i mostly didn't keep a journal this trip.  first time ever - travelling & writing were always joined at the hip in my guide book:)  i say 'mostly' because i did start keeping it again for the last week after reading Bruce Northam's 'Travel Canons' in a book of fifty travellers' tales i'd taken with me. [In Search of Adventure' published by Consortium of Collective Conciousness]

just after i'd been most impressed by a canon on dancing and, basically, how to naturally find sexual intimacy wherever you happen to be, came this one called 'Keep A Journal'!  suddenly am wondering why i didn't keep one. 

and that's when i recorded this moroccan memory: 
the funniest saddest sight i registered in morocco was one night, up on the Hadj's roof, watching 2 great white seagulls swooping in perfect geometric formation along the strong atlantic ocean winds above me and then realising that the leader was actually a plastic bag.  very funny and sad. :(

it's started to haunt me actually, the vision, since i got back.  i think it comes from very Deep.  it seems to sum up where we are at.   interestingly, while i interpreted it as a symbol of Nature on the Run, being led astray and confused, others have taken it as Nature Triumphant;  it's whether you decide the gull was fooled (wanted to shag it - it was mating season -  or follow it in formation to europe for the cooler summer.) or it was playing with such a plastic bag clever enough to have found the right vortex to be able to fly like a bird.  (which never occurred to me).  praps it was seeing the bag off its territory?  how you interpret it could even uncover your basic attitude to where we are at right now.

someone care to have a go at actualising the image?  you might need an extra bird to make it work in 2 dimensions.
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"I can actually say Romania is paradise.’ London based Romanian DJ Claudia Cazacu. “At the seaside, you have some of the best clubs in Europe; everything is high class there, alongside ultra cheap techno parties, and people really know how to have a good time plus we have the after parties on the beach.  During the summer months Romania also enjoys an influx of the world best DJs.”
“Romanians are quite tolerant to other nationalities,” Romania based Gigolo artist The Model. “Even in the Second World War, village populations would not slaughter airplane pilots when they were shot down or Jews; they were always given humane treatment."
[skrufff]
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i return from mid-20th century morocco (their Sixties, the inevitable and, yes, unstoppable dissolution of the traditional) to what are obviously the early stages of Peak Oil, long predicted and anticipated.  knowing what we Uppies have known for so long, it seems amazing how people just don't seem to 'gettit'  - like david cameron speaks about gordon brown. 

praps my absence throws it into relief but it seems the whole world now knows that Something's happening; they just dunno what it is; but they're starting to look beyond the Dinosaur Era for who might be 'getting it'.  hence Boris is london's new mayor, Obama in yankeeland, Sarkie in france, all reaching out for a change.  it's early days tho, and the public still doesn't know it's going to have to look a lot further than any of them.

obviously, and UTTERLY UNSURPRISINGLY, the oil is running out!  or the demand is outstripping supply - same thing.  petroculture's fast becoming retroculture.  and yes, of course the greedheads are trying to make profits on the ropes that are hanging them, but only the opposite would be in any way surprising :(

yes, the dawn of the Great planet ReBalancing is well under way, amidst the still-twitching and still dangerous corpses of the Dinosaur Era; and, more ruthlessly than any market forces, it will sweep its way across the table until everything is even again.  no, it won't be pretty.  corrections, by definition, seldom are, certainly to those who'd been profiting from the previous Ugliness.

think of our Current Situation like this: If the GGP (Gross Global Product) collapses to 50% in the next 5 years MAXIMUM...  THE PLANET MIGHT HAVE A CHANCE!!!!

put bluntly like that, it's clear why no politician can even contemplate it, let alone publicly SUGGEST IT.  and no 'responsible' voice can report it.  THAT's what responsibility means these days, it's to the people above, not to the people below.  and the present elite (by the fact they're there you KNOW they're compromised!) are precisely the very ones who don't 'gettit'.

NOTHING could be further from the truth than the belief among some of my friends&allies that some conspiracy at the top is planning the whole thing.  r u fuggin' kidding?!  did they PLAN to lose the war in iraq?!  did they PLAN for bush to leave office as the Biggest Schmuck in History?! (as i predicted from the start)  do you need to see them running around naked in the streets to know 'they' are in a total panic, have notta clue what's happening nor how to correct or ameliorate it.  my judgement is they'd gladly surrender everything for house arrest on one of their former privately owned islands, there to pasture out their remaining years, BUT THEY'RE TERRIFIED THAT THINGS HAVE GONE SO FAR THAT THIS, their usual stratagem, CAN NO LONGER BE ACTIONED.

somebody tossed out to me the other day that there are many possible futures.  i replied that there are, in fact, only TWO.  either we change in time or we come very close to extinction.  yeah, maybe, ok, you might say, but next you must consider this FACT:  EVEN IF EVERY SINGLE HUMAN TRANSFORMED INTO AN ECO SAINT TODAY, IT'S ALREADY TOO LATE TO STOP MANY UTTERLY GIGANTIC DISASTERS OVER THE NEXT DECADE OR TWO! 

THAT is how much we have to change, as individuals, as cultures, as a planetary civilisation.  in fact the change required to avoid disaster is so colossal as to be almost impossible for most people to IMAGINE, let alone seriously consider.  but in their hearts everyone knows exactly how things should be, can be and must be; the megatripolis gene lies deeply buried within every one of us, and, as each further frame of the Holocaust Movie reveals itself, it WILL be activated and IS being activated.  of this i have NO doubt.
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screen 07  Brain's Don't Get 'Older' They Get 'Wiser'
screen 10 WAR CRIMINALS! FBI files finally indict Bush Gang, and Accomplices screen 14  How I Became a Hippy - by fraser.
screen 16  Jimmy Carter:  A Human Rights Crime
screen 18  SYNERGY - LESS Than the Sum of its Parts?  Steve Peake // FEEDBACK
UP!   moroccan memory:  Nature bursting through'n out'n up'n down on every plane'n level. 
a sensurround sensation.  i look down - ants are building a civilisation.
on a rock grandfather beetle gazes back, but with a watchful eye on the delirious birds in the exploding trees.
grunts of frogs.  buzz of bees. 
the rush of the falling stream and cataracts teeming with micro-organisms. 
they're all living in different bubbles'n planes of existence but all in this One World,
like some gigantic Intelligence, 'Life', with me another blossom on its branch.
we think of gods but what is this Unstoppable Life if not a God?!

the river's constant flow washes away the redstone bed of the gorge as it washes away my cares.

and for 3 days i listen to the frogs going "birrble birrble.  DO IT!  DO IT!  DO IT!"
i shamanically corral them within my Dream World, for encouragement during later crises :)



Question 1:  If you knew a woman who was pregnant, who had 8 kids already, three who were deaf, two who were blind, one mentally retarded, and she had Syphilis, would you recommend she have an abortion? (Read the next question before looking at the answer)

Question 2:  It's time to elect a new world leader, and only your vote counts.  Here are the facts about the three candidates.  Who would you vote for?

Candidate A.  Associates with crooked politicians, and consults with astrologers.  He's had two mistresses.  He also chain smokes and drinks 8 to 10 martinis a day.

Candidate B.  He was kicked out of office twice, sleeps until noon, used opium in college and drinks a quart of whiskey every evening.

Candidate C.  He's a decorated war hero.  He's a vegetarian, doesn't smoke, drinks an occasional beer and never cheated on his wife.

Made your choice?

Candidate A is Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Candidate B is Winston Churchill.
Candidate C is Adolph Hitler.

Oh, and if your answer to the abortion question was YES, you just killed Beethoven.
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Elders, forgetting names at a party, tend to think their brainpower's declining.  NOT SO! - according to a growing number of studies.

The older brain is simply taking in more data, and trying to sift through a clutter of information, often to its long-term benefit.
>navigating the InfoGush i sometimes call it :)  it's what the UP! largely attempts to do.

A new edition of a neurology book, “Progress in Brain Research”, indicates that, while some brains do deteriorate with age (Alzheimer’s strikes 13% of Americans over 65)
>caused by not having enough psychedelic or supra-rational experiences.

much of what occurs in the older brain is a gradually widening focus of attention that makes it more difficult to latch onto just one fact, like a name or phone number.
>woods and trees come to mind.

Although that can be frustrating, it is often useful.

“It may be that distractibility is not, in fact, a bad thing,” said Shelley H. Carson, a psychology researcher at Harvard whose work was cited in the book.  “It may increase the amount of information available to the conscious mind.”

In studies, for example, where subjects are asked to read passages that are interrupted with unexpected words or phrases, 60+ adults work much more slowly than college students.  Although the younger brains plow through the texts at a consistent speed regardless of what the out-of-place words mean, older people slow down: and slow down even more when the words are related to the topic at hand.  This actually indicates that they're not just stumbling over the extra information, they're taking it in and processing it.

When both groups were later asked questions for which the out-of-place words might be answers, the older brains responded much better.

An author of the review, Lynn Hasher, a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto and a senior scientist at the Rotman Research Institute, says: “For the young people, it’s as if the distraction never happened.”
>this is so true!  i see it all the time!  u young brains think it's attention when it's actually obsession :)  who the fug CARES what some minor celebrity i can't quite place said about the issue?!!!

“But for older adults, because they’ve retained all this extra data, they’re now suddenly the better problem solvers.  They can transfer the information they’ve soaked up from one situation to another.”

Such tendencies can yield big advantages in the real world, where it's not always clear what information is important, or will become important.  A seemingly irrelevant point or suggestion in a memo can take on new meaning if the original plan changes.
>which EVERY plan ALWAYS does.

Or extra details that stole your attention, like others’ yawning or chatting, may help you assess the speaker’s real impact.

“A broad attention span may enable older adults to ultimately know more about a situation and the indirect message of what’s going on than their younger peers,” Dr. Hasher said.  “We believe this characteristic may play a significant role in why we think of older people as wiser.”

In a 2003 study at Harvard, Dr. Carson and other researchers tested students’ ability to tune out irrelevant information when exposed to a barrage of stimuli.  It turns out that the more creative the student (determined by a questionnaire on past achievements) the more trouble he or she had ignoring the unwanted data.  A reduced ability to filter and set priorities contributed to original thinking, the scientists concluded.
>someone tell the bizziheads, corporuppies and multitaskers who THINK they're running the world when it's running them!

Research professor Jacqui Smith, at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan, says there's a word for what results when the mind is able to assimilate data and put it in its proper place - wisdom.

“These findings are all very consistent with the context we’re building for what wisdom is,” she said.  “If older people are taking in more information from a situation, and they’re then able to combine it with their comparatively greater store of general knowledge, they’re going to have a nice advantage."
>tho they MAY be elbowed aside by younger brains who THINK they know better :)
UP!   moroccan memory: so much of Life is under the Law of Accident and beyond our control that an attitude of acceptance with a minimum of regret or complaint must be cultivated.
this, however, it seems to me, makes maximum contrast with the areas which CAN be under our control.  our inner reactions, the lies we tell ourselves, our blindness to others and so on.  and failure to attempt a conscious and purposeful focus in this area gets about as close to anything i could ever call a Sin.


A 370-page Justice US Department Inspector General’s report released recently shows that agents of the FBI had formally opened a “War Crimes” file, documenting torture they had witnessed at the Guantánamo Bay US prison camp, before being ordered by the administration to stop writing their reports.

Human rights groups and all sane individuals have long insisted that the actions of the Bush administration - wars of aggression, assassinations, abduction and detention of civilians without trial and, most repugnant of all, torture - constitute war crimes under any legitimate interpretation of long-standing international statutes and treaties.

To have this assessment confirmed by the Inspector General of the Justice Department, the only senior official there not answerable directly to the White House, and by agents of the FBI, an agency not known for its sensitivity to questions of democratic rights, is an indication of the rampant character of these crimes as well as the crisis they have engendered within the US government and America’s ruling elite as a whole.

The report makes it absolutely clear that
- torture was ordered and planned in detail at the highest levels of the government - including the White House, the National Security Council, the Pentagon and the Justice Department. 
- attempts to stop it on legal or pragmatic grounds by individuals within the government were systematically suppressed, and evidence of this criminal activity covered up.

There has been no immediate reaction from the White House on these new revelations.

“[An FBI Agent] recalled that, at some point during the interrogation, the military officer ‘put water down’ a seated detainee’s throat.  He said he guessed that the purpose of the water was to give the detainee the sensation that he was drowning, so that he would provide the information that the interrogator wanted.  [The agent] stated that the detainee was gagging and spitting out water.  He said he assumed the detainee had trouble breathing.”

“He was left alone in a cold room known as ‘the freezer,’ where guards would prevent him from sleeping by putting ice or cold water on him... He was subjected to sleep deprivation for a period of 70 days by means of prolonged interrogations, strobe lights, threatening music, forced intake of water, and forced standing.  He was deprived of clothing by a female interrogator; “Two female interrogators touched him sexually and made sexual statements to him;

“He was severely beaten.”  In addition, the document says, he was “led to believe he was going to be executed, and urinated on himself,” and was told that his mother and family would be detained and harmed."

According to the IG report, hundreds of FBI agents witnessed illegal acts of torture and abuse against detainee by CIA, military and private contractor interrogators..

In addition, the report cites: several agents who reported instances of beatings, 30 agents who reported witnessing prolonged shackling of detainees in stress positions, 70 agents who reported detainees being subjected to sleep deprivation, 29 agents who had information on the use of extreme temperatures in order to “break the detainees’ resolve to resist cooperating” and 50 agents reporting the use of extended isolation to “wear down a detainee’s resistance.”

In addition, four agents reported the kicking and beating to death of two detainees in Afghanistan who had been subjected to prolonged shackling in a standing position.

Murat Kurnaz, a Turkish citizen born in Germany who was arrested during a trip to Pakistan in the fall of 2001 and was handed over to US officials for a $3,000 bounty, testified via video link to a sparsely attended hearing of the House Foreign Affairs Committee in the same week as this report.

While by 2002 the US authorities concluded that Kurnaz had nothing to do with terrorism, he was imprisoned in Kandahar, Afghanistan, and finally Guantánamo until the middle of 2006 and released only because of pressure from the German government.

“I did nothing wrong and I was treated like a monster,” he said.  He told how he was subjected to electric shocks, being suspended by his wrists for hours and subjected to the ‘water treatment,’ in which his head was stuck into a bucket of water and he was punched in the stomach, forcing him to inhale the liquid.
>how come no reporter ever included this detail?!

“I know others have died from this kind of treatment,” said Kurnaz.  “I suffered from sleep deprivation, solitary confinement, religious and sexual humiliations.  I was beaten multiple times.”

“There was no law in Guantánamo,” Kurnaz concluded. “...."I didn’t think this could happen in the 21st century...  I could never have imagined that this place was created by the United States.”
>goodbye, dinosaurs.  this time forever.


The inmates at Guantánamo represent barely 1% of those detained at US prison camps and secret jails run by the military and the CIA in Iraq, Afghanistan and other points around the world.  An estimated 27,000 people are being held without charges, much less trials, many of them simply having disappeared into Washington’s global gulag.  Some are held on prison ships, others in secret dungeons run jointly by the CIA and regimes to which it “outsources” detainees, like Egypt, Jordan and Morocco
>!!!!

where other, cruder forms of torture - being buried alive, given electric shocks or slashed with scalpels - are employed.

The report also reconfirms that the revolting Abu Ghraib prison scenes - naked and hooded men being subjected to torture and sexual humiliation by US guards - were no aberration.  The methods described in the report - forced nudity, the use of attack dogs in interrogations, chaining detainees in “stress” positions, leading them around on dog leashes, draping them in women’s underwear - were identical to those officially blamed on a “few bad apples” at Abu Ghraib.

The uniformity of abuse at these widely separated facilities is evidence that the psychopathic and criminal sadism was planned and orchestrated from the top.

ABC News revealed last month, top administration officials on the so-called Principals’ Committee - Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, George Tenet, Attorney General John Ashcroft and National Security Council Adviser Condoleezza Rice - conducted detailed discussions on “enhanced interrogation techniques,” which, according to ABC, “were almost choreographed - down to the number of times CIA agents could use a specific tactic.”

The report establishes that FBI and Justice Department officials advised the White House National Security Council of their concern that the practices witnessed by the agents were “gravely damaging ... the rule of law” at Guantánamo.  In the end, however, they were told to back off, and they complied, thereby becoming accomplices in this criminality and its cover-up.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/may2008/fbi-m23.shtml
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london:
JUNE 9-16   Bush in the UK!  YUK!
WAR CRIMINALS NOT WANTED HERE - EXCEPT UNDER ARREST
Bush's last visit in November 2003 provoked one of the biggest mid-week demonstrations in British history, with 300,000 on London's streets. Since then his war of terror continues to shame the human race and has spread from Iraq and Afghanistan to Pakistan, Somalia and Kenya, with ever intensifying threats suggesting Iran is next.

Every sane planet-lover who's opposed George Bush's war policies and the British government's slavish support will want to make their voice heard. Stop the War is of course aiming to organise the largest possible protest. WATCH THIS SPACE -
http://www.stopwar.org.uk/
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Albert Hoffman, Father of LSD, Cycles Off at 102
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/30/world/europe/30hofmann.html up!

I must have been about 14, and it was probably in French class though it might have been History.

We were discussing Beaudelaire and the Bohemian artists of Paris, and it came as the most deliciously consciousness-raising shock to me that famous painters, poets and philosophers [now honoured, feted and TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS!] had actually led lives of personal/sexual freedom and unbourgeouis abandon & clutter! 

NOBODY HAD EVER MENTIONED THIS TO ME, and to my list of possible adult careers was added a new one: the social landmarks by which to channel my life henceforward now included Lawyer, Teacher, Doctor and... CareFree-Thinker-Lover!

Seen as such, you must agree (and i still can see it no other way!) there was really no choice!

That decision, in 1957 or so, led pretty inevitably to my joining the Hippy Movement & Spirit in 1965 - after a degree in psychology and language, and a part-time career as a Beatnik writer.

Ain't that funny?  If I'd missed that class.... ?  But then, you might as well say: if Beaudelaire had never existed :)
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Coffee, which has already been linked to a lower risk of Alzheimer's Disease, may cut the risk of dementia by blocking the damage cholesterol can inflict on the body, research suggests.

A vital barrier between the brain and the main blood supply of rabbits fed a fat-rich diet was protected in those given a caffeine supplement.

The "blood brain barrier" is a filter which protects the central nervous system from potentially harmful chemicals carried around in the rest of the bloodstream.  Other studies have shown that high levels of cholesterol in the blood can make this barrier "leaky".  Alzheimer's researchers suggest this makes the brain vulnerable to damage which can trigger or contribute to the condition.

The University of North Dakota study used the equivalent to one daily cup of coffee.   After 12 weeks of a high-cholesterol diet, the blood brain barrier in those given caffeine was far more intact than in those given no caffeine.
>> i await similar tobacco studies tho, with mob rule rampant, the wait might be long.
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"The world is witnessing a terrible human rights crime in Gaza, where a million and a half human beings are being imprisoned with almost no access to the outside world.  An entire population is being brutally punished.

In 2006 this gross mistreatment of the Palestinians in Gaza was escalated dramatically by Israel, with United States backing, after political candidates representing Hamas won a majority of seats in the Palestinian Authority parliament.  The election was unanimously judged to be honest and fair by all international observers.

Israel and the US refused to accept the right of Palestinians to form a unity government with Hamas and Fatah and now, after internal strife, Hamas alone controls Gaza.  41 of the 43 victorious Hamas candidates who lived in the West Bank have been imprisoned by Israel, plus an additional 10 who assumed positions in the short-lived coalition cabinet.

Regardless of one's choice in the partisan struggle between Fatah and Hamas within occupied Palestine, we must remember that economic sanctions and restrictions on the supply of water, food, electricity and fuel are causing extreme hardship among the innocent people in Gaza, about one million of whom are refugees.  Israeli bombs and missiles periodically strike the area, causing high casualties among both militants and innocent women and children. 

On a recent trip through the Middle East, I attempted to gain a better understanding of the crisis.  One of my visits was to Sderot, a community of about 20,000 in southern Israel that is frequently struck by rockets fired from nearby Gaza.  I condemned these attacks as abominable acts of terrorism, since most of the 13 victims during the past 7 years have been non-combatants.

Subsequently, I met with leaders of Hamas - a delegation from Gaza and the top officials in Damascus.  I made the same condemnation to them, and urged that they declare a unilateral ceasefire or orchestrate with Israel a mutual agreement to terminate all military action in and around Gaza for an extended period.

They responded that such action by them in the past had not been reciprocated, and they reminded me that Hamas had previously insisted on a ceasefire throughout Palestine, including Gaza and the West Bank, which Israel had refused.  Hamas then made a public proposal of a mutual ceasefire restricted to Gaza, which the Israelis also rejected.

There are fervent arguments heard on both sides concerning blame for a lack of peace in the Holy Land.  Israel has occupied and colonised the Palestinian West Bank, which is approximately a quarter the size of the nation of Israel as recognised by the international community.  Some Israeli religious factions claim a right to the land on both sides of the Jordan river, others that their 205 settlements of some 500,000 people are necessary for "security".

All Arab nations have agreed to recognise Israel fully if it will comply with key United Nations resolutions.  Hamas has agreed to accept any negotiated peace settlement between the president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, and Israel's prime minister, Ehud Olmert, provided it is approved in a referendum of the Palestinian people.

This holds promise of progress, but despite the brief fanfare and positive statements at the peace conference last November in Annapolis, the process has gone backwards.  Nine thousand new Israeli housing units have been announced in Palestine; the number of roadblocks within the West Bank has increased; and the stranglehold on Gaza has been tightened.

It is one thing for other leaders to defer to the US in the crucial peace negotiations, but the world must not stand idle while innocent people are treated cruelly.  It is time for strong voices in Europe, the US, Israel and elsewhere to speak out and condemn the human rights tragedy that has befallen the Palestinian people."
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Deborah Jeane Palfrey, 52, convicted on April 15 of running a Washington call-girl ring that catered to the capital’s power elite but who had declared publicly that she would not go down quietly has been found dead ... the authorities said she'd apparently hanged herself.  The body was found in a shed at her mother’s home northwest of Tampa.  The police said Ms. Palfrey had left a notebook containing at least two suicide notes and other messages to her family, but they did not give additional details. 

Ms. Palfrey, who had quickly become known as the D.C. Madam when the case against her began unfolding, apparently hanged herself from the shed’s ceiling with nylon rope, the police said.  Her mother, Blanche Palfrey, who discovered the body, had no sign that her daughter was suicidal. 

A federal jury in Washington found Ms. Palfrey guilty of money laundering, using the mail for illegal purposes and racketeering.  one of her powerful clients was named as Senator David Vitter, Republican of Louisiana.  Ms. Palfrey had vowed that she would never go to prison.  When she disclosed telephone records last year that revealed the identity of some of her clients, she told ABC: “I’m sure as heck not going to be going to federal prison for one day, let alone four to eight years, because I’m shy about bringing in the deputy secretary of whatever. Not for a second. I’ll bring every last one of them in if necessary.”  

Despite that threat, Ms. Palfrey’s trial concluded without the testimony of either Mr. Vitter or another particularly prominent client, Randall L. Tobias.  One of the escort service’s employees was Brandy Britton, a former professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, who was arrested on prostitution charges in 2006.  Ms. Britton committed suicide in January before she could go to trial.
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