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<td>UP! 250// THE HIPPIES WERE RIGHT!!// 09 05 07</td>
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<td>Thu, 10 May 2007 21:27:01 +0100</td>
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<td><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:fraser@parallel-youniversity.com">fraser@parallel-youniversity.com</a>
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<div align="center"><b><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;"><br>
<br>
<br>
TURN
ON</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Black"; font-weight: normal;">
<span style="color: red;">COMPUTER</span>
// <span style="color: fuchsia;">TUNE IN TO</span> <span
style="color: green;">FUNLEASHED
SPIRIT OF INTERNET</span><span style="color: rgb(153, 204, 0);"> </span><span
style="color: purple;">// TAKE OVER!<o:p></o:p></span></span>
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<b><o:p> </o:p>
<br>
<o:p> </o:p>
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</b>
<div align="right"><b><i style=""><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: normal;">“Fraser,
what is
so great about the UP! is the balance of types of information,<br>
which clearly
comes from your own balance.”</span></i><i style=""><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: purple; font-weight: normal;"><span
style=""> </span></span></i><span style="font-weight: normal;">Jackie,
<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">London</st1:place></st1:City>.</span><i
style=""><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: purple; font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></i>
</b><br>
<b><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">UP!<o:p></o:p></span>
</b><br>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
</b><br>
<o:p> </o:p>
<br>
<div align="right"><b><u>VOTE FOR SHERA!<o:p></o:p></u></b>
<br>
<span style="font-weight: normal;">Dearest Megatrippers & UPpies,<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="font-weight: normal;">This is SHERA speaking raver from
the grave.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="font-weight: normal;">I need you Peeps to </span><b><u>VOTE
FOR ME</u></b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b> </b>for the </span><b>BBC<span
style="font-weight: normal;">’s </span><u>OLYMPIC
GAMES 2012 Anthem.</u><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></b>
<br>
<span style="font-weight: normal;">Although I wrote my song <i style="">"</i></span><b><i
style=""><u>CELEBRATE THE FLAME</u>"</i></b><span
style="font-weight: normal;"> well b4 the competition<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style=""> </span>and Major <b>Ken
Livingstone</b>’s idea
to rally the peeps, I entered it anyway,<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="font-weight: normal;">and now </span><b><u>Dame Kelly
Holmes</u></b><span style="font-weight: normal;">
has helped select me as one of the last 5 </span><u>finalists</u><span
style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span>
<span style="font-weight: normal;">in the </span><b><u>Sing <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">London</st1:place></st1:City>
Campaign</u></b><span style="font-weight: normal;">.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="font-weight: normal;">I am presently running </span><u>last</u><span
style="font-weight: normal;">
as I recorded an open double track of<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="font-weight: normal;">vocals, but Kelly said it gave her
shivers down the spine. <span style=""> </span>So there you go.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="font-weight: normal;">Fraser’s behind me... it’s a Classic
Anthem inspired by the Torch being
lit from a </span><b><u>Parabolic Reflector</u></b><span
style="font-weight: normal;"><br>
and
not the ‘orrid petroleum wot’s giving us all this greed and wars.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<u>PLEASE VOTE MY SONG
TO THE TOP! :D<o:p></o:p></u>
<br>
<span style="font-weight: normal;">Loads of Luv and Light<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="font-weight: normal;">Sheila Maclurkin.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/london">http://www.bbc.co.uk/london</a></span><span
style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<b><small><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">[Click ‘2012 Olympics’
on left.<span style="">
</span>Then click ‘2012Features’<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="font-weight: normal;">‘VOTE FOR YOUR 2012 ANTHEM’<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="font-weight: normal;">C’mon, let’s make this happen!<span
style="">
</span>(only if you like it best of course :)<o:p></o:p></span></i>]</small></b><br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">UP!<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<o:p></o:p>
<div align="center"><span style="color: red; font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span><b><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia;"
lang="EN-US"><span style=""> \</span>\))))/<o:p></o:p></span>
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</b></div>
<div align="center"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: fuchsia;">_______,,,,_{ô¿ô}_,,,,</span><span
style="font-size: 10pt; color: fuchsia;">_<u>fraser</u>_</span><u><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></u>
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<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">tony
blair leaves
the stage, having achieved very little in ten years.<span style=""> </span>yes,
a decade after thatcher we no longer
believe</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: gray; font-weight: normal;">
</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: red; font-weight: normal;">There
Is No Alternative</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">.<span
style="">
</span>now we know there HAS to be an Alternative!<span style=""> </span>but
tony was only </span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: red; font-weight: normal;">PRETENDING</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: gray; font-weight: normal;">
</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">to
be that.<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">i
spose his
tragedy is this: <span style=""> </span>if judged by the </span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; font-weight: normal;">PAST<span
style="color: fuchsia;">, he looks very good
indeed.<span style=""> </span>but viewed from the </span><span
style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">FUTURE</span><span
style="color: fuchsia;">, from where
we’re going, he ends up as a late dino politician who only <i style="">pretended</i>
to be otherwise.<o:p></o:p></span></span>
<br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">there’s
a lot of
it around.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">UP!<o:p></o:p></span>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span><br>
<br>
<b><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: gray; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
</b>
<div align="center"><b><span
style="font-size: 24pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;">The
</span><span
style="font-size: 24pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">Hippies</span><span
style="font-size: 24pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;">
Were </span><span
style="font-size: 24pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">Right</span><span
style="font-size: 24pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;">!<o:p></o:p></span>
</b><br>
<div align="right"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">by </span><span
style="">Mark Morford/The <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">San
Francisco</st1:City></st1:place> Chronicle</span><span
style="font-weight: normal;">/Sat,
05 May 2007 <o:p></o:p></span>
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<b><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">Green
homes? Organic food? Nature is good?<o:p></o:p></span>
</b><br>
<b><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">Time
To Give The Ol’ Tie-Dyers Some Respect!<o:p></o:p></span>
</b><br>
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<b><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;">Go
ahead, name your </span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">movement</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;">.
<span style=""> </span>Name something </span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">good,
positive, pro-environment</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;">
and </span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">eco-friendly</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;">
that’s happening right now in the newly “</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">greening</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;">”
West.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;">I’m
talking about, say, </span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">energy-efficient
light bulbs</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;">.
I’m looking at </span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">organic
foods</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;">
going mainstream. <span style=""> </span>I mean </span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">chemical-free</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;">
cleaning products widely available at supermarkets,
and I’m talking </span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">saving
the whales</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;">
and </span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">protecting
the dolphins,</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;">
and I mean </span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">yoga
studios</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;">
flourishing
in every small town, giant boxes of </span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">organic
cereal</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;">
at Costco and non-phthalates dildos at Good Vibes. <span style=""> </span>You
know, </span><u><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia;">good</span></u><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;">
things.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;">Look
around: we have entire industries devoted to </span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">recycled
paper</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;">,
a new generation of </span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">cheap
solar-power technology,</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;">
an Oscar for </span><i style=""><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">“An
Inconvenient Truth”</span></i><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;">
and even the soulless corporate monsters over at famously heartless
joints like </span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">Wal-Mart</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;">
are now claiming that they really,
really care about saving the environment because, well, </span><i
style=""><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">“it’s
the right thing to do”</span></i><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;">
(read: It’s purely economic and all about their bottom
line because if they don’t start caring they’ll soon be totally screwed
on manufacturing
and shipping costs at/from all their brutal Chinese sweatshops).<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;">There
is but one conclusion you can draw from the astonishing
(albeit fitful, bittersweet) pro-environment sea change now happening
in the culture
and (reluctantly, nervously) in the halls of power in D.C., one thing
we must
all acknowledge in our wary, jaded, globally warmed universe: <span
style=""> </span></span><u><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">The
hippies had it right all along. <span style=""> </span>Oh yes they did.<o:p></o:p></span></u>
<br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">You
know it’s true.</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;">
<span style=""> </span>All this hot enthusiasm for </span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">healing
the planet</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;">
and </span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">eating
whole foods</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;">
and </span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">avoiding
chemicals</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;">
and </span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">working
with
nature</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;">
and </span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">developing
the self</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;">?
<span style=""> </span>Came from the </span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">hippies</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;">.<span
style=""> </span></span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">Alternative
health?</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;">
<span style=""> </span>Hippies. </span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">Green
cotton?</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;"><span
style="">
</span>Hippies. </span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">Reclaimed
wood?</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;">
<span style=""> </span>Recycling? </span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">Humane
treatment of animals</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;">?
<span style=""> </span></span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">Medical
pot</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;">?
<span style=""> </span></span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">Alternative
energy</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;">?
<span style=""> </span></span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">Natural
childbirth</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;">?
Non-GMA seeds? <span style=""> </span>It
came from the granola types (who, of course, absorbed much of it from
ancient
cultures), from the alternative worldviews, from the underground and
the
sidelines and from far off the goddamn grid and it’s about time the
media, the
politicians, the culture as a whole sent out</span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">
a big, wet, hemp-covered apology.</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: fuchsia;">>> UN pensions would be perfectly
acceptable :)<span style=""> </span>we’re not GREEDY - geddit?<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;">Here’s
a suggestion from one of my more astute ex-hippie
readers: Instead of issuing carbon credits so industrial polluters can
clear
their collective corporate conscience, maybe, to help offset all the
savage
damage they’ve done to the soul of the planet all these years, these </span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">commercial
cretins</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;">
should instead buy some </span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">‘karma
credits’</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;">
from the former hippies themselves.<span style=""> </span>You know
from </span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">those
who’ve been <u>working for the health of the planet, quite
thanklessly, for the past 50 years</u> </span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;">and
who have, as a result, built up quite a storehouse of
good karma. <span style=""> </span>You think?<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;">You
might easily claim that much of the nation’s reluctant
turn toward environmental health has little to do with the </span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">hippies</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;">
per se, that it’s taking the threat of </span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">global
meltdown</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;">
combined with the notion of really,
really expensive ski tickets to slap the West’s incredibly obese ass
into gear
and force consumers to begin to wake up to the </span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">savage
gluttony and wastefulness of modern culture</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;">
as everyone starts wondering, oh my
God, what’s going to happen to swimming pools and free shipping from
Amazon? <span style=""> </span>Of course, without the ’60s groundwork,
without all the radical ideas and seeds of change planted nearly five
decades
ago, what we’d be turning <i style="">to</i> in our
time of need would be a great deal more hopeless indeed.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: fuchsia;">>> i’ve said it before
and i’ll say it again:<span style=""> </span>when i became a
hippy in the ‘60s it was a decision to opt out of what i saw as an
insane,
unhealthy materialist nightmare that threatened everyone and the planet.<span
style=""> </span>if everyone had been as </span><u><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: fuchsia;">insightful</span></u><span
style="color: fuchsia;"> or
as </span><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: fuchsia;">brave</span></u><span
style="color: fuchsia;"> (u didn’t need to be THAT
insightful!) we’d now be living on a </span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(51, 153, 102);">garden planet.</span><span
style="color: fuchsia;"><o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;">But
if you’re <i style="">really</i>
bitter and short-sighted, you could say the entire hippie movement was
just incredibly
overrated, gets far too much cultural credit for far too little actual
impact,
was pretty much a giant excuse to slack off and enjoy dirty lazy
responsibility-free sex romps and do a ton of drugs and avoid Vietnam
and not
bathe for a month and name your child Sunflower or Shiva Moon or Chakra
Lennon
Sapphire Bumblebee. <span style=""> </span>This is what’s
called </span><u><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">the
reactionary
simpleton’s view.</span></u><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;">
<span style=""> </span>It blithely ignores history, perspective, and
the evolution of culture as a whole. <span style=""> </span>You
know, just like <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;">The
proofs are easy enough to trace. <span style=""> </span>The core
values and environmental groundwork
laid by the ’60s counterculture are still so intact and potent even
that the
stiffest neocon Republican has to acknowledge their extant power. <span
style=""> </span>It’s all right there: </span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">Treehugger.com</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;">
is the new ’60s underground hippy
zine. <span style=""> </span></span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">Ecstasy</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;">
is the new </span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">LSD</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;">.<span
style="">
</span>Visible tattoos are the new longhairs. <span style=""> </span>And
bands as diverse as </span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">Pearl
Jam</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;">
to Bright Eyes to </span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">NIN</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;">
to the </span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">Dixie
Chicks</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;">
are writing savage anti-Bush, anti-war
songs for a new, ultra-jaded generation.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;">And
oh yes, speaking of good ol’ </span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">MDMA</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;">,
even drug culture is getting some new respect. <span style=""> </span>Staid
old </span><i style=""><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">Time
</span></i><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;">mag
just ran a rather snide little
story about the new studies being conducted by Harvard and the </span><i
style=""><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">National
Institute of Mental Health</span></i><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;">
into the astonishing psycho-spiritual benefits of goodly entheogens
such as </span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">LSD,
psilocybin</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;">
and </span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">MDMA</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;">.<span
style=""> </span>Unfortunately, the piece
basically backhands </span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">Timothy
Leary</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;">
and the entire
“excessive,” “naive” drug culture of yore in favour of much more “sane”
and “careful”
scientific analysis happening now, as if the only valid methods for
attaining
knowledge and an understanding of spirit were through control groups
and
clinical, mysticism-free examination. <span style=""> </span>Please.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: fuchsia;">>> in fact, as we
covered in UP! 249, the great thing about these tools is that they can
help
kick-off a natural healing process that doesn’t even NEED therapists
and
experts - <span style=""> </span>except perhaps those who have
been there before.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;">Still,
the fact that serious scientific research into </span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">entheogens</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;">
is being conducted even in the face of
the most anti-science, pro-pharmaceutical, ultra-conservative
presidential
regime in recent history is proof enough that all the hoary old hippie
mantras
about </span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">expanding
the mind</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;">
and </span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">touching
God</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;">
through drugs <o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">>>
and on the dancefloor<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;">were
onto something after all (yes, duh). <span style=""> </span></span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">Tim
Leary</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;">
is
probably smiling wildly right now - though that might be due to all the
mushrooms he’s been sharing with Kerouac and Einstein and </span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">Mary
Magdalene</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;">.
<span style=""> </span>Mmm, heaven.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">>>
u r more right than u or present scientists believe
:)<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;">Of
course, true hippie values mean you’re not really
supposed to care about or attach to any of this, you don’t give a damn
for the
hollow ego stroke of being right all along, for slapping the culture
upside the
head and saying, See? <span style=""> </span>Do you see?<span style="">
</span>It was never about the long hair and the folk
music and </span><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">Woodstock</span></st1:place></st1:City><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;">.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;">It
was, always and forever, about </span><u><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">connectedness</span></u><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;">.<span
style="">
</span>It was about how we are </span><u><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">all
in this together</span></u><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;">.
<span style=""> </span>It was about resisting the
status quo and fighting tyrannical corporate/political power, and it
was about opening
your consciousness and seeing new possibilities of how we can all live
with
something resembling actual respect for the planet, for alternative
cultures,
for each other. <span style=""> </span>You know, all that
typical hippie crap no one believes in any more. <span style=""> </span>Right?<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: fuchsia;">>> did U think it wasn’t
fashionable?<span style=""> </span>then you’ve been
brainwashed.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">[Ah...
that felt good.<span style="">
</span>Of course, while we're at it, we should probably also mention
that the </span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;">Beatniks</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">
were right about a lot of that stuff first.<span style=""> </span>Unless
the </span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;">Bohemians</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">
were right first.<span style=""> </span>But it's really
the same thing, and that's as far back as I go...<span style=""> </span>-psl]<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: fuchsia;">>> it goes back to when
the northern warrior tribes invaded and co-opted our peace loving,
mushy goddess
worshipping societies around 5000BC.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">UP!<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: gray; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
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<div align="center"><b><span
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style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: red; font-weight: normal;">
In The </span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: teal; font-weight: normal;">Fall</span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: red; font-weight: normal;">
Of The Dinosaur </span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: teal; font-weight: normal;">Era</span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: red; font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span>
</b><br>
</div>
<div align="justify"><b><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: teal; font-weight: normal;">In
</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: normal;">1950</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: teal; font-weight: normal;">,
Earth was embroiled
in the </span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: normal;">Cold
War</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: teal; font-weight: normal;">
after having suffered through two world
wars in a single generation. Yet, surprisingly, </span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: red; font-weight: normal;">0%</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: teal; font-weight: normal;">
thought we needed to drastically change our way of life.<span style="">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></b><br>
</div>
<b><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: teal; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: teal; font-weight: normal;">It
wasn't until the stress-torn year of </span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: normal;">1968</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: teal; font-weight: normal;">
that </span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: red; font-weight: normal;">1%</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: teal; font-weight: normal;">
finally started
imagining a different type of world.<span style=""> </span>By </span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: normal;">1970</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: teal; font-weight: normal;">,
that number increased to </span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: red; font-weight: normal;">5%</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: teal; font-weight: normal;">.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: teal; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: teal; font-weight: normal;">It
took another 20 years before it got as high as </span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: red; font-weight: normal;">10%</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: teal; font-weight: normal;">
in </span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: normal;">1990</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: teal; font-weight: normal;">,
right before the
first Gulf War.<span style=""> </span>10 years later, as George
W. Bush was elected US President, that number rose to </span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: red; font-weight: normal;">14%</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: teal; font-weight: normal;">.
<o:p></o:p></span><br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: teal; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: teal; font-weight: normal;">By
</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: normal;">2004</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: teal; font-weight: normal;">,
the willingness to
change in order to save the planet rose to </span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: red; font-weight: normal;">25%.</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: teal; font-weight: normal;"><span
style=""> </span>One year later, it quickly rose
to </span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: red; font-weight: normal;">30%</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: teal; font-weight: normal;">.<span
style="">
</span>It only took another year to reach </span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: red; font-weight: normal;">40%.</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: teal; font-weight: normal;"><span
style=""> </span>And at the beginning of </span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: normal;">2007</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: teal; font-weight: normal;">
it finally hit </span><u><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: red; font-weight: normal;">50%</span></u><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: teal; font-weight: normal;">.<span
style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: red; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: teal; font-weight: normal;">By
April 1st, it was at </span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: red; font-weight: normal;">53%</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: teal; font-weight: normal;">
and it's </span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: red; font-weight: normal;">55%</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: teal; font-weight: normal;">
today.<span style="">
</span>Throughout the rest of this year we should see an unprecedented
increase
in the dissatisfaction of human beings in the way man has mismanaged
the Earth,
its resources and our human relationships.<span style="">
</span></span><u><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: teal; font-weight: normal;">This
rate of increase
has never before been experienced in the history of the planet.<o:p></o:p></span></u>
<br>
<span style="">Bryan James.</span><span style=""><o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">UP!<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: gray; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: gray; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
</b>
<div align="center"><b><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on"><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-weight: normal;">Iraq</span></st1:country-region></st1:place><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: red; font-weight: normal;">
Radicalised </span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-weight: normal;">British
Muslims</span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: red; font-weight: normal;">,
Says </span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-weight: normal;">Church</span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: red; font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span>
</b><br>
</div>
<div align="right"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">by </span><span
style="">Jonathan
Wynne-Jones</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">, Sunday Telegraph<o:p></o:p></span>
</b><br>
</div>
<b><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: gray; font-weight: normal;">British
Muslims have been radicalised by the Government's
disastrous policies in the <st1:place w:st="on">Middle East</st1:place>,
claims
the </span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: red; font-weight: normal;">Church
of England</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: gray; font-weight: normal;">.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: gray; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: gray; font-weight: normal;">In
a scathing critique of foreign policy under </span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: red; font-weight: normal;">Tony
Blair</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: gray; font-weight: normal;">,
the church condemns the <i style="">"litany of errors"</i> made in
Iraq, adding that Britain's
image abroad has been </span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: red; font-weight: normal;">tarnished</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: gray; font-weight: normal;">
and it stands isolated in Europe because
of its subservience to the US administration. <span style=""> </span>It
hopes that a change of leadership will be
followed by a change in approach.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: gray; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: gray; font-weight: normal;">Rowan
Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, has endorsed
the report, which says that the country is being turned into a hotbed
of
terrorist recruitment because of the occupation of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">Iraq</st1:country-region></st1:place> and the Government's
pursuit
of </span><i style=""><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: red; font-weight: normal;">"unfair"</span></i><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: gray; font-weight: normal;">
and </span><i style=""><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: red; font-weight: normal;">"unjust"</span></i><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: gray; font-weight: normal;">
policies in the region.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: gray; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: gray; font-weight: normal;">Rather
than help to fight fanaticism, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Britain</st1:country-region>'s
participation in the </span><i style=""><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: red; font-weight: normal;">"war
on terror"</span></i><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: gray; font-weight: normal;">
has provided </span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: red; font-weight: normal;">al-Qaeda</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: gray; font-weight: normal;">
with propaganda to
attract Muslims opposed to the idea of Western hegemony being foisted
upon the <st1:place w:st="on">Middle East</st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">UP!</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: gray; font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: blue;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: blue;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
</b>
<div align="center"><b><u><span
style="font-size: 36pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-weight: normal;">contents</span></u><span
style="font-size: 36pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-weight: normal;">...<o:p></o:p></span>
</b><br>
</div>
<b><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: gray; font-weight: normal;">p.06</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-weight: normal;"><span
style="">
</span></span><i style=""><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">?</span></i><i
style=""><u><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(153, 204, 0);">WOT‘VE
THEY
DUN NOW -</span></u></i><i style=""><u><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(153, 204, 0);">
TO</span></u></i><i style=""><u><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">
THE BLEEDIN’ BEES</span></u></i><i style=""><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">?!<o:p></o:p></span></i>
<br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: gray; font-weight: normal;">p.09</span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-weight: normal;"><span
style=""> </span></span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: teal;">Jesustians
For Jesus! <i style="">- </i></span><i style=""><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: gray;">Why a Hindu Accepts Christ and
Rejects Churchianity</span></i><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: gray;"><o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: gray; font-weight: normal;">p.10</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-weight: normal;"><span
style="">
</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: blue;">Reagan Feared
</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: red;">Armageddon</span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: blue;"> Was Near<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: gray; font-weight: normal;">p.10</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-weight: normal;"><span
style="">
</span></span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: purple;">Can
Science Validate the Psychedelic Experience?</span><span
style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: purple;"><o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: gray; font-weight: normal;">p.13</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-weight: normal;"><span
style="">
</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">Cops
Planted Pot on </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: green;">92-Year
Old Woman</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">
They'd Killed in </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: green;">Botched
Drug Raid<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: gray; font-weight: normal;">p.15</span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-weight: normal;"><span
style=""> </span></span><u><span style="font-family: "Arial Black";">The
<span style="color: blue;">Money</span> Masters</span></u><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; font-weight: normal;"><span
style="">
</span><span style="color: blue;">Chavez</span><span
style="color: rgb(51, 153, 102);">
Withdraws </span><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><span
style="color: blue;">Venezuela</span></st1:country-region></st1:place><span
style="color: rgb(51, 153, 102);"> From </span><span
style="color: blue;">IMF</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 153, 102);">
& </span><span style="color: blue;">World Bank</span><span
style="color: rgb(51, 153, 102);"> - </span></span><i style=""><span
style="font-size: 11pt; color: red;">"Sooner or later, those
institutions
will fall due to their own weight."<o:p></o:p></span></i>
<br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">UP!<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
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style="font-size: 7.5pt; color: fuchsia;">TJ PHRASER (</span><span
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& THE </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 204, 255);">MEDIA
EVOLUTION </span></span></b><br>
<b><span style="font-size: 7.5pt;"><span
style="color: rgb(0, 204, 255);"></span><span style="color: fuchsia;">MIXING
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MEDIA-MEME RATE OF </span><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; color: red;">160
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style="font-size: 7.5pt; color: red;">* </span><span
style="font-size: 7.5pt; color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">Ideas Per
Paragraph</span></b><br>
<b><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; color: rgb(153, 51, 0);"></span><u><span
style="font-size: 7.5pt; color: rgb(204, 153, 255);">TO SUBSCRIBE
SOMEONE</span></u><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; color: fuchsia;">,
WRITE</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">
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style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"> </span><span
style="font-size: 7.5pt; color: fuchsia;">TO</span><span
style="color: purple;"> </span><span
style="font-size: 7.5pt; color: blue;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:fraser@parallel-youniversity.com">fraser@parallel-youniversity.com</a></span></b><br>
<b><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; color: blue;"></span><span
style="font-size: 7.5pt; color: red;">TO UNSUBSCRIBE</span><span
style="font-size: 7.5pt;">, HIT REPLY WITH REMOVE IN THE SUBJECT BOX<o:p></o:p></span>
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<b><span style="color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
</b>
<div align="center"><b><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia;"
lang="EN-US">\)))))(/<o:p></o:p></span>
</b><br>
<b><u><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">_______,,,,_{ô¿ô}_,,,,_</span></u><u><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">fraser</span></u><u><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">_</span></u><u><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></u>
</b><br>
<b><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">flow
of propaganda?<o:p></o:p></span>
</b><br>
</div>
<b><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">am
i the only one who receives - DAILY - anti-muslim 'news
bites' from one or more jewish friend/ contact/ unknown informing me
about some
local terrible thing that's happened to someone in a muslim country? i
really ask because i know absolutely that, if i was WELL paid to do it,
i could
EASILY come up with a daily negative story about the west, the Xtian
west if u
like. i'd probably start with irish sheep shaggers, move onto council
estate crackheads, child gun shootings & stabbings, and then
broaden out
from there (teen pregnancies could keep me going for a YEAR!).<br>
<br>
so i ask because i suspect that this is an organised effort to demonise
the
muslim faith - and almost certainly funded </span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">[by
whom?!] </span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">tho
sometimes obsession is enuff. <br>
<br>
but, much more than THAT even, to excite HATRED & (eventually) </span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">VIOLENCE
against them. a further question is
this. are the jewish friends of mine who are participating in this
'flow
of propaganda' doing it from fear of the muslims, from guilt over what
israel's
done to them and hence fear of inevitable revenge, or from</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"> </span><span
style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: red;">aggression</span><span
style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">?
</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">certainly,
when i look at the middle east with historic
perspective, i see <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">israel</st1:country-region></st1:place>
looming larger & larger, NOT shrinking in size and attitude.<br>
<br>
i probly won't answer or publish any arguments about anti-semitism and
all that
nonsense. (we've covered that in the past and certainly will
again). but i would genuinely like to get an idea of how broadly this
(if
it is) '</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: red; font-weight: normal;">campaign</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(204, 51, 204); font-weight: normal;">'
spreads.</span><span style=""><br>
fraser.<br>
</span></b><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">UP!</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span>
<b><br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: purple; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
</b>
<div align="center"><b><i style=""><span
style="font-size: 24pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">!?</span></i><i
style=""><u><span
style="font-size: 24pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(153, 204, 0);">WOT‘VE
THEY DUN NOW<o:p></o:p></span></u></i>
</b><br>
<b><i style=""><u><span
style="font-size: 24pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(153, 204, 0);"><span
style=""> </span>- TO</span></u></i><i style=""><u><span
style="font-size: 24pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">
THE BLEEDIN’ BEES</span></u></i><i style=""><span
style="font-size: 24pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">
<font color="#ff0000">NEXT</font>?!<o:p></o:p></span></i>
</b><br>
</div>
<b><span style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: red;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
</b>
<div align="center"><b><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Honeybee Die-Off </span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: green;">Threatens</span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> Food Supply</span><span
style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><o:p></o:p></span>
</b><br>
</div>
<b><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Unless
someone or something stops it soon, the mysterious killer that is
wiping out
many of the </span><span style="color: green;">honeybees</span><span
style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> could have a devastating effect on
our dinner plate,
perhaps even reducing us to a glorified bread-and-water diet. <span
style=""> </span></span><span style="color: green;">Honeybees</span><span
style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> don't just make honey; they
pollinate more than 90 of
the tastiest flowering crops we have. <span style=""> </span>Among
them: </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: green;">apples,
nuts, avocados,
soybeans, asparagus, broccoli, celery, squash</span><span
style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">
and </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: green;">cucumbers</span><span
style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">. <span style=""> </span>And lots of
the
really sweet and tart stuff, too, including </span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: green;">citrus fruit, peaches, kiwi,
cherries, blueberries, cranberries,
strawberries, cantaloupe</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">
and other </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: green;">melons</span><span
style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">.<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">In
fact, about one-third of the human diet comes from insect-pollinated
plants,
and the honeybee is responsible for 80% of that pollination, according
to the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region></st1:place>
Department of Agriculture. <span style=""> </span>Even cattle,
which feed on </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: green;">alfalfa</span><span
style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">, depend on bees. <span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">So if
the collapse worsens, we could end up being </span><i style=""><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: green;">"stuck with grains and
water,"</span></i><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> said Kevin
Hackett, the
national program leader for </span><span style="color: green;">USDA</span><span
style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">'s bee and pollination program. <span
style=""> </span></span><i style=""><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: green;">"This is the biggest general
threat
to our food supply," </span></i><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Hackett
said.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: blue; font-weight: normal;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070502/ap_on_sc/honeybee_die_off">http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070502/ap_on_sc/honeybee_die_off</a><o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">up!<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: red;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
</b>
<div align="center"><b><span
style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: red;">GM
Maize MON 863 </span><span
style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: olive;">Toxic</span><span
style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: red;"><o:p></o:p></span>
</b><br>
<b><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: olive;">French
scientists find signs of toxicity to liver and kidney<o:p></o:p></span>
</b><br>
<b><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: olive;">in </span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: red;">Monsanto</span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: olive;">’s study on its
controversial </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: red;">GM
maize</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: olive;">.<o:p></o:p></span>
</b><br>
<b><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: red;">Controversial GM
maize</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: olive;"> approved by
European Commission<o:p></o:p></span>
</b><br>
</div>
<b><span style="color: red;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: red;">In 2003, </span><span style="color: olive;">Monsanto</span><span
style="color: red;">
submitted a request to market the </span><span style="color: olive;">GM
maize MON 863</span><span style="color: red;"> with
resistance to corn rootworm to the regulatory authority in <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Germany</st1:country-region></st1:place>.
<span style=""> </span></span><span style="color: olive;">Monsanto</span><span
style="color: red;"> was seeking approval for
importing the maize into the <st1:place w:st="on">Europe</st1:place>
for
processing and use as feed, but not as food or for cultivation.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: red;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: red;">The German authority concluded
that there was no scientific evidence of risk for human health or the
environment. <span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: fuchsia;">>> people gotta start
dropping first!<span style=""> </span>and that’s not enuff,
you gotta PROVE a connection!<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: red;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: red;">But other Member States raised and
maintained objections over </span><span style="color: olive;">molecular
characterisation</span><span style="color: red;">,
potential </span><span style="color: olive;">allergic reactions</span><span
style="color: red;">, </span><span style="color: olive;">toxicity</span><span
style="color: red;"> and
other aspects. <span style=""> </span>Most controversially, the
feeding study submitted by Monsanto turned up many adverse effects that
were
dismissed by Monsanto as </span><i style=""><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: olive;">“not
biologically meaningful.”<o:p></o:p></span></i>
<br>
<span style="color: red;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: olive;">Monsanto</span><span style="color: red;">,
supported by European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), kept the study from
public
scrutiny under a false claim of confidential business information until
a
German court order a year later forced </span><span
style="color: olive;">Monsanto</span><span style="color: red;"> to
release the full report.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: red;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: red;">Preliminary analysis by Giles-Eric
Séralini and colleagues of Criigen (</span><i style=""><span
style="color: olive;">Committee
for Independent Research and Information on Genetic Engineering, France</span></i><span
style="color: red;">) found
serious flaws in the study <u>at every stage</u>, from experimental
design, to
data collection, analysis, and reporting. <span style=""> </span>The
GM maize fed group was compared, not just
to the group fed the non-GM isogenic line as it should have been, but
also to 5
more ‘control’ groups fed other non-GM varieties. <span style=""> </span>This
had the effect of increasing the range of
variation and making the treatment group of animals too small, thus
considerably reducing the sensitivity of the test. <o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: red;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: red;">Further, the results were analysed
with the wrong statistical tests, and despite having compared many
variables,
the correct standard statistical tools (multivariate and principal
component
analyses) were not used. <span style=""> </span>Instead, in
comparing one variable at a time, the researchers failed to note
significant
trends in </span><span style="color: olive;">body weight differences</span><span
style="color: red;"> between experimental and control
animals. <span style=""> </span>Statistically significant
differences that nevertheless turned up were then all dismissed as </span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: olive;">biologically
insignificant</span><span style="color: red;">.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: red;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: red;">The EFSA, when consulted, agreed
with </span><span style="color: olive;">Monsanto</span><span
style="color: red;">, and gave </span><span style="color: olive;">MON
863 maize</span><span style="color: red;"> a
‘positive opinion’. <span style=""> </span>In August 2005, the
European Commission gave approval to </span><span style="color: olive;">maize
MON 863</span><span style="color: red;">,
despite a persistent failure to reach an agreement by all regulatory
authorities.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: red;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<i style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: olive;">“GM
food/feed looks like joining asbestos, polychlorinated biphenyls
(PCBs), BSE,
tobacco and many others as yet another example of the government
relying on bad
scientific advice and ignoring the precautionary principle, with
devastating
consequences.”</span></i><span style="color: teal;"> <span style=""> </span></span><span
style="">Prof. Peter
Saunders.<span style="color: teal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span>
<br>
<span style="color: teal;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="font-family: "Arial Black"; font-weight: normal;">#
Female rats fed Roundup Ready soybeans gave birth to many severely
stunted
pups, with over half of the litter dead by 3 weeks, and the surviving
pups were
sterile; Roundup Ready soya has been approved worldwide for food and
feed since
1996<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="font-family: "Arial Black"; font-weight: normal;">#
Farmers and workers exposed to Bt cotton and Bt maize have suffered
serious
allergy-like symptoms<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="font-family: "Arial Black"; font-weight: normal;">#
Livestock feeding on Bt crops and crop residues became ill and died in
large
numbers.<span style=""> </span></span><i style=""><span style="">(From
a</span></i><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; font-weight: normal;"> </span><i><span
style="color: black;">devastating
report by the </span></i><i><span style="">Institute
of Science in Society which has been submitted to the European Food
Standards
Agency, the World Health Organisation/ Food and Agriculture
Organisation Expert
Consultation on GM Food Animals, and the UK Food Standards Agency, and
has been
accepted for publication in a peer-reviewed scientific journal.)<o:p></o:p></span></i>
<br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">up!<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: purple; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
</b>
<div align="center"><b><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: olive; font-weight: normal;">Women</span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: normal;">
Harvesting Honey<o:p></o:p></span>
</b><br>
</div>
<b><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: olive; font-weight: normal;">People
and bees have
a long and mutually beneficial history. <span style=""> </span>Ancient
cave paintings in </span><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on"><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-weight: normal;">Spain</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: olive; font-weight: normal;">
depict a woman harvesting honey. <span style=""> </span>The </span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-weight: normal;">Egyptians</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: olive; font-weight: normal;">
moved bees on barges up and down the <st1:place w:st="on">Nile</st1:place>.
<span style=""> </span>Originating near current-day </span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-weight: normal;">Afghanistan</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: olive; font-weight: normal;">,
one species of honey bee, Apis
mellifera, now lives all over the world, with the exception of the
Antarctic
and far Arctic regions. <span style=""> </span>In every
community and country, bees are kept for the honey and wax that they
produce,
and for the crops that they pollinate.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: olive; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: olive; font-weight: normal;">More
than 30 years
ago, we at the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType>
of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Montana</st1:PlaceName></st1:place> (UM)
began
sending out bees to explore and sample environments of interest, as a
way of
collecting and mapping data over large areas within a two-to-four-km
radius of
the hive. <span style=""> </span>A honey bee’s body has branched
hairs that develop a static electricity charge, making them an
extremely
effective collector of chemical and biological particles, including
pollutants,
biological warfare agents and explosives. <o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: olive; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: olive; font-weight: normal;">They
also inhale
large quantities of air and bring back water for evaporative cooling of
the
hive. <span style=""> </span>As such, bees sample all media
(air, soil, water and vegetation) and all chemical forms (gaseous,
liquid and
particulate). <span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">>>
and
genetically modified shit that humans have imposed on their environment.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><a
href="http://maic.jmu.edu/journal/7.3/focus/bromenshenk/bromenshenk.htm"><span
style="text-decoration: none;">http://maic.jmu.edu/journal/7.3/focus/bromenshenk/bromenshenk.htm</span></a></span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">up!<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: purple; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<i style=""><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: purple; font-weight: normal;">"The
greatest obstacle to discovery
is not ignorance -- it’s the illusion of knowledge.'<span style=""> </span></span></i><span
style="">Daniel J Boorstin.<span style="color: purple;"><o:p></o:p></span></span>
<br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">UP!<o:p></o:p></span>
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style="color: fuchsia;"> </span></small></small><span
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it on the YOUniversity's site.</span></b><br>
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style="font-size: 7.5pt; color: purple;">because</span><small><small><span
style="color: yellow;"> </span></small></small><span
style="font-size: 7.5pt; color: purple;">of its 'mix' of 'specialist'
&
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<b><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; color: purple;"> it's increasingly
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<div align="center"><b><span style="color: teal;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<span style="color: teal;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
</b><b><span
style="font-size: 24pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: teal;">Jesustians
For Jesus!<o:p></o:p></span>
</b><br>
</div>
<div align="center"><b><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Why a Hindu
Accepts Christ and Rejects Churchianity<o:p></o:p></span>
</b><br>
</div>
<div align="right"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">by</span><span
style=""> Swami Abhedananda<o:p></o:p></span>
</b><br>
</div>
<b><span style="color: teal;"><span style=""> </span>A </span><span
style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Hindu</span><span style="color: teal;">
distinguishes the religion of
the churches from the religion of <font color="#ff6600">Jesus Christ</font>.
Speaking from the <font color="#ff6600">Hindu </font>standpoint,
the religion that the churches uphold and preach today, that has been
built
around the personality of Jesus the Christ, and which is popularly
known as
Christianity, should be called '<font color="#ff6600">Churchianity</font>',
in contradistinction to that
pure religion of the heart that was taught by Jesus the Christ and
practised by
his disciples. The religion of Christ or true Christianity had no
dogma, no
creed, no system, and no theology. It was a religion of the heart, a
religion
without any ceremonies, without ritual, without priest-craft. It was
not based
upon any book, but upon the feelings of the heart, upon direct
communion of the
individual soul with the heavenly Father. On the contrary, the
religion of the
church is based upon a book, believes in dogmas, professes a creed, has
an
organized system for preaching it, is backed up by theologies, performs
rituals, practises ceremonials, and obeys the commands of <font
color="#ff6600">a host of priests</font>.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: teal;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: teal;">The religion of Christ was a
religion of love, renunciation and self-control; it was a religion of
<font color="#ff6600">God-consciousness</font>. As these are the
highest ideals among the Hindus, they
accept Christ and His true religion in so far as it is one with their
ideals;
but when they see that Churchianity does not preach renunciation, and
that its
advocates do not practise love for all, nor show self-control, when
they see
that Christian governments encourage vice by opium trade, liquor trade,
and
introduce intoxicating things among innocent and temperate people for
the sake
of gain, they reject a religion which allows such things. They believe
in Jesus
the Christ as the Son of God, and know that he did not teach such
things.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: teal;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: teal;">The duty of true religion is to
broaden the human mind, to open the spiritual eyes, to lead humanity to
the
realisation of oneness with the supreme Father in Heaven, and to
repress all
quarrels over dogmas and creeds. As long as we are not spiritual, we
fight and
quarrel, but when we realise that God dwells within us, that we are all
<font color="#ff6600">children of God</font>, irrespective of
nationality, creed or denomination, when we
rise above all dogmas, above beliefs, theories, and sectarianism, then,
and
then alone, we are the true followers of the Christ. Then, and then
alone, are
we able to say with Jesus, <font color="#ff6600"><i>"I and my Father
are one"</i></font>. The Hindus
leave aside the disputed personality that dwells in each individual
soul and
believes that each soul is a latent Christ. They believe that the
voice of God
tells this truth within each soul, but we do not listen to it, through
our
ignorance and selfishness. <font color="#ff6600"><st1:place w:st="on">Krishna</st1:place></font></span></b><b><span
style="color: teal;"> says.:</span></b><b><span style="color: teal;"><font
color="#ff6600"><i>"Giving up all the formalities of religion, come
unto Me, take refuge in
Me, I shall make thee free from sins, sorrows and sufferings"</i></font></span><br>
<span style="color: teal;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: teal;">Jesus says: <font color="#ff6600"><i>"Come
unto Me
all ye that are weary and heavy-laden and I will give you rest"</i></font>.
Let us
listen to that voice, for it is one and the same, and let us follow
it. Let us
realise the spirit of true Christianity that was exhibited in the life
of Jesus
of <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Nazareth</st1:place></st1:City>.
Let us live as he lived, and be <font color="#ff6600">living Christs
on earth</font>. The Hindu is not
satisfied merely to accept Christ in theory, but he strives hard to
live the
life, which Jesus lived, to lead a life of renunciation, of
self-control and of
love to all. Thus he seeks to fulfil the mandates of that eternal
Religion
which is taught by <font color="#ff6600">Christ-Krishna, Christ-Buddha</font>,
and <font color="#ff6600">Christ-Jesus</font>.<o:p></o:p></span>
<span style="color: blue; font-weight: normal;"></span><br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">up!<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: purple;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
</b>
<div align="center"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: blue;">Reagan
Feared </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: red;">Armageddon</span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: blue;"> Was Near<o:p></o:p></span>
</b><br>
</div>
<b><span style="color: blue;">Ronald Reagan saved his most private and
dramatic thoughts
for a diary in which he recalled his running frustration with the
Israeli
invasion of Lebanon, his fear that </span><span style="color: red;">Armageddon</span><span
style="color: blue;"> was near and coughing up blood
on the day he was shot.<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: blue;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: blue;">He also reveals that he wore a bullet-proof
vest during a
speech at the </span><span style="color: red;">National Press Club</span><span
style="color: blue;"> during which he asked the Soviet
Union to join the <st1:country-region w:st="on">United States</st1:country-region>
in eliminating medium-range nuclear missiles in <st1:place w:st="on">Europe</st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: blue;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: blue;">These excerpts have been released by <i
style="">Vanity Fair</i> magazine.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: blue;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
</b>
<div align="center"><b><i style=""><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: blue;">'I
Believe Armageddon Is Near'<o:p></o:p></span></i>
</b><br>
</div>
<b><i style=""><span style="color: red;">"Funny
-- I was talking peace but wearing a bullet-proof vest.<span style="">
</span>It seems Qaddafi put a contract on me &
some person named Jack was going to try for me at the speech,"</span></i><span
style="color: blue;"> Reagan
wrote. </span><i style=""><span style="color: red;">"Security was very
tight."<o:p></o:p></span></i>
<br>
<span style="color: blue;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: blue;">Events in the <st1:place w:st="on">Middle
East</st1:place>
concerned him so much that he wrote on May 15, 1981, </span><i style=""><span
style="color: red;">"Sometimes I wonder if we are
destined to witness Armageddon."</span></i><span style="color: blue;"><o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: blue;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: blue;">Then on June 7: </span><i style=""><span
style="color: red;">"Got
word of <st1:country-region w:st="on">Israel</st1:country-region>
bombing of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region>
-- nuclear
reactor. <span style=""> </span>I swear I believe Armageddon is
near."</span></i><span style="color: blue;"><o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">up!<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: purple;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: purple;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
</b>
<div align="center"><b><span
style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Can
</span><span
style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: purple;">Science</span><span
style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">
Validate <o:p></o:p></span>
</b><br>
<b><span
style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">the
</span><span
style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: purple;">Psychedelic
Experience</span><span
style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">?<o:p></o:p></span>
</b><br>
<div align="right"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">by</span>
Charles Hayes
</b><br>
</div>
</div>
<b><span style="color: purple;">A
portal to heaven opened up last summer when a study by a psychiatric
team at pre-eminent
</span><i style=""><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Johns
Hopkins School of Medicine</span></i><span style="color: purple;">
revealed that </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: purple;">psilocybin</span><span
style="color: purple;">,
the all-natural ingredient that packs the magic in magic mushrooms, can
</span><i style=""><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">“occasion
mystical-type experiences having substantial and sustained personal
meaning and
spiritual significance.”<o:p></o:p></span></i>
<br>
<span style="color: purple;"><span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: purple;">Published
in </span><i style=""><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Psychopharmacology</span></i><span
style="color: purple;">, the results of the double-blind study led by
psychopharmacologist Roland Griffiths were </span><u><span
style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">blindingly
persuasive and unambiguous</span></u><span style="color: purple;">. <span
style=""> </span>A whopping 79% of the 30 mentally healthy,
well-educated, hallucinogen-naïve, religiously or spiritually active
adult
volunteers, reported that their psilocybin sessions were one of the
five most
important events of their lives, right up there with the birth of their
first
child. <span style=""> </span>30% said it was </span><u><span
style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">the single most significant event <i
style="">ever</i></span></u><span style="color: purple;">. <span
style=""> </span>What’s more, after two months, most reported
lasting positive effects on their sense of well-being and life
outlook—confirmed by significant others.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: purple;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: purple;">While
some reported experiencing strong anxiety and a few would decline to
repeat the
experiment, the potent breadth of the psychedelic’s positive effect on
the
majority constitutes a home run on almost anyone’s scorecard. <span
style=""> </span>In a society that fancies itself foremost as
faithful, an encounter with divinity would seem to have optimal value. <span
style=""> </span>We’re not talking about a nice buzz or an
amelioration of the jitters; we’re talking godhead, </span><span
style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">unitive ecstasis</span><span
style="color: purple;">.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: purple;"><span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: purple;">One
might well ask, “</span><i style=""><span
style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Since when is science equipped to
quantify spirituality,
anyway?</span></i><span style="color: purple;">” <span style=""> </span>Doesn’t
more flow out of an entheogen-induced
mystic union with God than can possibly be caught in the clinical
chalice? <span style=""> </span>To tend The Garden and ingest its
ennobling
fruit, do we really need to wait idly for an approving nod from secular
authority, be it Big Brother Science or his more imposing sibling,
Government?<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: purple;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: purple;">The <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Hopkins</st1:place></st1:City> results highlight
the struggle between our culture’s twin idolatries, science and
spirituality,
both of which render themselves incomplete and exclusionary by their
certitude.
<span style=""> </span></span><i style=""><span
style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">“Science without religion is lame,”</span></i><span
style="color: purple;"> Einstein observed, and </span><i style=""><span
style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">“religion without science is blind.”</span></i><span
style="color: purple;"> <span style=""> </span>But there’s good
news: the science applied by the new psychedelic researchers at <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Hopkins</st1:City></st1:place> and
elsewhere is
both more rigorous and more humane – even capable, in fact, of working
in
league with religion. <span style=""> </span>The mystical
models that arise will deliver unprecedented insight into the
subjective
phenomena of the religious experience.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: purple;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<i style=""><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">“It was as good a
job as science can do
today,”</span></i><span style="color: purple;"> says William Richards,
the <st1:City w:st="on">Hopkins</st1:City> study’s chief monitor and a
veteran of LSD
research for treating the terminally ill at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Spring</st1:PlaceType> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Grove</st1:PlaceType>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Hospital</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>. <span
style=""> </span></span><i style=""><span
style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">“It almost makes me believe more in
science than I did
before.” </span></i><span style="color: purple;">The very first
session, decades
after his last work in the field, was profoundly mystical for him. <span
style=""> </span></span><i style=""><span
style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">“Just to be able to do it…. I felt
awe and privilege
myself.” <span style=""> </span></span></i><span style="color: purple;">Richards
believes we’re finally in the </span><i style=""><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: purple;">“early
dawn of psychology’s recognition and understanding of the spiritual
experience.”</span></i><i style=""><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><o:p></o:p></span></i>
<br>
<span style="color: fuchsia;">>>
but of course nobody has to wait till they ploddingly arrive.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: purple;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: purple;">The
prime mover behind all this progressive science is Robert Jesse, a
former vice
president of Oracle for whom life-changing entheogenic events inspired
him to
found the </span><i style=""><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Council
for Spiritual Practices</span></i><span style="color: purple;"> </span><span
style="color: blue; font-weight: normal;">(<a
href="http://www.csp.org/"><span style="text-decoration: none;">www.csp.org</span></a>)</span><span
style="color: purple;"> in 1994 to develop </span><i style=""><span
style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">“approaches to primary religious
experience.” </span></i><span style="color: purple;"><span style=""> </span>Working
stealthily under the media radar,
Jesse navigated the bureaucracy and moved the study to fruition, a
strategy
that kept it from being blackballed. <span style=""> </span>Jesse
once told me his aim isn’t to legalise psychedelics but to demonstrate
their
value. <span style=""> </span></span><st1:City w:st="on"><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Mission</span></st1:City><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"> accomplished at
Johns <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Hopkins</st1:place></st1:City>.</span><span
style="color: purple;"><o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: purple;"><span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: purple;">Bolstering
the new science with the requisite judiciary buttress for the pursuit
of
spirituality through chemistry is yet another ray of light that pierces
our </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Drug War</span><span
style="color: purple;"> benightedness.
<span style=""> </span>Early last year the U.S. Supreme Court
ruled unanimously against the Bush administration’s attempt to block
the
ingestion of the hallucinogenic Amazonian brew </span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">ayahuasca</span><span
style="color: purple;"> by a branch
of </span><i style=""><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">União
do Vegetal (UDV)</span></i><span style="color: purple;">, a Brazilian
religious
order that insists the hoasca tea brings members closer to God. <span
style=""> </span>In the opinion written by new Chief Justice
John Roberts, the court affirmed that the 1993 </span><i style=""><span
style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Religious Freedom Restoration Act</span></i><span
style="color: purple;"> protects the church’s taste in tea. <span
style=""> </span>Sounding a distinct note for reason, he
observed that federal law already allows peyote use by Native
Americans, and
that Congress ought to be “striking sensible balances between religious
liberty
and competing prior governmental interests.” <span style=""> </span>And
there’s an ecclesiastical catch: The U.S.
Conference of Catholic Bishops and the National Association of
Evangelicals
defended the UDV’s case for religious freedom, prompting psychedelic
researcher
and UCLA professor Charles Grob, an expert witness at the hearing, to
notice
that </span><i style=""><u><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">“religious rights
can apparently trump the Drug War.”<o:p></o:p></span></u></i>
<br>
<span style="color: purple;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: purple;">There’s
a real movement afoot. <span style=""> </span>The field of
psychedelic research is opening up, blossoming worldwide. <span
style=""> </span>The landmark study of </span><span
style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">MDMA</span><span
style="color: purple;">-assisted
psychotherapy to treat post-traumatic stress disorder victims
unresponsive to
other treatment, launched at the </span><i style=""><span
style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">University of South Carolina</span></i><span
style="color: purple;"> in 2004, has been showing </span><i style=""><span
style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">“tremendous results,”</span></i><span
style="color: purple;"> according to Rick Doblin, president of the </span><i
style=""><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Multidisciplinary
Association for Psychedelic Studies</span></i><span
style="color: purple;"> (</span><span style="color: blue;"><a
href="http://www.maps.org/"><span style="text-decoration: none;">www.maps.org</span></a></span><span
style="color: purple;">), its sponsor. <span style=""> </span>Privy
to the
extant data, Doblin noted that a telltale sign that subjects in the
double-blind
study had received </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">MDMA</span><span
style="color: purple;"> rather than the placebo was their query of the
monitor </span><i style=""><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">“And
how are you
doing?”</span></i><span style="color: purple;"> once the drug kicked in.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: purple;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: purple;">A
similar </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">MAPS</span><span
style="color: purple;">-funded
study will begin soon in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">Israel</st1:country-region></st1:place>.
<span style=""> </span>The Israeli Ministry of Health had been
waiting for <st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region>
federal
approval for the <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">South
Carolina</st1:place></st1:State>
study before launching its own </span><span
style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">MDMA</span><span
style="color: purple;"> work, to treat casualties of war and
terrorism, under the
direction of former IDF chief psychiatrist Moshe Kotler. <span style=""> </span>Comparable
</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">MAPS</span><span
style="color: purple;">-sponsored MDMA studies in <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Switzerland</st1:country-region>
and <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Spain</st1:country-region></st1:place>
await approval.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: purple;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">MAPS</span><span
style="color: purple;"> is also hoping to start research at Harvard
into </span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: normal;">LSD</span><span
style="color: purple;"> and </span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: normal;">psilocybin</span><span
style="color: purple;">
as treatments for cluster headaches, a horrifically painful affliction
thus far
resistant to lasting relief. <span style=""> </span>A Neurology
article by prospective monitors Andrew Sewell and John Halpern reports
strong
anecdotal evidence that unauthorised use of either of the two drugs -
even in
sub-psychoactive doses - has </span><u><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">halted both shorter
episodes and months-long cycles of these
headaches.<o:p></o:p></span></u>
<br>
<span style="color: purple;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: purple;">Arising
from the supplications of an underground population of law-breaking
self-medicators, this research proposal demonstrates the moral
authority of
grassroots, people-driven science and how an overlooked, even factious
interest
group (</span><span style="color: blue; font-weight: normal;"><a
href="http://www.clusterbusters.org/">www.clusterbusters.org</a></span><span
style="color: purple;">) can force action and keep science honest.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: purple;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<i style=""><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">“The psychedelic
renaissance will have
really begun in earnest and completely when we have LSD underway for
both
physiological and psychotherapeutic studies, particularly the latter,”</span></i><span
style="color: purple;"> says Doblin, who expects imminent approval for
a </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">MAPS</span><span
style="color: purple;">-funded Swiss study
of the psychotherapeutic use of </span><span
style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">LSD</span><span style="color: purple;">
to ease anxiety in cancer patients. <span style=""> </span>Still other
psychedelic studies are in the
pipeline, at different stages of the bureaucratic maze, including
psilocybin
research at NYU, and a not yet publicised LSD study to investigate
brain
function.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: purple;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: purple;">Psychedelic
therapy has shown enormous potential to decouple minds from various
kinds of
captivity. <span style=""> </span></span><span
style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Ketamine</span><span
style="color: purple;"> has been used
successfully In St. Petersburg, Russia, to separate heroin addicts from
their
abusive habits. <span style=""> </span>At the </span><i style=""><span
style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Iboga Therapy
House</span></i><span style="color: purple;"> (</span><span
style="color: blue; font-weight: normal;"><a
href="http://www.ibogatherapyhouse.net/"><span
style="text-decoration: none;">www.ibogatherapyhouse.net</span></a></span><span
style="color: purple;">) in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Vancouver</st1:City>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Canada</st1:country-region></st1:place>, </span><span
style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">MAPS</span><span
style="color: purple;"> will conduct an
investigation of </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">ibogaine</span><span
style="color: purple;">, a trance-inducing African tree bark, as a
treatment for
opiate dependence. <span style=""> </span>Acute relief of
obsessive-compulsive disorder symptoms, after treatment with </span><span
style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">psilocybin</span><span
style="color: purple;">, is
described in a </span><i style=""><span
style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Journal of Clinical Psychiatry</span></i><span
style="color: purple;"> report on a <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Arizona</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>
study.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: purple;"><span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: purple;">Getting
religion has its health benefits. <span style=""> </span>As
William James once observed, </span><i style=""><span
style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">“Religiomania is the best cure for
dipsomania
[alcoholism].”</span></i><span style="color: purple;"> <span style=""> </span>It
was one such breakthrough in a legal </span><span
style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">LSD</span><span style="color: purple;">
session in the
1950s that inspired </span><i style=""><span
style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Alcoholics Anonymous</span></i><span
style="color: purple;">
founder William Wilson to propose (unsuccessfully) to AA’s board that
it use
psychedelic therapy to help alcoholics break their bondage to the
bottle.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: purple;"><span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Ponder for a
moment the awesome power behind a force so strong
that it can tear asunder a drug addict from his slave master, an
obsessive
compulsive from her involuntary rituals and ideation, and the searing
vice of
pain from a cluster headache sufferer. <span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></u>
<br>
<span style="color: purple;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: purple;">Yet
psychedelics may also play a gentler role, in family or marital
counselling.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: purple;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: purple;">While
not as rending as addiction busting, such religious communions are
hardly trivial.
<span style=""> </span>Says Grob, who did biomedical
psychiatric research into </span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">community
ayahuasca ceremonies</span><span style="color: purple;"> in the Amazon,
</span><i style=""><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">“The
intensive
moral inventory of a night on ayahuasca is like the longest Yom Kippur
you
could ever imagine.”</span></i><span style="color: purple;"> <span
style=""> </span>Grob places the family in a central supportive
role in psychedelic therapy. <span style=""> </span>His current
study, using </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">psilocybin</span><span
style="color: purple;"> to treat the anxiety of terminally ill cancer
patients
(beginning each session with a Native American-inflected ritual calling
on the
spirits of the four cardinal directions) has yielded highly positive
results. <span style=""> </span>He recalls how one sobbing subject
underwent a
bout of profound empathy for her husband, soon to lose her. <span
style=""> </span>The reunion of the two at the end of the
session brought tears to all present. <span style=""> </span>Having
treated seven of the twelve in the study design, Grob still needs five
more
volunteers (</span><span style="color: blue; font-weight: normal;"><a
href="http://www.canceranxietystudy.org/"><span
style="text-decoration: none;">www.canceranxietystudy.org</span></a></span><span
style="color: purple;">).<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: purple;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: purple;">The
new science of neurotheology invites us to ponder the biochemistry of
religion
and its evolutionary role as a source of meaning and structure in the
face of
impending death.<span style=""> </span>According to the </span><i
style=""><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Time</span></i><span
style="color: purple;"> cover story “</span><i style=""><span
style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">The God Gene,”</span></i><span
style="color: purple;">
scientists have pinpointed a variation on a single gene that produces
the
monoamines that regulate mood, the presence of which determined how
well
volunteers scored on a self-transcendence test. <span style=""> </span>Neither
the variation nor the gene is the sine
qua non for a spiritual life, of course, but the finding demonstrates
both the
value of science in detecting spirit-specific loci in the human
biosphere - and
the slippery slope of materialist/determinist interpretations of such
findings.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: purple;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: purple;">So
then, how do we construct a science devoted to human need and
potential? <span style=""> </span>Science is naturally driven by
political
culture. <span style=""> </span>It’s only right that the tools
of science are regulated by our (duly) elected officials. <span
style=""> </span>But what happens when the government censors
its own scientists, and political or industrial cronyism overrules
sound
medical policy? <span style=""> </span>Witness the FDA’s
vacuous, contra-scientific pronouncement last year that cannabis has no
medical
value whatsoever. <span style=""> </span></span><i style=""><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">“Zilch,
zero, nada,”</span></i><span style="color: purple;"> sneered opioid
gobbler Rush
Limbaugh, impossibly rubbing it in.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: purple;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: purple;">Functionally
speaking, science is only as good as its institutions and what makes it
into
print. <span style=""> </span>When the science is rigorous, as <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Griffiths</st1:City></st1:place>’ was,
it helps
build the case for sound medicine and public health policy, which can,
if
necessary, be hauled out and resurrected after its eclipse by
unfavourable
political leadership. <span style=""> </span>No, we don’t need
doctors or Congressmen to tell us that good can come of </span><span
style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">cannabis</span><span
style="color: purple;"> or </span><span
style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">psilocybin</span><span
style="color: purple;"> ingestion. <span style=""> </span></span><u><span
style="font-size: 16pt; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">But a reformed legal
framework for the judicious use of
psychedelics, as well as extensive scientific inquiry into how they
work on the
human psyche, would be welcome evolutionary tune-ups for our
civilisation.</span></u><span style="color: purple;"><o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: purple;"><span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: purple;">The
efflorescence of new psychedelic research is an emerging pattern of
stars in
the night sky of indiscriminate proscription. <span style=""> </span>Once
the dots are connected and reinforced by
ongoing inquiry, we’ll be well on our way toward a wholesome science
marked by <o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">up!<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: purple;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
</b>
<div align="center"><b><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">Cops Planted Pot on </span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: green;">92-Year Old Woman</span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(153, 51, 0);"> <o:p></o:p></span>
</b><br>
<b><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">They'd Killed
in </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: green;">Botched Drug
Raid<o:p></o:p></span>
</b><br>
<div align="right"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">by</span>
Rhonda Cook, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Atlanta</st1:City></st1:place>
Journal-Constitution.
</b><br>
</div>
</div>
<b><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">According
to US federal documents released this week, these are the events that
led to
Kathryn Johnston's death and the steps the officers took to cover their
tracks.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">Three
narcotics agents were trolling the streets near the Bluffs in northwest
<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Atlanta</st1:place></st1:City>,
a known market
for drugs, midday on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">Eventually
they set their sights on some apartments on <st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address
w:st="on">Lanier Street</st1:address></st1:Street>, usually fertile
when
narcotics agents are looking for arrests and seizures.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">Gregg
Junnier and another narcotics officer went inside the apartments around
2 p.m.
while Jason Smith checked the woods. <span style=""> </span>Smith
found dozens of bags of </span><span style="color: green;">marijuana</span><span
style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);"> -- in baggies packaged to sell. <span
style=""> </span>With no one connected to the pot, Smith
stashed the bags in the trunk of the patrol car. <span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="font-size: 14pt; color: green;">A use was found for
Smith's stash 90 minutes later:</span><span
style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);"> a phone tip led the three officers to
a man in a </span><i style=""><span style="color: green;">"gold-collared
jacket"</span></i><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);"> who might be
dealing. <span style=""> </span>The man, identified as X in the
documents but
known as Fabian Sheats, spotted the cops and put something in his
mouth. <span style=""> </span>They found no drugs on Sheats, but came
up
with a use for the pot they found earlier.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">They
wanted information or they would arrest Sheats for dealing.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">While
Junnier called for a drug-sniffing dog, Smith planted some bags under a
rock,
which the K-9 unit found.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="font-size: 14pt; color: green;">But if Sheats gave them
‘something’, he could walk.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">Sheats
pointed out <st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">933 Neal St.</st1:address></st1:Street>,
the home of 92-year-old Kathryn Johnston where, he claimed, he had
spotted a
kilo of cocaine when he was there to buy crack from a man named </span><i
style=""><span style="color: green;">"Sam."</span></i><span
style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);"><o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">They
needed someone to go inside, but Sheats would not do for their purposes
because
he was not a certified confidential informant.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">So
about 5:05 p.m. they reached out by telephone to Alex White to make an
undercover buy for them. <span style=""> </span>They had
experience with White and he had proved to be a reliable snitch.<span
style=""> </span>But White had no transportation and could not
help.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">Still,
Smith, Junnier and the other officer, Arthur Tesler, according to the
state's
case, ran with the information. <span style=""> </span>They
fabricated all the right answers to persuade a magistrate to give them </span><u><span
style="color: green;">a no-knock search warrant</span></u><span
style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">By 6
p.m., they had the legal document they needed to break into Kathryn
Johnston's
house, and within 40 minutes they were prying off the burglar bars and
using a
ram to burst through the elderly woman's front door. <span style=""> </span>It
took about 2 minutes to get inside, which
gave <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Johnston</st1:place></st1:City>
time to retrieve her rusty .38 revolver.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">Tesler
was at the back door when Junnier, Smith and the other narcotics
officers
crashed through the front.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">Johnston
got off one shot, the bullet missing her target and hitting a porch
roof. <span style=""> </span>The three narcotics officers answered
with </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: green;">39 bullets.</span><span
style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);"><o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">5 or 6
bullets hit the terrified woman. <span style=""> </span>Authorities
never figured out who fired the fatal bullet, the one that hit <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Johnston</st1:City></st1:place> in the
chest. <span style=""> </span>Some pieces of the other bullets hit
Junnier
and two other cops - friendly fire.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">The
officers handcuffed the mortally wounded woman and searched the house.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">There
was no Sam.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">There
were no drugs.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">There
were no cameras that the officers had claimed was the reason for the
no-knock
warrant.<span style=""> </span></span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: green;">Just <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Johnston</st1:City></st1:place>,
handcuffed and bleeding on her living room floor.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">That
is when the officers took it to another level. <span style=""> </span>3
baggies of marijuana were retrieved from the
trunk of the car and planted in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Johnston</st1:City></st1:place>'s
basement. <span style=""> </span>The rest of the pot from the
trunk was dropped down a sewage drain and disappeared.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="font-size: 14pt; color: green;">The three began getting
their stories straight.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">The
next day, one of them, allegedly Tesler, completed the required
incident report
in which he wrote that the officers went to the house because their
informant
had bought crack at the <st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Neal
Street</st1:address></st1:Street> address. <span style=""> </span>And
Smith turned in two bags of crack to
support that claim.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="font-size: 14pt; color: green;">They plotted how they
would cover up the lie.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">They
tried to line up one of their regular informants, Alex White, the
reliable
snitch with the unreliable transportation.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">The
officers' story would be that they met with White at an abandoned
carwash Nov.
21 and gave him $50 to make the buy from <st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address
w:st="on">Neal Street</st1:address></st1:Street>.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">To
add credibility to their story, they actually paid White his usual $30
fee for
information and explained to him how he was to say the scenario played
out if
asked. <span style=""> </span>An unidentified store owner
kicked in another $100 to entice White to go along with the play.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">The 3
cops spoke several times, assuring each other of the story they would
tell.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="font-size: 14pt; color: green;">Junnier was the first to
break.<span style="">
</span></span><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">On Dec. 11, three
weeks after the
shooting, </span><span style="color: purple; font-weight: normal;"><a
href="http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/51151/"><span
style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/51151/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
</b><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">UP!<o:p></o:p></span>
<b><br>
<span style="color: purple;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: purple;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<u><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Arial Black";">The <span
style="color: blue;">Money</span>
Masters</span><span style="color: purple;"><o:p></o:p></span></u>
<br>
</b>
<div align="center"><b><span
style="font-size: 24pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: blue; font-weight: normal;">Chavez</span><span
style="font-size: 24pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;">
Withdraws </span><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><span
style="font-size: 24pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: blue; font-weight: normal;">Venezuela</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span
style="font-size: 24pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;">
<o:p></o:p></span></b><br>
<b><span
style="font-size: 24pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;">From
</span><span
style="font-size: 24pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: blue; font-weight: normal;">IMF</span><span
style="font-size: 24pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;">
& </span><span
style="font-size: 24pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: blue; font-weight: normal;">World
Bank</span><span
style="font-size: 24pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(51, 153, 102); font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span>
</b><br>
<div align="right"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">by</span>
Andrew Buncombe in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on">Washington</st1:State></st1:place>
</b><br>
</div>
<b><i style=""><span style="font-size: 18pt; color: blue;">"Sooner or
later, those
institutions will fall <o:p></o:p></span></i>
</b><br>
<b><i style=""><span style="font-size: 18pt; color: blue;">due to their
own weight."<o:p></o:p></span></i>
</b><br>
</div>
<b><span style="color: rgb(51, 153, 102);">Venezuela's
leader </span><span style="color: blue;">Hugo Chavez</span><span
style="color: rgb(51, 153, 102);"> has underlined his intention to
develop </span><u><span style="color: blue;">an alternative economic
vision for Latin America</span></u><span
style="color: rgb(51, 153, 102);"> by pulling his country from the </span><span
style="color: blue;">World Bank</span><span
style="color: rgb(51, 153, 102);"> and the </span><span
style="color: blue;">International Monetary Fund</span><span
style="color: rgb(51, 153, 102);">
- organisations that have long had a controversial role in the region.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(51, 153, 102);"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(51, 153, 102);">Though
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Venezuela</st1:country-region></st1:place>
has paid off its loans to the two international lending organisations,
Mr
Chavez's announcement that he intends to quit the organisations is
powerfully
symbolic. <span style=""> </span>It is likely to lead other
smaller nations to question their membership and demand a greater say
in the
organisations' policies.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: fuchsia;">>>
a helluva lot more than symbolic!<span style=""> </span>chavez
has probly now signed his own death warrant.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(51, 153, 102);"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<i style=""><span style="color: blue;">"We will no longer have to go to
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on">Washington</st1:State></st1:place>,
nor to the
IMF, nor to the World Bank, not to anyone,"</span></i><span
style="color: rgb(51, 153, 102);"> said Mr Chavez</span><i style=""><span
style="color: blue;">. <span style=""> </span>"I want to
formalise our exit from the World Bank and the IMF."<o:p></o:p></span></i>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(51, 153, 102);"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(51, 153, 102);">Despite
Venezuela's close trading relationship with the US over oil - it is the
fourth
largest supplier of crude in the United States - Mr Chavez has long
derided the
</span><span style="color: blue;">IMF</span><span
style="color: rgb(51, 153, 102);"> and the </span><span
style="color: blue;">World Bank</span><span
style="color: rgb(51, 153, 102);"> for being
controlled by US and Western interests and has said their policies of
tight
budget controls, privatisation and open markets have benefited foreign
companies while leaving much of Latin America in grinding poverty.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: fuchsia;">>> see</span><span
style="color: red;"> </span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; font-weight: normal;">The <span
style="color: blue;">Money</span>
Masters </span><span style="color: fuchsia;">in UP! 248.</span><span
style="color: purple;"><o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(51, 153, 102);"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><span
style="color: rgb(51, 153, 102);">Venezuela</span></st1:country-region></st1:place><span
style="color: rgb(51, 153, 102);"> recently repaid its remaining debts
to the World Bank
five years ahead of schedule and paid off its debts to the </span><span
style="color: blue;">IMF</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 153, 102);">
shortly after Mr
Chavez first took office in 1999. <span style=""> </span>He has
steadily worked to provide alternative forms of credit and financial
support
for countries in the region, backed up by <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Venezuela</st1:place></st1:country-region>'s oil wealth. <span
style=""> </span>He has referred to such a project as the </span><i
style=""><span style="color: blue;">"Bank of the
South".</span></i><span style="color: rgb(51, 153, 102);"> <span
style=""> </span>He has also invested millions of dollars on
social programmes inside <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Venezuela</st1:place></st1:country-region>
that have reduced poverty and increased access to education and
healthcare.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(51, 153, 102);"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(51, 153, 102);">Mr
Chavez made his announcement on Monday, a day after criticising the
lending
organisations during a meeting with leaders from </span><st1:country-region
w:st="on"><span style="color: blue;">Bolivia</span></st1:country-region><span
style="color: blue;">, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Nicaragua</st1:country-region>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Cuba</st1:country-region></span><span
style="color: rgb(51, 153, 102);"> and <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">Haiti</st1:country-region></st1:place>.
<span style=""> </span>He predicted that </span><i style=""><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: blue;">"<u>sooner
or later, those institutions will fall due to their own weight</u>".</span></i><span
style="color: rgb(51, 153, 102);"><o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: purple; font-weight: normal;"><a
href="http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article2502081.ece"><span
style="text-decoration: none;">http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article2502081.ece</span></a><o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
</b><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">UP!</span><b><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></b>
<div
style="border-style: none none double; border-color: -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color windowtext; border-width: medium medium 2.25pt; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;"><b><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b>
</div>
<div align="center"><b><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: green; font-weight: normal;">Pagan-Magik<o:p></o:p></span>
</b><br>
<b><span style="color: green; font-weight: normal;">Due to some
technical confusion, general frustration, and
communication breakdown<o:p></o:p></span>
</b><br>
<b><span style="color: green; font-weight: normal;">amongst the
administrators, the pagan-magik mailing list on
aktivix.org <o:p></o:p></span>
</b><br>
<b><span style="color: green; font-weight: normal;">has lost all its
subscribers!<span style=""> </span>Some email addresses have been
saved, but
probably not all.<o:p></o:p></span>
</b><br>
<b><span style="color: green; font-weight: normal;">If you used to be
on this list and would like to be so
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</span></span></span><span style="color: green; font-weight: normal;">there
used to be
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</b><br>
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<div align="center"><b><span style="color: green; font-weight: normal;">cheers,
x x the spam-cleaners"<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</div>
<b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span
style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia;">a
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a n e n d<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
</b>
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style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia;">which
don't justify nuttin'<o:p></o:p></span>
</b><br>
</div>
<b><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
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