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not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists."
Abby Hoffman.
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Cops smashed into Club What's
Next on a pre-arranged raid and arrested all
117 people present despite only finding drugs and paraphernalia on 23
people (and despite carrying out strip and cavity searches on scores of
terrified ravers.)
"The District Court erred in finding
probable cause to arrest these
defendants," Genesee Circuit Court
Judge Joseph Farah wrote in his decision.
"To allow to stand the arrests of
these 94 defendants would be to allow lumping together people who had
been at the club for 5 minutes or 5 hours, people who never stopped
dancing with those who sat next to a drug deal, people who sat at a table
facing the wall with those in the middle of the mischief, and charge
those dissimilarly present individuals with equal awareness and knowledge
of wrongdoing."
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Mercury is
retrograde, yes - so don’t sign
contracts until November 18.
But on the other hand, DO get things going. This is a pushy
Scorpionic
month.
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British Believe
Bush More
Dangerous Than
Kim Jong-il
America is now seen as a threat to world
peace by its closest neighbours and allies,
according to an international survey of public opinion published
today
which reveals just how far the country's reputation has fallen
among former supporters since the invasion of
Iraq.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110306Z.shtml
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LATE NEWS
BUSH LOSING
TFMs
President
Bush appears to
be losing support among a key group of voters
who had hitherto stood firmly with the president.
even as his poll numbers among other groups fell dramatically.
A new Gallup
poll shows that, for the first time, Bush's
approval rating
has fallen below 50% among Total Fukkin’
Morons, and now stands at 44%.
This represents a dramatic drop compared to a poll taken just last
December,
when 62% of total fuckkin’
morons expressed support for the
president
and his policies. The current poll, conducted by phone with 1,409
TFMs,
reveals that only 44% of those polled believe the president is doing a
good job,
while 27% believe he is doing a poor job
and 29% don't understand the question or threatened violence.
The last poll, conducted by phone with 1,530
total fukkin’
morons,
showed 62% approving of the president,7% disapproving
and 31% thought the question was about football or gambling.
Faltering approval ratings among a group once thought to be a solid
source
of loyal support gives Republicans one more reason to be nervous
about the upcoming mid-term elections.
"If we can't depend
on the support of total fucking
morons," says Sen. Rick Santorum
(R-PA),
"then we've got a big problem.
They're a key factor in our
electoral strategy, and an important part of today's Republican
coalition.”
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Rave
Raid Arrests Dismissed
p.02 SAINT TIMOTHY &
“The 9/11
Nuts”
FEEDBACK
p.11
Reality
Shifts Timothy
Leary’s Death
p.14
9/11
A
Coherent
Story Incorporating All The
Facts?
p.18 The Pronoia
Tour 1994
p.19
Borat
: Cultural Learnings of America for Make
Benefit
p.21 The Death Of
George Gurdjieff
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SAINT TIMOTHY &
“The 9/11
Nuts”
FEEDBACK
so this will
(probably
) be the last
UP! on the subject for a while. on the other hand, most of
this week’s
UP! is
devoted to it.
FRASER SHIFTS ODDS
due to all the info i’ve had to digest this past month
i’ve changed my odds against a 9/11
conspiracy from 5/1 to 3/1 :)
1: i did not call 9/11ers
“nuts
”. that was andrew cockburns’s
title. i think now i should have renamed it.
2:
i do not think they are “nuts” at all
(though some definitely are, and worse, as i shall get to). while i
am not convinced by their arguments, i do NOT think it’s crazy or
time-wasting to explore the issue. NOT IN THE LEAST! and
right now my own opinion, somewhat shifted by what i have learned these
past few
UP!s, is only 3/1 against the conspiracy theory.
3.
i have chosen to mix the
9/11
issue with the
Saint
Leary thread because the former makes
such grim and essentially divisive reading, brimming as it does with mega
quarrelsome and almost impossible to prove or disprove details and
unsettled controversies. but my main raison d’etre is to spread
information and inspire harmony among the alternative culture of which we
are all part. the
Dinos
are on their way out (as u know i
believe) and the
Leary
thread points to a much longer-term
Bigger
Picture which hopefully will help to
heal these shorter-term divisions. in a very real sense, the truth
or otherwise of any current issue can open genuine arguments, but the
truly important overall longer-term Direction which we must take
(together
) far outweighs this.
as examples: is
9/11
more important than the ecological disaster
that’s begun to engulf our planet? is it more important to
concentrate on the reason for
9/11
than on the 2 stolen presidential elections
(and more, like in
mexico
!) and which may very well rise to No 1
issue after the coming elections?! is the death of 3000 capitalists
more important than the fact that the bush gang lied Amurderika into an
invasion that’s killed 750,000 innocent Iraqis and trashed millions of
personal lives?
of course
9/11
could be a key stage in all this, but all
of the above would be just as true and horrendous if it turns out
not to be.
a sickness at the heart of
Amurderikan society
indeed, i have been deeply deeply
troubled by the attitudes of
some of the 9/11ers. to some extent it even seems to run
through all of them. some 9/11ers have bombarded us with
easily the worst kind of intolerant angry shit i have ever had thrown at
me even worse than some of the stuff we had to face on the
Zippy Pronoia Tour To
US
[see p.18]
when we were telling Amurderika
that Rave Culture was possibly their last chance to transform their
psychologically flawed culture before it was too late. maybe it is
now too late but not if i can help to affect anything!
i think you’ll see in the emails below how fractured by extreme,
intolerant and deeply cynical individualism the whole society seems to
be. it’s not just Bush who believes “you're with us or against
us on this one." 9/11ers are telling me the same! i
definitely detect a lynch mob
mentality at work in the alternative
culture over there.
“You're still as dense as a brick”
“To say otherwise is simply a lie!” “You are one of the densest people
i've ever met.” "Either you have some sort of mental illness, or an
ulterior motive."
“He doesn't have enough brain power to light a one
watt bulb!” These are only
some of the aggressive, hate-fuelled barbs i have received. Or try
this:
Fraser,
You are a dumb arse fella. Wipe your smeely Arse. Wipe my
face of your hot frothy, silly, spittle. Do research basic to an
unbiased informned oppinion; Otherwise I too like Galen a man who's
aquaintance I have had, will abandon all hope of you learning anything
from Operation Northwoods, 9/11 Mysteries, or Loose Change LET ALONE that
day in Dallas Texas11/22/1963 and the work of investigators Weberman,
Canfeild, and, U.S. attorney Mark Lane.
Wise up !!!
DUMB ASS
sam soham.
ok, that’s the very worst, and sounds barely
conscious, right? but take galen who the weirdo mentions, here’s a
milder comment he’s written to me over this past month:
“At this point i've written you off as an
unreasonable person consumed by
propaganda”
And here’s an insight into their
attitudes when they write to each other about you
UP! readers
Galen: Hi Jeff, Fraser has a lot of influence in certain
circles, that's the only reason i've spent so much time trying to
communicate with him.
Jeff Strahl: That says something about those circles.
Galen: Point well taken :)
i detect a deep subconscious
arrogance here, a built-in assumption that only america sees and does
everything, that everyone else is just a bit player. this is just
as mad, myopic and superior as bush’s assumptions, indeed it’s the Shadow
of them! one unfortunate result can be that, to an Amurderikan,
every bad thing is laid at the feet of america.
the basic trubble with this thread we’re in now is that those who are
into it are really into it, obsessively, while those who’ve
decided they don't rate its likelihood don't much bother to keep up with
the supposedly ever increasing tsunami of “new findings”!
some of you have written to laud me for refusing to be bullied into
swallowing my doubts in silence. but far too many Amurderikans
(with the obvious exception of UP! readers :) seem afraid to stand up and
state clearly what they feel, rightly or wrongly perhaps they’re
terrified to be categorised as being on the wrong side of the lynch
mob? this allows bandwagons to build. though it might take
years before we see it, the
karma
of stampeding like lemmings down a wrong
road is inevitable. we, all of us, shall pay a price if we are not
brave enough to stand up and speak freely. indeed how can a
democracy ever work without it?
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I actually suspect that the Bush Administration may secretly be behind
some of the wilder conspiracy theories, knowing that they are false and
therefore unprovable - just to distract people from the real, obvious
wrongs that they are perpetrating openly every day.
>> wonder the same myself.
it could even be because they are PROVABLE, and a secret weapon to reveal
when enough “Nuts” have staked their reputations onnit. and i
agree the reason would be to take massive attention from the real,
provable scandals like stealing 2 elections in a row.
The best debunking of the controlled
demolition "theory" that I have managed to find is actually the
NIST FAQ:
http://wtc.nist.gov/pubs/factsheets/faqs_8_2006.htm
Of course it comes from a
Government agency and must therefore be suspect, but as a scientist,
everything they say makes perfect sense.
Glad you are keeping an open mind about it.
Ian Gregory, Manchester, UK.
http://www.zenatode.org.uk/ian/
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Hey!
I heard you speak at Synergy - good job! Tried to find you
afterwards to finally meet face-to-face but lost you in the crowd.
Thanks for keeping the spirit of the Professor alive. We all miss
him.
Best wishes
Diana, London.
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Fraser,
I admire your honesty in stating your case about not believing in the
theories of 9/11, and also for publishing the correspondences from those
people who disagree with you. I too am one of those individuals who share
those samebeliefs, that 9/11 was indeed an attack orchestrated by the
American government.
I don't wishthis to be viewedas 'punishing' you for having a difference
of opinion than myself and others - far from it. It's important for us
all not to be so arrogant as to think that we can 'push'our points
of view upon one another and 'make' someone believe or saywhat we think
or want them to say.
However,I amasking you to please remove my name also from the mailing
list for the newsletter. Thank youfor having sent them in the
past.
I sincerely wish you well with all of your future efforts.
Ayem. (U.K)
>> if you’re not “punishing” me, perhaps
you’ve decided to “punish” yourself by closing your eyes to the rest of
the world that’s going on?
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Dr Tim was not
a saint, but he may have thought he was God.
doodyrob, uk.
>> either you think we all are or you've
never tried the stuff :)
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Dear Fraser, i’ve read your posts for a
couple of years and love you deeply. and am writing to say maybe this
current US administration has finally put the kibosh on responsible
people saying there's no difference between the 2 US parties. at any rate
let's hope so, and thanks for the writing that you do -- people don't
always respond but are reading and taking hope -- and good on yer and
take care!
jeff ward, new york.
>> thanks for that, jeff. if
the government couldn’t shut me up, no closed minded lefty bullies are
going to :)
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Have just read
your latest UP! including the talk you gave for TL's 10th
anniversary. It took an hour. Great stuff, thanks
fraser!
Dr Fluff, Cornwall.
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glad to see you are getting your head
screwed back on again. 9/11 is not a battle of who is right or
wrong about who did it, it’s about finding the truth and not settling for
any comfortable political expediencies short of that.
Of course, personally I am convinced that the Christofascists in the
White House did it, but like the reasonable human being I am, I am
clamouring for an honest investigation first, then a televised public
hanging afterwards. That's the way Bush used to do it when he was
governor of Texas.)
John Morton, Oakland, California
>> am holding out for dawn executions by
firing squad myself. for many other reasons than 3000 dead
capitalists, however like 750,000 dead iraqis. and for
stealing 2 elections which are largely being sidelined because of
all this effort.
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Six years after the emergence of the now infamous "hanging
chad"
in the 2000 presidential elections,
monitoring groups warn that technological glitches and hackers
could throw next month's mid-term elections into chaos.
>> or, more likely, into the arms of the
Dinos.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/102706Z.shtml
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Stay out there old buddy!
James Hamilton, London.
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Fraser, I enjoy your newsletter but you
really must do some more research on 9/11 before you start throwing
invective like 'conspiracy nuts' around.
>> i didn't. i re-published the
article written & titled by alexander cockburn, a very very trusted
and long-term radical left activist whom i respect.
I was a university lecturer until a few
weeks ago and probably still would be if my conscience and 9/11 hadn't
intervened.
And it really isn’t that complicated.
They said 19 muslims did it. At least 6 of these muslims turned up
alive in the weeks after. You really don't need to know anything
else about 9/11 to know that the real culprits were not found.
>> i totally agree. but the main aim
of authorities after such events is to project to the public that they're
hot on the trail of the perps. they often get it all wrong initially but
it’s sposed to reassure the public they’re hot on the case rather
than totally stunned.
the big question is: was it angry arabs (as it still is, and was for some
years before 9/11) or george in his bath? (ok, i take that back
:)
Please take a look again. If you have
any questions I'd be happy to answer them.
>> thanks. if u reread up! 0044 you'll
find ruffly 6 questions i've posed. not all are in the form of questions
but u can see the question in them. the main one i mentioned is probly to
do with bin laden being a cia stooge. if so, then why don't they get him
to FESS UP to the crime?! why leave it unclear?! (he never claimed
he did it, but he did envision, inspire, bless, and oversee it and
there's recently been footage of the visits of the actors to see him in
afghanistan) a few weeks b4 the event. (btw Amurderika had been deserving
it for a long long time)
another question not mentioned there is why they would risk letting so
many people into the tower explosives part of the conspiracy when 2
steaming stumps would have been PLENTY to launch their wars? right?
they didn't need to collapse! or, even better, why bother with
planes crashing when they could just have blown up the towers (according
to the Theory) and blamed it on whomever they wanted. much simpler
and a thousand times easier to conceal. they could even have had a
small ‘half failed’ explosion in the white house, right? they
didn’t NEED all this other dangerous stuff at all!
may i also thank and congratulate u for your open-minded, open discussion
attitude. so many of the "9/11 Nuts" are vicious, negative,
angry, rude, superior oh they're just awful - which tells me
something.
Morgan, Irish 9/11 Truth Movement, Dublin
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Dear Fraser Clark,
Thanks SO much for the Saint Timothy piece based on your recent talk Fri.
OCTOBER13in London.
Not sure if we ever met. I was the founder of a short-lived
"Society for the Study of Psychedelic Psychology" (SSPP),
became a Transpersonal Gestalt Therapist, and more recently, an
"Evolutionary Agent" working most closely with Barbara
Marx Hubbard and her Gateway to Conscious Evolution.
I am pleased to connect with you and honour you for your excellent talk
.
Blessings & Aloha.
EdElkin, San Diego.
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Hi Fraser, I really appreciate your
keeping the 9/11 discussion going, I'm sure you've had a lot of shit
flung your way over it. I'm bummed but not surprised that there is
so much vitriol on both sides of the issue.
>> why not surprised? am deeply
troubled myself.
> you're right, we are as divided as
ever in a million little factions. as long as we are at each
other's throats about thedetails, the bigger picture lieremains
unchallenged. the way I sum that lieup is this: with 1/2
of what the US spends on "defence," we could feed, educate, and
shelter the entire world, thereby vastly diminishing those who would
immolate themselves just to spite us.instead we put our money into
things like 'Operation Cyclone', which has to rank in the top ten of the
most evil and stupid things our government has ever done.
I am surprised however that there is so much incredulity coming
from you of all people, considering your promotion of such ideas as Santa
and the xmas tradition coming from the Siberian mushroom cults (which btw
I gleefully and wholeheartedly agree to).
>> no incredulity. i don’t think
anyone’s crazy for seriously considering what is a reasonably possible
scenario. not in the least and i stand on my long-term reputation
on this one. but when they react with such playground bully
attitudes i fear for the human race. if they’re going to be
sitting at the New Age table when the Dinos’ Last Stand has completed its
Collapse, they’ll be voting to put people like us in gulags, am not
kidding. i have seldom seen such arrogance and ugliness in the
military.
> could not agree more
My point is, to those who have not pulled back the veil, and
looked at the deeper connections, many things that you and I consider
self evident seem absurd and outrageous. Sensationalism often
obscures the finer nuances of the reality of a situation.
All sensational theory aside, it has been demonstrated that the
administration knew something was coming,
>> well, they had some warnings. out of a
million tip-offs over the previous year? but let’s pull back the veil of
mists of time passed - i can personally very well remember that their
main security aim in those days prior to 9/11 was hunting pot dealers,
with a news story of a bust on tv every might. i think they were so
arrogant they really didn't think any arabs could get their shit
together. it's always easy looking back.
that they (the Dinos) stood to gain from it
heavily,
>> certainly.
> Many low level operators have come
forward who were involved in anti-terror operations from the Military,
CIA, government, and elsewhere to describe how their operations were
thwarted from above (FBI translator Sibel Edmunds
(http://www.justacitizen.com/)
is under gag order not to talk about how
her superiors dragged their feet in Al Qaeda matters), but these folks
are not given a voice nor were their concerns adequatelyaddressed by the
commission.
> “thwarted” is a value
judgement. equally possible is they were interested in other stuff
and simply and arrogantly (about which nobody argues) ignored it as
distraction.
and that they had even previously
acknowledged how such an event would be necessary to generate the public
support for their agenda (PNAC's "New Pearl Harbor"), and that
now we are faithfully carrying out that very agenda out.
>> if you read some of those writings
they are often talking about the danger of arabs finally doing such a
thing and how that would trigger them.
> in his book "Crossing the
Rubicon" Mike Rupert (now exiled from the US) makes a pretty strong
case that it's not just money but end-gamesurvival that is motivating the
Dinos along this path. Definitely jibes with the "last
stand" characterisation you use.
>> granted, but 9/11 occurred while
they were still cockahoop.
In the US now there is a growing number of
people in academic, government, military, and intelligence circles who
question the official theory. These are not crackpots, but well
informed, educated people who are speaking out at great personal risk to
their careers and reputations:
>> i didn't call them crackpots tho
some of them most definitely are. some are building themselves nice
little careers (remember they’re Amurderikans!) others are doing it
for deeply flawed subconscious reasons, father-hatred and all the rest of
it (had to deal with it through my entire club career, peoples’
projections onto me which had nothing to do with me). and
people are jumping on bandwagons - one of the main reasons i questioned
it publicly, i don't want ANYONE to decide because of bandwagon pressure,
that is NOT what we need! stand
up and speak your truth! we’ve allowed ourselves to be bullied too
long, don’t let your own side do it just when we’re finally pushing the
Dinos aside!
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10/22 was leary’s birthday.... i did his
memorial volume. he was not a shaman, you're right. he said it best,
calling himself an inefficient wizard.
>> no, he was MUCH more than that,
you’re missing his humour. he was a culture transformer, possibly
one of the highest ever.
terence wasn't a shaman either and was truly
a more sincerely devoted revolutionary.
>> yes, he WAS a revolutionary, you’re
right. but his thinking and areas of interest were definitely in the
shamanic, zones which leary seldom entered, nor much valued. i knew
terence pretty well as a friend and ally. he WAS interested in the
other worlds and dimensions beyond this shadow show. terence
definitely wasn’t trying to create a Welfare State for the
self-transforming elves of hyperspace!
tim was in it for the fame.
>> am often accused of that myself.
but the fact is that if u don't ham it up for the media u just never get
noticed. and, if you’re trying to change the Big Culture, you MUST
get noticed. the moral judgement has to be the quality and value of
the memes and ideas you transmit when you gettit.
there are more than two films on tim in
development hell. milos forman is considering mine...
>> good luck! anything but
greedfield or whoever his (passing) name is.
and it’s not clear what you think about
9/11. why was galen unsubscribing? obviously it was an inside job.
it seems you agree, so why was he saying that?
>> look it up in the archives on our
site. what i say is that i remain UNCONVINCED. am offering
3/1 against if anyone wants to lose some bucks :) if i get any am
gonna put it on (rightfully) angry arabs.
robert forte, colorado, usa
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Tim Leary was really just one of us,
living a meaningful, full life... thriving in exemplary ways... making
his unique contributions to our evolution...
standing up when no one else
would, telling stories along the way:
fantastic tales, modern parables, simple fables, profound insights,
hilarious episodes...
On the day Dr Tim died I would venture that the backplane of our
planetary mind, the spirit world if you will... was vastly enriched with
the new edge of human experience that Timothy's life so powerfully
embodied. He was a modern hero with whom millions resonated, and
whose mind and spirit opened many evolutionary pathways.
Tim was a friend and great inspiration to many. We remember and
honour him as
the human journey continues!
Michael Gosney, San Francisco.
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Enough with the 911 conspiracy
theories already Fraser!
It's funny being on the outside looking in on this debate, it almost has
the same ring as the end of the British Empire - a very strange and
insular quality. Can't these Americans stop navel gazing and worry
about other people for a change?
Fallujah might be a good place to start...
Jon Evans, Wales.
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Timothy Leary’s Death
A few days before he died I reminded him he had said he wanted to call his favourite ex- wife, Rosemary . But he now changed his mind. He said, “Do not call her! I don’t want to talk to her!” “Why not?” “Having trouble communicating,” he said. As usual, I didn’t listen, dialled, and handed him the phone. He glared at me, but asked her to drop everything and come. She did. (He had told me that one of the main reasons he wanted me there with him was because I was one friend who didn’t listen to anything he said... and he knew times with him were about to get difficult.)
About 5 pm the day before he died, he called me to join him in the dining room. There he was in his electric wheelchair. He handed me a pink [nitrous oxide] balloon and said, “Carol, this is my last balloon.” He paused, head down, and sounded so sad, “I will never have another balloon.” In my denial, I rather flippantly said, “Oh, you don’t know that.”
And I’ve been sorry ever since that I didn’t just face what he was saying as a final reality shift. All of a sudden he had slipped into his real feeling state, and I was left behind, in denial. I wasn’t ready to shift into this reality. Quietly, he repeated, “I will never do another balloon.” And I finally heard him.
That night, May 29th, I told Timothy that I felt I should leave the house in order to give Rosemary , whom I had invited even though Timothy said he didn’t want her there, and the others, time with him. I asked if he thought he would die before morning. He said, “No, I’ll wait for you.” He liked to say things like that to people but I believed he meant it this time so I left for the night.
I phoned from my car the next morning. Vicki, his trusted assistant for many years, told me to hurry, that he was fading fast. He had already been up and around in his wheelchair looking at the garden and saying good-bye to the birds, when I arrived, and had gotten back into bed to start an intentional slow breathing process.
During the first part of the day I helped the nurse put some ice cubes on his lips. At one point, he grabbed one and popped it into his mouth, as if to say, “So there! I still have control -- over an ice cube!” Still humorous. Then, sleep.
Ram Dass talked on the speaker phone to us - to help our spirits through this time. He was so wonderful during this process of Timothy’s, and ours, and mine.
At the hospice nurse’s instruction, I checked his diaper now and then, but his bladder had stopped functioning. The nurse asked me to help change his shirt to that oversized “BIG ” T-shirt he requested to die in… from the Broadway show my husband was in during this time … it said, “If you only have one wish… make it BIG.” That was his choice of what to wear as he finally de-animated.
People took shifts sitting around his bed. I hardly noticed who was there. Nothing seemed real and yet the reality seemed amplified. The living room filled with people, all waiting for the inevitable. And I learned later that the street was filled with media trucks… all also somehow knowing this was “it.”
The night hospice nurse, John, a beautiful Jamaican man, told us not to touch Timothy’s body because that might bring him back, that he was trying to leave. He suggested each of us repeat a silent message saying “I/we love you Timothy. You can go now.” The few by his bedside all did this.
At one point, Timothy looked at Rosemary and mouthed, “I love you,” and she did the same. At another, he sat straight up in his bed, just when we thought he was about to die, and said, “WHY?” Then repeating over and over many times, looking into everyone’s eyes separately and repeating those words, with every inflection imaginable, he said, “WHY NOT? WHY not! Why not! Why NOT!”
Suddenly, as I sat by his bed waiting, about 12:44 AM on May 31st, I felt a huge rush of warmth rush through my body. The room illuminated in amber light. I could hardly catch my breath. I sat up at exactly the same second John, the Hospice nurse, sat up. I think we noticed before anyone that Timothy had taken his last breath. I was sure I had felt Timothy’s soul leave his body and fill the room. John then signalled to me with his eyes and hand to join him next to Timothy’s head. We had been sitting on opposite sides of his bed. John put his fingers on Timothy’s neck. He asked me with his eyes if I’d like to. I did. I was a little shaky, sweating. Thoughts flashed into my mind like, “Is he really dead? Why did John pick me to do this?” And I couldn’t stop saying in my mind, “Timothy, are you here?”
I felt his strong pulse. But he wasn’t breathing. This was confusing. Did I put my head on his chest or am I imagining I did it? Nothing seemed real. With my fingers on his neck, his pulse faded away. I announced he was gone... but I looked up to the ceiling. My mind tried to talk to him there. The room was lit with candles and white Christmas lights. But I saw the room turn deep yellow, white, green, and then amberish... truly radiant. I felt his presence, for sure, and his consciousness, or was it his spirit. I definitely felt him still there!
Everyone waiting in the living room took turns saying good-bye. Some cried and hugged each other. Others just sat or stood quietly. I was the last to leave his room. Then I heard a voice, Timothy reminding me… and I remembered that Timothy had put my camera behind his dresser so I could take his picture when he died. At the time when he asked me to do it, I couldn’t believe I’d do such a thing. Now I suddenly felt him, and thought I heard him reminding me. I grabbed the camera and shot two photos, one of his entire bed with his body still in it, the other a little closer shot. I am looking at this private collection while I write. His head is on his space pillow. There is an astronaut flying by his head, with rockets and stars. His mouth is wide open. His eyes wide open, bright blue.
Donna, an estate trustee, came into the room with scissors and envelopes, to cut his hair and give some to Rosemary, Zach, Vicki, herself, and me. She appeared to be nervously jovial as she cut locks of hair, explaining to Timothy what she was doing.
Vicki had called the mortuary and filled out papers. Two suit-and-tied men came to claim his body… bringing a stretcher/cot on wheels down the psychedelically painted and mirrored hallway into his room. I helped the nurse prepare his body, and then the two men slid his body on the sheet on to the cot, gently, respectfully. We asked they not cover his face. They wheeled him to the front door. I announced his arrival. Everyone gave him a final standing ovation. Some of us went outside, watched his body being loaded into the dark van, then driven away until we could no longer see the tail lights.
I stayed awake all night calling people. First, his friend, actress Susan Sarandon, who had even contributed to sending his ashes into space. And I spent that night answering calls. I went outside early to let the press, who filled the street, know the family would be out shortly. My hair and clothes filthy, teeth unbrushed, mascara rings under my eyes -- I had no intention of actually talking to the media. But one of the reporters recognised me as the one he had interviewed regarding the anti-space weapons movement and shouted, “Carol Rosin, what are YOU doing here!?” Suddenly, I was surrounded by cameras. I snapped into my professional role and made some statements I hoped would make the controversial Dr. Timothy Leary look good, and some general statements we had all agreed to say, like “He was surrounded by friends and family.” My quotes appeared on the front page of newspapers all over the world.
Weeks later, Vicki, Donna, Zach and I met to fill four 7 gram vials (which, ironically, looked like cocaine bottles) with Timothy’s ashes for the launch. He wanted to finally be a space pioneer on this first official launch of ashes and had asked me to make that happen. Ten pounds of ashes, including little bone pieces in a plastic bag in a box in a blue velvet bag. We champagne-toasted Timothy as I scooped his ashes into four little bottles.
At another casual gathering, friends came, including his granddaughter, to share the remaining ashes. We sat at Timothy’s white picnic table passing the bag until everybody got their pinch of him. The blackbirds which he loved miraculously appeared. The house-sitter that Jon and I had hired hiked to sprinkle a pinch of Timothy on Mt. Whitney. (Several people have now taken some of him to sprinkle in various special spots on the planet. ..and I still do it.) Everyone looked forward to the launch of his ashes on the rocket from Vandenberg to Spain to the Canary Islands… and finally from there into space. Though there were other funeral events for Timothy, sadly, not one of his friends or familyattended the amazing official launch of his ashes, or to the beautiful Celestis memorial ceremony for him, except me.
Days before he died, Timothy again proposed marriage to me. I said, “Timothy, when you propose to me and to other women, don’t you mean that you LOVE and want to marry everybody?” He said, “You understand. You understand! Thank you. Thank you!” He was all about LOVE… and became more and more aware that this was who we ARE, especially at this end and new beginning.
My saddest moment was when he whispered in my ear, “Carol, you know what the saddest part of all this is? That I don’t even have a wife!” This human being, beloved by millions, was so lonely.
Timothy received 35,000 website messages the day he died, and 125,000 tried to get in. He received close to 10,000 loving e-mails during his last days. I hear that twenty five million turned on and awakened their consciousness, thanks to Timothy. And sometimes he spent all night long reading them out loud.
The day before he died, I felt both honoured and daunted when he demanded that I design the words I thought he’d want to be printed on the vial containing his ashes when they were launched into space. Another reality shift. There were 25 spaces for his final message to us all. Staring into my eyes, he told me he loved me as he signed his approval of the words. In a whispery voice he read them out loud:
PEACE LOVE LIGHT YOUMEONE
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Their mission was fourfold.
(1) Create an unforgettable terror event to be blamed on an Islamic group.
>> spose they'd just planted explosives in the new york bdgs. and maybe a few more skyscrapers in other major cities? and/or a corner of the white house. would that NOT have made it 'unforgettable'? and a hundred times safer for them?
(2) Create a series of spectacular catastrophes that symbolized an attack on America but which also served as diversions.
(3) Create a multi-million dollar gold heist that would occur simultaneously to the terror events.
(4) Create a network of draconian agencies and laws soon after the terror events that would curtail individual rights and create an atmosphere for endless imperial war. Not to mention, make any reinvestigation of 9-11 difficult or impossible.
The 9-11 attack then resembles an ingenious diversion concealing a master plan. The 19 hijackers may have been actual Islamic agents, Israeli double agents, CIA assets--or peripheral components of The Network.
The hijackers are the least important aspect of the plot.
According to this scenario, The Network would need remote control planes, aircraft that resembled Boeing jumbo jets. Plenty of planes - available cheap - -now gather dust in the deserts of California and Arizona. They would need the technology to adapt planes. (Remote control airplanes have been around for more than 40 years) They would need a sufficient amount of money - large amounts of money - to hire commandos. Both the money and the expertise were readily available through top Pentagon connections and their network of suppliers.
Not surprisingly, the man who controlled the money at the Pentagon, Dov Zakheim, also enjoyed connections to an electronics firm specializing in remote control aviation.
The Network would need several dozen, top foreign commandos who swore no allegiance to any country, certainly not allegiance to America. Approximately 200 Israelis were rounded up immediately following 9-11. Some were stopped in vans driving into Manhattan.
>> INTO Manhattan?
Some were arrested while celebrating the destruction of the Twin Towers. Some were stopped and discovered to possess evidence remarkably similar to that connected to the 9-11 attack.
These facts were all reported by the mainstream media immediately after 9-11. Rarely have they been reported since.
>> as stated elsewhere, all governments, and especially one as arrogant, stupid and ugly as this one, will send out masses of publicity to make them look like they’re onto something, they have the culprits under surveillance or arrest and so on and on.
The FBI interviewed and interrogated those arrested near Manhattan. No lie detector tests, no confessions (and no torture) and no results were reported by the FBI before the suspects were released. "The Terror Enigma," by Justin Raimondo, takes a more in depth look at this suspicious feature, of possibly using Israeli double agents and Mossad commandos masquerading as movers, artists, and students. Prior to 9-11, these "artists" had been trying to infiltrate secure government facilities and buildings. Quite likely they were part of The Network.
>> way too many unproved insinuations.
Several men would be needed to assemble and plant explosive devices in the weeks and perhaps months required to do the job properly. According to one Finnish demo expert: "Ordering, preparing and transportation of the charges for the demolition of the WTC. Solely for the steel pillars of the outer circle 40 x 240 charges were needed, let's say 10 000 cutting charges each weighing 50 lbs for each tower. For WTC 7 at least 4000 charges were needed... 1) One needs to find out the right size and dimensions of suitable cutting charges and then order 24 000 pieces. One must as well order fitting detonators (detonators were needed a lot more). Fitting detonators usually already exist in stores of military forces (or the CIA). Time of delivery is several months in any case. All detonators must be equipped with some kind of safety mechanism, which will be removed by a radio signal at the final moment."
"After this, the cutting charges are installed in the selected rooms that are not in use. Some of these rooms may as well serve as temporary storages for charges needed elsewhere. After this the apartment is renovated and circulated to the clients in the WTC. One man continuously assembles maybe 5 cutting charges per hour. With 10 assemblers 350 charges are installed a day. As surplus transportations of supplies, renovators and guards. Maybe about 20 people more were needed (5 of them know what is going on, 15 do not).
>> but they sure as hell knew on the 11th! how many of them have come forward?
For the installation of the charges this operation takes at least four months with 30 men."
Not ten thousand men, not even one thousand. Just dedicated men who knew the importance of their mission.
>> but u also got to add the guys who carried away the several hundred million in gold bullion bars described below. as he says: “how many men were needed for this? You do the math.”
no, you do the math it’s your theory.
Probably not thousands of men; probably not even hundreds.
>> so let’s say 100 MINIMUM, maybe 200? now we have 20 top officials + 50 top commandos + 20 for transportation, renovators and guards. that’s a MINIMUM 200 people, maybe 300 according to you, some in the know on the 10th and the majority damn sure on the 11th . many come forward yet? say in Russia or China or Cuba or Venezuela or somewhere safe?
The Network would need top aviation and electronic specialists to control those jumbo jets while in flight.
>> we just broke the MINIMUM 200 barrier, maybe 300 :)
Remote signal device may have been planted in the buildings also. A couple dozen men at most were needed - probably less - certainly not thousands. They would need men sworn to no other ideology, aside from the mission and the immediate rewards.
Very likely those involved enjoyed vast intelligence capabilities.
Very likely they included former or active members of the Mossad, the CIA, the Pentagon, possibly even the FBI. Indeed those FBI crime fighters NOT privy to the master plan - like FBI Special agents John O'Neill or Coleen Rowley - tried to warn their superiors, tried to warn the US government, but were thwarted.
>> again, were they thwarted or ignored because their superiors were obsessed with their drug wars etc?
Instead The Network operated like a separate entity, a succubus. And no local law enforcement official, no ordinary military official, no ordinary government official, enjoyed access to the secret plan.
>> but how many must have woken up to it on the 11th ?
But somewhere along the way three key security points were compromised. Logan airport, NORAD and WTC-7. The Network accessed all 3 sites and gained entrance through insider connections. Logan airport through the Israeli security company that ran it; NORAD & the command of the US Air Force to Dick Cheney on 9-11; WTC-7 through the CIA, Silverstein Properties or Securacom, the company headed by Marvin Bush. Not surprisingly, only a few top operatives were needed to access each site. Not tens of thousands, as debunkers constantly claim. Perhaps not even hundreds, but a few dozen, highly-trained men performed their tasks to perfection, in the weeks before 9-11.
>> approaching 300 MINIMUM, maybe 400. and again i ask: would blowing up the 3 towers not have been enough to cause a war? why take all these extra risks?
Could Al Qaeda - or the 19 hijackers - have compromised any of the 3 key points and gained access? No. Could a group of top government insiders and their hired commandos have accessed those 3 sites? Yes, easily.
The Network might have relied on remote-controlled planes from the very beginning. Why trust a complex operation to 19 flight school dropouts who spent more time in strip clubs than flight simulators? The simplest scenario would use remote controlled planes, shadowed by fast-moving guidance planes. The unidentified white plane reported by several witnesses near Shanksville may have been such a plane.
But what happened to the original flights and the missing passengers? Only the shadowy operatives of the Network know for sure. What remains most peculiar, and thus most suspicious, are the 4 flights themselves. Not only were the planes mostly empty of passengers, but a couple of the planes - reported destroyed on 9-11- were still registered and flying months later!
>> WHAT?! COME AGAIN! if there’s any truth in this it counts AGAINST a conspiracy. unless it was a bunch or morons which is stretching credulity too far.
Yes, there were flaws in the master plan. The WTC-7 fires that were very likely set by a commando team sometime after 12 noon on September 11th, convinced many gullible citizens and government experts that a fiery conflagration had weakened the structure. Yet the simple fact that WTC-7 was arsoned and then demolished seems obvious. Building 7 had to be burned and then collapsed in a controlled demolition, not only for diversionary purposes, but to destroy sensitive Security & Exchange records of ongoing lawsuits involving billions of dollars. Not surprisingly the floors that housed the SEC records were the first to burn mysteriously.
>> a 5th mission then?
Meanwhile, down below street level, a heist worthy of Hollywood was taking place. How many men were needed to move several hundred million in gold bullion bars? You do the math. Probably not thousands of men; probably not even hundreds.
>> call it 100 then. so we’re at 400 MINIMUM, maybe 500.
The company security guards may have been ordered away - after all, building 7 was about to collapse. Power to the alarm system may have been shut down. Who would restore it, even if some honest security guard reported it disabled?
So, was 9-11 a heist wrapped around an attack, or an attack wrapped around a heist? If the gold was gone, how much went missing exactly? How could Al Qaeda have taken it? How embarrassing for New York City or US government officials to even admit some millions in gold were taken, for many citizens might logically conclude 9-11 was an inside job. And if a group of thieves not affiliated or connected to the "terrorists" took the gold, why were they never caught?
>> come on.
Two truckloads of gold were recovered, crushed in a tunnel, beneath the WTC complex. How many truckloads got away?
Nowadays we have many excellent detective shows on television but very few good detectives when we really need them. If the WTC site had been treated as a crime scene immediately following a week of rescue work, the ingenuity of the crime might have been revealed. As it was, 9-11 was sold to the public as an act of foreign terrorism from day one and whatever evidence that might have been uncovered was hastily removed and either destroyed or recycled.
The years pass and The Crime of The Century - 9-11 - has never been fully solved nor even adequately investigated. Readers email me asking what proof I have of this scenario. Only gut instinct and common sense. If it looks like a crime scene and people profited immensely, I think any good detective might also have suspicions. I ask believers what proof they have of the government version of 9-11 events. They quote me the testimony of government approved experts. They offer me a fuzzy videotape of someone identified as Osama bin Laden. They mention a charred passport miraculously found a few blocks from the demolished WTC.
Not enough evidence to fit in a shoebox or stand up in a court of law. Besides, taking the word of a bad government, never known for speaking the truth, is not good practice.
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Fraser Clark and friends on the Zippy Tour took over the club and provided the content. They were broadcasting VIDEO on the Internet in one of the first demonstrations of this revolutionary technology. The World Wide Web was still young. A VJ (Stefan) was demonstrating mixing video with a Fairlight CV computer instrument and Amiga Toaster technology.
Peter H. Rosen attended his first Zippy RAVE event and discovered many new tools for self expression, mentors and affiliates; who became part of the planning team for a CreativityCafe New School for the New Millennium as produced at the Multimedia Expo trade show.
Their Creativity Cafe installation for Multimedia Expo at Moscone Hall in SF, provided hands on mentoring by artists using technology for humanity. The multimedia stage and hands on mentor/creation station Edutainment Center was deemed best experience of the show thanks to Rosen's long DEDICATION TO HIS VISION, exposure to the Zippies practicing PRONOIA and the help of 20 artists and supporter who in six weeks, to his concepts, added their own and made magic happen. You can watch a video snip of Creativity Cafe's installation in Peter's bio video: http://tinyurl.com/5bc9p
Fraser spoke of PRONOIA and captured in one word, the spirit of Rosen's vision of a place (i.e. Creativity Cafe) where people who want to make a difference in each others lives and our world, can hang out, collaborate, gain access to technology and mentors, and meet the ingredients to help with mounting their success (whatever that means to them).
One of the Zippy troupe teamed with Peter Rosen to produce the very first [KidCast for Peace]; Solutions for a Better World teleactivity (which enjoyed eleven years as an Earth Day Peace Portal) and interactive edutainment at the Children's Discovery Museum. Rosen and company were asked by producers of Children's World Peace Festival to do a "Creativity Cafe" installation. Rosen conceived of a "KidCast " for Peace to enable the world's first broadcast of "children waging peace," using video conferencing on the Net - thanks to his experience of the Zippies.
That Pronoia Tour had great influence and profound effects on all those whose lives were changed forever - by exposing people to new ideas and new technology. Such a venue, designed for providing innovative edutainments in tune with the (rapidly changing) times, are having profound affects on how we perceive "reality ," and could hasten evolution in positive ways.
http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Sandbox/CreativityCafe
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The ambulance men brought the stretcher to his room, but he wouldn't have this, and walked out into the hall and got on to the stretcher there, sitting back, saying, "Oy!" as he always does.
He did not dress, but wore pyjamas, and his red fez on his head. He sat upright on the stretcher, and was carried away like a royal prince! All the family was clustered at the street door (the crusty old concierge was in tears!) and as they carried him across the pavement he made a little gesture, a sort of wave, with his hand and said, "Au revoir, tout le monde!"
The last sight of him was as he was carried into the ambulance, sitting very upright, with his head up, his fez at a rakish angle and his cigarette between his lips.
J. G. Bennett, Idiots in Paris.
On the night of Wednesday 26 October 1949 Gurdjieff arrived at the American Hospital at Neuilly and entered the private room on the first floor which he was not destined to leave alive.
The treatment was successful but the patient died: this basically is the sequel. And no one was to blame. (The disbelieving hospital pathologist would later find every organ in Gurdjieff’s body wasted down to a minimal function) He arrived dropsical. Early in the morning Dr Welch performed a puncture and drainage, while his patient predictably wearing his fez and cloaked in a rich camelhair coat manoeuvred a cup of hot black coffee and a wooden cigarette holder. Even in this dangerous and surreal extremity, G appeared entirely master of the situation: “Only if you not tired, Doctor” he said to Welch with indulgent irony.
Yet as Thursday dragged on, the old man sank under a welter of intrusive tests and irritating palliatives. By midday he could barely recognise his family. In the afternoon he delivered his final instructions to Jeanne de Salzmann slowly, painfully:
“The essential thing, the first thing, is to prepare a nucleus of people capable of responding to the demand which will arise... So long as there is no responsible nucleus, the action of the ideas will not go beyond a certain threshold. That will take time... a lot of time, even.”
These are his last recorded words. George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff died in the American Hospital at Neuilly at approximately 10/30 on the morning of Saturday 29th October 1949.
James Moore, Gurdjieff, The Anatomy of a Myth,
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for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
Borat is the hero of this extraordinary mocu-reality adventure: a film so funny, so breathtakingly offensive, so suicidally discourteous, that strictly speaking it shouldn't be legal at all. He is the naive provincial TV reporter supposedly from Kazakhstan, though it is clear that this "Kazakhstan" is a joke cardboard country, a post-Soviet neverland picked at random, as cheerfully as Robert De Niro and Dustin Hoffman, the spin doctors in the political satire Wag The Dog, once picked "Albania " for their diversionary hoax war.
Reportedly, Baron Cohen was actually inspired to create Borat by his youthful travels as a student in the then Soviet republic of Georgia. Borat is immeasurably funny. Our hero leaves his dirt-poor Kazakh village, and travels to New York with a cameraman and his obese and unreliable producer to make a documentary for state TV. He experiences an epiphany there in his budget hotel-room, whose opulence has already reduced him to tears of incredulous joy.
Watching a re-rerun of Baywatch , he falls in love with Pamela Anderson and journeys across the United States to Los Angeles, where he dreams of subjecting her to the Kazakh forcible-marriage ceremony, whose legality he believes will be just as valid in America as at home. Grinning nervously, unable to comprehend anything of what he sees or hears, Borat is an innocent of the guiltiest sort: he is boorish, he is grotesquely misogynist, he is crass.
Above all he is an anti-semite, and for cinemagoers who have become used to the unwritten convention that anti-semitism is not represented on screen other than in the period garb of Nazi Germany, it is almost a physical shock to feel the swipe of Borat's contemporary bigotry. The last time I experienced this was listening to Terry Jones's sentimental cleaning-lady in Monty Python's The Meaning Of Life in 1983: "I feel that life's a game, you sometimes win or lose/And though I may be down right now, at least I don't work for Jews." But this really is something else.
One of the first sequences is Borat introducing a TV clip showing one of his community's oldest folk traditions: the Running of the Jew. It is quite incredible, and conceived on an epic scale to rival the chariot race from Ben-Hur . Obviously, Sacha Baron Cohen is himself Jewish and perhaps we should here quickly rehearse the saloon-bar truisms: only Jewish people are allowed to tell Jewish jokes, if these comedians wanted to be dangerous why don't they take on Islam - yes, yes, quite ... but is Sacha Baron Cohen really allowed to do this? Is anyone? It is a sensational provocation, a 19th-century anti-semitic cartoon gigantically reborn in the 21st century. in which anti-semitism is alive and well all over the world. in places where they have incidentally never heard of the liberal West's carefully nurtured distinction between anti-semitism and anti-Zionism. It goes beyond satire into pure anarchy, pure craziness. And it's also very funny.
From the way it is shot, some of Borat's encounters could be staged. I certainly hope that Pamela Anderson's final encounter with Borat happened with her connivance. But the best moments, and that's pretty much all of them, have the unmistakable look of real people really being astonished and horrified by Borat. He hits a comic goldmine simply by going up to male New Yorkers on the streets and trying to kiss them on both cheeks. One screams abuse; another skips away, zig-zagging, hunching his shoulders and flapping his arms at the elbow like a 10-year-old evading a wasp. It is sublime.
Baron Cohen really shows his class when Borat is a guest at a Texan rodeo. He fearlessly strides into the centre of the ring with his mic, loudly praises his hosts' "War of Terror", leads wild cheering when he expresses the hope that Iraq is bombed so that even the lizards are killed, but then with magnificent effrontery allows his audience to suspect they've been duped by singing a transparently absurd "Kazakh national anthem" about potassium production to the tune of The Star-Spangled Banner. The sheer miasma of wrongness and unease that washes over the crowd causes a young cowgirl demonstrating horse-riding techniques to lose her concentration and fall off her horse at the end of Borat's song: a brilliantly surreal moment.
The fascination of Borat' s comedy situationism, his theatre of cruelty, is that its hero is deeply unsympathetic. Ali G had a kind of goofy charm, but Borat is just so horrible, with a deplorable quality mitigated only by his ineffectuality. Borat 2 must surely now be in the works: perhaps a face-off with a rival TV star from the hated neighbouring republic of Uzbekistan? (Will Ferrell? Jonathan Pryce? Stephen Merchant?) Like Freddy Krueger, that living nightmare on bad taste street, Borat will surely be back. Fools don't come unholier than this.
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will be in london to co-create with you & community in summer of 07
musically yours,
fantuzzi.