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<font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#999999">p.01
</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=5 color="#FF6600"><b>Our
</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=5 color="#99CC00">Earth
Goddess</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=5 color="#FF6600">
’</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=5 color="#99CC00">s
</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=5 color="#FF0000">X</font>
<font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=5 color="#FF6600">Ms
Box</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=4 color="#FF6600">
</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=4 color="#0000FF">:</font>
<font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=4 color="#FF0000">D<br>
</font><font size=1 color="#FF0000">more sooperpositive news..<br>
</b></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#999999">p.07
</font><font size=6 color="#339966"><b>Humans Work / Play / Think /
Predict Better As A </font><font size=6 color="#FF00FF"><u>Group<br>
</u></font><font size=1 color="#FF0000">more sooperpositive news..<br>
</b></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#999999">p.08
</font><font size=5 color="#CC99FF"><b>Dicaprio</font>
<font size=5 color="#33CCCC"> Keen To Show In Biopic What “Guru”
</font><font size=5 color="#CC99FF">Leary</font>
<font size=5 color="#33CCCC"> Meant To Him<br>
</font><font size=1 color="#FF0000">more sooperpositive news...<br>
</b></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#999999">p.10
</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=6><b>Marrying
</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=6 color="#339966">
Green</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=6> Politics With
</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=6 color="#FF0000">Social
Justice</b></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF0000"><i>
it could be in the can for
</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=4 color="#FF0000">
Labour!<br>
</i></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#999999">p.12
</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=5 color="#339966">The
</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=5 color="#993300">
Trauma</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=5 color="#339966">
Of The
</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=5 color="#FF9900">Great
Mother</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF9900"> -
</font><font color="#339966"><b><i>Do these simple things each day &
know you’re contributing to a world of greater good<br>
</i></font><font size=1 color="#FF0000">more sooperpositive news..<br>
</b></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#999999">p.14
</font><font size=4 color="#800080"><b>Recent Studies Show
</font><font size=4 color="#3366FF">Ecstasy</font>
<font size=4 color="#800080"> To Be
</font><font size=4 color="#3366FF">Beneficial.<br>
</b></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF00FF">UP!<br><br>
<br><br>
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<font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=7 color="#FF6600"><b>Our<br>
</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=7 color="#99CC00">Earth
Goddess</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=7 color="#FF6600">
’</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=7 color="#99CC00">s<br>
</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=7 color="#FF0000">X</font>
<font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=7 color="#FF6600">Ms Box
</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=7 color="#0000FF">:</font>
<font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=7 color="#FF0000">D<br><br>
</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=4 color="#FF0000"><i>HER
<u>PERFECT PRESENT</u> TO US ALL!<br><br>
</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=4 color="#FF6600">THE
IDEAL MIX OF
</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=4 color="#99CC00">SOFT
MYSTICISM</font>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=4 color="#FF6600"> &
</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=4 color="#0000FF">HARD
SCIENCE<br>
</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=4 color="#FF6600">to
unite
</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=4 color="#0000FF">
cynics</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=4 color="#FF6600">
&
</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=4 color="#99CC00">
shamanists</font>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=4 color="#FF6600"> in this new
era<br>
when cooperation MUST become the rule of the day :)<br><br>
<br>
</i></font>Can This Box In A Dusty Library See Into the
<font size=4 color="#99CC00">Future</font><font size=4 color="#FF6600">
?<br>
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<font color="#FF6600">Deep in the basement of a dusty library in
</font><font color="#0000FF">Edinburgh
University</font><font color="#FF6600"> lies a small black box, roughly
the size of two cigarette packets side by side, that churns out random
numbers in an endless stream. So?<br><br>
Well, though at first glance it’s an unremarkable piece of equipment, a
metal box containing a microchip no more complex than those in a standard
pocket calculator, </font><font size=4 color="#99CC00">it has quite
extraordinary powers</font><font color="#FF6600"> - according to a
growing band of </font><font color="#0000FF">top scientists. <br><br>
</font><font color="#FF6600">For it is, these
</font><font color="#0000FF">scientists</font><font color="#FF6600">
claim, </font><font size=4 color="#99CC00"><u>the Eye of a machine that
can peer into the future and predict major world events.<br>
</u></font><font color="#FF6600"> <br>
</font><font size=4 color="#FF6600">Apparently it sensed the 9/11 attacks
4 hours before they happened</font><font color="#FF6600">.
</font><font color="#0000FF">(claims which were swiftly dumped on by
sceptics in the fevered mood of conspiracy theories of the
time)</font><font color="#FF6600">. <br><br>
But last December, it also appeared to
</font><font size=4 color="#FF6600">forewarn of the Asian Tsunami just
before the deep sea earthquake that precipitated the epic
tragedy.</font><font color="#FF6600"> Now, even the doubters are
acknowledging that here is a small box with
</font><font size=4 color="#99CC00">apparently inexplicable
powers</font><font color="#FF6600">.<br>
</font><font color="#99CC00"><i> <br>
'It's Earth-shattering stuff,'</i></font><font color="#FF6600"> says Dr
Roger Nelson, emeritus researcher at
</font><font color="#0000FF">Princeton
University</font><font color="#FF6600"> in the United States, who is
heading the research project behind the 'black box' phenomenon.
</font><font color="#99CC00"><i>'We're very early on in the process of
trying to figure out what's going on here. At the moment we're
stabbing in the dark.'</i></font><font color="#FF6600"> Dr Nelson's
investigations, called the </font><font size=4 color="#99CC00">Global
Consciousness Project</font><font color="#FF6600">, were originally
hosted by </font><font color="#0000FF">Princeton
University</font><font color="#FF6600"> and are centred on one of the
most extraordinary experiments of all time. Its aim?<br><br>
</font><font size=4 color="#0000FF">To detect whether all of humanity
shares a single subconscious mind we can all tap into without
realising.<br>
</font><font color="#FF6600"> <br>
And machines like the Edinburgh black box have thrown up a tantalising
possibility: that scientists may have unwittingly discovered
</font><font color="#0000FF">a way of predicting the
future</font><font color="#FF6600">. Although many would consider
the project's aims to be little more than fools' gold, it has still
attracted a roster of </font><font color="#0000FF">75 respected
scientists</font><font color="#FF6600"> from
</font><font color="#0000FF">41 different
nations</font><font color="#FF6600">. Researchers from
</font><font color="#0000FF">Princeton</font><font color="#FF6600"> -
where </font><font color="#0000FF">Einstein</font><font color="#FF6600">
spent much of his career - work alongside scientists from universities in
</font><font color="#0000FF">Britain</font><font color="#FF6600">, the
</font><font color="#0000FF">Netherlands</font><font color="#FF6600">,
</font><font color="#0000FF">Switzerland</font><font color="#FF6600"> and
</font><font color="#0000FF">Germany</font><font color="#FF6600">.
The project is also the most rigorous and longest-running investigation
ever into the potential powers of the paranormal.<br>
<br>
</font><font color="#99CC00"><i>'Very often paranormal phenomena
evaporate if you study them for long enough,'
</i></font><font color="#FF6600">says physicist Dick Bierman of the
</font><font color="#0000FF">University of
Amsterdam</font><font color="#FF6600">.
</font><font color="#99CC00"><i>'But this is not happening with the
Global Consciousness Project. The effect is real. The only
dispute is about what it means.' <br><br>
<br>
</i></font><div align="center"><font size=4 color="#0000FF">The Random
Event Generator<br>
</font></div>
<font color="#FF6600">The project has its roots in the extraordinary work
of Professor Robert Jahn of </font><font color="#0000FF">Princeton
University </font><font color="#FF6600">during the late 1970s. He
was one of the first modern scientists to take paranormal phenomena
seriously. <br>
</font><font color="#FF00FF">>> i can vouch for this. when i
was studying psychology at Glasgow University in the first half of the
‘60s, it was a subject of jokes among all the staff.<br><br>
</font><font color="#FF6600">Intrigued by such things as
</font><font color="#99CC00">telepathy,
telekinesis</font><font color="#FF6600"> - the supposed psychic power to
move objects without the use of physical force - and
</font><font color="#99CC00">extrasensory
perception</font><font color="#FF6600">, he was determined to study the
phenomena using the </font><font color="#0000FF">most up-to-date
technology available</font><font color="#FF6600">.<br>
<br>
One of these new technologies was a humble-looking black box known as a
</font><font color="#0000FF">Random Event Generator
(REG)</font><font color="#FF6600">. This used computer technology
to generate two numbers - a one and a zero - in a
</font><font color="#0000FF">totally random
sequence</font><font color="#FF6600">, rather like an electronic
coin-flipper.<br>
<br>
The pattern of ones and noughts -
</font><font color="#99CC00">'heads'</font><font color="#FF6600"> and
</font><font color="#99CC00">'tails'</font><font color="#FF6600"> as it
were - could then be printed out as a graph. The laws of chance
dictate that the generators should churn out equal numbers of ones and
zeros - which would be represented by a nearly flat line on the
graph. Any deviation from this equal number shows up as a gently
rising curve.<br>
<br>
During the late 1970s, Prof Jahn decided to investigate whether the power
of human thought alone could interfere in some way with the machine's
usual readings. He hauled strangers off the street and asked them
to concentrate their minds on his number generator. In effect, he
was asking them to try to make it flip more heads than tails.<br><br>
</font><font size=4 color="#99CC00">It was a preposterous idea at the
time. </font><font color="#FF6600">The results, however, were
stunning and have never been satisfactorily explained.<br>
<br>
Entirely ordinary people, again and again, proved that their
</font><font color="#99CC00">minds could influence the
machine</font><font color="#FF6600"> and produce significant fluctuations
on the graph, </font><font color="#99CC00"><i>'forcing
it'</i></font><font color="#FF6600"> to produce unequal numbers of
'heads' or 'tails'. According to all of the known laws of science,
</font><font size=4 color="#99CC00">this should not have happened
-</font><font color="#FF6600"> </font><font size=4 color="#99CC00">but it
did. And it kept on happening.<br>
</font><font color="#FF6600"> <br>
Dr Nelson, also working at </font><font color="#0000FF">Princeton
University</font><font color="#FF6600">, then extended Prof Jahn's work
by taking random number machines to </font><font color="#99CC00">group
meditations</font><font color="#FF6600">, which were very popular in
America at the time. Again, the results were eye-popping. The
groups were collectively able to cause
</font><font size=4 color="#99CC00">dramatic
shifts</font><font color="#FF6600"> in the patterns of numbers.
From then on, Dr Nelson was hooked.<br><br>
Using the internet, he connected up </font><font color="#0000FF">40
random event generators</font><font color="#FF6600"> from all over the
world to his laboratory computer in Princeton. These ran
constantly, day in day out, generating millions of different pieces of
data. Most of the time, the resulting graph on his computer looked
more or less like a flat line.<br>
<br>
But then on </font><font color="#0000FF">September 6,
1997</font><font color="#FF6600">, something quite extraordinary
happened: the graph shot upwards, recording a sudden and massive shift in
the number sequence as his machines around the world started reporting
huge deviations from the norm. The day was of historic importance
for another reason. It was the day when an estimated
</font><font color="#0000FF">one billion
people</font><font color="#FF6600"> around the world watched the funeral
of </font><font size=4 color="#99CC00">Diana, Princess of
Wales</font><font color="#99CC00"> </font><font color="#FF6600">at
Westminster Abbey. Dr Nelson was convinced that the two events must
be related in some way.<br>
<br>
Could he have detected a totally new phenomenon? Could
</font><font size=4 color="#99CC00">the concentrated emotional outpouring
of millions of people</font><font color="#99CC00">
</font><font color="#FF6600">be able to influence the output of his
</font><font color="#0000FF">REGs</font><font color="#FF6600">. If
so, how? Dr Nelson was at a loss to explain it.<br><br>
<br><br>
So, in 1998, he gathered together scientists from all over the world to
analyse his findings. They, too, were stumped and resolved to
extend and deepen the work of Prof Jahn and Dr Nelson.
</font><font size=4 color="#99CC00">The Global Consciousness
Project</font><font color="#FF6600"> was born.<br><br>
<br>
</font><div align="center"><font size=4 color="#0000FF">The
65</font><font color="#0000FF"><sup>th</sup></font>
<font size=4 color="#0000FF"> Eye<br>
</font></div>
<font color="#FF6600">Since then, the project has expanded
massively. A total of 65
</font><font color="#99CC00">Eggs</font><font color="#FF6600"> (as the
generators have been named) in 41 countries have now been recruited to
act as the
</font><font color="#99CC00"><i>'eyes'</i></font><font color="#FF6600">
of the project. <br><br>
And the results have been startling and inexplicable in equal
measure. For during the course of the experiment, the
</font><font color="#99CC00">Eggs</font><font color="#FF6600"> have
</font><font color="#99CC00"><i>'sensed'</i></font><font color="#FF6600">
a whole series of major world events as they were happening, from the
Nato bombing of Yugoslavia to the Kursk submarine tragedy to America's
hung election of 2000. The
</font><font color="#99CC00">Eggs</font><font color="#FF6600"> also
regularly detect </font><font color="#99CC00">huge global
celebrations</font><font color="#FF6600">, such as
</font><font color="#99CC00">New Year's Eve.<br><br>
</font><font color="#FF6600">But the project threw up its greatest enigma
on </font><font size=4 color="#99CC00">September 11, 2001.<br><br>
</font><font color="#FF6600">As the world stood still and watched the
horror of the terrorist attacks unfold across New York, something strange
was happening to the Eggs.<br><br>
Not only had they registered the attacks as they actually happened, but
the characteristic shift in the pattern of numbers had begun 4 hours
<i>before</i> the two planes even hit the Twin Towers.<br><br>
They had, it appeared, detected that an event of historic importance was
about to take place before the terrorists had even boarded their fateful
flights. The implications, not least for the West's security
services that constantly monitor electronic
</font><font color="#99CC00">'chatter'</font><font color="#FF6600">, are
clearly enormous. </font><font color="#99CC00"><i>'I knew then that
we had a great deal of work ahead of
us,'</i></font><font color="#FF6600"> says Dr Nelson. What could be
happening? Was it a freak occurrence, perhaps? Apparently
not. For in the closing weeks of December last year, the
machines went wild once more.<br><br>
24 hours later, an earthquake deep beneath the Indian Ocean triggered the
</font><font color="#99CC00">tsunami</font><font color="#FF6600"> which
devastated South-East Asia, and claimed the lives of an estimated quarter
of a million people. So could the
</font><font color="#99CC00">Global Consciousness
Project</font><font color="#FF6600"> really be forecasting the
future? Cynics will quite rightly point out that there is always
<i>some</i> global event that could be used to 'explain' the times when
the Egg machines behaved erratically. After all, our world is full
of wars, disasters and terrorist outrages, as well as the occasional
global celebration. Are the scientists simply trying too hard to
detect patterns in their raw data?<br><br>
The team behind the project insist <i>not</i>. They claim that by
using rigorous scientific techniques and powerful mathematics it is
possible to exclude any such random connections.
</font><font color="#99CC00"><i>'We're perfectly willing to discover that
we've made mistakes,'</i> </font><font color="#FF6600">says Dr
Nelson. </font><font color="#99CC00"><i>'But we haven't been able
to find any, and neither has anyone else. Our data shows clearly
that the chances of getting these results by fluke are
</font><font size=4 color="#99CC00"><u>one million to one
against.</u></font><font color="#99CC00"> That's hugely
significant.'</i></font><font color="#FF6600"> <br><br>
<br>
</font><div align="center"><font size=4 color="#0000FF">Nothing In The
Laws Of Physics Precludes<br>
The Possibility Of Foreseeing The Future<br>
</font></div>
<font color="#FF6600">It is possible - in theory - that time may not just
move forwards but backwards, too. And if time ebbs and flows like
the tides in the sea, it might just be possible to foretell major world
events. We would, in effect, be
</font><font color="#99CC00"><i>'remembering'</i></font>
<font color="#FF6600"> things that had taken place in our future.
<br>
</font><font color="#FF00FF">>> viz “future memories” in
megatripolis@forever!<br><br>
</font><font color="#99CC00"><i>'There's plenty of evidence that time may
run backwards,'</i></font><font color="#FF6600"> says Prof Bierman at the
University of Amsterdam. </font><font color="#99CC00"><i>'And if
it's possible for it to happen in physics, then it can happen in our
minds, too.'</i></font><font color="#FF6600"> In other words, Prof
Bierman believes we are all capable of looking into the future, if only
we could tap into the hidden power of our minds. And there’s a
tantalising body of evidence to support this theory.<br><br>
Dr John Hartwell, working at the </font><font color="#0000FF">University
of Utrecht</font><font color="#FF6600"> in the Netherlands, was the first
to uncover evidence that people could </font><font color="#99CC00">sense
the future</font><font color="#FF6600">. In the mid-1970s he hooked
people up to hospital scanning machines to study their brainwave
patterns. He began by showing them a sequence of provocative
cartoon drawings. When the pictures were shown, the machines
registered the subject's brainwaves as they reacted strongly to the
images before them. This was to be expected.<br><br>
Far less easy to explain was the fact that, in many cases, these dramatic
patterns began to register </font><font size=4 color="#99CC00">a few
seconds before</font><font color="#FF6600"> each of the pictures was even
flashed up. It was as though Dr Hartwell's case studies were
somehow seeing into the future, and detecting when the next shocking
image would be shown next. </font><font size=4 color="#99CC00">It
was extraordinary - and seemingly inexplicable.<br><br>
</font><font color="#FF6600">But it was to be another 15 years before
anyone else took Dr Hartwell's work further. Then researcher Dean
Radin connected people up to a machine that measured their skin's
resistance to electricity. This is known to fluctuate in tandem
with our moods - indeed, it's this principle that underlies many
</font><font size=5 color="#99CC00">lie detectors.
</font><font color="#FF6600">He repeated Dr Hartwell's
</font><font color="#99CC00"><i>'image
response'</i></font><font color="#FF6600"> experiments while measuring
skin resistance. Again, people began reacting a few seconds before
they were shown the provocative pictures. This was clearly
impossible, or so he thought, so he kept on repeating the
experiments. </font><font size=4 color="#FF6600">And he kept
getting the same results.<br><br>
</font><font color="#99CC00"><i>'I didn't believe it
either,</i></font><font color="#FF6600">' says Prof Bierman.
</font><font color="#99CC00"><i>'So I repeated the experiment myself and
got the same results. I was shocked. After this I started to
think more deeply about the nature of time.' <br><br>
</i></font><font color="#FF6600">To make matters even more intriguing,
Prof Bierman says that other mainstream labs have now produced similar
results but are yet to go public.
</font><font color="#99CC00"><i>'They don't want to be ridiculed so they
won't release their findings,' </i></font><font color="#FF6600">he
says. </font><font color="#99CC00"><i>'So I'm trying to persuade
all of them to release their results at the same time. That would at
least spread the ridicule a little more
thinly!'</i></font><font color="#FF6600"> If Prof Bierman is right,
though, then the experiments are no laughing matter.<br><br>
They might help provide a solid scientific grounding for such strange
phenomena as </font><font color="#99CC00">'deja vu',
intuition</font><font color="#FF6600"> and a host of other curiosities
that we have all experienced from time to time.<br><br>
They may also open up a far more interesting possibility - that one day
we might be able to enhance psychic powers using machines that can
</font><font color="#99CC00"><i>'tune
in'</i></font><font color="#FF6600"> to our subconscious mind, machines
like the little black box in Edinburgh. Just as we have built
mechanical engines to replace muscle power, could we one day build a
device to enhance and interpret our hidden psychic abilities?<br><br>
Dr Nelson is optimistic - but not for the short
term</font><font color="#99CC00"><i>. 'Put it this way - we haven't
yet got a machine we could sell to the CIA. We may be able to
predict a major world event is going to happen, but we won't know exactly
what will happen or where.'<br><br>
<br>
</i></font><font color="#FF6600">But for Dr Nelson, talk of such psychic
machines - with the potential to detect global catastrophes or terrorist
outrages - is of far less importance than the implications of his work
</font><font color="#99CC00"><i>in terms of the human race.<br><br>
</i></font><font color="#FF6600">For what his experiments appear to
demonstrate is that, while we may all operate as <i>individuals</i>, we
also appear to share something far, far greater -
</font><font size=4 color="#99CC00">a global
consciousness.</font><font color="#FF6600"> Some might call it
</font><font size=4 color="#99CC00">the mind of God.<br>
</font><font color="#FF00FF">>> i’ve been calling it GroupMind
since early rave days. it can happen locally, in bed with someone,
in a lounge, in a club, or on a planetary scale. <br><br>
</font><font size=4 color="#99CC00"><i>'Society drives us to separate
ourselves from each other, to be individualistic
monsters,'</i></font><font color="#FF6600"> he says.
</font><font size=4 color="#99CC00"><i>”But that's not right, and we may
be connected together far more intimately than we realise.'<br>
</i></b></font><font color="#0000FF"><u>
<a href="http://noosphere.princeton.edu/" eudora="autourl">
http://noosphere.princeton.edu/<br><br>
</a></u></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=5 color="#FF0000">
a merry xms from the goddess!<br>
</font><font color="#FF00FF"><b>up!<br><br>
</font><div align="center"><font size=4 color="#FF9900">Computers
</font><font size=4 color="#99CC00"><i>'Could Store Entire Life By
2026'<br>
</i></font></div>
<font color="#FF9900">A device the size of a sugar cube will be able to
record and store high resolution video footage of
</font><font color="#99CC00">every second of a human
life</font><font color="#FF9900"> within two decades, according to
speakers at the </font><font color="#99CC00"><i>Memories for
Life</i></font><font color="#FF9900"> conference at the British
Library. <br>
</b></font><font face="Times New Roman, Times">[Daily Telegraph Dec. 13,
2006]<br>
</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF00FF">UP!
</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times"><i>"There are a number of
mechanical devices which increase sexualarousal, particularly in women.
Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz380SL."</i> Lynn
Lavner.<br><br>
<br>
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</font><font size=1 color="#800080">the</font><font color="#FF00FF">
</font><font size=1 color="#FF00FF">UP!</font>
<font size=1 color="#800080">is a global edutainment round-up, broadcast
weekly to </font><font size=1 color="#808080">=[14,512]=<br>
</font><font size=1>Alternative// Activist// Zippy// Trance// New Age//
Peace folks<br>
</font><font size=1 color="#800080">recommended to the
</font><font size=1 color="#808080">Parallel
YOUniversity</font><font size=1 color="#FF99CC">// Megatripolis Dance
Dept</font><font color="#800080">
</font><font size=1 color="#800080">as<br>
</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 color="#808080">
</font><font size=1><u>50,000+</u></font><font 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 color="#FFFF00">
</font><font size=1 color="#800080">because</font><font 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>
</u></font><font size=1 color="#FF00FF">
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</b></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF00FF">UP!<br><br>
<br>
</font></div>
<font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#008000"><i>"One very
plausible, and for me very persuasive, explanation, in the school of
</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#0000FF">Huxley</font>
<font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#008000">, James and
</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#0000FF">Hoffman</font>
<font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#008000">," </i>writes
</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica">Graham
Hancock</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#008000"> in his
book, </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica"><i>Supernatural:
Meetings with the Ancient Teachers of
Mankind</i></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#008000">
(Century, 2005, The Disinformation Company, 2006), <i>"is that there
do indeed exist
</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#33CCCC">'separate,
freestanding
realities'</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#008000"> -
or </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#33CCCC">'parallel
dimensions'</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#008000"> of
the kind
</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#33CCCC">quantum
physics
predicts</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#008000"> -
that vibrate at a different frequency to our own and thus are
</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#33CCCC">invisible to
us</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#008000"> except when
we approach them in
</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#33CCCC">altered states
of
consciousness</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#008000">
."<br><br>
</i></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF00FF">UP!
</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times"><i>"Women say they feel
more comfortable undressing in front of men than in front of
otherwomen. They say women are too judgmental, where, of course,
men arejust grateful."</i> Robert De Niro<br><br>
<br>
</font><font size=5 color="#FF6600"><b>and, staying on the good news
front.... </font><font size=4 color="#FF00FF">[by which i mean
science catching up (slowly) on what our pronoid hearts suspected all
along :]<br><br>
</font><div align="center"><font size=5 color="#CC99FF">here’s some
excellent findings on
</font><font size=5 color="#FF00FF">groupmind</font>
<font size=5 color="#CC99FF"> which you might have missed this
year...<br><br>
<br>
</font><font size=6 color="#339966">Humans Work / Play / Think / Predict
Better As A </font><font size=6 color="#FF00FF">Group<br>
</font></div>
<div align="right"><font size=4 color="#808080"><i>‘The Wisdom of Crowds‘
by James Surowiecki,<br>
business columnist for The New Yorker. </i></b></font>[Little,
Brown, £16.99]<br><br>
</div>
<font color="#808080"><b>In 1906 the English scientist Francis Galton
stumbled on an intriguing contest at a cattle fair. Attendees were
invited to guess the final weight of a displayed ox after it had been
slaughtered and dressed. 800 people gave it a go over the day and,
Galton was not surprised to learn, not one of them got it right.
<br><br>
So? Well, then he realised that the <i>average</i> of those 800
judgements had come within one pound of the actuality!<br><br>
</font><font size=4 color="#339966"><i>“Under the right circumstances,
groups are remarkably intelligent, and are often smarter than the
smartest individuals within them”</i></font><font color="#808080"> argues
Surowiecki.<br><br>
Groups have been employed to find lost submarines, correct the betting
spread on sporting events, even predict the president of the US.<br><br>
But
</font><font size=4 color="#339966">groupmind</font><font color="#808080">
has, of course, been given a very bad press since society was taken over
by the warlords (say 4000 years ago?). We only tend to hear it
<i>exists</i> in terms of lynch mobs, riots, financial panics and, at
very best, fashion styles. <br><br>
“</font><font color="#339966"><i>Experts</i></font><font color="#808080">
”, you see, the smartest individuals employed by the ruling elites
(unless they drop out) are continuously pushed on us. Consultants
demand £200 a second while execs rake in obscene salaries to rescue
sinking giants. Surowieicki even says:
</font><font color="#339966"><i>“To accept that the masses might know
something would mean radically altering how our society
operates”</i></font><font color="#808080">. Well, precisely. Did
anyone ever imagine it could happen any other way?<br><br>
</font><div align="center"><font size=4 color="#339966">Optimum
Conditions For </font><font size=4 color="#FF00FF">GroupMind<br>
</font></div>
<font color="#808080">Even more interestingly, the mathematics behind
</font><font color="#339966"><i>The Wisdom of
Crowds</i></font><font color="#808080"> needs 3 criteria to work
</font><font color="#339966">independence,
diversity</font><font color="#808080">, and
</font><font color="#339966">decentralisation</font><font color="#808080">
. The very things our rulers strive to <i>avoid</i>! We’re
not talking about a small town mob with access to very little correct
information, nor a war-supporting majority with no diversity of media
viewpoint. And, of course, many current clubs would do well to
listen to this wisdom. </font><font size=1><i>[r u listening mr
p?]<br><br>
</i></font><font color="#808080">The US, for example, blundered into the
</font><font color="#339966"><i>Bay of
Pigs</i></font><font color="#808080"> invasion in 1961 because the
decision-making group all shared similar assumptions and lacked
diversity. Bush’s war seems even more myopic and
<i>centralised</i>.<br><br>
The studio audience on </font><font color="#339966"><i>Who Wants To Be A
Millionaire</i></font><font color="#808080"> guessed the right answers
90% of the time while chosen advisers only managed 65%.<br><br>
What’s happening is the human race (and possibly all creation) is moving
towards a
</font><font size=4 color="#339966">groupmind</font><font color="#808080">
method of administering (or playing with) itself. The only real
argument, imho, is whether we’re talking 50 years or 5,000. But you
already know this in your bones - even if your emotionally traumatised
intellect fights it off. Look forward expectantly, as you reach for
another xmas pie, to increasing amounts of such breakthroughs to reassure
you through this new year:)<br>
</font><font size=1 color="#FF00FF">up!<br><br>
</font><div align="center"><font size=4 color="#808080">Tech Lessons
Learned From </font><font size=4 color="#0000FF"><i>The Wisdom Of
Crowds<br>
</i></font></div>
<font color="#0000FF">Google, HP Labs,
Yahoo</font><font color="#808080">, and
</font><font color="#0000FF">Microsoft</font><font color="#808080"> are
among companies using </font><font color="#0000FF"><i>"prediction
markets"</i></font><font color="#808080"> to improve
forecasts. The technique rewards employees for success in making
predictions....<br>
</b></font><font color="#0000FF">
<a href="http://www.cnet/" eudora="autourl">www.CNET</a> News.Com<br>
</font><font size=1 color="#FF00FF"><b>up!<br><br>
</font><div align="center"><font size=4 color="#0000FF">Comets
</font><font size=4 color="#808080">NOT</font>
<font size=4 color="#0000FF"> Just Dust, But Cosmic
</font><font size=4 color="#808080">‘Triggers’<br>
</font></div>
<font color="#0000FF">Just like the </font><font color="#808080">Magic
Mushroom</font><font color="#0000FF"> whose spores are designed to waft
safely across the Universe to ‘trigger’ any sufficiently developed
species for, well, </font><font color="#808080">Further
Evolution</font><font color="#0000FF">, scientific researchers who
believe in the increasingly unlikely
</font><font color="#808080"><i>Accidental Universe
Theory</i>/Religion</font><font color="#0000FF"> have now discovered that
comets are not only interstellar dust and ice. <br><br>
After examining pristine particles of a comet brought back by the
</font><font color="#808080"><i>Stardust</i></font><font color="#0000FF">
, scientists reported Thursday that they may contain
</font><font size=4 color="#808080"><i>“material shot from the heart of
the solar system during its tumultuous birth.”<br>
</i></b></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF00FF">
UP! </font><font face="Times New Roman, Times"><i>"Women might
be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake a whole
relationship</i>." Sharon Stone.<br><br>
<br>
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</font><font size=4 color="#FF0000">more sooperpositive news...<br><br>
</font></div>
<div align="center"><font size=5 color="#CC99FF">Dicaprio</font>
<font size=5 color="#33CCCC"> Keen To Show In Biopic<br>
What “Guru”
</font><font size=5 color="#CC99FF">Leary</font>
<font size=5 color="#33CCCC"> Meant To Him <br>
</font></div>
<font color="#CC99FF">Leonardo Dicaprio</font><font color="#33CCCC">
can't wait to get started on his biopic of
</font><font size=4 color="#CC99FF">TIMOTHY
LEARY</font><font color="#33CCCC">, because he's keen to reveal to the
world the magic of the man he grew up with.
</font><font color="#CC99FF">Caprio</font><font color="#33CCCC"> was a
child when he first met the writer/lecturer/activist and has always had
great respect for his teachings. <br><br>
Now he wants to show the world how special
</font><font color="#CC99FF">Leary</font><font color="#33CCCC">, who
officiated the marriage of the actor's father and stepmother 12 years
ago, was in a new movie. He tells
</font><font color="#CC99FF"><i>GQ</i></font><font color="#33CCCC">
magazine, </font><font color="#CC99FF"><i>"He was a genius. He
was like a prophet. Everyone would go up on the hill to be with
Timothy. You'd get your sacred couple of hours and hang out with
him and talk about the
</font><font color="#33CCCC">future</font><font color="#CC99FF">.
He was really into what the
</font><font color="#33CCCC">future</font><font color="#CC99FF"> would
bring and felt intrinsically a part of the
</font><font color="#33CCCC">future</font><font color="#CC99FF">, even in
his later days, when he knew he was passing. He looked at death
like he was passing into a different dimension, not that he was
dying. It was pretty fascinating to see a man in his last days like
that."</i></font><font color="#33CCCC"> <br>
</b></font><font color="#0000FF">
<a href="http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/article/dicaprio%20keen%20to%20show%20what%20guru%20leary%20meant%20to%20him%20in%20biopic_1015473" eudora="autourl">
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</a></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF00FF">UP!
</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times"><i>"My mother never saw
the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch."</i> Jack
Nicholson.<br><br>
</font><div align="right"><font size=4 color="#FF0000"><b>more
sooperpositive news...<br><br>
</font></div>
<font size=5 color="#00CCFF">Cheap, Super efficient
</font><font size=5 color="#FF9900">Solar
Technology</font><font size=5 color="#00CCFF"> Review <br>
</font><font color="#00CCFF">Technologies collectively known as
concentrating
</font><font color="#FF9900">photovoltaics</font><font color="#00CCFF">
are starting to enjoy their day in the sun, thanks to advances in solar
cells, which absorb light and convert it into electricity, and the
mirror- or lens-based concentrator systems that focus light on
them. The technology could soon make solar power as cheap as
electricity from<br>
the grid.<br>
</b></font><font color="#0000FF"><u>
<a href="http://www.kurzweilai.net/email/newsRedirect.html?newsID=6078&m=5435" eudora="autourl">
http://www.kurzweilai.net/email/newsRedirect.html?newsID=6078&m=5435<br>
</a></u></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF00FF">
UP! </font><font face="Times New Roman, Times"><i>"There's
very little advice in men's magazines because men think: 'I know what I'm
doing. Just show me somebody naked!"</i> Jerry
Seinfeld.<br><br>
<br>
</font><div align="center"><font size=4 color="#0000FF"><b>10
</font><font size=4 color="#808000">Tech
Concepts</font><font size=4 color="#0000FF"> You Need to Know for
</font><font size=4 color="#808000">2007<br>
</font></div>
<font color="#0000FF">Among the technologies you'll be talking about next
year are<br>
</font><font size=4 color="#808000">PRAM</font>
<font size=4 color="#0000FF"> </font><font color="#0000FF">(Phase-Change
Random Access Memory), <br>
</font><font size=4 color="#808000">Printed Solar
Panels</font><font size=4 color="#0000FF">, <br>
</font><font size=4 color="#808000">Body Area
Network</font><font size=4 color="#0000FF">, <br>
</font><font size=4 color="#808000">VoN</font>
<font size=4 color="#0000FF"> </font><font color="#0000FF">(Video on the
Net),<br>
</font><font size=4 color="#808000">Data
Cloud</font><font size=4 color="#0000FF">. <br>
</b></font>[Popular Mechanics January 2007]<br>
<font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF00FF">UP! <br><br>
<br>
</font><div align="right"><font size=4 color="#FF0000"><b>more
sooperpositive news...<br><br>
</font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=6>Marrying
</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=6 color="#339966">
Green</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=6> Politics<br>
With
</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=6 color="#FF0000">Social
Justice<br>
</b></font></div>
<div align="right"><font face="Times New Roman, Times">by<b> Polly
Toynbee/The Guardian<br>
</div>
<i>The climate still hovers uncertainly at the borders of politics.
Its salience rises, but it still <u>lacks authentic political
traction</u> to turn it into politics as we know it. Those who
genuinely put green issues at the top of their agenda still have to place
themselves outside </font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=4>the
conventional two-party system. <br><br>
</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times">David Cameron has done well by
stealing green iconography to repaint the image of his party. His
Vote
</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" color="#0000FF">Blue</font>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times">, Go
</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" color="#339966">Green</font>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times"> message and fuzzy oak tree do have
green roots in conservative tradition - their green-welly rural
heritage. He challenges Labour to introduce tough annual targets
for CO2 emissions, pledging to cut some taxes and
</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=5>increase green
tax</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times">. <br><br>
The Lib Dems, with a far stronger, well-worked-out regime, also offer
</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=4>green energy
taxes</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times"> as the answer.
Both parties now look greener than Labour -
</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=4 color="#FF0000">but
Labour may be about to trounce them both.<br><br>
</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times">Labour have led the way in
pushing the EU to toughen its carbon-trading regime and engaged with
India and China on new technologies, yes, but attracting attention for
what matters can be hard: this week Douglas Alexander made a
resoundingly important environmental announcement on
</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=5>re-regulating buses -
</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=5 color="#FF0000">but it
went hardly reported.<br>
</i></font><font color="#FF00FF">>> one reason am bringing this
thinking to
</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF00FF">UP!</font>
readers is because the time might be coming to start paying attention to
the national political game again. perhaps politics is cleaning
itself up and radical new concepts are breaking through.<br><br>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times"><i>Buses, used in 2 out of 3
public-transport journeys, never interest well-paid newsrooms that don't
use them; they prefer endless stories on the £5 charge on air
tickets. It is 20 years since Margaret Thatcher disastrously
deregulated buses. Now Alexander is
</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=4 color="#FF0000">giving
councils the power to control them
again</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times">. It should end the
bus wars on popular routes and bus deserts on other routes. There
will be a virtuous trade-off: councils can apply for cash for new buses
from the transport department, but only if they bring in road
pricing. This should start
</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=4>a great environmental
push</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times"> to get people out of cars
and on to new and better buses. <br><br>
So here </font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=5>a major
left-right divide may open up</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times">
if Tory councils refuse to trade buses for congestion charging, while
Labour and Lib Dem councils seize the day, exposing the thin reality of
Cameron's green claims. <br><br>
But so far Labour is losing the green battle. Blair and Brown have
failed to make this their number-one hot-button domestic political issue,
still haunted by fuel-protester phobia, uncertain how to get a political
grip.<br><br>
<br>
</i></font>The younger generation of New Labour - Miliband and Alexander
- are leading the way. <br>
Last night, in a remarkably radical speech to the Fabians,
<font color="#FF0000">David Miliband</font> showed how to capture the
<font size=4 color="#339966">green flag</font> for Labour. He
planted a
<font color="#FF0000">red</font>/<font color="#339966">green</font>
standard that the
<font color="#0000FF">blue</font>/<font color="#339966">green</font>
Tories can <i>never</i> match. <br>
>> <font color="#FF00FF">yankees read</font>
<font color="#FF0000">red</font> <font color="#FF00FF">for</font>
<font color="#0000FF">blue</font>. <font color="#FF00FF">everywhere
on the planet</font> <font color="#FF0000">red</font>
<font color="#FF00FF">is for left/socialist/liberal and</font>
<font color="#0000FF">blue</font> <font color="#FF00FF">is for right wing
conservative. i smell a scam that your country switches
them.<br><br>
</font>Here at last was the environment turned into
<font size=4>progressive politics</font>, no longer outside the political
bloodstream but <font size=4 color="#FF0000"><u>at the heart of the
matter</u></font>. Here is clear green water between left and
right, as Miliband brings progressive ideology into the argument.
<font size=4 color="#FF0000">He makes it as clear as day why the
Conservatives could never cope with global warming, but Labour
can</font>. He lays out the intellectual framework for Labour's
capture of green politics, with the practical policies to prove
it.<br><br>
A reversal of climate change needs strong action by the state at home and
abroad, especially in the EU; Tory shrink-the-state Euroscepticism can't
do that. It needs an admission that the damaged environment is
<font size=4 color="#FF0000"><u>a market failure</u></font>;
<font size=4 color="#0000FF">the Tories can't admit that.</font>
<br><br>
Simply taxing energy is wickedly <i>regressive</i>,
<font size=4 color="#FF0000">harming the less well off <u>without
changing the habits of the rich</font>;</u> the Tories and the Lib Dems
both choose <font size=4>energy taxation</font>, despite its social
injustice. People will never vote to live in yurts in the woods,
but they <i>will</i> vote for restraint and the most realistic chance of
clean growth. International carbon trading is the only hope,
harnessing the power of markets to find clean technology.<br><br>
But Miliband's progressive radicalism comes in his plan for
<font size=5>personal</font> <font size=4>carbon allowances</font>.
Here is where <font size=5><u>social justice meets green politics for the
first time</u></font>. <font size=4 color="#FF0000"><u>Give every
citizen the same quota of energy and let them buy and sell it on the open
market.</u></font> <br><br>
The half of the population who don't fly will make money from selling
their quota to the half who do. Drive a gas-guzzler and you will
have to buy a quota from the third of the population with no access to a
car. Who could complain about such
<font size=5 color="#FF0000">transparent fairness</font>? <br><br>
Nor is it difficult to do: swiping a quota card to pay gas and
electricity bills or buying petrol is a simpler transaction than a
hypermarket’s complex information on their loyalty card. In
wartime, ration books were produced quickly for all, covering almost
everything bought and sold, involving every little corner shop.
(Could paper ration books be easier than trying to computerise it
all?) <br><br>
Why is this a quintessentially Labour policy that the Tories would never
copy? Because it in effect<font size=4 color="#FF0000">
redistributes money from the rich to the poor, from the frequent flyers
to never-flyers</font>, with a parallel currency.<br><br>
There are high hopes that this could be in the manifesto for the next
election, ready to begin soon after.
<font size=4 color="#FF0000"><u>Is it politically
saleable?</u></font> It would begin at a moderate level. The
current price of carbon for an average person's consumption is only £100
- not much incentive. But the price will have risen by then and the
quota would be tightened each year to hit Miliband's 30% carbon cut by
2020. <font size=4>The tighter the quota, the
</font><font size=4 color="#0000FF">more marketable</font><font size=4>
become the new clean technologies. <br><br>
</font><font size=4 color="#FF0000">I suspect it will be <u>hugely
popular</u>, a national game engaging even teenagers in
</font><font size=4 color="#0000FF">quota-conservation
wheezes</font><font size=4 color="#FF0000">.</font> It tickles
parts of the psyche that like to trade and bargain. Wear vests and
save heating to sell some quota? But when to sell? Will the
price rise or fall at the end of the year as everyone sells their
excess? Will it rise in the summer as people buy quota for flying,
or in the winter when it's cold? Imagine how keenly fluctuations in
carbon-quota price will be followed as people decide when to buy or
sell.<br><br>
Here's the big question: what does Gordon Brown think? He met
Miliband this week and the word is that <font color="#FF0000">he greeted
the concept <i>warmly</i></font>. There are good reasons why Brown
has been reluctant until now to "prove" his credentials by
making gestures with green taxes on petrol, when they only hit poorer
drivers without a strong effect on petrol use.
<font size=5 color="#FF0000">But Miliband's plan is the blend of fairness
and
</font><font size=5 color="#339966">environmentalism</font>
<font size=5 color="#FF0000"> that Labour needs.<br>
</font><font color="#0000FF"><u>polly.toynbee@guardian.co.uk<br>
</u></b></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF00FF">UP!<br>
<br>
<br>
</font><div align="center">
<font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=5 color="#339966">The
</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=5 color="#993300">
Trauma</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=5 color="#339966">
Of The
</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=5 color="#FF9900">Great
Mother<br>
</font></div>
<div align="right"><font size=4 color="#339966"><b><i>Do these simple
things each day & know<br>
you’re contributing to a world of greater good<br>
</i></font></div>
<font color="#339966">After the </font><font color="#993300">recent
nuclear experiments in Korea</font><font color="#339966">, the Earth
needs our love, needs to feel wanted and needed & cared for - just as
we would care for </font><font size=4 color="#FF9900">our own
mother</font><font color="#339966"> in a state of frailty after
experiencing a physical attack.<br><br>
The Earth has always endured the </font><font color="#993300">pollution,
turmoil, & hatred</font><font color="#339966"> that mankind creates
upon her surface & has survived. But recent events have
compounded the difficulties that She faces from mankind. She has
had to endure the unleashing of a
</font><font size=4 color="#FF6600">terrible
power</font><font color="#339966"> that men initially harnessed to
destroy each other - </font><font color="#993300">atomic & nuclear
forces</font><font color="#339966"> that have literally rocked the nature
of this planet on her axis.<br><br>
This set in motion </font><font color="#993300">chain
reactions</font><font color="#339966"> that we cannot even <i>begin</i>
to imagine. </font><font color="#993300">Mother
Earth</font><font color="#339966"> had assumed She would never have to
endure such attack again because mankind would have learned. But
now the </font><font color="#993300">Koreans</font><font color="#339966">
have triggered a shock wave that’s spread across 2/3's of her body, like
</font><font size=4 color="#993300">a huge bruise across the energetic
tissue of her
surface</font><font color="#FF9900"><u>.</u></font><font color="#339966">
Reprisals will occur, for nobody can send out anger or destruction and
not expect a response... UNLESS - mankind acts swiftly and sends
out </font><font size=4 color="#FF9900">a pulse of love, light, &
healing.<br>
</font><font color="#339966">Mankind must extend its collective arms
around the Mother & embrace Her with their love to reassure Her that
this is not an act of
</font><font color="#993300">war</font><font color="#339966"> but rather
an act of
</font><font size=4 color="#993300">foolishness</font>
<font color="#339966"> by a dictator who is showing
</font><font size=4 color="#993300">arrogance &
madness</font><font color="#339966">. Mankind must give the Earth
what it most desires at this moment ....
</font><font size=4 color="#FF9900">Love, Reassurance &
Peace.<br><br>
</b></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=4 color="#339966">How
To Send Thoughts Of Harmony Into The Atmosphere To Stave Off Potentially
Very Dangerous Times<br>
</font><font color="#339966"><b>Mankind all too readily forgets the great
power they have in their thoughts & in their will to marshal change
in their reality </font><font size=4 color="#339966">if they so
choose.<br>
Two daily 5 minute gestures</font><font color="#339966"> would have great
power to help at this moment:<br>
</font><font size=4 color="#993300">For the Earth:<br>
</font><font color="#FF9900">During the day, whenever you find yourself
outside & close to the ground, or close to trees, bushes or plants,
place your hands on the ground near the roots & impart the thought
</font><font size=4 color="#339966"><i>“Mother we love
you”.</i></font><font color="#FF9900"> It only takes a moment for
your thought to pass through your hands & through the roots, trunk or
grass & down into the soil to the heart of the
</font><font color="#339966">Mother</font><font color="#FF9900">.<br><br>
Imagine 1,000….. 10,000….. 100,000 whispering voices falling like leaves
down into the darkness of the soil to where the
</font><font color="#339966">Mother</font><font color="#FF9900">
rests. Whose heart would not be warmed by such simple earnest
thoughts?<br><br>
Simple acts bring healing. </font><font size=4 color="#339966">Let then
these simple acts be abundant.<br><br>
</font><font size=4 color="#993300">For World Leaders:<br>
</font><font color="#FF9900">Light a candle in the morning or evening,
and as you gaze at the flame, let your thoughts reach out to the world
around you. As you breathe, draw power from the light that burns at the
very centre of your heart, the light from your
</font><font color="#339966">Soul</font><font color="#FF9900">, your
</font><font color="#339966">Divine, Higher
Consciousness</font><font color="#FF9900">. Then, as you speak, let your
words be filled with light that enables them to float out into the
ethers, carried by the wings of your intent to those who need to hear
them. <br><br>
Speak simple, soft words -</font><font color="#339966">Peace, Harmony,
Love, Gentleness, Co-operation, Joy, Unity</font><font color="#FF9900"> -
words that will encourage the </font><font color="#993300">hardened minds
& hearts</font><font color="#FF9900"> of those who wield physical
power to ease their struggle; </font><font color="#339966">to let go of
the tight rein of their egos</font><font color="#FF9900">, to become
aware of the balance of power they play with; to step back & take the
hands extended by those other nations that are as frightened as they are,
so they can form a unification strong enough to prevent things occurring
through the force of its joint pressure, rather than via the power that
it wields.<br><br>
</font><font size=4 color="#339966">Do these simple things each day &
know you are contributing to a greater world of good.<br><br>
</b></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF00FF">UP!
</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times"><i>"The problem is God
gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a
time." </i>Robin Williams<br><br>
</font><div align="right"><font size=4 color="#FF0000"><b>more
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<div align="center"><font size=7>The Empire Is Falling<br>
</font></div>
By Robert Fisk, December 8, 2006 The Independent<br>
<font color="#0000FF"><u>
<a href="http://www.countercurrents.org/us-fisk081206.htm" eudora="autourl">
http://www.countercurrents.org/us-fisk081206.htm<br>
</a></u></b></font>The Roman Empire is falling. That, in a phrase,
is what the Baker report says. The legions cannot impose their rule
on Mesopotamia.<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab><b>Just as
Crassus lost his legions' banners in the deserts of Syria-Iraq, so has
George W Bush. There is no Mark Antony to retrieve the honour of
the empire. The policy "is not working".
"Collapse" and "catastrophe" - words heard in the
Roman senate many a time - were embedded in the text of the Baker
report. Et tu, James?<br>
<font size=1 color="#FF00FF">up!<br><br>
</font><div align="center"><font size=4 color="#FF0000">Colin
Powell:</font><font size=4> <i>"US Army Is Almost Broken"<br>
</i></font></div>
Former secretary of state Colin L. Powell said today that the United
States is losing what he described as a
<font color="#FF0000"><i>"civil war"</i></font> in Iraq and
that he is <i>not</i> persuaded an increase in US troops there would
reverse the situation.<font size=4> <br>
</b></font><font color="#0000FF">
<a href="http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121806J.shtml" eudora="autourl">
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121806J.shtml<br>
</a></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF00FF">UP!
</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times"><i>"It's been so long
since I've had sex, I've forgotten who ties upwhom." </i>Joan
Rivers.<br><br>
<br>
</font><div align="right"><font size=4 color="#FF0000"><b>more
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<div align="center"><font size=4 color="#800080">Recent Studies Are
Proving Popular Rave Party Drug <br>
To Be </font><font size=4 color="#3366FF">Beneficial<br>
</font></div>
<font color="#800080">According to the Anxiety and Depression Solutions
website, recent studies are showing that
</font><font color="#3366FF">Ecstasy</font><font color="#800080"> may be
beneficial therapy for terminally ill patients suffering from anxiety,
and is aiding in the therapy of patients with post-traumatic stress
disorder.<br><br>
Raves first became popular in the mid 80’s, and reached their peak in the
90’s.
</font><font color="#3366FF">MDMA</font><font color="#800080"> brings
about intense feelings of
</font><font color="#3366FF">euphoria</font><font color="#800080"> and
</font><font color="#3366FF">energy</font><font color="#800080"> that
allows partiers to dance for several hours and share in an experience
with others around them.<br><br>
Most studies condemning the drug are considered controversial. Sometimes
they are found to be false, as in the case reported by Rick Weiss of the
Washington Post. In 2003, scientists from the John Hopkins University
retracted their research, which supposedly showed that
</font><font color="#3366FF">MDMA</font><font color="#800080"> caused
irreversible brain damage after just one night of use. Their
reasoning behind the retraction was that the drug used had not been
</font><font color="#3366FF">MDMA</font><font color="#800080"> at
all!<br><br>
The </font><font color="#3366FF">FDA</font><font color="#800080"> gave
the go ahead for research to be done in 2004. Studies have since
shown that the drug helps to </font><font color="#3366FF">alleviate the
anxiety that cancer patients suffer through in their last
days</font><font color="#800080">. The lessening of anxiety makes it
easier for patients to deal with their pain, and the euphoric effects
that make </font><font color="#3366FF">MDMA</font><font color="#800080">
such a popular recreational drug also ease depression.
</font><font color="#3366FF">MDMA</font><font color="#800080"> is proving
to be helpful for sufferers of post-traumatic stress disorder, because it
allows the patients to open up to their therapists and make them feel
more comfortable in dealing with their disorder. <br>
</b></font><font color="#0000FF">
<a href="http://www.bloggernews.net/1787" eudora="autourl">
http://www.bloggernews.net/1787<br><br>
</a></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF00FF">UP!
</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times"><i>"It isn't premarital
sex if you have no intention of gettingmarried." </i>George
Burns.<br><br>
<br>
</font><div align="center"><font size=5 color="#FF6600"><b>Psychedelic
Horizons<br>
</font><font size=5 color="#CC99FF">Are You Hungry For
</font><font size=5 color="#800080">Subversion</font>
<font size=5 color="#CC99FF">?
</font><font size=5 color="#FF0000"><i><u>REVIEW<br>
</u></i></font></div>
<font color="#CC99FF">Is a world spiralling out of balance finally ready
for the </font><font color="#339966">multi-dimensional
reality</font><font color="#CC99FF"> revealed by psychedelics?
Thomas B. Roberts, in "</font><font color="#FF6600"><i>Psychedelic
Horizons,</i></font><font color="#CC99FF">" thinks it might be so...
<br><br>
Rare and brave is a person who has the insight to explain the
inexplicable and to demystify the mystical, both of which together
constitute </font><font color="#993366">the psychedelic
universe</font><font color="#CC99FF">. As we discover time and time
again, words are perhaps the <i>least</i> adequate of available tools to
explain those </font><font color="#33CCCC">intangible, ineffable
experiences</font><font color="#CC99FF">. While not expressly
aiming to achieve such lofty ambitions, Thomas B. Roberts nonetheless
skilfully casts a rich and textured light on the subject in his new
release, </font><font color="#33CCCC"><i>Psychedelic
Horizons</i></font><font color="#CC99FF">. <br>
FULL REVIEW: <br>
</b></font><font color="#0000FF"><u>
<a href="http://www.undergrowth.org/psychedelic_horizons_review" eudora="autourl">
http://www.undergrowth.org/psychedelic_horizons_review<br>
</a></u></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF00FF">
UP! </font><font face="Times New Roman, Times"><i>"Bigamy is
having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same." </i>Oscar
Wilde.<br><br>
<br>
</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=5 color="#808080"><b>Long
Goodbye =
</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=5 color="#FF00FF">Long
Hello
</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=5 color="#FF0000"><i><u>
FEEDBACK<br>
</u></i></font><font color="#800080">Thank you for broadening my
perspective and reminding me that hope is not necessarily foolish.<br>
</b></font>Harry the Dead Poet, New Zealand.<br>
<font color="#FF00FF"><b>>> as i hope this issue has demonstrated
it’s not really a question of ‘hope’ :) and it certainly wouldn’t
be foolish if it was cos the facts are emerging more and more clearly
now always struggling towards the future and against the back-pull
of History. be careful which way you’re looking!<br>
</b></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=1 color="#FF00FF">
up! <br><br>
</font><font size=4 color="#800000"><b>Polonium
</font><font size=4 color="#FF0000"><i><u>FEEDBACK<br>
</u></i></font><font color="#800000">For years we've been told by the
governments of America, Britain, and the other NATO countries that have
used depleted uranium weapons in massive quantities in Iraq and Serbia
that the radioactive dust which these weapons spread over entire
landscapes is safe.<br><br>
When these weapons strike their target their depleted uranium tips are
blown into tiny fragments dust particles that cover the area. The
Government has repeatedly claimed that the alpha radiation given off by
this dust is no danger to the local populations of the Balkans and Iraq
where plenty of these weapons have been fired. <br><br>
The radioactive dust is only toxic we are told if it is taken into the
body... we are not told what happens to people who eat vegetables that
may have been growing anywhere the wind scattered the depleted uranium
dust, nor to children who may get the dust on their fingers and then put
the fingers in their mouths.<br><br>
It's a little odd then that Polonium has now become such a dangerous
toxic poison while the radioactive dust from depleted uranium weapons has
not. Perhaps ex-KGB agents with links to some very dodgy characters
are more susceptible to alpha radiation then an Iraqi child? <br><br>
I'm also sure that it's no more than a convenient coincidence that the
medical records of the Iraqi civilians who fell victim to this dust after
the first Gulf War were amongst the first to be destroyed in the looting
that followed our victory in 2003.<br><br>
Worried? Next time you travel by plane you might give a passing
thought to the depleted uranium that used to be used as trim weights in
many civilian aircraft - a 747 could contain between a tonne to a tonne
and a half stowed in the hold.<br>
</b></font>Jon Evans - uranian.willy@virgin.net<br><br>
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