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<div align="center"><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">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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<br>
<span style="color: teal;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<div align="center"><big><big><span
style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">this
could definitely be the Big One!</span><br>
<span
style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">the
Great Coming Together!</span><br>
<span
style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">the
Rooting & Sprouting</span><br>
<span
style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">of
the Post-Dinosaur Era...</span></big></big><br>
<span
style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<u><span
style="font-size: 24pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: teal; font-weight: normal;">HOW</span></u><span
style="font-size: 36pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: teal; font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span
style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: teal; font-weight: normal;">the</span><span
style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: purple; font-weight: normal;">
</span><span
style="font-size: 36pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: purple; font-weight: normal;">Largest
Movement<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span
style="font-size: 24pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: purple; font-weight: normal;">in
the World</span><span
style="font-size: 24pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: teal; font-weight: normal;">
Came Into Being;<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span
style="font-size: 24pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: teal; font-weight: normal;">&<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<u><span
style="font-size: 24pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: teal; font-weight: normal;">WHY</span></u><span
style="font-size: 24pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: teal; font-weight: normal;">
<o:p></o:p></span><br>
<u><span
style="font-size: 36pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: purple; font-weight: normal;">No
One Saw It Coming<o:p></o:p></span></u>
<br>
</div>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: teal; font-weight: normal;">In
his latest book </span><i style=""><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: purple; font-weight: normal;">Blessed
Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came Into Being; And Why
No One
Saw it Coming</span></i><i style=""><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: teal; font-weight: normal;">,</span></i><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: teal; font-weight: normal;">
Paul Hawken -
activist, green businessman, eco-philosopher, and author - makes the
case that
the disparate movements for </span><u><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: red; font-weight: normal;">ecological
restoration</span></u><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: teal; font-weight: normal;">
and </span><u><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: red; font-weight: normal;">social
justice</span></u><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: red; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: teal; font-weight: normal;">are
merging into</span><span
style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: teal; font-weight: normal;">
</span><u><span
style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: purple; font-weight: normal;">one
massive global movement.</span></u><u><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: purple; font-weight: normal;">
<o:p></o:p></span></u><br>
<b><span style="color: fuchsia;">>>
the birth of the post dinosaur era.<o:p></o:p></span>
</b><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;">Author
of two of the seminal works on the green economy: </span><i style=""><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: purple; font-weight: normal;">The
Ecology of Commerc</span></i><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: teal; font-weight: normal;">e
and </span><i style=""><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: purple;">Natural Capitalism</span></i><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: teal; font-weight: normal;">,
Paul Hawken attempts in the new book to count
and classify both the number of organisations in this movement.<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-size: 14pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: purple; font-weight: normal;">He
estimates about 1.5 million!<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: purple; font-weight: normal;">And
the diversity of issues they work on at
least 400.<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;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<div align="center"><span
style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: teal; font-weight: normal;">WISER
Earth</span><span
style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: purple; font-weight: normal;">
(WISER = World Index of Social & Environmental
Responsibility)<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
</div>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: teal; font-weight: normal;">To
help build the connective tissue that ties this movement
together, Hawken’s nonprofits </span><i style=""><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: purple; font-weight: normal;">Natural
Capital Institute (NCI) </span></i><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: teal; font-weight: normal;"><span
style=""> </span>has just
launched a related project called </span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: purple; font-weight: normal;">WISER
Earth</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: teal; font-weight: normal;">
(WISER = World Index of Social
and Environmental Responsibility), which aims to build an </span><u><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: purple; font-weight: normal;">interactive
directory</span></u><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: teal; font-weight: normal;">
of all 1.5 million groups in this global
movement. <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;">The
institute’s staff has seeded the database with profiles
of over 140,000 organisations. <span style=""> </span>But,
realising they couldn’t possibly do all the research or legwork needed
to grow
the database to include all the groups they believe are out there, </span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: purple; font-weight: normal;">NCI</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: teal; font-weight: normal;">
has </span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: purple; font-weight: normal;">opened
up the system</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: teal; font-weight: normal;">
so that, like </span><u><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: purple; font-weight: normal;">Wikipedia</span></u><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: teal; font-weight: normal;">,
anyone can
create or edit an organisation’s profile. <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;">And
they’ve added tools that make it easy for organisations
to use the database for their own purposes.<span style="">
</span></span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: red; font-weight: normal;">SO
GET ON THERE!<span style="">
</span>THIS COULD BE THE NODE POINT FROM WHICH IT ALL FINALLY KIKKS OFF!<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: blue; font-weight: normal;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.wiserearth.org">www.wiserearth.org</a><o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">UP!
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: purple;">I
bought some Armageddon
cheese today, and printed on the packet was: 'BEST BEFORE END'</span><span
style="font-size: 8pt; font-weight: normal;"><span style=""> </span>[thanks
to john morris]</span><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: purple;"><o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<o:p> </o:p>
<br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<b><br>
</b>
<div align="center"><b><span
style="font-size: 24pt; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Nu </span><span
style="font-size: 24pt; color: rgb(204, 153, 255);">Rave</span><span
style="font-size: 24pt; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">, New
Crackdown<o:p></o:p></span>
</b><br>
<b><i style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">"Illegal
raves could
sweep the nation again this summer</span></i><span
style="font-size: 18pt; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">”<o:p></o:p></span>
</b><br>
</div>
<b><span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 255);">British local authorities
issued
a 5 point plan for councils to fight free parties this week, urging
them to
monitor </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Myspace</span><span
style="color: rgb(204, 153, 255);"> and to pay particularly close
attention to dangerous </span><i style=""><span
style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">'nu rave'</span></i><span
style="color: rgb(204, 153, 255);"> bands including the </span><span
style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">'Klaxons</span><span
style="color: rgb(204, 153, 255);">, </span><span
style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">New Young Pony Club</span><span
style="color: rgb(204, 153, 255);">, </span><span
style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Trash Fashion</span><span
style="color: rgb(204, 153, 255);"> and </span><span
style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Hot Chip'</span><span
style="color: rgb(204, 153, 255);"> </span><span
style="font-weight: normal;">(the Guardian</span><span
style="color: rgb(204, 153, 255);">).<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 255);"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<i style=""><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">"Illegal raves could
sweep the nation again this
summer with many taking place around festival days,"</span></i><span
style="color: rgb(204, 153, 255);"> the Local Government Association
(LCA) warned in their
detailed set of guidelines about the imminent threat, </span><i
style=""><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">"War will
be waged against illegal ravers,"</span></i><span
style="color: rgb(204, 153, 255);">
they declared.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 255);"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 255);">Defining </span><i style=""><span
style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">'nu rave'</span></i><span
style="color: rgb(204, 153, 255);"> as 'a style of music fusing
elements of disco,
electronic and punk' the Association suggested councils should set
aside approved
venues though cautioned </span><i style=""><span
style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">'but it depends what partygoers wish
to do there and
whether what goes on is acceptable or not.'</span></i><span
style="color: rgb(204, 153, 255);">
<o:p></o:p></span><br>
<span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 255);"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<i style=""><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">"If they have
nothing to hide, they should talk to
their council about putting on a legitimate event” </span></i><span
style="color: rgb(204, 153, 255);">said LCA spokesman Councillor Chris
White.<span style=""> </span></span><i style=""><span
style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">“But if their motives are less
honourable then they will
be dealt with by using the full force of the law,"</span></i><span
style="color: rgb(204, 153, 255);"> he added.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 255);"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 255);">The surprising declaration
emerged days after cops in East Anglia used a helicopter and scores of
officers
to track suspected ravers - </span><u><span
style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">with mixed
results</span></u><span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 255);">, all 400
dancers reportedly got
away with it by deviously managing to avoid upsetting any neighbours by
partying in a remote forest near Swaffham.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="font-weight: normal;">Police helicopter game:<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: blue; font-weight: normal;"><a
href="http://www.miniclip.com/games/police-chopper/en"><span
style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.miniclip.com/games/police-chopper/en</span></a>
<o:p></o:p></span><br>
<span style="color: teal; font-weight: normal;">[</span><span
style="font-weight: normal;">Skrufff.com]<span style="color: teal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span>
<br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">UP!
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: purple;">I
went into a shop and said,
<i style="">"Can someone sell me a kettle?"</i><span style=""> </span>This
bloke said <i style="">"Kenwood?"</i><span style=""> </span>I said,
<i style="">"Where's he then?"</i></span><span
style="font-size: 8pt; font-weight: normal;"><span style=""> </span>[thanks
to john morris]<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: purple;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
</b>
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<b><span style="color: teal;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: teal;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: teal;">I asked you once who had subscribed me.<span
style="">
</span>I still haven't found out.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: fuchsia;">>> now you'll never know!<span
style="">
</span>cos i don't.<span style=""> </span>and can't find out at
this late date.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: fuchsia;">c me as an angel maybe?<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<o:p> </o:p>
<br>
<span style="color: teal;">Then I got in trouble from my parents for
getting you to send the UP!<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: teal;">to some conservative friends of theirs in
the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">US</st1:country-region></st1:place>
- <o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: teal;">unfortunately they found out I was behind it
- my name was on it somehow!<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: teal;">Thanks a lot, fraser!!!<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: fuchsia;">>> c me as a devil praps?<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<o:p> </o:p>
<br>
<span style="color: teal;">But it was worth it - love your opinions<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: teal;">although I do believe in the historical
jeezuz.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: fuchsia;">>> well, nobody’s perfick :)<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: fuchsia;">and nobody write in that that’s ambiguous
cos i meant it that way :)<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<o:p> </o:p>
<br>
<span style="color: teal;">Peace love and harmony,<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
Nicole<span style="font-weight: normal;">, somewhere in <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Canada</st1:country-region></st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">UP!
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: purple;">My
mate is in love with two schoolbags.<span style=""> </span>I
reckon he was born a bisatchel.</span><span
style="font-size: 8pt; font-weight: normal;"> <o:p></o:p></span> <b>
<span style="font-size: 8pt; font-weight: normal;"><span style=""></span>[thanks
to john morris]</span><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: purple;"><o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: purple;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: teal;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
</b>
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style="font-size: 36pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-weight: normal;">contents</span></u><span
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<b><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: gray; font-weight: normal;">p.04<span
style=""> </span></span><span
style="font-size: 24pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: blue; font-weight: normal;">Earth
Is Not A </span><span
style="font-size: 24pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: green; font-weight: normal;">‘What’</span><span
style="font-size: 24pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: blue; font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: gray; font-weight: normal;">p.05<span
style=""> </span></span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">If It Feels Good to
Be Good, It’s
Probably Only </span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">Natural</span><span
style="font-size: 24pt; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: gray; font-weight: normal;">p.07<span
style=""> </span></span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Hey Man, We’re All </span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: teal;">Hippies</span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"> Now.<span style="">
</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: teal;">Far Out!<span
style="">
</span>- </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;">The Times</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;">p.08<span
style=""> </span></span><span style="font-size: 18pt; color: red;">THE
JFK </span><span style="font-size: 18pt; color: gray;">“PLOT”</span><span
style="color: gray;">:
ANOTHER</span><span style="color: red;"> GROSSLY
INFLATED THREAT?</span><span style="font-size: 18pt; color: red;"><o:p></o:p></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;">p.11<span
style=""> </span></span><span style="font-size: 24pt; color: purple;">MDMA</span><span
style="font-size: 24pt; color: teal;"> A Brief History </span><i
style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt;">- the facts.</span></i><span
style="font-size: 24pt; color: teal;"><o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: gray; font-weight: normal;">p.14<span
style=""> </span></span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: green; font-weight: normal;">Marijuana
March Activists </span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: normal;">Brutalised</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: green; font-weight: normal;">
by </span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: normal;">Moscow</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: green; font-weight: normal;">
Police</span><span
style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: green; font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: gray; font-weight: normal;">p.15</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: gray;"><span style=""> </span></span>DOGS
& Festivals
<i style=""><u><span style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: red;">FEEDBACK</span></u></i>.
<br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: gray; font-weight: normal;">p.16<span
style=""> </span></span><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: blue; font-weight: normal;">the</span><span
style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: blue; font-weight: normal;">
biggest </span><span
style="font-size: 24pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: blue; font-weight: normal;">israeli</span><span
style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: blue; font-weight: normal;">
</span><u><span
style="font-size: 36pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: red; font-weight: normal;">lie</span></u><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: gray; font-weight: normal;">,
</span><i style=""><u><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: red; font-weight: normal;">FEEDBACK<o:p></o:p></span></u></i>
<br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: gray; font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">UP!
</span><i style=""><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: purple;">"Eurostar?" </span></i><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: purple;">asked<i style="">
</i>the driver when I asked for a train ticket.<span style=""> </span><i
style="">"Well,”
</i>I said modestly:<i style=""> “I've been on telly
but I'm no Dean Martin".<span style=""> </span></i></span><span
style="font-size: 8pt; font-weight: normal;">[thanks
to john morris]</span><i style=""><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: purple;"><o:p></o:p></span></i>
<b><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: gray; font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span><br>
<o:p> </o:p>
<br>
<br>
</b><br>
<div align="center"><b><span
style="font-size: 24pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: blue; font-weight: normal;">Earth
Is Not A </span><span
style="font-size: 24pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: green; font-weight: normal;">‘What’</span><span
style="font-size: 24pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: blue; font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br>
</div>
<div align="center"><b><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: blue; font-weight: normal;">In
the reality
outside our limited conceptions, our planet is something of which we do
not yet
have an even vaguely accurate metaphor. <span style=""> </span>Our
current concepts are </span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: green; font-weight: normal;">flatter</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: blue; font-weight: normal;">
than our early
maps of the world were — and in dimensions our knowledge hasn’t yet
equipped us
to locate, let alone take measure of.<o:p></o:p></span>
</b><br>
<b><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: blue; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b><br>
<b><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: blue; font-weight: normal;"><span
style=""> </span></span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: green; font-weight: normal;">We
can’t yet
discuss this flatness problem whose results have afflicted our species
in
amplifying waves of confusion and atrocity since our ancestors’ early
introduction to </span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: blue; font-weight: normal;">symbolic
representation</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: teal; font-weight: normal;">.<o:p></o:p></span>
</b><br>
<b><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: blue; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b><br>
<b><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: blue; font-weight: normal;">Earth
is not a
what, or a thing — or a god — she is more like something </span><i
style=""><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: teal; font-weight: normal;">‘beyond
animal’</span></i><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: blue; font-weight: normal;">
that is alive,
complex, and self-aware in ways that put the broken toys of our common
models
to shame.<o:p></o:p></span></b><br>
<b><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: blue; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b><br>
<b><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: blue; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b><br>
<b><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: green; font-weight: normal;">Our
lack of a
decent concept-form within which to contain or discuss her, however,
doesn’t
mean we cannot explore models more alike with reality than with our
‘expectations’.<span style=""> </span>For example, we can
understand that Earth is a </span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: blue; font-weight: normal;">transentient
hyperstructure</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: green; font-weight: normal;">.<span
style=""> </span>Like our own bodies, she magnifies the
diverse relation of her myriad constituents into seemingly impossible
potentials of awareness.<o:p></o:p></span></b><br>
<b><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: blue; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b><br>
<b><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: blue; font-weight: normal;">As
an animal,
she </span><u><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: green; font-weight: normal;">invests</span></u><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: blue; font-weight: normal;">
her organismal, biocognitive, emotional and relational
complexity in her children — of which she is </span><u><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: green; font-weight: normal;">comprised</span></u><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: blue; font-weight: normal;">.
<span style=""> </span>Each organism on Earth i - not merely a
participant - but </span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: green; font-weight: normal;">a
complete instance of her.</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: green; font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br>
<b><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: blue; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b><br>
<b><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: green; font-weight: normal;">Which
means
that her offspring are entirely different from another of our </span><u><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: blue; font-weight: normal;">brokenly
flat
concepts</span></u><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: green; font-weight: normal;">:
</span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: green; font-weight: normal;">animal</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: green; font-weight: normal;">.
<span style=""> </span>Organisms
on Earth are </span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: blue; font-weight: normal;">sentient
hyperstructures</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: green; font-weight: normal;">
like Earth — <u>first</u> — and only
‘animals or plants or cells’ second — if at all.<o:p></o:p></span></b><br>
<b><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: blue; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b><br>
<b><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: blue; font-weight: normal;">Earth
is not
inhabited by animals. <span style=""> </span>Just like you and
I, she’s comprised of scalarly relational dimensions of </span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: green; font-weight: normal;">biocognitive
organs</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: blue; font-weight: normal;">.<o:p></o:p></span></b><br>
<b><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: blue; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b><br>
<b><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: green; font-weight: normal;">She
is not a
thing, or an object, at all. <span style=""> </span>What Earth
is has nothing to do with inanimacy. <span style=""> </span>She
is a cup into which sunlight flows and within which an </span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: blue; font-weight: normal;">endless
living
library</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: green; font-weight: normal;">
has been learning itself for more biological time than we could make
numbers about.<o:p></o:p></span>
</b><br>
<b><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: blue; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b><br>
<b><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: blue; font-weight: normal;">In
at least
three dimensions, Earth is many times the age of the physical universe
she
inhabits... </span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: green; font-weight: normal;">and
so are you.</span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: blue; font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br>
<b><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: blue; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b><b><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: blue; font-weight: normal;"><o:p>
</o:p></span></b><br>
<b><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: green; font-weight: normal;">Earth
is a
sentience nursery, with powers, transports, and purposes that are so
beyond our
expectations that none of our stories have ever more than hinted at
what is
actually here, with(in) and around us:<o:p></o:p></span>
</b><br>
<b><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: blue; font-weight: normal;">a
living
library billions of factors the age of our Star.<o:p></o:p></span><span
style="color: fuchsia;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br>
<b><span style="color: fuchsia;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<b><span style="color: fuchsia;"><o:p><br>
</o:p></span><span style="color: fuchsia;">>>
this next bit is probly wrong :)<o:p></o:p></span><br>
</b>
<div align="center"><b><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: blue; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b><br>
<b><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: green; font-weight: normal;">As
we
rediscover the accessible realities of relation here on Earth, we will
cease to
long so fervently for contact with other worlds, for we will find,
right here
in our own biosphere — that there is nothing else going on. <span
style=""> </span>I believe that the direct experience of this
is going to change what it means to be human, in a way no one ever
imagined.<o:p></o:p></span></b><br>
<b><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: blue; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b><br>
<b><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: blue; font-weight: normal;">I
think it’s
happening now.<o:p></o:p></span></b><br>
</div>
<b><span style="color: fuchsia;">>>
so do i.<span style=""> </span>but the writer is correct only
in the sense that the dimensions of space interpenetrate each other
RIGHT HERE,
rather than across the wilderness desert of inevitably endless space
that we
‘expect’ now :)<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: blue; font-weight: normal;"><a
href="http://www.organelle.org/organelle/eaindex2.html"><span
style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.organelle.org/organelle/eaindex2.html</span></a></span><span
style="color: blue;"><span style="">
</span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;">[remix]<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">up!<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<o:p> </o:p>
<br>
</b>
<div align="center"><b><span
style="font-size: 24pt; color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">Science</span><span
style="font-size: 24pt; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"> Finally Plods To
The ‘</span><i style=""><span
style="font-size: 24pt; color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">Discovery’</span></i><span
style="font-size: 24pt; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"> That, If It Feels
Good to Be Good, It’s
Probably Only </span><span
style="font-size: 24pt; color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">Natural</span><span
style="font-size: 24pt; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><o:p></o:p></span>
</b><br>
</div>
<div align="right"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">by</span>
Shankar Vedantam / <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on">Washington</st1:State></st1:place>
Post </b><br>
</div>
<b><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">The
e-mail came from the next room.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<i style=""><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">"You gotta see this!"</span></i><span
style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"> Jorge Moll had written. <span
style=""> </span>Moll and Jordan Grafman, neuroscientists at
the <i style="">National Institutes of Health</i>,
had been scanning the brains of volunteers as they were asked to think
about a
scenario involving either </span><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);"><o:p></o:p></span><br>
<span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);"><span style="">a)<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">donating a
sum of
money to charity or<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);"><span style="">b)<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">keeping it
for
themselves.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">As
Grafman read the e-mail, Moll came bursting in. <span style=""> </span>The
scientists stared at each other. <span style=""> </span>Grafman was
thinking, </span><i style=""><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">"Whoa
-- wait a minute!"</span></i><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">The
results were showing that when the volunteers placed the interests of
others
before their own, </span><u><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">the
generosity activated a primitive part of the brain that usually lights
up in
response to food or sex.</span></u><span
style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"> <span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">Altruism</span><span
style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">, the experiment
suggested, was not a superior moral faculty that suppresses basic
selfish urges,
but rather was </span><u><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">basic to
the brain, hard-wired & pleasurable.<o:p></o:p></span></u>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Their
2006 finding that unselfishness can feel good lends scientific support
to the
admonitions of spiritual leaders that it’s in giving that we Receive :)
<span style=""> </span>But it’s also a dramatic example of the way </span><span
style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">neuroscience</span><span
style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"> has begun
to elbow its way into discussions about morality and has opened up a
new window
on what it means to be good.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Grafman
and others are using brain imaging and psychological experiments to
study
whether the brain has a built-in moral compass. <span style=""> </span>The
results - many published just in recent
months - are showing, </span><u><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">unexpectedly</span></u><span
style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: fuchsia;">>>
to some :)<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">that
many aspects of morality appear to be hard-wired in the brain, most
likely the
result of </span><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">evolutionary
processes</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"> that began in
other species.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: fuchsia;">>>
don’t miss this.<span style=""> </span>altruism and helping
the Big Picture is evolutionary while Dinos who go for power are
anti-evolutionary.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">No
one can say whether giraffes and lions experience moral qualms in the
same way
people do, but it is known that animals can sacrifice their own
interests: One
experiment found that </span><u><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">if
each time a rat
is given food, its neighbour receives an electric shock, the first rat
will
eventually forego eating.<o:p></o:p></span></u>
<br>
<span style="color: fuchsia;">>>
the parallel with today’s planetary situation is, well, scary, yet
inspiring.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">What
the new research is showing is that </span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">morality</span><span
style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"> has biological roots
- like the reward centre in the brain that lit up in Grafman's
experiment -
that have been around for a very long time.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">The
more researchers learn, the more it appears that the foundation of
morality is </span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">empathy</span><span
style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">.
<span style=""> </span>Being able to recognise - even
experience vicariously - what another creature is going through was an
important leap in the evolution of social behaviour. <span style=""> </span>And
it is only a short step from this
awareness to many human notions of right and wrong, says Jean Decety, a
neuroscientist at the <i style="">University of
Chicago</i>.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">The
research enterprise has been viewed with interest by philosophers and
theologians, but already some worry that it raises troubling questions.
<span style=""> </span>Reducing morality and immorality to brain
chemistry - rather than free will - might diminish the importance of
personal
responsibility. <span style=""> </span>Even more important,
some wonder whether the very idea of morality is somehow degraded if it
turns
out to be just another evolutionary tool that nature uses to help
species
survive and propagate.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: fuchsia;">>>
will they NEVER innerstand???!!!<span style=""> </span>it’s
this ‘ancient part of the brain’ stuff.<span style="">
</span>it’s more likely we LOST contact with an integral part of our
Psyche
when we hit our current anti-Nature path around 5000BC.<span style="">
</span>yes, our Problem is that deep, or did u think
we just had to drive a bit less?!<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Moral
decisions can often feel like abstract intellectual challenges,<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: fuchsia;">>>
OH REALLY?!<span style=""> </span>maybe i’m missing something.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">but a
number of experiments such as the one by Grafman have shown that
emotions are </span><u><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">central</span></u><span
style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"> to moral
thinking. <span style=""> </span>In another experiment
published in March, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on"><i
style="">University</i></st1:PlaceType><i style=""> of <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Southern California</st1:PlaceName></i></st1:place>
neuroscientist Antonio R. Damasio
and his colleagues showed that patients with damage to the ventromedial
prefrontal cortex of the brain lack the ability to feel their way to
moral
answers.<span style=""> </span>When confronted with moral
dilemmas, the brain-damaged patients coldly came up with </span><i
style=""><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">"end-justifies-the-means"</span></i><span
style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"> answers. <o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Damasio
said the point was not that they reached immoral conclusions, but that
when confronted
by a difficult issue - such as whether to shoot down a passenger plane
hijacked
by terrorists before it hits a major city - these patients appear to
reach
decisions without the anguish that afflicts those with normally
functioning
brains.<o:p></o:p></span><br>
<span style="color: fuchsia;">>>
meaning the human is not well made for soldiering.<span style=""> </span>or
modern politics.<span style=""> </span>or, actually, most of
so-called post-modern society.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">up!<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<o:p> </o:p>
<br>
</b>
<div align="center"><b><span
style="font-size: 18pt; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Hey Man, We’re All </span><span
style="font-size: 18pt; color: teal;">Hippies</span><span
style="font-size: 18pt; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"> Now.<span style="">
</span></span><span style="font-size: 18pt; color: teal;">Far Out!<o:p></o:p></span>
</b><br>
</div>
<div align="right"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;">The
Times</span><span style="color: black;">/Mary Ann
Sieghart/</span>May 25, 2007<span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span>
</b><br>
</div>
<b><span style="color: teal;">Love
isn’t quite all you need in life. <span style=""> </span>But
it’s a whole lot better than hate. <span style=""> </span>And
if that ideal continues to pervade British society, then we should be
profoundly grateful to the </span><i style=""><span
style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Summer of Love</span></i><span
style="color: teal;"> which
took place 40 years ago in 1967.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: teal;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: teal;">According
to a YouGov poll for Readers Digest, </span><u><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">we are all hippies
now</span></u><span style="color: teal;">. <span style=""> </span>And
it’s not just the maxi dresses flooding
out of </span><i style=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Topshop</span></i><span
style="color: teal;"> or the instant sell-out of </span><st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Glastonbury</span></st1:City></st1:place><span
style="color: teal;"> tickets. <span style=""> </span>The values
of </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">peace, love,
greenery, independence of
mind</span><span style="color: teal;"> and </span><span
style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">sexual
freedom</span><span style="color: teal;"> are no longer alternative but
</span><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">mainstream</span></u><span
style="color: teal;">.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: teal;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: teal;">Three
quarters of us now agree with sex before marriage, 82% want to save the
planet
and 48% believe in questioning authority. <span style=""> </span>Roughly
the same proportion think there are
too many rules in society and a similar percentage – the same people,
perhaps?
– enjoy walking around barefoot. <span style=""> </span>Nearly
half of Britons say they agree with the slogan “</span><span
style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">MAKE
LOVE NOT WAR</span><span style="color: teal;">” and 35% think there is
never any
excuse for war. <span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: teal;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: teal;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: teal;">You may
think that some hippy values have been taken too far. <span style=""> </span>Perhaps
a little more deference would be
desirable. <span style=""> </span>But you have to remember the world
from which the hippies burst: </span><u><span
style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">the
stultified, uptight, rigidly hierarchical society</span></u><span
style="color: teal;"> of the 1950s and early 1960s, in which wives
were expected
to give up their jobs and wear pinnies. <span style=""> </span>The
hippies’ rejection of 1950s values was a great hurricane of fresh air
blowing
into a stale room whose windows had been painted shut for decades.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: teal;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: teal;">People
then felt trapped by social convention. <span style=""> </span>Women
in particular had very little power over their lives.<span style=""> </span>It
was the hippies’ insight that everyone
should be allowed to break out and be themselves, not be forced into a
persona
that had been ordained by others – </span><span
style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">real
freedom of expression</span><span style="color: teal;">, in other words.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: teal;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: teal;">The
hippies were also green long before their time. <span style=""> </span>Many
of them tried to live </span><u><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">a life of
self-sufficiency, growing their
own food, generating energy and building homes</span></u><span
style="color: teal;">. <span style=""> </span>Now 47% of Britons
say they would consider trying to emulate them.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: teal;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: teal;">But if
in general you prefer gentleness to violence, if you think nature
should be
tended not destroyed, if you believe optimism, however misguided, beats
hard-faced cynicism, then you are probably, like me, an old hippy at
heart.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: teal;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: teal;">And the
great news is that much of the rest of the country is too. <span
style=""> </span>We, as a nation, have become kinder, more open
and more broad-minded in the past 40 years. <span style=""> </span>We
should light an incense stick for the
hippies of 1967.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: fuchsia;">>> light a joint as well
:)<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">UP!
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: purple;">I
said to this man, <i style="">"Correct me if I'm wrong but didn’t you
invent Tipex?"</i></span><span
style="font-size: 8pt; font-weight: normal;"><span style=""> </span>[thanks
to
john morris]<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
</b>
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style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: purple;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
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<div align="center"><b><big><big><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: blue;">Conyers Requests Palast's </span><big><i
style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: red;">"Vote
Caging"</span></i></big></big></big><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: blue;"><big> Evidence</big><o:p></o:p></span></b><br>
</div>
<b><span style="color: red;">Tim Griffin, formerly right-hand man
to </span><span style="color: blue;">Karl Rove</span><span
style="color: red;">, has
resigned as US attorney for Arkansas, hours after </span><span
style="color: blue;">BBC</span><span style="color: red;"> </span><i
style=""><span style="color: blue;">"Newsnight"</span></i><span
style="color: red;"> reported that Congressman John Conyers had
requested the
network's evidence on <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Griffin</st1:City></st1:place>'s
involvement in </span><i style=""><span style="color: blue;">"caging
voters."</span></i><span style="color: red;"> <span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: red;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: red;">Greg Palast, reporting for both </span><span
style="color: blue;">BBC "<i style="">Newsnight</i>"</span><span
style="color: red;"> and </span><i style=""><span style="color: blue;">"Democracy
Now,"</span></i><span style="color: red;"> obtained a series of
confidential emails dating from the 2004
presidential election, in which the GOP operative transmitted so-called
</span><i style=""><span style="color: blue;">"caging
lists"</span></i><span style="color: red;"> of voters to state party
leaders
for their names to be struck from the lists.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<a href="http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060407R.shtml"><span
style="color: blue; font-weight: normal;"><span
style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060407R.shtml</span><o:p></o:p></span>
</a><br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">up!</span><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: purple;"><o:p></o:p></span>
<o:p></o:p><br>
<span style="color: green;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
</b>
<div align="center"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt; color: red;">THE
JFK </span><span style="font-size: 18pt; color: gray;">“PLOT”:</span><span
style="font-size: 18pt; color: red;"><o:p></o:p></span>
</b><br>
<b><span style="font-size: 18pt; color: gray;">ANOTHER</span><span
style="font-size: 18pt; color: red;"> GROSSLY INFLATED THREAT?<o:p></o:p></span>
</b><br>
</div>
<b><span style="font-weight: normal;">by</span> Bill Van Auken
<br>
<span style="color: gray;">The news
in the <st1:country-region w:st="on">US</st1:country-region> was
dominated by
screaming headlines and sensationalist broadcast coverage of an </span><u><span
style="color: red;">alleged</span></u><span style="color: red;"> plot</span><span
style="color: gray;"> in <st1:State w:st="on">New York</st1:State> to
blow up <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">John</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">F.</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Kennedy</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">International</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Airport</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>’s jet fuel tanks
and supply lines. <span style=""> </span>The attack would have
been, according to many accounts, </span><i style=""><span
style="color: red;">“more devastating than September 11.”</span></i><span
style="color: gray;"><o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: gray;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: gray;">The indictment
included features that have become almost invariable in every such </span><i
style=""><span style="color: red;">“terror”</span></i><span
style="color: gray;"> case brought by the government in recent years. <span
style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: gray;"><span style="">1)<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span><span style="color: gray;">the suspects had </span><u><span
style="color: red;">carried out no acts of terror<o:p></o:p></span></u>
<br>
<span style="color: gray;"><span style="">2)<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span><span style="color: gray;">they </span><u><span
style="color: red;">lacked any means to realize such an attack.</span></u><span
style="color: gray;"> <span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: gray;"><span style="">3)<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span><span style="color: gray;">a central figure in the
alleged plot was a </span><u><span style="color: red;">paid undercover
FBI
informant</span></u><span style="color: gray;">.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: gray;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: gray;">Broadcast
networks spoke of the worst threat since the attacks on New York and
Washington
in 2001, while reporters conducted random interviews with passengers
passing
through JFK as well as residents living near the pipelines, asking how
they
felt about their supposed near brush with death.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: gray;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: gray;">Rupert
Murdoch’s <i style="">New York Post</i> referred to
the alleged plot as an “</span><span style="color: red;">INFERNO PLAN</span><span
style="color: gray;">” and carried an editorial stating that the
purported plan </span><i style=""><span style="color: red;">“to do
calamitous damage
to <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">JFK</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">International</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Airport</st1:PlaceType> and surrounding
residential neighbourhoods
underscores yet again the overarching threat Islamist terrorism poses
to <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>.”</span></i><span
style="color: gray;"><o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: fuchsia;">>>
pardon?<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: gray;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: gray;">The <i style="">New York Daily News</i>
carried 5 pages on
the </span><i style=""><span style="color: red;">“plot,”</span></i><span
style="color: gray;"> with a ludicrous front-page headline, “</span><span
style="color: red;">EVIL ATE AT TABLE EIGHT</span><span
style="color: gray;">,”
promoting an inside interview with the Brooklyn waitress who served a
meal to
Russell Defreitas, whom the paper describes as the </span><i style=""><span
style="color: red;">“mastermind”</span></i><span style="color: gray;">
of the alleged plot, just before he was picked up by federal agents and
police.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: gray;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: gray;">Yet the
profile of Defreitas, a 63-year-old <st1:country-region w:st="on">US</st1:country-region>
citizen who emigrated from <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">Guyana</st1:country-region></st1:place>
25 years ago, hardly suggests a terrorist </span><i style=""><span
style="color: red;">“mastermind.”</span></i><span style="color: gray;">
<span style=""> </span>A former friend describes him as
someone who, before becoming a Muslim, had declared himself a </span><span
style="color: red;">Rastafarian</span><span style="color: gray;"> and
grown
dreadlocks. <span style=""> </span>He recalled his involvement
in various business schemes to ship air conditioners or refrigerators
to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Guyana</st1:country-region></st1:place>,
none of which ever came to anything.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: gray;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<i style=""><span style="color: red;">“He couldn’t even fix brakes,”</span></i><span
style="color: gray;"> the former friend said</span><i style=""><span
style="color: red;">.<span style=""> </span>“He
never built bombs.”</span></i><span style="color: gray;"><o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: gray;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: gray;">Other
accounts described him as a retired worker living in an impoverished <st1:place
w:st="on">Brooklyn</st1:place> neighbourhood, who on various occasions
had been
homeless. <span style=""> </span><i style="">New York Newsday</i>, for
example, reported, </span><i style=""><span style="color: red;">“Since
being laid
off from his job as a cargo worker several years ago, Russell Defreitas
has
lived a meek existence - at times sleeping in trains and trying to eke
out a
living running two-bit scams, selling incense on street corners and
collecting
welfare, acquaintances said.”</span></i><span style="color: gray;"><o:p></o:p></span><br>
<span style="color: gray;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: gray;">Also
charged in the indictment are Abdul Kadir, a citizen of <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Guyana</st1:country-region> and former member of the
Guyanese
Parliament, Kareem Ibrahim, a citizen of <st1:place w:st="on">Trinidad</st1:place>.
<span style=""> </span>A fourth defendant, Abdel Nur, also a
citizen of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Guyana</st1:country-region></st1:place>,
has yet to be arrested.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: gray;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: gray;">A key
figure in the alleged plot, however, is named in the indictment only as
</span><i style=""><span style="color: red;">“the source.”</span></i><span
style="color: gray;"> <span style=""> </span>He is identified as
a convicted drug trafficker who, in exchange for favourable
consideration on a
pending jail sentence as well as cash payments, </span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: gray;">agreed to infiltrate the
supposed terrorist cell.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: gray;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: gray;">Much of
the evidence contained in the indictment consists of recordings of
conversations between </span><i style=""><span style="color: red;">“the
source”</span></i><span style="color: gray;"> and the
defendants. <span style=""> </span>What emerges clearly,
however, is the leading role this </span><i style=""><span
style="color: red;">“informant”</span></i><span style="color: gray;">
played in the
alleged plot. <span style=""> </span>Defreitas is quoted as
saying that they saw him as someone </span><i style=""><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: red;">“sent by Allah”</span></i><span
style="color: gray;"> to lead them.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: gray;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: gray;">The
indictment also refers to meetings and recorded conversations between
both
Defreitas and the source and individuals in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">Guyana</st1:country-region></st1:place>, who are identified
only as </span><i style=""><span style="color: red;">“Individuals A
through F.”</span></i><span style="color: gray;"><o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: gray;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: gray;">These 6
unnamed men are quoted proposing a wide range of terrorist activity,
including
smuggling </span><i style=""><span style="color: red;">“mujahideen
from Asia into <st1:country-region w:st="on">Guyana</st1:country-region>
and
then into the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">United
States</st1:country-region></st1:place>,”</span></i><span
style="color: red;"> </span><span style="color: gray;">blowing up US
helicopters at
the Guyanese airport and the plan to blow up the JFK fuel system. <span
style=""> </span>On this last proposal, these unnamed individuals
also suggest the use of dynamite and chemical explosives and advise on
how to
obtain these materials. <span style=""> </span>One of these
individuals also proposes that the plotters seek the assistance of a
Trinidadian Islamist group, Jamaat al Muslimeen. <span style=""> </span>In
the account of these conversations,
Defreitas is not quoted as saying anything.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: gray;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: gray;">The
obvious question is why have these 6 unnamed “individuals” not been
charged. <span style=""> </span>One likely explanation is that they
too were,
in one form or another, participants in an elaborate effort to ensnare
a
hapless and sometimes homeless retiree and others in a plot that was
fundamentally staged by the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">US</st1:country-region></st1:place>
government for its own purposes.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: gray;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: gray;">The
blood-curdling accounts in the media largely reflected the highly
charged
language of US prosecutors and police officials in presenting the
indictment. <span style=""> </span>Roslynn Mauskopf, the <st1:country-region
w:st="on">US</st1:country-region> attorney in Brooklyn, <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on">New York</st1:State></st1:place>, in
announcing the charges, said, </span><i style=""><span
style="color: red;">“Had the plot been
carried out, it could have resulted in unfathomable damage, deaths and
destruction.”</span></i><span style="color: gray;"> <span style=""> </span>She
added, </span><i style=""><span style="color: red;">“The devastation
that would be caused had this
plot succeeded is just unthinkable.”<o:p></o:p></span></i>
<br>
<span style="color: gray;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: gray;">The
words </span><i style=""><span style="color: red;">“unfathomable”</span></i><span
style="color: gray;"> and </span><i style=""><span style="color: red;">“unthinkable”</span></i><span
style="color: gray;"> were
undoubtedly chosen carefully, as the type of chain reaction of
explosions
described in the indictment was quite simply </span><u><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: red;">impossible</span></u><span
style="color: gray;">.<span style=""> </span>Both airport security
officials and pipeline
experts dismissed the allegedly catastrophic disaster that supposedly
would
have been triggered by blowing up a fuel pipeline or storage tanks. <span
style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: gray;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: gray;">While
the federal indictment suggested that such an explosion could travel
along the
pipelines linking tanks in Linden, New Jersey into Brooklyn, New York
and
across the borough of Queens, this is </span><u><span
style="color: red;">impossible</span></u><span style="color: gray;">,
both because the pipelines are equipped with safety valves
that shut off the flow of fuel in the event of a leak and because there
is
inadequate oxygen inside the pipes to sustain a fire.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: gray;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: gray;">The <i style="">New York Times</i> clearly
signalled its
scepticism about the federal indictment by placing stories on the JFK </span><i
style=""><span style="color: red;">“plot”</span></i><span
style="color: gray;"> on its <i style="">Metro</i>
pages, quoting Neal Sonnett, a defence lawyer and former federal
prosecutor, as
saying, </span><i style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: red;">“There
unfortunately has been a tendency to shout too loudly
about such cases.”</span></i><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: gray;"><o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: gray;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: gray;">The <i style="">Times</i> article went on
to say that
Sonnett, also a former president of the National Association of <i
style="">Criminal Defence Lawyers</i>, </span><i style=""><span
style="color: red;">“noted that there is
a broader risk in overstating the sophistication of a terror plot.<span
style=""> </span>At a time when many Americans live in
justified fear of an attack, the risk is that drumbeating creates a
climate of
fear and drives public policy.”<o:p></o:p></span></i>
<br>
<span style="color: fuchsia;">>>
which, of course, let us remember, is the precise AIM of any terrorist.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: gray;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: gray;">There is
every reason to believe that the succession of “terror” cases, each one
weaker
than the last and virtually all of them driven by </span><i style=""><span
style="color: red;">“informants”</span></i><span style="color: gray;">
who seem to play more the role of agents provocateur, are aimed at
achieving
precisely this effect. <span style=""> </span>They serve as a
means of intimidating public opinion with fear, justifying attacks on
democratic rights and diverting attention from the ongoing debacle in <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Iraq</st1:country-region></st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: gray;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: gray;">The
problem faced by the government is that the public is growing
increasingly
sceptical about these cases, with a sizeable portion of the population
having
concluded that they are trumped up for political purposes.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: gray;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: gray;">Under
these conditions, the danger is that those who now control the reins of
power
in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on">Washington</st1:State></st1:place>
may be concluding that something more tangible is needed.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: gray;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: gray;">On the
same day that the alleged JFK </span><i style=""><span
style="color: red;">“terror plot”</span></i><span style="color: gray;">
broke in
the news, the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on">Arkansas</st1:State></st1:place>
Democrat-Gazette published a revealing interview with that state’s new
Republican Party chairman, who described himself as </span><i style=""><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: red;">“150% for Bush.”<o:p></o:p></span></i>
<br>
<span style="color: gray;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<i style=""><span style="color: red;">“At the end of the day,”</span></i><span
style="color: gray;"> said state party chairman Dennis Milligan, the
owner of a
water treatment business, </span><i style=""><span style="color: red;">“I
believe fully the president is doing the right thing, and
I think all we need is some attacks on American soil like we had on
[Sept. 11,
2001 ], and the naysayers will come around very quickly...”</span></i><span
style="color: gray;"><o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: gray;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: gray;">The
question is whether elements in the Bush administration are reaching
similar
conclusions and preparing to engineer or allow another round of
terrorist attacks
</span><i style=""><span style="color: red;">“on
American soil”</span></i><span style="color: gray;"> as a pretext for
suppressing
the overwhelming popular opposition to its policies.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: blue; font-weight: normal;"><a href="www.wsws.org"><span
style="text-decoration: none;">www.wsws.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">UP!
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: purple;">I
just met the bloke who
invented crosswords.<span style=""> </span>Can't remember his
name, it's P something T something R.</span><span
style="font-size: 8pt; font-weight: normal;"><span style="">
</span>[thanks to john morris]</span><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: purple;"><o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<o:p> </o:p>
<br>
<o:p> </o:p>
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<div align="center"><b><span style="font-size: 24pt; color: purple;">MDMA</span><span
style="font-size: 24pt; color: teal;"> A Brief History <o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
</b></div>
<b><span style="color: teal;">MDMA
[3,4-methylenedioxy-methamphetamine: 'Ecstasy']</span><span
style="color: purple;">
was first synthesized in 1912 by the German pharmaceutical company
Merck. <span style=""> </span></span><span style="color: teal;">MDMA</span><span
style="color: purple;"> was patented in Darmstadt, <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Germany</st1:country-region></st1:place>
on May 16th 1914, issue
number 274,350; </span><u><span style="color: teal;">and promptly
forgotten</span></u><span style="color: purple;">. <span style=""> </span>Merck's
researchers had no idea of the significance of what they had done. <span
style=""> </span>Merck were searching for a good
vasoconstrictor, a styptic to reduce bleeding. <span style=""> </span>In
1912 two of their chemists, G. Mannish and
W. Jacobsohn, created </span><span style="color: teal;">MDMA</span><span
style="color: purple;"> as a by-product while attempting to synthesise
hydrastinin. <span style=""> </span></span><span style="color: teal;">MDMA</span><span
style="color: purple;"> is listed on Merck's
patent-application merely as a chemical intermediate </span><i style=""><span
style="color: teal;">"for products
of potential pharmaceutical value".</span></i><span
style="color: purple;"><o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: purple;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: teal;">MDMA</span><span style="color: purple;">
surfaced again briefly as one of a number of agents used
in clandestine <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">US</st1:country-region></st1:place>
military research during the 1950s. <span style=""> </span>The
CIA's Project </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: teal;">MK-Ultra</span><span
style="color: purple;"> was investigating new techniques of
brainwashing,
espionage and mind-control. <span style=""> </span></span><span
style="color: teal;">MDMA</span><span style="color: purple;">,
code-named EA-1475,
was tested at the US Army's Edgewood Arsenal in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State
w:st="on">Maryland</st1:State></st1:place>. <span style=""> </span>However,
unlike LSD or the ill-named </span><i style=""><span
style="color: teal;">"truth
drug"</span></i><span style="color: purple;"> scopolamine, </span><span
style="color: teal;">MDMA</span><span style="color: purple;"> was used
only on
animals: mice, rats, pigs, monkeys and dogs. <o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: purple;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: teal;">Thankfully, </span></u><u><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: purple;">MDMA</span></u><u><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: teal;">'s military potential was not
realised. <span style=""> </span>For although </span></u><u><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: purple;">MDMA</span></u><u><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: teal;"> is no infallible truth-serum,
its effects on the human user
might indeed be abused for sinister purposes by skilled interrogators. <span
style=""> </span>The heightened emotional responsiveness,
lowering of defensive barriers, openness and sense of closeness to
others
induced by </span></u><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: purple;">MDMA</span></u><u><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: teal;"> can promote an honesty of
self-disclosure
that might be manipulated for malign ends. <span style=""> </span>Fortunately,
this hasn't yet happened on an
organised scale.<o:p></o:p></span></u>
<br>
<span style="color: purple;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: purple;">The
identity of the first human being to take </span><span
style="color: teal;">MDMA/Ecstasy</span><span style="color: purple;">
isn't known. <span style=""> </span>The
drug gained prominence only in the late 1970s. <span style=""> </span>Tipped
off by Merrie Kleinman, a graduate
student in the medicinal chemistry group he advised at <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">San Francisco</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">State</st1:PlaceType> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>,
the legendary
Californian psychedelic chemist </span><span style="color: teal;">Alexander
("Sasha") Shulgin</span><span style="color: purple;"> synthesized and
taste-tested </span><span style="color: teal;">MDMA</span><span
style="color: purple;"> at incrementally ascending doses. <o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: fuchsia;">>>
his regular method.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: purple;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: purple;">Ironically,
Dr Shulgin had himself synthesized </span><span style="color: teal;">MDMA</span><span
style="color: purple;"> in 1965, but hadn't tried it, an error of
omission he
later did much to repair. <span style=""> </span>The effects of
a 120mg dose of </span><span style="color: teal;">MDMA</span><span
style="color: purple;"> are recorded in Dr Shulgin's lab-notes (Sept
1976):<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: purple;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<i style=""><span style="color: teal;">"I feel absolutely clean inside,
and
there is nothing but pure euphoria. <span style=""> </span>I
have never felt so great or believed this to be possible. <span
style=""> </span>The cleanliness, clarity, and marvellous
feeling of solid inner strength continued throughout the rest of the
day and
evening. I am overcome by the profundity of the experience..." <o:p></o:p></span></i><br>
<span style="color: purple;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: purple;">In the
first published scholarly paper [Shulgin,A.T. & Nichols,D.E.:
Characterisation
of three new psychotomimetics. In: Stillman,R.C. & Willette,R.E.
(Eds.) The
Pharmacology of hallucinogens. <span style=""> </span><st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on">New York</st1:State></st1:place>:
Pergamon,
1978] on MDMA use in humans, Dr Shulgin and Dr David Nichols describe
the
effects of </span><span style="color: teal;">MDMA</span><span
style="color: purple;">
on the human psyche as </span><i style=""><span style="color: teal;">"an
easily controlled altered state of consciousness
with emotional and sensual overtones."</span></i><span
style="color: purple;">
The well-connected stepfather of </span><span style="color: teal;">MDMA</span><span
style="color: purple;"> soon introduced the drug to the wider
scientific
community. <span style=""> </span>Some of Dr Shulgin's friends,
notably the </span><i style=""><span style="color: teal;">"Johnny
Appleseed of MDMA",</span></i><span style="color: purple;"> Leo Zeff,
were professional therapists. <span style=""> </span>They in turn
introduced </span><span style="color: teal;">MDMA</span><span
style="color: purple;"> to colleagues as a
valuable adjunct to psychotherapy.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: purple;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: purple;">Later,
in 1991, Dr Shulgin and his wife Ann published </span><i style=""><span
style="color: teal;">PiHKAL [Phenethylamines I Have Known And
Loved]: A Chemical Love Story.</span></i><span style="color: purple;"> <span
style=""> </span></span><i style=""><span style="color: teal;">PiHKAL</span></i><span
style="color: purple;"> describes the
synthesis and systematic testing on human subjects of a range of novel
or
neglected phenethylamine research drugs. <span style=""> </span></span><i
style=""><span style="color: teal;">PiHKAL</span></i><span
style="color: purple;"> also offers a
uniquely sophisticated methodology for human psychopharmacology and the
scientific study of mind as an experimental discipline.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: purple;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: purple;">By the
early 1980s, over a thousand private psychotherapists in the <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region></st1:place>
were using </span><span style="color: teal;">MDMA</span><span
style="color: purple;"> in their clinical
practice. <span style=""> </span>It was commonly known as </span><i
style=""><span style="color: teal;">"Adam",</span></i><span
style="color: purple;"> an allusion to </span><i style=""><span
style="color: teal;">"being returned to the natural state of innocence
before guilt, shame and unworthiness arose".</span></i><span
style="color: purple;"> <span style=""> </span></span><span
style="color: teal;">MDMA</span><span style="color: purple;"> was used
discreetly;
no one wanted a re-run of the 60s. <span style=""> </span>Dr
Shulgin himself reportedly felt </span><span style="color: teal;">MDMA</span><span
style="color: purple;"> came closest to fulfilling his ambition of
finding the </span><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: teal;">perfect
psychotherapeutic drug</span></u><span style="color: purple;">.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: purple;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: purple;">Inevitably
word leaked out. <span style=""> </span></span><span
style="color: teal;">MDMA</span><span style="color: purple;"> was
profiled by the <i style="">San Francisco Chronicle</i> as </span><i
style=""><span style="color: teal;">"The Yuppie
Psychedelic"</span></i><span style="color: purple;"> (10 June 1984). <span
style=""> </span>In <i style="">Newsweek</i>,
J Adler <i style="">["High on 'Ecstasy",</i>
April 15 1985] likened his experience to </span><i style=""><span
style="color: teal;">"a year of therapy in two hours".</span></i><span
style="color: purple;"> <span style=""> </span><i style="">Harpers
Bazaar</i> described MDMA as </span><i style=""><span
style="color: teal;">"the hottest
thing in the continuing search for happiness through chemistry".</span></i><span
style="color: purple;"> <span style=""> </span>Unsurprisingly, </span><span
style="color: teal;">MDMA</span><span style="color: purple;"> use soon
spread
beyond the couch and clinic to the wider world. <span style=""> </span>Its
now universal brand-name, </span><i style=""><span style="color: teal;">"Ecstasy",</span></i><span
style="color: purple;"> was coined in 1981 by a member of a <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Los Angeles</st1:City></st1:place>
distribution network. <span style=""> </span>The unnamed distributor,
quoted in Bruce
Eisner's </span><i style=""><span style="color: teal;">Ecstasy:The
MDMA Story</span></i><span style="color: purple;"> (1989), apparently
chose the
name </span><i style=""><span style="color: teal;">"Ecstasy"
</span></i><span style="color: purple;">because </span><i style=""><span
style="color: teal;">"it would sell better than calling it
'Empathy'. 'Empathy' would be more appropriate, but how many people
know what
it means?"</span></i><span style="color: purple;"> <span style=""> </span>Condemned
by purists as a cynical marketing
ploy, the brand-name </span><i style=""><span style="color: teal;">"Ecstasy"</span></i><span
style="color: purple;">
isn't wholly misleading [</span><i style=""><span style="color: teal;">ecstasy:
"an overpowering emotion or exaltation; a
state of sudden intense feeling. Rapturous delight. The frenzy of
poetic
inspiration. Mental transport or rapture from the contemplation of
divine
things"</span></i><span style="color: purple;">]. <span style=""> </span>Many
first-time </span><span style="color: teal;">MDMA</span><span
style="color: purple;"> users do indeed become ecstatic. <span
style=""> </span>Some people report feeling truly well for the
first time in their lives.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: purple;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: purple;">In the
early 1980s, American production of </span><span style="color: teal;">MDMA</span><span
style="color: purple;"> beyond the research laboratory was effectively
controlled
by chemists known as the </span><i style=""><span style="color: teal;">"Boston
Group". </span></i><span style="color: purple;"><span style=""> </span>Somewhat
incongruously, </span><span style="color: teal;">MDMA</span><span
style="color: purple;"> was especially
popular in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on">Texas</st1:State></st1:place>,
where the Southwest distributor for the Boston Group launched his own
commercial operation. <span style=""> </span>Mass-production by
the so-called </span><i style=""><span style="color: teal;">"Texas
Group"</span></i><span style="color: purple;">
began in 1983; supply (and demand) soon mushroomed. <span style=""> </span></span><span
style="color: teal;">Ecstasy</span><span style="color: purple;"> was
distributed openly in bars and nightclubs in <st1:City w:st="on">Dallas</st1:City>
and <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Fort Worth</st1:City></st1:place>.
<span style=""> </span>It could be purchased via toll-free
800-numbers by credit card. <span style=""> </span>The drug was
even marketed via pyramid-style selling-schemes. <span style=""> </span></span><span
style="color: teal;">Ecstasy</span><span style="color: purple;"> could
be bought in little bottles at convenience stores
under the label </span><i style=""><span style="color: teal;">"Sassafras",</span></i><span
style="color: purple;">
a tongue-in-cheek allusion to the botanical origins of its precursor.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: fuchsia;">>>
my information is that it started to really first take off in the gay
scene.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: purple;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: purple;">The
DEA reacted by petitioning to have </span><span style="color: teal;">MDMA</span><span
style="color: purple;"> banned altogether. <span style=""> </span>In
1985 the drug-warriors succeeded in having it
made Schedule One, one is the most restricted of all drug categories
i.e. </span><span style="color: teal;">MDMA</span><span
style="color: purple;"> had allegedly </span><i style=""><span
style="color: teal;">"no legitimate
medical use or manufacturer"</span></i><span style="color: purple;"> in
the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region></st1:place>;
it lacked safety for use even under medical supervision; and it carried
a
"high potential for abuse". <span style=""> </span></span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: purple;">But by then </span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: teal;">MDMA</span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: purple;">'s fame had spread across the <st1:place
w:st="on">Atlantic</st1:place>.</span><span style="color: purple;"> <span
style=""> </span>It had
metamorphosed from </span><i style=""><span style="color: teal;">"Adam",</span></i><span
style="color: purple;"> the
psychotherapeutic tool, to </span><i style=""><span
style="color: teal;">"Ecstasy",</span></i><span style="color: purple;">
the dance drug.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: fuchsia;">>>dancing
being, of course, one of the finest forms of therapy for Westerners:)<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: purple;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: teal;">MDMA</span><span style="color: purple;"> was
first introduced to Europe via the </span><span style="color: teal;">sannyasins</span><span
style="color: purple;">, disciples of </span><span
style="color: teal;">Bhagwan Shree Rajnees</span><span
style="color: purple;">h. <span style=""> </span>Interestingly, </span><span
style="color: teal;">"Sannyasa"</span><span style="color: purple;"> is
Sanskrit for complete or perfect renunciation. <span style=""> </span>Cult
members slipped </span><span style="color: teal;">MDMA</span><span
style="color: purple;"> into the drinks of
rich sympathisers to open up their hearts and their wallets.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: fuchsia;">>>
imagine what the CIA would have done with it!<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: purple;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: teal;">Ecstasy</span><span style="color: purple;">
became associated with the birth of </span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: teal;">Acid House</span><span
style="color: purple;">
music in the Spanish tourist resort of </span><st1:place w:st="on"><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: teal;">Ibiza</span></st1:place><span
style="color: purple;">. <span style=""> </span>By the summer of
'86, </span><span style="color: teal;">Ibiza</span><span
style="color: purple;">
was popularly known as </span><i style=""><span style="color: teal;">"<st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">XTC</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Island</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>".</span></i><span
style="color: purple;"> <span style=""> </span>Returning tourists
and disc-jockeys took the message back home. <span style=""> </span></span><u><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: teal;">The <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">UK</st1:place></st1:country-region>'s
rave scene was born</span></u><span style="color: purple;">. <span
style=""> </span>Hundreds of thousands of tablets were consumed
each weekend in the famous </span><i style=""><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: teal;">"Summer of Love"</span></i><span
style="color: purple;"> (1988). <span style=""> </span>The
Conservative Government and its allies in the British press were
aghast. <span style=""> </span>A moral panic set in at the threat to
the
nation's youth. <span style=""> </span></span><span
style="color: teal;">MDA, MDEA, MDMA</span><span style="color: purple;">
and
assorted psychedelic amphetamines had been outlawed in the <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region></st1:place>
since 1977. <span style=""> </span>Yet the Criminal Justice and Public
Order Act
1994 sought to criminalise an entire youth-culture by suppressing music
played
publicly with "</span><i style=""><u><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: teal;">sounds wholly or predominantly
characterised by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats</span></u></i><i
style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: teal;">".</span></i><span
style="color: purple;"><o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: purple;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: purple;">Soon
production and distribution of the world's leading
empathogen-entactogen fell
into the hands of organised crime. <span style=""> </span>By
the turn of the millennium, perhaps 80-90% of the world's </span><span
style="color: teal;">MDMA</span><span style="color: purple;"> was
manufactured in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Belgium</st1:country-region>
and the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Netherlands</st1:country-region></st1:place>.
<span style=""> </span>Russian-Israeli syndicates and Eastern
European chemists are now increasingly active too. <span style=""> </span>The
expertise needed in </span><span style="color: teal;">MDMA</span><span
style="color: purple;"> production varies
according to the route of synthesis. <span style=""> </span>Over
20 recipes have been described in the literature. <span style=""> </span>Only
7 are common. <span style=""> </span>Clandestine production is easiest
starting
with MDP2P. <span style=""> </span>MDP2P
(3,4-methylenedioxyphenyl-2-propanone) is a commercial product used by
the
flavouring and fragrance industry. <span style=""> </span>Groups
with access to MDP2P can make MDMA via a simple conversion process. <span
style=""> </span>Otherwise, </span><span style="color: teal;">MDMA</span><span
style="color: purple;"> must be synthesized from piperonal,
isosafrole, or
safrole. <span style=""> </span>These primary precursor
chemicals of </span><span style="color: teal;">MDMA</span><span
style="color: purple;"> are produced in <st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">China</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Poland</st1:country-region>, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">Germany</st1:country-region></st1:place>, and increasingly
elsewhere. <span style=""> </span>Typically, safrole or
isosafrole are first converted to MDP2P. <span style=""> </span>The
essential oil safrole occurs naturally as
the primary constituent of oil of sassafras. <span style=""> </span>Oil
of sassafras is found in the root-bark of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">US</st1:country-region></st1:place>
East Coast tree Sassafras albidum and from the above-ground woody parts
of the
South American tree Ocotea pretiosa. <span style=""> </span>Safrole
is also present in nutmeg (Myristica fragrans), dill, parsley seed,
crocus,
saffron, vanilla beans, and calamus. <span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: purple;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: purple;">Early
in the 3<sup>rd</sup> millennium, an estimated several million people
worldwide
were taking </span><span style="color: teal;">Ecstasy</span><span
style="color: purple;"> and allied research chemicals each month on
college
campuses, in high schools and on dance-floors. <span style=""> </span>Purity
varies; perhaps 10%-15% of tablets
consumed contain </span><span style="color: teal;">MDMA</span><span
style="color: purple;"> as the sole active ingredient. <span style=""> </span>Illicit
knowledge of the </span><i style=""><span style="color: teal;">"penicillin
of
the soul"</span></i><span style="color: purple;"> is spreading rapidly
around the world, but in corrupt and contaminated form.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: blue; font-weight: normal;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.mdma.net/#ecstasy">http://www.mdma.net/#ecstasy</a><o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
</b>
<div align="right"><b><span style="color: fuchsia;">[NEXT UP! -</span> <span
style="color: purple;">MDMA</span> <span style="color: teal;">The
Experience</span>]
<br>
</b></div>
<b><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">UP!
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: purple;">This
policeman came up to me
with a pencil and a piece of very thin paper and said, <i style="">"I
want you to trace someone for me."</i></span><span
style="font-size: 8pt; font-weight: normal;"><span style=""> </span>[thanks
to john morris]<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<i style=""><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: purple;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i>
<br>
</b>
<div align="right"><b><span
style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;"><span
style=""> </span>(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="font-size: 7.5pt; color: purple;">the</span><span
style="color: fuchsia;"> </span><span
style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: "Swis721 BlkEx BT"; color: fuchsia;">UP!</span>
<span style="font-size: 7.5pt; color: purple;">is a global edutainment
round-up,
broadcast weekly to </span><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; color: gray;">=[13,035]=</span><br>
<span style="font-size: 7.5pt; color: gray;"></span><span
style="font-size: 7.5pt;">Alternative// Activist// Zippy// Trance//
New Age// Peace folks</span><br>
<span style="font-size: 7.5pt;"><span style="color: purple;">recommended
to the </span><span style="color: gray;">Parallel
YOUniversity</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 204);">//
Megatripolis Dance Dept</span></span><span style="color: purple;"> </span><span
style="font-size: 7.5pt; color: purple;">as</span><br>
<span style="font-size: 7.5pt; color: purple;"> </span><i><span
style="font-size: 7.5pt; color: green;">"showing signs
of life".</span></i><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; color: green;"> </span><span
style="font-size: 7.5pt; color: purple;">Since recipients forward it
widely to
their own lists & sites</span><br>
<span style="font-size: 7.5pt; color: purple;">we conservatively
estimate</span><span style="color: gray;"> </span><u><span
style="font-size: 7.5pt;">50,000+</span></u><span
style="color: yellow;"> </span><span
style="font-size: 7.5pt; color: purple;">direct recipients.</span><br>
<span style="font-size: 7.5pt; color: purple;">A further 40,000 read it
on the YOUniversity's site.</span><br>
<span style="font-size: 7.5pt; color: purple;">And,</span><span
style="color: yellow;"> </span><span
style="font-size: 7.5pt; color: purple;">because</span><span
style="color: yellow;"> </span><span
style="font-size: 7.5pt; color: purple;">of its 'mix' of 'specialist'
&
'general' content,</span><br>
<span style="font-size: 7.5pt; color: purple;"> it's increasingly
being posted on a variety of sites worldwide,</span><br>
<span style="font-size: 7.5pt; color: purple;">making an estimated
total weekly readership of </span><u><span style="font-size: 7.5pt;">=[275,000]=<o:p></o:p></span></u>
<br>
<span
style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
</b></div>
<b><span style="color: rgb(51, 153, 102);"><span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<o:p> </o:p>
<br>
</b>
<div align="center"><b><o:p></o:p></b><b><big><big><big><big><big><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: red;">Double, Double, Toil and </span><u><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: blue;">Trouble</span></u></big></big></big></big><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: red;"><o:p></o:p></span></big><br>
</b></div>
<div align="right"><b>William Rivers Pitt
<br>
</b></div>
<b><span style="color: blue;">June 14 is going to be a big day,
it’s the date that </span><span style="color: red;">Lewis "Scooter"
Libby</span><span style="color: blue;"> will hear the outcome of his
appeals process.<span style=""> </span>Bush's decision on whether to
pardon Libby
presents, </span><i style=""><span style="color: red;">"<u>perhaps
the most dangerous tipping point facing the Bush administration</u>."</span></i><span
style="color: blue;"> <span style=""> </span>Does Bush pardon
Libby to avoid </span><i style=""><span style="color: red;">"the kind
of terminal public backlash Nixon absorbed
after the firing of Archibald Cox during the Watergate scandal,"</span></i><span
style="color: blue;"> or should he avoid pardoning Libby and risk
Libby's
decision to </span><i style=""><span style="color: red;">"escape
prison by telling Fitzgerald what he
knows?"<o:p></o:p></span></i>
<br>
<span style="color: fuchsia;">>> as well as scaring the
other lying thugs around him to make their own ‘arrangements’.<span
style=""> </span>that’s the biggest.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: blue; font-weight: normal;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060707R.shtml">http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060707R.shtml</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>
<o:p> </o:p>
<br>
</b>
<div align="center"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: blue;">Bush
Envisions US Presence in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">Iraq</st1:country-region></st1:place>
for </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: red;">50 Years<o:p></o:p></span>
</b><br>
</div>
<b><span style="color: red;">Bush would like to see a lengthy <st1:country-region
w:st="on">US</st1:country-region> troop presence in <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Iraq</st1:country-region>
like the one in </span><st1:country-region w:st="on"><span
style="color: blue;">South Korea</span></st1:country-region><span
style="color: red;"> <span style=""> </span>where the <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">US</st1:country-region></st1:place>
has had thousands of US troops for
50 years to guard against a North Korean invasion. <span style=""> </span>Iraq's
neighbours have raised concerns about
the possibility of the US maintaining permanent bases in Iraq, and some
<st1:country-region w:st="on">US</st1:country-region> lawmakers think
the Iraqi insurgency may have
been fuelled by perceptions that the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">United States</st1:country-region></st1:place> wants a
permanent
presence in the country.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: blue; font-weight: normal;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/053107J.shtml">http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/053107J.shtml</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>
<o:p> </o:p>
<br>
<o:p> </o:p>
<br>
</b>
<div align="center"><b><span
style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: green; font-weight: normal;">Marijuana
March Activists </span><span
style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: normal;">Brutalised</span><span
style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: green; font-weight: normal;">
by </span><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><span
style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: normal;">Moscow</span></st1:City></st1:place><span
style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: green; font-weight: normal;">
Police<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
</b></div>
<div align="right"><b>Eugene Kazachenko, <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Moscow</st1:place></st1:City>, May 6, 2007<span
style="color: green;"><o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
</b></div>
<b><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">>>
didn’t read about it anywhere among
all the gay parade news?<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: green;">Today my
friends from the annual </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Marijuana
March</span><span style="color: green;"> were arrested as they were
trying to unfurl a banner
calling for marijuana legalisation. <span style=""> </span>The
goal of the march was for </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">medical
marijuana
legalisation</span><span style="color: green;">. <span style=""> </span>Now
there are people arrested. <span style=""> </span>The police were very
cruel, and have </span><u><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">arrested</span></u><span
style="color: green;"> about 20 marijuana
activists.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: green;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: green;">With
fear for life of our brothers and sisters, my friends and I are
receiving
periodical news on the radio station </span><i style=""><span
style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Ekcho Moskvy ("The Echo of <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Moscow</st1:place></st1:City>").</span></i><span
style="color: green;"> <span style=""> </span>This is </span><u><span
style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">the only free</span></u><span
style="color: green;"> radio
channel which really informs on social and political life in <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Russia</st1:place></st1:country-region>.
<span style=""> </span>It reports that police have placed people face
on the ground, have dragged girls onto the ground and have beaten young
men. <span style=""> </span>Policemen have banged young mens’ faces
against
parked cars, and in the police department one young activist was beaten
so badly
they had to call an ambulance.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: green;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: green;">Federal
Service of drug control representatives have charged all activists on
the </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Marijuana March</span><span
style="color: green;"> of
making </span><u><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">propaganda for
narcotics</span></u><span style="color: green;">. <span style=""> </span>Some
policemen are
trying to plant drugs on activists, and no attorney was allowed to
visit his
clients. <span style=""> </span>Indeed a policeman with a
sub-machine-gun did not allow attorneys to even enter the police
department.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: green;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">The Marijuana
March</span><span style="color: green;"> was organised by the </span><i
style=""><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Cannabis Legalisation
League</span></i><span style="color: green;">. <span style=""> </span>At
this moment all the marijuana activists are
being held in </span><i style=""><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Presnentsky
</span></i><span style="color: green;">administrative
(misdemeanour) court of Moscow (phone number of this court: </span><span
style="color: blue;">+7 495 254-53-59</span><span style="color: green;">).
<span style=""> </span>They are accused of </span><u><span
style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">undertaking unsanctioned meetings</span></u><span
style="color: green;">. <span style=""> </span>This government
position
breaks 31 articles of The Constitutions of <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Russian Federation</st1:place></st1:country-region>
and Public
International law.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: green;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: green;">Though
many religions concern themselves with rehabilitation and spiritual
counselling
for drug abusers, they never call attention to the <i style="">actual</i>
position of medical cannabis. <span style=""> </span>Regrettably
Christians and other Russian religions
do not raise a voice on rights protection for drugs consumers from
unjustified
state repression.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
Eugene Kazachenko<span style="font-weight: normal;">, MDiv of <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Moscow</st1:place></st1:City>
Theological
Seminary.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: blue; font-weight: normal;"><a
href="http://www.hempevolution.org/media/stopthedrugwar/s070506.htm"><span
style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.hempevolution.org/media/stopthedrugwar/s070506.htm</span></a><o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<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;">
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: purple;">I
visited the offices of the
RSPCA today.<span style=""> </span>It's so tiny, you couldn't
swing a cat in there!</span><span
style="font-size: 8pt; font-weight: normal;"> </span><b><span
style="font-size: 8pt; font-weight: normal;">[thanks to john morris]</span><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: purple;"><o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<o:p> </o:p>
<br>
<span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: gray; font-weight: normal;">July
1 ~ 7<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
</b>
<div align="center"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt; color: blue;">2007
Annual Rainbow Gathering<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
</b></div>
<b><span style="color: blue;">The </span><i style=""><span
style="color: rgb(51, 153, 102);">2007 Annual Rainbow Gathering of
Living
Light</span></i><span style="color: blue;"> will be celebrated July 1st
through
July 7th. <span style=""> </span>Consensus at the 2006 </span><i
style=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 153, 102);">Annual Vision
Counsel</span></i><span style="color: blue;"> was that the 2007 Annual
Rainbow
Gathering of Living Light will be held in either </span><st1:State
w:st="on"><span style="color: rgb(51, 153, 102);">Arkansas</span></st1:State><span
style="color: rgb(51, 153, 102);">,
<st1:State w:st="on">Oklahoma</st1:State></span><span
style="color: blue;"> or </span><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State
w:st="on"><span style="color: rgb(51, 153, 102);">Texas</span></st1:State></st1:place><span
style="color: blue;">. <span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: blue;"><span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: blue;">Currently there are folks in </span><st1:State
w:st="on"><span style="color: rgb(51, 153, 102);">Arkansas</span></st1:State><span
style="color: blue;"> focalising scouting efforts along the <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Buffalo</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">River</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>.<span style=""> </span><span
style=""> </span>Word
at this time is there will be several Holding camps in that area as
well as
other locations as soon as the Ozarks Spring Regional is over. <span
style=""> </span>Look for more information on the holding camps
and a call for Vision Counsel soon.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: blue;"><span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: blue;">For local potlucks, regional
gatherings, campouts and other good news please surf to the </span><i
style=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 153, 102);">Community
Calendar</span></i><span style="color: blue;">, The </span><i style=""><span
style="color: rgb(51, 153, 102);">Rainbow Guide</span></i><span
style="color: blue;"> or look in the </span><i style=""><span
style="color: rgb(51, 153, 102);">Forum</span></i><span
style="color: blue;"> under the state
you are looking for information about.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: blue; font-weight: normal;"><a
href="http://welcomehere.org/2007/news.php"><span
style="text-decoration: none;">http://welcomehere.org/2007/news.php</span></a><o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">UP!
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: purple;"><b>I
phoned the local ramblers
club today and this bloke just went on and on and on.</b><span style="">
</span></span><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-weight: normal;">[thanks
to john morris]<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: purple;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: purple;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<i style=""><u><span
style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: red; font-weight: normal;">FEEDBACK</span></u></i><span
style="font-size: 18pt; color: fuchsia;">.</span>
<br>
<o:p> </o:p>
<br>
<b><span style="color: purple;">>> oh why in goddess’ name
do i STILL fall for this lying self-serving shit!? <o:p></o:p></span>
</b><br>
<b><o:p> </o:p>
<br>
Some would ask this question in connection with the lies of
the official story of 9/11....
</b><br>
<span style="font-weight: normal;">Ken <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Jenkins</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">LA.</st1:State></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<b><span style="color: fuchsia;">>> fair comment :)<span style="">
</span>tho it doesn't prove anything.<o:p></o:p></span>
</b><br>
<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">UP!
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: purple;">I
phoned the local gym and I asked
if they could teach me how to do the splits.<span style="">
</span>He said, <i style="">"How flexible are
you?"<span style=""> </span></i>I said<i style="">, "I can't make
Tuesdays or
Thursdays."</i></span><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-weight: normal;"><span
style=""> </span>[thanks to
john morris]</span><span style="color: fuchsia;"><o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: fuchsia;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
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<span style="color: fuchsia;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
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<b><span style="font-size: 18pt; color: fuchsia;">DOGS & Festivals </span></b><i
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style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: red; font-weight: normal;">FEEDBACK</span></u></i><span
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<span
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i loathe the idea that festivals can only spread by
self-emasculating along the way.<span style=""> </span>we MUST
find the right way forward or we shall end up with yuppie jamborees,
whether
it’s by insisting all dogs wear muzzles or they get licensed at 24 hour
test
camps before being allowed in.<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span>
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<b><span style="color: red;">So do I, this stuff gives me the
right hump.<span style=""> </span>I will boycott any 'event'
that does not allow dogs to be freely with masters (oh and mistresses).
<span style=""> </span>They'll be making us chip children next, and
imposing inspections on the food - inspectors 'sponsored by Monsanto'. <span
style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span>
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<span style="color: fuchsia;">>> a very correct point :)<o:p></o:p></span>
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<span style="color: red;">And while they are at it the
lighting will zap all big insects, and the odd tiny hand. <span
style=""> </span>Special chip bootee overshoes for adults -
padlocked on of course since we are all submersible under the influence
of
appearances by celebs and disney much-larger-than-decent Mickey
Mice.... with
guitars.<o:p></o:p></span>
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<span style="color: red;">any more for any more?<o:p></o:p></span>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Jackie, West Hampstead, <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">London</st1:City></st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></span>
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<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">up!<o:p></o:p></span>
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<span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">actually fraser its the police
that bans dogs from festivals, and on several grounds, its likely that
the
agreement to hold the festival would have included a specification that
a no
dogs policy would be enforced before they issued the license - i.e. no
dogs or
no festival. <span style=""> </span>i work in festivals and i
know i signed an agreement with the police to this effect quite
recently.<o:p></o:p></span>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Bernadette Valelly, <st1:place
w:st="on">Liverpool</st1:place><o:p></o:p></span>
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<span style="color: fuchsia;">>> well i’ve been pretty
involved in festivals over the years and i never came across such in my
time.<span style=""> </span>what motive would the police
have?<span style=""> </span>hygiene?<span style=""> </span>chasing
sheep?<span style=""> </span>i can see the farmer landlord taking an
attitude - and quite rightly so, up to a point -<span style=""> </span>but...
?<o:p></o:p></span>
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<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">UP!
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: purple;">When
I told my girlfriend I
had a job in a bowling alley, she said <i style="">"Tenpin?"<o:p></o:p></i></span>
<br>
<i style=""><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: purple;">"No,
it's a permanent job" </span></i><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: purple;">I told her.</span><span
style="font-size: 8pt; font-weight: normal;"><span style=""> </span>[thanks
to john morris]</span><i style=""><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: purple;"><o:p></o:p></span></i>
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<span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: blue; font-weight: normal;">the</span><span
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</span><span
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biggest </span><span
style="font-size: 24pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: blue; font-weight: normal;">israeli</span><span
style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: blue; font-weight: normal;">
</span><u><span
style="font-size: 36pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: red; font-weight: normal;">lie</span></u><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: gray; font-weight: normal;">,
</span><i style=""><u><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: red; font-weight: normal;">FEEDBACK<o:p></o:p></span></u></i>
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<span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: gray; font-weight: normal;">>>>
parroted for decades by every israel-supporter,</span><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: gray;">
</span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: gray; font-weight: normal;">is
that the surrounding arab states attacked first.</span><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span>
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<span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: blue; font-weight: normal;">Hey
fraser, don’t forget the Israeli attack on <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Egypt</st1:country-region> (almost certainly with the
Backing of
France and probably <st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region>)
that
acted as an excuse for the <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Suez</st1:place></st1:City>
war.</span><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Jeff Lewis, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Brighton</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region></st1:place>.<br>
</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">UP!
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: purple;">So
this lorry full of
tortoises collided with a van full of terrapins.<span style=""> </span>A
turtle disaster.</span><span
style="font-size: 8pt; font-weight: normal;"><span style=""> </span>[thanks
to john morris]</span><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: purple;"><o:p></o:p></span>
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<b><span style="color: green;">Fraser, could you resend UP! 252?<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="color: green;">Enjoy your writing, but my server
"filtered it" and put it in another format. <span style=""> </span>I
have received your newsletter for years
w/out any problems.<span style=""> </span>I look forward to it
and linked to it on my educational website on sustainable culture w/
around
1,000 links. <span style=""> </span></span><span
style="color: blue; font-weight: normal;">unifiedcommunity.info</span><span
style="color: green;"> <span style=""> </span>Keep up your fine
work. <o:p></o:p></span>
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<span style="color: green;">From the left coast <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">republic</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Santa
Cruz</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>. <o:p></o:p></span>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Paul Gaylon, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Santa Cruz</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">California</st1:State></st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></span>
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<span
style="font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia; font-weight: normal;">UP!
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: purple;">This
blond Swedish bloke
with a didgeridoo was playing Dancing Queen. <span style=""> </span>Abbariginal,
right?</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-weight: normal;"><span
style=""> </span>[thanks to john morris]</span><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: purple;"><o:p></o:p></span>
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<span
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l l g o o d t h i n g s c o m e t o
a n e n d<o:p></o:p></span>
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<span
style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; color: fuchsia;">which
don't justify nuttin'<o:p></o:p></span>
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