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Terror' p.02 Barack Obama for
President? I Dont Think So! p.03 THE GREAT TIME
TRAVEL EXPERIMENT! p.04 Cynicism Linked With Heart
Disease - more
proof of Goddess? p.05 p.09 in
memoriam The
Passing of Robert Anton Wilson p.10 The Top
9/11 Anomalies -
some of the most glaring anomalies p.12 FEEDBACK
readers on Biocosm UP! ATTORNEY: Is your appearance here this morning pursuant to a deposition
notice which I sent to your attorney? No, this is how I dress when I go to work. 'There Is NO War On Terror' - Director of The
Sir
Ken warned of the pernicious risk that a "fear-driven and
inappropriate" response
to the threat could lead He
acknowledged that the country faced a different and more dangerous threat than
in the days of IRA terrorism and that it had "all
the disturbing elements of a death cult psychology". But he
said: "It is critical that we understand that this new
form of terrorism carries another more subtle, perhaps equally pernicious,
risk. Because it might
encourage a fear-driven and inappropriate response. By that I mean it can tempt us to abandon our
values. I think
it important to understand that this is one of its primary purposes." The
director of the Crown Prosecution Service pointed to the rhetoric around the
"war on terror" - which has been adopted by Tony Blair and ministers
after being coined by George Bush - to illustrate the risks. He
said: " "The fight against terrorism on the
streets of Sir
Ken told members of the Criminal Bar Association it should be an article of
faith that crimes of terrorism are dealt with by criminal justice and
that a "culture of legislative restraint in the area of
terrorist crime is central to the existence of an efficient and human rights
compatible process. "We wouldn't get far in promoting a
civilising culture of respect for rights if we set about undermining fair
trials in the simple pursuit of greater numbers of inevitably less safe convictions.
On the contrary, it is obvious that the
process of winning convictions ought to be in keeping with a consensual rule of
law and not detached from it. Otherwise
we sacrifice fundamental values critical to the maintenance of the rule of law - upon which everything else
depends." Sir
Ken referred to the government's opt-out from the European convention on human
rights to pass the detention law - possible under the convention only if the "life
of the nation" is
threatened. Everyone here will come to
their own conclusion about whether, in the striking The
criminal justice response to terrorism must be "proportionate and grounded in due
process and the rule of law. We must
protect ourselves from these atrocious crimes without abandoning our traditions
of freedom." http://www.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,,1997246,00.html UP! ATTORNEY: This myasthenia gravis, does it affect your memory at
all? Yes. ATTORNEY: And in
what ways does it affect your memory? I forget. ATTORNEY: You forget? Can you give us an
example of something you forgot? (from Disorder in the American Courts, taken
down and now published by court reporters.) Barack Obama?
I Dont Think So! by Michael Donnelly All along Ive been amused by the Barack Obama spectacle. The very idea of a half-white But, since Obama
is now riding high, Ive been looking into various progressive analyses of
him. As usual, Counterpunchers lead
the pack. Alexander
Cockburn... >> remember him? the guy who wrote
about the 9/11 Nuts? called him Senator
Slither.
David Sirota has flat-out de-pantsed Obama in more than one
missive. Joshua Frank recently noted
that while Barack may not have much foreign policy
experience, he certainly is adept at parroting the pro-Israel/anti-Iran Meanwhile, Republican pollster and Ross Perot confidante Frank Luntz
fawningly calls Obama, the definition of the American Dream. Luntz notes that
conservatives like him because he is clean-cut and businesslike; moderates like
him because he is seen as a problem solver; and liberals like him because he is
multicultural. Anti-Imperialist
radicals? Well, we know better. http://www.counterpunch.org/donnelly01182007.html UP! ATTORNEY: This myasthenia gravis, does it affect your memory at all? Yes. ATTORNEY: And in what ways does it affect
your memory? I forget. ATTORNEY: You
forget? Can you give us an example of something you forgot? What Is Anarchism? Starting
off a series of meetings on anarchist theory, the @ http://www.eventsandissues.bravehost.com/ UP! ATTORNEY: Doctor, how many of your autopsies have you performed on dead
people? All my autopsies are performed on dead people. FRI
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or www.accessallareas.org UP! ATTORNEY: So the date of conception (of the baby) was August 8th? Yes. ATTORNEY: And what were you doing at that
time? Uh.... Cynicism
Linked With Heart Disease more
proof of goddess? Being
cynical can increase the risk of heart disease, US researchers claim. A study of 6,814 people found that cynical
distrust was associated with signs
of inflammation which in turn increase the risk of heart disease. The Archives of Internal Medicine study
suggests cynical people are more likely to lead unhealthy
lifestyles. Researchers
from the The
strongest and most consistent associations were observed for cynical distrust, which was positively associated with all 3 inflammatory
markers. They
also took blood samples from participants aged 45 - 84 years, which were
analysed for 3 markers of inflammation - fibrinogen, C-reactive protein, and IL-6. Higher
levels of cynical distrust were associated with higher levels of all 3
inflammatory markers. Inflammation Previous
studies have reported links between psychosocial factors such as stress and
cardiovascular disease. However, the
reason for this is unclear. Inflammation is
an important pathway in the development of atherosclerosis
- a process where the arteries become narrow and hardened, blocking blood flow
- and in heart attacks and strokes. When
Dr Ranjit and colleagues analysed the findings in
more detail they found that much of the increase in inflammatory markers was
linked to unhealthy lifestyle factors, such as obesity and smoking. They concluded that cynical people
might be more likely to indulge in unhealthy
behaviour, and that it was this that could explain their higher
risk of heart disease. Vicky
Styman, a cardiac nurse at the British Heart Foundation, said there was insufficient evidence to
say that emotion was a significant risk factor for heart disease. "As the authors of this study acknowledge,
psychological factors such as stress can often lead to unhealthy behaviours,
including smoking, eating an unhealthy diet and physical inactivity - all of
which are established risk factors for heart disease." http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/health/6289847.stm UP! ATTORNEY: Now doctor, isn't it true that when a person dies in his
sleep, he doesn't know about it until the next morning? Did
you actually pass the bar exam? Remains of Village Found Near Archaeologists have uncovered what may have been a
village for workers or festival-goers near the stone circle Eight houses have been excavated and the
researchers believe there were at least 25 of them, archaeologist Mike Parker
Pearson said Tuesday at a briefing held by the National Geographic Society. The village was carbon dated to about 2600 B.C., about the same time The small wooden houses had a central hearth, he
said, and are almost identical to stone houses built at about the same time in
the Parker Pearson said remains of stone tools, animal
bones, arrowheads and other artefacts were uncovered in the village. Remains of pigs indicated they were about nine
months old when killed, which would mark a midwinter festival, he said. Parker Pearson said [Associated Press] UP! MAGISTRATE: Now, Mr O-Reilly, do
you have anything to say before I pass sentence? Yes,
yer honour: Beam me up, Scotty. (from
a newspaper report fraser read ) Cost of The steadily rising http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/012007A.shtml UP! ATTORNEY: What is your date of birth? July
18th. ATTORNEY: What year? Every year. (from Disorder
in the American Courts,
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Fades in as by Jacob
Wheeler For decades, the cosy if not somewhat
provincial city of The christianitter don't pay taxes directly to the
Danish government, instead contributing into a common But Grass can still be purchased in
Christiania, but now the transactions take place under a cloud of
paranoia. At any given time, a patrol
of aggressive police officers may march into the free town and search or pat
down whomever they choose, even tourists.
Before Now the right-of-centre Danish
government is pushing harder than ever to normalise "I
applaud the Christianites' decision to clean up the
area themselves," says
minister of justice Lene Espersen,
a member of the right-of-centre Conservative Party currently in power. "But the government's stance has not changed. We want to see The Palaces and Properties Agency under
the auspices of the Ministry of Finance has drawn up a plan that would replace the free town with modern
condominiums and expensive apartments, which would help relieve Perhaps more telling is how A Tough Year
for The allusions to the Muhammad cartoon
crisis in Queen Margrethe's annual New Year's Eve
speech to the nation were not so subtle.
Her words hit home for a population still baffled by the images that
flashed across their television screens last year as thousands of enraged
Muslims burned Danish flags and embassies after the conservative paper Jyllands-Posten published several offensive depictions of
the prophet the previous fall. "How
can they hate us," But things have changed in cosy Some aspects of its culture have begun
to mirror the Needless to say, this globalisation and
capitalisation of Danish culture doesn't bode well for "A
place like >> except
Two underlining Danish traits allowed "Tolerance
is something you always connect with If recent events are any indication,
however, Danes are no longer conflict shy. The provocative cartoons printed in Jyllands-Posten, for instance, were an attempt to
facilitate debate among the 100,000 or so Muslims living in Christiania, too, may suffer from the
country's newfound aggressiveness. "The
conservative governments are carrying out populist measures," Torp says. "Citizens are concerned about issues like crime and drugs,
so that's what the politicians and the police are addressing." A Paradox Francesco and Luther sit on milk crates
in front of an ecological bakery on a sunny Tuesday. One tickles notes on the saxophone while the
other puffs on marijuana joint. Then
they switch. "Some
people call my music jazz, some call it blues or soul. I say it's just free. Francesco's story is not as smooth. He left home at 15 and drifted around until
he found Or at least it used to. Michel, a Swede who has lived here since
1988, admits that this onetime socialist paradise has become a paradox.
Drifters can no longer settle in the free town because it has filled up,
he says. "I
was lucky, I got a resident card because I told them I was seeking 'humanitarian asylum from the
outside world!' " Settlers in the early days built their
own houses in A Danish documentary filmmaker hammered
home that point recently when he turned up unannounced and began building a
wooden hut in a vacant area of the free town, just to see what would
happen. Sure enough, an aggressive
pusher cornered him immediately and threatened to beat him up if the experiment
didn't stop. More Than Just Drugs But lost amid the cloud of North African
hashish smoke is the reality that To me, a Danish-American who was born in
They met at Spiseloppen
- probably When my parents visited There's plenty more entertainment for
the visitor who doesn't want to fill his lungs with cannabis. Duck into the Children's Theatre jazz club on
a Tuesday or Thursday night and you'll find the mood mellow and inspiring. Bring your own instrument, and you'll avoid
paying the $5 cover charge. If you're
there in December, visit the charming Christmas Market in the massive Grey
Hall, which has been painted over with rainbows since the squatters moved
in. A stone's throw away is the communal
bathhouse where both christianitter and outsiders
sauna together, some caking their bodies in soothing Turkish mud, before they
visit the eclectic and inexpensive vegetarian restaurant Morgenstedet
across the dirt path. IF YOU GO: The UP! ATTORNEY: The youngest son, the twenty-year-old, how old is he? Uh,
he's twenty. You Receive What They Believe You Deserve The global government
movement was designed by the wealthiest men in
our world. It
was designed to support their corporations,
their foundations, their opinions, and the continuance of their family dynasties. It was designed to merge
their corporate powers with and into governmental powers. It was designed to
hand themselves total control of the worlds wealth, which means land. They achieved their missions, first and
foremost, by capturing financial control of research and
development, and they did so by funding research and
development via their corporate foundations. They also created the United Nations. They created private clubs that could operate
in secret, like the Council
on Foreign Relations, the Bilderberg Group, the Trilateral Commission, etc., and they also created
training grounds for future comrades via the secret societies inside their Ivy
League universities. The lives and perks of such people are
beyond what commoners can imagine.
The power/money at their disposal are, frankly,
beyond
our comprehension.
It is, in fact, mostly impossible for commoners to believe. Hence, the current state of their global
affairs exists. Our freedom is no
more than a figment of our imaginations and truly an untruth. We have no freedom. It is, in fact, nonexistent. >> this
is, technically, only true within the very narrow definition of Reality which
the author is describing. i am free to
sing in the morning (tho not too loud), to meditate, to be more noble in my
dealings with my friend, i am able to observe myself and learn to free myself
from my negative conditioning. indeed, our ONLY human right is THE RIGHT
NOT TO BE NEGATIVE. take the buddha.
did the king (name now long forgotten) even know about this bunch of plump monks in
a field somewhere? and
yet they have turned out to be the REAL makers of History :) Politicians are no longer
politicians. They work for the worlds
elite and represent no common man or country. They are highly paid brainwashers, visioning facilitators, deceivers, liars, and thieves. We are forced to pay their salaries. We are forced to fund all global governance
initiatives, which literally stole the wealth, property, savings, and security
of every commoner on the planet. The wealth that was amassed in the last 3 decades by these criminals
truly is beyond comprehension literally beyond the
comprehension of common people. We live
in unfathomable states of ignorance. We
have been robbed blind, yet we still cant acknowledge the theft of our money,
livelihoods, children, potential, nation, and future. UP! ATTORNEY: Are you sexually active?
No, I just lie there. (from Disorder
in the American Courts,
taken down and now published by court reporters.) in
memoriam The Passing of
Robert Anton Wilson ROBERT ANTON WILSON, one of the truly great minds of our time, passed on January 11. He was co-author, with Robert Shea, of
the underground classic The Illuminatus! Trilogy, which won the 1986 Prometheus Hall of Fame Award. His other writings
included Schrodinger's
Cat Trilogy, called "the most scientific of all science fiction
novels," by New Scientist, and several
non-fiction works of Futurist psychology and guerrilla ontology, such as Prometheus Rising and The New Inquisition. Wilson, who saw himself as a Futurist, author, and stand-up comic,
regularly gave seminars at Esalen, The Prophets
Conference, and other New Age watering spots. He had made both a comedy record (Secrets of Power) and a punk rock record (The Chocolate Biscuit Conspiracy),
and his play Wilhelm
Reich in Hell was performed at the >> i
believe this was directed by Ken Campbell, of Warp fame. Robert Anton Wilson was also a former
editor at Playboy magazine. Robert
Anton Wilson is a dazzling barker hawking tickets to the most thrilling
tilt-a-whirls and daring loop-o-planes of the midway of higher consciousness. Tom Robbins, author Even Cowgirls Get the Blues. "What
great physicist hides behind the mask of >> he
certainly lurked, but he didnt hide! "One
Of The Leading Thinkers Of The Modern Age..." Barbara Marx
Hubbard. "Hilarious...multi-dimensional..."
UP! ATTORNEY: What gear were you in at the moment of the impact? Gucci sweats and Reeboks. (from Disorder
in the American Courts,
taken down and now published by court reporters.) (\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)
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more glaring anomalies, making no attempt to be comprehensive. Indications of Foreknowledge Pre-attack put-option surges anticipated post-attack
stock declines. Put/call ratios on American Airlines and United Airlines stock increased five-fold and
twenty-fold. High officials avoided the attack targets. John Ashcroft stopped flying on commercial flights. Salman Rushdie, Willie Brown, and Pentagon officials were warned not to fly on
the eve of the attack. On The World Trade Center and Pentagon were anticipated terrorist targets. War game scenarios targeted the WTC and Pentagon. The use of jet-liners as weapons was anticipated. Military's Non-Response The official story posits a long series of
improbable failures. The official time-lines blame the FAA for
inexplicably long delays in notifying the military, after originally claiming
to have been notified sooner but without specific locations. Jets were not scrambled from nearest bases. Jets in the air were not vectored to intercept
jet-liners. According to NORAD and
9/11 Commission time-lines, military jets flew at
small fractions of their top speeds. Claims that hijacked jet-liners couldn't be tracked
contrasts with ability of the FAA to land over 4000 aircraft at
different destinations in 2 hours. At least 4 simultaneous war game exercises were
being conducted on The NRO exercise involved a
plane-crash-into-building scenario. Operations Vigilant
Warrior and Vigilant Guardian used scenarios involving hijacked
passenger planes. After presiding over the worst air defence failure
in Pentagon Attack Anomalies The Pentagon was left undefended until after being
hit at The Pentagon should be the best-defended building
in the world. The Pentagon was hit more than 80 minutes into the
attack. It is just 10 miles from Andrews Air Force Base. Cheney watched the attack plane approach from 50
miles out. The attack targeted Wedge 1 of Pentagon's west wing.
Wedge 1 was sparsely occupied, nearing completion of
renovation. Wedge 1 was the only one that had blast-hardened
walls. The top brass was in the opposite side of the Pentagon. The alleged suicide pilots lacked the requisite piloting
skills. The attack manoeuvre required extreme piloting
skill. None of the alleged hijackers had flown jets. Hani Hanjour, alleged pilot of
Flight 77, was a notoriously bad pilot. Total Collapse of Is the only case of total collapse of large
steel-framed high-rise building blamed on fire. The collapse had all of the features of a controlled
demolition implosion. It fell straight down with precise radial symmetry. Its rapid fall was within 10% of gravitational
free-fall speed. It collapsed into a tidy rubble pile mostly within
the block that the building occupied. Total Destruction of the Symmetry and thoroughness of
destruction rules out natural processes. Dozens of fire-fighters described explosions and
likened the falls of the Towers to controlled demolitions. Exhibited main features of controlled demolitions. The destruction was total, leaving no parts of the
Towers intact. The falls began precipitously after loud explosions were heard. Energetic jets of gas and dust emerged from the
facade. Destruction of Towers was more thorough than
conventional demolitions. The explosions of Towers were up to 800 feet in
diameter. The rubble was shards of metal and dust. More than 1000 bodies were "vaporised". Extreme temperatures persisted in the rubble for 3
months. Suppression and Destruction of Evidence The Controlled Demolition Inc's plan for recycling steel was
submitted 11 days after the attack, and approved. Most of the steel was shipped to Investigators were barred from the crime scene, and
saw little of the steel. None of the contents of the 8 black boxes from the hijacked jet-liners has been released. Scores of videos from around Pentagon were
confiscated and never released. The NTSB was not allowed to investigate
crashes. Overt Omissions in Official Reports The 9/11
Commission made hundreds of glaring
omissions. The Report makes no mention of Building 7. It called the structural cores of It did not mention the privatisation of the NIST avoided the core issue of the 'collapses'. It did not consider events beyond when the Towers
were "poised for collapse." It did not demonstrate that computer models
predicted "collapse initiation." UP! ATTORNEY: What was the first thing your husband said to you that
morning? He said, "Where am I, Cathy?" ATTORNEY: And why did that upset you? My name is Susan. FEEDBACK readers on Biocosm >>>> Not Enough Time >>>> The second number that points to
God comes from the field of biology.
William Dembski, in The
Creation Hypothesis, suggests the following argument. 10301 mutations is a number far beyond the capacity
of the universe to generate. Even if
every particle in the universe mutated at the fastest possible rate and had
done so since the Big Bang, there still would not be enough mutations. >> now didnt you
know that in your heart of hearts? i did. There are about 1080 elementary particles in the
universe. The fastest they could mutate
would be Planck time, or 10-42 seconds.
Planck time is the smallest unit of time and can be approximated as the
time it would take two photons travelling at 186,000 miles per second to pass
each other. If all 1080 particles in the
universe had been mutating at the fastest possible rate (1042) since the Big
Bang about 15 billion years ago, it would produce 1080 x 1042 x 1017 or 10139
mutations. But to have a chance at even
1,000 beneficial mutations takes 10301 tries.
Thus, the chance of getting 1,000 beneficial mutations out of all the
mutations the universe can generate is 10139 divided by 10301, or 1 chance in
10162. Hey Fraser, what happened to your normal critical faculties during this
piece of nonsense? You normally point
out obvious non-sequiturs and misleading information. This drivel is the worst kind of Xtian
obscurantism, using loads of mighty sounding pseudo-science to con believers into
a sense of false security, saving them the trouble of doing any difficult thinking. The kind of mutations ( to
fundamental particles) he speaks of just ARENT the same mutations (biological)
that >> sure.
but why not?!
why fight the evidence? He even quotes Paley, for chrissake, an ignorant Victorian upper class
twit who thought the lower classes needs his brand of simplistic lofty
teaching This crazy guy is misusing
science, argument and , indeed, theology.
As his kind believe it all happened in 6 days a few thousand years ago,
his large number probably does equate to the age of the real universe! Im glad that you feel free to publish from across the whole spectrum of
views in UP, but the lack of critical comment from yourself in this piece is
baffling unless you thought it was so patently idiotic that it didnt need
pointing out. The evidence is that change happens rapidly in very short time, there is
no change in the fossil record for millennia, then sudden and almost total
changes. This was the view of the late
Steven J. Gould, not the latter day evolution evangelists like Dawkins and
co. Teilhard de Chardin,
a scholar both in biological AND spiritual evolution, accepted Darwinism as far
as it went, but saw it, not as the whole answer, but as part of a greater
spiritual unfolding of the Universe.
Even though he was a Jesuit priest he didnt fall back on some infantile
creation story, but had insights into a far greater unfolding of the Universe,
including its essential spiritual aspect.
We dont really know what happened and why. Great, I love mystery, and will commit
suicide when the last mystery is solved ( Im on a
safe bet here though). Dawkins and co
dont know, neither do the creation lobby, a plague on both their houses. Metta, Jeff Lewis, Exmouth, up! One of the very best books about the new scientific paradigm regarding
intelligent vs. accidental design is Ervin Laszlo's Science and the
Akashic Field. Eminently
readable for the lays, too. Mutationally yours, Mr. T, Paris. up! "The universe is a machine for
making Gods. Henri Bergson. up! Hi Fraser, >> If all 1080 particles in the
universe had been mutating at the fastest possible rate (1042) since the Big
Bang about 15 billion years ago, it would produce 1080 x 1042 x 1017 or 10139
mutations. Someone needs to put new batteries in
their calculator. That sum actually
makes 1,144,491,120. Perhaps they meant
10 to the power of 42 and there's a typo?
Either way, the maths is highly suspect.
Where does the 1017 figure come from?
15 billion years is a hell of a lot of Planck time, if one Planck time
is a teeny tiny fraction of a second. >> Thus, the chance of getting
1,000 beneficial mutations out of all the mutations the universe can generate
is 10139 divided by 10301, or 1 chance in 10162. I'm not even going to go there >> For I'd like to see the sum for that one. >> Because the universe is so
young, I wouldn't call 15 billion years young,
and I'm not aware that I have no problem with you advancing a
theological argument for the existence of design in the universe, but please
don't use arithmetic or statistics to back it up, unless you're prepared to
show your working, see me after class.
:D Cheers! Daniel James, UP! ATTORNEY:
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