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The ugliest personality trait - SelfishnessThe UPGRADEmag (or just the "UP") is a global edutainment round-up, ‘broadcast’ weekly to =[10,693]= Alternative// Activist// Zippy// Trance// New Age folks who’ve been recommended to the Parallel YOUniversity//Megatripolis Dance Dept as "showing signs of life". Since many recipients choose to forward it to their own lists, we estimate 29,000+ recipients. Further, because of its less 'specialist' content, it's increasingly being posted on a variety of sites worldwide, making a total weekly ‘readership’ of 275,000+ U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U UP P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P * * * * * * ASTRO ENERGY ANALYSIS OCT 23-29 * * * * * * MORE ON RELATIONSHIPS: BE AWARE, AND LET GO Thursday and Friday are ideal for conscious communication. This weekend home and country capture our hearts. Last Quarter Moon on Monday and Tuesday asks us to release behaviour which impedes relationships. Excessive pride, and control needs, can be two big obstacles. Get the scoop on each day’s Energies, and much more at www.daykeeperjournal.com * * * * * * * ** * * * * * * * *** * * * * ** * * * * * * * * READ THIS JOKE TWICE IT GOES VERY VERY DEEP :( George Bush and Colin Powell are sitting in a bar when a guy walks over and says, "Wow, whattan honor! What are you guys doing in here?" Bush replies: "We're planning the next Gulf War". "Really? What's the plan?" the guy asks. "Well, we're going to kill 600,000 Iraqis” Bush replies, studying the guy carefully. “And one blonde with big boobs.” "A blonde with big boobs?” the guy protests. “Why kill a blonde with big boobs?!!" Bush turns triumphantly to Powell, punches him on the shoulder, and says: "See, smart ass, I told you no one would give a shit about the Iraqis!" Jim Craig / Liverpool UP! The most endangered species - Dedicated leaders Too many colours! Calm down there . . . Ian Anderson / Editor: fRoots Magazine - actually, as a musician, i'da thot u’d b familiar with making text more interesting, more delicious. why does info or inspiration have to be a slab of black text like we had at school? there's madness in the method, it's about edutainment. there's also an unformatted list if u prefer. UP! The most satisfying work - Helping others BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE SETS BOX OFFICE RECORD “The only part of American democracy still working” Fraser Clark. Bowling for Columbine, Michael Moore’s new film protest against the violence of American culture which we asked you to support 2 weeks ago, has set an all-time opening weekend box office record for a documentary! The unprecedented outpouring of support for this film has sent a shock wave through Hollywood. And the White House. 18 films opened last Friday in New York and L.A. - so, for a documentary to do this well in such a crowded field represents a finger in the eye for the warmongers in power in that poor country and will spread some desperately needed information among the general populace. “For those of you who packed the New York and Los Angeles theatres this past week” says Michael Moore, “I want you to know your attendance has resulted in me having a much larger forum in which to speak out against the war on Iraq and the other misdeeds of the Bush administration. After being virtually banned from the airwaves during the release of my book, that wall has been broken down by this film's success. I've been able to be a "stand-in" for all of you and say the things on prime time TV that never get said. Mainstream publications like People Magazine (whose critic called the film "provocative, entertaining and maddening - a must see!") are running feature stories, and this weekend I'm spending the entire hour with Tim Russert on his CNBC show. Here's a sample of one of the thousands of e-mails sent to Michael’s site this week: "A group of us went to see Bowling for Columbine tonight - to a completely packed house in the big theatre at Loews 19th St. Besides laughter overriding scenes, tears, and applause throughout, there was a spontaneous cheer with the applause at the end of the film. I have never seen that kind of thing in a theatre in New York. But I understand. I couldn't keep myself from laughing out loud and crying throughout. And folks didn't rush out, as New Yorkers do, but sat through to the end of the credits and left the theatre talking furiously. The audience was blown away by the film. It was clear everyone in that room was. This film will do well. It needs to." The true test comes NOW as the film expands to the next 20 cities - depending how well it fares each weekend from now on determines if people living farther from the largest urban areas will get to see it. SO VOTE WITH YOUR MOVIE EYES AGAINST THE IRAQ AND TERROR WARS (IT’S JUST ABOUT THE ONLY PART OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY STILL WORKING!!): NEW YORK CITY AREA: Lincoln Plaza Cinemas, Landmark Sunshine Cinemas, and Loews 19th St. Theater Manhattan. Jaco Bam Rose 4 - Brooklyn, Roosevelt Raceway 10 Westbury, Nam Island 16 Holtsville, Nam Sawmill 10 Hawthorne, Fine Arts Scarsdale, Jacob Burns Film Center Pleasantville, Jaco Bethel - Bethel CT Garden 3 - Norwalk CT Montgomery Center - Rocky Hill NJ. LOS ANGELES AREA: Regent Westwood, Laemmle Sunset 5 - Los Angeles, Laemmle Town Center Encino, Landmark Rialto South Pasedena, Regal Edwards University ? Irvine, Laemmle Westlake Village 2 ? Westlake Village, ESP Los Feliz 3 - Los Angeles, AMC Rolling Hill Torrance, AMC Media Center 8 Burbank, AMC Promenade 16 - Woodland Hills, Westlake Village 2 - Westlake Village. CHICAGO: Pipers Alley 4 Chicago, Century Cinearts 6 Evanston, Landmark Renaissance Place - Highland Park IL PHILADELPHIA: Ritz at the Bourse - Philadelphia PA, Ritz 6 - Voorhees NJ SAN FRANCISCO: Landmark Embarcadero 5 - San Francisco, Landmark Aquarius 2 - Palo Alto, Camera One - San Jose, Landmark Piedmont 3 Oakland, Landmark Act 1 & 2 Berkeley, Century Arts Sequoia 2 - Mill Valley CA BOSTON: Copley Place Cinemas 11 - Boston MA, Landmark Kendall Square Cambridge, Landmark Embassy 6 Waltham, Coolidge Corner Theater Brookline. WASHINGTON DC: DuPont Circle 5 - Washington DC, Shirlington 7 - Arlington VA, Bethesda Row Cinema 8 - Bethesda MD. SEATTLE: Landmark Egyptian - Seattle WA SAN DIEGO: Landmark Hillcrest Cinema 5 - San Diego CA CANADA: Toronto and Vancouver. UP! The most powerful force in life - Love JOSE ARGUELLES - GALACTIC BE-IN July 25, 2003 / Day Out of Time / Red Planetary Skywalker On January 14, 1967, the first Human Be-In occurred in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. It augured what came to be known as the Summer of Love. That was 36 years ago and now, with the recent revival recently in London, a timely call is being made for the Summer of Peace 2003. As well as the UN-sponsored Peace One Day on September 21, there’s already a new planetary holiday to mark the focal point of this new Summer of Peace, the Day Out of Time, which has been celebrated over the past ten years, and has grown into a synchronised worldwide Earth Festival of Human Creativity in tune to a New Time - the Thirteen Moon/28 day calendar. In 2002, over 500 Day Out of Time celebrations occurred around the world. This coming year, the biggest ever Day Out of Time is going to be celebrated as the GALACTIC BE-IN - a call for artists and creative humans everywhere to join in a massive day-long celebration of life, love, art and universal forgiveness, marking a new era of peace and harmony and the birth of a renewed Galactic Earth. Since the Day Out of Time falls on Gregorian Friday this year, a special appeal is being made to all rave organisers, concert artists, musicians, bands, and party bards to consider any events planned for FRIDAY JULY 25 as a part of the massive GALACTIC BE-IN to be observed world wide. An appeal is also made to all peace groups, spiritual, social and environmental organisations to participate in GALACTIC BE-IN so that there can be a mass demonstration of unified good will worldwide. SATURDAY JULY 26, the day after the GALACTIC BE-IN, will be the first day of the new Thirteen Moon Calendar year, the year of the White Spectral Wizard. Celebrations of the GALACTIC BE-IN are encouraged to continue through the New Year's day and even into SUNDAY JULY 27, 2003. The White Spectral Wizard year will culminate in the Great Calendar Change of 2004, the conclusion of the People's Peaceful Revolution for a New Time on Earth, July 25-26, 2004. The philosophy of the Day out of Time is "TIME IS ART," and its emblem is the Banner of Peace through Culture. Especially at this time, we are encouraging all participants to make a creative message calling for Planetary Peace Now. The slogan is "ART NOW, WAR NO MORE!" As a massive outpouring of creativity on behalf of world peace, the GALACTIC BE-IN is intended to send a major signal to the world's leaders that a new time of peace is just around the corner, and that the time of war will soon be over - forever. While the Day Out of Time is basically a self-organising event, sponsored by the local chapters of the Planet Art Network (PAN), you may get more information on it from the GALACTIC BE-IN official website: www.tortuga.com Jose Arguelles. October 21, 2002. UP! The most contagious spirit Enthusiasm A QUESTION OF WILL POWER? Neuroscientists have detected brain signals directing a muscle to move before the person reports having made a conscious (“free will”) decision to move the muscle. They've also found that magnetic fields influence a human's decision (to choose left or right), yet people still "feel" they made the decision freely. The research has renewed the age-old controversy over free will vs. determinism. UP! The most destructive habit - Worry BE AFRAID, MR. BUSH YOU’RE MAKING SO MANY SO ASHAMED THAT WE’LL RESIST AND TOPPLE YOUR KIND ADD ME TO YOUR LISTS!! SEND MY NAME TO MR. ASHCROFT. Forward it to the FBI, the local police, the INS and the IRS. Make sure your Secret Service takes note. Copy my name to every blacklist, enemies list, security list, and watch list your scribes scribble. I’m ashamed to travel unchallenged while you detain activists at airports, 75fFlipH0fFlipV0pibNamehttp://www.truthout.org/imgs.site_01/2.ClrSpc.indent_2.gifpibFlags2fLine0wzDescriptionfLayoutInCell1 I’m ashamed to sleep in my own bed while you abduct untold, unnamed foreign-born Americans. I’m ashamed to eat while you steal food, not just rights, from millions of families, I’m ashamed to wear new clothes; ashamed to drive; ashamed to share ill-gotten wealth with your kind; even ashamed I can provide better for my little daughter than almost any father on earth. I STAND WITH BILLIONS I am not a threat to you, but I stand with billions. The best traditions of freedom, right, and non-violent resistance are with me. I stand alongside the Senator your intern calls senile. I stand with the Congresswoman your operatives unseated in the primaries. I stand with the loud but lonely voices of those in print and broadcast media who are not afraid to challenge you. I stand with the growing number of principled government clerks who quietly undermine you. I stand with countless noble people across the world who are no longer cowed by bully-America. YOU’VE AWAKENED FORCES THAT WILL BRING YOU DOWN In your ignorance, you remind me of forgotten traditions - ancestors who fought non-violently for peace in 18th century Virginia - antecedents who broke 19th century laws to help slaves to freedom - brave people who aided conscientious objectors during World War II - my own non-violent resistance to Vietnam, and more recently, to Reagan’s adventures in Nicaragua. Your adept predecessors persuaded with honey and intelligence, but your ignorance now shakes us. For that, and for that alone, I thank you. Now we will resist and topple your kind. You have guns, bombs, but we have the power of non-violent resistance. Those who read know that firepower is laughable in the face of such force. Be afraid, Mr. Bush, and all who serve themselves in backing this fragile regime, for you have germinated the seeds of your downfall. We do not threaten your person or your pathetic toys, but we will cast you on the trash-heap of history. You can lead only by our consent... and that you have squandered. So add me to your lists, Mr. Bush. I may be insignificant, but I have time, history, and numbers on my side, and I am not the tiniest bit afraid of you. 75fFlipH0fFlipV0pibNamehttp://www.truthout.org/imgs.site_01/2.ClrSpc.indent_2.gifpibFlags2fLine0wzDescriptionfLayoutInCell1-------- 75fFlipH0fFlipV0pibNamehttp://www.truthout.org/imgs.site_01/2.ClrSpc.indent_2.gifpibFlags2fLine0wzDescriptionfLayoutInCell1 Alan Morse. http://www CommonDreams.org UP! The greatest loss - Loss of self-respect COMPUTER DRAWS WITH WORLD CHESS CHAMPION Deep Fritz has tied 4 all in 8-game $Million Dollar contest with world chess champion Vladimir Kramnik. Why, when Deep Blue beat the then world champ some years ago? Well, Deep Fritz has only 1.3% of Blue’s brute force computation power. Yet, despite that, it plays chess at about the same level because of its superior pattern recognition-based pruning algorithm. Six years from now, scientist say, a program like Deep Fritz will again achieve Deep Blue's ability to analyse 200 million board positions per second. And at that point, the best human players won’t be able to touch computers at chess. http://www.kurzweilai.net/email/newsRedirect.html?newsID=1313&m=5435 UP! The most crippling failure disease - Excuses A SPLENDID REVOLUTION Isn’t Bush a great leader? Look how he’s bringing the country and the world together… in opposition to him. All i can say is, "Thank god for the internet". The opposition movement, which i prefer to call the Utopian Movement, is bootstrapping itself together in record time. I’m now starting to see a clear path to derailing the great war machine that is lurching forward. The players are in place. Some are waiting around for a Gandhi to lead them. I’m all, "Hey, he’s dead, we’re gonna hafta carry on without ‘im". Others are just taking the initiative. All indications are that we’re in for a splendid revolution, and rest assured we are all hoping it can be pulled off without physical violence. Of course, that depends very much on the people with all the guns. I am now optimistic that this can and will be done in a sane and rational way. The first step on the above-mentioned path, is Start Asking Questions. And not just any question; but things like, "Was JFK killed by a lone gunman?". In the culture of fear that has gripped this once great country, we’re being told that to ask questions is unpatriotic, un-American. Hmmm… really? galen / california UP! Our greatest natural resource - Our youth who keeps sending me this stuff?! ........ i love it ... but who are you? Odarte / Brighton - heh heh. u tell us when u think u gottan angle onnit, ok? UP! The greatest "shot in the arm" - Encouragement IS IS THERE THERE ANYBODY ANYBODY OUT THERE? Developments in pulsed lasers intended for use in fusion power generation suggest that a signal from a distant planet using such a laser would be far brighter than starlight and could be strong enough to be seen on Earth. This suggests that SETI should be looking for pulsed optical signals, rather than just radio signals, according to SETI pioneer Frank Drake. UP! The world's most incredible computer - The brain AREN'T WE ALL JUST HERE TOGETHER!? What keeps us from screaming, thronging into the streets and demanding that the lack of thinking & wisdom of those in power WON’T BE ALLOWED to destroy this earth? We must be insane to have allowed ourselves, throughout the ages, to be the "indentured ones,"with NO SAYin how we live, or spend our precious time on earth - having other people - generally stupid men to have power over us?! Aren't we all just here together - how come they got to be "the bosses?We’rediscovering we’re the serfs in a5,000 year old patriarchal systemwhose only focus is war. And THISlooks like the ultimate war to those guys in charge, their eyeballs bulging with greed at the prospect of sucking outthe glistening blood of the Mother - from a devastated people andland. YOUARE NOT GOING TODESTROY ALL WE HOLD DEAR. IT'S TIME TO WAKE UP. IT'S TIME TO STOP "PLAYING DUMB You are held responsible for your actions: for the injury to life, for the broken hearts and terrible suffering you’ve caused otherinnocent beings - furred animals and fish, turtles and cows and horses, dolphins and elephants-and lands and streams, and trees, and people, handsome, gentle, trusting peoples, native peoples, the women and the children, mothers and fathers, grandmothers and grandfathers... YOU KILLED AND MASSACRED THEM ALL in the most heinous and brutal of ways. The Vikings and Huns had nothing on you. And you continue to kill, like it’s what you relish most. Well, you reap what you sow. It's a Law of the Universe. You can't not be separated from your action, and it's consequences. There is a deeper 'you' that’s affected by your actions. Thisdeeper "you" is experienced as "feelings." At some point in your life your heartwill open to what you have done - old men sitting around in wheel chairs could tell you about it. And you will experience great internal suffering as you awaken to the suffering you’ve caused. And DEEP REGRET. Those of us "awake" are awaiting a signal, for a sign, for a path to open before us, so we might swing into joyous action, restoring our Mother Earth, and being restored by Her flowering. Janie Rezner / california www.janierezner.com UP! The two most power-filled words - "I Can" DON’T EVEN TRUST THE WEATHER REPORTS! Hi Fraser, I love what you're doin', man. This edition was the best yet. I particularly loved the many quotes and the call to revolution. It's time. It's very important for the people of the world to know that most people in this country do NOT support what this madman Bush is attempting to do. Many of the polls are conducted by people who work for the Republicans, advising them how to affect public opinion. Jeez, isn't there just maybe the potential for "conflict of interest" here? The polls are part of the propaganda machine - just like the media... all media: TV, newspapers, radio, even many movies. - i don’t trust ANY statistics coming out of the US these days. especially the stock market reports. r u really telling me they don’t cook them too?! those late rallies when the thing’s been nose-diving all day?! we know they create ‘money’ out of nothing so why wouldn’t they create a few billions to ‘save the american economy’?! hell, i don’t even trust the weather reports and i mean that! Even with all of this going down, i'm optimistic. I'm starting to see subtle and not so subtle shifts in the level of awareness and broad scepticism amongst the rank and file of the American public. We all knew it would happen one day... and, by George, here it comes... a Shift in Global Consciousness! These are, indeed, exciting times! Peace on Earth and Goodwill to Men and Women and All Creators Great and Small... galen -- Utopian Movement Operative (UMO) / san francisco UP! The greatest asset - Faith AMERICANS KNOW SOMETHING HAS GONE WRONG· · · · · · · · http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/10.17A.wrp.4.lights.htm UP! The most prized possession Integrity Fraser! You are the Bomb! (that is, the spark of imagination and courage that can ignite a revolution...) Maybe you will come to S.F. so we all can meet you? I knew they killed Diana as soon as I heard it. phoenix / san francisco UP! The greatest problem to overcome - Fear u.k. GREEN GURUS NEW RADIO 4 SERIES NOT! "Environmentalism is often likened to religion. To its followers it has its indisputable truths, its holy books and its saints and prophets. In this series of 3 programmes Julian Pettifer looks at three very different gurus of the Green movement and assesses their influence both on activists and on society as a whole.” Would this be the same Julian Pettifer who presented a lengthy in-house corporate video for RTZ, saying how great RTZ were and how environmentally responsible their mines are?! The same RTZ described by Survival International as 'the worst of the worlds worst' companies with respect to the rights of indigenous people and the environment?” Every word this man says is like a turd falling on my dinner. Merrick x http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/greengurus.shtml UP! The deadliest weapon - The tongue cambridge, uk THURS OCT 31 HELP SAVE THE GYPSIES YOU COULD BE NEXT!! CAMBRIDGE STUDENTS FIGHTING TO STOP ROMA EVICTION A group of Cambridge students have joined forces to fight against the eviction of a group of Romany Gypsies from a caravan site in Bedfordshire. The group of travellers (who’d been encouraged to buy land privately on which to settle) bought the land legally from the local council, but have now been refuse planning permission to set up a permanent site there. Since then, the gypsies have pursued various avenues of appeal against the decision, unsuccessfully. The decision has been criticised by a number of Roma and human rights organisations who’ve described the decision of the Conservative-led council as being a form of 'ethnic cleansing'. Simply forcing such communities to move on just shifts the problem, they say, without trying to solve the wider problems of · · The eviction may even be unlawful, may constitute a breach of the right to respect for private and family life under the European Convention on Human Rights, and may also constitute a breach of the council's statutory duty in respect of homeless persons. The decision to evict the families is particularly controversial since these homeless-to-be families have young children, and indeed one of the children living on the site is significantly disabled. The student group, led by PHD student Ilona Klimova, are looking for people to attend a peaceful protest at the Bedford Town Hall on 31st October, and to stay in the camp overnight to prevent the council’s forcible eviction on 1st November. Anyone interested please contact iklimova@hotmail.com arm42@cam.ac.uk. UP! The most dangerous pariah - A gossiper heil fraser! Bali you should be here the balo's have their priorities right this full moon we’ll all be at the bomb site because now the most important thing is to help all those (who didn't want to go, weren't ready etc) and are trapped in no womansland SO we’ll show them a laserbeam through the worlds to the exit light (this way please!) so more shit don't spill over us who are left here. you know some peoples know what to do, their culture is for us humans. never trust a non phsycedilik love Dr Jelek / bali The most effective sleeping pill - Peace of mind UP! STRATEGY OF FEAR Hi Fraser, Fear... terrorism.... Now that rings a bell, here in Italy - an alarm bell! Sunny Italy, land of pizzas, ice-cream and singing gondoliers, was also where one of the darkest and most obscure episodes in modern history happened, and it was all aboutfear and terrorism. Remember the Red-Brigade, that extreme left-wing organisation who tried 30 years ago to overthrow the Italian state through a campaign of terrorist bombings? Well, that was the official version - until the Christian Democrat - Socialist coalition fell on corruption charges after 50 years in power and the Italian left finally had a chance tore-open many of the cases involving terrorist bombings. So now we know (and I kid you not!) that there was actually a policy called the 'Strategy of Fear' run by agroup of the extreme right, some parts of the military(notably the secret services), corrupt politicians, and Cosa Nostra (the Mafia). The idea was simple enough: by creating fear, public opinion would be pushed to the right and a full scale military take-over was planned (which obviouslynever took place but it was planned). How did they carry out the strategy? By planting bombs in public places, murdering those who knew too much, controlling and deviatingpolice investigations... It was a pretty big deal, it really did happen, and it was covered up for 25 years! And it kept the Right in power over a difficult period when the Italian Communist Party might have beaten the Christian Democrat - Socialist coalition at the polls. Oh, I almost forgot, many claim the CIA was also involved - the White House didn’t want to see the Italian Communist Party get into power. Sound unnervingly familiar? For 25 years there were people banging on about a conspiracy who, it turns out, WERE SPOT ON ALL THAT TIME! Sweet dreams, Jerry - Brescia Italy UP! MY GUILTY POSITION by Fraser Clark published in Thresher mag, RU Sirius’s new periodical Answers were solicited from several people in the public eye to this question: Could you please tell us about an opinion, taste, or activity you are into that people familiar with your views would be surprised, maybe even SHOCKED to hear about? I'm immensely grateful for this opportunity which Ken has provided me to go on public record to correct, once and for all, a most sirius misunderstanding many people have about me. Namely: I DO NOT TAKE DRUGS. Never have, nor ever will. Now, sure, I can see why many people would think that I do partake of these dangerous substances, since I have written for years on the shamanic use of plants, roots, fungi, venoms and chemicals for re-establishing communication with Our Nature (inner and outer) and have argued at length that the shamanic empatheogens and psychedelics constitute just about the last desperate hope for WoMankind to escape from the genetically warped Mess to which it has presently reduced itself. Sure, but that's just talk. Ideas. In a democracy we are entitled to discuss ideas WITHOUT ACTUALLY PUTTING THEM INTO ACTION! Why? Because I do not NEED them! Others clearly and undeniably do, but I personally have never felt the need to raise my consciousness. I am happy as I am (compared to the next poor sod). Indeed, if God had meant us to raise our consciousness, He would have altered it for us or, at the very least, He would have so arranged the world that such drugs would be scattered around us in nature and thus handily available! The strongest drug I have ever consumed, legal or otherwise, is a glass of dandelion wine and I could not sleep for 36 hours afterwards, during which I saw Insights into the Future and Past, a Vision of the planet being destroyed by de-natured industrialisation, naked goddesses with insatiable sex appetites, and other such phantasmagorias WHICH NO HUMAN BEING HAS A RIGHT TO SEE. It felt like spiritual burglary! As the Church has always said, such stuff is God's property and is not for mere sinners such as us. And, besides, everybody knows that drugs are ADDICTIVE. They're like oxygen or love, once you've tried them you find that you NEED them all the time, and they can easily start to seem NATURAL! So thankyou again, Ken, for this chance to clear up this public misapprehension, particularly as regards the forces of law and order, and especially Sergeant Brown if he reads this. After all, these drugs are against the law, which is obviously a good enough reason for any rational citizen. Our leaders know best, that's why they are our leaders. Surely this is evident to all. Just say no, that's my advice. fraser clark. june, 2001. UP! The most worthless emotion - Self-pity Thanks for all your hard work and effort, keeping the momentum going I think its going to get worse before it gets better, but there are signs of cracks appearing, it was nice to see the quotes from "real" Americans. Love and best wishes Jim / liverpool UP! The worst thing to be without - Hope the command post has left the jcpenny site, has it been withdrawn form stores?? 133 was the best upgrade ever xxx lucy wills / london UP! The greatest Joy - Giving THE BUSH FAMILY & THE BODIES (or some of them)
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On July 11, 1990, Gary Caradori, with his 6-year old son, was killed after a mid-air explosion, the cause of which was never discovered. He’d told friends repeatedly in the weeks before his death that he was afraid his plane would be sabotaged.
A very prolific writer, he left no note. He’d brought a fully-packed suitcase of clothes with him to Pittsburgh, and bought a burglar alarm and a gun shortly before he left for Pittsburgh. Why did he need a burglar alarm if he was going to commit suicide? And, as an avowed advocate of gun control, why had he bought a gun? What was he afraid of? Why did he go to Pittsburgh? After his death, his computer was sold for $150 and its hard drive wiped clean. Everything in his apartment was thrown away.
"He was soon charting the complex matrices of personal and professional relationships, conflict of interest, malfeasance and fraud uncovered by investigations into the major financial and political scandals of the day; to keep facts and sources straight, he created a handwritten database that now includes around 12,000 3-by-5-inch cards." New York Times. On the evening of March 22, 2000, he was found hanging dead in his loft, an apparent suicide.
On May 22, his body was found, his bathrobe cord tied tightly around his neck, after plunging from a 16th-story hospital window. The chief psychiatrist called the death a suicide even before any investigation was started. The results of the Army's inquest were kept secret. Forrestal's diaries were published, 80% deleted, after a year of direct government censorship and rewriting. UP! SUMMER OF LOVE 35TH ANNIVERSARY Yesterday was the 35th Anniversary of the Summer of Love. Rebecca Nichols and Zeremy Uptegrove and many othersdespite many obstacles including little moneyand lack of publicity pulled off a good concert with some rare but still living species of sixties bands and Wavy Gravy, Chet Helmsand Allen Cohen. Bands included Canned Heat, Beau Brummels, It's a Beautiful Day, Arthur Lee and Love, Country Joe McDonald, Great Society, Flying Other Brothersand the Cast of Hair. About 5 thousand people appeared out of the void at Civic Center Plazaand a nostalgic time was had by all in the Spirit of Peace. Allen Cohen / San Francisco UP! The most beautiful attire - SMILE! WOODY HARRELSON WRITES ABOUT THE WAR: Since Woody Harrelson attended the New Human Be-In, we can hardly not print the article he’s just had published in the Guardian. On the other hand, so many people must have read it by now that it will be old hat to many of you. Consequently we’re printing it in small size lettering. You can always cut & paste it bigger into another programme.. The man who drives me to and from work is named Woody too. A relief to me, as it minimises the chance of my forgetting his name. I call him Woodman and he calls me Wood. He has become my best friend here, even though he's upset that I have quit drinking beer. He's smart, funny, and there's nothing he hasn't seen in 33 years behind the wheel of his black cab. He drove me for a while before I felt confident he liked me; he doesn't like people easily, especially if they have a rap for busting up black cabs. Woodman and I agree about a lot of things, but one thing we can never agree about is Iraq. He thinks the only language Saddam understands is brute force. I don't believe we should be bombing cities in our quest for one man. We've killed a million Iraqis since the start of the Gulf war - mostly by blocking humanitarian aid. Let's stop now. Thankfully, most of the Brits I talk to about the war are closer to me than to Woodman. Only your prime minister doesn't seem to have noticed. I have been here three months doing a play in the West End. I am having the time of my life. I love England, the people, the parks, the theatre. The play is great and the audiences have been a dream. Probably I should just relax, be happy and talk about the weather, but this war is under my skin - it affects my sleep. I remember playing basketball with an Iraqi in the late 80s while Iran and Iraq were at war. I didn't know at the time that the US and Britain were supplying weapons to both sides. I asked why they were always at war with each other and he said something that stayed with me: "If it were up to the people, there would be peace. It's the governments that create war." And now my government is creating its second war in less than a year. No; war requires two combatants, so I should say "its second bombing campaign". I went to the White House when Harvey Weinstein was showing Clinton the movie Welcome to Sarejevo, which I was in. I got a few moments alone with Clinton. Saddam throwing out the weapons inspectors was all over the news and I asked what he was going to do. His answer was very revealing. He said: "Everybody is telling me to bomb him. All the military are saying, 'You gotta bomb him.' But if even one innocent person died, I couldn't bear it." And I looked in his eyes and I believed him. Little did I know he was blocking humanitarian aid at the time, allowing the deaths of thousands of innocent people. I am a father, and no amount of propaganda can convince me that half a million dead children is acceptable "collateral damage". The fact is that Saddam Hussein was our boy. The CIA helped him to power, as they did the Shah of Iran and Noriega and Marcos and the Taliban and countless other brutal tyrants. The fact is that George Bush Sr continued to supply nerve gas and technology to Saddam even after he used it on Iran and then the Kurds in Iraq. While the Amnesty International report listing countless Saddam atrocities, including gassing and torturing Kurds, was sitting on his desk, Bush Sr pushed through a $2bn "agricultural" loan and Thatcher gave hundreds of millions in export credit to Saddam. The elder Bush then had the audacity to quote the Amnesty reports to garner support for his oil war. A decade later, Shrub follows the same line: "We have no quarrel with the Iraqi people." I'm sure half a million Iraqi parents are scratching their heads over that. I'm an American tired of lies. And with our government, it's mostly lies. The history taught in our schools is scandalous. We grew up believing that Columbus actually discovered America. We still celebrate Columbus Day. Columbus was after one thing only - gold. As the natives were showering him with gifts and kindness, he wrote in his diary, "They do not bear arms ... They have no iron ... With 50 men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want." Columbus is the perfect symbol of US foreign policy to this day. This is a racist and imperialist war. The warmongers who stole the White House (you call them "hawks", but I would never disparage such a fine bird) have hijacked a nation's grief and turned it into a perpetual war on any non-white country they choose to describe as terrorist. To the men in Washington, the world is just a giant Monopoly board. Oddly enough, Americans generally know how the government works. The politicians do everything they can for the people - the people who put them in power. The giant industries that are polluting our planet as well as violating human rights worldwide are the ones nearest and dearest to the hearts of American politicians. But in wartime people lose their senses. There are flags and yellow ribbons and posters and every media outlet is beating the war drum and even sensible people can hear nothing else. In the US, God forbid you should suggest the war is unjust or that dropping cluster bombs from 30,000ft on a city is a cowardly act. When TV satirist Bill Maher made some dissenting remarks about the bombing of Afghanistan, Disney pulled the plug on him. In a country that lauds its freedom of speech, a word of dissent can cost you your job. I read in a paper here about a woman who held out the part of her taxes that would go to the war effort. Something like 17%. I like that idea, though in the US it would have to be more like 50%. If you consider money as a form of energy, then we see half our taxes and half the US government's energy focused on war and weapons of mass destruction. Over the past 30 years, this amounts to more than ten trillion dollars. Imagine that money going to preserving rainforest or contributing to a sustainable economy (as opposed to the dinosaur tit we are currently in the process of sucking dry). I give in to Woodman, and we stop for a few beers. He asks me what I'd do in Bush's shoes. Easy: I'd honour Kyoto. Join the world court. I'd stop subsidising earth rapers like Monsanto, Dupont and Exxon. I'd shut down the nuclear power plants. So I already have $200bn saved from corporate welfare. I'd save another $100bn by stopping the war on non-corporate drugs. And I'd cut the defence budget in half so they'd have to get by on a measly $200bn a year. I've already saved half a billion bucks by saying no to polluters and warmongers. Then I'd give $300bn back to the taxpayers. I'd take the rest and pay the people teaching our children what they deserve. I'd put $100bn into alternative fuels and renewable energy. I'd revive the Chemurgy movement, which made the farmer the root of the economy, and make paper and fuel from wheat straw, rice straw and hemp. Not only would I attend, I'd sponsor the next Earth Summit. And, of course, I'd give myself a fat raise. Woodman drops me at home and I ask if he likes my ideas. He offers a reluctant "yes". As he pulls away he yells out, "But I'd never vote for a man who can't handle a few pints at the end of the day!" U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U UP P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P the UP! //:-) la - la - la - lap-toppling da system! 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