TIME OUT LONDON SEPT 25

A RIGHT PEACE-UP!
Dave Swindells, Time Out’s clubbing editor, hears Fraser Clark’s plans for radical partying.

“WAR”
roared Edwin Starr in his eponymous 1970 song, “What is it good for?”  It was a rhetorical question.  He knew the answer and expressed it passionately:  “Absolutely nothing!”
But he was wrong.  War certainly is good for the arms industry  the Gulf War was often presented like a commercial for missile manufacturers  and war generally plays well with voters far away from the firing line.  This is common knowledge, but still, when you witness the apparently inexorable march towards war orchestrated by the Bush administration you may just wonder what anybody can do to prevent it.  Joining the Coalition Against the War rally on Saturday is one way to protest, and Fraser Clark has another:  the NEW HUMAN BE-IN at Ocean on Friday  a 12 hour marathon that is about as ambitious as nightlife can get.
Clark revels in pushing the boundaries of clubbing.  Back in 1993 he launched the cyber-zippy, festival in a club Megatripolis at Heaven.  He followed it with a night based around debating and infotainment, Parallel YOUniversity at Bagleys Studios (that well known centre of learning), and went on to present the extraordinary Warp Experience - round-the-clock-parties which combined dance and chill rooms with a performance of a 24 hour play at the Drome (1999)
“The club scene hasn’t really developed as so many clubbers have” he suggests.  “A lot of the ravers at Megatripolis became involved in ecological or ani-globalisation campaigns or explored spirituality.  They still want to go out but they want more than a club with 3 rooms playing banging beats all night long”.
Fraser knows this as he keeps in regular contact with many of them through compiling the UP!, a weekly email newsletter which he describes as “a radical global edutainment update covering a mixture of rave culture, politics, spirituality and humour.  It’s been very anti-Bush and anti-war” he chuckles, “and we reckon over two million people see it each week”.
This radical attitude fires his enthusiasm for the NEW HUMAN BE-IN, which will incorporate many elements from previous club events  the speeches and debates, the stalls, the sideshows, the art exhibitions, shamanic poetry and lightshows plus live music, global beats and full-on dance music.  And there’s the distinctive marriage of hi-tech and twenty first century spirituality, here wrapped in new packages of punning, meaningful names: welcome to the “HANDS-ON, EXPERIMENTAL LIVING NEWSEUM OF OUR ALTERNATIVE FYOUTURE!”
Hmmm, well, you’ll just have to allow Mr Clark some poetic licence with those names…
The whole event is inspired by the original Human BE-IN in San Francisco in January 1967, which brought together the anti-Vietnam war and civil rights activists with the “love generation” hippies of Haight Ashbury.  It was there that Timothy Leary told everyone to Turn On, Tune In and Drop Out, and they predicted the legendary Summer of Love. 
Thirty five years later, the principal organisers and characters of the ’67 event will fly over for the NEW HUMAN BE-IN , an event aiming to be the forum for the clubbing generation to re-unite with the anti-corporate, environmental and global peace movements.  They plan to predict a Summer of Peace in 2003 too.  “That should culminate with the UN’s Day of Peace on September 21 next year” declares Fraser, “when simultaneous Be-Ins would take place around the planet.”
Phew!  Just how  this will happen is one of the subjects to be discussed at the ‘ALTERNATIVE FYOUTURE POWWOW’ where a distinguished collection of authors and activists (“They’re the anti-establishment establishment” says Clark) including Satish Kumar and MEP Dr Caroline Lucas will debate globalisation, the tyranny of economics, ecological interdependence, biotechnology, and digital technology.  It’s just as well that this all happens at the start of the night before party brains have become too mashed.
But Fraser is confident that with all these ideas flying about it will still be a wild party.  There’s trance music all night long in one main room while the Human Dance Inn kicks off at midnight with DJs Colin Dale, Marco Arnaldi and Nik the Record plus a live set by Bandulu.  Meanwhile Youth (the ex-Killing Joke and KLF man who now runs Dragonfly Records also hosts a Youman Room with the Society for the Reformation of Ancient Enchantment, wherein all sorts of enlightened and crazy DJs/bands/speakers perform.
“This isn’t a floppy Greenpeace benefit at the Ministry where it’s all blanded out and safe” concludes Fraser.  “We haven’t had to compromise anything at all in putting this on” 
Put that in your (peace) pipe and smoke it, as they might have said back on Haight Ashbury.

THE NEW HUMAN BE-IN is at Ocean on Friday.  See listings or www.humanbe-in.com for details


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THE MURDER OF ARAFAT        p.5
YOUR LAST CHANCE TO STAND UP AND SHOUT: NO!

UNARGUABLE REASONS WHY       p.8
AMERICA SHOULD NOT ATTACK IRAQ


***EMAIL OF THE WEEK ***    p.10


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ENJOY PEOPLE AND EQUALITY
Continue to rethink issues of equality in relationships.
You can make moves for healing now
as we begin a very social period.
During the month to come we will tend to congregate in groups,
and to do a lot of communicating.
Beginning Sunday, we can let go of disabling dependencies.
Find out what’s happening by reading
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‘Sillisage’ with Nick Chow
Massage, from the Arabic to ‘press softly,’ is as old as the hills. Ever since people started sitting in caves huddled together for warmth or comfort it’s been integral to human socialisation.
Archaeologists have discovered that oils were used on the skin and hair by Asian women as long as 10,000 years ago.  Creams have been found in Egyptian tombs and the word ‘anointing’ means rubbing oil into the body.  Aristotle claimed that physical touch is the most fundamental of the five senses.
The influence in latter years of cultures which share the Eden creation myth can not be under-estimated.  Concepts such as Sin, Monogamous partnering and romantic love can all trace their roots there, as can guilt and the start of touch taboos.  In the North West, this peaked in Victorian times when, whilst piano legs were covered for modesty over 4,000 brothels flourished in the east end of London alone.  Generations of people grew up with skewed perceptions about the basic human need of touch - and it comes as no surprise that within twenty years of the end of Victoria’s reign that the first world war broke out.
Not until the 1960’s did we begin to see some healing of this deep psychological wound with the Free Love movement centred at the intersection of two streets of San Francisco, Haight & Ashbury.
Even today nearly 40 years later we find the old scars still with us, and the word ‘Massage’ still raises a smirk and occasional nudge…

With the conviction that
laughter is the best medicine, I invite the citizens of the world  to reclaim their natural birthright of touch with the humble offering of the not so ancient art of
Sillisage!

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I have a feeling the BE-IN will not finish on Saturday morning . . . its just gonna build on the last one!
(be-in at an irish bar in spain. it's an International event alright!)
marc deeley / spain
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Red Overtone Moon
Hi Fraser. I’m currently in Southern Spain, but a synchronic pixie tells me I have to fly back to England and meet with a Portuguese Trance festival organiser and a Hollywood movie producer at this New Human Be-In thing.  What can this mean? Anyway, I can explain everything when I see you. The question is - can I get 3 tickets for your event - or at least one for myself to facilitate this seemingly very necessary connectivity experience?  If you can help me out, please e-mail me, otherwise I will be forced to travel all the way to Hackney and bleat your name at the door until the portal opens.
Mark Heley / Spain
- sweetest mark, the absolutest BEST i can manage (and i await penny gray's wrath) is a single £5 guest list entry for mark heley esq.  may i also say wottan honner it is to have u there @ the birth of future history?
fraser.
bleat not my name @ ocean's door no more.
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Hello,
I am an American/Israeli citizen.  And though I strongly disagree with Sharon's policies, I would really prefer not to receive this horribly inflammatory "edutainment" spam again.
josh / san francisco

- dear josh, i have removed you. 
below is what u will miss reading in the next
UP!  i seriously suggest to you that if it does not galvanise your life to change from some pre-set cultural loyalty to re-join the side of the civilised human race, then i really and truly do not know if anything ever will.  if u find my words 'inflammatory' then what words would u use for sharon's actions?  and if it's so inflammatory that you feel an unbearable urge to get off our list, imagine how any palestinian must feel who can't even go to the next town to see his mother.  who might be dead anyway.
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THE MURDER OF ARAFAT
YOUR LAST CHANCE TO STAND UP AND SHOUT: NO!
Uri Avnery, founder of Gush Shalom, the Israeli Peace Movement

Yasser Arafat is still alive.  But his life is hanging on a thread.

When we visited him the last time in his bombed-out Mukata'ah compound in Ramallah, I warned him that
Sharon is determined to kill him.

Everybody acquainted with
Sharon knows that he never lets go. When he does not achieve his aim the first time, he tries again, and again, and again, and again. Never, ever, does he give up.

Already in besieged
Beirut, at the height of the Lebanon war, Sharon was trying to put his hands on Arafat. Dozens of agents, mostly Phalanges members, were combing the western quarters in order to catch him. He evaded them, as he has evaded dozens of assassination attempts before and since, by Abu-Nidal (who was at least partly a Mossad hireling) and others.

Now
Sharon believes he can achieve his aim. He needs only Bush's
approval. Not necessarily a formal confirmation. A subtle hint will
suffice. Half a word.
A wink.

It will be easy to implement the decision. An incident can be put in motion: soldiers enter the office in order to capture
"wanted" people, somebody opens fire, Arafat will be shot "by accident". 
Arafat may draw his pistol, soldiers will
"have no alternative" but to return fire.
A shell may hit the office
"by mistake", Arafat will be buried under the
rubble. After all, in war accidents happen. A lot of accidents.

Sharon never wanted to "deport" Arafat to Gaza or any other place in this world. He wants to deport him to the next. Now this is possible.

Therefore, it is necessary to speak out bluntly and unequivocally:

The murder of Arafat, historical leader and elected president of the Palestinian people, is Morally Reprehensible. Like the murder of Rabin.

Legally, the murder of Arafat is a war crime.


IT WOULD ONLY MAKE THINGS
WORSE
Politically, it will be said about the murder of Arafat what a French statesman said about another political murder: "It is worse than a crime,
it is a mistake!"

Arafat is the man who decided, 28 years ago, to start on the road to a settlement with Israel, in order to realize in this way the national aspirations of the Palestinian people. At the time, that was an incredibly bold decision, and he took it long before Rabin and Peres even dreamed about Oslo. I know, because I was an eye-witness to the beginnings of the process.

Since than, Arafat has not changed by one iota the decision he took then: to seek conciliation with Israel within the framework of peace that will include
- an independent Palestinian state
- return to the pre-1967 border with mutually agreed adjustments
- Jerusalem capital of both states
- withdrawal of the settlers
- suitable security arrangements
- a mutually agreed solution of the refugee problem.

On this basis, peace is possible even now. Immediately. But Sharon rejects is with both his fists. He wants a Greater Israel, the extension of the settlements, and, eventually, the elimination of the Palestinian presence west of the Jordan.

Now, as before, Arafat is the only person capable of signing a peace agreement and convincing his people to accept and implement it. No other Palestinian leader capable of doing so is to be seen on the horizon. Leadership of the Palestinian people will not pass into the hands of the "moderates", who will look like collaborators and accomplices to the murder, but into the hands of the extremists, fanatics thirsting for revenge.


ARAFAT’s MURDER MURDERS ALL CHANCES OF PEACE
That is a crime against the Israeli people. It will condemn us to making war for decades, perhaps for generations to come, perhaps forever. The moral, social and economic decline that we are experiencing now everywhere in Israel will drag Israel down to new depths and to the emigration of many.

And the
Dead Arafat will become a legend of heroism to his people and a new Che Guevara to the world. His mistakes will be forgotten. For future generations of Palestinians, he will become a role model. Hundreds of millions of Arabs and Muslims, from Morocco to Indonesia, will compare their own leaders to the dead Arafat, and the comparison will be fatal.  In the eyes of these hundreds of millions, Israel and Jews will become a synonym of betrayal, killing and lying. The poisonous plant of anti-Semitism will bloom as never before. Already we are tasting a small sample of this

If this disaster happens, all the government will share the blame. Not one minister will be acquitted. Neither Ben-Eliezer, nor Peres, nor any of
their colleagues. Nor the army officers who cooperated and even pushed the political leadership. Nor the members of the Knesset, whether belonging to the coalition or the opposition, who kept quiet during the recent months. Nor the correspondents and commentators, who turned themselves into government and army spokesmen. Nor the professors and intellectuals, who saw and were silent.
All of them will bear the responsibility.

This is the last minute to get up and shout: NO!
avnery@actcom.co.il
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IN NATURE VS. NURTURE, A VOICE FOR NATURE
Discoveries about genetically determined human nature have been
ignored or suppressed in modern discussions of human affairs, says
MIT psychologist Dr. Steven Pinker in the forthcoming The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature.
http://www.kurzweilai.net/email/newsRedirect.html?newsID=1257&m=5435
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KAVA KAVA HERBAL TONICS STALL AT THE NEW HUMAN BE-IN
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WEAPONS OF SILENT MASS DESTRUCTION
Whilst we in Britain are debating the possible hazard of Iraq acquiring biological, chemical and nuclear weapons, the Iraqi people need be in no doubt at all that the formidable array of munitions now being ranged against them by the US and allies will contain substantial amounts of radioactive material, which like all other weapons of mass destruction, will continue to kill for generations after the attack is over.
Although our Ministers of Defence, like Dr. Moonie, would have us believe that the risks of depleted uranium are minimal, previous experience in
Iraq, the Balkans and more recently Afghanistan, has shown otherwise.  According to Dr. Moonie,
"there are two potential hazards arising from the use of DU: a low level radiation hazard....; and a chemical toxicity hazard, similar to that posed by other heavy metals such as lead."
Joanne Baker, Pandora DU Research Project
pduproject@yahoo.co.uk
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FRASER CLARK’S LONDON BE-IN: AN ALTERNATIVE TO BUSH’S FUTURE by Jonty Adderley
Bandulu, Marco Arnaldi and Nik The Record headline this weekend’s politics-meets-dance culture event the Human Be-In, which takes place at Hackney’s Ocean (Friday 27, from 6.45pm)

“We’re taking over the whole of the Ocean including the education part and recording studios and we’re gonna’ do a huge event there, with political activists and speakers,” event organiser Fraser Clark told
Skrufff.

“We’re going to be representing the alternative future. You can see what Bush’s version of the official future is, well here’s an alternative way forward,” the veteran Zippy activist added.

Guest speakers on the night include Americans Allen Cohen (the editor of famous 60s hippy newspaper the San Francisco Oracle), Wavy Gravy (of Hog Farm fame) and Michael Gosney (founder of the Digital Be-In) at an event with serious intentions.

“The movement we’re a part of is spreading and becoming global more and more, we just have to nudge it towards being a bit more political and anti war,” said Fraser.

“There are no guarantees though; the future is poised on a knife edge.”
skrufff.com
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//YOU FEEDBACK:  DE-SCHOOLING SOCIETY
Many young people and parents are looking for ways to get out of the public or academic school-boxes now imposed on people by the established institutions.

Hi Fraser.
I recommend the organisation
'Education Otherwise’.  They’ ve been going a long time and they assisted me when I wanted to keep my kids out of school for whatever reason (bullying, bad teaching, teacher hostility/bias etc).

In the UK the law says you must see that your child is educated, but
you can choose whether to delegate this duty to a school or carry it
out yourself.
(section 7 of the 1996 Education Act, what was Education Act 1944, section 36 for England and Wales, and Education (Scotland) Act 1980 Section 30).

It’s a myth that you HAVE to send your child to school. A group of parents can set up a tutor group - which is what my friends and I did. All the children later went on to other schools with a grounding that allowed them to take the best from the learning and to feel free from the aspect of school (like a prison) having a legal sentence of attendance and compliance with teachers' will.
Jackie Mackay/  London
www.education-otherwise.org
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Going to the anti-war demo on Saturday after the BE-IN?
Then why not have fun playing Socialist Watcher, a fun game of I-Spy Socialist Factions?
http://home.freeuk.com/rooted/ispy/
merrick / uk
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100 CRITICAL MASS CYCLISTS TO ATTEND MAGICKAL OPENING CEREMONY OUTSIDE OCEAN @ 6.45PM
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10 UNARGUABLE REASONS WHY
AMERICA SHOULD NOT ATTACK IRAQ

10) *** THERE’S NO JUSTIFICATION FOR GOING TO WAR ***
What was Iraq's act of aggression against America that justifies war?  There’s been no attack on the US, no Iraqi threat of war, no Iraqi connection to September 11.
        
War should be a last recourse of self-defense, a step to be taken only when all alternatives have been exhausted.  What the Bush
Administration is planning is an act of
aggression, not an act of self-defense.  The international coalition that fought the first Gulf
War
was cemented by the principle that one country cannot invade another without provocation.  Now the White House is poised to dismiss the coalition to launch an unprovoked invasion of Iraq.  This would violate the US's historic policy against using force preemptively. 
America should not go to war against a distant country that has not attacked it.

9)
** IRAQ DOES NOT POSE A CLEAR & PRESENT DANGER **

The White House says: invade Iraq to prevent
Saddam Hussein from using weapons of mass destruction.  But during the 1990s United Nations weapons inspectors dismantled all of Iraq's major chemical, biological and nuclear weapons facilities and destroyed nearly all its weapons and long-range missiles.  In terms of conventional arms, Iraq's military is now at one-third of its pre-Gulf War strength. According to Ex-Marine and former UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter, Iraq presents "absolutely nothing" of a military threat.  And given Hussein's natural desire for self-preservation, it is highly unlikely he would launch any attack that would result in his destruction. 
Since deterrence is working, why should the US start a bloody war that would undoubtedly lead to massive human suffering?

8)
*** THE US HAS ZERO ALLIES FOR INVADING IRAQ ***
All but one of the countries of the Middle East-including Kuwait-are opposed to it.  Our European allies think an invasion is foolhardy.  Only
Great Britain's Tony Blair has offered tepid support for a US attack on Iraq, and his approval is tempered by widespread opposition from the British public and his own Labour Party
An invasion of Iraq would isolate the US from the rest of the world and shatter the principles of international cooperation and mutual defense that are key to US and global security.

7)
*** IT WOULD MAKE AMERICA LESS SAFE ** *
An isolated US is an unsafe country.  Attacking Iraq without provocation will ignite anti-American sentiment around the world, disrupting efforts to weaken terrorist networks.  Any attack would also further destabilize a Middle East already inflamed by the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict. 
While the benefits of invading Iraq are murky, the costs are all-too-clear.

6)
*** IT WOULD VIOLATE INTERNATIONAL LAW ***
An attack on Iraq would constitute an attack on the
U.N. Charter which says that armed force may only be used in self-defense, or with the approval of the UN Security Council.  That is what happened during the first Gulf War. 
Attacking Iraq without Security Council authorization would make the US an international outlaw.

5) ** IT’D BE HARD, COSTLY-AND WITH NO CLEAR VICTORY **
An invasion of Iraq will not be nearly as easy as kicking the
Taliban out of Kabul.  Although Hussein's army has been weakened, Iraq's forces remain large enough to put up a formidable defense.  And it is likely that Iraqi forces will be far more determined to defend Baghdad than they were to defend Kuwait City, dragging US forces into a bloody fight in heavily populated areas.  It is estimated that any full-scale invasion will cost as much as $100 billion.  During the first Gulf War, allies like Japan covered 80% of the cost.  It's doubtful that will happen again, leaving it to US taxpayers-already facing renewed budget deficits.  And even if the US does overthrow Hussein, what next?  Afghanistan shows that throwing out a government is easier than putting a new one together.
An invasion without allies would leave the US to enforce a peace in a chaotic country fractured by ethnic conflicts.

4)
*** A WAR WOULD KILL THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE ***
A
Baghdad assault would result in far more American casualties than Afghanistan.  And the toll on Iraqis would be far higher.  Preliminary Pentagon estimates say it could lead to the deaths of 10,000 innocent civilians-or approximately ten times the number of people killed during the US bombing of Afghanistan.

3) ** A PRESIDENTIAL WAR VIOLATES THE CONSTITUTION **
To protect against reckless and ill-considered wars, the framers of the
US Constitution gave war-making powers to the Congress and not the President.  Only Congress-the branch of government closest to the people-can declare war and appropriate tax funds to pay for a war.
Any military move against Iraq should be put to a vote of Congress.

2)
  *** OPTIONS TO WAR ARE AVAILABLE ***
The best way to stop Iraq from resuming its pursuit of weapons of mass destruction is to restart the UN inspections, which were largely successful.  The
UN is currently trying to resume inspections, but the Bush Administration is dismissing the effort out of hand.  This is foolish  at best. 
The US should work with the UN to get the inspection program back on track.

1)
*** OPPOSITION TO THE WAR IS GROWING ***
Americans know deep down that this impending war makes no sense.  According to recent polls, one-third are against it, and a strong majority thinks no attack should occur unless first approved by Congress.

FIRE!)  Our task is to turn the public's latent misgivings into blatant opposition.  If the citizens say loud and clear that they don't want it, it will be more difficult for the president to go through with his scheme. 
www.globalexchange.org
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Dearest Fraser,
As always your political rhetoric enchants my inner soul.  thank you for being a good human.
All me mates that know you here in San Francisco say you've a perverted way about you and you're are an all-around good person
MUCH LOVE FOR THE THINGS YOU DO.
Yours in Service,
Cate, Catelyst Eleven / san francisco
- perverted?  moi?!
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***EMAIL OF THE WEEK ***
from Jerry who mysteriously fell off the HipList and is now back on.

Hi Fraser,
Good to get the
UP! again - great, in fact.

Woz gonna send this last week... then thought nah... too obvious.But nobody seemed to be quite getting the point this week either...

When we have all finished cursing the
USA and Bush..……

The thing is, the USA never did demobilise after WW2, what with the cold war and all, the 'arms race' as it was known went on for a good 40 years, andeven after it ended Americaremainedon a de facto 'war footing'.  I once read that virtually every state (possibly excluding Alaska) has some form of industry linked to military spending; thuscutting back military spending to a 'sensible' peacetime level would greatly increase unemployment and produce a severe economic downturn.

Surely this explains why recent presidents there have either been very reluctant to cut military spending or have had enormous difficulty in trying to do so. It hasalsoentailed a search for justification for the vast standing army and the quite literally
mind-boggling quantities of arms the US has built and is continuing to build.

DoesBush regarda cut in military spending to peacetime levels as the Single Biggest Threat to the American economy?  Hewas certainly quick to leap at the chance of a war in Afghanistan despite the undoubted corollary of a US commitment there for many years to come - and wasn’t the avoidance ofthis kind of situation the main reason for not deposing Saddam last time?!  Well, I guess beggars can’t be choosers - any port in storm....

So, ifthe US economy is inexorably linked to bloated military spending and we will all suffer if the US economy takes a dive,
what can we do?

My feeling is there’s not much we can do.  I’d have thought that smallwars could only delay or obfuscate the inevitable, and, if unpopular, might justspeedit up. We’d surely all hate to think our well-being depended on Afghan, Iraqi, or Palestinian 'collateral damage'.

But now the USA has anotherproblem as well.  It won’t find the necessary foreign supportfor any newwar, even tacit.   Never mind what John Doe over there thinks, JoePublic over hereis less than happy about
Afghanistan, and knows we’re no more secure than before while a lot of peasants are deadand it alllooks unpleasantly like vengeance. 

Is
America using its economic and military power to push smaller nations around according to what it perceives as its own best interests?  If the majority in the rest of the world ever come to believe that this is the case, the repercussions will surely be dramatic, to say the least.
Jerry - Brescia Italy
P.S.  Of course Bush could go for thefifth columnoption  I’m told Montana is up to here with bearded hillbillies who don’t believe in therule of federal lawand are armed to the teeth - he could take them on.  Or there's the Amish who refuse tobuyCoke or McDonalds... how unAmerican can you get!
paul hithersay / uk
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fraser ... loved the following:

treating the american people like idiots will not make them listen to you.
Peter Johnson / Sony Computer Entertainment Europe
- seems to work for george bush heh heh

your comment is brilliant ... touché!
lorenzo / new york
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