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NEW HUMAN BE-IN UPDATE THEO OF SEIZE THE DAY (FORMERLY OF WORLD WITHOUT WALLS) WILL PERFORM SOLO DURING THE ALTERNATIVE FYOUTURE POWWOW UP! UP! "Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff," Mariah Carey A recent CBS News poll revealed that, by a 52-37 margin, Democrats don't think removing Saddam is worth the trouble. UP! "I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from the Indians. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves." John Wayne 'CUTE' ROBOTS COULD TAKE OVER With robots getting cuter, like MIT's Kismet and Sony's Aibo puppy, and people playing less with real people and more with fake ones, "one day, adorable robots could do us great harm and we are not ready," warned ABC science correspondent Robert Krowlich on Nightline, August 19. http://www.kurzweilai.net/email/newsRedirect.html?newsID=1191&m=5435 UP! • 71% of Britons oppose joining a war on Iraq without United Nations approval, according to an ICM poll for the Daily Mirror and GMTV. UP! tokyo WED SEPT 11 UPDATE ON THE TOKYO BE-IN We will start praying at the time when the first plane clashed into WTC. (Japanese Standard Time pm 9:45) I wanna break off the chain of hatred and retaliations, and be connected to people by peace and symbiosis. I hope to change this day into a chance for peace. Therefore, we will pray. And we gather so that each of us knows he is not the only one. Please join us. Peace, Tetra / tokyo UP! WELCOME TO THE LOONY BIN HERE LONG? 'A world in which it is wrong to murder an individual civilian and right to drop a thousand tons of high explosive on a residential area does sometimes make me wonder whether this earth of ours is not a loony-bin made use of by some other planet.' George Orwell UP! "It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it." Al Gore, Vice President london SAT SEPT 14 ORPHEUS 2 (live on stage!) LAB 4 (live on stage!) K90 (live on stage!) @ Stratford Rex with Peace and Love! www.antiworlddjs.co.uk UP! NEW HUMAN BE-IN UPDATE THERAPIES & CLASSES Activisers - seated massage for exhausted activists Helping Handies - hand and feet massage for friends Boosters - reflexology for high power energy boosts BlissOuts - head massage for the ultimate relaxation experience aromatherapy to lift the spirit aromatherapy facial massage co-counselling introduction (TBC) Vortex healing playshop (TBC) <kendra@uk2.net> UP! "I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body." Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward. san francisco TUES SEPT 11 AN EYE FOR AN EYE MAKES THE WHOLE WORLD BLIND A Release Event and Reading for a new anthology of poems called An Eye for an Eye Makes The Whole World Blind - Poets on 9/11, This important antholgy creates an alternative historical record to the din of collective madness and uniformity that has characterized our national dialogue The Anthology, edited by Allen Cohen and Clive Matson with a Forward by Michael Parenti, is published by Regent Press in Oakland. It features poems by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Robert Pinsky, Michael McClure, Nellie Wong Diane DiPrima, Devorah Major, Robert Creeley, Daniel Berrigan and almost 100 poets from all over America. 240 pages, $15. @ Studio Z, 314 11th St off Folsom. 7:30pm. More info from Allen Cohen at sforacle@prodigy.net UP! CHICKENHAWKS You recently asked (on the UP) for new phrases to describe conservatives to update terms like `DittoHead' & `PuG' ... Well here are some new ones... There is a split forming in the US Rightwing about Iraq... While most career military types are urging caution, those promoting the idea tend to be rich kids who avoided service .... Recently they have been referred to as ‘Chickenhawks.' In the tradition of BoBos (Bohemian Bourgoisie) we now have CoCos (Corrupt Conservatives).... Also here is my idea for an anti-Iraq War Slogan ... `MAKE SENSE - NOT WAR!' stefan san francisco UP! "Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country," Mayor Marion Barry, Washington, DC. Hi Fraser, enjoyed the 'Triple Filter' story from larry Morningstar below. It's the first time I've seen it attributed to Socrates, but its almost exactly the Buddha's advice on Right Speech, 'Is it true, Is it Helpful, is it Endearing.' Only speak what is true and helpful, and if it is not endearing then find the right time. Jeff Lewis / Plymouth UP! SKRUFFF INTERVIEW: FRASER CLARK’S HUMAN BE-IN: BE THERE OR ELSE: HACKNEY, 27 SEPTEMBER “There’s a dinosaur culture already in existence which is based on violence, competition and exploitation, and they even justify and rationalise these aspects. Then there’s another culture, including rave culture, which doesn’t want the world to be that way at all. We represent an alternative culture that doesn’t want to live that way at all and I think that’s growing as people get more and more dissatisfied..” [more] <skrufff.com> UP! " It's no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another" George Bush, US President. new york FRI AUG 23 AFTER YEARS OF STRUGGLE AND CONSTRUCTION The victory of the Lowe East Side squatters demonstrates the indispensable power of struggle. Joel Meyers THE CONCLUSION: The NYC government has sold 11 buildings to the squatters for $1 each, after years of reviling, arresting and physically attacking the courageous, persistent activists who took over abandoned hulks of buildings, fixed them up, and transformed them into real, low-income, no-landlord housing, thereby reviving a spirit of community that has been driven underground in recent years. THE HISTORY: The buildings fell into NYC government possession in lieu of taxes owed by fleeing landlords. The government forced the tenants to move, and stripped the buildings of electricity, plumbing and staircases in efforts to prevent squatting. As then-defacto mayor Rudolph Giuliani put it as he brought a military tank into the streets to evict the 5 squats of 13th Street in May of 1995: "You cannot live without paying rent!" The squatters also had frequently to clear the buildings of drug dealers and drug users, aligned with the city government and police, which served as yet another layer of squatter prevention. The superrich, and their government, set the top police priority: War on Community-real cooperation at the grass roots, independent of the capitalist state, leading to squatter-tenant-homeless alliance. One result catalysed by the squatters crystalised in the Tompkins Square Uprising, in which thousands poured into the streets on August 6, 1988 to defy a police riot aimed at enforcing a real estate-ordered park curfew. That confrontation announced an ongoing smouldering neighborhood insurrection resisting gentrification to this day. The squatter victory stands in contrast to the homesteading groups, who tried to reclaim housing by playing by the rules to win government approval. The rules were that the homesteaders had to work under strict government supervision, and could not move in until it was marked up to code. Generally, they were tricked out of their promised housing after years of work, and the government sold the improved properties. These homesteader groups were generally alligned with the Democratic Party through the Joint Planning Council. JPC-associated poverty pimps coveted the squatter buildings for their own fiefdoms, and constantly pressured for squatter evictions. At times, they instigated assaults by homesteaders against the squatters. Fires were even set. The negotiations for the current settlement were begun during Giuliani's Republican administration. Some think the Democrats would have stood by the poverty pimps, whereas the Republicans wanted to cut them out, and would rather give control to the politically untied squatters. An exception was Antonio Pagan, a particularly rightwing, Giuliani-aligned poverty pimp, who was given the 13th Street squatter site. The squatter victory also contrasts to the regular tenants who also played by the rules, paying exorbitant rents and having nothing to show for it but higher rents and continued slavery to the landlords. Long Live the Revolutionary Spirit! Free the Land! <meyersjoel@yahoo.com> UP! "Your food stamps will be stopped effective March 1992 because we received notice that you passed away. May God bless you. You may reapply if there is a change in your circumstances." Department of Social Services, Greenville, South Carolina BUDDHA POEMS FROM BEAT TO HIPHOP (American Book Award 1999, and mentioned in Michael Horowitz' Flashbacks books catalogue) http://word.to/whatweb.html UP! NEW HUMAN BE-IN UPDATE IN THE HUMAN DANCE INN “enlighten” - THE IMMERSION EXPERIENCE presented by LIQUID LOTUS THE WORLD IS SOUND Allow yourself to be immersed in multimedia meditation: yoga for the 21st century , a synathesisia of sacred geometry , walls of fireletters and divine languages , starfields and halls constructed of colour geometry , glyphs and symbols of light , Names of God and mudras forming languages of light pulsing streams of sacred vibration dissolving reality in front of you …… SEE HOW YOU ARE A UNIVERSE All you have to do is watch and listen Using state of the art sound and animation techniques allied with ancient powerful mantras prayers and songs from the worlds sacred traditions and religions, LIQUID LOTUS presents a consciousness shifting immersion into the basis of our reality , a matrix of sound sacred geometry and vibration. This marriage of Judeo Christian, Buddhist, Hindu and Native American sound and forms of the universe is a powerful synergy that appeals to all peoples and cultures beyond words, creating a universal sound and universal vision , one that is badly needed at this time on Earth. This vision happens in the 21st century through the medium of education and entertainment “ edutainment ” , a new form of art , spirit and science that has a timeless basis to their _expression , providing shifts in consciousness allowing new learnings and initiations to happen and be integrated. PEACE is what unites all peoples, all religions all differences .. the sense of real peace that sacred sound and geometry combines to trigger within us is a form of yoga that has been used for thousands of years by the most spiritually advanced cultures on earth , from India and Tibet to Egypt Greece and the Sufis of the Middle East ..... ENLIGHTEN NOW! UP! Doctor Dave had slept with one of his patients and felt guilty all day long. No matter how much he tried to forget about it, he couldn't. The guilt and sense of betrayal was overwhelming. But every once in a while he'd hear an internal, reassuring voice that said: "Dave, don't worry about it. You aren't the first doctor to sleep with one of their patients and you won't be the last. And you're single. Just let it go." But invariably the other voice would bring him back to reality, whispering: "But, Dave, oh Dave, you're a vet!!" UP! ENERGY WATER? We have something very inspiring to share with you. A new form of structured water has recently become available in the US. It is called Energy Water, and people are experiencing wonderful changes when they drink it. We are seeing long term dis-ease symptoms decrease and even disappear, increased energy, improved sleep. We sense the potential for Energy Water to usher in a paradigm shift in health and wellness. For more information, contact:- mana7@opendoor.com UP! "If somebody has a bad heart, they can plug this jack in at night as they go to bed and it will monitor their heart throughout the night. And the next morning, when they wake up dead, there'll be a record." --Mark S. Fowler, FCC Chairman THE UP! IS PORNOGRAPHIC SPAM WITH GAPPY TEXT! GREENNET MAILSERVER SPAM DETECTION TOOL ON THE LAST UP! MAG (sent in by piers gibbon) SPAM: GreenNet mailserver marked this e-mail as a spam. SPAM: The original message has been altered so you can recognize or block similar unwanted mail in future. If you have any questions, contact support@gn.apc.org. SPAM: Powered by Spamassassin http://spamassassin.org/tag/. SPAM: Content analysis details: (10 hits, 7.5 required) SPAM: PLING (0.1 points) Subject has an exclamation mark (wow!) SPAM: DOUBLE_CAPSWORD (1.1 points) BODY: A word in all caps repeated on the line (WOW O WOW!) 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SPAM: SUBJ_HAS_UNIQ_ID (2.5 points) Subject contains a unique ID number (anybody got any idea what this one means?) SPAM: -------------------- End of results YOU’LL BE AMAZED HOW MUCH B-E-T-T-E-R LIFE WOULD BE WITHOUT THIS KINDA SPAM DETECTOR!!!!!!! UP! "That lowdown scoundrel deserves to be kicked to death by a jackass, and I'm just the one to do it," Congressional candidate in Texas. vancouver SAT SEPT 9 An all day free festival of urban youth culture, presented by Tribal Harmonix, Momentum Magazine, Youth Driven,Think City, performances by Adam Shaikh, Mazeguider, Downlow, CHill, Phoenix Olivia, Corrior, Naaskow, Rupix Cube and others, plus puppets, urban activist info, dance & circus performances, etc... @ New Brighton Park in the Peoples' Republic of East Van, S/W of the Second Narrows Bridge, entrance from Wall Street. Opening circle at noon, closing circle 8:30pm. www.tribalharmonix.org. UP! NET VISIONARIES SEEK NEW VISTAS Vinton Cerf (co-designer of the TCP/IP protocol upon which the Internet is built) is currently mapping out plans for an Interplanetary Internet. "Some of the ideas we're pursuing will have utility on Earth in the mobile environment, where connectivity is often episodic . http://www.kurzweilai.net/email/newsRedirect.html?newsID=1175&m=5435 UP! //YOU FEEDBACK "It is not the function of our government to keep the citizen from falling into error. It is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error." United States Supreme Court in American Communications Association vs. Douds. OK Fraser, I completely agree with that. So now you can use your wonderful mailing list to inviteeveryoneto send the government their views on what kind of democracypeople REALLYwant for this new millennium...check out the 'Government's proposals' linkfor electronic democracy atwww.edemocracy.gov.ukand then go to 'What do you think?' to join the discussion or fill in the questionnaire. Yes, it seems they really do want to hear from us - a mate of mine has been advising them and he says their proposals for 'e-participation' are pretty ambitious. Be interested to hear what you think... Keep up the good work, Irving Rappaport / London UP! ‘the ISNESS' Do yourselves a favor & check out the new FSOL CD `the ISNESS' on Cleopatra/FutureSoundOfLondon, it’s (IMO) one of the most magnificent expressions of the counterculture ever... tying together influences such as the Beatles, Trance, Miles Davis, Ambient & psy into a cohesive whole... More than justifies the six years they have been working on it... They are also looking for opportunities to do `GIGS' webcast from their studio... Co-Incidentally the SF Examiner reviewed it today, Calling it `a masterpiece so far ahead of it's time the world may never catch up' stefan / san francisco UP! "The word "genius" isn't applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein," Joe Theisman, NFL football quarterback & sports analyst. LINKING THE BANK & THE WAR: WHY GO TO WASHINGTON? by Starhawk In November of 1969, President Nixon was preparing to use nuclear weapons against Hanoi and Haiphong. What stopped him were the anti-war mobilizations of that autumn. There were too many people in the street.¹ This September, as Bush continues to push for an invasion of Iraq, to support Sharon¹s seige of Palestine, and to reinforce the endless Œwar on terror¹, the streets of Washington DC will again be filled with protestors. A mass mobilization has been called for SEPTEMBER 25-29, when the World Bank and International Monetary Fund hold their annual Fall meetings. The protests will focus on issues of economic justice, but they are also a general _expression of our opposition to the Bush gang and their policies. If they are large and successful, they too could serve as a deterrent to Bush¹s escalation of his various wars, provided that we make clear connections between the issues of economic justice and peace. WHAT DOES GLOBAL JUSTICE HAVE TO DO WITH PEACE? Everything!! The war on terror and the threatened war in the Middle East are integral outgrowths of the global corporate capitalist agenda. That system has based its legitimacy on a fiction: that by opening the world¹s resources and peoples to unchecked corporate exploitation, removing governments from their responsibilities as regulators and providers of social services, and releasing corporations from any community accountability, it can provide the good life for all. Endlessly expanding wealth will bring universal democracy and harmony (and you can be a part of it!) But in reality, most people in the world are worse off than they were twenty years ago. The environment deteriorates and governments prove unable to grapple with serious issues such as global warming. Third world countries struggle under crushing loads of debt, and suffer further from IMF policies that enforce privatization of state resources and services and cutbacks in health, social welfare and education. Argentina, the IMF¹s poster child¹, is in economic ruin. Africa is more deeply impoverished than it was twenty years ago. In industrialized countries, policies of privatization, deregulation, corporate license and withdrawal of public support for social programs result in reduced services, increased prices, blackouts, brownouts, and unemployment, not to mention Enron, WorldCom, and all the rest. The promise now rings false to more and more people. Its legitimacy has successfully been eroded by campaigns of education, public information, demonstrations and direct action, and by its own flaws. The system requires a new basis of legitimacy in order to retain power. Since September 11, that basis has been fear. If the promises of the system no longer seduce us, we may still cling to it out of fear of a larger enemy. An enemy is such a useful thing. It justifies the erosion of our freedoms and huge expenditures on armaments and the military. It keeps us from looking too closely at what our own leaders are doing, and focuses our anxieties and discontents on a foreign menace. An enemy allows us to periodically demonstrate the scope and firepower of the US Military, just in case anyone in the world still had lingering doubts about who is the top global superpower. It is no accident that the enemy now wears a Muslim face. The power base of the Bush gang is oil. Oil is the life blood of the global corporate capitalist system. Only cheap oil can subsidize the transport of goods that make it possible for corporations to roam the globe in search of the cheapest labor and most lax regulations. An endlessly expanding economy requires endless oil reserves. To maintain their control, the oil barons need to maintain our dependence on oil, undercutting the development of alternative fuels and renewable sources of energy, denying the facts of global warming and of oil¹s environmental costs. Much of the world¹s oil is under the Middle East, so American control must be maintained there. The world¹s largest untapped reserves of oil are in central Asia: hence the invasion of Afghanistan. Israel acts as a surrogate for U.S. military power, maintaining a harsh and humiliating control over Palestine as an ongoing warning to the rest of the Arab and Muslim world. A new mythology postulating a clash of civilizations¹ reworks old stereotypes of a progressive, democratic West in conflict with a regressive, primitive, autocratic East‹when in reality, repressive forces can be found on both sides. The mobilization needs to make these connections. How do we delegitimize fear in a world in which we have real enemies? Not by pretending the world is safe, or by denying that there are regimes that pose the threat of violence. But by challenging the idea that safety can be assured by military backing for systems that create gross inequalities and mass despair. People¹s desires for lives of dignity and hope cannot be stamped out by force. Real security cannot be achieved by the hegemony of U.S. military might backing global corporate control. Global justice is the solution to global security. These issues need to be faced on a global stage. Some voices in the movement have been suggesting that resources are better used locally than in going to mass mobilizations. While local organizing is always important, now is not the moment to pull back into a local focus. For this is the historic moment when the Bush forces will either win overarching control or be stymied. We are facing national and global policies that threaten our basic liberties and undermine anything we can achieve on a local level. It¹s a global system, its center of power is in Washington, DC, and that is the place to confront it. And the time to confront it is now. NOW ‹when the false promises of corporate globalization are more and more evident and its legitimacy is faltering. NOW ‹when the Bush junta is pushing its warmongering agenda on an increasingly unsympathetic public. NOW ‹when we most need to show the power holders and the world that there is a strong US movement that is not willing to march lockstep into the war frenzy. NOW ‹when we still have a chance to prevent the next round of slaughter. NOW is the moment to fill the streets in an exuberant uprising against the politics of fear and the policies of greed, and to recognize that they are two faces of the same system, and to disrupt it in as many unruly and joyful ways as our imaginations can conceive. For systems that depend on fear are on shaky ground. We can refuse to be ruled by fear ourselves, to let fear narrow our choices and constrict our imagination. Courage feels good. When we act in spite of fear, we feel good about ourselves. When we plan and act with courage, when we choose our boldest and most creative visions, we evoke the opposite of fear, which is love, the tremor that can bring the fortress down. www.starhawk.org SEPT 25-27 AntiCapitalist Convergence: Main Day of action: 9/27 www. abolishthebank.org Mobilization for Global Justice; Main Day of action: 9/28 www.globalizethis.org 202-452-5912 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS: SEPT 25-29 Convergence of organizers and activists. Trainings, teach-ins, and coordination for the Fall and beyond Sept 25-27 End Corporate Rule Teach-In: Global Struggles Against the IMF & World Bank organized by 50 Years is Enough and others (see www.50years.org) SEPT. 25-27 CEO Summit, Ritz Carlton Hotel SEPT. 26 Power for the People / Clean Energy Rally (day) Interfaith Vigil (evening) SEPT. 27 Anti-Capitalist Convergence Action www.abolishthebank.org) SEPT. 28-29 IMF & World Bank Group Annual meetings SEPT. 28 Mobilization for Global Justice Rally & March (day) Quarantine Actions (evening) SEPT. 29 Social Forum and People's Assemblies being planned From Washington to Quito, Join us for Corporate Fall! www.globalizethis.org 202-452-5912 UP! "We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?" Lee Iacocca "hot off the presses" THE COMPLETE IDIOT'S GUIDE TO UNDERSTANDING BUDDHISM http://awakening.to UP! This is quite a time. as if we didn't know it but did u hear, there is a rare constellation right now between uranus (universal ruler of aquarius) & saturn (practicality) which repeats again in mid december .. according to the astrologer this is a hugely r'evolutionary time - shiver me timbers.. do you ever get that feelin that it's all too much? from the mayan age to the gaian age .. so mote it be hee hee marshall darkness / penzance uk ;) UP! A great website by people who know what's up. Conspiracies are no longer considered theories. Revealing facts you won't hear from your Mass Media sources. Inspiration to wake up and smell the coffee. The article is long and well-worth reading, the reader comments and responses also bring Truth to Light. The Bush family Agenda beyond the contrived 9/11 tragedy. Don't pass this one by... http://www.voxnyc.com/archives/00000001.htm UP! SORRY, I UHH MIS-SPOKE In September 1994, in the Brasilia studios of Globo television, Treasury Minister Rubens Ricupero was waiting to be interviewed. While the lights and microphones were adjusted, he chatted with the journalist. Relaxed and speaking off the record, the minister admitted he only gives out economic information favourable to the government and hides figures that aren't. "I have no scruples," he said. And he told the journalist confidentially: "Once the elections are over, we'll sic the police on the strikers." Eduardo Galeano: Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World UP! "I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version," Colonel Oliver North, from his Iran-Contra testimony. Hello Fraser, A bit worrying that the Americans are heading full steam for a whole lotta trouble. I was on holiday in France recently and picked up a book called 'The Stargate Conspiracy' which, if you haven't read already, you should get your hands on. Wicked book, written really well, and researched even better, giving a bit of a lowdown on Masonic bits & pieces, CIA involvement, and big players in the secret world of mass control ... all tapping into the general feeling of disenchantment that most folks have, but in effect controlling a lot of people that think they are out on their own. It was published in 1999, and makes an awful lot of sense with hindsight after the last year. Nuff said, the rest is for reading. Keep up the good work big man. Best regards, gawain. uk. UP! //FEEDBACK ON SUMMER OF LOVE Hi Fraser, very impressive indeed, well done! Don Eales / London Awesome Fraser! I will network this on my Peace Times list. Peace and blessings, Larry Morningstar mana7@opendoor.com Hi, I'm on your mailing list for your regular (and colourful) newsletter. i really enjoyed the 'WORKING SUCKS' pieces from earlier this year, and now this Human Be-In sounds very promising! Philip Barnes, Hull, UK UP! NEW HUMAN BE-IN UPDATE????? Dear Fraser, The Love Choir would love to participate in anyway in the Human Be-in (great name). We are a group of 50+ people mostly 50+ years old who get together and sing great songs of the 60's (Beatles, Bob Marley, songs of peace & protest). The group is very inclusive and encourages the audience to sing along with these familiar tunes. We have performed at a number of fesivals including Kate Wolf Festival and Starwberry Music Festival, and have been invited to perform next year at the Pig-nic. You can ask Wavy Gravy about Mr. Music & The Love Choir if you need further recommendations. Anyhow, we would be a great addition to your show and festivites. Let me know how we can serve. Musically Yours, Jim Corbett "Mr. Music" sounds utterly fantastic, jim, and a fookin great idea! if u were in london or if we had any budget left i would definitely hsve u over. the trouble with putting on really great events is that they bring such an amazing variety of talent from everywhere that you end up feeling sad and frustrated that you can't fit it all in. i'm being very serious! maybe one day i'll start a club that just grows and grows until everyone's innit!! fraser. how about would cyber-linking you guys up for the event? would that work? does community singing work over the internet? UP! ECSTASY NOT DANGEROUS, SCIENTISTS CONCLUDE Like in other fields, the truth is finally breaking through on the ecstasy front as the authorities lose control of the ‘statistics’ and the ‘moral high ground’. Now three leading psychologists have broken ranks to claim publicly that ecstasy may not be dangerous and that some of its ill-effects may be IMAGINARY. They are strongly critical of animal and human studies into its effects, stating that, despite claims of deaths and permanent brain damage, they are misleading and overestimate the harm MDMA can cause. Two of the scientists are at Liverpool University (one a reader in addictive behaviour and the other a postdoctoral researcher) and the other scientist is director of the division of child and adolescent psychiatry at the Harbor-UCLA Medical Centre in California. STUDIES WERE FLAWED IN A BIASED WAY Writing in the magazine the Psychologist, published by the British Psychological Society, they claim that many of the studies since 1995 have been flawed. They also accuse researchers of bias. This has an undeniable and disturbing resonance with the deliberately exaggerated and scary ‘test results’ released to discredit the Hippy Movement at the peak of its power, claiming birth defects and other horrors. Ecstasy, for example, has been reported as affecting cells in the brain which produce serotonin, the chemical known to influence mood. In fact the changes were not in the cell bodies themselves but in the nerve fibres - which can be regrown. They accuse other scientists of minimising the impact of data suggesting that ecstasy exposure HAD NO LONG-TERM EFFECTS. Despite numerous volunteers, only positive results were reported in detail, suggesting that ”hypotheses concerning the long-term effects of ecstasy are not being uniformly substantiated. This lends support to the idea that ecstasy is not causing long-term effects associated with the loss of serotonin." Thet’re also critical of how studies of young users have been conducted. Since many psychological problems start in adolescence anyway, ecstasy users invariably took other drugs, while some reported symptoms which were probably caused by simply staying awake all night and dancing. (who would want to do that?!) Most studies have totally failed to pinpoint ecstasy as the cause of problems, they conclude. BIGGEST ECSTASY DANGER IS IATROGENIC! NOW GET THIS: the long-term effects of the drug, they say, might be iatrogenic - imaginary illnesses of the patient brought about by the mannerisms or treatment of the physician. - I would add: “and governments”. With 2 million ecstasy tablets believed to be taken by UK clubbers every weekend, deaths “linked to ecstasy” in 2000 were 27, with 19 having other drugs in their system. Where the exact cause of death has been established, it was often dehydration. http://www.guardian.co.uk/drugs/Story/0,2763,784716,00.html UP! "Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life," --Brooke Shields. U 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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