UpsidedowN world //YOU UPGRADE  nov 8  2000

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it's a little shorter this week because fraser's mum died in her sleep on sun, nov 5th, aged 87

AUTUMN  RETURN of the MONARCH BUTTERFLIES TO MEXICO
Every autumn Monarch Butterflies, which have summered up north in the United States and
Canada, return to Mexico for the winter protection of the oyamel fir trees. 
The local inhabitants welcome them back as the spirits of their departed, to be honored during Los Dias de los Muertos.  The Aztecs, too, believed in an afterlife where the spirits of their dead would return as hummingbirds and butterflies.  Many images carved in the ancient Aztec monuments show this belief - linking the spirits of the dead with the Monarch butterfly.

<somebody tell monsanto, ok?>

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SO WHO IS THE NEW LEADER OF THE WESTERN WORLD THIS MORNING?  “Bush is a good man. He’d be a better man if his life had been harder. But you can’t have everything.” Wall Street Journal.
Or savour this from Bill Clinton: “It’s an upside-down world when your vice-president takes your marital fidelity more personally than your wife does.”
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“Shit happens when you worship the wrong god”
- Old Paganism.
“Shit happens when you worship any god wrongly” - Neo-Paganism
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"God, I just LOVE this UPGRADE shit!"
-Patricia King

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Sheffield, UK
SAT NOV 18      DIONYSUS presents DESTINATION VENUS
An inter-planetary voyage through euphoric hyperdelic trance techno and blissful chillout.
Dance Launch Pad - NUW IDOL (live PA), JUNO, & residents BEAMISH, DILL & BACCHUS / optical stimulation by NUROPTICS and EARTHSTAR. 
And in the “fluffiest chillout rooms around”, decorated like a woodland grove, DUBMISSION lays down some heavy bass with UNITY DUB, SONAR LUMINESCENCE and GREG.  PLUS performers, stalls, massage tent PLUS one of the most friendly, welcoming crowds you'd want to party with!
10pm-6am, £10/8. Info <party info@dionysus-ss.co.uk>
http://www.dionysus-ss.co.uk

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Thenali Songs (music by A. R. Rahman) / Rhythm Songs and Story (music by A. R. Rahman)
http://www.tamilmovies.net/        http://www.kadaldesham.com

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London
THURS NOV 9             S P R A W L --  the upsurging digital underground
MIKE Cooper (live), LLEWELLYN AP GRUFFYDD (live), DJs SOFTWARMBOY & BITTONIC + visuals by Waveform  £3.  ( 0181 568 3145): <<info@sprawl.org.uk>:
Global Café, 15 Golden Square, London) ; W1
http://www.dfuse.com/sprawl

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FRI NOV 24      BUY NOTHING DAY
20% of the earth's population uses 80% of its natural resources.  Consumer culture is out of control and is killing the planet.  Once we shopped for what we needed, but now that we’re in need of little we shop:
- to impress each other    - to fill a void    - to kill time    - because we’re bored (with ourselves?)
BUY NOTHING DAY is a simple idea with deep implications.  We force ourselves to think about the effect of the "shop-till-you-drop" imperative on the rest of the world.  On BUY NOTHING DAY we enjoy a break from the shopping frenzy, while relishing and flexing the muscles of our power as consumers to change the economic environment.
http://www.adbusters.org/
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“Shit happens because you’re too libertine” - Apollonarianism.
‘Shit happens because you’re in ‘chains’’ - Dionysianism.
“‘Shit happens because your not in chains and wannabe’ modern bondage cult.
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HIPPY ACID POEM ON TOILET PAPER         (YOU 175 feedback)
“Thanks for amazing update, Fraser, on the Dope's War!  See 'Exo-Psychology' and its update version  'Info-Psychology' for best rundown on Tim Leary's 10,000 year plan of the 10 trillion celled human.”
Michael Shields
And for Leary’s take on drug doubters dubbleclik:
http://www.erowid.org/culture/characters/leary/leary_doubters.shtml
(terence mckenna’s take on DMT is also worth recalling:  it was his opinion that, since this drug came on instantly and totally cleared the body within a half hour, anyone professing an interest in the psychic/spiritual realm who refused to ‘experiment’ could really not be considered a serious researcher.)
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loved the title!  and much of what u say is true, 'specially about expert/specialists’ disease!  and you put it eloquently as well.  and you make a credible case for the demise of those demi-god “experts”, hope so! 
Yes, sounds like cosmic winds a-blowin’ from your pen and scattering the cotton on old black joe's farm, who picked it up and sang the true blues while MaryJane rocks in de chair!  And further seeding it with new meme sperm because what u r talking about is birthing of the Very New Age, a multiple-level birthing process going on right now, here on Earth and in our galaxy, of co-operation and creation - as the old crumbles finally down!
Also like historical notes on Mr Nice guy an’ friends. 
Real history emerges, and the tale is told and retold!
It’s killer Stuff!”
<james hamilton>
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“We know why Shit happens” - classical Science.
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San Francisco
SAT NOV 11      2nd Annual SAN FRANCISCO OPERATION RAINBOW GALA
A beautiful day of Latin Jazz, food and drink!
1-7pm @ Backflip, 601 Eddy, San Francisco.
Live Performance by JULIUS MELENDEZ & LATIN FIRE & DJ JERRY ROSS
$25 AT THE DOOR TO AN INCREDIBLE CAUSE
OPERATION RAINBOW - for over 20 years, doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers within Operation Rainbow have given their time and talents to the people of Central America.
They bring with them needed supplies and provide surgical care to patients who otherwise would not receive it.  Most of these patients are infants and children.  Since 1978, Operation Rainbow has provided free care to thousands of people in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua.
The men and women of Operation Rainbow also provide medical teaching to local healthcare workers helping them to improve their skills and level of care.
The power of service and knowledge Operation Rainbow takes to Central America insures a healthier community and empowers the people with the confidence and skills to insure a much better future.

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 //YOUR PLANET NEEDS YOU URGENT//       (YOU 180 feedback)
“fuck off green scum. Long live progress. Long live humanity's capabilities to control the outside world. Go back to the caves and the fields you fucking idiots.”
davrah@dialstart.net
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“We think we know why Shit happens” - modern Science.
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PALESTINIAN CITIZENS OF ISRAEL NEED PROTECTION  (YOU 150 feedback)
To sign the Petition to United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan to Demand International Protection for Palestinian Citizens of Israel, click:
http://www.petitionpetition.com/cgi/petition.cgi?id=862
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“ Peace is the only way out of war.   Better would be to ask him to refer the whole dispute to the International Court of Justice. . Each interested party would get to submit their case before an international panel of judges, assembled as the highest court in the world.  ALSO, as the legal arm of the UN, it could demand that hostilities cease whilst the case is heard, and has the power to call on the UN and the Security Council for full military assistance/ peacekeeping/ whatever.”
http://www.icj-cij.org
ANgel
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Meanwhile Israeli hackers broke into Hizbullah’s web site to place their flag on the opening screen, along with the statement:“ This page was uploaded to protest against the Arabic attacks in the past few days”. And Palestinians have been slowing down Israeli foreign and army ministeries and parliament with a gigantic flood of protests from their side.
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"A Jewish state could be for England a ‘little Jewish Ulster' in a sea of potentially hostile Arabism". Ronald Storrs, British governor of Palestine, 1935

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London                  ***ParaYOU recommended***
SAT NOV 11              PENDRAGON SAMHAIN FESTIVAL
MARK SINCLAIR, COMMANDER TOM, JACE, DJ DAG, FAUSTO
Brixton Academy, Stockwell Rd, Brixton   £15   (020 7771 2000) (0378190365)
http://www.pendragon.org.uk

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“The bait is the means to get the fish where you want it, catch the fish and forget the bait.
The snare is the means to get the rabbit where you want it, catch the rabbit and forget the snare. Words are the means to get the idea where you want it, catch on to the idea and forget the words.
Where shall I find a man who forgets about words, and have a word with him?”
- Chuang Tzu
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Essentially Shit is unpredictable” - post-modern Science
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WANNA ORGANISE A MARIJUANA MARCH IN YOUR METROPOLIS?
If you know anyone, anywhere, who wants to put on a marijuana march May 5th in some city or town not listed below, then Cures Not Wars can help them set up and publicise it.
Albuquerque: Anchorage. Atlanta: Auckland: Austin: Batesville: Berlin: Buffalo: Burlington: Carbondale: Chico: Christchurch: Cleveland: Columbus: DesMoines: Detroit: Dunedin: Edinborough. Eugene: Frankenthal: Garberville Halifax. Hamburg: Hilo: Houston: Indianapolis: Jerusalem: Kansas City: Kent: Krakow: Lansing: Liverpool: London: Los Angeles: Madison: Minneapolis. Mobile: Montpelier: Montreal: Nashville: New Orleans: New York City: Nimbin. Omaha: Orlando: Oslo: Paris: Philadelphia: Portland: Richmond: San Francisco: Santa Cruz: St. Louis: St. Petersburg: Stevens. PointTampa. Zephyrhills. Tel Aviv: Toronto: Vancouver: Wellington  Winnepeg: Yarmouth:
http://www.cures-not-wars.org/mmm/2001.html

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PATRON SAINT OF POLITICIANS
The Pope proclaimed Sir Thomas More the Saint of Politicians this week.  For spin, for heretic-burning?  According to the Catholic Herald it was not for being a perfected being but for “his stand against the whims of sovereigns and politicians… There may be potential saints driving along the M1 today but their driving is probably no better than others.”

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