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i don’t know who advises the queen on her award of honours but at least two of her recent ones are, well, appalling.

sir salman rushdie and michael eavis cbe.

let’s deal with eavis first cos it’s simplest. he was honoured for “creating the world's greatest music festival."  excuse me?! 

he did not 'create' the Glastonbury Festival; he took it over from the hippy, andrew kerr, who had created & launched it on his farm.

nor was it a 'music' festival.  it was a gloriously successful hippy-style festival, destined to become the world's greatest edutainment fair until eavis became the first man in history to SELL OUT to the Music Bizness WHEN HE NO LONGER NEEDED TO! AFTER HE HAD A SUCCESSFUL FESTIVAL ON HIS HANDS! 

nor was it successful because of him - that was thanks to hundreds, indeed thousands of people who’d committed endless (usually unpaid) energy to ground a New Spirit and make it all happen. (think about those famous mud scenes; do u think ordinary people would have CELEBRATED being dirty and cold?!)

michael is not a BAD man, but i know, when the time came, he should have set up a Board of Elders or something to steer the Glastonbury Festival towards its true potential - a gigantic green, eco-community-democracy-freelove-spirited ambient Edutainment Celebration - all of which are now acknowledged to be what our world needs & wants).  it’s still not too late, michael!

he certainly worked very hard and i don’t begrudge this businessman, who wasn’t required to really respect the ‘spirit’ of the festival, some of the millions he salted away (don’t let that PR quaker faker beard fool ya). but he didn't deserve a medal on top. 

[i once sued michael eavis for screwing me around and then refusing to pay the expenses involved. i won - and, being the kinda guy he is, he’s never forgiven me. but the case had been so clear and straightforward that i puzzled over why he’d allowed the matter to go to court. the answer seems to be that few people ever stood up to him. during that time, indeed, i was contacted with bitter complaints by SO many little people reliant on the festival for their living and afraid to protest openly that i was shocked. i’ll probly get a hundred such emails for publishing this.

so many alternative types told me they’d been financially and disdainfully misused that it became clear that michael did not understand (let alone innerstand) anything of the great people and activities that MADE the festival what it was. don’t mistake me: he knew perfectly well that the hippies were the key ingredient to making Glastonbury special, but he knew he could get them for peanuts and did. perhaps, if he chooses to sue me for saying this, a lot of good people (who no longer go to the festi) will have the chance to put this ‘dark cloud’ on the public record.

"I'm so pleased at this honour not only for myself, but for the hundreds and perhaps thousands of people who have supported my ideas through thick and thin." Oh please! Supported your ideas?! You made zillions from their ideas! And now u gotta gong too!]

though salman rushdie got knighted for “services to literature”, he’s no great writer as writer; lets’ remove that possibility immediately. he has some brilliant width but very little depth. he is flash, mentally sophisticated, wide and superficial. what’s that got to do with it? well, if he’d been a shakespeare then there might have been an exceptional reason to ‘make a stand’ and risk inflaming the second largest religion in the world with whom we’re practically at war.

but lissen, while it’s our duty to speak up when freedom of speech is threatened, royally blessing a venomous attitude to muslims when our armies have just slaughtered a million of them (for no apparent reason) is just, well, the english dictionary doesn’t possess a disgusted enough word for it.

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On July 8, 1947, witnesses claimed that an unidentified object with five aliens aboard crashed onto a sheep and cattle ranch just outside Roswell, New Mexico.

Many claim this well-known incident has long been covered up by the U.S. Air Force and government. But why?

Well, what you may NOT know is that, exactly 9 months after that historic day, in March 1948, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfield, Rush Limbaugh, Condolezza Rice, and Dan Quayle were born.

A coincidence? Or a reptilian breeding program u decide :)

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America failed the Test....... the Lord of the Rings' test.

And chose to use her unopposed superpower status, her technology, her weapons (the ring) to impose her will on the world.

And is being corrupted by this power

And will be corrupted absolutely.

America is a Sarumanic power, and,

like Saruman, if she continues in her folly,

she will fall.

And In The Darkness Bind Them.

Frodo Baggins.

US LIL ‘OBBITS WILL INHERIT THE MIDDLE EARTH OK.

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"I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something.

And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse

to do the something that I can do. What I can do, I should do.

And what I should do, by the grace of God, I will do." 

Edward Everett Hale.

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An international consortium of researchers has sequenced the majority of the genome of the Aedes mosquito, the scourge behind outbreaks of the deadly yellow, dengue and even chikungunya fevers that kill thousands of people in Africa, South America and Asia every year.

The genetic blueprint offers hope that specific genes can be identified that will enable scientists to end up creating even more deadly mosquitoes! :)

[ScientificAmerican.com May 17, 2007]

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Physicists hope the Large Hadron Collider giant particle accelerator at Cern will recreate conditions that last prevailed when the universe was less than a trillionth eh zillionth of a second old eh third...

New York Times May 15, 2007

>> sorry i couldn’t stop laffing :)

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p.04 The Tower of Babble-On - Swami Beyondananda sounds off on the state of the world.

p.07 Nuclear Power Is NOT the Answer, It Will Be The End - “Atomic energy is worse than any science fiction book ever written”

p.12 WONDERING WHAT’S REEEEALLY GOING ON IN GAZA?...

{p.13 Bush Doctrine Routed in Gaza

{p.15 Robert Fisk: HOW TO DEAL WITH A COUP D'ÉTAT BY AN ELECTED GOVERNMENT

p.17 Earth Is Not A ‘What’// FEEDBACK - woolly, incoherent, meandering bollox!

p.19 obituary sweet baby james, we all live on with u on the yellow submarine

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MAY 24 - SEPT 16

Summer 2007 revisits the unprecedented explosion of contemporary art and popular culture brought about by the civil unrest and pervasive social change of the 1960s and early '70s, when a new psychedelic aesthetic emerged in art, music, film, architecture, graphic design, and fashion.

>> eh, psychedelics played a part in there too, is why it’s called “psychedelic”.

The exhibition includes paintings, photographs and sculptures by Isaac Abrams, Richard Avedon, Lynda Benglis, Richard Hamilton, Elliott Landy, Jimi Hendrix (his only known watercolour), Robert Indiana, Yayoi Kusama, Richard Lindner, and John McCracken, among others, as well as a rich selection of important posters, album covers and underground magazines.

A special emphasis is placed on environments as well as on film, video and multimedia installations, including works by Jerry Abrams, Jordan Belson, USCO, Stan VanDerBeek, James Whitney, and Lamonte Young and Marian Zazeela. The exhibition includes films of performances and light shows, and spotlights places such as the UFO nightclub in London and the Human Be-In in San Francisco, featuring Allen Ginsberg and Timothy Leary. Organized by Tate Liverpool and originally presented there, the show has toured to the Kunsthalle Schirn Frankfurt and the Kunsthalle Wien.

@ Whitney Museum of American Art.

http://www.whitney.org/www/exhibition/index.jsp

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or for a whole other view that we put together for the 30^th anniversary.

http://www.algroup.co.uk/wpb/people/fraser/blurbal.htm

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"Tim and I can say anything we damned well want to. We're both ex-cons and have done hard time and not the country club kind either, for what we believe, and have no credibility whatsoever to preserve." Gordon Liddy to Tim Leary during their club debate "Personal Freedom vs. Authority."

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THURSDAY JULY 5 The Triumph Of Hippy

Today’s Eco-Activist-Party Culture = HIPPY THE FINAL CHAPTER - a Fraser Clark ambient lecture (with demo movies).

Now that we finally understand how the Matrix consistently demonises anything that threatens it, just imagine the non-stop negative propaganda it’s been projecting about Hippy, the biggest social “Peace & Love” movement in human history which shook it to its very core, believe me. Instead it accused Hippy of possessing “weapons of mass destruction” and stabbed him/her in the back. And the Disaster that was well on the way to being averted has now reached Global Catastrophic proportions. Time to start learning! (Again :)

MOVIES: Milos Forman’s ‘HAIR, The Movie’ and Peter Whitehead’s ‘LET’S ALL MAKE LOVE IN LONDON TONIGHT!’

8-12pm @ RampArt Social Centre, 15-17 Rampart Street, E1 2LA (Shadwell tube + DLR & East London Line.) Just off Commercial Road (not to be confused with nearby Commercial Street.)

www.rampart.co.nr - click on how_to_find_us

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by Steve Bhaerman aka Swami Beyondananda

Having spent 2 weeks in Europe now with 4 to go, I see many contrasts with the U.S.A. As we flew into Frankfurt, then Paris and then Vienna we saw green fields and thick forests right up to the outskirts of the city. On a bus ride through Slovenia on the way from Croatia to Italy, we saw vast expanses of land not "for" anything, but just "there."

In Vienna, everyone takes public transit, not just the poor folks with no alternative. As one our new friends told us, "I have the luxury of not owning an automobile." There seems to be little of the age segregation that we find in the States. Old people hobble along through the streets where they might well have spent their youth. In Venice, even dogs have a particular European "attitude." On leashes or walking free, they make their way through the narrow streets going about their business, unmindful of the crowds and seeming to crave no attention.

But perhaps the biggest contrast - and the one most relevant to the challenges we face in America - is the news. CNN Worldwide and CNN America broadcast two different stories. While America is fed "babblum" about the latest narcissistic misadventures of Paris Hilton, the same CNN shows Europeans the demonstrations at the G8 meetings. While the U.S. media prattles about which of the Presidential candidates is doing a better job manipulating public opinion, CNN World is doing features about peak oil and climate change. The American media shows talking heads rationalizing the latest surge in Iraq. CNN World shows dead Iraqi civilians.

First question: Are you outraged by this? Second question: If not, why not?

My sad conclusion is this: The one major difference between Soviet Russia and America today is Russian citizens knew Pravda was lying to them. The free press our Founding Fathers fought for as necessary for an informed citizenry has been replaced with a Tower of Babble.

The reason the Tower of Babble is broadcasting 24/7 is the same reason the Roman Empire in its decline offered "bread and circus," and more of the latter than the former. Americans need to be distracted from the looting and pillaging of our commonwealth - and indeed the world's common wealth - while the looters and pillagers enjoy a few more years of high living before the whole thing goes down the toilet. Unless ...

Unless we bring down the Towers of Babble and proclaim the American Evolution, where we the people begin to have heart-to-heart conversations across the "red-blue divide" and come front and centre to face the reality: The "American Empire" is un-American. The vast majority don't benefit from the wealth extracted by the multinational economy. Judging by the growing gap between rich and poor and the disappearing middle class, America has been re-colonized by a new self-proclaimed "King George."

As with the Biblical Tower of Babel, the Babble is keeping the American people from finding a common language. Very rarely will the media offer a thoughtful discussion seeking common ground. Instead, there is ranting and raving, fear-mongering and intentional misunderstanding. For it would be dangerous indeed for the progressive left and the libertarian right to compare notes and find they are tossing harpoons at the same leviathan from two different directions.

Our government is owned by an oligarchy that serves itself, and not the people. For the most part, the Democrats are owned by the same oligarchy. They just put a kinder face on it. Or, if you will, the Democrats play enabler to the Republican abusers.

Like the classic Peanuts recurring nightmare of Lucy pulling away the football each time Charlie Brown tries to kick it - in spite of her insistence that she would never do such a thing - the Democrats if victorious will once again send the body politic sprawling on its ass. Unless ...

Unless we the people let the media know "we're not buying it." Whether it involves mailing copies of publications that publish less truthful issues here than they do elsewhere back to the source, or unplugging from TV, or inundating CNN and other networks with mass protest ... nothing will change unless the voice of the people drowns out the lies emanating from the Tower of Babble.

The change - if there is change - cannot come from above. It can only come from individual "cells" choosing to listen lovingly to one another, even if they disagree. Only by resonating with and reinforcing the common harmonic of the heart can we liberate ourselves from our exile in Babble On.

wakeuplaughing.com

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Ken Campbell's Legendary 1979 ICA production of THE WORLD'S LONGEST PLAY by Neil Oram is NOW AVAILABLE on SIX 3 HOUR DVDs.

'The true, mind-awakening tale of one man's battle with the robot-eyesing, de-human-eyesing anti-freedom forces.'

STARRING: Russell Denton, Jim Broadbent, Bill Nighy, Maria Moustaka, Stephan Williams, Pat Donovan, and The Warp Band.

Order the 18 hour boxed set (£75 incl. P £ P) direct from neil at oramneil@yahoo.co.uk

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The nuclear industry has NOT cleaned up its act, according to Helen Caldicott, who spearheaded the nuclear disarmament movement in the 1980s. (Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling nominated Caldicott for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985.)

A paediatrician by training, she has devoted 35 years to an international campaign to educate the public about the health hazards of nuclear power. Her recent work is summed up by the title of her book Nuclear Power Is Not the Answer.

She is working with the Nuclear Policy Research Institute, which she founded, to convince Congress that solar and wind power instead can mitigate global warming.

Caldicott is known for courting controversy, whether by debating with world leaders, marching naked in the streets of San Francisco, or implying that Hershey sold radioactive chocolates containing milk produced near the Three Mile Island disaster. While she no longer receives death threats as she did in the 1980s, Caldicott says that just proves that her voice hasn't been loud enough lately.

The nuclear power industry was moribund after Chernobyl and Three Mile Island, but they spotted a tremendous opportunity when global warming entered the headlines.

They then conducted a propaganda exercise to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars that nuclear power is free of emissions and green and clean - virtually telling mistruths; because nuclear power's main emission is, of course, massive quantities of radioactive waste that pollute food chains and cause cancer for hundreds of millions of years.

If you take the whole fuel chain as one piece, nuclear power produces large quantities of global warming gases because millions of tons of rock and ore need to be mined to get the uranium out of the ground. And it has to be crushed, using more fossil fuels.

At the moment, uranium is enriched at Paducah, Kentucky, where they have two 1,500-megawatt filthy, old, coal-fired plants to produce the electricity to enrich the uranium.

Also, 93% of the CFC 114 gas released in the US is through leaking pipes at that plant. CFC not only destroys the ozone (layer) and is banned under the Montreal Protocol - and the nuclear industry is being grandfathered from that - but it also is a potent global warmer 10,000 to 20,000 times more potent than carbon dioxide. And there are other such gases released during the production of uranium fuel.

When uranium is mined, millions of tons of uranium tailings, emitting radioactive gas, radon and other such elements, are left lying on the ground. That material should be placed back in the ground from whence it came and the whole area reconstituted. But that would use huge amounts of fossil fuel as well, and also cost the industry so much it would almost not be worth producing the fuel in the first place.

All the talk about new technologies making nuclear power safer, cleaner and more efficient is another fabric of lies. The... reactors they're planning.. .one is the AP-1000 by Westinghouse, which is essentially the same as the light water reactors that operate today, but cheaper to build because it has less concrete and steel. It's been nicknamed the eggshell reactor and, as such, it's very dangerous and could incur a major accident or meltdown.

A pebble bed reactor has millions of tennis ball-sized spheres of graphite embedded in which is enriched uranium, and they continually circulate. The whole thing is cooled by helium gas. If there's a leak of gas, it will be

1. incredibly radioactive.

2. what burned at Chernobyl was graphite moderating rods, just carbon, the same stuff you put in pencils.

3. it's very flammable. Already there has been an accident in a pebble bed reactor in Germany during the time that Chernobyl melted down.

4. they're talking about fast reactors. Now what they would plan to do is all implicit in a plan called