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high y’all this here b the nu young elder comin down yer broadband,
still fresh from california, still tanned :)
and asking
is the dinosaurs’ last stand
running finally into the sand?
should we order the band
to march the length of the land
declaring that war has been forever banned?
RAISE YOUR HAND!
feels like a lull between battles in a campaign long-planned, as, from the underhand, more and more protests, questions, accusations, whistle-blowings, freedom fighters, and condemnations pop UP! like acne all over the Dino’s Bum (“Everything under control out front, boss”), with a veritable machinegun spray of leakages and lies running its whole body length.
here LIES Dino... Withdrawn to Meet His Maker, He belonged to another age.
the europeans aren’t forgiving, forgetting, and certainly not surrendering like monkeys to tarzan the fascist supremacist, nor is the rest of the world. how long a sea change takes to sink thru heads as thick as dinosaurs’ is, of course, an imponderable question, perhaps it won’t till we’ve pinned them down in a thousand little ‘investigations’ at which point they’ll collapse overnight. many believe they’ll go down shooting.
probably the least we can assume is that, even if we don’t manage to pin the bastards to the Fossil Record this time, they won’t be able to launch another war soon (which may remove their only hope of winning another term since the economy is collaterally damaged beyond repair, stoopid, and everybody on the planet knows where the blame lies. lies.
uno, people who ask me what am UP! to these days forget much loving care the UP! takes, but this i promise to humanity out there: i shall continue the UP! for the rest of my days, and the last one will go out from my death bed with my final words onnit :)
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40% OF AMERICANS THINK WMD HAVE BEEN FOUND!!
The new Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA) poll reports that 41% of Americans believe the US has found such weapons (34%) or are unsure (7%).
Steven Kull, director of PIPA, said: "To some extent this misperception can be attributed to repeated headlines that there’s been a promising lead in finding such weapons that are not counterbalanced by equally prominent reporting that the leads have not been fruitful. But there’s also reason to believe that this misperception may be unconsciously motivated, as the mistaken belief is substantially greater among those who favoured the war."
Among those who approved of the decision to go to war and were not just supporting the president (53% of the sample), a majority of 52% said the US has found weapons of mass destruction (48%) or did not know (4%).
IT GETS WORSE! THEY THINK SADDAM USED THEM IN THE WAR!!
22% believe that Iraq actually used chemical or biological weapons in the war, with 9% being unsure.
AND THEN DAMN NEAR IMPOSSIBLE!!
The desire to reduce cognitive dissonance may be skewing some Americans' memory of the government's rationale for going to war. Asked, "Thinking back to when the US government was making the case for going to war with Iraq, according to the government, what was the most important reason for going to war with Iraq?" 60% said "weapons of mass destruction," and 19% said " that Iraq was working with al'Qaeda."
But 20% said the most important reason was "the fact that Saddam Hussein was an oppressive dictator."
Pushed for the second most important reason, another 32% chose "the fact that Saddam Hussein was an oppressive dictator," while weapons of mass destruction were chosen by 24% and links to al'Qaeda by 42%.
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PEACE BUT NO MORE TO....
>> u cant understand the world without innerstanding yourself
u cant innerstand yourself without understanding the world
I think I'll just get on with understanding and innerstanding myself,
> 'fraid it can't be done :)
and leave the world to its own foolish devices.
> it won't leave u, un- or fortunately :)
Peace to the brothers and sisters of the Inner Way.
> death is peace. izzat wot u want?
Persephone./ Oxford
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this man is doing what has to be done: stealing back the american flag, constitution and self respect from those who have hijacked it...
but remember, if he doesn’t get the nomination, let our campaign be: ANY OLD STICK BUT BUSH!!
KUCINICH STEALS THE RADICAL GRASSROOTS SHOW
In Washington D.C. last week, Dennis Kucinich electrified more than 1200 progressive leaders and activists for civil rights, labor, feminism, peace and the environment at the "Take Back America" conference with a "spell-binding speech."
Here’s how Salon described it:
“KUCINICH'S BUSH ROASTING GETS BIGGEST CHEERS
The most impassioned applause of the day was reserved for Kucinich. Introduced by Leo Gerard, president of the United Steelworkers of America, as 'the only vegan in Congress,' Kucinich took the stage to John Lennon's 'Imagine' and proceeded to conjure the heyday of American progressivism by promising a new version of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration.
'We're gonna rebuild America's cities and we're gonna do it with America's steel... Medicare for all, money pulled out of the Pentagon budget to pay for schools and other domestic programs, and total nuclear disarmament.'
He spoke to the crowd's fury over the Iraq invasion, getting a screaming standing ovation when he cried: 'This war was wrong! This war was fraudulent! We must expose this administration.'
When he was finished it was clear there was no point in having anyone else follow him. 'Dennis Kucinich has barbecued George Bush,' said the emcee. 'How about we have a barbecue right now?'"
The crowd then adjourned to a party, according to Salon, partly because conference organizers took pity on Dick Gephardt and delayed his video message, scheduled to follow Kucinich, which "would have played like a parody of establishment banality."
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“The farmers and the businessmen they all did decide
To show you where the dead angels are that they used to hide.
But why did they pick you to sympathise with their side?
How could they, ever, have mistaken you?
They thought you’d accepted the blame for the Bomb,
But with the hills at your feet and the phoney false alarm,
And the child of the hoodlum wrapped up in your arm
How could they, ever, have mistaken you?”
Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands / Bob Dylan.
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CAN GM FEED THE WORLD?
BIOTECHNOLOGY CAN CURE HUNGER
GORDON CONWAY, Rockefeller Foundation president, says the food security, life-chances and freedom of African farmers can be immeasurably improved by the greater use of biotechnology:
http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article-4-64-1264.jsp
GM IS NOT THE SOLUTION: A RESPONSE
LIZ ORTON says Conway has the right questions but the wrong answers. Low-tech agro-ecology, based on traditional methods offers a far better future for African farmers.
http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article-4-64-1263.jsp
UP! SHIN: A DEVICE FOR FINDING FURNITURE IN THE DARK. WHY IS "ABBREVIATION" SUCH A LONG WORD?
Fraser,
you already know that i think the UP! is the best source of news on the planet. so it pains me to read over and over that 70% of "Americans" support that war criminal Bush.
having lived for some 60 years in what has now become a police state, i am here to tell you that NOT ONE SINGLE "AMERICAN" supports that despotic moron. the polls are faked and we all know it. granted, there is a small fringe of deranged Christians and bloodthirsty Zionists who support the Cheney-Bush junta, but by no stretch of the imagination can you call those idiots "Americans."
some 200 years ago a handful of "Americans" rose up to throw off the shackles of Mad King George, and eventually we'll do it again ... and thank you for not giving up on the 100% of REAL Americans who now understand that WE owe it to the rest of the world to fix this mess. ...
something the gangsters in Washington ought to think about is that there is no animal more dangerous than a human with nothing left to lose!
peace, love, and light,
lorenzo / california
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IRAQ A “DEFINING MOMENT OF OUR CENTURY”? YES!!
When Tony Blair told British soldiers during his recent flying visit to Iraq that “this will be seen as one of the defining moments of our century" he was right.
** Iraq marked the maiden outing of George Bush's new go-anywhere doctrine of pre-emptive war-making. Post-9/11 America has assumed a right to attack, not merely to defend itself, whenever it feels threatened.
** Iraq was an assault by a powerful country on a much weaker but nevertheless independent sovereign state, a symbolic act with very real, destabilising implications.
** Iraq was a "defining moment" because the US and Britain were prepared to bypass the UN security council.
** Iraq was a "defining moment" because the US and Britain were prepared to ignore their obligations to uphold the UN charter
** Iraq was a "defining moment" because the US and Britain were prepared to treat international law with contempt.
** Iraq was truly remarkable, too, in that both countries showed themselves ready to break with long-standing friends, risk wrecking strategic alliances such as Nato that were previously considered sacrosanct, and defy the great mass of global opinion.
** Iraq may have been fought in the name of democracy. But democracy was one of its great victims.
** Iraq blowback continues everywhere - at the G8 summit (a gigantic fudge occasioned by fear of more high-level fallings-out); in Africa and Afghanistan (denied the attention and resources that are now diverted elsewhere); and in Iraq itself, where the actions of the US neo-colonial administration are, increasingly, both definitive and perilously momentous.
One such is the US viceroy’s suspension of plans to create an Iraqi-run interim authority. Surprise, surprise! The rotten borough electorate of some new thing called the Coalition Provisional Authority comprises not Iraqis but that well-known Baghdadi, Donald Rumsfeld, and a few quieter Americans.
For ungrateful Iraqis defining moments arrive with regularity from the barrels of American guns.
Blair's pride in his achievement, expressed most volubly during exchanges in the Commons, admits no hint of doubt that it was all worth it. Indeed, his attitude suggests that, in similar circumstances, he’d do it all again, and again.
This confidence that such an epochal political, military and diplomatic reconfiguration, this veritable step-change in global affairs, can be accepted without demur or dissent or even much debate is truly staggering.
Either Blair is a very great, far-seeing statesman indeed - or else a fool of fools.
WE MUST HAVE A ROYAL COMMISSION
The British people have a right to know the whole story of why this country went to war, who decided what and when, and what the consequences of that policy have been and most likely will be in the future. Good-faith probing by MPs is not enough. Nothing less than a Royal Commission will do, working in public, and exploring:
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It is certainly a tall order. But if such an inquiry were fully to illuminate this whole sorry, cataclysmic episode, what lessons might be learned, what repeat errors yet avoided! What dangerously dubious, do-gooder schemes and hatching interventionist plots might the planet be spared!
And what a defining moment that might be for Tony Blair's New Labour-New World.
Simon Tisdall
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,973327,00.html
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INVENTING EVIDENCE??! U DON’T SAY!
Vice President Cheney and his most senior aide made multiple trips to the CIA over the past year to question analysts studying Iraq's weapons programs and alleged links to al Qaeda, creating an environment in which some analysts felt they were being pressured to make their assessments fit with the Bush administration's policy objectives, according to senior intelligence officials.
With Cheney taking the lead in the administration last August in advocating military action against Iraq by claiming it had weapons of mass destruction, the visits by the vice president and his chief of staff "sent signals, intended or otherwise, that a certain output was desired from here," one senior agency official said yesterday.
Though other agency officials have claimed indifference, the disclosure of Cheney's unusual hands-on role comes on the heels of mounting concern from intelligence officials and members of Congress that the administration may have exaggerated intelligence it received about Iraq to build a case for war.
While visits to CIA headquarters by a vice president are not unprecedented, they are unusual, according to intelligence officials. The number of trips was described by one agency official as "multiple."
Concern over the pre-war claims about Iraq has been growing in Congress and among intelligence. In Britain Tony Blair is under pressure from within the Labour Party to explain whether British intelligence may have overstated the case of Iraq's covert weapons programs.
In a signal of administration concern over the controversy, two senior Pentagon officials yesterday held a news conference to challenge various allegations. Douglas J. Feith, undersecretary for policy said a special Pentagon office to analyse intelligence after the Sept. 11 attacks did not necessarily focus on Iraq but came up with "some interesting observations about the linkages between Iraq and al Qaeda."
Intelligence community officials, however, have described the office as an alternative source of intelligence analysis that helped the administration make its case that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein posed an imminent threat.
Government sources said CIA analysts were not the only ones who felt pressure to support public statements by Bush, Rumsfeld, Colin Powell and others about the threat posed by Hussein.
Former and current intelligence officials said they felt a continual drumbeat, not only from Cheney and Libby, but also from Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz, Feith, and less so from CIA Director George J. Tenet, to find information or write reports in a way that would help the administration make the case that going into Iraq was urgent.
"They were the browbeaters," said a former defense intelligence official who attended meetings in which Wolfowitz and others pressed for a different approach and “treated the analysts' work with contempt."
A major focus for Wolfowitz and others in the Pentagon was finding intelligence to prove a connection between Hussein and Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda terrorist network.
On the day of the 9/11 attacks, Wolfowitz told senior Pentagon officials that he believed Iraq might have been responsible. "I was scratching my head because everyone else thought of al Qaeda," said a former senior defense official who was in one such meeting. Over the following year, "we got taskers to review the link between al Qaeda and Iraq. There was a very aggressive search."
In the winter of 2001-02, Wolfowitz officials sent the Defense Intelligence Agency a message: Get hold of Laurie Mylroie's book, which claimed Hussein was behind the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, and see if you can prove it, one former defense official said.
The DIA's Middle East analysts were familiar with the book, "Study of Revenge: The First World Trade Center Attack and Saddam Hussein's War Against America," but they and others were convinced that radical Islamic fundamentalists were involved. "The message was, why can't we prove this is right?" said the official.
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IS LYING ABOUT THE REASON FOR WAR AN IMPEACHABLE OFFENSE?
By John W. Dean the main witness in the Watergate trials!!
President George W. Bush has a very serious problem. Before asking Congress for a Joint Resolution authorizing the use of American military forces in Iraq, he made a number of unequivocal statements about the reason the United States needed to pursue the most radical actions any nation can undertake - acts of war against another nation.
Now it’s clear that many of his statements appear to be false. In the past, Bush's White House has been very good at sweeping ugly issues like this under the carpet, and out of sight. But it’s not clear that they will be able to make the question of what happened to Saddam Hussein's WMDs go away - unless, perhaps, they start another war.
That seems unlikely. Until the questions surrounding the Iraqi war are answered, Congress and the public may strongly resist more of President Bush's warmaking.
Presidential statements, particularly on matters of national security, are held to an expectation of the highest standard of truthfulness. A president cannot stretch, twist or distort facts and get away with it. President Lyndon Johnson's distortions of the truth about Vietnam forced him to stand down from re-election. President Richard Nixon's false statements about Watergate forced his resignation.
Bush's Statements On Iraq's Weapons Of Mass Destruction
I have compiled these statements below. In reviewing them, I saw that he had, indeed, been as explicit and declarative as I had recalled.
Bush's statements, in chronological order, were:
"Right now, Iraq is expanding and improving facilities that were used for the production of biological weapons." United Nations Address, Sept 12, 2002
"Iraq has stockpiled biological and chemical weapons, and is rebuilding the facilities used to make more of those weapons."
"We have sources that tell us that Saddam Hussein recently authorized Iraqi field commanders to use chemical weapons -- the very weapons the dictator tells us he does not have." Radio Address, Oct 5, 2002
"The Iraqi regime . .possesses and produces chemical and biological weapons. It is seeking nuclear weapons."
"We know that the regime has produced thousands of tons of chemical agents, including mustard gas, sarin nerve gas, VX nerve gas."
"We've also discovered through intelligence that Iraq has a growing fleet of manned and unmanned aerial vehicles that could be used to disperse chemical or biological weapons across broad areas. We're concerned that Iraq is exploring ways of using these UAVS for missions targeting the United States."
"The evidence indicates that Iraq is reconstituting its nuclear weapons program. Saddam Hussein has held numerous meetings with Iraqi nuclear scientists, a group he calls his "nuclear mujahedin" - his nuclear holy warriors. Satellite photographs reveal that Iraq is rebuilding facilities at sites that have been part of its nuclear program in the past. Iraq has attempted to purchase high-strength aluminum tubes and other equipment needed for gas centrifuges, which are used to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons." Cincinnati, Ohio Speech, Oct 7, 2002
"Our intelligence officials estimate that Saddam Hussein had the materials to produce as much as 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent." State of the Union Address, Jan 28, 2003
"Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised." Address to the Nation, March 17, 2003
SHOULD PRESIDENT GET BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT?
When these statements were made, Bush's let-me-mince-no-words posture was convincing to many Americans. Yet much of the rest of the world, and many other Americans, doubted them.
As Bush's veracity was being debated at the United Nations, it was also being debated on campuses - including those where I happened to be lecturing at the time.
On several occasions, students asked me the following question: Should they believe the President of the United States?
My answer was that they should give the President the benefit of the doubt, for several reasons deriving from the usual procedures that have operated in every modern White House and that, I assumed, had to be operating in the Bush White House too.
First, I assured them that these statements had all been carefully considered and crafted. Presidential statements are the result of a process, not a moment's thought. White House speechwriters process raw information, and their statements are passed on to senior aides who have both substantive knowledge and political insights. And this all occurs before the statement ever reaches the President for his own review and possible revision.
Second, I explained that - at least in every White House and administration with which I was familiar, from Truman to Clinton - statements with national security implications were the most carefully considered of all. The White House is aware that, in making these statements, the President is speaking not only to the nation, but also to the world.
Third, I pointed out to the students, these statements are typically corrected rapidly if they are later found to be false. And in this case, far from back-pedalling from the President's more extreme claims, Bush's press secretary, Ari Fleischer had actually, at times, been even more emphatic than the President had. For example, on January 9, 2003, Fleischer stated, during his press briefing, "We know for a fact that there are weapons there."
In addition, others in the Administration were similarly quick to back the President up, in some cases with even more unequivocal statements. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld repeatedly claimed that Saddam had WMDs - and even went so far as to claim he knew "where they are; they're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad."
And finally, I explained to the students that the political risk was so great that, to me, it was inconceivable that Bush would make these statements if he didn't have damn solid intelligence to back him up. Presidents do not stick their necks out only to have them chopped off by political opponents on an issue as important as this, and if there was any doubt, I suggested, Bush's political advisers would be telling him to hedge. Rather than stating a matter as fact, he would be say: "I have been advised," or "Our intelligence reports strongly suggest," or some such similar hedge. But Bush had not done so.
A DESPERATE SEARCH FOR THE ‘PROOF’
One possibility is that something is seriously wrong within the Bush White House's national security operations. That seems difficult to believe. The other is that the President has deliberately misled the nation, and the world.
Even before formally declaring war against Saddam Hussein's Iraq, the President had dispatched American military special forces into Iraq to search for weapons of mass destruction, which he knew would provide the primary justification for Operation Freedom. None were found.
Throughout Operation Freedom's penetration of Iraq and drive toward Baghdad, the search for WMDs continued. None were found.
As the coalition forces gained control of Iraqi cities and countryside, special search teams were dispatched to look for WMDs. None were found.
During the past two and a half months, according to reliable news reports, military patrols have visited over 300 suspected WMD sites throughout Iraq. None of the prohibited weapons were found there.
BRITISH & AMERICAN PRESS REACTION TO THE MISSING WMDS
British Prime Minister Tony Blair is also under serious attack in England, which he dragged into the war unwillingly, based on the missing WMDs. In Britain, the missing WMDs are being treated as scandalous; so far, the reaction in the U.S. has been milder.
New York Times columnist, Paul Krugman, has taken Bush sharply to task, asserting that it is "long past time for this administration to be held accountable... The public was told that Saddam posed an imminent threat... If that claim was fraudulent, the selling of the war is arguably the worst scandal in American political history - worse than Watergate, worse than Iran-contra." But most media outlets have reserved judgment as the search for WMDs in Iraq continues.
Signs do not look good. According to Time magazine, the Marine general in charge explained that "[w]e've been to virtually every ammunition supply point between the Kuwaiti border and Baghdad," and remarked flatly, "They're simply not there."
Perhaps most troubling, the President has failed to provide any explanation of how he could have made his very specific statements, yet now be unable to back them up with supporting evidence. Was there an Iraqi informant thought to be reliable, who turned out not to be? Were satellite photos innocently, if negligently misinterpreted? Or was his evidence not as solid as he led the world to believe?
The absence of any explanation for the gap between the statements and reality only increases the sense that the President's misstatements may actually have been intentional lies.
INVESTIGATING THE IRAQI WAR INTELLIGENCE REPORTS
Even now, while the jury is still out as to whether intentional misconduct occurred, the President has a serious credibility problem. Newsweek magazine posed the key questions:
"If America has entered a new age of pre-emption - when it must strike first because it cannot afford to find out later if terrorists possess nuclear or biological weapons - exact intelligence is critical. How will the United States take out a mad despot or a nuclear bomb hidden in a cave if the CIA can't say for sure where they are? And how will Bush be able to maintain support at home and abroad?"
In an apparent attempt to bolster the President's credibility, and his own, Secretary Rumsfeld himself has now called for a Defense Department investigation into what went wrong with the pre-war intelligence. New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd finds this effort about on par with O. J.'s looking for his wife's killer. But there may be a difference: Unless the members of Administration can find someone else to blame - informants, surveillance technology, lower-level personnel, you name it - they may not escape fault themselves.
Congressional committees are also looking into the pre-war intelligence collection and evaluation. Senator John Warner (R-VA), chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said his committee and the Senate Intelligence Committee would jointly investigate the situation. And the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence plans an investigation.
These investigations are certainly appropriate, for there is potent evidence of either a colossal intelligence failure or misconduct - and either would be a serious problem. When the best case scenario seems to be mere incompetence, investigations certainly need to be made.
Senator Bob Graham - a former chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee - told CNN's Aaron Brown, that he has also contemplated three other possible alternative scenarios:
First [the WMDs] were spirited out of Iraq, which could be the worst of all possibilities, because now the very proliferation we were trying to avoid could be in the hands of dozens of groups.
Second, we had bad intelligence.
Third, the intelligence was satisfactory but that it was manipulated, so as just to present to the American people and to the world those things that made the case for the necessity of war against Iraq.
Senator Graham seems to believe the third when he CNN "there's been a pattern of manipulation by this administration."
He has good reason to complain. According to the New York Times, he was one of the few members of the Senate who saw the national intelligence estimate that was the basis for Bush's decisions. After reviewing it, Senator Graham requested that the Bush Administration declassify the information before the Senate voted on the Administration's resolution requesting use of the military in Iraq.
Instead CIA Director Tenet merely sent Graham a letter discussing the findings. Graham then complained that Tenet's letter only addressed "findings that supported the administration's position on Iraq," while ignoring information that raised questions about intelligence. In short, Graham suggested that the Administration, by cherry picking only evidence to its own liking, had manipulated the information to support its conclusion.
Recent statements by one of the high-level officials privy to the decision making process also strongly suggests manipulation, if not misuse of the intelligence agencies. Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz has said: "The truth is that for reasons that have a lot to do with the U.S. government bureaucracy we settled on the one issue that everyone could agree on which was weapons of mass destruction as the core reason." More recently, he added what most have believed all along, that the reason we went after Iraq is that "the country swims on a sea of oil."
WORSE THAN WATERGATE? POTENTIAL MEGA SCANDAL
Krugman is right to suggest a possible comparison to Watergate. This is the first potential scandal I have seen since then that could make Watergate pale by comparison. If the Bush Administration intentionally manipulated or misrepresented intelligence to get Congress to authorize, and the public to support, military action to take control of Iraq, then that would be a monstrous misdeed.
As I remarked some time back: this Administration may be due for a scandal. While Bush narrowly escaped being dragged into Enron, it was not, in any event, his doing. But the war in Iraq is all Bush's doing, and it’s appropriate he be held accountable.
To put it bluntly, if Bush has taken Congress and the nation into war based on bogus information, he is cooked. Manipulation or deliberate misuse of national security intelligence data, if proven, could be "a high crime" under the Constitution's impeachment clause.
It would also be a violation of federal criminal law, including the broad federal anti-conspiracy statute, which renders it a felony "to defraud the United States, or any agency thereof in any manner or for any purpose."
It's important to recall that when Richard Nixon resigned, he was about to be impeached by the House of Representatives for misusing the CIA and FBI. After Watergate, all presidents are on notice that manipulating or misusing any agency of the executive branch improperly is a serious abuse of presidential power.
Nixon claimed that his misuses of the federal agencies for his political purposes were in the interest of national security. The same kind of thinking might lead a President to manipulate and misuse national security agencies or their intelligence to create a phoney reason to lead the nation into a politically desirable war.
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MY SEX LIFE AND SEX WORK (cont)
Annie Sprinkle is a prostitute/porn star turned performance artist/sex guru. She tours with a one-woman theatre show about her life in pornography. Her most recent book is Hardcore from the Heart: The Pleasures, Profits and Politics of Sex in Performance (Continuum Press). She is working on a new book with David Jay Brown on sex and psychedelics. Recently she received a Doctorate of Human Sexuality at the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality, in San Francisco.
Ketamine
I first heard about ketamine when I went to Hawaii’s to visit friends, and to attend the 80th birthday party of Dr. John C. Lilly, the infamous psycho biologist, dolphin researcher, and psychedelic enthusiast (who recently passed away). If Dr. Lilly found ketamine so enlightening, I figured it must be worth trying.
My friend injected my buttock with a carefully measured dose of "Special K." I slipped right into the deepest trance I'd ever been in. I could not (or did not want to) walk, talk, sit up or do anything, but I was intensely aware of Self. I lay on the bed with my eyes closed. It was extremely visual. Projected on my eyelids were quickly moving three-dimensional fractal-like patterns, one after the other. I had multiple eyegasms! At the same time I experienced absolute, total, inner peace, which was something I was hankering for after years of living in bustling Manhattan and jet-setting around the world. It felt exquisite; like being in that delicious post-orgasm afterglow state, but for a couple of hours.
When I came out of the ketamine experience, I brought with me an overwhelming desire to create a more peaceful life for myself. I moved out of New York City where I had lived for 24 years, and I’ve lived by the sea ever since. I learned that one way to experience peace and bliss was to not do, but to be. My sexuality changed yet again, becoming less performative, less active, less energetic. Sex became deeper, slower, and subtler --I call it "Zen Sex." With my newfound understanding of how "less could be more," I did something totally wild and experimental: I committed to a serious, monogamous relationship!
Psilocybin Mushrooms
Mostly I have used psilocybin mushrooms with lovers I was in a close relationship with. These trips have ranged from very mild to intense, depending on the freshness of the mushrooms and the dosage. Usually while on mushrooms I have not found myself wanting to make love in the traditional sense, especially when I'm peaking. Instead I usually prefer having physical space. However, I find it very bonding and very intimate to share such an intense and personal experience with a lover. I would sometimes get insights into our relationship, which we could talk about afterwards.
I've found that mushrooms (and the other substances mentioned in this story) can definitely deepen a relationship, in a remarkably similar way that sex does. Coming off mushrooms is an ideal time to do some sensual massage or some serious cuddling. There is a delicious unification with my partner - an openness and vulnerability.
My present girlfriend, Barbara, has done well over a thousand psychedelic journeys. She was even a "guinea pig" at Stanford University when they were studying the effects of heavy doses of LSD in the '70s. One beautiful summer day, we were on a mountain lake in her rowboat, and we found ourselves tripping without having ingested a thing. Our psychedelic door flew open probably because we had ventured through it many times before. Our love was the drug, and it was strong! Our senses became heightened, time warped, colors were brighter. It felt exactly like we were on mushrooms. I wondered if people who have never done any psychedelics could ever feel the same way, or if our psychedelic experiences enabled us to enhance and intensify the magical feelings of love.
At one point I purposely didn't ingest any drugs for about six years because I came to feel that drugs were the lazy person's sex. Why do drugs when one could accomplish the same things from having several hours of sex, and not have any hangover the next day? (This does not work with quickies.) Many people are too lazy, or don't have the sexual skills to get there. Or they have a limited capacity for sex and pleasure. With a substance there's no escaping the intensity, and the intoxication. With sex you have to work at it, but in the long run it's probably better for your health. Then again, variety is the spice of life.
Ayahuasca
Although I have had a number of opportunities, I’ve not yet tried the plant brew, ayahuasca. I did however try "pharmahuasca" (the synthetic version) with a group of about a dozen friends. We were led by an experienced guide and his excellent and caring assistants. We prepared for a couple of days with fasting and enemas, then took the pharmahuasca along with a fairly heavy dose of mushrooms. Our guide said the mushrooms helped make the pharmahuasca more visual.
When I took off it was like I had an entire New Age greeting card shop behind my eyelids. It was the longest, most intense, most hallucinatory, most physical of all journeys I'd ever been on. It lasted about ten hours, with several hours more coming down. I lay still the whole time with my eyes closed; except when I rolled over to purge into a bowl, something everyone in the group did repeatedly (a wonderfully kinky and intimate group experience). This substance affects the nervous system quite strongly, so I had lots of sweats and chills, and other very strange physical sensations, like a snake made of air whipping around my body.
At the time of this journey, my father was dying of cancer, so my journey was a lot about pain, fear, and death. I saw the "complexity of the Universe" as a huge, fast, megamachine. I saw clowns, gargoyles, Goddesses, and Virgin Maries.. I saw bloodshed in Rwanda, Jon-Benet Ramsey being murdered, and I saw myself being stabbed to death by a serial killer. I saw my father in the hospital on a respirator struggling to stay alive. I saw all these things without any judgements. There was no good or bad. Everything worked together, like yin with yang. I became acutely aware of the "human condition." I saw compassion as the best salvation for myself and all people and things. Lots of thoughts and feelings came up about my body, and about the aging process. Sometimes I felt strong, healthy, and light; other times I felt old, fat, and polluted. I believed that the ayahuasca was helping to prepare me for my own personal death.
In the months that followed, sex became more about soul merging, loving support, and nurturing and comforting each other before we die. It became more serious than before. It felt like I had achieved a level of sexual maturity, and at the same time I grieved for my youthful enthusiasm and naïveté. This journey inspired me to make a sex film called Teenage Mermaid Fanta-sea in which I play an elder mermaid who initiates a young mermaid into the treasures of her sexuality. I teach the young mermaid how to seduce a diver, and then in the end I die an orgasmic death.
Sex and Psychedelics
Clearly my experiences with psychedelics have been educational and beneficial with regard to my own sexuality and my life's work. From my observations, these psychoactive drugs have not been harmful in any way for me, or for the people I know who have used them. Terence McKenna pointed out that: "The profundity of [hallucinogenic inebriation] and its potential for a positive feedback into the process of reorganizing the personality should have long ago made psychedelics an indispensable tool for psychotherapy."3
And I might add, a tool for sex therapy. Oddly enough, I have not found a whole lot written about psychedelics in relation to sex, when to me they seem so totally interconnected.
From what I have gathered, psychedelics are generally not used much as aphrodisiacs for sexual arousal - although people do report having phantastasmagorical sexual experiences on them. More often the user gains some key information, has a new experience, or sees her/himself from a new perspective, and any of this can greatly inform that person's sexual life.
Just as each sexual experience can potentially teach us something about sex, each drug experience can potentially teach us something about sex. And for that matter, sexual experiences can potentially teach us something about how to take drug trips more effectively. As I became more sexually experienced, I became much better at handling my psychedelic journeys. I learned how to not have expectations, and how to surrender.
“Sex is a drug! The biological chemistry of sex is a lot like that of psychoactive drugs. So when you have sex on drugs, you are having sex with that drug." The Drug Workshop (http://www.drugworkshop.net),
Interesting concept, to have sex with the drug (or plant) itself. The site also stresses the importance of whom you decide to do your drugs with. I couldn't agree more. Set and setting are so important.
So if psychedelics have the potential to be so beneficial, why did they get such a bad rap? Perhaps for some of the same reasons that sex gets a bad rap. Terence McKenna offered an explanation for why drugs and sex get suppressed and why "just say no" doesn't work:
"Sexuality is the glory of the living experience. Ecstasy is the contemplation of wholeness. That's why when you experience ecstasy -- when you contemplate wholeness -- you come down remade in terms of the political and social arena because you have seen the larger picture."
People tend to link "sex and drugs" because both are condemned by society. Nevertheless, throughout the ages human beings have continually searched for more ecstasy, more sexual satisfaction, for solutions to their sexual problems, and for aphrodisiacs. Psychoactive substances have been used in most cultures because they can be keys to unlock the mysteries of life. Of course as each mystery is unravelled, a bunch of new ones appear.
Both sex and psychedelics are ultimately about consciousness, about self discovery, and going beyond everyday reality to that magical place -- somewhere over the rainbow, where we feel Divine and we experience some truth. Granted, both sex and psychedelic drugs are generally used unconsciously by most people. We need to work on that.
Needless to say, the AllChemical Arts Conference in Hawaii was absolutely wonderful, and so were all the people who attended it. I had a fantastic time and learned a whole lot.
Since that conference I decided to support more research into these drugs, support law reform, and come out as an advocate for the safe use of psychedelics - especially with regard to sex research and sex education. I'm hoping someone will soon have the courage to organize a conference on sex and psychedelics. I'll be there with bells on!
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UP! I'M CALLING IN DEAD BECAUSE I USED UP ALL MY SICK DAYS.
ACTIONS TO REDUCE YOUR "ENERGY FOOTPRINT" ON THE PLANET
* Install a water-heater timer, or simply turn the power switch off when you leave. Better yet, replace your old water-heater with a tankless system, and invest in a solar water heating system.
* Turn off air-conditioning, use a fan instead. Better yet, move underground, and plant trees around house (or where your house was) to create shade canopy.
* Dry clothes on a clothesline. Replace washing machine and dryer with energy efficient ones. Better yet, join a nudist colony.
* Give up meat. Every pound of meat we consume requires obscene amounts of energy and water to produce. Eat nuts, sprouted beans, high-protein grains like amaranth. Reduce the amount of cooked and processed food we consume.
* Invest in low-wattage light bulbs (compact fluorescents), solar panels and small wind turbines tied into your grid, zero-emission vehicles. These are industries of the future, and you will proudly wear the mantle of pioneer.
* Even better, persuade ten others to do this!
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i was delighted to read the report you printed on brane theory with which i am very familiar in three ways:
- my own use of art to break down pre-conceived implanted ideas. this includes indian classical music and jazz.
- my lifetime study of hindu and nyingma buddhist cosmologies personally based on study and real practice. all hindu priests for example clap their hands above their heads 10 times prior to the mood setting puja ceremonies, the purpose being to acknowledge the well known 10 extra dimensions within which we live. yogic expertise is partially aimed at breaking barriers and entering other dimensions, returning to this dimension with actual and practical knowledge. ergo the perennial "stories of mystical oriental magic" - all science, albeit subjective, in it's essence.
- my belief that, at a world population of currently 6 billion, a necessary countering of primitive thinking has occurred in a critical mass of humans by way of a genetic leap and oforganic real brain changes. enough humans are now in this new state to, i believe, change the destructive solutions being implemented and advanced worldwide by those you refer to as dinosaurs.
therefore a gathering of this critical mass of advanced humans is in order.
congratulations on brane article.
michael bowen / hawaii
UP!
An Interview with Terry Tempest Williams
Environmental writer and poet Terry Tempest Williams writes from her own experiences as a Mormon woman, authoring six books, as well as "An Unspoken Hunger," a collection of essays, and two children's books.
Her work has been anthologised widely and reproduced in The New Yorker, The Nation, Outside, Audubon and Orion, and she's best known for "Refuge," a book that tells the parallel tales of the degradation of the environment and her mother's battle with cancer.
She's been inducted into the Rachel Carson Honor Roll and has received the National Wildlife Federation's Conservation Award for Special Achievement.
Q: What is the most pressing environmental concern we face?
Terry Tempest Williams: The Bush Administration. There are many forms of terrorism and environmental degradation is one of them. We're being hit on all counts. It's not enough that last month the Senate voted not to drill in the Arctic it went back to the House floor and passed. Bush said he's going door to door himself.
I believe our country is being run as a business, not as a democracy and they don't understand that this is a public process. Whether it's Bush/Cheney's energy policy behind closed doors or the desire to exploit everything they possibly can on every possible level the environment, social issues or the economy I think it's devastating. Now there's this atmosphere of war where we aren't allowed to criticize our president. To be called a traitor or a patriot this is one of the darkest times we're faced in this country.
Q: What light do you see that will get us out of this scenario, besides the 2004 elections? What do you think the individual can do?
Speak. Shatter the silence. Question everything. Redefine. Reimagine patriotism. Reimagine hatred and take back the language. I think we can do this each in our own ways, each with our own gifts. I realize that since Sept. 11 I've been writing mostly for newspapers. Books are too slow and they don't get read. I've wanted to be part of the dialogue and this dialogue is taking place daily, and on a national and local level, that's where we are having this public discourse. It's critical that we engage in this form of democracy; it literally is happening at our kitchen table. That's an exciting thing to see. We're struggling. I'm struggling. I don't know whom to believe I don't know what to believe. And everyday I hear myself saying over and over again, "I don't know."
We watch Saddam toppled and we're told this is in the same category as Stalin and Hitler and I think, "Am I losing it?" But on the other hand, I believe it is an occupation of that country. It's about American Imperialism and I do think they have their eyes on Syria, this fundamentalist government. On one hand they tell us they're liberating Iraq, and on the other hand we're watching the erosion of democracy in our own country. There's this paradox going on. I wonder how the PATRIOT ACT will go over in Iraq as the first document of democracy.
Q: And here?
I believe they are imposing and propagating and elevating fear to create compliance and complacency. It's all the more critical for us to be highly attentive and to really ground ourselves, to stay in the centre in the thick of our lives and in the thread of our own communities. That's the only place I know where hope truly lives. And the only place we can have an impact is within our own community.
I was arrested in Washington during the Code Pink rally. That's certainly not something we anticipated, planned, or expected. There was a wall of Washington, DC police that saying "You cannot come into Lafayette Park" and "No, you cannot stand in front of the White House and protest this war." That was a week before it started. And we looked through their arms and saw pro-life protesters standing in front of the White House with ghastly images and that appeared not to be a problem. Again, the incredible irony and paradox. There is no room for diplomacy.
Q: What can citizens do who want to change this administration's priorities and agenda?
I don't know. We can vote. It seems really important that the 2004 election be held with as much integrity as possible. A great idea was given by Granny D at the Code Pink rally. She said the Green Party needs to be patient with this next election and that yes, the Greens can organize locally and build up state legislatures and start from the ground up but this next election we have to try to get a democratic candidate that can defeat George Bush. Otherwise, we have four more years. I thought that was a brave thing to say. And that may be controversial, but I agree.
Q: Who would you support for the Democratic candidate?
I'm waiting. It may even be a Republican candidate. I don't know. I'm looking for someone who has a vision and who dares to speak out against these corporate ideas of democracy. I still have great faith in democracy. I have great belief in the power of community.
And I also have a strong belief in dinner parties. In people's homes, where you create an atmosphere where people feel comfortable speaking their minds and are literally nourished. Wouldn't it be wonderful if we had them in our own homes where we are safe and we can have these dinner parties of real discussion among our friends and also invite people with different ideas so we can listen? If we can teach ourselves how to listen to the other viewpoint, what a great idea. If we can get democracy around our own dinner tables.
I'm also thinking of the whole idea of shadow. Whether we like it or not, George Bush is our shadow: arrogance, impatience, entitlement, greed, capitalism; we are all complicit in that. I'm interested in looking at what that shadow means. This is a time of reflection, contemplation, calming down and settling. As a writer, I'm trying to find places that test my own courage and comfort.
We are a nation at war. Can we have the courage to stay in that place of darkness and not be undone by it, not be undone by despair? I have enormous faith in the capacity to transform. This is a powerful time in the evolution of the human psyche like the Renaissance and the Reformation. Look at the global response of humans to this war. That is powerful. It's never happened before.
Q: It's interesting to me that we started this conversation talking about the environment, but we couldn't help but talk about the war.
These are core issues at the heart of the land. We can't separate them but we have separated them and that's the problem. So when we talk about the Earth, the animals as one consideration when you talk about issues of water and politics, every being has a right to clean water, we incorporate conversations about democracy.
We need to be able to treat each other well in order to treat the animals and plants well. It's a cycle, the embrace. We need to see our limitations as human beings. I don't think the Bush Administration sees any limitations. And how do you create democracy without humility?
This country was founded on the idea that anyone, well, white people, could come here and be equal. And be welcomed. And tame the land.
We have to speak out now on behalf of our community and on behalf of the land and say they're the same thing and say "No, we are not rolling over" and "No, this is not a corporate enterprise." This is democracy in the fullest sense and we must have regard and reverence and those are the cornerstones of a just society.
Q: Terry, why aren't more people out on the streets striking, protesting, and refusing to pretend that life goes on as normal?
Again, it's those words, I don't know. We have to ask ourselves, "What do I have to give?" and then, "How do I give it?"
Whether it's as a writer, an organic gardener, as a teacher, a social worker, a mother or father, we can exercise that courage and insistence, resistance, and say there's another way of being, another way of seeing, and I do think that counts.
And numbers count. In many ways it comes down to that.
Aria Seligmann, Eugene Weekly
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