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6/9
Juiciness is probably what keeps bringing me
back to the often rotten fruit of the espionage bush. Yet
another expressly-ignored story drips succulent by way
of CounterPunch. From the Bloodbaths In
East Timor to a Suicide in Arlington
"In May of 1999, Jenkins came across an AUSTEO
(Australian Eyes Only Document) cable from the
Department of Foreign Affairs describing the activities
of the Indonesian militias and troops in East Timor.
Jenkins, under extreme pressure, slipped the information
to his contacts in the CIA. He was soon reprimanded by
his superiors. An email from his superiors at the
Defense Intelligence Security Office warned: "Issues are
becoming extremely sensitive as there are foreign policy
implications. It is imperative that extra care is taken
with the passing of material to the US and Canada." "
 | Stephen
Hawking, recently in the news for comments outside his area of
expertise, clearly demonstrates his ability as a communicator
of his physical vision with a series of public lectures. The
Beginning of Time
| "Because time is not going to go backwards, I think
I better stop now."
| George S.
Howard assays The
Tragedy of Maximization, and finds a golden ore in
moderation.
| "Adopting a "both/and" integration (where our
society tempts us to see issues in terms of "either/or"
dichotomies) will make us less likely to fall into the
traps of radicalism, fundamentalism, extremism, and
maximization that stalk contemporary intellectual
life." |
Elimination of poverty is really
quite simple. Economic
Democracy: The Political Struggle Of The 21st Century
| "Intellectuals in the wealthy world are moral,
honest, and want to alleviate poverty. But they have
never been taught how the impoverished world was kept
dependent and thus they cannot honestly address those
causes. Only by this full understanding of economic
history can the impoverished world gain their freedom.
Wealthy world intellectuals would not push their
nonsense when they know that their audience knows a lot
better."
|
The road
to hell
| "Since everybody is now playing to the global
gallery, and no party any longer has an interest in
reaching an internal agreement, the conflicts are
prolonged and intensified."
|
Care to join me for a spot of Camellia
sinensis?
| "The infusion is also recommended for neuralgic
headaches." |
 5/9
Human
Habitats at Mars: Defending Against Contamination tells me
that not spreading our spawn may be harder to accomplish than
it would seem at first glance. In fact, the increased
radiation in space causes a vastly higher rate of mutation in
microorganisms. Stranger than fiction, the dreaded Space
Fungus: A Menace to Orbital Habitats.
| "If you take a space-grown microorganism which used
metal as a part of its habitat and keep cultivating it
by increasing the content of metal in its habitat, you
can potentially get a destructive biological weapon
which will literally ‘eat’ arms."
| Science
Frontiers, a compendium of more than two thousand short
articles, turns the Mars rock over and poses that we are
seeding the solar system by Ballistic
Panspermia. A free ranging discussion, Meta vs Cosmic
Ancestry explores the issue in sometimes testy but always
tasty discussion.
| "Strong panspermia accords well with several
phenomena that have troubled standard Darwinism,
including life's rapid start on Earth, punctuated
equilibrium, convergent evolution, the ubiquity of
certain master control genes, and the fact that many
genes appear older, by sequence analysis, than they
should be according to the fossil record."
| A
Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge goes on my bedtime
reading list; I wonder whether I could get a discount as I've
read the Prologue
| "There is a bleakness in Vinge's writing, a
counterpoint that haunts and subverts any simple
optimism he may at times appear to proffer. In A
Deepness in the Sky, his grandest space opera yet, he
sets historical optimism and pessimism at war, and the
novel's shrewd triumph is that neither is the winner."
|
Racism
- Where it Comes From
| "Racism is a product of capitalism. It grew out of
early capitalisms' use of slaves for the plantations of
the new world, it was consolidated in order to justify
western and white domination of the rest of the world
and it flourishes today as a means of dividing the
working class between insiders and outsiders, native and
immigrants and settled and Travellor in the Irish
context."
|
The
Best System the Moneyed Can Buy
"Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to
the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in
one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the
exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate."
Bertrand
Russell
| The
sad case of an LSE formal thinker deconstructs John Grey,
while Taking
power from the global corporations by Robert Silver
puts the case for social ownership and global governance of
the transnationals.
"The fact that the global economy is increasingly in
conflict with the social and political structures of
capitalism is a paradox that confounds formal thinkers
and sends them into a deep crisis."
"What we are
seeing, therefore, is the close of the chapter of the
evolution of capitalist democracy and the opening up of
a direct struggle between the mass of the people and
global corporations and their supra-state institutions
like the World Trade Organisation and the North American
Free Trade Agreement..."
| Hank Hardy Unruh's
lecture in Tampere. How do we at the WTO fit in? Well,
that's easy: We want to help you achieve those dollar results.
When roadblocks to dollar results arise--protectionism, worry,
even violence against physical property--we want to help make
sure that none of this stands in the way of your dollar
results. A more enlightening perspective may be had from
the Finnish newspaper Helsingen Sanomat - Electronic
social disobedience .
"In the final part of his talk, Hank's business suit
was ripped off to reveal a golden leotard with a
three-foot phallus. The purpose of the "Management
Leisure Suit", Hank explained, was to allow managers, no
matter where they were, to control their remote
workforces in the developing world. Using a video
interface at the end of the phallus, the manager can see
the workers and give them electric shocks when they
don't work fast enough."
"The Yes Men provide a
detailed breakdown of their actions on their internet
website, publishing videos, Powerpoint® presentations,
and the full transcripts of the correspondence that went
into the hoaxes." |
Also
contained within the international edition of Helsingen
Sanomat is an interview with Vladimir Putin, who proclaims
Stability
the precondition of reform in Russia.
| "Please note what kinds of steps we have taken in
foreign and security policy. We have adhered to all of
our international commitments. We were long pushed to
sign the START 2 Treaty. We did it; the United States
has not done so even now. Now we are saying that we
should not send weapons of mass destruction into space.
Such a dangerous step should not be taken. Let us see
how our American partners react to
that." | September 1st,
Naughty-One
Jammed with information, this
resource helps duct tape together a more full-blown
explanation of what-the-HAARP is going on in the Alaskan bush.
A trice more conspiratorial, yet chock full of chunky cultish
tidbits and freshly butchered science, is Esoteric
Info on Electromagnetic Weapons.
"Human Tolerances to whole body sinusodal vibration:
Head Pain 13-30Hz, Impaired Speech 13-20Hz, Jaw Pain
6-8Hz, Chest Pain 5-7Hz, Abdominal Pain 4.5 - 10 Hz,
Lombotacral Pain 8-12Hz, Urge to defecate 10.5 to 16 Hz,
Urge to urinate 10 to 18 Hz."
"Possible effects
include instantaneous death, heart seizure, severe
emotional disruption, loss of control of internal
functions, diseases, disabling of the immune system, and
even implantation of thoughts, emotions, and ideas which
are interpreted by the subjects as their own."
| Biohazards
of Extremely Low Frequencies by Dr. Nick Begich takes a
less alarmist, and more concise view; and brings attention to
the tranfers of these nasty technologies from military to
domestic users.
"The United States military has taken advantage of
the basic research which demonstrates the effects of
various types of electromagnetic radiation. This
research is being used for weapons development. These
new technologies have been, in part, transferred to the
United States Justice Department for use in domestic
police actions.
The Air Force documents indicate
that these weapons can be used for mind control,
inducing heart attacks, causing electronic failures and
creating computer malfunctions. More recently these new
weapons have been revealed in International Red Cross
documents and in other press
reports." |
If you share my scepticism about the
efficacy of these monstrous machines (considering that we
could counter-attack with powerful mind control defences of
our own, such as dropping five hundred mics of acid and a half
dozen of Canada's finest beer - let's see 'them' get through
that!), perhaps we need to revisit the doctor - in this case
Dr. Eldon Byrd. Have
Doubts That Mind-Altering Radio Waves Work? How about a
Russian Machine That Tranquilizes People?
| "The LIDA machine (U.S. Patent #
3,773,049) was made in the 1950's by the Soviets.
The CIA purchased one through a Canadian front for Dr.
Ross Adey, but didn't give him any funds to evaluate
it."
| To
recapitulate, if only so that I can deeply soak in the muck of
our collective expletive before having a refreshing verbal
shower. Might be good for my skein.
Over the last month
I have linked to documentation that indicates US or US-led
military forces have used the gamut of weapons available to
them. Many have also been used domestically by government
agencies in most countries; including, or especially, ours.
Chemical (Iraq, Columbia, Viet Nam, Laos,
Cambodia...too many to list), biological (Africa and others?),
ELF (Iraq, probably worldwide), audio (Panama, Kosovo et al.),
and radioactive (hardened warheads...Iraq, Kosovo, et plus)
have all been euphemistically justified or kept under
wraps...and our mediated attention continues to be brought to
bear on sex and scandal.
...end despairing...
Besides giving
me the personal-ad line that I've been looking for - "Are
you an irregular verb?" - Steven Pinker demonstrates that
The
Irregular Verbs are a hallowed, nay sacred part of our
language. Going, going, gone?
| "Not only is the irregular class losing members by
emigration, it is not gaining new ones by
immigration." | 31/8
"When
a finger points at the moon, only an idiot looks at the
finger." Chinese aphorism quoted in Contemplating
The Finger: Visuality and the Semiotics of Chemistry,
which aims to show that imagination plays as much of a role as
fact.
| "Chemistry's symbolic language is shown to mimic
many features of natural languages, including the
ability to construct fictional worlds. I argue that
these 'scientific fictions' are as cognitively valuable
in chemistry as they are in ordinary life, and that
chemists creatively mix 'true' and 'fictional'
representations of molecules and
substances." |
electrical upgrade at the isp - see ya
manana29/8
Best snap up the franchise options
while they last, I'd say. The Power
Grow System is a solution for medical marijuana growers
that is analogous in price and efficacy to an electric
wheelchair; there'll be one in every home within twenty years
(yes, we're getting older, and we all could use a grow closet;
we're already out of it). thanks ribbit
| "The Power Grow System is a complete turn key
product that produces a very high yield of plants from a
controlled growing environment. The Power Grow System is
CSA approved and is the safest system for growing
plants."
| A product
that would blow away all floral intentions is glyphosate. 21st Century paraquat serving
19th Century sensibilities, we deign to spead our inanity over
the fields of coca and pot in "other" parts of Gaia but if
another tried it on our sacrosanct patch we would call
it chemical warfare. Greenpeace provides the Glyphosate
Fact Sheet - Hard to Swallow and I awake to the nightmare
that only we are allowed to wage war on ourSelves.
| "Glyphosate is technically extremely difficult to
measure in environmental samples. Only a few
laboratories have the sophisticated equipment and
techniques necessary. This means that data is often
lacking on residue levels in food and the environment
and existing data may not be
reliable." | Apologetics
Research Resources on Religious Cults, Sects, Movements,
Doctrines, Etc. Academic dishonesty is common among cult
apologists. 28/8
Las Vegas
- Utopia of Clowns is a chapter excerpt of James Howard
Kunstler's book The City in Mind: Notes on the Urban
Condition ; due out this fall. Before trundling off to
scoff at Lost Dufferville, the very same Jim Kunstler could
ingrate-iate us with a concise tally of the score; as he
remonstrates about the Clusterfuck
Nation: A Glimpse into the Future.
"Events unfold fractally, so to speak, with
surprising zigs and zags, with unexpected
amplifications, resonances, and outcomes, showing up
would-be smartypants prophets like me. But it strikes me
as more foolish, in the face of what may be epochal and
disruptive change in how we live, to put on a show of
excessive humility and pretend that we can't make any
sense of our unfolding circumstances."
"They say
that Antarctica is the worst place on earth, but I
believe that distinction belongs to Las Vegas, hands
down. For one thing, Antarctica is more pleasing to look
at."
| Personal
Responsibility in the Global Economy - an interview with
William Greider shows that to espouse pragmatism is not
equal to grouse profligatism.
"It was the worst industrial fire in the history of
capitalism. It was reported on page twenty-five of The
Washington Post. The Financial Times of London ran a
short item on page six. The Wall Street Journal came
along with the story a day late-and so on. I thought
that was such a vivid expression of the gap that exists
in our human consciousness.
This toy factory made
Bart Simpson dolls, Playschool dolls and Sesame Street
dolls. We buy those toys for our children at Christmas
and other occasions, utterly oblivious to the conditions
under which they're made. You can't escape that."
| I
discovered Ronnie at a critical point in my psyche-spherical
expansion, and it would not be exaggerating to say that once I
entered his event horizon my understanding took a quantum
leap. The
Legacy of R. D. Laing is a special issue of Janus
Head with essays, deconstructions, reflexions, and even
poems; and will become a hard-drive keeper for the sages.
"I submit that in a better world we would try to
effect a working alliance between the best that
psychopharmacology has to offer (for those who want or
need it, administered in a sparing and judicious way)
and the best features of Laing’s
existential-phenomenological approach to psychotherapy,
minus all the sensationalism, hoopla and the wildly
expansive speculation in which Laing sometimes
indulged."
Daniel Burston
"If I could turn you on,
if I could drive
you
out of your wretched mind,
if I could tell
you,
I'd let you know."
| 27/8
I broke my table's leg and can't find the
saw.
Inexorably heading toward '02 (naughty-two,
as in, this decade is the 'naughties'), the state surveillance
apparatus continues to arachnitate. Carnivore
could eat into wireless e-mails.
| "The CTIA fears the FBI might start using the
DCS1000 system because the wireless industry has so far
been unable to develop a standard for law enforcement
agencies to monitor e-mails sent between handheld
devices."
| Duh! you
think other contraband might just be involved in these
sanctioned bootleg ops? Clarke
Company Faces New Smuggling Claims
| "BAT insiders estimate that up to a third of BAT's
£1bn annual profits in recent years, have been the
fruits of cigarette smuggling, not only in Latin
America, but mainly in China, as well as Africa and
Asia, and such markets as Vietnam, where Kenneth Clarke
returned from a recent BAT trip seeking official entry
to the Vietnamese market."
| If any
group strays too far from PanoptiCorp's parasitic perusal, the
military arm is ready, waiting and willing to perform the
Strategic, Policy, and Operational Application of Shock and
Awe - Achieving Rapid Dominance.
| "These same techniques also apply to law enforcement
agencies targeting international crime and drug cartels
using the highway. Closer interagency cooperations and
coordination between military and law enforcement
activities and capabilities must be established.
Experience with the military involvement in the drug war
revealed considerable cultural differences between these
organizations. Overcoming these cultural differences
among organizations is not easy."
| Excepting
for perhaps the agoraphobic, one need look no further than Dream
Jobs - A Definitive Directory to the Top Careers in the
Outdoors
| "The perks are fantastic, and you'll be earning a
lifetime supply of
adventure." |
 25/8
Contradicting capitalism,
communism, patriarchy, and all arch-enemies of Gaia add your own example here, Revolutionary
Ecology - Biocentrism & Deep Ecology is an essay by
Judi Bari that gives a basic overview of this wilder field of
attention.
| "How can it be that we have neighborhood movements
focused on the disposal of toxic wastes, for example,
but we don't have a worker's movement to stop the
production of toxics? It is only when the factory
workers refuse to make the stuff, it is only when the
loggers refuse to cut the ancient trees, that we can
ever hope for real and lasting change."
| The
Urban Ecology of Cannabis points out how much more
friendly a hempen world would be.
Cannabis in silvis primum natum
est
Biodegradable plastics from
cannabis-derived cellulose have many advantages over
conventional hydrocarbon based plastics."
|
Computer
Psychiatrist meets random Quote Generator
"I need a little more detail please.
I request a
weekend in Havana with Phil Silvers!
Earlier you
said you would like to urinate?
I just forgot my
whole philosophy of life!!!
Is it because of some
problems in your childhood that you are going through
all this?
You can't hurt me!! I have an ASSUMABLE
MORTGAGE!!"
| After
having an extraordinarily poignant summer (and yes, the first
whiff of fall blew in a week ago), I hope to heat weblogging
things up as nature cools things down. I'll let you know when
we get our first major snow - Oct.5th last year.
Blistering in-sight, and pungent; Of
Bugs and Rats: Cyber-Cleanliness, Cyber-Squalor, and the
Fantasy-Spaces of Informational Globalization.
"At all the more important moments while he was
telling his story his face took on a very strange,
composite expression. I could only interpret it as one
of horror at pleasure of his own of which he himself was
unaware."
Freud, "Notes Upon a Case of Obsessional
Neurosis [The Rat-Man]" (1909)
| The
Principia Cybernetica by means of author F. Heylighen puts
The Social
Superorganism and its Global Brain under the macroscope,
and decides that at the moment we more closely resemble slime
mold than panoptic sentience.
| "Although many people tend to see the super-organism
philosophy as a totalitarian or collectivist ideology,
the opposite is true: further integration will basically
increase individual freedom and
diversity." |
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