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Hi baby cakes, am home from a great trip. Vermont was wonderful. I went air gliding and had a great time! Always great to come home though. You can start sending me the UP! and all the news again. Well now, being an American... I gotta agree with Johnny Depp. pant, pant... Ya know, I never liked Johnny Depp until I seen him in "Pirates of the Caribbean" . Whatta hunk! Oh yeah baby, I agree with you!! America is in way over its heads now! Why couldn't we just stay in our own country and let those who want to blow themselves up and fight amongst themselves just do it? Now Bush needs 87 billion to rebuild? I'm sick of seeing our country into other countries’ business. Live & let live! ``America is dumb, like a dumb puppy that has big teeth that can bite and hurt you... ' <snip> Johnny Depp. >> 1O. Before I forget it entirely - it's not always clear which bits of text are you and which are contributors Ok now I gotta say that I agree with this person. Sometimes I get confused as to who’s saying what, but manage to figure it out after reading. This dude’s got a point Fraze! >> Yes, you put names in and sometimes it's obvious, but there's no colour code [Fraser purple, contribs always green say] or size-of-text code, and I sometimes find myself puzzled as to who is saying what... >> am always pink and Ariel bold like this. other than that i quite like the ambiguity of who’s saying what. creates a sort of ‘groupmind’ which is what we most lack. what counts is what YOU decide in the end is the right mix:) lilhunk / usa [self designed] UP! I entered office with the strongest economy in US history and in less than two years turned every single economic category heading straight down. (BUSH’S RESUME FOR PRISON LIBRARIAN POSITION) (\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)
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the UP! //:-) 170 sept 16, 2003 (\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/) it's all it’s all in the mix in the mix LATE NEWS / POSSIBLE NON APPEARANCE OF UP! FOR NEXT 2 WEEKS i'll be UP! in glasgow for the 10 day spiritaid peace festival there. speaking in the Festival Club, Mono, TUES SEPT 23, & SAT 27, SUN 28 during their clubnights www. spiritaid.org.uk contents p.6 The final final straw... IF ISRAELIS KILL ARAFAT THEY’LL HAVE CROSSED THE FINAL MORAL WALL AND BECOME INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM NAZI CONCENTRATION COMMANDERS. PERIOD. p.8 SHAMANISM AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY p.9 U.S. 17TH FOR PRESS FREEDOM - France, Australia, Belgium, Slovenia, and Costa Rica ranked ahead of the U.S. p.11 HOT POTATO! "Don't Worry It’s Safe To Eat -The True Story Of GM Food, BSE, And Foot & Mouth" p.17 Japan in a new global landscape UP! (\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)
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Twin Towers TEXT JOCKEY // TJ PHRASER (Fraser Clark) & THE MEDIA EVOLUTION MIXING THE TRACTS LIVE ON THE KEYBOARD @ A MEDIA-MEME RATE OF 160 IPP * * Ideas Per Paragraph (\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/) and the Tower of Babel by Pepe Escobar Two years after September 11, 2001, the Washington neo-conservative dream of a rainbow of democracy shining from Israel to Afghanistan and traversing Iraq has vanished into thin air. From Kabul to Baghdad, the vision is being wiped out by the truth of hard facts. 1) The American army does not have the resources to play global sheriff by itself. 2) America is not prepared for or interested in nation-building. 3) Military "victories", like Afghanistan and Iraq, mean nothing when if not complemented by moral/political legitimacy. The lack of legitimacy creates a political void, immediately exploited by radical Islam. Tribal Afghanistan is a Taliban-infested ungovernable chaos trespassed by an anti-American jihad. Iraq is an ungovernable chaos bordering on civil war and trespassed by an anti-American jihad. The Israeli-Palestinian roadmap has been ripped apart. Al-Qaeda, a mutant virus, continues to strike from east Africa to the Middle East and Southeast Asia. Osama bin Laden and his deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri continue their efforts in the Pakistan-Afghan tribal areas. Taliban leader Mullah Omar leads the Afghan jihad from his hideout in the mountains north of Kandahar. And Saddam Hussein has exploded a time bomb in the face of the Pentagon by financing a great deal of the Iraqi resistance - a magnet now attracting people from all over the Arab world. >> it’s truly amazing, when you think about it, that, after all their efforts to keep american ground troops out of afghanistan and then the iraq bombing campaign to achieve the same objective, here they find themselves in a country whether every self-respecting idealistic arab is heading as THE place to take pot shots at passing american soldiers! Al-Qaeda is "celebrating" September 11 in its own sinister way, via its new audiotape. A spokesman "There will be new attacks inside and outside [the US] which will make America forget the attacks of September 11." The latest developments have proved once again that American neo-conservatives' pocket futurology is dead and buried. There has been no "end of history". There has been no "death of ideology". Instead of these pre-Galilean platitudes to which all would have been forced to submit, now it's Medievalism all over again - with clashing sectarian apocalyptic visions (born-again Christian fundamentalists against radical Islamists), Inquisition tribunals (Guantanamo) and the horrors of war (Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine). It's Medievalism - but mixed with the epitome of modernity. al-Qaeda is, in fact, a by-product of globalisation. "Its most distinctive feature - projecting a privatised form of organised violence worldwide - was impossible in the past" argues John Gray in his latest book ‘Al-Qaeda and what it means to be modern’. On September 11, al-Qaeda "destroyed the West's ruling myth... like Communism and Nazism, radical Islam is modern. Though it claims to be anti-Western, it is shaped as much by Western ideology as by Islamic traditions. Like Marxists and neo-liberals, radical Islamists see history as a prelude to a new world. All are convinced they can remake the human condition. If there is a uniquely modern myth, this is it." http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/EI10Ak02.html UP! I set the all-time record for the number of administration appointees who violated US law by not selling their huge investments in corporations bidding for gov't contracts. (BUSH’S RESUME FOR PRISON LIBRARIAN POSITION) " Terrorism is the war of the poor. War is the terrorism of the rich. " Sir Peter Ustinov (\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)
The UP! (UP!mag or UP!grademag) is a global edutainment round-up, ‘broadcast’ weekly to =[11,655]= Alternative// Activist// Zippy// Trance// New Age folks who have been recommended to the Parallel YOUniversity//Megatripolis Dance Dept as "showing signs of life". Since many recipients choose to forward it or parts of it to their own lists, we conservatively estimate 30,000+ direct recipients. Further, because of its 'mix' of 'specialist' & 'general' content, it's increasingly being posted on a variety of sites worldwide, making an estimated total weekly ‘readership’ of =[275,000+]= (\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/) * * * * * * * * * * * * * ASTRAL ENERGY ANALYSIS FOR WEEK OF SEPT 17- 23 * * * * * * * * * * * *
UP! I am the all-time US (and world) record holder for most corporate campaign donations. The biggest lifetime contributor to my campaign, who is also one of my best friends, presided over one of the largest corporate bankruptcy frauds in world history (Kenneth Lay, former CEO of Enron Corporation). (BUSH’S RESUME FOR PRISON LIBRARIAN POSITION)MOVE!!! This is an active week. Big change which can result in healing is possible. The weekend is lovely, and we can celebrate Mercury turning direct. On Tuesday, Equinox ushers in the autumn season, and the dark begins to overtake the light. For the current scoop, check Out Maya’s Daily Success Guide at For details, see Maya’s Daily Success Guide at www.daykeeperjournal.com * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ** * * * * * * * * * IRAQ'S EPIC SUFFERING IS MADE INVISIBLE by John Pilger For the past few weeks, I have been watching videotapes of the attack on Iraq, most of them not shown in this country. The tapes concentrate on the epic suffering of ordinary Iraqis. There are photographs, too, that were never published here. They show streets and hospitals running with blood, as American and British forces smashed their way into Iraq with weapons designed to incinerate and dismember human beings. It is difficult viewing, but necessary if one is to understand fully the words of the Nuremberg judges in 1946 when they laid down the principles of modern international law: "To initiate a war of aggression... is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime, differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole." http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Articles8/Pilger_Iraq-Suffering.htm UP! I presided over the highest gasoline prices in US history and refused to use the national reserves as past presidents have. (BUSH’S RESUME FOR PRISON LIBRARIAN POSITION) CAN U FOOKIN BELIEVE THIS!?!!!!
The editorial in the Jerusalem Post [Sept 11]is the final final straw... “KILL ARAFAT The world will not help us; we must help ourselves. We must kill as many of the Hamas and Islamic Jihad leaders as possible, as quickly as possible, while minimising collateral damage, but not letting that damage stop us. And we must kill Yasser Arafat, because the world leaves us no alternative. >> it’s all our fault really. it’s us who are making THEM bad guys, gettit? No one seriously argues with the fact that Arafat was preventing Mahmoud Abbas, the prime minister he appointed, from combating terrorism, to the extent that he was willing to do so. >> which is really the point: why would ANY palestinian (except from utter despair and exhaustion) want to make the kinda peace israel is offering? israel’s attitude is: take this very very good offer or we’ll get rid of you and find someone who will. but they won’t. because the deal the palestinians want, the deal all arabs want, and the deal which the wise sane majority of people on this planet want is MUCH more than any israeli will allow himself to consider. Almost no one seriously disputes that Abbas on whom Israel, the US, and Europe had placed all their bets failed primarily because Arafat retained control of much of the security apparatus, and that Arafat wanted him to fail. The new prime minister, Ahmed Qurei, clearly will fare no better, since he, if anything, has been trying to garner more power for Arafat, not less. Under these circumstances, the idea of exiling Arafat is gaining currency, but the standard objection is that he will be as much or more of a problem when free to travel the world as he is locked up in Ramallah. If only three countries Britain, France, and Germany joined the US in a total boycott of Arafat this would not be the case. If these countries did not speak with Arafat, it would not matter much who did, and however much a local Palestinian leader would claim to consult with Arafat, his power would be gone. >> u c? it’s us europeans who are FORCING israelis to so these terrible things, right? But such a boycott will not happen. Only now, after more than 800 Israelis have died in three years of suicide bombings and other terrorist attacks, has Europe finally decided that Hamas is a terrorist organisation. >> and, i’m afraid, israel is a terrorist state (incl at this point all citizens who support or allow this situation to continue). israel started the problem and is the only one capable of changing the situation and isn’t. How much longer will it take before it cuts off Arafat? Yet Israel cannot accept a situation in which Arafat blocks any Palestinian break with terrorism, whether from here or in exile. Therefore, we are at another point in our history at which the diplomatic risks of defending ourselves are exceeded by the risks of not doing so. >> sound like george bush’s pre-emptive attack? as i said when israel last threatened the life of the only democratically elected arab leader in existence: IF ISRAELIS KILL ARAFAT THEY WILL HAVE CROSSED THE FINAL MORAL WALL AND BECOME INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM NAZI CONCENTRATION COMMANDERS. PERIOD. STEP BACK NOW, OH ISRAELIS, OR KNOW WHAT IS COMING FOR YOU! and before you ask: YES, as long as you occupy Palestine, you are making war on them, and MUST (patiently & wisely) accept (and expect) the killings of your citizens by the other side’s (nearly as psychopathic) freedom fighters. PERIOD. UP! I am the first president in US history to refuse United Nations election inspectors access during the 2002 US elections. (BUSH’S RESUME FOR PRISON LIBRARIAN POSITION) COLD BLOODED MURDER "The government of Israel has tonight resolved to commit a cold-blooded murder, with the implementation deferred - the cold blooded murder of the elected president of the Palestinians. Let there be no mistake about it. Let no one be fooled by the talk of 'deportation'. “I know Sharon, I have followed his career for decades, ever since he was a young commando officer carrying out brutal cross-border raids. He has not changed in any essential, only in the amount of power held in his hands. He means to do it, he means to kill Arafat. “He will watch for his chance, wait for a moment when the Americans look elsewhere - and then he will pounce." Uri Avery, former member of the Israeli Parliament. UP! //YOU FEEDBACK the UP!, by the way, does not set out to deliver a 'balanced" view of the world. it tries to supply a cross section of the alternative view of things so that the reader (who after all gets the official We Are The Good Guys stuff shovelled down hir throat every minute of every day) can reach hir OWN balanced viewpoint. true, therefore it may be in the interests of UP! readers to grab a little bit of We Are The Good Guys, just to make sure their view IS balanced. I'm sure you'll agree that your newsletter is far left-wing, Fraser. Personally, I don't form an opinion with or without leftist/rightist information. It's just nice to know the characters & plot behind the unfolding dramas on our planet. :) Andy / South Australia >> leftist, moi? u should see the stuff that i don’t put in, andy (while not rejecting in my own mind). and, as for advising readers to catch a little of We Are The Good Guys, well, you’d have to be walking around with your eyes closed not to be getting a huge dollop of that every day, no? (\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)
SHAMANISM AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGYIF YOU CANNOT VIEW THIS PROPERLY, TELL US AND WE’LL PUT YOU ON A SPECIAL UNFORMATTED LIST. TO REPLY TO FRASER OR THE UP! SIMPLY HIT REPLY. TO SUBSCRIBE, WRITE “I wanna get UP!” TO people@parallel-youniversity.com TO UNSUBSCRIBE, EMAIL REMOVES@parallel-youniversity.com (\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/) Research indicates that shamans access an intelligence, which they say is nature's, and which gives them information that has stunning correspondences with molecular biology. Intelligence comes from the Latin inter-legere, to choose between. There seems to be a capacity to make choices operating inside each cell in our body, down to the level of individual proteins and enzymes. DNA itself is a kind of "text" that functions through a coding system called 'genetic code', which is strikingly similar to codes used by human beings. Some enzymes edit the RNA transcript of the DNA text and add new letters to it; any error made during this editing can be fatal to the entire organism; so these enzymes are consistently making the right choices; if they don't, something often goes wrong leading to cancer and other diseases. Cells send one another signals, in the form of proteins and molecules. These signals mean: divide, or don't divide, move, or don't move, kill yourself, or stay alive. Any one cell is listening to hundreds of signals at the same time, and has to integrate them and decide what to do. How this intelligence operates is the question. And, from one generation to the next, the DNA text can also be modified, so it allows both constancy and transformation. This means that beings can be the same and not the same. One of the mysteries is what drives the changes in the DNA text in evolution. DNA has apparently been around for billions of years in its current form in virtually all forms of life. The old Darwinian theory - random accumulation of errors combined with natural selection - does not fully explain the data currently generated by genome sequencing. The question is wide open. A HIDDEN UNITY Both shamans and molecular biologists agree that there is a hidden unity under the surface of life's diversity; both associate this unity with the double helix shape (or 2 entwined serpents, a twisted ladder, a spiral staircase, two vines wrapped around each other); both consider that one must deal with this level of reality in order to heal. You could fill a book with correspondences between shamanism and molecular biology. I think the science of shamans can complement modern science by helping make sense of the data it generates. Shamanism is like a reverse camera relative to modern science. SPIRITUALITY I don't use the word "spiritual" to think about my life. I spend my time promoting land titling projects and bilingual education for indigenous people, and thinking about how to move knowledge forward and how to open up understanding between people; I also spend time with my children, and with children in my community (as a soccer coach); and I look after the plants in my garden, without using pesticides and so on. The message I got from shamans was: do all you can for those around you (including plants and animals), but don't make a big deal of it. UP! I withdrew from the World Court of Law. (BUSH’S RESUME FOR PRISON LIBRARIAN POSITION) NEAR SPACE IS THAT LIKE ‘MIDDLE EAST’? Without fanfare, the Bush Administration is taking military control of what it terms “near space," thereby laying claim to the area of the Solar System that lies between the Earth and the Moon's orbit. http://inthesetimes.com/comments.php?id=336_0_3_0_C UP! I set the all-time record for biggest annual budget spending increases, more than any other president in US history. (BUSH’S RESUME FOR PRISON LIBRARIAN POSITION) U.S. 17TH FOR PRESS FREEDOM The United States ranks number 17 for press freedom, below most Western European countries and Costa Rica, according to a new global index drawn up by journalists, researchers, and legal scholars and released by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) last week. TOP TEN FOR FREE PRESS 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. France, Australia, Belgium, Slovenia, and Costa Rica ranked ahead of the U.S · · · · · BOTTOM TEN FOR FREEDOM · · · · · · · · · · EUROPE 40 Italy - worst performer in Western Europe. RSF said that news diversity is under "serious threat" in Italy, in major part due to pressures exerted by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who is also the head of one of Europe's biggest privately-owned media empires. LATIN AMERICA · · · .... · · · English-speaking countries in the Caribbean were not covered. AFRICA · · · ... · · · ASIA
· · ... · · · MIDDLE EAST / NORTH AFRICA · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · [© 2002 OneWorld.net] UP! I dissolved more international treaties than any president in US history. (BUSH’S RESUME FOR PRISON LIBRARIAN POSITION) Excellent, one of the best UP!s yet! And that is surely saying something. Cheers Jim C / Liverpool UP! I am the first president to run and hide when the US came under attack(and then lied, saying the enemy had the code to Air Force 1) (BUSH’S RESUME FOR PRISON LIBRARIAN POSITION) we don't offen recommend individual records but we heard Freeland's 'We Want Your Soul' on white label months ago (it's currently 35 in the uk charts) and were moved by it, it's about the most psychedelic-goth-stylee track i ever heard and even has an (approved) bill hicks sample. if u buy singles or know anyone who does, GETTIT! lemme know what you thought, ok? www.wewantyoursoul.com UP! I am the first president in US history to have the United Nations remove the US from the Human Rights Commission. (BUSH’S RESUME FOR PRISON LIBRARIAN POSITION) oxford WED SEPT 24 - 26 ‘Like A Rolling Stone: Bob Dylan’s Lyrical Journey.’ TUTOR: Jeff 'Superman' Guberman (of Parallel YOUniversity fame) is teaching this 3 day Bob Dylan course analysing his political, spiritual, and romantic lyrics.... £27 (includes accommodation) or FREEif you’re on benefits! Ruskin College, Oxford PHONE: The Short Course Office: 01865554331 or 0870 066 0854 UP! I spent more money on polls and focus groups than any president in US history. HOT POTATO! "Don't Worry It’s Safe To Eat -The True Story Of GM Food, BSE, And Foot & Mouth" An excerpt. by Andrew Rowell As the UK government wriggles over weapons of mass destruction, sexing up dossiers and general spin, Tony Blair argues that there’s no greater charge against a prime minister than for him to have personally falsified claims on which to take a country to war. Another grave charge, however, would be personally ordering the sacking of a scientist who was involved in some of the first independent tests on GM, especially if those tests showed evidence of harm, and also especially if the orders came from Monsanto, via the White House. This is precisely what Dr. Arpad Pusztai, who raised concerns about GM food in 1998, claims happened to him. Part of the recent argument between the BBC and the government concern the claims by a single unnamed intelligence source that the government "sexed up” a dossier. NO LESS THAN 5 PEOPLE have said they were told that Tony Blair ordered the sacking of Dr. Pusztai. Dr. Pusztai's story raises many unanswered questions about New Labour, its link to the biotech industry and the safety of GM food. DR. ARPAD PUSZTAI Dr Arpad Pusztai is the scientist who, in 1998, was catapulted from an unknown laboratory scientist at the Rowett Research Institute in Aberdeen to the forefront of a raging debate about the safety of GM foods, when he spoke on the World in Action TV programme. At the dawn of the biotech revolution, who’s convinced he’s uncovered vital evidence that shows there are potential major health risks with GM crops. Overnight the Hungarian-born scientist, with some 35 years lab experience, found himself on a collision course with the UK and US governments, the biotech industry and the scientific establishment. His 150-second interview lead to him being suspended, silenced and threatened with losing his pension. His wife, who had also worked at the Rowett for 13 years, was eventually suspended too. Their research was locked up. Scientists and politicians alike vilified Pusztai. Given such a huge controversy over his experiments, and the preliminary nature of their findings, why were the political and scientific establishments so intent on rebutting him? And why have the experiments never been repeated? His only crime was to speak out, in his words, according to his conscience: "I obviously spoke out at a very sensitive time. But things were coming to a head with the GM debate and I just lit the fuse", he says. "I grew up under the Nazis and the Communists and I understand that people are frightened and not willing to jeopardise their future, but they just sold me down the river." After the Hungarian revolution was crushed by the communists, the young Pusztai, a chemistry graduate, escaped to refugee camps in Austria and from there to England. By 1963, having finished his doctorate in biochemistry and post-doctorate at the Lister Institute, he was invited to join the prestigious Protein Chemistry Department at the Rowett Research Institute, which has become the pre-eminent nutritional centre in Europe. Dr Pusztai was put to work on lectins, plant proteins that were going to be central in the GM controversy years later. He became the world's leading expert on plant lectins, publishing over 270 scientific studies, and three books on the subject. Two books were co-written with his wife, Susan. Pusztai became one of the Rowett's most senior and renowned scientists. In 1995, the Scottish Office Agriculture Environment and Fisheries Department commissioned a 3-year multi-centre research programme under the coordination of Dr Pusztai into the safety of GM food. At the time there was not a single publication in a peer-reviewed journal on the safety of GM food. The scientists' primary task was to establish credible methods for the identification of possible human/animal health and environmental hazards of GM. The idea was that the methodologies they tested would be used by the regulatory authorities in later risk assessments of GM crops. For the first time, independent studies would be undertaken to examine whether feeding GM potatoes to rats caused any harmful effects on their health, bodies or metabolism. MODIFICATION OF POTATOES The theory behind the modification of the potatoes was simple. For years Dr Pusztai had explored the beneficial effects of lectins in foods as well as in nutritional supplements and pharmaceutical agents. Lectins can affect the digestive systems of insects and can act as natural insecticides. Arpad's work had shown that one such lectin called GNA (Galanthus nivalis), isolated from the snowdrop, acted in this way. Pusztai had worked on the snowdrop lectin since the late 1980s. The thinking was that, if you could genetically insert the lectin gene into a potato, the potato could have an inherent built-in defence mechanism that would act as a natural insecticide, preventing aphid attack. The snowdrop gene had already been incorporated into several experimental crops, including rice, cabbages, and oil-seed rape. But by late 1997, the first storm clouds were brewing at the Rowett. Preliminary results from the rat-feeding experiments were showing totally unexpected and worrying changes in the size and weight of the rat's body organs. Liver and heart sizes were getting smaller, and so was the brain. There were also indications that the rats' immune systems were weakening. 150 SECONDS THAT CHANGED THE GM DEBATE Finally in August 1998, Pusztai expressed his growing concerns on World in Action. So what did he say? "We're assured that this is absolutely safe," said Pusztai. "We can eat it all the time. We must eat it all the time. There is no conceivable harm, which can come to us. But as a scientist looking at it, actively working in the field, I find that it's very, very unfair to use our fellow citizens as guinea pigs. We have to find guinea-pigs in the laboratory." Dr Pusztai had been told not to talk about his experiments in detail, but he did say, in a sentence that would become the centre of the controversy, that "the effect was slight growth retardation and an effect on the immune system. One of the genetically modified potatoes, after 110 days, made the rats less responsive to immune effects." He continued: "If I had the choice, I would certainly not eat it till I see at least comparable experimental evidence which we are producing for our genetically modified potatoes. I actually believe that this technology can be made to work for us. And I very strongly believe in this, and that's one of the main reasons why I demand to tighten up the rules, tighten up the standards." On the evening of the broadcast, the head of the Rowett, Professor James "congratulated," Pusztai on his TV appearance, commenting on "how well Arpad had handled the questions." The following morning a further press release from the Rowett noticed that a "range of carefully controlled studies underlie the basis of Dr Pusztai's concerns." THE RIDDLE OF THE ROWETT The Rowett and Pusztai differ in what happened next. The day after the programme, Tuesday, James maintains he asked Pusztai's staff for the data for the 110-day experiment, which he claims they told him did not exist. "I couldn't believe it," says James, "I just said this is the end of the world for us all." James maintains that this is the reason why Pusztai was suspended on the Wednesday. On Wednesday morning, Pusztai and Susan were told to hand over their data. All GM work was stopped immediately and Pusztai's team was dispersed. His three PhD students were moved to other areas. He was threatened with legal action if he spoke to anyone. His phone calls and emails were diverted. The Rowett press machinery was adopting Orwellian overtones and beginning to change the official story. First they said Pusztai had got muddled with the wrong potatoes, then that the experiments had not been done, but finally they reported that Pusztai had done the right experiments but the results were not ready yet. Other disputed events happened on the Tuesday too. Two phone calls, Pusztai says he was told, were put through to James from the Prime Minister's office. One was "around noon, the other was slightly earlier." He learned this information from two different employees at the Rowett, who could be sacked if their identities were known. The Pusztais were also later told by someone at the Rowett, currently in a senior management position at the Institute, that Bill Clinton had phoned Blair and told him to sort out the problem. "That was the beginning of all the trouble -- Arpad was sacked as a consequence of what was said in those phone calls," says a friend. The events of August 1998 have always puzzled Stanley Ewen, then a top pathologist from the University of Aberdeen who had worked with Pusztai for over a decade. Ewen too had often wondered what caused the sudden turn-around at the Rowett. Speaking about the incident for the first time, now he is retired from the University of Aberdeen, he confirms the Pusztais' stories, but crucially he was told by yet another senior member of the Rowett. This makes four separate Rowett personnel who have spoken in private about the phone calls. "On Tuesday, Blair phoned the Rowett twice, although everybody denies it," Ewen says. Another ex-employee who was prepared to talk is Professor Robert Yrskov OBE. Professor Yrskov, one of the UK's leading experts in ruminant nutrition, worked at the Rowett for 33 years. He too was told about the phone calls, and told that the phone calls went from Monsanto to Clinton to Blair. "Clinton rang Blair and Blair rang James -- you better keep that man [Pusztai] shut up. James didn't know what to do. Instead of telling him to keep his mouth shut, they should have told him to say it needs more work. But there is no doubt that he was pushed by Blair to do something." It’s a well-known fact that Blair had been persuaded to back GM by Clinton, leading even the BBC to remark that in the GM debate "a question mark remains over the government's independence of pressure from Washington." In the mid-1990s the Clinton administration was backing the biotech industry "second to none." One White House staff member said the 1990s were going to be the decade of "successful commercialisation of agricultural biotechnology products." When Pusztai spoke out in August 1998, the new Labour administration was already beginning to shape government policy for its second term. It was looking for drivers of the economy that could be trusted to deliver the growth and hence results that Labour needed. High-tech industries, such as biotechnology, were to be the central cogs of the engine that would drive the Blairite revolution, and deliver the coveted second term. What Pusztai was saying could literally derail an entire industry and with it many of the hopes and aspirations of New Labour. PUSZTAI BACKED BY COLLEAGUES By the end of 1998, the Pusztai saga could have slowly subsided, with the scientist forbidden to talk to inquiring journalists. But wherever he went, scientific colleagues were curious to find out what had really happened to their colleague. Although banned from talking to the press, he was not banned from talking to other scientists outside the Rowett. In February 1999, 30 international scientists from 13 countries published a memo supporting Pusztai that was published in the Guardian which sparked a media frenzy over GM. A week later a secret committee met to counter the growing alarm over GM. Contrary to reassurances by the government that GM food was safe, the minutes show the cross departmental committee formed to deal with the crisis, called MISC6, knew the reassurances were premature. It "requested" a paper by the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) and the Chief Scientific Advisor (CSA) on the "human health implications of GM foods." What would happen, the minutes asked, if the CMO/CSA's paper "shows up any doubts? We will be pressurised to ban them immediately. What if it says that we need evidence of long-term effects? This will look like we are not sure about their safety." THE "STAR CHAMBER" That very same day - 19 February - The Royal Society publicly waded into the Pusztai controversy saying it was going to review the evidence on GM, but Pusztai argues it was nothing more than an attack on him. "Their remit was to screw me and they screwed me. They have never done it before and I had never submitted anything to them. They took on a role in which they were the prosecutors, the judges and they tried to be the executioners as well. I see no reason why I should have cooperated with them in my own hanging." But hung he was. On 18 May 1999, the Royal Society issued its damning verdict against Pusztai, at a press conference. The report said that Pusztai's work was "flawed in many aspects of design, execution and analysis and that no conclusions should be drawn from it." The same day, 18 May, the House of Commons Science and Technology Select Committee attacked Pusztai too. It’s beyond coincidence that The Royal Society and the Science and Select Committee published on the same day. Political insiders say that pressure was put on the Science and Technology Committee and The Royal Society to discredit Pusztai, thereby enabling the government to take control again. This behind-the-scene coordination was partly revealed by a memo showing that the government had set up a "Biotechnology Presentation Group," which included senior Ministers. A decision was taken to "present the government's stance as a single package by way of an oral statement in the House. This would allow the government to get on the front foot." This is exactly what happened. On 21 May, just 3 days after The Royal Society and Select Committee published, Jack Cunningham said this in the House of Commons: "Biotechnology is an important and exciting area of scientific advance that offers enormous opportunities for improving our quality of life." Cunningham then laid his killer punch: "The Royal Society this week convincingly dismissed as wholly misleading the results of some recent research into potatoes, and the misinterpretation of it. There is no evidence to suggest that any GM foods on sale in this country are harmful." THE LANCET However Pusztai and Ewen had submitted a paper to the Lancet, which was finally published in October 1999. Ewen faxed a copy of the article to the Rowett before publication, as Pusztai was still required to show them any papers based on his work there. However publication was delayed by two weeks for technical reasons. "The rubbishing brigade had been given 2 weeks to do the dirty on the article. I was almost sure they would stop it," says Pusztai. First of all came the misinformation. "SCIENTISTS REVOLT AT PUBLICATION OF 'FLAWED' GM STUDY," ran The Independent, "the study that sparked the furore over genetically modified food has failed the ultimate test of scientific credibility." Connor said that the referees were against publication. However four out of the six reviewers were for publication. "A clear majority of The Lancet's reviewers were in favour," says Richard Horton, the editor of the Lancet. Then came the "threats." Three days after The Independent article, Richard Horton received a phone call from Professor Lachmann, the former Vice-President and Biological Secretary of The Royal Society and President of the Academy of Medical Sciences. According to Horton, Professor Lachmann threatened that his job would be at risk if he published Pusztai's paper, and called Horton "immoral" for publishing something he knew to be "untrue." Towards the end of the conversation Horton maintains that Lachmann said that if he published this would "have implications for his personal position" as editor. Lachmann confirms that he rang Horton but vehemently denies that he threatened him. After the article was published, Horton and The Lancet were once again attacked for publishing the work, by the biotechnology industry and The Royal Society. Horton likened the actions of the Royal Society to a "Star Chamber." The publication of The Lancet paper also had a detrimental effect on Stanley Ewen's long-term employment with the University of Aberdeen, and rather than get recognition for his work, all he seemed to get was anguish. "I felt that I had done so much work that had been unacknowledged," says the pathologist. "I felt I deserved some recognition, but this was being blocked at a very high level. It wasn't helpful to my career. When you do these sorts of things it’s very difficult for your pension. Because that’s what it comes down to in the final analysis: money." Eventually he felt that he had no option left, and he retired on the 26 March, 2001. He now works as a consultant to the NHS. WHY HAVE THE EXPERIMENTS NEVER BEEN REPEATED? But the fundamental flaw in the scientific establishment's response is that in 1999 everyone agreed that more work was needed. 3 years later, that work remains to be undertaken. A scientific body, like The Royal Society, that allocates millions in research funds every year, could have funded a repeat of Pusztai's experiments. Is it that it’s easier to say there’s no evidence to support his claim, because no evidence exists, than it is to say that no one has looked? "Don't Worry It is Safe to Eat -- The True Story of GM Food, BSE, and Foot and Mouth" by Andrew Rowell, is published by Earthscan. UP! I presided over the biggest corporate stock market fraud in any market in any country in the history of the world. (BUSH’S RESUME FOR PRISON LIBRARIAN POSITION) BILL TO PROHIBIT INTERSTATE COMMERCE OF BIG CATS A bill to ban the interstate commerce of big cats such as lions, tigers, leopards, and cougars has been introduced in the Senate. If passed, the bill would help discourage the keeping of big cats as "pets", a problem that has reached epidemic proportions in the U.S. where the number, some of whom belong to endangered species, far exceeds the number of these animals in the wild. Exotic animals like big cats are often acquired through newspaper ads or on the Internet on a whim by individuals with little to no knowledge of their care. As a result, the animals often end up suffering from malnutrition, an unsuitable environment, loneliness, mutilation, and the stress of confinement. Many animals are discarded after their novelty wears thin and may end up as curiosity displays in roadside or travelling "attractions", set loose in the naïve hope they’ll be able to fend for themselves, sent to hunting ranches or laboratories, or "recycled" back into the pet trade. Both the House and Senate versions of this important bill have passed in their respective committees. The bills now go to the House and Senate floors for a vote. It is crucial that you contact both your representative and your 2 senators immediately to ask that they vote in favour of these bills. referred to as S 269. A companion bill to S 269 is expected to be introduced in the House of Representatives in the coming weeks. You can find contact information for your senators at www.senate.gov and for your representative at www.house.gov. Please consider sending a letter or making a phone call, as e-mail messages to legislators are often less effective UP! I have created the largest government department bureaucracy in the history of the United States. (BUSH’S RESUME FOR PRISON LIBRARIAN POSITION) "life represents the movement of knowledge across the spectrum of consciousness" - unknown author thank you for sharing Mr. Fraser! dimitri djanbani, Belgium UP! Japan in a new global landscape 1980s: Japan as a global economic power The first period in which Japan’s self-defined global role was clearly established was in the 1980s. It was only in the middle of this decade that Japan portrayed itself as a systemic supporter of the United States-led international system. Its logic was that in tandem with the growing size of Japan’s economy, it could not afford to be a ‘free rider’ on the international economic system led by the United States. This meant Japan had to be involved with a number of international economic institutions like the GATT, the World Bank and the IMF and the Group of Five (the last of which was inaugurated in 1975 with the ostensible aim of shoring up the economic cooperation and coordination of five major advanced countries). Needless to say, Japan was concerned to avoid being denounced as a spoiler or challenger of this system. Its self-defined role within it was narrowly economic. Even when led by Yasuhiro Nakasone, the most nationalistically-inclined prime minister in its modern history, Japan’s government and its anti-militarist public did not move very far apart throughout the 1980s. The guiding spirit was to become a good citizen of the international economic system, especially when the United States was plagued by large double deficits (federal and trade) and apprehensive about its eventual decline. Two major noteworthy actions were taken to support this policy. One was the trade liberalisation package which enabled Japan to boast nearly zero tariffs on most manufactured goods; the other was the systematic action based on what was called the Maekawa Report, which enabled a huge amount of savings in the Japanese yen to flow to the United States and thus helped the United States economy to sustain its double deficits. This self-defined economic role had its internal drivers as well. Japan’s economic miracle had taken heavy blows from the two energy crises of the 1970s. Its vaunted developmental state started to wane also. But this was to some extent masked by the global context of economic troubles and the then somewhat exaggerated Soviet menace. Indeed, the latter helped to stiffen the backbone of the long, post-1955 Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) rule which had been able to rely on high economic growth and the equalisation of social policy dividends. This is why the right-wing LDP politician, Yasuhiro Nakasone, became the staunchest pro-United States prime minister since Shigeru Yoshida, prime minister at the time of the San Francisco Peace Treaty of 1951. When a country is trying to adapt to an uncertain terrain, you need to articulate an appealing national identity and role. 1990s: Japan as global civilian power The second phase of Japan’s search for a self-defined global role came with the end of the cold war. This gave a golden opportunity for anti-militarist states like Japan and Germany to propose their ideal role: that of a global civilian power. They renounce war; they are rich; they are eager to do some virtuous things to the rest of the world in ways that suit their constitutional and other frameworks yet are still compatible with the alliance with the United States. By the early 1990s, the use of strategic nuclear forces ceased to be a real possibility; the obsolescence of wars among major powers looked a fairly solid reality. At the same time, the dramatically increased salience of civil conflicts and ‘small’ wars meant that anti-militarist states still hesitated to play a role in areas like peacekeeping and economic reconstruction in post-conflict situations. However, with Boutros-Boutros Ghali leading the United Nations in the first half of the 1990s, Japan and Germany participated in the rising trend of worldwide civilian involvement in peacekeeping operations, refugee aid, food delivery and developmental assistance. Accordingly, domestic legislation was carried through to enable Japan to send military forces abroad for both peacekeeping and economic reconstruction purposes . Thus, 250 Self-Defence Forces (SDF) troops were sent to Cambodia for its peace-building and peacekeeping operations in 1991-1992, the first time to a region of south-east Asia where Japan’s past history had prevented the country from participating in United Nations peacekeeping operations. Though on a smaller scale, SDF troops were also sent to Namibia, Rwanda, the Golan Heights and some other places in the 1990s. In 1999, the largest contingent yet 750 Japanese troops was sent to East Timor for peacekeeping and economic construction. This time its peacekeeping operations were not only in Asia but, perhaps more significantly, shoulder-to-shoulder with other Asia troops, including the Korean peacekeeping force of equal size. All of these were of course based on United Nations resolutions. In all these operations, Japan’s priorities have been peacekeeping after a ceasefire, and economic reconstruction. The key concept guiding Japanese participation is human security with an emphasis on health, food, education, water, energy, communication, transportation on the basis of law and order secured after an end to armed hostilities. This global civilian power concept suited Japan’s domestic politics as well. The end of the cold war increased the pacifist expectation that the world beyond the cold war might be a world without military alliances and that an enhanced United Nations, with Japan included as a permanent member of an enlarged Security Council, would invigorate its global role. Since neither of these expectations proved easy to fulfil, the concept of a global civilian power turned out to be a serendipitous helping hand. At home, the 38-year long Liberal Democratic rule came to an end in 1993. A Social Democratic prime minister, Tomiichi Murayama, came to office courtesy of a coalition with the Liberal Democratic Party; Murayama’s party naturally and enthusiastically rode on the concept. It’s an irony that it was this Social Democratic prime minister who had to undertake a difficult alliance adjustment when confronted by the Korean crisis of 1993-1994 and the Taiwan Strait crisis of 1995-1996. The Japan-United States defence cooperation guideline was drawn up precisely to tackle security crises of this kind. 2001 on: Japan as global power for justice The third phase in Japan’s search for a self-defined global role opened with 11 September 2001. In its aftermath, Japan joined those partners willing to combat a form of terrorism widely-spread and of an unprecedented scale and nature . This new role is very significant in Japan’s evolving conception because it combines the element of justice with the element of order. The previously self-defined roles of a systemic supporter and a global civilian power each took for granted an international system led by the United States. To help sustain it was considered as Japan’s priority; within that, its choice was merely to extend more help or less help. But after 9/11, Japan had to choose between two opposing options: join the United States-led anti-terrorist front or stick to the less coercive action against terrorism sanctioned by the United Nations. Needless to say, Japan has continuously reinforced in practice the values and norms it shares with the United States, the Group of Eight (G8) countries and broadly the west as a whole whenever it carries out international action. But it is important to emphasise the fact that, this time, Japan has to choose which action carries more justice and less evil. Thus, judgment about justice entered the vocabulary of Japanese diplomacy on a fuller and more explicit scale than ever before. This of course constitutes part of what John Vincent calls the ‘diplomacy of justice’; but it represents also an unmistakable departure from those days when a Japanese political leader could be ridiculed as in the case of a notorious remark by Charles de Gaulle as ‘a transistor salesman’. Looked at from inside, Japan’s new self-defined role as a willing partner suits the pervasive mood in Japan that one of its neighbours, North Korea, is indeed a member of the ‘axis of evil’ a state which has engaged in the (now admitted) development of nuclear weapons and missiles, the illicit trade of weapons and drugs, and the abductions of Japanese citizens. Although Japan does not want the United States to engineer a regime change in Pyongyang, as it did successively in Afghanistan and Iraq, Japan does want Pyongyang to stop what many consider uncivilised actions. While the majority of the Japanese public remains staunchly anti-militarist, the country cannot help but rely on the United States to coercively negotiate with Pyongyang to stop these uncivilised actions. Japan in a new global landscape Prime minister Junichiro Koizumi faces an election for the presidency of his Liberal Democratic Party in September 2003. The next general election is expected to take place in November. The two largest opposition parties, Democrats and Liberals, have recently agreed to merge their parties in an attempt to capture power from the LDP. The two major issues in the general election are likely to be the economy and policy towards the “axis of evil” countries North Korea, Iraq and Iran. The issue of manufacturing/manipulating intelligence to dramatically justify the Iraq war which has been haunting the United States and the United Kingdom governments has not yet seriously damaged the Japanese government. This is because to return to the point made at the outset Junichiro Koizumi’s statement supporting the war was couched only in the language of rejection of Iraq’s steadfast non-compliance with a series of United Nations resolutions since 1991; and this point was reinforced by the prime minister’s pledge to President Bush (made in May 2003 at Crawford, Texas) to restrict post-war assistance to Iraq’s economic reconstruction. Nevertheless, it is clear that with the war over Iraq and its painful aftermath, Japan has entered a divisive and unknown territory called justice in global politics. UP! I am the first president in US history to have all 50 states of the Union simultaneously go bankrupt. (BUSH’S RESUME FOR PRISON LIBRARIAN POSITION) BUSH FLEW ALL 4 FOOKIN PLANES HISSELF! Dear Fraser, I believe you have published a fictional statement concerning 9/11, viz. ”on September 11th, 2001, some furiously humiliated, frustrated, terribly abused & 'patriotic' Arabs struck back against their Tormenter to warn Him to change His ways and remove His troops back within His own borders OR ELSE (see bin Laden's tape at the time)." - and that in fact there was no 'bin Laden tape at the time that corroborated this.' If there was, then plainly the article I sent you for UP! a couple of weeks ago was erroneous. >> obviously i do not believe the picture you painted in your well researched article, nick. and, of course, i get sent a ton of such information. i checked it out in great detail at the time, but came to the conclusion that, in any event such as this, more ‘evidence’ will inevitably be produced as time passes... ad infinitum. a bit like Hesse’s Journey To The East if you’ve read it. the closer you examine ‘Reality’ the less it all adds up. remember the chaos theory one about What is The Circumference of Britain? the closer you peered the longer it got till you were manoeuvring round molecules of sand and its circumference was ‘infinite’! obviously i can’t and don’t rule out Conspiracy 1 Bush dunnit hisself, nor Conspiracy 2 he let it happen cos it suited the neo-con agenda, just as i hope you don’t reject how i see it. applying the ‘scientific’ method of making as few assumptions as poss, it’s 100% LIKELY to me that Arabs WANTED to do it and would eventually do it (my real surprise was that it took them so long), and, say, 50% max on the neo-cons. there’s something going on, culturally, in that many americans, no matter how ‘alternative’, have nevertheless had the full brainwash like everyone else, and seem to automatically assume that EVERYTHING is somehow based in the US. have no doubt there’ll be loadsa yanks who think they kicked off rave culture :) and i further guess that the ruling elite actually ENCOURAGE the view that they did it to themselves. why? because a) THE LAST THING THE NEO-CON XTIAN RIGHT WANTS IS FOR AMERICAN CITIZENS TO REALISE HOW BADLY THEIR POLITICAL ELITE HAVE BEEN AND ARE ABUSING THE REST OF THE WORLD TO KEEP THEM IN THEIR OBESITY, AND PARTICULARLY THE OIL-BEARING ARABS. b) as soon as a normal american citizen sees the claim that Bush flew all 4 fookin planes hisself they turn away from the ‘loony left’ and refuse to read any of the REAL stuff. (which is the LAST RESULT i wanna see from all this :) I don't mind you not printing it, but I hope I may just query this issue. So, can you kindly advise me how i can 'see' this bin Laden tape? I would be pleased to clap eyes on it. >> there have been several bin laden tapes, each less believable as u say. however nobody particularly disputed his first couple of tapes (this is long before the afghan invasion was even mentioned remember). what actually happened, however, was that most of our media didn’t publish the full transcript. the UP! did of course and u can check in the Archives on our site. he was very very clear that he wanted all satanic western forces out of the arab holy lands, and that there would be more trouble from “all good muslims” if they were not removed. the rest is HIStory, instead of HERstory of course :) In my view (the polar opposite of yours on this matter, which is interesting because I normally always agree with you) >> if we agree on 20 important things and disagree on 3 (and even then it’s really a question of how evil we believe our rulers actually are and how angry and desperate the muslims are) then we can still march together, right? :) the FBI did create a post-9/11 fictional tape as 'evidence' and what it said was extremely indistinct and the US translation given did not well correlate with what Arabs averred it seemed to be saying; and this was part of a wider pattern of the FBI creating absurd 'evidence' like Korans left in taxis and wills stowed in aircraft luggage left behind by 'the hijackers.' But I've only read this, I haven't seen any tape. >> it’s mega interesting that, since u emailed me, a new bin laden video has appeared :) i tend to believe it’s genuine. i believe the americans always try to spin confusion and doubt about them, but the arabs are so far managing fairly well in rocket-propelling a few word & image grenades here and there past our Information Defence Systems :) Best wishes, Nick K. / UK I am the first US president in history to have the people of South Korea more threatened by the US than by their immediate neighbour, North Korea. (BUSH’S RESUME FOR PRISON LIBRARIAN POSITION) ??GULF WAR II SYNDROME??!!! Special Forces veteran and brilliant writer Stan Goff describes another one of the lies and victimisation of US and British troops by an insane American government bent on eating its own. Only someone without a conscience could take heart from the fact that as many as 40% of the troops now serving in Iraq may be condemned to death or permanent disability - without benefits or honour. http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/091003_gw2_syndrome.html >> the alternative government (who?) should be promising full and decent treatment, hopefully based on court awards for “knowingly risking etc” UP! I cut health care benefits for war veterans. (BUSH’S RESUME FOR PRISON LIBRARIAN POSITION) \brdrdbENGLAND OKS RECREATIONAL MARIJUANA \brdrdbPOLICE WILL LET CANNABIS USERS OFF WITH WARNING Beginning January, under new British government plans, cannabis smokers with small amounts of cannabis for personal use need no longer fear being arrested. According to new guidelines issued yesterday by the Association of Chief Police Officers, users will receive a verbal warning on the street, the drug will be confiscated in a special sealed, signed container, and a record of the incident will be noted by officers. Such a warning will not constitute a criminal record. Cannabis will be downgraded to a Class C drug, although people smoking near schools and playgrounds will face arrest and have the herb confiscated. In the usual British cop-out (“Keep em guessing”) the new police guidelines do not specify what the personal limit is. Anyway, plans for a “3 strikes and you’re out” system for those repeatedly caught with the drug have been abandoned. UP! I set the record for most campaign fund raising trips by any president in US history. (BUSH’S RESUME FOR PRISON LIBRARIAN POSITION) U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U UP P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P
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