety, and we can only maintain order by physical force.<br>
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</font><font size=4 color="#3366FF">The Imperial </font><font size=4><u>Meaning</u></font><font size=4 color="#3366FF"> Story</font><font color="#008000"> reinforces the other two, featuring a </font>Male God<font color="#008000"> who rewards righteousness with wealth and power, and mandates that they rule over the poor who justly suffer divine punishment for their sins.<br>
</font><font color="#FF00FF">>> we haven’t mentioned Xtianity, but that, as all UPpies well know, lurks behind and has ‘justified’ the whole thing for the past 1500 years.<br><br>
</font><font color="#008000">These stories all serve to alienate us from the community of life, and deny </font><font color="#3366FF">the positive potentials of our nature</font><font color="#008000">, while affirming the </font><font color="#3366FF"><u>legitimacy</u></font><font color="#008000"> <br>
</font><font color="#FF00FF">>> and Inevitably<br><br>
</font><font color="#008000">of economic inequality, the use of </font><font color="#3366FF">physical force</font><font color="#008000"> to maintain imperial order, and the </font><font color="#3366FF">special righteousness</font><font color="#008000"> of those in power. <br>
</font><font color="#FF00FF">>> the so-called “wealth producers”. <br><br>
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</font><div align="center"><font size=5 color="#3366FF">The </font><font size=5 color="#339966">Earth Community</font><font size=5 color="#3366FF"> Story<br>
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<font color="#008000">It is not enough to debate the details of tax and education policies, budgets, war, and trade agreements in search of a positive political agenda. Nor is it enough to craft slogans with broad mass appeal aimed at winning the next election or policy debate. We must infuse the mainstream culture with stories of</font><font size=4 color="#008000"> Earth Community</font><font color="#008000">. As the stories of </b></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica">Empire</font><font color="#008000"><b> nurture a culture of </font><font color="#3366FF"><u>domination</u></font><font color="#008000">, the stories of </font><font size=4 color="#008000">Earth Community</font><font color="#008000"> nurture a culture of </font><font color="#3366FF"><u>partnership</u></font><font color="#008000">. <br><br>
They affirm the positive potentials of our human nature, and show that realising true prosperity, security, and meaning depends on creating </font><font color="#3366FF">vibrant</font><font color="#008000">, </font><font color="#3366FF">caring</font><font color="#008000">, </font><font color="#3366FF">interlinked communities</font><font color="#008000"> that support all persons in realising their full humanity. Sharing the joyful news of our human possibilities through word and action is perhaps the most important aspect of the </font><font color="#3366FF">Great Work</font><font color="#008000"> of our time. <br><br>
Changing the prevailing stories in the United States may be easier to accomplish than we might think. The apparent political divisions notwithstanding, U.S. polling data reveal a startling degree of consensus on key issues. 83% of Americans believe that as a society the United States is focused on the wrong priorities. Supermajorities want to see greater priority given to children, family, community, and a healthy environment. Americans also want a world that puts people ahead of profits, spiritual values ahead of financial values, and international cooperation ahead of international domination. <br><br>
These </font><font size=4 color="#008000">Earth Community</font><font color="#008000"> values are in fact widely shared by both conservatives and liberals.</b></font> [cont below]<br><br>
<div align="right"><font size=4 color="#333399"><b>Web Accessibility Soon </font><font size=4 color="#FF6600">Mandatory</font><font size=4 color="#333399"> In Europe?<br>
</font><font color="#333399">The 25 European Commission member states and 9 accession countries<br>
have all signed up for an "</font><font color="#FF6600">Internet for all</font><font color="#333399">" action plan,<br>
designed to ensure that the most Web-disadvantaged groups can get online.<br>
The EC has pledged to increase broadband coverage across the continent <br>
to 90% by 2010. </b></font>CNET news.com June 15, 2006<br>
<font color="#FF00FF"><b>>> humanity needs everybody else to catch up<br>
a LOT more than it needs a few to get even faster.<br>
don’t bother mentioning the thought to most americans tho :(<br><br>
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<font color="#008000">America is on the wrong course not because Americans have the wrong values, but because of </font><font color="#3366FF">remnant imperial institutions</font><font color="#008000"> that give </font><font color="#3366FF">unaccountable power</font><font color="#008000"> to a small alliance of </font><font color="#3366FF">right-wing extremists</font><font color="#008000"> who call themselves conservative and claim to support family and community values, but whose preferred economic and social policies constitute a ruthless war against children, families, communities, and the environment. <br><br>
The distinctive human capacity for reflection and intentional choice carries a corresponding moral responsibility to care for one another and the planet. Indeed, </font><font color="#3366FF">our deepest desire</font><font color="#008000"> is to live in loving relationships with one another. The hunger for loving families and communities is a powerful, but latent, unifying force and the potential foundation of a winning political coalition dedicated to creating societies that support every person in actualising his or her highest potential.<br>
</font><font color="#FF00FF">>> the pursuit of happiness.<br><br>
</font><font color="#008000">In these turbulent and often frightening times, it is important to remind ourselves that we are privileged to live at the most exciting moment in the whole of the human experience. We have the opportunity to turn away from </b></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica">Empire</font><font color="#008000"><b> and to embrace </font><font size=4 color="#008000">Earth Community</font><font color="#008000"> as a conscious collective choice. <br><br>
</font><font size=4 color="#3366FF">We are the ones we have been waiting for.<br><br>
</b></font>David Korten is co-founder and board chair of the <i>Positive Futures Network</i>. This article draws from his newly released book, <i>The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community</i>. <a href="http://www.yesmagazine.org/greatturning" eudora="autourl"><font color="#0000FF">www.yesmagazine.org/greatturning</a></font> <br><br>
<div align="right"><font size=4 color="#993300"><b>Bishop Tutu On </font><font size=4 color="#FF6600">Palestine<br>
</font><font color="#993300"><i>“I've been very deeply distressed in my visit to the Holy Land;<br>
it so reminded me of what happened to us black people in South Africa.<br>
I have seen the humiliation of the Palestinians at checkpoints<br>
and roadblocks, suffering like us when young white police officers<br>
prevented us from moving about. . . I have experienced Palestinians<br>
pointing to what were their homes, now occupied by Jewish Israelis. . .<br>
My heart aches. I ask why are our memories so short.<br>
</font><font color="#FF6600">Have our Jewish sisters and brothers forgotten their humiliation?<br>
Have they forgotten the collective punishment, the home demolitions,<br>
in their own history so soon? Have they turned their backs<br>
on their profound and noble religious traditions?<br>
Have they forgotten that God cares deeply about the downtrodden?<br><br>
</font><font color="#993300">Israel will never get true security and safety<br>
through oppressing another people.<br>
A true peace can ultimately be built only on justice.<br><br>
We in South Africa had a relatively peaceful transition.<br>
If our madness could end as it did, it must be possible<br>
to do the same everywhere else in the world.<br>
If peace could come to South Africa, surely it can come to the Holy Land?<br>
</i></b></font><font color="#0000FF"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/comment/0,10551,706911,00.html" eudora="autourl">http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/comment/0,10551,706911,00.html</a><br><br>
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</font><font size=4 color="#FF0000"><b>Chomsky On </font><font size=4 color="#333399">Iran<br>
</font><font size=4 color="#808080">A Fair & Negotiated</font><font size=4> </font><font size=4 color="#000080">Solution</font><font size=4> </font><font size=4 color="#808080">To<br>
The</font><font size=4> </font><font size=4 color="#000080">Iranian Nuclear Crisis</font><font size=4> </font><font size=4 color="#808080">Is Within Reach<br>
</font><font color="#000080"><i>The US must take 3 basic steps to defuse this confrontation.<br>
The consequences of not doing so could be grim<br><br>
</i></font><font color="#808080">Till the end of the </font><font color="#000080">Shah</font><font color="#808080"> 1979, Washington strongly supported these programmes.<br>
Today the standard claim is that </font><font color="#000080">Iran</font><font color="#808080"> has no need for nuclear power,<br>
and therefore must be pursuing a secret weapons programme.<br>
"</font><font color="#000080"><i>For a major oil producer like Iran, nuclear energy is a waste of resources</i></font><font color="#808080">,"<br>
</font><font color="#000080">Henry Kissinger</font><font color="#808080"> wrote in the <i>Washington Post</i> last year.<br><br>
30 years ago, however, when </font><font color="#000080">Kissinger</font><font color="#808080"> was secretary of state,<br>
he held that "</font><font color="#000080"><i>introduction of nuclear power will both provide<br>
for the growing needs of Iran's economy<br>
and free remaining oil reserves for export or conversion to petrochemicals</i></font><font color="#808080">".<br><br>
Iran's nuclear programmes, as far as is known, fall within its rights<br>
under article 4 of the </font><font color="#000080">non-proliferation treaty</font><font color="#808080"> (</font><font color="#000080">NPT</font><font color="#808080">),<br>
which grants non-nuclear states the right to produce fuel for nuclear energy.<br>
The Bush administration argues that article 4 should be strengthened,<br>
and I think that makes sense.<br><br>
When the </font><font color="#000080">NPT</font><font color="#808080"> came into force in 1970 there was a considerable gap<br>
between producing fuel for energy and for nuclear weapons.<br>
But advances in technology have narrowed the gap.<br>
However, any such revision would have to ensure unimpeded access<br>
for non-military use, in accord with the initial </font><font color="#000080">NPT</font><font color="#808080"> bargain<br>
between declared nuclear powers and the non-nuclear states.<br><br>
A reasonable proposal to this end was advanced by </font><font color="#000080">Mohamed ElBaradei</font><font color="#808080">,<br>
head of the </font><font color="#000080"><i>International Atomic Energy Agency</i></font><font color="#808080"> in 2003:<br>
that all production and processing of weapon-usable material<br>
be under international control, with "</font><font color="#000080"><i>assurance that legitimate would-be users<br>
could get their supplies</i></font><font color="#808080">". That should be the first step, he proposed,<br>
toward fully implementing the 1993 UN resolution<br>
for a fissile material cut-off treaty (or </font><font color="#000080">Fissban</font><font color="#808080">).<br><br>
</font><font color="#000080">ElBaradei</font><font color="#808080">'s proposal has to date been accepted by only one state: </font><font color="#000080">Iran</font><font color="#808080">,<br>
in February, in an interview with Ali Larijani, Iran's chief nuclear negotiator.<br>
The Bush administration rejects a verifiable </font><font color="#000080">Fissban</font><font color="#808080"> - and stands nearly alone.<br>
In November 2004 the UN committee on disarmament voted in favour<br>
of a verifiable </font><font color="#000080">Fissban</font><font color="#808080"> by 147 to 1 (United States), with two abstentions:<br>
</font><font color="#000080">Israel</font><font color="#808080"> and Britain. Last year a vote in the full general assembly was 179 to 2,<br>
Israel and Britain again abstaining. The United States was joined by </font><font color="#000080">Palau</font><font color="#808080">.<br><br>
</font><font size=4 color="#000080">There Are Ways To Mitigate And Probably End These Crises<br>
</font><font color="#808080">The </font><font color="#000080">first</font><font color="#808080"> is to call off the very credible US and Israeli threats<br>
that virtually <i>urge</i> Iran to develop nuclear weapons as a deterrent.<br><br>
A </font><font color="#000080">second</font><font color="#808080"> step would be to join the rest of the world in accepting<br>
a verifiable </font><font color="#000080">Fissban</font><font color="#808080"> treaty, as well as </font><font color="#000080">ElBaradei</font><font color="#808080">'s proposal, or something similar.<br><br>
A </font><font color="#000080">third</font><font color="#808080"> step would be to live up to article six of the NPT,<br>
which obligates the nuclear states to take "</font><font color="#000080">good-faith</font><font color="#808080">" efforts<br>
to eliminate nuclear weapons, a binding legal obligation,<br>
as the world court determined. None of the nuclear states has lived up<br>
to that obligation, with the United States far in the lead in violating it.<br><br>
Even steps in these directions would mitigate the upcoming crisis with Iran.<br>
Above all, it is important to heed the words of Mohamed ElBaradei:<br>
"</font><font color="#000080"><i>There is no military solution to this situation. It is inconceivable.<br>
The only durable solution is a negotiated solution.</i></font><font color="#808080">" And it is within reach.<br>
</b></font>[Chomsky's <i>Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy</i>.]<br><br>
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<div align="center"><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=4 color="#FF00FF">so what will it be like in this new world then?<br>
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<font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF00FF">here’s one example. </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF0000">football</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF00FF">. in the new world no contact of any physical kind will be allowed.<br>
deeply submerged as we are in this current competitive culture, when you first hear such an idea it sounds nuts. wouldn’t that take all the action out of the game?!<br>
well, no, actually, it would make for <i>more</i> action, but more of the ballet type and what’s wrong with that? more gifted young lads would join the game, why, women might be able to play! <br>
right now a whole generation of our kids are being educated to think that cheating (grabbing, shoving, tripping, kicking, pulling shirts all the things we teach our kids NOT to do) is the only way to win, and that it’s necessary to get ahead. (of course this is not only true of </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF0000">football</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF00FF"> but runs through every field of human endeavour.) <br>
FIFA, the body which manages the game, is already moving in this direction. it’s just a case of imagining this accelerating. think of how many wonderful players have to be retired early because of injuries sustained in a primitive, dinosaur-like version of a game that will obviously evolve and be with us <i>forever</i>. <br>
i have a friend right now whose son is brilliant at the game and has visited training camps where scouts watch for new talent. but did you know that anyone who’s smaller, less burly or just more sensitive, will not be picked because the scouts know he’ll be bullied and pushed out of the game by the ruff guys at some later stage?<br><br>
imagine a game free of all those ruff tuff blundering macho guys, allowing the truly talented </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF0000"><i>‘physical artists’</i></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF00FF"> to play the beautiful game without the constant injuries and stoppages. <br><br>
get the idea? other examples to follow.<br>
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