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TURN ON COMPUTER // TUNE IN TO FREED SPIRIT OF INTERNET // TAKE OVER! (\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/) u cant understand the world without innerstanding yourself UP! 224// feb 23, 2005 la- la- la- lap-toppling da system! u cant innerstand yourself without understanding the world (\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/) contents p.02 Scott Ritter Says US Will Attack Iran In June p.06 Ecstasy Trials For .Combat Stress. p.08 The Gathering Storm - .Mini-Guantanamo. for activists - SCOTLAND PREPARES FOR 2 WEEKS OF MAYHEM AS G8 SUMMIT LANDS ON GLENEAGLES p.12 Red Ken Must Go NOT// FEEDBACK p.20 STONEHENGE FOREVER//FEEDBACK p.22 Blackshirts Stole Our Children - ROCK ISN.T ONLY DEAD, IT.S BECOME THE LIVING DEAD! UP! To listen to the bbc and other media, you'd think the bush war has turned some kinda corner with the .election. in iraq. Wake UP! it.s getting worse! Didn.t we all know they.d pump up the whole thing as .legal. after they.d staged their so-called .election.? and now bush is over in europe trying to buy up everyone in sight. Scott Ritter Says US Will Attack Iran In June by Mark Jensen Scott Ritter delivered two shocking bombshells in a talk to a packed house in Olympia's Capitol Theater in Washington State at the weekend. The ex-Marine turned UNSCOM weapons inspector said that >> well, surprise, surprise!! The principal theme of Scott Ritter's talk was Americans' duty to protect the U.S. Constitution by taking action to bring an end to the illegal war in Iraq. But in passing, he stunned his listeners with the two pronouncements. Iran The purported goal for the planned aerial attack is the destruction of Iran's alleged program to develop nuclear weapons. However, said Ritter, neoconservatives in the administration also expected the attack would set in motion a chain of events leading to regime change in the oil-rich nation of 70 million - a possibility Ritter regards with the greatest scepticism. Iraq Elections Called by Bush "a milestone in the advance of freedom in Iraq," the former Marine said they were not so free after all. U.S. authorities, he said, had manipulated the results to reduce the United Iraqi Alliance.s percentage from 56% to 48%. >>no, no, this can.t be true! manipulate elections, naw, they wouldn.t even know HOW to do it! His source, he said, was an official involved in the manipulation, and it would soon be reported by a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist in a major metropolitan magazine - an obvious allusion to New Yorker reporter Seymour M. Hersh. In January the New Yorker posted an article by Hersh entitled The Coming Wars (New Yorker, JAN 24, 2005) in which he claimed that the Bush administration.s .next strategic target is Iran." Hersh also reported that "The Administration has been conducting secret reconnaissance missions inside Iran at least since last summer. & Defense Department civilians, under the leadership of Douglas Feith, have been working with Israeli planners and consultants to develop and refine potential nuclear, chemical-weapons, and missile targets inside Iran. & Strategists at the headquarters of the U.S. Central Command, in Tampa, Florida, have been asked to revise the military's war plan, providing for a maximum ground and air invasion of Iran. & The hawks in the Administration believe that it will soon become clear that the Europeans' negotiated approach [to Iran] cannot succeed, and that at that time the Administration will act." Although the peace movement failed to stop the war in Iraq, Scott Ritter said it had a chance to stop its expansion to other nations like Iran and Syria. He held up the spectre of a day when the Iraq war might be remembered as a relatively minor event that preceded an even greater conflagration. Before Ritter spoke, Dahr Jamail narrated a slide show of 100 vivid photographs taken in Iraq, mostly by himself in Fallujah. Many showed the horrific slaughter of civilians. Jamail was, until recently, one of the few independent, unembedded journalists in Iraq. His reports have gained a substantial following and are available online at dahrjamailiraq UP! chester SUN FEB 27 politika @alexander's This month.s hosts: Chester Stop the War Coalition Cool laid-back ambient tunes & images to match by Cloud Temple // Steve Culshaw (Ombaba) - Spiritual Mantras for Peace // Chester Poets // Guest Speaker on 'Iraq' followed by a roving mike discussion // Graham Bellinger from Roots Chords // Pythagoras and the Theorems - an improvisation/experimental session from Chester's most avant garde band! +stall+round table+raffle+campaign announcements www.alexandersjazz.com UP! Gwynne Dyer isn.t exactly a wimp. Not many guys from Newfoundland are. Born during World War II, he.s been fascinated by things military all his life, and has served in three navies . America.s, Canada.s and Great Britain.s. He has university degrees from all three countries too, and a Ph.D. in military and Middle Eastern history. And here.s what he says about what America is doing: .The United States needs to lose the war in Iraq as soon as possible. Even more urgently, the whole world needs the United States to lose the war in Iraq. What is at stake now is the way we run the world for the next generation or more, and really bad things will happen if we get it wrong.. Those are the opening lines of his latest and perhaps most important book, Future Tense: The Coming World Order (paperback, McClelland and Stewart, $12.95). If you plan on reading only one book this year, make this the one. In perfectly clear prose, with arguments as well-researched as they are compelling, this military expert explains why what America is doing is mad. He explains how Americans haven.t grasped that the world has changed, that they aren.t living in their old superpower world anymore, one in which they.re the leader of the forces of light against the evil dark powers of communism. Nor are they, in fact, even a military superpower in the way they like to think they are; in reality, their military machine can only be used against very weak countries. As he notes, .War with a serious opponent would lead to a level of American casualties that the U.S. public would not tolerate for long.. What the world needs most in the long run (if there.s to be a long run), he reminds us, is a stable international order in which all nations gradually work on abandoning war as an acceptable way of settling differences. Dyer isn.t starry-eyed about this; he thinks it will take 100 years at least to get major countries to stop resorting to war, .for it is trying to change international habits that have had at least 5,000 years to take root.. >>much longer. it goes back to when they first turned away from mushroom worship. That, he reminds us, is the whole purpose of the United Nations, which America played the major role in starting exactly 60 years ago this spring. Yes, Americans have resorted to war before, as have other countries, but they always at least pretended what they were doing was legally justified by international standards. Now, however, the current administration is essentially spitting on this, and openly proclaiming their right to intervene unilaterally anywhere they want. Why is that so bad? Because others will do it too, >> Russia and Iran, and Syria. Russia and China. China and North Korea. Venezuela and Cuba. and, eventually, it will break down even the ideal of an international order, causing a general return to .the old world of alliances, arms races and all the other old baggage.. Dyer writes, .No other major power wants to abandon the project to outlaw war & but if the world.s greatest power becomes a rogue state, they won.t have much choice.. Some days, it appears like America has already crossed the line. Interestingly, if that happens, America may not be able to afford to be a rogue state for very long. In what.s surely the most telling and terrifying part of this book, the author takes on the most frightening topic of all . the real condition of the American economy, which is now totally dependent on foreign investment. You.d scarcely know it from the .mainstream media,. but America is now the biggest debtor nation in history, owing far more to foreign countries than they do to it, and running up $500 billion more on their .credit card. every year. Why does this go on? Dyer argues what other economists have only said in whispers: .The U.S. economy is a confidence trick based on everybody else.s perception that the United States is centrally important for the world.s security and that its economy is centrally important for the world economy.. That was absolutely true in 1945, largely true even in 1985, but not anymore. If you look at only those foreign investments that could be liquidated fairly quickly, the total, he estimates, would come to about $8 trillion. If those investments started to move elsewhere, the value of the dollar could be cut in half, Dyer estimates, overnight. That would more than likely lead to the end of democracy as we know it. Which would be especially unfortunate since, as he notes, .global warming and other environmental problems are going to hit us very hard over the next 50 years.. .How fast they hit and how great the resulting upheavals will be cannot be known in advance, but very few people apart from the usual suspects in the United States any longer doubt that climate change is a reality.. http://207.44.245.159/article8077.htm UP! ON THE UP! THIS YEAR KEEP AN EYE OUT for a certain Mr JONNY FOX (or uncertain since he.s been genetically altered to be half man). Now that the hunting ban has come into force he.s going from strength to strength. This long-hunted, semi-crazed Man-Fox Rebel creation is the mind-child of none other than long term //YOU co creator - Martin Wood, affectionately known as Scuba, Scooby or - under protest - SCOOPA POOPA! The co-artist/designer behind EPi, evolution^, the SHAMANARCHY EXPERIMENT, and show director @ both MEGATripolis and the Warp Experience, Scooby is back with a (foxy) vengeance. It.s great to see that, backed by the other gaiagasm crew, he.s still up to his old tricks with solar festival promotion (check them on www.gaiagasm.com) Our Rebel Vermin Dog has come a long way since its cameo appearance on the first epic WARP EXPERIENCE flyer. Dig it out of your collection! And who could forget the evil Lord Prendaghast chasing Jonny Fox through the Drome.s psychedelic corridors, whip in hand, in the wee wee hours of the morning long after exhausted surrealism had settled over the denizens? .Mummy, why is that Lord man chasing that Fox Man?. .He wants to bring back Man Hunting, darling, just eat up your philosophers stones.. From its debut performance in The Experimental Campus at the WARP EXPERIENCE - this warts-and- all DIY production has evolved into a tight half-hour short film - with the Green Angel players. And now, with a children.s book and comic in the pipeline and rumours of feature-film interest from the US, THE YEAR THEY STOPPED FOX HUNTING could very well be Jonny Fox.s year! .Jonny Fox - a Mummers Tail. is presently doing the rounds on the underground circuit - most recently seen at Circle Community.s Imbolc night. UP! *************** WEEK OF FEBRUARY 23 - MARCH 1**************** ALL NOT FAIR IN LOVE AND WAR Tonight.s Full Moon is about purification and service - but through relationships. Make sure your partnerships are clear, and fair, and that everybody has their place in the sun. Commit yourself. And apply the Golden Rule. This endeavour can keep us busy for the week. For more, see ******************************************************************************* UP! Earth Hit By Brightest Galactic Flash Ever Detected - from a magnetar no bigger than a city 300,000 trillion miles away! by Robert Roy Britt / Senior Science Writer A huge explosion halfway across the galaxy packed so much power it briefly altered Earth's upper atmosphere in December, astronomers said Friday. No known eruption beyond our solar system has ever appeared as bright upon arrival. Invisible to our eyes, in gamma rays the event equalled the brightness of the full Moon's reflected visible light. The blast originated about 50,000 light-years away and was detected Dec. 27. A light-year is the distance light travels in a year, 6 trillion miles. The commotion was caused by a special variety of neutron star known as a magnetar. These fast-spinning, compact stellar corpses -- no larger than a big city -- create intense magnetic fields that trigger explosions. The blast was 100 times more powerful than any other similar eruption witnessed, said David Palmer of Los Alamos National Laboratory, one of several researchers around the world who monitored the event with various telescopes. Tsunami Connection? Scientists have made no such connection. The blast affected Earth's ionosphere, which is routinely affected to a greater extent by changes in solar activity it sez .ere. "Had this happened within 10 light-years of us, it would have severely damaged our atmosphere and possibly have triggered a mass extinction," said Bryan Gaensler of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CIA). http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/bright_flash_050218.html UP! Ecstasy Trials For .Combat Stress. >> ever get the feeling? American soldiers traumatised by fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan are to be offered the drug ecstasy to help free them of flashbacks and recurring nightmares. >> it.s a safe bet that anyone else traumatised by the psychopathic killing could benefit too. and no doubt AMIRAQA will soon have the heavies dope penalties on the planet, right? u like AMIRAQA, eh? just made it UP! The US food and drug administration has given the go-ahead for the soldiers to be included in an experiment to see if MDMA, the active ingredient in ecstasy, can treat post-traumatic stress disorder. Scientists behind the trial in South Carolina think the feelings of emotional closeness reported by those taking the drug could help the soldiers talk about their experiences to therapists. Several victims of rape and sexual abuse with post-traumatic stress disorder, for whom existing treatments are ineffective, have been given MDMA since the research began last year. >> but if you.re perfectly sane and healthy it.s a different matter. why? puritan anti-pleasure? Michael Mithoefer, the psychiatrist leading the trial, said: "It's looking very promising. It's too early to draw any conclusions but in these treatment-resistant people so far the results are encouraging. People are able to connect more deeply on an emotional level with the fact they are safe now." He is about to advertise for war veterans who fought in the last 5 years to join the study. The US national centre for post-traumatic stress disorder says up to 30% of combat veterans suffer from post stress disorder at some point in their lives. Known as shell shock during the first world war and combat fatigue in the second, the condition is characterised by intrusive memories, panic attacks and the avoidance of situations which might force sufferers to relive their wartime experiences. Dr Mithoefer said the MDMA helped people discuss traumatic situations without triggering anxiety. >> u heard it! the doctor says take this E it.ll help to you look at your fears with equanimity. "It appears to act as a catalyst to help people move through whatever's been blocking their success in therapy." >> hope u.re taking notes. be sue and tell your friends. The existing drug-assisted therapy sessions last up to 8 hours, during which music is played. >> read that again and& SMILE :) The patients swallow a capsule containing a placebo or 125mg of MDMA - about the same or a little more than a typical ecstasy tablet. Psychologists assess the patients before and after the trial to judge whether the drug has helped. The South Carolina study marks a resurgence of interest in the use of controlled psychedelic and hallucinogenic drugs. >> well, i never! Several studies in the US are planned or are under way to investigate whether MDMA, LSD and psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, can treat conditions ranging from obsessive compulsive disorder to anxiety in terminal cancer patients. >> also cynicism, greed, selfishness, pride, atheism, xtianity and other fundamentalisms, while unknotting the genetically modified competition gene. ask your doctor for some! UP! Israel Again! And Again! A large group of academic Jews all over the world believe that Arafat was assassinated in France by a conspiracy between the USA, Israel and, probably, France itself. The Jewish academic talking group ALEF (Academic Left) is full of it. The same conspiracy theory includes the assassinated former prime minister of Lebanon, Rafik Harari. up! al-Hariri.s Last Press Statement ISSUED ON THE DAY OF HIS DEATH: .I am a believer in the Taif Accord. When opposition figures tried to move beyond this accord I interfered and asked them to stick to it. We are most keen on preserving relations with Syria and protecting its interests; this stems from our deeply rooted national and pan-Arab convictions.. Assafir, February 14, 2005. up! al-Hariri.s Assassination: Who Benefits? by Wafaa' Al-Natheema Never in the modern history of international politics and diplomacy has the ambassador of a country been withdrawn from another country within 48 hours of an assassination in a third country! Condoleezza Rice did just that when she announced the withdrawal of the American ambassador in Damascus after former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri.s assassination in Lebanaon. And without any kind of evidence! In the absence of evidence, the next best element is to examine motives; who does it serve best? While Syria has its history of political upheavals, and assassinations of leaders (like Kamal Jumblatt of Lebanon), it is not logical or even realistic to accuse Syria of being the orchestrator of Hariri's assassination. From the first hour of my learning of Rafiq Hariri's assassination, I knew the American government would accuse Syria. The USA games and propaganda have become fully memorised poems by me and by millions of people worldwide. The 3-year-old composed symphony of the "Axis of Evil" is being performed again! The Hariri assassination and the "Free Lebanon from Syria!" is its chorus! >> with the BBC and everyone singing in perfect harmony. On Monday, February 14, I called both Syrian and Lebanese embassies in DC requesting statements about the assassination. The Syrian embassy responded promptly via phone and email, and sent a statement within two hours of our request, condemning the killing of Hariri. Yet, we received nothing from the Lebanon embassy! The assassination is part of the plan to continue destablising the Arab world, to divide it and exploit its resources. No one in the Arab world would benefit from Mr. Hariri's assasination. Those who benefit from the instability and continued conflicts in Arab countries are the Israelis, the Americans and the Ahmed Chalabis of Lebanon! http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/7EFAB726-9014-495D-8939-187E68035462.ht UP! Iraq Faces 'Music For Pleasure' Ban Bin Laden Dun Ravin? Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, the 'moderate' Shia leader widely tipped as Iraq's next leader, is hoping to outlaw recreational music. He hopes to introduce Sharia law, with far reaching consequences for Iraqi society. >> well done, georgie, creating more fundamentalists! .Once he assumes control, chess will be forbidden, likewise women shaking hands with men," writes Richard Ingrams in the Observer. "Men will be forbidden to say their prayers while wearing earrings. Music will only be permitted 'if it is not for enjoyment'. 12 months previously Mohammed Fartusi, the mullah of Baghdad's biggest mosque al-Heqma, publicly branded discothèques 'symbols of western influence,' and also called for singing and dancing to be banned. SHARIA DRESS CODES: 'Women who do not comply with the strict rules of hijab (the veil) promote a contemptuous attitude towards themselves, becoming mere objects for men's pleasure. Moreover, such conduct causes a drop in the marriage rate. A woman with a pleasant appearance hinders other girls from finding a husband. It also makes the selection difficult for men. They will constantly think of a model who is beyond everybody.": Homa Darabi Foundation. http://www.homa.org/Details.asp?View=Detail&ContentID=2137352848&TOCID=2083225444 UP! The Gathering Storm SCOTLAND PREPARES FOR 2 WEEKS OF MAYHEM AS G8 SUMMIT LANDS ON EDINBURGH & GLENEAGLES .Mini-Guantanamo. for activists By Liam McDougall, Scottish Daily Herald/Home Affairs Editor SCOTLAND.S entire criminal justice network is preparing for two weeks of rioting and mayhem in July as hundreds of thousands of campaigners, including anarchist groups, mount a calendar of protests against the G8 summit. A Sunday Herald investigation can reveal that a raft of controversial measures are being put in place by police and the justiciary to cope with thousands of arrests in Edinburgh and Perthshire during the period when the leaders of the world.s eight industrialised nations come to Gleneagles. These include: ** Scrapping all trials at Edinburgh Sheriff Court for the first two weeks in July; ** Every criminal sheriff court in the capital, bar one, freed up to deal only with G8 custodies; ** Prosecutors and up to seven sheriffs put on standby to deal with G8 arrests in the capital; ** Plans to turn a former RAF base in Edinburgh into a .holding facility. for protesters awaiting trial; ** Teams of interpreters drafted into courts to deal with foreign suspects; ** Plans for special anti-terror stop-and-search powers around Gleneagles; l All police leave cancelled from the start of July for two weeks. The moves are the strongest indication yet that Scotland.s political leaders fear a repeat of riots that have marred previous G8 summits, such as in Genoa in 2001. Violence in the Italian city ended with one protester dead, more than 200 people injured and 250 arrested. Preparations by police and anarchist groups have been building as the meeting of world leaders . including Tony Blair, George Bush and Vladimir Putin . at the five-star Gleneagles Hotel draws nearer. >> 30 miles from where i went to school :) They will meet at the resort from July 6-8 , but anti-capitalists have planned a week-long protest leading up to the summit, including a Make Poverty History march, which is expected to attract 200,000 people to Edinburgh. Terrorism experts have warned that because of tight security around the hotel, Edinburgh and even Glasgow could become the focus of the most violent demonstrations. David Capitanchik, an expert formerly of Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, said the Scottish parliament at Holyrood would be a likely target. With only 40 cells available at St Leonard.s Police Station, the capital.s main holding police station, plans are under way to ensure Edinburgh has enough jail space to accommodate arrested anti-G8 activists. One option being examined is converting the former RAF Turnhouse base at Edinburgh Airport into a temporary prison. The base had been considered by the Home Office in 2002 as an .accommodation centre. for asylum seekers. Last night, human rights lawyers reacted with concern over plans for the special .holding facility., dubbed a .mini-Guantanamo. by activists. They were also angry at news that police chiefs were examining anti-terrorist legislation which would give officers extra powers to detain and question. http://www.sundayherald.com/47894 UP! (\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o the UP! is a global edutainment round-up, broadcast weekly to =[13,456]= Alternative// Activist// Zippy// Trance// New Age// Peace folks recommended to the Parallel YOUniversity// Megatripolis Dance Dept as "showing signs of life". 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The results were released yesterday by the Danish Research Centre for Organic Farming, which funded the study. It said: "In all cases where differences were observed there was a beneficial effect of the organically grown diet.." [The Guardian] UP! "The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side& .I have no taste for either poverty or honest labour, so writing is the only recourse left for me& I've always considered writing the most hateful kind of work. I suspect it's a bit like fucking, which is only fun for amateurs. 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