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“Mommy, I can hear them now.”
“Hear what, darling?”
“Those voices. The ones the adults hear. I just wanted you to know I can hear the voices you listen to in your head.”
[conversation between a 5 year-old and her mother while travelling in a car]
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“The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.” Robert Carlyle (1795 - 1881).
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Get UP! Stand Up For Your Rights (and everybody’s too of course! :)
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u cant understand the world without innerstanding yourself
the up! 0035 // 18, 06, 06
MAKE UP! YOUR MIND!!!
u cant innerstand yourself without understanding the world
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Get UP! Don’t Give Up The Fight (only we don’t mean violence, ok? :)
.. contents...
p.02 rejoice! for the Dinosaurs’ Last Stand continues inexorably towards the firing squads!
p.05 God’s Hand At Work Through The Mechanism Of Evolution
p.07 caravanseraiclub safari/morocco 2006 [cont]
p.08 USE THE INTERNET TO PROTECT THE INTERNET before it’s too late!
p.10 Terrorism Explained - it’s just a Tactic!
p.12 World Sees US As Bigger Threat To Peace
Than Iran, Poll Finds
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rejoice! for the Dinosaurs’ Last Stand continues inexorably towards the firing squads (which we zippies shall oppose on objectively moral grounds but also because it makes them martyrs of the right).
rejoice! for it’s surfacing every day in the media now, leak after leak, revelation after revelation, bandwagon-jumper after bandwagon-jumper spilling the grisly beans, conscience cleansers after plea-bargainers trying to save their souls or escape jail/firing squad, scandal after scandal, exposed fraud after front page crime (the latest being how they cooked the global warming debate but there’s probably been another few by now).
“Leaders of both parties are acutely aware of the vehemence of anti-Bush sentiment in the country, expressed especially in the increasing number of Americans - nearing 50% in some polls - who say they would favor impeachment if the president were proved to have deliberately lied to justify going to war in Iraq.” Carl Bernstein, Watergate veteran reporter.
yea, rejoice! for the Big Picture most people still don’t quite grasp is the Sea Change that’s happening, the Human species’ breakout into a Strange New Attractor that is now inching forward. the next half dozen years (till 2012 funnily enough:) will witness the End of the Old Politics FOREVER. indeed, it’s the End of the Old World FOREVER.
yes, rejoice, for everything we were always assured “worked pretty well” HARDLY WORKED AT ALL! we’ve had 2000 years of massive general suffering and bad health - mental emotional and physical - we just didn’t hear much about it, except that it was “all inevitable, just Life, people are just naturally dinosaur bastards”. it was (exactly!) like the Romanus Dinosaurus Empire, a corrupt ruling elite lording it over a world of slaves, many of whom had been persuaded it was ‘natural’. but those days are over!
“Something is revealed to us about ourselves by the fact that we are being ruled by people who are mad. Imagine what we’d do if we truly recognised our government is being run by people who have collectively gone mad? What would we do if we realised that the leader of the most powerful nation on the planet, the person with his finger on the button, is a genuine psychopath?” Paul Levy.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13618.htm
if you don’t recognise that as the world you live in right now, consider this: we are more likely to be evolved from the bonobo than from the chimp, and the average bonobo has 24 orgasms per day this ‘Cultura Dinosaura’’ that shapes us from birth has filtered our Life Force to the merest dribble! it hasn’t disappeared, though, nothing does, but it’s been pushed back into the darker corners of our individual psyches.
but now rejoice, for the Dino Chastity Belt that has squeezed and downsized us through the Long Dark Ages, and had almost obliterated the human identity into a mere ‘equal’ identikit consumer (feel its Power?!) is passing away before our very eyes. as, indeed, it had to, if the planet was to be saved. for, in fact, an End to Dinosaur Behaviour is precisely what’s required of the planet the two are the same thing! they are inseparable! and the Bush Gang, their leaders and exemplaries, are pulling them down, down… to… Earth :)
"The Bush administration needs to be investigated, inside and out, upside down, and inside out. They should not be allowed to leave office as just a failed administration. Because they are more than that - much more than that.” Stephen P. Pizzo.
remember how unstoppable the Dinos thought they were?! i remember feeling like the ONLY voice screaming out against it in the name of ‘Sanity’! and i was certainly the only one who predicted from the start, and before the start, that this Dino Stand would be their Last (for it’s a fractal, not an infinite spiral).
since the last witch was burned, the overall evolutionary direction of Homo Sapiens has been the mass re-distribution of power from ‘leaders’ to ‘community’, to which the Romanus Dinosaurus Empire has been fighting a continuous rear-guard action.
“Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonal -- that there is no human relation between master and slave." Tolstoy.
all through the Clinton years, while the Sea Change the planet needed evolved inexorably on (ecological if nothing else, but i include everything else because you can’t have a healthy environment policy run by a deeply sick, unbalanced Culture), the ‘slave owners’ had become more & more desperate to Strike Back - before they became redundant to human requirements (not that they would ever see it that way!). they’d been expanding & developing their networks, building their neo-confidence-trick philosophies of religion, power & competition, laying their plans for Takeover, and hiring their drone armies with their vast wealth.
[don’t be misled by their absolute inability to sense the need for their own redundancy all they can see is their weapons and power getting bigger and bigger! that’s what Dinos value!].
of course evolution has gone now faster now slower and certainly ground to an almost halt under thatcher-reganism (but deep cultural changes were going on beneath the surface that would burst forth, primarily in the Rave Culture that swept and still sweeps the planet. the first mass explosion of the… New World Behaviour/Attitudes.
an article i read today said the Republicans will never agree to a senate investigation of the bush gang because they know “only too well where it would go.” (notice how fast things have changed!) this is Old thinking, but it sounds convincing. until you read, for example, the recent report from the Cato Institute, a right wing libertarian think tank dedicated to “the traditional American principles of limited government, individual liberty, free markets and peace.”
- · “In relation to what are newspeakingly called “Free Speech Zones” (where protesters are banished out of eyeshot and earshot of our Chief Executive): “At the very core of the First Amendment lies the right to criticize officeholders. President Bush has failed to protect that right.”
· Regarding torture in violation of U.S. laws and international treaties: “The Administration’s legal position can be summed up starkly: When we’re at war, anything goes, and the President gets to decide when we’re at war. “
· And on domestic spying and illegal seizures: “The President appears to believe that he is the ultimate arbiter of what is legal and what is illegal -- at least in matters related to national security.”
· And on holding suspects indefinitely without trial in violation of “Habeas Corpus: “Bush’s attempts to undermine ‘the very core of our liberty’ may be his most egregious failure to protect and defend our Constitution.”
· The report concludes: “President Bush's constitutional vision is, in short, sharply at odds with the text, history, and structure of our Constitution, which authorizes a government of limited powers.”
Dinosaurism has suffered an embarrassment from which it will never recover.
John Dean, the Watergate conspirator who ultimately shattered the Watergate conspiracy, rendered his prescient impeachment verdict on Bush two years ago by naming his book Worse than Watergate.
the article then discusses what might happen if the democrats win power, and opines: “you can bet there would be plenty of folks out on the left hounding them to do just that - investigate, investigate, impeach. But should they do that? I would argue, no. Remember the Clinton impeachment? What a mess. What a waste of time. Voters hated it. “
voters hated it cos it was sleazy and pretty much irrelevant, and it was old, old thinking. i know it’s hard to see, but remember that nearly 50% of americans ALREADY want them impeached if it’s true. AND THINGS ARE EASILY 1000 TIMES WORSE THAN MOST OF THESE PEOPLE YET REALISE!
“They are arguably the largest, boldest and most virulent criminal enterprise to ever occupy that office. Their alleged crimes span the full spectrum; graft, corruption, perjury, war crimes, false imprisonment, kidnapping.... It's breathtaking. Simply breathtaking.” Stephen P. Pizzo.
when the Gene Pool does find out, as they’re doing already, the number will be well over 50% and they’ll be more deeply scandalised than ever in their lives! the american public will feel deeply deeply humbled before the rest of the planet (as indeed was also needed for the planet to be saved) AND I THINK THEY WILL DEMAND A FULL ACCOUNT SO IT CAN NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN.
don’t underestimate that “vehemence of anti-Bush sentiment.” politicians will be unable to resist the public demand. on pain of never being elected again (as most of them won’t anyway) they will be forced, just as cameron is now, to change! they’re fighting to be greener already!
Worse than Watergate?
>> oh yes, one hundred thousand times worse. that was just a break-in, which US murder squads outscore 100 times a week in iraq these days!
"Worse than Watergate? ... In terms of imminent, meaningful action by the Congress ... the question of whether the president should be impeached (or, less severely, censured) remains premature. More important, it is essential that the Senate vote -- hopefully before the November elections, and with overwhelming support from both parties - to undertake a full investigation of the conduct of the presidency of George W. Bush, along the lines of the Senate Watergate Committee's investigation during the presidency of Richard M. Nixon.... There was understandable reluctance in the Congress to begin a serious investigation of the Nixon presidency. Then there came a time when it was unavoidable. That time in the Bush presidency has arrived.” Carl Bernstein.
>> note that “there came a time when it was unavoidable”.
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God’s Hand At Work
Through The Mechanism Of Evolution
Francis Collins, the director of the US National Human Genome Research Institute and the scientist who led the team that cracked the human genome, is to publish a book explaining why he now believes in the existence of God.
Francis claims there’s a rational basis for a creator and that scientific discoveries bring man “closer to God”.
His book, The Language of God, to be published in September, will reopen the age-old debate about the relationship between science and faith. “One of the great tragedies of our time is this impression that science and religion have to be at war,” said Collins, 56.
“I don’t see that as necessary at all, and I think it is deeply disappointing that the shrill voices that occupy the extremes of this spectrum have dominated the stage for the past 20 years.”
>> i know i often seem to be on one of those extremes, but don’t mistake me for a candy ass american christian weirdo. really what i’ve been attacking is Scientism. the problem has been, as we should all know by now, that, despite Science being 100% unable to locate or measure anything beyond the very lowest levels of Reality - speed, weight, shape and that sort of shit - it has NOT, for the past 50 years, kept its mouth shut regarding what it knows NOTHING about. and that’s what has needed attacking, and still very much does, because it’s educated the majority of the human species to see the world as meaningless, pointless and accidental. which is very very bad for everyone.
For Collins, unravelling the human genome did not create a conflict in his mind. Instead, it allowed him a “glimpse at the workings of God”.
“When you make a breakthrough it is a moment of scientific exhilaration because you have been on this search and seem to have found it.
“But it’s also a moment where I at least feel closeness to the creator in the sense of having now perceived something that no human knew before but God knew all along.
“When you have for the first time in front of you this 3.1 billion-letter instruction book that conveys all kinds of information and all kinds of mystery about humankind, you can’t survey that, going through page after page, without a sense of awe. I can’t help but look at those pages and have a vague sense that this is giving me a glimpse of God’s mind.”
Among Collins’s most controversial beliefs is that of “theistic evolution”, which claims natural selection is the tool that God chose to create man.
>> Intelligent Design in a word, the ‘theory’ that mis-educated leftists actually want banned from our kids’ education. darwin’s “Survival Of The Most Apt” theory is not against god, it’s the ongoing process of God’s Design.
“I see God’s hand at work through the mechanism of evolution. If God chose to create human beings in his image and decided that the mechanism of evolution was an elegant way to accomplish that goal, who are we to say that is not the way,” he says.
In his version of the theory, he argues that man will not evolve further.
>> he’s dead wrong here. our evolution is accelerating geometrically! but a man who’s devoted his life to the world of Science is unlikely to catch more than a mere ‘emotional’ glimpse of the levels of Reality beyond its orbit. for that you gotta go to someone who’s devoted their life to those areas.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2220484,00.html
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"All of us look at each other knowingly, for the feeling that we knew each other in that most distant past conceals something else -- tacit, awesome, almost unmentionable -- the realisation that at the deep centre of a time perpendicular to ordinary time we are, and always have been, one. We acknowledge the marvellously hidden plot, the master illusion, whereby we appear to be different." Alan Watts, 1962.
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July 17 35th Annual
RAINBOW GATHERING OF THE TRIBES
FOR WORLD PEACE & HEALING
Routt National Forest, Colorado.
FULL DETAILS AT
http://www.nyrainbow.org/events.html#gathering2006
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for some great fun and an insight into ‘Art’ and Zen, check this out :)
www.jacksonpollock.org
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hi there fraser
i use to buy/read EPi, thought it was great, always fancied going to megatripolis however i live in edinburgh so it was not too practical. my friends run a club called taste/fever, it’s been on the go12 years this month, not bad going for a tech/house club, i have just recently discovered the parallel-youniversity site and its the biz, i would like to send good thoughts, vibes and feelins to ya man, i really appreciate what you do, ok i’m off for now.
paul boyd, edinburgh
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thx 4 spreading the awareness
boom,
Torsten Klimmer, Copenhagen.
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TEXT JOCKEY // TJ PHRASER (Fraser Clark) & THE MEDIA EVOLUTION
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caravanseraiclub safari/morocco 2006 FEEDBACK
Hi Fraser,
Thought of two corny jokes after your hilarious descriptions of long journeys, anal preoccupations, and untrustworthy friends.
>> i hope that’s not how it came across, there was great stuff too!
Here goes:
A Title: "LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO SHITE"
And i think your friend (if that's what you call him still ) should be re-named (oops! -almost wrote 're-charistened ) "Careless. " Because he couldn't.
>> i actually thought of that a couple of times in morocco. but he is so wonderful in other ways, and actually very kind, always trying to enliven people he meets, and giving presents etc. u just gotta accept his as he is or not, and i now accept him and hope he comes on all future caravanserai trips.
Hope the full frontal facial attack has calmed down and left you looking as handsome as ever.
>> wait till you hear about the shave i had in Jamaal El Fna that turned into a whole hair re-styling! (the tension is killing moi :)
Excellent point about those bloody electricity wires. So obvious when it's pointed out. But as you say, we are brainwashed in so many ways, since....forever, and from so many directions.
Jo, Brussels.
>> yeah, think roads, water supply, and, oh god, oil! and nuclear power, NOW I TOTALLY UNDERSTAND WHAT’S HAPPENING THERE!
"The trouble with most folks isn't so much their ignorance, as knowing so many things that ain't so." Josh Billings, American humourist.
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caravanseraiclub safari/morocco 2006
[THE TRIP SO FAR: The caravanseraiclubbers are back together in the Sahara, among the Berbers. NOW READ ON.]
tomorrow we shall have been in the Sahara for 2 weeks
and, in some ways, it’s been one of the most intensive experiences of my life, but more for the experiences of my companions than for my own. and except that being there with them as they go through their experiences is new for me. so it’s been partly about adding another coat to what was there before whatever that means, perhaps it’s something to do with aging. And, unfashionable as it may be in this Competitive Era, the purest pleasure certainly comes from helping to place others in an environment that encourages them to grow :) and, whatever else happened, am very certain that every caravanseraiclub member did some serious growing in the Sahara even where that involved dropping stuff they thought they already knew!
discoveries and revelations are usually like that. you don’t find something new, rather a veil seems to drop away and allow the truth you always knew to shine through.
for the first 2 days at the camp it was like my brain had melted. or the strings which moved the puppet fraser in the city had fallen away and I couldn’t DO anything. I moped around my tent and couldn’t write or read or even think while the sandstorms whipped outside. or so it seemed anyway. but I recognised it as a pattern that usually happens when you’ve arrived in a new, strange environment. and so I was patient, and succeeded in not getting depressed behind it. “it’s all perfectly natural and will pass” i kept repeating to myself like a mantra. until it passed.
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USE THE INTERNET TO PROTECT THE INTERNET before it’s too late!
A call to action from John Edwards
When MoveOn and The Christian Coalition agree about something, it's a good bet they're right. Groups as wide-ranging as Gun Owners of America on one side and the One America Committee on the other are fighting to keep the Internet the way it is now - free and open to anyone with access to a computer.
Today, everyone in the world can communicate through the Internet on an equal basis. A small-time programmer like Pierre Omidyar can start an auction site out of his home office and turn it into eBay. A blogger like Josh Marshall can post his opinions on Talking Points Memo and end up attracting more readers than the country's biggest newspapers.
On the Internet, big corporations are on equal footing with everyday people. And it needs to stay that way.
BUT HERE’S THE DANGER!!!! Right now, special interests are pushing bills through the US Congress that would divide the Internet in two. Corporate deals would determine which web sites would run incredibly fast and which ones would barely run at all. Some users might not be able to access sites operated by, well, regular people.
I don't want Internet service providers to decide which web sites I can look at. And I know you don't either.
Last week, the House of Representatives fell in line with industry demands and passed a telecommunications bill without 'net neutrality' protections. That means our only hope of stopping them is in the Senate. Please tell your Senator to keep the Interest the way it is now - free and open to all.
Some people fear that creating two tiers of the Internet could allow service providers to shut down web sites whose politics they didn't like. But even if they didn't discriminate based on content, the access fees could marginalise smaller and poorer players.
This is the completely wrong direction. We should be making the Internet more accessible, not less. We should be working to connect rural areas, schools in poor neighbourhoods and wherever people have not yet benefited from access to innovation and technology.
The companies that want to charge for the Internet are running a slick public relations campaign to make themselves look like a netroots operation. That's why the folks on our side need to wage a real - and overwhelming - netroots effort to make sure Congress understands that Americans and everyone want to keep the Internet the way it is - free and open to everyone.
I'm turning to you to ask for your help. You know how important the Internet is to free speech, especially political speech. And you know what it takes to turn out the netroots. Let's show them how it's done!
Sign the petition now.
www.oneamericacommittee.com/action/sign-petitions/email/openinternet_act
And then, use the Internet to protect the Internet. Please forward this email to your friends, family and everyone you know in America..
Your friend,
John Edwards, US Senate.
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caravanseraiclub safari/morocco 2006
the girls and the berber boys
Balleid, the musician owner of the Prends Ton Temps, is totally irresistible, with his large open caring jetblack face and white smile and singing and drumming and joking and laffing and saying “Prends Ton Temps!”, and the girls look in wonder, moved mysteriously to their depths. in their waters, perhaps :)
Brahim is, I suppose, higher class ancient Berber, but in a western woman’s mind could be a Prince, an Honourable Saviour on a white horse (camel). AND certainly he’s met enough western women to know how they think and feel deep down so to speak and how to make it to his advantage.
so i do know there was much flirtation between the Boys and Girls, and i know that Fatima (who’d been considering an ‘offer’ from Brahim) suddenly marched out of Prends Ton Temps, fully kitted up for travel, only whispering “he just became too insistent, i’ll tell you when i see you in london.” but really it’s none of my business, and it certainly isn’t any of your business :)
and so they/we paid our deep respects to the Sahara, huddled together of a long evening in the communal Berber concert, suffered its indignities and bruises, its sweaty clingy lack of water (though the daily bottle we each consumed for the whole week and the rest of our time in Morocco must have emptied some anonymous sub-aquifer somewhere!) all the girls cracked at some point, but it was mostly the crack of breaking through.
the Girls sang so sweetly a few times in return, and sounded so innocent and ‘protected’ among the old Barbarians. the Girls were a strong Entity. seldom seen and appreciated down here. but they were maddening in their (indiscriminate?) enthusiasm sometimes.
and i should mention that Caress was a big hit with his drumming, which I’d always considered just hippy style, but the musicians accept him as an equal, indeed Balleid says to me one time: “He is the first European I ever met who could drum like this”
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"Most Americans aren't the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected; they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that its might makes it right." Joseph Sobran, journalist.
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"The trouble with most folks isn't so much their ignorance,
as knowing so many things that just ain't so." Josh Billings
Terrorism Explained
- it’s just a Tactic!
by Charley Reese [remix]
Terrorism is a tactic, not a Thing or a Person you can bomm. It’s a tactic used by people who have a political grievance and little or no military power to fight back. Therefore, if you want to eliminate terrorism, as the UP! has been saying since the morning after 9/11, you have to address the political problems that gave it birth.
President Bush has made no effort to do this. He has aggravated the situation and made it worse. He's created a Sperm Bank for Terrorists.
You sow what you reap, and it’s a mug’s game to sow hatred, but the Bush Gang has been seduced by the great power he commands. His headspace goes all the way back to the Romans. He thinks the military and the intelligence community can solve the problem of terrorism when all they can do is deepen and widen it. viz the Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire.
He should note carefully the situation with Israel. As we were saying in the last UP!
ONE OF THE MOST DANGEROUS FALLACIES (things that just ain't so) STALKING OUR WORLD TODAY IS ISRAEL’S’ ADVICE TO AMERICA: THE ARABS ONLY UNDERSTAND ONE THING: FORCE!
Since 1947, the Israelis have been trying to use force instead of diplomacy and some kind of Justice to solve the Palestinian problem. And what is that problem? The Zionists, encouraged by the British, planted a colonialist country in Palestine with no regard for the rights or wishes of the Palestinian people.
And, ever since, they’ve had to keep telling “so many things that just ain't so”.
Just as the Jews used terrorism to drive the British out of Palestine, the Palestinians have also been forced to resort to it, and for 59 years the Israelis have been trying to kill and lie their way out of it.
It hasn't worked. Does anyone doubt the truth of this?! The Palestinians are still there. They kill, too. And, 100 years from now, the Palestinians will still be there, but it's not at all certain Israel will be. A former head of Israeli military intelligence, among several others, has stated that if the Palestinians are not given their own state, and SOON, then Israel is actually committing slow-motion national suicide.
Israelis become daily more paranoid. They are walling themselves in, on many levels, and they clearly believe “so many things that just ain't so” (like their ‘God’ made a deal!) But the wall won't help. There are Palestinians inside the wall who hold Israeli citizenship. There are Palestinians in the West Bank, in Gaza, in East Jerusalem. There are also Palestinians in refugee camps inside the West Bank and in Lebanon, Syria and Jordan. And they’re all feeling more deeply and more widely terrorised.
Everyone must stop believing “many things that just ain't so”. So long as there is no justice for the Palestinians, there will be no peace in that region.
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caravanseraiclub safari/morocco 2006
the thirst for knowledge, tho for health rather than the much simpler wisdom
most standing-out for me, though, was a generation’s Obsession with all aspects of health / food / medicines and all the body chemistry. insatiable they were, each pulling out their treasure troves of elixirs, Japanese bees wax, Lithuanian evening primrose balms, oh it was truly endless and the Old Hippies could only sit back and marvel at the Pandora’s Box we’ve unleashed. oh yes, the Dino Lifestyle is Dying, right down to the smallest detail :)
this Thirst For Knowledge (if for Health rather than the much simpler Wisdom) of a whole generation, along with the virus-like pandemic of Tecno across Africa, these were probably my main observations.
below them lie scores of lesser ones. like the young Westerners’ desire to Help, to repay and yes, even to worship or at the very least celebrate, and certainly revere the Ancient. the non-Time-full. but this may have been happening more in their inner emotional brains than in their intellectual brains.
another less pivotal insight, though one I’ve encountered on every trip I’ve done, is the always startling realisation how different worlds, different stages in History, all share this planet and date simultaneously, side by side. here you realise how parochial everyone is. we Westerners assume the world picture we get from our media IS the world. in Africa you realise how parochial we are and they are. here the news could be about some development in Egypt while the West reports a charge of corruption in Washington. president Afterdinnershag visits Britain? how about the Chinese Trade Delegation in Libya?! missed that one, did you?!
we all get, naturally enough (but easily forgotten in this increasingly connected tho not necessarily always intermixing world) the angle our position gives us, or denies us. and beyond that, the inevitably growing global perspective though not what we Westerners think. so what if Iran wants the bomb? will that give my fone more memory or affect the Polisario rebels in the deep south? will it threaten Morocco? of course everyone, to a man, hates Bush. but they mostly ignore him - until he starts a new war.
now i’ve mentioned george bush. before I came to Morocco I seriously considered hennahing my blond hair because, right now, and probably for the rest of my life, it’s the only arab country I would dare to visit - but not as a tall, blond American soldier lookalike. thus have those stupid Bush mobsters limited my life, it’s fukkin disastrous, the greedy ignorant bastids! it only takes one aggrieved muslim to pinpoint me, then
One enchanted evening,
A furious muslim stranger,
A furious muslim might shoot a stranger,
Across a crowded room, eh marketplace.
but i’m more relaxed about all that now, they’re not as angry at us as the Iraqis after all. and, like the Africans themselves, their religious lives are much more forgiving than ours, on the individual level at least. i guess that’s where al Queda comes in, to resist the Crusaders.
as i often say to the Berbers, on this trip and previous ones, “if the americans ever manage to run their machines off sand you guys are in deepest shit!”
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World Sees US As Bigger Threat To Peace
Than Iran, Poll Finds
· Findings also show fall in support for war on terror
· Decline in America's image 'all to do with Iraq'
by Ewen MacAskill/The Guardian [remix]
People worldwide see Washington as a bigger threat to world peace than Tehran, according to a global poll.
The Washington-based Pew Research Centre, in a poll of 17,000 people in 15 countries between March and May, found more people concerned about the US presence in Iraq than about Iran's alleged nuclear weapons ambitions.
The Pew Centre said: "Despite growing concern over Iran's nuclear ambitions, the US presence in Iraq is cited at least as often as Iran - and in many countries much more often - as a danger to world peace."
This annual survey shows a continued decline in support for the US since 1999. For most of the 20th century, the US image was relatively positive and regularly identified with democracy, human rights and openness in spite of criticism from the left, which reached a height during the Vietnam war, and a residual suspicion in the Muslim world.
But favourable ratings have slumped in European countries in 1999, from 62% to 39% (FRANCE), 78% to 37% (GERMANY), and 50% to 23% (SPAIN). Even Washington's closest ally is down from 83% to 56% (UK).
And in Muslim countries with which the US has traditionally enjoyed a good relationship it’s seriously and possibly terminally down. In Turkey - a member of Nato it’s down from 52% to 12%. And in Indonesia, it’s dropped from 75% to 30%.
"It's all because of Iraq," Carroll Doherty, associate director of the Pew Centre, said. US domestic polling, he continued, indicated that Americans were well aware of how the country was perceived abroad, and the US image has become a political issue.
The War on Terror
The survey also records a drop in support for the US-led "war on terror", even in countries such as Spain where support for it has dropped from 26% last year to 19% this year.
Iran a Danger?
Only in the US and Germany is Iran seen as a greater danger than the US in Iraq. Public opinion in 12 of the other countries - Britain, France, Spain, Russia, Indonesia, Egypt, Jordan, Turkey, Pakistan, Nigeria, India and China - cite the US presence in Iraq as being the greater danger. Opinion in Japan was evenly divided.
As well as Iraq and Iran, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is also high on the list of issues that present a danger to world peace. Public opinion in about a third of the countries polled put it at the top of their list of threats.
60% of UK interviewees said the Iraq war had made the world more dangerous.
On the other hand (and Jeezuz help us!) some 46% of Americans view Mr Ahmadinejad's government as "a great danger" to stability in the Middle East and world peace, almost double from its 26% in 2003.
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caravanseraiclub safari/morocco 2006
ch-ch-changes
since i have to generalise, i guess the overall change in most of the less travelled members is summed up by Lucy’s comment in the group tent this evening. “Brahim? How many kinds of spiders are there in Morocco,” she enquired in her over-elaborate University French, but in an innocent conversational tone that made Brahim chuckle and, catching his eye, i grinned too.
“Mais pourquois tu demande ca?” asked our smiling guide in his practical French, as patronisingly as any Berber can with any female. “Because a big yellow one just walked across my arm.” Wow! As I mumbled to the club member leaning against me: “Ten days ago that would have been a whole evening’s Drama!”
so there’s the major change in the club ‘members’. indeed I recall our very first evening in Marrakech overhearing a line from Lucy as the girls leaned over a tea urn tap of some kind: “It’s not just a question of microbes on it” she was authoritatively explaining, “There are swarms of them in the air around.” jeezuz, I thought, how do you imagine people have lived these past hundreds of thousand of years without lip-salve?! Alan reckons most of the girls displayed this attitude of being in possession of superior Knowledge. he remembered one of the girls, who’d sat chatting animatedly with a young Moroccan for over an hour, remarking at the end what a wonderful conversation it had been. until she added: “I explained so much to him!”!!
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Yehyeh (the one i thought last time was the village idiot but who is really just a reticent, untalkative desert dweller) last visited Zagora 5 months ago. he has once visited Marrakech, 8 years ago, and didn’t like it and may never return. a minority of Berbers like him (a quarter, say) will choose to retain their old lifestyle. but most of the others LOVE the new Tecno. adapted to their own uses.
a good example of that (and most impressive to an old club promoter like myself) was when Abdullah, a handsome upright young dude, pulled out some cyber set-up thingy with 3 different speakers stacked in decks on which he played some far out arabic stuff, or maybe of the tribe in the next valley. what was amazing was that he moved the 3 speakers around continuously, like a DJ turning a record, and presumably hearing ch- changes I couldn’t pick up. but who in the west has ever thought of that?! moving speakers?! it gave me another dizzying glimpse into technology being interpreted and adapted around the planet and its totally unexpected outcomes.
he was playing the elder, wonderful laffing Balleid some of the new stuff (or so I imagined) the maybe more radical and even political stuff, cos there was one section of loooong talking in a deep arab voice that made your spine want to straighten.
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WED JUNE 21 BLAKESPEARE
- new settings of Blake and Shakespeare
with Michael Horovitz, Dave Russell, NIALL Mcdevitt and Liza Hayden, Billy Wobbledagger And His Noble Kinsmen, Yo Zushi, The Blakespeare Sisters, Xaxa, Sam Dale, MC Jazzman John Clarke.
Sounds like a unique and unmissable poetic and melodic extravaganza.
@ The Perseverence, 11 Shroton St, Marylebone. £5/£3. Doors 7.30pm, show 8pm.
www.MySpace/Blakespeare.com
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caravanseraiclub safari/morocco 2006
africa’s century
Africa’s solution is to grow back again into their natural ethnic populations, irrespective of theoretical administration boundaries lines drawn in the sand by colonial powers that could never be maintained. the Tecno will give them this, soon the internet on their phones and a crossflooding of information will give them this.
there’s a song Balleid has written and performs. Mama Africa Zena which mentions Timbuktu. Brahim and Balleid sang it proudly together at every impromptu concert. yet last time I was here Brahim was a proud Berber and Balleid a negro full stop, their lifelong friendship nevertheless staring across a seemingly irresolvable cultural chasm that prevented them from ever being the same. but all this global activity seems to be working, for now they can come together as brothers in Africa. this is a gigantic change! Berbers used to keep the negroes as slaves. yet it’s going fast. thanks to all those NGOs and all the rest of it, they now look at each other beyond the local customs.
the Soccer World Cup which is happening since I got back, is further increasing this development. ‘Africans’ in the ivory Coast will be supporting ‘Africans’ from Ghana. last time I don’t think this would have been happening, maybe they’d have been supporting their old colonial master.
meanwhile people kept calling in from europe, threatening to arrive and join us when we got back to Marrakech. there was james, of course, my oldest buddy who comes on most of the caravanserai tours and who my sanity really needed to connect with in the flesh. there was kim and her boyfriend who I didn’t know. a Dutch guy whose name I forget who never showed up. and there was chris whitehead who I didn’t know.
but I had one Big Experience still to go through. a Hot Sand Bath! they kept telling me I had a cold in my kidneys. now I don’t know about you but I associate a cold with a drippy nose and I know my kidneys don’t even have a nose. so then they’d explain that I had this cold, damp, dark place on my right side obviously earned in cold damp dark Britain, which made more sense. so, at 4 in the afternoon when the sun is cooler but the sand is heated to its furthest depth, they dug a long trench in the sand dunes like they’re gonna bury a coffin. i lay down innit, and they refilled, leaving only my head clear. Sand Burial. there I lay, under a foot of warm sand as the pressure and the heat soaked through my whole body. wow. I felt england drying up, disappearing as this wonderful warm feeling of contentment-in-my-body spread munificently through me. i can tell you, an unease I’ve been feeling down there these past few years has gone, hopefully forever, though I’ve been advised to get hold of a kidney warmer b4 net winter - ever heard of those?!
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