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Palestinian Elite Tells Blair Not To Visit Territories
SAY BLAIR'S HANDS 'DRIP WITH LEBANESE BLOOD
,'
& DECLARE HIM PERSONA NON-GRATA
Reuters Hundreds of
Palestinians, including politicians, intellectuals and cultural leaders,
have today called on
Tony Blair
not to visit Palestinian areas, accusing him of excessive support for Israel.
Blair will meet Palestinian officials in Ramallah on Sunday.
He is also expected to hold talks in Israel
and Lebanon
, though there has been no confirmation from his office. "
He is coming here in order to wash his hands, that are dripping with Lebanese blood, with Palestinian water,"
the group of Palestinians wrote in an ad placed in the al-Ayyam newspaper.
"We, the signatories... notables, intellectuals and political figures declare that Tony Blair is persona non-grata in our country
." The notice said Palestinian leaders should cancel Blair's trip.
It was signed by members of smaller parties, university professors,
activists from non-governmental organisations and hundreds of ordinary Palestinians.
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i've had only one 'public moment' in my whole life when i saw something about The World that i'd never known before and which has affected how i see it ever since.
the reason i mention it is because i think it may be happening again, and in a much Huger way. i hope i'm wrong. it was 1969, as i recall, which seemed oh so bang up to the minute then, and it was connected to the student/hippy/worker revolution in paris against general de gaule's administration.
it had been building for ages, as so many of these public events do, which somehow in the back of your mind you always "KNOW" will basically lead to nowhere much different.
only this was a moment when it DID. i'll never forget waking up one morning to read in the press that, to escape the masses, THE PRESIDENT HAS HELICOPTERED OUT OF THE CAPITAL!!
that was my moment! from then on i have known that "THEY" are a cardboard tiger, that their 'power' is all a front which only works as long as "WE" think it's real. ok, it didn't, in the end, lead to real change. but a real change had happened in my perception of the social structure.
anyone who's lived through one of the recent soviet bloc revolutions would know exactly what i'm talking about, but i guess it's 'unimaginable' or 'only imaginable' if you've never personally experienced a shot of it.
this new 'public moment' began 2 months ago. i was taking a rest under a horse chestnut tree down the road, gazing contentedly at the sun dappling through the branches, when i suddenly noticed a beautiful sort of abstract geometric brown patterning on the golden-yellow leaves, like some piet mondrian had doodled rounded rectangular shapes across them.
i pulled down the closest branch to take a look. AND THEN I REALISED IT WAS SOME KIND OF DISEASE! my heart sank, my public moment began.
the 'rectangles' consisted of darker dots in their centres, surrounded by a rectangular shit coloured blotch. a hurried search revealed that every single leaf was the same!
and on the next 3 chestnut trees too! i noticed, however, that the other trees right next to them were unaffected. well, i mentioned it to various friends as i bumped into them, and i even pointed it out to the parky in my neighbourhood park.
nobody had noticed it before, but it was clear that ALL the trees in my part of the city were diseased too. to cut a long story short, it finally appeared on the front cover of August 24's Independent newspaper and my 'discovery' became official.
that was an interesting experience, when a private perception became Public. News. i reckon most people don't really take in the world around them any more – until it's silhouetted by the official media.
you may or may not have heard about this but the paper described the Chestnut Blight, "providers of conkers to generations", as being potentially worse than Dutch Elm disease which devastated Europe some years ago.
it also mentioned "running cancers" that the trees are developing, and said it was caused by a combination of "drought, pest attack and disease".
the leaf miner moth lays its eggs on the leaves for its larvae to eat. a couple of visits to festivals had already established that it was all over kent and, in taunton, it was not quite so bad but had made a first appearance on every conker tree.
now the paper confirmed that it is happening "in many parts of Britain". step outside! you can experience it for yourself!
next, and this is where it gets really disturbing, a few days later i took the paper to show my parky who probably reads the Mirror.
(walking the dog, see?) we walked over to investigate. he pointed out white dots on most of the branches (the trees themselves now look like they're in late Autumn but the leaves and branches are actually DYING).
we started to look for "running cancers" and ended up pulling off some of the slightly rotten looking bark.
AND IT WAS SWARMING WITH HUNDREDS OF TINY COCKROACH TYPE BUGS!!! who disappeared again into other cracks in the tree.
oh goddess! the inside of the bark was also covered in what looked like cotton wool. shocked, we pulled some bark from another tree, this time to disturb several inch long sinister skinny grey worms who slithered back into the cracks.
oh goddess! BRITAIN'S CHESTNUT TREES ARE DYING EN MASSE. maybe europe's and america's too?! it's not just the leaves (as you might have thought if you've noticed the phenomenon) THE WHOLE TREE IS ROTTING, DYING, AND BEING EATEN AWAY by termites!
(i've found out that the worms and the cotton wool are different stages of larvae and so on). soon all the chestnut trees will be shells.
and here's where humans come in (again?) many of our public avenues, buildings, public squares and parks have been planted with these fine, dignified chestnut trees, whose rotting branches will soon constitute a health hazard and WILL BE CUT DOWN.
and, just this morning, i noticed lots of little moths flying around a tree. then i remembered the "leaf miner moths"
which clearly fly the problem from tree to tree. so that's my second public moment. why? because for 20 years i've been hearing about the eco-threat to the planet.
i have some friends who think it's already too late to prevent Disaster. that the Gulf Stream will finally slow down sufficiently on a particular day and an Ice Age could begin in europe.
we ran a story in the last UP! that the amazonian rain forest could turn into a desert if there's another drought
NEXT SUMMER!! oh, and the Independent pointed out that drought these past 3 years has weakened general resistance. all that.
and now THE CHESTNUT TREES ARE DYING ACROSS BRITAIN!!!! up! The Third Bonobo "It all started back 10 years ago when I was reading reports that we share 98-99% of the same genetic material with chimpanzees.
Jared Diamond and others say we are so close to the chimps that taxonomically we should be put in the same genus
" writes Kelpie Wilson. "Humans are actually the third chimpanzee.
" http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082406J.shtml
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http://matrixmasters.com/podcasts/index.html - 045 FOR Fraser's Speech @
Stanford University (1996) '
Rave Culture And The End Of The World - As We Know It' == NOW BEING PODCAST AT THE PSYCHEDELIC SALON == "Adopting the philosophy of Rave Culture, at least the way Fraser explains it,
is perhaps our species' best hope for a sustainable, peaceful, and beautiful place
to continue chugging along on our evolutionary path… "This is one of the most important programs we have heard so far in this series.
In this brilliant talk you're going to hear one off the most concise explanations of the
evolution from beat to hippy to zippy to raver that you're probably ever going to hear."
Psychedelic Salon supremo Larry Hagerty. up! US Deaths In Iraq Surpass
9/11 Toll
The 5th anniversary of the
September 11, 2001 attack on the United States marks the passing of another sombre benchmark: with the announcement Sunday of 4 more US military deaths in
Iraq raising the US military death toll to
2,974, the War on Terror has now killed more Yankees than the original event itself. Ditto for the number of Iraqis Saddam killed.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090406X.shtml
up! SINNER
OR SAINT
THE TIM LEARY
CHALLENGE
from beyond the grave in the last
up! we challenged the authors of the 2
tim leary biographies to debate each other on their radically different interpretations of the man.
As of now, John Higgs
, whose book "I Have America Surrounded"
tells a marvellous story which leaves the reader to decide for hirself, has entered the ring! "I accept your challenge. Let me state first off that I don't think either or both of the words 'Saint' or 'Sinner' begin to describe
Timothy Leary. He is much more interesting than that.
My position is that he is fucking important and very funny, and it would take a braver or more foolhardy man than myself to judge him. With that understood,
I agree to enter the Parallel YOUniversity E-Ring
. Especially if, as I suspect, it tilts and has hidden spikes like the one in the Flash Gordon movie.
Those are the best kind."
John Higgs. We (and the world) (and especially the Future)
await a response from Robert Greenfield
whose book, ''Timothy Leary: A Biography', takes a much more negative line on the man and his ideas.
Come on, Robert, face the music like a man!
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>> meanwhile i, myself, have agreed to give a talk at Synergy's Leary Night,
October 13, on Tim Leary Was A Saint Who Will Be Remembered And Worshipped When Jesus And Mohamed Are Long Forgotten -
Fraser Clark discusses how a Saint is not that high. He is a human, with many human faults, but touched by some higher calling. Much more important is the Master or the Adept. Indeed my own guru, George Gurdjieff, warned of the danger of the Stupid Saint.
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Shamans And
Scientists – learnng from each other p.06
Electromagnetic Space Travel For
Bugs!
– Scientists wrong again p.07
Army And Cops Fight UK Ravers
p.08
"Compliant and subservient"
- Jimmy Carter's Explosive Critique Of Tony Blair:
p.03
Exactly Why Organic Milk Is Healthier
–
Scientists wrong again p.10
Iran's Leader Calls for
TV Debate With
Bush up! Shamans And Scientists
Shamans or Scientists by Jeremy Narby, anthropologist with Swiss NGO Nouvelle Planète,
and author of The Cosmic Serpent
, DNA and the Origins of Knowledge. In 1999, three molecular biologists travelled to the Peruvian Amazon to see whether they could obtain
bio-molecular information
in their visions in sessions with an indigenous shaman
. They had no previous experience of ayahuasca shamanism
or of the
Amazon, though they did have an interest in alternative healing traditions and shamanism.
Their age ranged from the late-30s to mid-60s. One worked as a scientist in an American
genomics
company. Another was a professor at a French University and a member of the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). The third taught in a Swiss University and was a director of a research laboratory.
None of the scientists spoke Spanish, and the indigenous
ayahuasquero
did not speak English or French. I translated for them. The first thing to report is that the scientists and the shaman had many long conversations.
They did not cease to have things to say to one another. The shaman had been studying plants, as an ayahuasquero, for 37 years, and answered the biologists' questions for days on end.
He also conducted night-time ayahuasca
sessions, in which the biologists took part.
They saw many things in their visions, including DNA molecules and
chromosomes. The American biologist,
who normally worked on deciphering the human genome
, said she saw a chromosome from the perspective of a protein flying above a long strand of
DNA. She saw
DNA sequences known as "CpG islands
," which she had been puzzling over at work. She saw they were structurally distinct from the surrounding DNA and that this structural difference allowed them to be easily accessed and therefore to serve as "
landing pads" for transcription proteins, which dock on to the DNA molecule and make copies of precise genetic sequences.
She said the idea that
CpG island structure enables them to function as landing pads had not crossed her mind previously, and that genomic research would soon be able to verify this hypothesis.
The French professor
had been studying the sperm duct
of animals for many years, first in lizards, then in mice. When a sperm cell comes out of the testis and enters the sperm duct, it is incapable of fertilising an egg.
It only becomes fertile once it has travelled through the duct, where about fifty different kinds of proteins work on it. The professor and his team had spent years trying to understand which protein makes the sperm cell fertile.
Understanding this could have implications for the development of a male contraceptive. He brought 3 questions to one of the ayahuasca sessions.
First: was there a key protein that makes sperm cells fertile? Second, why had it not been possible to find the answer after years of research?
And, third, was the mouse the appropriate model for studying fertility in men? He received answers from a voice that spoke in his visions.
In reply to the first question, the voice said: "No, it is not a key protein. In this organ, there are no key proteins, just many different ones which have to act together for fertility to be achieved
." To the second question, it said: "
I already answered that with your first question." And to the third question, it replied: "
This question is not important enough for me to answer. The answer can be found without ayahuasca. Try to work in another direction
." The Swiss scientist
wanted to consult the shamanic sphere about the ethics
of modifying plant
genomes. She wanted to know if it was appropriate to add genes to plants to make them resistant to diseases.
It so happens that
tobacco is an important plant for both genetic engineers and Amazonian shamans. Shamans from many different indigenous societies say they speak in their visions with the "
Mother Of Tobacco". The biologist reported that she spoke during an ayahuasca-influenced meditation with an entity that the shaman subsequently identified as the Mother Of Tobacco.
This entity informed her that tobacco's fundamental role was to serve all living beings. It also informed her that manipulating tobacco's genome was not a problem in itself, so long as the plant could play its fundamental role in an adequate environment, and so long as it was in keeping with that environment.
The biologist saw, in a vision, a resplendent plant growing in a desert thanks to an extra gene which allowed it to resist drought.
She came away from this experience with the understanding that genetic manipulations were best gauged case by case, in a way that takes into consideration the scientist's intention as well as the way in which the modified plants will be used by society.
………………………. Agreement On A Number of Points
In interviews conducted in their respective laboratories 4 months later, the 3 biologists agreed on a number of points.
All 3 said the experience of ayahuasca shamanism changed their way of looking at themselves and at the world, as well as their appreciation of the capacities of the human mind.
All 3 expressed great respect for the shaman's skill and knowledge.
All 3 had received information and advice about paths of research they were on.
All 3 agreed that ayahuasca shamanism was a harder path to knowledge than science.
All 3 are planning to return to the Amazon at some point to continue working.
The two women reported contact with "
plant teachers," which they experienced as independent entities
; they both said that contacting a plant teacher had shifted their way of understanding reality. The man said that all the things he saw and learned in his visions were somehow already in his mind, but that
ayahuasca had helped him see into his mind and put them together.
He did not think he had experienced contact with an independent intelligence, but he did think ayahuasca was a powerful tool for exploring the mind. The scientific information and imagery accessed in the biologists' ayahuasca visions were certainly related to the information and images already in their minds.
They did not have any big revelations. "Ayahuasca is not a shortcut to the Nobel prize,"
the French professor remarked. They all said that ayahuasca shamanism was a harder path to knowledge than science, and as scientists, they found specific difficulties with it.
For example, getting knowledge from an ayahuasca experience involves a highly emotional, subjective experience that is
not reproducible. One cannot have the same ayahuasca experience twice, nor can somebody else have the same ayahuasca experience as oneself.
This makes it almost contrary to the method of science, which consists of designing objective experiments that can be repeated by anyone, anywhere, anytime.
They said that more research was needed; and that this would require preparing questions carefully, and working with qualified shamans in well-defined conditions.
And they are all planning to return to the Amazon at some point to continue working on this. After this 2 week preliminary experiment, they visited a school for bilingual, intercultural education, where young people from 14 indigenous societies (
Aguaruna, Shipibo, Huitoto, Ashaninca etc) are learning to teach indigenous knowledge and science.
The school's goal is to train indigenous primary school teachers. Each people has elected an "
indigenous specialist" to work at the school as the keeper and teacher of its knowledge, language and lore. The scientists met with the school's director and with the specialists.
They spoke positively about their recent experience with an indigenous shaman. Several specialists warned them about potential abuses, that
sorcerers could shoot darts into people to cause disease, and that ayahuasca was double-edged. They emphasised that using ayahuasca required the presence of a well-trained and talented
ayahuasquero. The specialists asked the scientists about science: What was its nature?
Where did its centre lie? One scientist replied that science was fragmented into many disciplines and was practised in many countries.
He went on to say that he thought it was very important that young indigenous people learned about science, because it was currently the dominant form of knowledge around the world.
One specialist agreed, but also thought the scientists might consider sending their children to the Amazon to learn about indigenous knowledge. That way, he said, they too would benefit from a complete education.
The Aguaruna director of the school then thanked the scientists for their visit, and said: "
Here in the Amazon, our knowledge has been taken many times by others, but we have never received any benefits from it. Now we would like to see some returns."
An agreement regarding the compensation of indigenous knowledge should be established before any further research was conducted.
Overall, this experiment seemed to show that scientists can learn things by working with indigenous Amazonian shamans.
Contrary to suggestions by some that shamanism, as classically defined, is reaching its end, bringing shamans and scientists together seems more like a beginning.
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rides again :) * a hostelry with spacious courtyards where camel caravans put up.
Crete –
the last surviving goddess-worshipping society before the warlords took over. The plan is to rent a country cottage and car and camp out at different goddess sites.
Flights seem to be to Athens, whence it's a beautiful ferry ride through all the other Greek islands
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new kinda clubbing, travel clubbing, the
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Opposition To
Iraq War At All-Time High In USA A series of polls taken over the last few weeks of August show that support for the war in Iraq among Americans is at an
all-time low. Almost two-thirds of Americans in each of 3 major polls say that they oppose the war, the highest totals since pollsters starting asking Americans the question three years ago.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090206X.shtml
up! Ecstasy
Treatment For Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Switzerland's
DEA equivalent, the BAG, has officially given the necessary licenses for Dr. Peter Oehen's study evaluating MDMA-assisted psychotherapy as a treatment for subjects suffering from treatment-resistant Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
Permission from the BAG was the final regulatory hurdle, since Dr. Oehen had already received approval from the
Ethics Committee (Switzerland's IRB equivalent) and
SwissMedic (Switzerland's FDA equivalent). Read Dr. Oehen's government-approved protocol here:
http://www.maps.org/mdma/swissptsd/protocol011806.pdf
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Electromagnetic Space Travel For
Bugs! David L Chandler / NewScientist.com news service Life on planets like Earth
or Mars could have been seeded by electrically charged microbes from space
, suggests a new study. Since the discovery of meteorites
from Mars on Earth in the 1990s, a few people have speculated that living microbes could have travelled back and forth between the two planets, perhaps allowing one planet to seed the other with life.
The problem with this idea is that such a trip could only happen after a huge
asteroid collided with one of the planets, with an impact large enough to blast rocks off the planet's surface, and such strikes are extremely rare: just a handful are thought to have occurred since the solar system formed.
However, a new study suggests there may be a much gentler and steadier way for microbial life to leave a planet and travel to other worlds - and even from one solar system to another, something even the biggest impacts could not do.
The startling conclusion grew out of work by Tom Dehel, an electrical engineer at the US Federal Aviation Administration
, who was investigating how electromagnetic fields in the Earth's atmosphere can affect GPS satellites and disrupt their use for aircraft navigation. He presented his findings at the biennial meeting of the international Committee on Space Research (COSPAR), in Beijing, China, this week.
Dehel calculated the effect of electric fields at various levels in the atmosphere on a
bacterium that was carrying an electric charge. He showed that such bacteria could easily be ejected from the Earth's gravitational field
by the same kind of electromagnetic fields that generate auroras. And these fields occur every day, unlike the extraordinarily large surface impacts needed to eject interplanetary meteorites.
Near-Vacuum The measurements of field strength vary greatly at different levels of the atmosphere - the strongest ones are near the surface, generated by
thunderstorms. There are large gaps where the fields have not been measured directly, but assuming the fields extend through the whole air column, there could be an ongoing, sustained process of
lofting bacteria high into the atmosphere. Since the upward forces of the magnetic field would balance the force of gravity for tiny organisms, they could float in the upper atmosphere for years and reproduce there, giving them a chance to evolve capabilities to endure the hardships of that environment, including coping with strong UV and a near-vacuum.
Such organisms would thus be well equipped to endure the rigours of a journey through space. >> we've known since terence mckenna told us, of course, that mushroom spores are admirably suited for
exactly this purpose – but, according to evolutionary theory, WHY?! Other researchers have already demonstrated that some bacterial spores can survive in conditions thought to exist in interplanetary space, and then be revived.
So the possibility of interplanetary spread of life is plausible and deserves further investigation, Dehel believes. Charged microbes could also be propelled outwards from a planet at high speed by "
magnetospheric plasmoids" - independent structures of plasma and magnetic fields that can be swept away from the Earth's magnetosphere.
Hitching rides on these structures could accelerate microbes to speeds capable of taking them out of the solar system and on to the planets of other stars. And because of the potential for a steady outflow of the particles pushed by the electric fields, a single life-bearing world might seed an entire galaxy with life.
http://www.newscientistspace.com/article.ns?id=dn9601&print=true >> science, having got so much so wrong for so long, finally seems to be catching up.
catching UP! geddit? up! Army And Cops Fight UK
Ravers Guardian hack Alexis Petridis, who declared in 2003 that "dance music,
as a youth cult, seems to be in terminal decline', is cheerfully forced to eat his words and proclaim raves as vastly more exciting than legal music festivals. Soldiers joined cops trying to break up a bank holiday rave in the Epynt mountains near Brecon in mid Wales last weekend, as 500 revellers partied on the
Ministry Of Defence land for over 48 hours. The outdoor event was one of several which received national press, including one in Essex where 1,000 revellers fought back against riot cops who tried to break up the rave with force and a
£5 million squatted London house whose all night parties
police have been unable (or unwilling?) to stop. Eyewitnesses reported that police beat partygoers with batons and fired pepper spray during the incident, though local police commander Graeme Bull defended his officers:
"There was a significant minority who met police with unprecedented and ferocious resistance. Their conduct was disgraceful - weapons were used, missiles were thrown,"
the Chief Superintendent complained. "These sorts of raves are quite unheard of in this county - I have not seen this sort of violence since
the old days of acid house.
" Both parties happened as Britain's national press published a plethora of articles claiming illegal raves have suddenly been reborn,
despite the phenomenon never having gone away since the early 90s.
"What self-respecting teenager wouldn't opt for an illegal rave, with its sense of outlaw cool and danger?
" said the one timer Mixmag staff writer Alexis Petridis. "
Offering not just drug-fuelled hedonism, but an attendant palaver involving the chance to run across motorways, trespass on private property and the occasional spot of light rioting
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>> the best president the US never had. UP! To Us? An orphan, a little girl, stood at the street corner begging for food, money or whatever.
She was wearing very tattered clothes, and was dirty and quite dishevelled. A rich businessman rushed past without giving the girl a second look, but, when he got back to his expensive home, his thoughts returned to the young orphan, and he began to get very angry with God for allowing such a world.
"How can you let this happen? Why don't you do something to help little girls like that?!
" he reproached God. And he heard God in the depths of his being respond:
"I did. I created you."
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Subpoena Bush White House In Phone Company
Spying Case Two lawyers who brought the first lawsuit against the Bush administration, Verizon and AT&T for illegally examining the phone records of virtually every American citizen have served subpoenas on the Bush White House and on Verizon.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082906A.shtml
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Exactly Why Organic Milk Is Healthier Felicity Lawrence
/ The Guardian Until now the official line on organic food has been that there is no nutritional difference between it and intensively farmed food.
So although the Food Standards Agency acknowledges that people may want to support organic farming for other reasons - its reduced impact on the environment, or to avoid pesticide residues, for example - it has said there is no evidence that it is better for your health.
No longer!
A new study shows that a pint of organic milk
has an average
68% more omega 3 fatty acids than conventional milk.
Omega 3 fatty acids
are called essential fatty acids
because they cannot be produced in the body and must be eaten
. They have been linked to reduced risk of heart disease and of some forms of cancer, and are also vital to normal brain functioning. They are also generally depleted in western diets.
Researchers at the universities of Glasgow and Liverpool looked at milk from different types of farms over a 3-year period.
It turns out that "you are what you eat
" applies to cows as well as humans.
Omega 3 content went up significantly in the months when cows were able to eat outside on
juicy fresh grass
. A nice dose of clover
, meanwhile, which is high in the omega 3 fatty acid ALA
, makes cow's milk that is also higher in ALA. Organic farmers generally use more
clover and grass forages, whereas intensively reared cows are fed more concentrates - a sort of fast food for cattle made of imported soya (which is high in om
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Jimmy Carter's Explosive Critique Of
Tony Blair
Compliant And Subservient
"I have been surprised and extremely disappointed by Tony Blair's behaviour,"
he told The Sunday Telegraph. "I think that more than any other person in the world the Prime Minister could have had a moderating influence on Washington - and he has not.
"
President Carter made it plain that he sees Mr Blair's lack of leadership as being a key factor in the present crisis in Iraq, which followed the 2003 invasion - a pre-emptive move he said he would never have considered himself as president.
Mr Carter also said that the Iraq invasion had subverted the fight against terrorism and instead strengthened al-Qaeda and the recruitment of terrorists.
"We now have a situation where America is so unpopular overseas that even in countries like Egypt and Jordan our approval ratings are less than 5%.
It's a shameful and pitiful state of affairs and I hold your British Prime Minister to be substantially responsible."
"We've never before had an administration that would endorse pre-emptive war - that is a basic policy of going to war against another country even though our own security was not directly threatened
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Had he still been president, he says he would never have considered invading Iraq in 2003.
"I would never have ordered it. However, I wouldn't have excluded going into Afghanistan, because I think we had to strike at al-Qaeda and its leadership. But then, to a major degree, we abandoned the anti-terrorist effort and went almost unilaterally with Great Britain into Iraq
… My own personal opinion is that the Iraqi people are not better off as a result of the invasion and people in America and Great Britain are not safer
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