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THE TIMEDANCING POLITICO-SPIRITUAL
FUTURE HISTORY ENOVELLA FROM
Fraser Clark
[INCLUDES 20 flyers
from legendary London rave clubs Megatripolis & The Warp Experience,
much frequented by Megatripper timedancers on their inward/outward
journeys.]
http://www.oneworldnet.co.uk/ebooks/index3.php
“I didn’t ‘get’ it until about half
way through and then IT FUGGING started to blow my mind! It still
is! I have never read anything like it and am now reading it again
and i missed so much the first time! I can’t wait for the
movie!” Roz, Tokyo.
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u cant understand the world
without innerstanding yourself
the
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// jan 26, 06
la- la- la- lap-toppling da
system!
Zippies Sweep Asia and Far
East!
u cant innerstand yourself without
understanding the world
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Across the
Megaverse
Leonard Susskind, in
his new book
"The
Cosmic
Landscape,"
says the latest
version of
String
Theory (now
rechristened
M-theory
) yields a gargantuan
number of models: about 10 to the 500th power the
"Megaverse."
Each potential
model, he suggests, corresponds to an actual place - another universe as
real as our own.
New York Times January 15, 2006
up!
THOUGHT
EXPERIMENTS:
When
The
Singularity
Is More Than A Literary Device
Is the
Singularity
a spiritual or a technological belief
system? Perhaps it’s the bringing-together-again of both, says
science fiction author Cory Doctorow.
“After all, this is a system of belief
that dictates a means by which we can care for our bodies virtuously and
live long enough to transcend them. It's no wonder the
Singularity has
come to occupy so much of the science fiction narrative in these
years. Science or spirituality, you could hardly ask for a subject
better tailored to technological speculation and drama."
http://www.kurzweilai.net/email/artRedirect.html?artID=625&m=5435
UP!
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it
looks like the
zippy
meme is spreading Big Time through the new young cyber generations of
india china and
japan!
check
this article from
the
New York
Times!
Zippies
Sweep Asia and Far East!
Zippies are techno-hippies with suss. 1990s
technoperson, in contradiction to yuppie. The Zippies were an attempt by
Fraser Clark and others, to create a unique subculture that combined the
1990s techno hemisphere with the 1960s earth person. The result was not
always what one would expect. Various incarnations of Zippies exist,
usually armed with smiley badges and outspokenly anti-Yuppie. They are
mainly found in China and Japan, where various youth groups have taken up
the banner left behind by the earlier groupings. They listen mainly to
dance music, hang-out at clubs and drink smart drinks and fruit juice.
Every now and then they come across other Zippie Tribes from across the
planet and exchange music samples and leaflets.
THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN in the
New York
Times
Bangalore, India:
We grew up with the
hippies in the 1960's. Thanks to the high-tech revolution, many of
us became
yuppies
in the 1980's. And now,
fasten your seat belt, because you may soon lose your job to a
"zippie
" in the 2000's.
"The Zippies Are
Here," declared the
Indian weekly magazine
Outlook
.
Zippies
are this huge cohort of Indian
youth who are the first to come of age since India shifted away from
socialism and dived headfirst into global trade, the information
revolution and turning itself into the world's service centre.
Outlook
calls India's
zippies
"Liberalisation's
Children," and defines
one as "a young city
or suburban resident, between 15 and 25 years of age, with a zip in the
stride. Belongs to generation Z. Can be male or female,
studying or working. Oozes attitude, ambition and aspiration.
Cool, confident and creative. Seeks challenges, loves risks and
shuns fears."
Indian zippies carry no guilt about making money or spending it.
They are, says one Indian analyst quoted by
Outlook
, destination driven, not destiny
driven; upwardly mobile, not stuck-in-my-station-in-life.
“Like all successful memes, Zippy
confers advantages on its host:
Those infected suffer attacks of optimism, strong feelings of community,
lowered stress levels,
and outbreaks of "pronoia" - the sneaking feeling one
has
that others are conspiring behind your back to help you.
If these were not sufficient to ensure the meme's continued spread
in this mutating, anxiety-inducing age of ours, add the effects of
unselfconscious dancing till dawn,
a strong dose of underground hipness, and a belief that technology can -
indeed, should
be put to the furtherance of hedonistic and spiritual goals.
What we have here is a major player in the cultural meme pool,
and a loose-knit movement of folks who aim to change the world
- while having the best time of their lives.” Jules
Marshall, Wired magazine.
With 54% of India under the age of 25 -
that's 555 million people - six out of 10 Indian households have at least
one zippie,
Outlook says. And a growing slice of them (most Indians are still
poor village-dwellers) will be able to do a westerner’s white-collar job
as well as you for a fraction of the pay.
I just arrived here in Bangalore, India's Silicon Valley, to meet the
zippies on the
receiving end of U.S. jobs. Judging from the construction going on
every block here, the multiple applicants for every new tech job, the
crowded pub scene and the families of four you see zipping around on a
single motor scooter, Bangalore is one hot town.
The potential speed and scale of this outsourcing phenomenon make its
potential impact enormous and unpredictable. As we enter a world
where the price of digitising information - converting it into little
packets of ones and zeros and then transmitting it over high-speed data
networks - falls to near zero, it means the vaunted
"death of
distance" is really here. And
that means that many jobs you can now do from your house - whether data
processing, reading an X-ray, or basic accounting or lawyering - can now
also be done from a
zippie's house
in India or
China.
Time to get real.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zippies
“Zippy stands for
Zen-inspired professional pagans,
according to 50-year-old Fraser Clark, shamanic zippie spokesperson,
club manager and editor of Encyclopedia Psychedelica (EPi),
the magazine that first identified the "hippies with
zip."
According to Clark, a zippie is
"someone who’s trying to
balance
their hemispheres to achieve a fusion of the technological
and the spiritual - in themselves and on their planet.
The techno-person understands that rationality, organisation,
long-term planning, consistency and single-mindedness
are necessary to achieve anything solid on the material level.
The hippie understands that vision, individuality, spontaneity,
flexibility and open-mindedness are crucial
to realize anything on the spiritual scale.
Harmonise these hemispheres and you’re a Zippy.”
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// TJ PHRASER
(Fraser Clark)
& THE MEDIA EVOLUTION
mixing the
tracts
live on the
keyboard @ a media-meme rate of
160 IPP
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TO
SUBSCRIBE,
WRITE “I wanna
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TO
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wotta
mad
mad world we
live in, eh?
bliar
is pushing for a
massive expansion of nuclear while girding his loins to back bush and
israel in their ‘war’ with
iran
for doing exactly
the same.
but oh, it’s
much much
madder than
that. you see, since Day One, everyone i knew has struggled and
protested against the
british
nuclear bomb
and warned that, if we developed it, then other countries would be bound
to do the same by ‘bound’ i mean they would be
threatened
by us if they did not (and any politician’s first duty is to protect his
population, right?
we do accept this, don’t
we?).
but, since the morons whose political offspring rule us today had their
own dinosaur views (and got elected because their fathers had well
brainwashed the general population!),
WE ARE NOW
SUPPOSED TO WORRY THAT IRAN GETS THE BOMB
TOO! i
mean of course it’s deeply
worrying,
but the position remains the same:
the
solution doesn’t lie in iran, it lies
HERE, with
US.
to say nothing about the terrifying racist depth of many western people’s
viewpoints on other cultures on the planet. as is outlined in
The
Brainwashing Of
America
below, iran has
“an alienable
right” (even
by the signed agreements of all members of the IAEA) to develop their own
nuclear technology. indeed the same agreements legally bind us to
share our knowledge and expertise freely with them!
and it’s about time someone in the West stood up and openly said
it:
why the
hell should iran NOT develop its nuclear
defence?!
the “Iran
Crisis” is
being daily cranked up all over the west, the demonisation process.
louder and louder mutterings come from israel that iran must be stopped
(read: attacked, and only not invaded because they’re too strong
militarily).
iran sits between nuclear
pakistan and
india
to its east, nuclear
russia
to its north, and
nuclear
israel
to its west.
nuclear
america,
britain
and other ‘white’
nuclear allies are presently occupying and conducting war inside TWO
countries on their other border that’s the america which backed
saddam
hussein in his
1980 invasion of iran…
AND YET THEY’RE SUPPOSED TO
SIT BACK
as Amerika develops the next generation of their nuclear weapons (bunker
busters, depleted uranium weapons causing cancerous ruin for generations
of iraqis to come etc etc)
WHY THE
HELL SHOULD ANY SELF-RESPECTING NATION OR PEOPLE BE EXPECTED TO ACCEPT
THAT?!
finally (i
could go on and on)
why
should we worry about iran having the
bomb?!
ok, sure, on
one level, the brainwashed racist one, i confess to an occasional panic
myself. but then i apply some
cool factual objective
thinking to
the subject and i immediately remember that
a) i never woke up from
a dream that iran was invading us. (many arabs and muslims have
done dreamed the yanks were coming and many found it was
true!)
b) iran’s civilisation
is much much older than ours
c) iran hasn’t invaded
any country this century and shows ZERO signs of imperialistic
expansion
d) we, on the other
hand, have
invaded scores of
countries
.
have troops
stationed in more than half of all the countries on the
planet
. have used nuclear bomms on more than one occasion with gruesome
loss of life (still continuing and for generations to come even if we see
the error of our ways).
and, besides, their missiles couldn’t reach Rome, let alone washington or
london. and they know they’d be committing utter mass suicide
why would they want that?!
no, there’s
ONLY ONE
REASON iran
would ever use a nuclear bomm against us.
IF THEY
WERE BEING
ATTACKED
. WHICH IS WHY THEY WANT THE NUCLEAR BOMM!!!! or, in the
words of the Dinosaurs, iran wants its own
Balance of
Terror.
Mutually Assured Destruction. remember? our leaders told us
for decades that both sides having the bomm guaranteed Peace! and u
don’t get more
M.A.D.
than that.
no, the bitter truth is that WE are the threat, and are extremely tempted
to use our advantage in every way we can. if i was an iranian
leader, the moral i would draw from iraq is…
DON’T,
under any circumstances, DISARM!
up!
The
Brainwashing
Of America
R U GOING TO FALL FOR IT ALL OVER
AGAIN?
“
Iran
offered to forego a complete
fuel cycle
if the Europeans got the US to reverse the campaign
of denial, obstruction, intervention, and misinformation."
Saudi
King Dares To Suggest
a Nuclear Free
Zone In The Middle
East
[obviously his days are
numbered]
Let’s get one thing
established.
Iran has an
"inalienable
right" to use nuclear
energy for peaceful purposes such as the production of electric energy,
and the enrichment of uranium for its nuclear reactors.
Article IV of the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), which
entered into force in 1970, states:
1. Nothing in this Treaty
shall be interpreted as affecting the
inalienable
right of all the Parties
to the Treaty to develop research, production and use of nuclear energy
for peaceful purposes without discrimination and in conformity with
Articles I and II of this Treaty.
2.
All the Parties to the Treaty
undertake to facilitate, and have the right to participate in, the
fullest possible exchange of equipment, materials and scientific and
technological information for the peaceful uses of nuclear energy.
Parties to the Treaty in a position to do so shall also cooperate in
contributing alone or together with other States or international
organizations to the further development of the applications of nuclear
energy for peaceful purposes, especially in the territories of
non-nuclear-weapon States Party to the Treaty, with due consideration for
the needs of the developing areas of the world.
Thus, not only does Iran have
an "inalienable
right" to use nuclear
energy, the NPT obligates the nuclear powers to
"further development of
the applications of nuclear energy for peaceful
purposes."
Iran has gone beyond
its obligations under the NPT
to assure others of it's peaceful intentions.
That’s right. According to Dr. Gordon Prather, a nuclear physicist
who was the top army scientist in the Reagan years, Iran had signed an
Additional Protocol to its Safeguards Agreement in December, 2003 and had
volunteered to cooperate with the IAEA - pending ratification by the
Iranian Parliament - as if the Additional Protocol were actually "in
force."
Iran also offered, says Dr. Prather,
"to voluntarily forego a
complete fuel cycle . . . if the Europeans would get the US to reverse
the campaign of denial, obstruction, intervention, and
misinformation."
The International Atomic
Energy Agency has found no
"smoking
gun" in Iran that would
indicate a nuclear weapons program, says Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei, the
director-general of the IAEA.
30 years ago, Iran developing a nuclear capacity
"caused no problems for
the Americans because, at that time, the Shah was seen as a strong ally,
and had indeed been put on the throne with American
help", says Tony Benn,
Britain's secretary of state for energy from 1975-79.
With world oil production approaching a peak it makes sense for Iran to
look toward alternative means for generating electricity, and to reserve
its oil supply for other purposes including increasing revenues from the
export of the additional oil not used for electricity
production.
Yes, given the technology and knowledge, Iran could develop a nuclear
weapon. But "under
the current regime, there is nothing illicit for a non-nuclear state to
conduct uranium-enriching activities . . . or even to possess
military-grade nuclear material,"
says ElBaradei.
35 to 40 countries
possess this capability.
Israel - not a signatory to
the NPT - is believed to have
several hundred nuclear
bombs,
the missiles to deliver
them to Iran, and it’s no
secret that it’s been threatening strikes on Iran's nuclear electric
power plant - just as it launched an illegal attack on Iraq's in
1981.
The U.S. news media's timidity was a significant factor in the launching
of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. This invasion has claimed the lives
of over 2000 U.S. soldiers and over 180,000 Iraqis. It has left
uncounted others wounded and maimed, it has destroyed much of Iraq's -
indeed the world's - cultural heritage, and is likely to cost U.S.
taxpayers "between $1
trillion and $2 trillion, up to 10 times more than previously
thought," according to a
report written by Joseph Stiglitz - recipient of the 2001 Nobel Prize in
economics.
John Ward Anderson of the Washington Post wrote on January 13:
"The foreign ministers
of Britain, Germany and France called Thursday for Iran to be referred to
the UN Security Council for violating its nuclear treaty
obligations."
Neither he nor the editors or
ombudsman at the Post have responded to our request to identify which
"nuclear treaty
obligations" is Iran
violating.
Writing in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Jack
Boureston and Charles D. Ferguson say,
"In pursuing a civilian nuclear
program, Iran has international law on its side. . . . The best way to
know the full extent of Iran's nuclear doings is to offer it
help."
up!
Iran Accuses
Britain
Western Zionist Terrorist Acts
of bombing have now started in Iran. Remember
the two British soldiers who were captured in Basra dressed as Arabs with
bombs in their car, last year?
Bombs are a favourite tool of these Western Terrorists
- 9/11, Oklahoma, Madrid, Indonesia,
London.
No doubt they will have recruited some
"Iranian
" dissenters this time, opposed to their Govenrment you know,
people like
Chalabi and
Iyad Allawi,
sociopaths who work AGAINST their people and Nation rather than protect
it at all costs!!!
Zionist Sayanim
are on the loose in Iran, no doubt hiding behind German and British
pasports!! And we are coming very close to the PURIM period.
This bombing is a precursor to bigger things to come for the Iranian
people when the mad dog
Israel is let
loose, with American, British, European,
Canadian, Australian White Blessing!!
It will be one more RACIST Terrorist
STRIKE against a Muslim Nation
Sherazade, Teheran.
UP!
I don't
think I ever met a tripster who had his/her shit together as much as you
do!
>> goddess i reeally had to hear
that:) like a club promoter i tend to see only what's not
working.
may the
gods be you!
>> naw that's 2 much even 4 moi
:)
Andre Kohler, Berlin.
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the
UP!
is a global edutainment round-up, broadcast
weekly to =[13,781]=
Alternative// Activist// Zippy// Trance// New Age//
Peace folks
recommended to the
Parallel
YOUniversity// Megatripolis Dance
Dept as
"showing signs of
life".
Since recipients forward it widely to
their own lists & sites,
we conservatively estimate
50,000+
direct recipients.
A further 40,000 read it on the YOUniversity's site.
And,
because
of its
'mix' of 'specialist' & 'general'
content,
it's increasingly being posted on a variety of sites worldwide,
making an estimated total weekly
readership of
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the great
wail?
was the whale
swimming up the Thames, past the Houses of Parliament, trying to bring it
all home to us? particularly when you realise that there was one in
Tokyo Bay the same week!
and the tender care the humans offered it? very touching and
showing signs of hope. only 50 years ago, in 1955, Mike Mclure
wrote "Point Lobos: Animism," a poem
"to protest the
thrill-killing of a pack of whales by Nato troops."
a
poem! which only 10,000 people read! yes, the human species
is mad, but it’s getting saner very rapidly :)
or, as the oldest hippy in the world suggests, was the whale checking out
where all this shit was coming from?
up!
Libby
Lawyers To Subpoena Reporters In
CIA Leak
Lawyers for a former top aide to
Vice President Dick
Cheney plan to issue subpoenas to
journalists and news organisations for documents to be used at his trial
involving the leak of a CIA operative's
name.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/FILLDATE.shtml
up!
Psychedelics Not So Bad After
All?
UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke has ordered
a sweeping review of drug
laws which could lead to the effective
downgrading of
Ecstasy and
LSD.
Clarke, who downgraded
cannabis and
then resisted reactionary pressure to reclassify it, said the current
system of classifying drugs could be torn up.
He is considering a new system which would take into account the
'social'
consequences of each drug, including links to muggings and
burglaries.
up!
Dear Fraser, after un-interrupted years
of UP!'s nuggets of wisdom, and when I receive unsolicited e mail from
both the C.I.A. and the F.B.I. informing me I visit illegal web sites
(with friggin' virus attachments) I need your weekly reality check more
than ever.
Alistair(Nick) MacDonald, Wales.
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george
galloway in
the big brother house
i hope nobody’s
falling for the middle class spin against the working class finally
taking over the cultural controls. they call it
dumbing
down i call it
dumbing up!
of course
there's loadsa shit while the masses, whom ‘we’ have kept stupid all
these years, catch up to where the midclass/aristos had gotten to (not
THAT far).
and then watch out. u MUST not miss george galloway MP i think it's
historic.
since
megatripolis@forever
came out i’ve been
involved in several discussions about ‘Plot’. we’re all hooked on
tight plots and punch ups and all the ret of it. but i’d been
picking up signs that the masses were finally getting bored with it
all. i tell you, when i’m watching your regular fairly dumb movie
and the fight or chase scenes come on i get up to put on the
kettle. it’s jut too boring! everything that can be done to
make it interesting has been done and it’s now as monstrous a cliché as
rock&roll bands!
and i’d noticed that movie makers were stylising the violence,
slowmotioning it, turning it into ballet, making it totally impossible
(as in Chasing Dragon uno wot i mean:). and then, suddenly,
a friend said something that suddenly clicked my brain into action.
these tv reality shows ARE ALREADY MASSIVELY POPULAR! AND THERE
ISN’T A SINGLE CAR CHASE OR GUN IN THE WHOLE THING! and the masses
are gobbling it up and it’s all about ‘ordinary’ people doing ‘ordinary’
things.
so here’s a simple FACT. where the masses used to watch 40 hours a
week of guns
& robbers,
they’re now spending at least HALF that time WATCHING reality
shows. THE CUSP HAS ALREADY BEEN PASSED AND
THE PLOT ERA
IS ALREADY HALF GONE!
so don’t miss
Member Of Parliament meets the People :)
u won’t find
it anywhere else on the planet!
up!
"The illegality of marijuana
rests less on what it is than what it represents: nature, dissent,
introspection. It's not marijuana the mildly psychotropic weed we
condemn, but marijuana the nemesis of the state."
Ronald Reagan Jr., TV commentator
TALES FROM
megatripolis@forever
"all for one & free for all!"
were
zippies the
megatripolitans’
immediate ancestors?
[from Confessions Of A
Virtual
Victor, 2049]
the enthusiasm in those young people, on the several occasions when my
Megatripolitan contacts ‘transported’ me to one of the
Dream-Ins of
the Millennium 2/3 Cusp Era
[1965-2012], made it very
easy, even for me, an FFA
(FreeFloatAtom) as we’re called today, to
see that they were the beginnings of the
Future Perfect State à la 100th Monkey
Principle.
and, naturally, i could often pick out the 'resident' clubbers from the
"just passing through"
Megatripolitans. this was especially
true in a rave-style club in London actually called
Megatripolis, but in several others dotted
about the planet from that time on, which were conceived by a
loud-mouthed Scottish rave promoter as "the
very first appearances of the Future Perfect
State as the Old Competitive Culture around
us dissolves under the weight of its own contradictions; the beach-head
of a benign GroupMind Cooperative Culture mutation in the present which
we believe is destined to become the dominant
meme." (I've met him in a couple of his clubs, he
goes on a bit, like Caleb, but he means no
harm, I suppose. and, of course, he might be right, I’m not saying
he isn’t.)
as i say, these kinds of clubs became very fashionable rendezvous points,
both for
Zippies
and for
Megatripolitans.
the
Zippy
lifestyle and philosophy practised there (if you can call it a
philosophy since it was designed to be quite simple and therefore
accessible to large numbers of people) of balancing the Tecno and Lover
hemispheres of the brain and of the planet, seems to also induce the
perfect ambiance for Megatripolitans.
they land in it to re-acclimatise to non-time-gravity, connect with
friends, lovers, neighbours and colleagues, swap notes, time-addresses
and future history maps, shower, change, fill out their travel logs, get
high, have a great timedance, and prepare for landing once more in the
Future Perfect State
just beyond the "absurdly thin veil of Time."
lately I've been noticing more Megatrippers every day. indeed,
during one of their
Dream-In
Raves, when
they all gather 'simultaneously', there must sometimes be more of them
than us. take another look.
Caleb reckons there are exactly the
same number but, although he completely ignores me when I get into what
he calls my "opinionated stuff", I always maintain that,
since no census is ever undertaken within the
GroupMind of
Megatripolis, his view is as much a theory
as mine.
it would be unfair to finish without this confession (shut up, you
Wettertripolitan! I'm not doing this because you suggested
it): at my highest I have sometimes glimpsed that we are actually
all Megatripolitans. in some
sense. already. whether we realise it or not. take
another look. doesn't this present 'unfinished state' feel more
like the dream, the teaser, the pale shadow of what we've already
become?
take another look. and then one more. (SHUT UP,
Caleb!) doesn't it feel like that
quite often, if not most of the time? and don't most people look
like they know who they are but can't quite remember clearly
enough? and mostly because they're surrounded by others who can't
remember either?
I bet you think I'm being "poetic",
right?
ok, Caleb, this one is for you (no I'm not pissed off,
it was only an argument, which is what we 20th century denizens
enjoy doing): MEGATRIPOLIS FOREVER!
POWER TO THE ANCESTORS! ok?
UP!
ONE BY ONE
THE DINOS FALL
Abramoff Scandal:
Ney
Resigns Chairmanship
Rep. Bob Ney, an Ohio
Republican
implicated in the
Abramoff
lobbying corruption investigation, said Sunday he will step aside
temporarily as chairman of the House Administration Committee.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011606Z.shtml
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Walter
Cronkite Says It’s Time
For U.S. To Leave
Iraq
As It Did
Vietnam
"If I've lost Cronkite, I've
lost Middle America" President
Johnson. 1968.
Former CBS anchor
Walter
Cronkite, whose public broadcast that the
Vietnam War was
unwinnable keenly influenced public opinion then, has announced he'd say
the same thing today about
Iraq.
"It's my belief that we should get
out now," Cronkite said in a
meeting with reporters.
Now 89, the tv journalist once known as
"the most trusted man in
America," left the
"CBS Evening
News" 25 years ago. He once said
one of his proudest moments came after a visit to
Vietnam during
the Tet
offensive, when, at his boss’s invitation to
give his personal view of the situation, he said the war was
unwinnable and that the U.S. should exit.
Then-President Lyndon Johnson reportedly told a White House aide after
that, "If I've lost Cronkite, I've
lost Middle America"
"We had an opportunity to say to the world and Iraqis after the
Katrina Disaster that Mother Nature has not treated us well and we find
ourselves missing the amount of money it takes to help these poor people
out of their homeless situation and rebuild some of our most important
cities in the United States," he
said. "Therefore, we are going
to have to bring our troops home."
We should have told the Iraqis
that "our hearts are with
you" and that the United States
would do all it could to rebuild their country.
"I think we could have been able to
retire with honor," he
said. "In fact, I think we can
retire with honor anyway."
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Scandinavian Update:
Israeli
Boycott, Muslim Cartoons
This week the American Secretary of State
Condoleeza Rice warned
Norway not to
boycott Israel
and that there would be “serious
political consequences” after last
week’s declaration by Norwegian Finance Minister Kristin Halvorsen, the
leader of the Socialist Left Party (SV), that she never buys Israeli
products and supports the commercial boycott of
Israel by the
Norwegian province of South-Trøndelag. The Norwegian government
parties all voted in favour of the province’s boycott of
Israel,
but in order to save
Norway’s
position as a mediator in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict they all
stress that they did not do so in their capacity of Norwegian government
parties.
While the
red-green
government coalition in
Oslo finds it
hard to hide its far-left inclinations,
Norway can
fortunately take pride in some of its media. On Tuesday the
Christian newspaper Magazinet published 12 cartoons depicting the
Muslim prophet
Muhammad.
Magazinet did so to support the Danish newspaper
Jyllands-Posten that published the cartoons last September.
>> see them here and make your own
mind up:
http://www.newspaperindex.com/blog/2005/12/10/un-to-investigate-jyllands-posten-racism/
It has since received terrorist
threats and huge international criticism, including pressure from
organisations such as the UN and the European Union. Now
Magazinet has received threats via e-mail from around the
world. One of these, sent anonymously through a popular e-mail
service in the Middle East, was mailed to the editor, Vebjørn Selbekk,
simply stating: “You’re a dead
man!” Other staff members have
also received threats. Selbekk said it looked as if the newspaper’s
e-mail addresses were being distributed in an organised campaign.
One of the e-mails Selbekk received contains a couple of pictures showing
a burnt body, sent through an e-mail address in France.
Giving in to the threats, Magazinet decided today to remove the
cartoons from its website. “The
e-mail with the pictures of the burnt body is the most frightening.
But I am not afraid. This is of course unpleasant, especially for a
family man. But I cannot go around being afraid,”
Selbekk told the Norwegian daily
Dagbladet which also published the cartoons on its website last
Tuesday.
However, a number of other Norwegian newspaper editors have said they do
not intend to follow the two newspapers’ example, claiming it to be an
unnecessary provocation. Arab newspapers around the world have also
reacted sharply to the publication of the cartoons. Selbekk,
however, said the purpose for his decision was not to provoke anyone, but
to highlight the status of freedom of
expression in Norway.
Magazinet also interviewed two
leading Norwegian cartoonists: Finn Graff and Morten M.
Kristiansen. Graff, who was known in the 1960s and ’70s for his
satirical drawings of Jesus
Christ, said that he does not draw pictures
mocking
Muhammad.
He does so out of fear for Muslims, and also
“out of
respect.” Muslims, he said, are
very sensitive about their religion and their prophet, which is something
one has to take into account and one has to respect. Kristiansen
said he had received many protest letters in the past whenever he mocked
Christ.
The same applies to cartoons about
Muhammad, but
lately the protest letters from
Muslims had
increasingly become threats, including death threats in e-mails from
places such as
Iran.
Unlike Graff, Kristiansen said he will not change his behaviour because
of these threats because it is important to defend the right to
freedom of
expression.
Carsten Juste, the editor of Jyllands Posten, the Danish paper
which published the cartoons first, told Magazinet that he does
not regret that decision. “We
cannot regret it. We live in a country where freedom of expression
is recognised and we live and work in Denmark under Danish laws.
The nature of the reactions has shown how necessary this debate
is” Juste said.
Asked if Jyllands-Posten had received any support from the Danish
media after the decision to publish the cartoons Juste said at first
there was not much support. Most of them believed this was
something Jyllands-Posten did just to provoke. But after all
the arbitrary demands that the newspaper apologise for the publication
their attitude began to
change. “Fortunately most
people now realise this is an important issue about freedom of
expression and, as a consequence, we have been getting more and
more support.” He added that
support has come from all over the world, but, unfortunately, threats,
too.
WHAT??!!
Meanwhile, the Danish tabloid Extra
Bladet got hold of a 43-page report that Danish Muslim leaders and
imams, on a tour of the Islamic world, are handing out to their contacts
to
“explain”
how offensive the cartoons are. The report contains 15 pictures
instead of 12. The first of the three additional pictures, which
are of dismal quality, shows
Muhammad as a
paedophile daemon
[
ekstrabladet.dk/grafik/nettet/tegninger40.jpg
], the second shows the prophet with a pig snout
[
ekstrabladet.dk/grafik/nettet/tegninger38.jpg
], and the third depicts a praying Muslim being raped by a
dog[
ekstrabladet.dk/grafik/nettet/tegninger39.jpg
]. Apparently, the 12 original pictures were not deemed bad
enough to convince other Muslims that Muslims in Denmark are the victims
of a campaign of religious hatred.
Akhmad Akkari, spokesman of the 21 Danish Muslim organisations which
organised the tour, explained that the 3 drawings had been added to
“give an insight in how hateful the
atmosphere in Denmark is towards
Muslims.” Akkari claimed he does
not know the origin of the 3 pictures. He said they had been sent
anonymously to Danish Muslims. However, when Ekstra Bladet asked if
it could talk to these Muslims, Akkari refused to reveal their
identity.
www.brussellsjournal.com/node/668
More on the Danish cartoon case:
node382
Jihad Against Danish Paper, 22 October
2005
node407
Cartoon Case Escalates into International
Crisis, 27 October 2005
node413
Out of the Iranian Frying Pan into the
Danish Fire, 29 October 2005
node482
Pigs Do Not Fly, 17 November
2005
Bounty Offered for Murdering Cartoonists, 4 December 2005
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>> spose i start a religion
that bans beards?
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The latest bizarre decree to be announced by
Turkmenistan’s autocratic president appears designed to crack down on the
individuality of the republic’s youngsters but may already been
doomed to failure.
President Saparmurat Niazov, who likes to be called Turkmenbashi, or
Leader of the Turkmen, recently declared that young men were no longer
allowed to have long hair or facial hair of any description.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IslamicNewsUpdates/message/4265
john morris, manchester.
heh heh :)
but actually they're free to do what they like in their own
country. the question is: does he demand that we don't grow
mouthstaches here either?
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US Catholic
Bishops: 'Bring Troops Home'
Declaring that the United States was at a
crossroads in
Iraq, the
nation's Roman
Catholic bishops said Thursday the time had
come to withdraw US troops as fast as responsibly possible and to hand
control of the country to Iraqis.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011306A.shtml
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