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&lt;b&gt;by Robert Gordon Wasson&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://deoxy.org/bexplain.htm"&gt;hypertexture&lt;/a&gt;=&lt;a href="http://deoxy.org/contact.htm"&gt;dimitri&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; - &lt;a href="http://deoxy.org/bmush_au.htm"&gt;audio©redits&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;




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&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
I do not recall which of us, my wife or I, first dared to put into
words back in the forties the surmise that our own remote ancestors,
perhaps 4000 years ago, worshipped a divine mushroom.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the fall of 1952 we learned that the 16th century writers,
describing the Indian cultures of Mexico, had recorded that certain
mushrooms played a divine role in the religion of the natives.
&lt;a href="http://deoxy.org/audio/ishtar.ra"&gt;
&lt;img src="http://deoxy.org/gif/7a.jpg" align="left" border="0" height="179" hspace="20" width="99" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The so-called mushroom stones really represented mushrooms, and
that they were the symbol of a religion, like the cross in the
Christian religion or the star of Judea or the crescent of the Moslems.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;font size="+2"&gt;
Thus we find a mushroom in the center of the cult with perhaps the longest continuous history in the world.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;a href="http://deoxy.org/audio/hahahaha.ra"&gt;
&lt;img src="http://deoxy.org/gif/5a.jpg" align="right" border="0" height="185" hspace="20" width="105" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We have found this cult of the divine mushroom a revelation, in the
true meaning of that abused word, though for the Indians it is an
everyday feature, albeit a holy mystery, of their lives.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
There are no apt words to characterize your state when you are, shall we say,  &amp;quot;Bemushroomed.&amp;quot;
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
Whåt wë ñèéd î§ 
&lt;a href="http://deoxy.org/def/index.htm"&gt;å vøçåßµlãr¥&lt;/a&gt; tø 
dë§©ríþê ªll thë 
mºdålïtïê§ ðf å dïvïñë 
ïñéþrïåñt.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
These difficulties in communicating have played
their part in certain amusing situations. Two psychiatrists who have
taken the mushroom and known the experience in its full dimensions have
been criticized in professional circles as being no longer &amp;quot;objective.&amp;quot;
&lt;p&gt;Thus we are all divided into two classes: those who have taken the
mushroom and are disqualified by our subjective experience and those
who have not taken the mushroom and are disqualified by their total
ignorance of the subject.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="+2"&gt;
I am profoundly grateful to my Indian friends for having initiated me into the tremendous mystery of the mushroom.
&lt;img src="http://deoxy.org/gif/tmush.gif" alt="fungi" align="top" height="37" hspace="8" width="56" /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://deoxy.org/bmush1.htm"&gt;
&lt;img src="http://deoxy.org/gif/3a.jpg" align="right" border="0" height="182" hspace="20" width="93" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Of
alcohol they speak with the same jocular vulgarity that we do. But
about mushrooms they prefer not to speak at all, at least when they are
in company and especially when strangers, white strangers, are present.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Then, when evening and darkness come and you are alone with a
wise old man or woman whose confidence you have won, by the light of a
candle held in the hand and talking in a whisper, you may bring up the
subject.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
They are never exposed in the marketplace but pass from hand to hand by prearrangement.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://deoxy.org/bmush2.htm"&gt;
&lt;img src="http://deoxy.org/gif/psilly.jpg" alt="P.cubensis" align="left" border="0" height="235" hspace="20" width="98" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
The Aztecs before the Spanish arrived called them &lt;i&gt;Teonanacatl&lt;/i&gt;, God&amp;#39;s flesh. I need hardly remind you of a disquieting parallel, the designation of the &lt;a href="http://deoxy.org/def/element.htm"&gt;elements&lt;/a&gt; in our Eucharist:
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
&amp;quot;Take, eat, this is my body ...&amp;quot;, and again, &amp;quot;Grant us therefore, gracious Lord, so to eat the flesh of Thy dear son...&amp;quot;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;The orthodox Christian must accept by faith the miracle of
the conversion of the bread into God&amp;#39;s flesh: That is what is meant by
the &lt;a href="http://deoxy.org/def/dot.htm"&gt;Doctrine of Transubstantiation&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;

&lt;table cellpadding="8"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;font color="#303030" size="+2"&gt;
By contrast, the mushroom of the Aztecs, carries its own conviction;
every communicant will testify to the miracle that he has experienced.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;p&gt;
In the language of the Mazatecs the sacred mushrooms are called &lt;i&gt;&amp;#39;nti si tho&lt;/i&gt;. The first word, &lt;i&gt;&amp;#39;nti&lt;/i&gt;, is a particle expressing reverence and endearment. The second element means &amp;quot;that which springs forth.&amp;quot;
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://deoxy.org/bmush3.htm"&gt;
&lt;img src="http://deoxy.org/gif/2a.jpg" align="right" border="0" height="180" hspace="20" width="89" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&amp;quot;The little mushroom comes of itself, no one knows whence, like the wind that comes we know not whence nor why.&amp;quot;
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="+2"&gt;
For more than four centuries the Indians have kept the divine mushroom
close to their hearts, sheltered from desecration by white men, a
precious secret.&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
We know that today there are many &lt;i&gt;curanderos&lt;/i&gt; who carry
on the cult, each according to his lights, some of them consummate
artists, performing the ancient liturgy in remote huts before miniscule
congregations.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
They are hard to reach, these &lt;i&gt;curanderos&lt;/i&gt;.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
Do not think that it is a question of money.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
Perhaps you will learn the names of a number of reknown &lt;i&gt;curanderos&lt;/i&gt;, and your emissaries will even promise to deliver them to you, but then you wait and wait and they never come.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
You will brush past them in the marketplace, they will know you, but you will not know them.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The judge in the town hall may be the very man you are seekng:
And you may pass the time of day with him, yet never learn that he is
your &lt;i&gt;curandero&lt;/i&gt;.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
After all, would you have it any different? What priest of the Catholic
Church will perform mass to satisfy an unbeliever&amp;#39;s curiosity?
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://deoxy.org/bmush4.htm"&gt;
&lt;img src="http://deoxy.org/gif/6a.jpg" align="left" border="0" height="186" hspace="20" width="95" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Religion
in primitive society was an awesome reality, &amp;quot;terrible&amp;quot; in the original
meaning of the word, pervading all life and culminating in ceremonies
that were forbidden to the profane.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
Let me point out certain parallels between our Mexican rite and &lt;a href="http://deoxy.org/def/em.htm"&gt;the mystery performed at Eleusis&lt;/a&gt;.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;At the heart of the mystery of Eleusis lay a secret. In the
surviving texts there are numerous references to the secret, but in
none is it revealed.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
From the writings of the Greeks, from a fresco in Pompeii, we know that the initiate drank a potion.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Then, in the depths of the night, he beheld a great vision, and
the next day he was still so awestruck that he felt he would never be
the same man as before.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="+2"&gt;
What the initiate experienced was &amp;quot;new, astonishing, inaccessible to rational 
cognition.&amp;quot;&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://deoxy.org/bmush5.htm"&gt;
&lt;img src="http://deoxy.org/gif/psilly.jpg" alt="P.cubensis" align="left" border="0" height="235" hspace="20" width="98" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
It also seems significant that the Greeks were wont to refer to mushrooms as &amp;quot;the food of the gods,&amp;quot; &lt;i&gt;broma theon&lt;/i&gt;, and that Porphyrius is quoted as having called them &amp;quot;nurslings of the gods,&amp;quot; &lt;i&gt;Theotrophos&lt;/i&gt;.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
They were not for mortal man to eat, at least not every day. We might be dealing with what was in origin a religious tabu...
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
I do not suggest that St. John of Patmos ate mushrooms in order to write the book of Revelation.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yet the succession of images in his vision, so clearly seen but
such a phantasmagoria, means for me that he was in the same state as
one bemushroomed.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The advantage of the mushroom is that it puts many (if not
everyone) within reach of this state without having to suffer the
mortifications of Blake and St. John.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It permits you to see, more clearly than our perishing mortal
eye can see, vistas beyond the horizons of this life, to travel
backwards and forwards in time. To enter other planes of existence,
even (as the Indians say) to know God.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;All that you see during this night has a prisine quality: the
landscape, the edifices, the carvings, the animals - they look as
though they had come straight from the Maker&amp;#39;s workshop.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
This newness of everything - it is as if the world had just dawned - overwhelms you and melts you with its beauty.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;All these things you see with an immediacy of vision that leads
you to say to yourself, &amp;quot;Now I am seeing for the first time, seeing
direct, without the intervention of mortal eyes.&amp;quot;
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://deoxy.org/audio/wisemen.ra"&gt;
&lt;img src="http://deoxy.org/gif/4a.jpg" align="right" border="0" height="183" hspace="20" width="93" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size="+2"&gt;It
is clear to me where Plato found his ideas. It was clear to his
contemporaries too. Plato had drunk of the potion in the Temple of
Eleusis and had spent the night seeing the great vision.&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
And all the time you are seeing these things, the priestess sings, not loud but with authority.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
Your body lies in the darkness, heavy as lead, but your spirit seems to
soar and leave the hut, and with the speed of thought to travel where
it wishes in time and space, accompanied by the shaman&amp;#39;s singing and by
the ejaculations of her percussive chant.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
What you are seeing and what you are hearing appears as one:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;The
music assumes harmonious shapes, giving visual form to its harmonies,
and what you are seeing takes on the modalities of music - the music of
the spheres.&lt;/blockquote&gt;
All your senses are similarly affected:&lt;blockquote&gt;
The cigarette with which you occasionally break the tension of the
night smells as no other cigarette before had ever smelled. The glass
of water is infinitely better than champagne.
&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;a href="http://deoxy.org/audio/axis.ra"&gt;
&lt;img src="http://deoxy.org/gif/nunci.jpg" alt="disembodied eye" align="right" border="0" height="311" width="307" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;font size="+2"&gt;The bemushroomed person is poised in space, a disembodied eye, invisible, incorporeal, seeing but not seen.&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In truth, he is the five senses disembodied, all of them keyed to
the height of sensitivity and awareness, all of them blending into one
another most strangely, until the person, utterly passive, becomes a
pure receptor, infinitely delicate, of sensations.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;As your body lies there in its sleeping bag, your soul is free,
loses all sense of time, alert as it never was before, living an
eternity in a night, seeing infinity in a grain of sand.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
What you have seen and heard is cut as with a burin into your memory, never to be effaced.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="+2"&gt;
At last you know what the ineffable is and what ecstasy means.&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://deoxy.org/audio/breakout.ra"&gt;
&lt;img src="http://deoxy.org/gif/ekstasis.jpg" alt="schematic ecstasy" align="left" border="0" height="418" hspace="15" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
The mind harks back to the origin of that word. For the Greeks &lt;i&gt;ekstasis&lt;/i&gt; meant the flight of the soul from the body. I can find no better word to describe the bemushroomed state.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In common parlance, among the many who have not experienced
ecstasy, ecstasy is fun, and I am frequently asked why I do not reach
for mushrooms every night.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
But ecstasy is not fun. Your very soul is seized and shaken until it tingles.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
After all, who will chose to feel undiluted awe, or to float through that door yonder into the divine presence?
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
The unknowing abuse the word, but we must recapture its full and terrifying sense.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;As man emerged from his brutish past, thousands of years ago,
there was a stage in the evolution of his awareness when the discovery
of a mushroom (or perhaps a higher plant) with miraculous properties
was a revelation to him, a veritable detonator to his soul, arousing in
him sentiments of awe and reverence, and gentleness and love, to the
greatest pitch of which mankind is capable, all those sentiments and
virtues that mankind has ever since regarded as the highest attributes
of his kind.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It made him see what the perishing mortal eye cannot see. The
Greeks were right to hedge about the mystery, this imbibing of the
potion, with secrecy and surveillance.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
What today is resolved into the effects of a mere drug, a &lt;a href="http://deoxy.org/trypfaq.htm"&gt;tryptamine&lt;/a&gt; or lysergic acid derivative, was for them a prodigious miracle, inspiring in them poetry and philosophy and religion.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://deoxy.org/bmush6.htm"&gt;
&lt;img src="http://deoxy.org/gif/1a.jpg" align="left" border="0" height="180" hspace="20" width="88" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size="+2"&gt;
Perhaps with all our modern knowledge we do not need the divine mushroom any more. Perhaps we need them more than ever.&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
Some are shocked that the key to religion might be reduced to a drug.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
On the other hand, the drug is as mysterious as it ever was: Like the wind it cometh we know not whence nor why.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;If our classical scholars were given the opportunity to attend
the rite at Eleusis, to talk with the priestess, they would exchange
anything for that chance.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;They would approach the precincts, enter the hallowed chamber
with the reverence born of the texts venerated by scholars for
millennia.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
And what would be their frame of mind if they were invited to partake of the potion?
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Well, those rites take place now, unbeknownst to the classical
scholars, in scattered dwellings, humble, thatched, without windows,
far from the beaten track.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
If it is the rainy season, perhaps the mystery is accomplished by torrental rains and punctuated by terrifying thunderbolts.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Then, indeed, as you lie there bemushroomed, listening to the
music and seeing visions, you know a soul-shattering experience,
recalling as you do the belief of some primitive peoples that
mushrooms, the sacred mushrooms, are divinely engendered by Jupiter
Fulminans, the god of the lightning bolt, in the soft mother earth.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://deoxy.org/audio/wow.ra"&gt;&lt;img src="http://deoxy.org/gif/mushaman.jpg" alt="Tassili mushroom shaman ala dimitri" border="0" height="440" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;
&lt;a class="" name="top"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size="+4"&gt;bemushröömed&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font size="-1"&gt;From &lt;i&gt;Hallucinogenic Fungi of Mexico&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt; 
&lt;b&gt;by Robert Gordon Wasson&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;
&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://deoxy.org/bexplain.htm"&gt;hypertexture&lt;/a&gt;=&lt;a href="http://deoxy.org/contact.htm"&gt;dimitri&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; - &lt;a href="http://deoxy.org/bmush_au.htm"&gt;audio©redits&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;SOURCE: &lt;a href="http://deoxy.org/bmushrmd.htm"&gt;The Deoxyribonucleic Hyperdimension&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://eeng.net/CS/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1490" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/tags/intelligence/default.aspx">intelligence</category><category domain="http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/tags/cognition/default.aspx">cognition</category><category domain="http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/tags/neuroscience/default.aspx">neuroscience</category><category domain="http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/tags/classics/default.aspx">classics</category><category domain="http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/tags/spirit/default.aspx">spirit</category><category domain="http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/tags/metaphysics/default.aspx">metaphysics</category><category domain="http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/tags/anthropology/default.aspx">anthropology</category><category domain="http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/tags/ethnopharmacology/default.aspx">ethnopharmacology</category><category domain="http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/tags/gnosis/default.aspx">gnosis</category><category domain="http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/tags/counterculture/default.aspx">counterculture</category><category domain="http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/tags/weirdness/default.aspx">weirdness</category><category domain="http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/tags/extraterrestrials/default.aspx">extraterrestrials</category><category domain="http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/tags/meme/default.aspx">meme</category><category domain="http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/tags/morphogenetics/default.aspx">morphogenetics</category></item><item><title>The Hybrid Car is Still a Death Machine: An Eco-Anarchist Manifesto</title><link>http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/2008/03/10/1489.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:03:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">111a0b63-85c4-49af-87c5-bf9d5fd2cde1:1489</guid><dc:creator>smileycoyote</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=1489</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/2008/03/10/1489.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;table&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;by Kalanu Buffalo  - &lt;a href="http://bullsheet.wordpress.com/"&gt;Save Feral Human Habitat&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I’m happy to see that ‘environmentalism’ has become trendy, and that
there is a growing movement in our society to reduce the impacts of our
civilized lifestyle. Yet, those of us who have long considered
ourselves ‘environmentalists’ fear that it may be too little too late,
and that the movement is becoming co-opted by the very forces that we
have been struggling to defeat.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The crisis we face now can be traced back to decisions our culture
made over 10,000 years ago, and compounded since then by millions of
subsequent decisions. This process, whereby we went from a species in
equilibrium with it’s environment to one that is currently destroying
all life around it, has been greatly accelerated in the last 100 years
or so. While this acceleration roughly corresponds with the rise of
fossil fuel use, it is not these particular resources, or use thereof,
that bear the entire responsibility for our current crisis.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;img src="http://anarchistnews.org/files/pictures/death_machine.jpg" title="culture is fucked up" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The use and impacts of these energy resources, being such a
prominent and immediate threat to life, have been focused upon by the
new environmental (green consumer) movement as not only key targets,
but in some cases, the only targets.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
Many old-school environmentalists define their ideology and activism
not just by a desire to reduce our &amp;#39;carbon footprint&amp;#39;, but also by a
desire to have an abundance of intact eco-systems and a broad diversity
of life on the planet. Hybrid cars and compact fluorescent light bulbs
may reduce the amount of carbon we emit into the atmosphere as we go
about our busy civilized lives, but unless we begin to take a brutally
honest approach to a wide variety of elements of society, the toxic
sprawl will continue to drive thousands of critical species (including
our own) into extinction.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The problem lies in the centralized, industrial way that we choose
to support ourselves as a culture. The most sustainable and
‘eco-friendly’ products of the mass consumer culture still require
appalling amounts of water, energy, resources and labour to produce.
All of these things need to be transported, and as these industries
have been globalized, the distances that these things need to be
transported have increased to the absurd and convoluted. The fuel used
by the production and transportation is but one impact of the process.
An army of heavy equipment, fabricated from steel, copper, zinc, iron
and other resources (as well as petroleum products such as lubricants
and plastic) are used in the production and transportation of ALL
industrialized mass consumer products. In the case of the automobile,
the vast majority of the energy and materials used and the waste and
pollution created occurs in the production process.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Where do these materials come from? Whose land? Where does the
massive waste our consumer society generates go? Whose land? Who builds
the earth moving equipment and mining machinery? Who operates them? Who
works in the factory that processes the raw materials and assembles the
products? Who loads them onto trucks, ships, planes and trains? Who
drives these vehicles? What are the working conditions for all these
people? What kind of quality of life do they have? A great deal of
exploitation is occurring around the world to bring us our
‘sustainable’ products. The cost of retrofitting the world with green
technology and fuelling it with energy that costs more to produce than
fossil fuel (as all other energy does) certainly doesn’t leave us much
with which to pay a living wage to those who toil for our comfort.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;These issues, though often referred to as ‘social justice’ issues,
factor into the ideology of many environmentalists. Nowhere is an
environmental issue not a social justice issue. Every step in the
process of bringing mass consumer goods to the homes of the civilized
world, impacts the lives of people who work in these industries and
whose homes are downriver, downwind or have been destroyed by these
industries.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A globalized mass consumer world is not compatible with the ideal of
social justice for all. The industrial system requires slavery and
exploitation. It requires increasing access to resources, which means
displacing people, mainly poor and indigenous people, from their land
base.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Mining and blasting processes, which are critical to the production
of material for ‘green energy’ infrastructure, are apocalyptic to any
ecosystem. The waste generated by these processes poisons rivers, lakes
and oceans and in turn poisons the people who rely on these waterways
for sustenance and survival.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;These and other effects are also to be seen in the production,
transportation and retailing of the ‘green’ and ‘sustainable’ products
and infrastructure that is being created and proposed. (A good local
example is the development on Spaet [Bear] Mountain, in which the
future of the local indigenous cultures, which are in jeopardy in part
from diabetes and other health effects of the western diet, relies on
access to traditional wild foods. By reducing the land base of these
peoples, you reduce their access to healthy food and sabotage their
efforts to survive into the future. This can reasonably be called
genocide.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In short, any movement of ideology that does not advocate
eliminating our dependence on a globalized industrial way of life can
not with any real conscience call itself ‘environmental’, at least not
in the sense that the word is used to mean respect and active
protection of biodiversity and ecological equilibrium.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Any eco-philosophy that fails to take into account the impact of
actions on all life from the smallest micro-organism up to entire human
cultures is but a means to feel good about one’s excessive consumption
and material addictions.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Those of us in the privileged world have become addicted to the
comfort of abundant material wealth. Yet in the majority of the world,
thoroughout the majority of history, people thrive, on far less,
produced closer to home with less resources, used more efficiently for
longer periods of time before being discarded, and discarded in a way
that can even contribute to new products.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The true sustainable energy sources in this world are direct solar
(to heat food, water, grow food, etc), methane digesting of food waste
to produce electricity, heating and cooking fuel, and other
technologies that can be built and maintained on a personal or
community level.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Further energy reduction is achieved by localizing resource use and
reducing the need for most transportation, as well as eliminating many
of the products that those of us in the privileged world take for
granted.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It’s true that we live in a world where many communities lack the
resources for even basic survival, and must rely on imports from other
communities, but from this need has arisen a system that is wasteful,
inefficient and in most cases unnecessary. If we cannot return to a
localized economy than we should be focusing on a future where these
impacts occur only where they truly need to, and resources and energy
used in the most efficient ways.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Those of us who live in areas with abundant resources could do a
much better job of utilizing these resources. Cities could be growing
food on rooftops, or in yards that are now only used for ornamental
grass and shrubs. Rainwater can be utilized and grey water collected to
reduce impact on watersheds and oceans. Food and other waste can be
used to produce methane to eliminate the need for hydro-electricity,
natural gas and home heating fuel. (And to save land from landfill and
avoid flushing it into the ocean where it harms marine life.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Other waste materials can be used to make new products, and this
reduces the impact of extracting, producing and transporting materials
and products.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We need to start perceiving the true impacts of using new products.
As necessary as each new product may be in our lives, each time we
purchase and consume them it is like throwing a live grenade into the
communities affected by the production of these products. As necessary
as each product may be, it can never be forgotten that we must TAKE
LIFE to create it, and in the case of the land and ecosystems from
which the raw materials and energy originate, that life may take
thousands of years to return, if it returns at all.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Some purchases are unavoidable, but in the case of our culture, most
ARE avoidable, thus we have no excuse for such casual taking of life.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;‘Sustainable’ products and energy are that which can be harvested
and produced close to where we live, with the least possible impact on
the natural environment, with attention to quality (so they last), that
fill a needed role in our lives, and can be re-used, recycled or
discarded in a way that creates the least impact. All other products
are destructive and counter-productive to our struggle to survive on a
healthy planet.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The green consumer movement is not ‘environmentally friendly’, and
the measures being proposed by the new mainstream environmental
movement are nowhere near a solution for the crisis we face. If the
power to ‘save the environment’ is in the hands of the people, than we
need to use those hands to create the world we want, not to hand power
over to the corporations and governments to pervert and waste. A
centralized industrial world can only create ecological damage,
genocide and exploitation. It’s time we began taking the radical
alternatives seriously and begin to examine the impacts of every aspect
of our lives.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;SOURCE: &lt;a href="http://deoxy.org/axis"&gt;deoxy.axis&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://eeng.net/CS/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1489" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/tags/hope/default.aspx">hope</category><category domain="http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/tags/revolution/default.aspx">revolution</category><category domain="http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/tags/change/default.aspx">change</category><category domain="http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/tags/environment/default.aspx">environment</category><category domain="http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/tags/ecology/default.aspx">ecology</category><category domain="http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/tags/capitalism/default.aspx">capitalism</category><category domain="http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/tags/global+warming/default.aspx">global warming</category><category domain="http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/tags/corporatism/default.aspx">corporatism</category><category domain="http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/tags/activism/default.aspx">activism</category><category domain="http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/tags/anthropology/default.aspx">anthropology</category><category domain="http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/tags/health/default.aspx">health</category><category domain="http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/tags/sustainability/default.aspx">sustainability</category><category domain="http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/tags/pollution/default.aspx">pollution</category><category domain="http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/tags/deforestation/default.aspx">deforestation</category><category domain="http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/tags/primitivism/default.aspx">primitivism</category><category domain="http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/tags/anarchy/default.aspx">anarchy</category><category domain="http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/tags/counterculture/default.aspx">counterculture</category><category domain="http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/tags/freedom/default.aspx">freedom</category></item><item><title>Scientists a Step Closer to Steering Hurricanes</title><link>http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/2008/03/02/1476.aspx</link><pubDate>Sun, 02 Mar 2008 14:28:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">111a0b63-85c4-49af-87c5-bf9d5fd2cde1:1476</guid><dc:creator>smileycoyote</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=1476</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/2008/03/02/1476.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;Of course, we all know this is just delayed disclosure and that delay can be measured in years, if not decades.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="4"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="storyby"&gt;Scientists a Step Closer to Steering Hurricanes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="storyby"&gt;By Tim Shipman in Washington&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="float:left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="filed"&gt;Last Updated: &lt;span&gt;2:38am BST&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;24/10/2007&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="small"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="story2"&gt;
Scientists have made a breakthrough in man&amp;#39;s desire to control the
forces of nature – unveiling plans to weaken hurricanes and steer them
off course, to prevent tragedies such as Hurricane Katrina.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class="listory"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2007/05/04/eablogpearce04.xml"&gt;Is the US heading for an environmental 9/11?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class="listory"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2007/09/26/sciwater126.xml"&gt;James Lovelock&amp;#39;s plan to pump ocean water to stop climate change&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;p class="story2"&gt;The
damage done to New Orleans in 2005 has spurred two rival teams of
climate experts, in America and Israel, to redouble their efforts to
enable people to play God with the weather. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="story2"&gt;Under
one scheme, aircraft would drop soot into the near-freezing cloud at
the top of a hurricane, causing it to warm up and so reduce wind
speeds. Computer simulations of the forces at work in the most violent
storms have shown that even small changes can affect their paths –
enabling them to be diverted from major cities.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;table align="right" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td rowspan="2"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/graphics/2007/10/21/wstorm121.gif" alt="How to halt a hurricane: Click to enlarge" border="0" height="270" width="340" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="caption"&gt;How to halt a hurricane: &lt;a&gt;Click to enlarge&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;p class="story2"&gt;But
the hurricane modifiers are fighting more than the weather. Lawyers
warn that diverting a hurricane from one city to save life and property
could result in multi-billion dollar lawsuits from towns that bear the
brunt instead. Hurricane Katrina caused about $41 billion in damage to
New Orleans. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hurricanes form when air warmed over the ocean
rises to meet the cool upper atmosphere. The heat turns to kinetic
energy, producing a spiral of wind and rain. The greater the
temperature differences between top and bottom, and the narrower the
eye of the hurricane, the faster it blows.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="story2"&gt;Moshe
Alamaro, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), told The
Sunday Telegraph of his plans to &amp;quot;paint&amp;quot; the tops of hurricanes black
by scattering carbon particles – either soot or black particles from
the manufacture of tyres – from aircraft flying above the storms. The
particles would absorb heat from the sun, leading to changes in the
airflows within the storm. Satellites could also heat the cloud tops by
beaming microwaves from space.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="story2"&gt;&amp;quot;If they&amp;#39;re done in the right place at the right time they can affect the strength of the hurricane,&amp;quot; Mr Alamaro said.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="story2"&gt;The
theory has so far been tested only in computer simulation by Mr
Alamaro&amp;#39;s colleague, Ross Hoffman. Mr Alamaro said: &amp;quot;With small changes
to this side or that side of the hurricane we can nudge it and change
its track. We&amp;#39;re starting with computer simulations, then will
hopefully experiment on a small weather system.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="story2"&gt;Last
month scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem announced that
they had simulated the effect of sowing clouds with microscopic dust to
cool the hurricane&amp;#39;s base, also weakening it. The dust would attract
water but would form droplets too small to fall as rain. Instead, they
would rise and evaporate, cooling hot air at the hurricane base.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class="listory"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2007/10/17/scidive117.xml"&gt;Space diving to be next extreme sport&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class="listory"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2007/10/17/sciocean117.xml"&gt;Acidic oceans threaten marine life&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class="listory"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2007/10/13/eastorm113.xml"&gt;1987 Great Storm: Terrible blow, not a knockout&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;p class="story2"&gt;In
findings presented at a conference in Trieste, Italy, the team led by
Daniel Rosenfeld demonstrated that dust dropped into the lower part of
Hurricane Katrina would have reduced wind speeds and diverted its
course.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="story2"&gt; The MIT team has now hired a professor of
risk management to advise on steps necessary to protect themselves from
legal action by communities affected if a hurricane is diverted. It is
pressing for changes to US law and for an international treaty to
settle possible disputes between neighbouring countries.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="story2"&gt;Mr
Alamaro said: &amp;quot;The social and legal issues are daunting. If a hurricane
were coming towards Miami with the potential to cause damage and kill
people, and we diverted it, another town or village hit by it would sue
us. They&amp;#39;ll say the hurricane is no longer an act of God, but that we
caused it.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;SOURCE: &lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/10/21/wstorm121.xml"&gt;The Telegraph (UK)&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://eeng.net/CS/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1476" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/tags/signals+intelligence/default.aspx">signals intelligence</category><category domain="http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/tags/chaos+theory/default.aspx">chaos theory</category><category domain="http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/tags/geophysics/default.aspx">geophysics</category><category domain="http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/tags/electrostatics/default.aspx">electrostatics</category><category domain="http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/tags/weather+modification/default.aspx">weather modification</category><category domain="http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/tags/HAARP/default.aspx">HAARP</category><category domain="http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/tags/chemtrails/default.aspx">chemtrails</category><category domain="http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/tags/SDI/default.aspx">SDI</category><category domain="http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/tags/atmospheric+physics/default.aspx">atmospheric physics</category></item><item><title>[VIDEO]  CITIZEN TAKES ACTION TO SHUT DOWN HORSE BUTTE BISON TRAP</title><link>http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/2008/03/02/1475.aspx</link><pubDate>Sun, 02 Mar 2008 14:11:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">111a0b63-85c4-49af-87c5-bf9d5fd2cde1:1475</guid><dc:creator>smileycoyote</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=1475</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/2008/03/02/1475.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;Our grasslands are in dire need of restoration and wild bison are the anwer.&amp;nbsp; A bison&amp;#39;s hoof shape tills the soil in a natural fashion; they are adapted to this ecosystem.&amp;nbsp; Cattle are not and their hoof shape was fashioned over millenia of wetlands dwelling.&amp;nbsp; Their flat hoof shape pounds the soil down into what Edward Abbey called &amp;quot;cow burnt.&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp; Still, to this day, we keep these monoliths on a reservation called Yellowstone National Park.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Here are a couple of relevant videos: &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTwMIzB0Tto"&gt;one&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIPMLA8v7qE"&gt;two&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;As well, here is the latest from the Buffalo Field Campaign:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"&gt;* 
                          Citizen Blockade Closes Horse Butte Trap for 15 Hours!&lt;br /&gt;
                          * Update from the Field&lt;br /&gt;
                          * BFC&amp;#39;s Responds to Lousy &amp;quot;Deal&amp;quot; Proposed 
                          for Bison on CUT Land&lt;br /&gt;
                          * Thank You Idaho State University!&lt;br /&gt;
                          * Photo of the Week&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;
                    
                     
                       &lt;font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;* 
                          Citizen Blockade Closes Horse Butte Trap for 15 Hours!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
                          On Monday morning, Horse Butte patrols arrived to see 
                          an amazing sight. When they approached the area of the 
                          Horse Butte bison trap, they saw a 40-foot bipod holding 
                          bison advocate, Nathan Drake, up on a platform inside 
                          the trap. Suspended from his platform was a large banner 
                          that read: &amp;quot;I called, I wrote, and no response.... 
                          This is my response.&amp;quot; It was a beautiful sight, 
                          and by taking this direct action, Nate rendered the 
                          trap inoperable for 15 hours. He was even visited by 
                          a young buffalo, who broke through the police tape surrounding 
                          the trap site. Around 4pm that afternoon, agents arrived 
                          to discover their buffalo trap was closed. Unfortunately, 
                          within about two hours, he was cruelly removed by deputized 
                          Department of Livestock inspectors, Gallatin National 
                          Forest law enforcement officers, and a Gallatin County 
                          Sheriff. He was charged with three misdemeanors: trespassing, 
                          resisting arrest, and obstructing a peace officer. He 
                          was released on $5,000 bail, an enormous amount for 
                          such an action.&lt;br /&gt;
                          &lt;br /&gt;
                          Nathan Drake is among our heros. As others have before 
                          him, he felt strongly enough to put his life and freedom 
                          on the line for the buffalo. And he also did this for 
                          each and every one of us who have raised our voices 
                          time and again in protest, going through the channels 
                          of democracy, without being heard.&lt;br /&gt;
                          &lt;br /&gt;
                          Here is Nate&amp;#39;s statement, his story about why he did 
                          it, and what happened while he was up there.&lt;br /&gt;
                          &lt;a href="http://www.buffalofieldcampaign.org/media/press0708/pressreleases0708/statement022808.html"&gt;http://www.buffalofieldcampaign.org/media/press0708/pressreleases0708/statement022808.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
                          &lt;br /&gt;
                          Footage of Nate&amp;#39;s occupation of the trap, and subsequent 
                          removal can be viewed on our home page: &lt;a href="http://www.buffalofieldcampaign.org/"&gt;http://www.buffalofieldcampaign.org&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
                          &lt;br /&gt;
                          WE LOVE YOU AND THANK YOU, NATE!!!!&lt;br /&gt;
                          ------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;
                          &lt;b&gt;* Update from the Field&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
                          Dear Buffalo Friends,&lt;br /&gt;
                          It is always so difficult to begin these updates by 
                          telling you more buffalo have been killed, despite all 
                          of our collective efforts to stop the slaughter. Even 
                          despite the direct action taken by Nathan Drake. But 
                          we won&amp;#39;t let this dampen our fire. Instead, we will 
                          turn the heat up on the decision-makers responsible, 
                          holding them accountable for these atrocious actions, 
                          and demand the slaughter to stop. We will do this until 
                          they have no choice but to hear us and take appropriate 
                          actions that set the buffalo free. We can&amp;#39;t thank you 
                          all enough for being a voice for the last wild buffalo 
                          and for continuing to fight for their freedom. &lt;br /&gt;
                          &lt;br /&gt;
                          Keep it up: &lt;a href="http://www.buffalofieldcampaign.org/actnow/politicians.html"&gt;http://www.buffalofieldcampaign.org/actnow/politicians.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
                          &lt;br /&gt;
                          Since February 11, Yellowstone National Park and the 
                          Montana Department of Livestock have slaughtered 505 
                          of America&amp;#39;s last wild buffalo. Yellowstone Park Rangers 
                          have captured 607 wild buffalo in the Stephens Creek 
                          bison trap, located inside Yellowstone National Park.&lt;br /&gt;
                          &lt;br /&gt;
                          The day after Nate was removed from the bipod, the Department 
                          of Livestock showed spite. They captured 30 buffalo 
                          in the Horse Butte trap, then transported them to the 
                          Duck Creek bison trap, and Wednesday morning they transported 
                          them all to slaughter. You can see video footage of 
                          an interview at Horse Butte with local buffalo advocate, 
                          Ann Stovall, during Nate&amp;#39;s occupation, as well as footage 
                          of the DOL&amp;#39;s capture here &lt;a href="http://www.buffalofieldcampaign.org/"&gt;http://www.buffalofieldcampaign.org&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
                          &lt;br /&gt;
                          All of the captured buffalo are being shipped to slaughter 
                          without even being tested for exposure to brucellosis, 
                          the supposed reason for the mismanagement scheme. But 
                          all the science and logic points directly to this *not* 
                          being about brucellosis at all, but about the grass 
                          and who gets to eat it. The cattle industry is trying 
                          to maintain control over grasslands, so taking beef 
                          off of your menu is another way you can help the buffalo. 
                          Don&amp;#39;t give these killers your money!&lt;br /&gt;
                          &lt;br /&gt;
                          Hunting has slowed down a bit since we last wrote, though 
                          three buffalo were taken by Nez Perce treaty hunters 
                          in Gardiner this week. Today, an interesting thing happened. 
                          The Nez Perce killed two buffalo on the West side of 
                          the Yellowstone River, outside the state&amp;#39;s hunt zone. 
                          They took the buffalo in an area called Beattie Gulch, 
                          National Forest land that dissects the border of Yellowstone 
                          Park and Church Universal and Triumphant (CUT) land. 
                          While they were field dressing the buffalo, they saw 
                          114 buffalo being hazed into the Stephens Creek bison 
                          trap by Park Rangers. They were very upset to see this 
                          happening, and we are hopeful that their witnessing 
                          this incident will encourage them to help us stop the 
                          government and cattle industry from such insane actions. 
                          BFC patrols documented the incident and got some good 
                          interviews with the Nez Perce hunters which we will 
                          have available on the web site by the weekend.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"&gt;
                          It&amp;#39;s a very difficult time for all of us witnessing 
                          this buffalo death, but most importantly, it is difficult 
                          for the buffalo. We suffer with the buffalo, to be sure, 
                          and many volunteers are having a hard time processing 
                          all of this. But the buffalo teach us how to be a strong 
                          family, and so we are able to help each other through 
                          the dark times, so that we can carry on to help the 
                          buffalo. They are strong survivors, as is evidenced 
                          by the fact that they have existed since prehistoric 
                          times. In the face of it all, they persist, resist, 
                          and endure.&lt;br /&gt;
                          &lt;br /&gt;
                          Some of you will recall about three years ago, a Lakota 
                          medicine man came and did a very sacred ceremony with 
                          us for the buffalo. He let us know then that things 
                          would get worse before they get better. We have been 
                          told the same by other Native American Buffalo Culture 
                          voices as well. And we are certainly seeing it happen. 
                          But things WILL get better. This will not go on forever. 
                          And as Rosalie Little Thunder recently said, the pendulum 
                          can only swing so far before it swings back in the other 
                          direction.&lt;br /&gt;
                          &lt;br /&gt;
                          Roam Free,&lt;br /&gt;
                          ~Stephany&lt;br /&gt;
                          ------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;
                          &lt;b&gt;* BFC&amp;#39;s Responds to Lousy &amp;quot;Deal&amp;quot; Proposed 
                          for Bison on CUT Land&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
                          Yesterday, Buffalo Field Campaign released a letter 
                          to the Church Universal and Triumphant and Montana Fish, 
                          Wildlife &amp;amp; Parks on a proposed 30-year lease to 
                          allow some captured, tested bison to be on Church lands 
                          from December 1 to April 15 west of the Yellowstone 
                          River from Beattie Gulch, on the Park&amp;#39;s northern border, 
                          to Yankee Jim Canyon.&lt;br /&gt;
                          &lt;br /&gt;
                          Buffalo Field Campaign has long advocated that wild 
                          bison migrating along the Yellowstone River in the Gardiner 
                          Basin be allowed to range on public lands under U.S. 
                          Forest Service authority, and lands acquired and conserved 
                          under the taxpayer funded $13,000,000 Royal Teton Ranch 
                          land deal agreed to in 1999 with the Church Universal 
                          and Triumphant.&lt;br /&gt;
                          &lt;br /&gt;
                          There is a valid concern that what the public has already 
                          paid for with taxpayer money appropriated by the U.S. 
                          Congress - with no benefit to wild bison despite its 
                          promise to provide a &amp;quot;safe haven for the bison&amp;quot; 
                          - will be paid for again by the public through a multi-million 
                          dollar 30-year lease to remove cattle from Church Universal 
                          and Triumphant lands west of the Yellowstone River.&lt;br /&gt;
                          &lt;br /&gt;
                          Buffalo Field Campaign encourages you to contact decision 
                          makers to let them know how you feel about the lack 
                          of accountability and the broken promises made in the 
                          taxpayer funded Royal Teton Ranch land deal.&lt;br /&gt;
                          &lt;br /&gt;
                          Senator Max Baucus was instrumental in securing funding 
                          to acquire and conserve wildlife habitat on the Royal 
                          Teton Ranch in the Gardiner Basin, critical winter range 
                          for migrating bison. As long as Church cattle remain, 
                          the National Park Service will capture bison for slaughter 
                          inside Yellowstone National Park at Stephens Creek. 
                          So far this winter 631 bison have been captured and 
                          475 slaughtered by the National Park Service.&lt;br /&gt;
                          &lt;br /&gt;
                          Representative Nick J. Rahall, II and Representative 
                          Maurice Hinchey requested the Government Accountability 
                          Office (GAO) to investigate and report on the Interagency 
                          Bison Management Plan, which covers the Royal Teton 
                          Ranch land deal.&lt;br /&gt;
                          &lt;br /&gt;
                          The GAO&amp;#39;s report is due to be released soon, and the 
                          findings will play an important role in formulating 
                          Congressional legislation to help protect America&amp;#39;s 
                          last wild bison herd and its native habitat in Yellowstone.&lt;br /&gt;
                          &lt;br /&gt;
                          BFC will soon have a web link up (&lt;a href="http://www.buffalofieldcampaign.org/legal/rtr.html"&gt;http://www.buffalofieldcampaign.org/legal/rtr.html&lt;/a&gt;) 
                          sharing our letter and additional information you can 
                          use to inform yourself and contact your member of Congress. 
                          Stay tuned and check back over the weekend. Darrell 
                          Geist, BFC habitat coordinator------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;
                          &lt;b&gt;* Thank You Idaho State University!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
                          A special thanks to the staff, facility and students 
                          of the Sho-Ban High School for welcoming Mike Mease 
                          to visit and make a presentation about the Yellowstone 
                          buffalo. Also that night he spoke at Idaho State University 
                          sponsored by Portneuf Valley Audubon Society, Sierra 
                          Club and Student Volunteers for the Environment. An 
                          extra special thanks to David Mead and Mr. Cosgrove.&lt;br /&gt;
                          ------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;
                          &lt;b&gt;* Photo of the Week&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
                          Nathan Drake occupies and shuts down the Horse Butte 
                          bison trap for 15 hours. Outside the trap is DOL agent 
                          Shane Grube, wondering what to do about this little 
                          wrench in their buffalo killing plans.&lt;br /&gt;
                          &lt;a href="http://gallery.buffalofieldcampaign.org/v/photo_of_the_week/HorseButteTrapClosed.jpg.html"&gt;http://gallery.buffalofieldcampaign.org/v/photo_of_the_week/HorseButteTrapClosed.jpg.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
                          ------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;
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			- TIME TO DECLARE CONTINUING INDEPENDENCE&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
			&lt;b&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;MNN.&lt;/font&gt; Feb. 2, 2008.&lt;/b&gt; There are some very confused minds at Six Nations. The latest update from Hazel Hill lays out the complete violation of the Great Law. A whole slew of interest groups have sprung up purporting to have a say in nation business. For one, the traitorous band council can never have a voice. Neither can these kitchen table, arena groups and social clubs. Anyone outside the clans, the Two Row and Great Law has no voice. &lt;br /&gt;
			&lt;br /&gt;
			After we physically reclaimed our land in 2006, talks began about reclaiming the rest of it. The negotiators called “sell-outs” and the “Confederacy Chiefs” have fallen into the colonial trap of meeting behind closed doors and working out a “self-government” deal under Canada, without the knowledge or consent of the people. In other words, they’re selling out despite 200 years of resistance by our ancestors. &lt;br /&gt;
			&lt;br /&gt;
			The sell-outs are letting colonial law override the Great Law. This is turning into a “joint venture” business deal. The actions of the sell-outs is collusion, fraud and betrayal. We cannot negotiate with anyone that doesn’t own anything. We own everything. The intruders are making offers to these sell-outs. Then they take it to the people for sanctioning.&lt;br /&gt;
			&lt;br /&gt;
			They are working towards “municipalizing” the “Confederacy”. They are falling right into the colonial “divide and rule” trap. We’ve told the sell-outs over and over again that we will not give up anything. The colonists present the terms and tell the sell-outs, “Take it or leave it! Get it past the people and then get back to us”. And, “If you succeed, it’ll be worth your while”. Nudge, nudge, wink, wink! &lt;br /&gt;
			&lt;br /&gt;
			The sell-outs deliberately restrict themselves to the “community” of Six Nations so that a municipality can be set up by Canada. The update constantly refers to the “Crown! Crown!Crown!” “Nothing but servants of the Crown, my liege!” Today this means the sell-outs are serving the “gangsters” who have taken over. &lt;br /&gt;
			&lt;br /&gt;
			Everyone knows the Mohawks will never give up anything. The Halidmand Tract is part of the greater Haudenosaunee territory. The sell-outs and the limited “community” they are appealing to live on our territory. They have no authority to make any deal on our behalf. &lt;br /&gt;
			&lt;br /&gt;
			All Mohawks must be brought in from all our communities and those scattered throughout Onowaregeh, as the Great Law provides. We are a nation, not a community. The Haldimand Tract is Mohawk land. The other nations who live on our tract may be finding it easy to give away our rights as it’s not theirs. The British have always gone to other nations like the Mississauga to trade and barter Haudenosaunee land. &lt;br /&gt;
			&lt;br /&gt;
			The sell-outs have been in there too long, had too many dinners and late nights with the colonists. This leaves them open to fraud, softening up and seeing too much of the colonial side. &lt;br /&gt;
			&lt;br /&gt;
			A colonial white lawyer, Aaron Detlor, is running the “Confederacy” show!&lt;br /&gt;
			&lt;br /&gt;
			He set up the Haudenosaunee Development Institute HDI without the Mohawks to bypass the people and our decision making process through the clans and all the other Haudenosaunee communities. No business can be conducted without us. &lt;br /&gt;
			&lt;br /&gt;
			HDI mimics the colonial system and puts an HDI stamp on it. HDI plans to use our land as collateral to go to the colonial banks, developers and investors. We don’t use land as collateral for anybody or anything ever! We don’t issue permits to foreigners. &lt;br /&gt;
			&lt;br /&gt;
			We never gave up our sovereignty, our land and our independence. The only right the “Crown” has is to come to us with their hat in their hand to ask us to exist here. Nothing below or above the ground can ever be sold. It turns out all the so-called “leases” are frauds. It is up to the Canadian government to prove to us they are not, which they can’t. This ain’t do-able! We will do what the Lakota Nation just did, terminate all leases and agreements and continue our independent sovereignty and the reclamation of all our lands and resources. This would respect international law, Haudenosaunee rights and Canadian law. &lt;br /&gt;
			&lt;br /&gt;
			Just because the intruders have big guns, are ruthless, vicious and can control our people, our land and our resources by threats, force and deceit doesn’t make their shenanigans any less criminal. Might is not right. &lt;br /&gt;
			&lt;br /&gt;
			Where are the sell-outs and colonists meeting? In some conference room somewhere? Shouldn’t it be in public just like the Great Law states where we can keep an eye on everybody and so we are all well informed? This is not such a radical idea. Even the colonists have their Parliament which they mostly use as a rubber stamp. Are the colonists scared? Nothing is going to happen to them if they meet with us in public and are truthful, forthright and law abiding. They have to respect the fact that we are the true possessors of this continent. &lt;br /&gt;
			&lt;br /&gt;
			Why is Alan McNaughton calling himself a chief of the Mohawks? According to the Great Law, the chief has to be condoled and take the name of one of the original 50 chiefs. Alan represents Alan, something like Joseph Brant did. He was a British subject and mason who sat as a ceremonial “Pine Tree Chief” with no power. His only purpose was to translate for the Confederacy. Yet the British got him to sign all kinds of fraudulent documents. Joseph Brant and Alan McNaughton can’t sign s—t! If one chief is missing out of the circle, the meetings cannot be conducted. It goes to the clans and the war chiefs. Only a warrior designated by the clans can sign on our behalf. This has to be done in front of all the people. &lt;br /&gt;
			&lt;br /&gt;
			We have to question these guys who call themselves chiefs like “Chief Pete Sky”, “Chief Alan McNaughton”, “Chief Leroy Hill” and “Chief Summerfall Winterspring“. These chiefs are advocates of a foreign ideology known as the Handsome Lake Christian based code. The Great Law does not allow us to serve somebody like a bunch of dummies. &lt;br /&gt;
			&lt;br /&gt;
			We finally figured out what’s wrong with the people at Six. They seem to be suffering from “Brantosis” – a newly diagnosed psychological disorder. It is believed to be caused by the “bread and cheese” they eat every May 24th on the Queen’s birthday. Sometimes it is affected by a peculiar fungus that acts on some people to induce the delusion that they have become Joseph Brant. &lt;br /&gt;
			&lt;br /&gt;
			It’s sort of like the ergot on bread that LSD comes from. The cheese also makes them constipated and full of s--t. This makes them think they are higher than the people. In a sense it’s true because they’re so stoned and Oh! Phew! &lt;br /&gt;
			&lt;br /&gt;
			The trouble is they’re being used and they develop a compulsion to sign everything away to anyone waving a foreign flag, just like Joey Brant did. If anyone knows of a good antidote, please send it quick to the sell-outs, and chiefs Peter, Alan, Leroy and Summerfall. &lt;br /&gt;
			&lt;br /&gt;
			The other antidote is for them to read Seth Newhouse’s version of the Great Law. There is only one Confederacy Grand Council fire in Onondaga in so-called New York State . We still have 9 Mohawk Chiefs, 9 clan mothers and three clans. The Grand Council is not at the Onondaga longhouse in Grand River . The Mohawk council pulled out of the Grand Council in the 1700s thereby rendering all treaty making void. Without the Mohawks no Grand Council can be conducted. Every international alliance or trade agreement [Treaty of Canadaigua, Oneida ’s land grant to the Thirteen Colonies before 1776, etc. ] made since then is fraudulent. We are the Elder Brother and we have to be there. It’s time for the Confederacy Chiefs and clan mothers at Grandeur River to lose their delusions of grandeur and to stop this on-going charade.&lt;br /&gt;
			&lt;br /&gt;
			When Hazel says, the “creator, creator, creator”, we are being put down as subservient. No one can tell us or give us permission to do what is right. This “creator” stuff is Christian gobbledegook. It’s meant to establish a hierarchical system with someone sitting on top of everybody’s head. This unknown made-up wizard that represents the European oligarchy can give and take away. It’s a trap to misinterpret our relationship to the natural world and to each other. The “kasastenera kowa sa oiera”, the great natural power, describes us as being part of the natural world, not above or beneath anything. &lt;br /&gt;
			&lt;br /&gt;
			It’s all part of the sales pitch to lie to us and make us think that we can sell our land and resources, which we can’t. &lt;br /&gt;
			&lt;br /&gt;
			Whether they realize it or not, these sell-outs are working to bring us marching back into the 19th Century to complete the colonial vision. They could never bring our ancestors into submission. &lt;br /&gt;
			&lt;br /&gt;
			The whole effort at smoke and mirrors is to help the colonists extract our assets from us. They want us to forget about the coming generations in our society and theirs. It’s a short term deal or “fix” for the benefit of a few colonists and their controlled puppets. &lt;br /&gt;
			&lt;br /&gt;
			These sell-outs must be replaced immediately by the real representatives who will conduct talks under the guidance of the Great Law. We are being lied to. &lt;br /&gt;
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			&lt;b&gt;Kahentinetha Horn&lt;br /&gt;
			&lt;a href="http://www.mohawknationnews.com/news/singlenews.php?lang=en&amp;amp;category=21&amp;amp;newsnr=554"&gt;MNN Mohawk Nation News&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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UN$&lt;br /&gt;l=3         real lives &lt;a href="http://mediafilter.org/shadow/S41/S41.5thst.html"&gt;neutralized&lt;/a&gt;...                =7&amp;amp;&lt;br /&gt;ena                                                  sin&lt;br /&gt;la%         The tactic of media is invisible.        fre&lt;br /&gt;Cop         invisible in plain sight...              dia&lt;br /&gt;raq         the tactic of media is to make           fre&lt;br /&gt;Kee         the invisible visible...                 ive&lt;br /&gt;/gu                                                  all&lt;br /&gt;de-p./WW/IS/?=angola%27s+war-p./WW/IS/?=biological+warfa&lt;br /&gt;reuide?=/WW/IS/?=&lt;a href="http://mediafilter.org/caq/CAQ.militia.html"&gt;M&lt;/a&gt;ilitias&lt;a href="http://mediafilter.org/caq/Caq53.mmc.html"&gt;+M&lt;/a&gt;ilitary/WW/IS/?qt=Black+Panth&lt;br /&gt;er+Party/WW/IS/?=black+&lt;a href="http://shadow.mediafilter.org/MFF/S36/S36.DBW.html" target="new"&gt;rev&lt;/a&gt;olutionariesp./WW/IS/?=bosnian&lt;br /&gt;+war+historyp./WW/IS/?=Bosnia%2C+civil+warhttp://guide-p&lt;br /&gt;/WW/IS/BOSNIA/WW/IS/?=bosnia+elections+1990&lt;a href="http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/ops/kosovo.htm"&gt;Kosovo&lt;/a&gt;/guide-&lt;br /&gt;./WW/IS/?=chemicalsde-p./WW/IS/?=chemical+warfareitles?=&lt;br /&gt;chemical+warheads+in+the+persian+&lt;a href="http://mediafilter.org/caq/Caq53.gws.html"&gt;g&lt;/a&gt;ulf+&lt;a href="http://mediafilter.org/caq/Caq53.gws.html"&gt;w&lt;/a&gt;ar/guide-p.info.c&lt;br /&gt;om/WW/IS/?=chemical+war:&lt;a href="http://mediafilter.org/caq/Caq53.court.html"&gt;FISA&lt;/a&gt;+&lt;a href="http://shadow.mediafilter.org/shadow/S44/s44sting.html" class="" name="secret_court_shadow"&gt;s&lt;/a&gt;ecret+court?=COINTELPROide&lt;br /&gt;-p./WWIS/?=&lt;a href="http://mediafilter.org/caq/CovOps.html"&gt;covert&lt;/a&gt;+activityCIA,FBI,WarZone,Balkans,Arkzin&lt;br /&gt;,GloboCopWatch,&lt;a href="http://mediafilter.org/caq/Hill%26Knowlton.html"&gt;P&lt;/a&gt;ublic+&lt;a href="http://mediafilter.org/caq/Caq55.prwar.html"&gt;R&lt;/a&gt;elations,PrivatePrisons,&lt;a href="http://mediafilter.org/caq/CAQ52Rwanda.html"&gt;R&lt;/a&gt;wanda,ge&lt;br /&gt;nocide,&lt;a href="http://mediafilter.org/Shadow/S40/S40.DrugWar.html"&gt;W&lt;/a&gt;ar0n&lt;a href="http://mediafilter.org/shadow/S41/S41.DrugWar.html"&gt;D&lt;/a&gt;rugs,SarajevoPipeline,Globo&lt;a href="http://mediafilter.org/globocop"&gt;CopWatch&lt;/a&gt;,autono.&lt;br /&gt;net,Project+&lt;a href="http://mediafilter.org/mediafilter.org/echelon" class="" name="echelon_hager_caq"&gt;E&lt;/a&gt;CHELON,&lt;a href="http://mediafilter.org/caq/CAQ58burmese.html"&gt;B&lt;/a&gt;urma+slavery,Peru,&lt;a href="http://mediafilter.org/caq/fallingnukes"&gt;C&lt;/a&gt;assini+Plutonium&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://econo.war.xs2.net/"&gt;E&lt;/a&gt;conomic+&lt;a href="http://econo.war.xs2.net/"&gt;W&lt;/a&gt;arfare.&lt;a href="http://freethemedia.org/"&gt;F&lt;/a&gt;ree.The.Med&lt;a href="http://freethemedia.org/"&gt;ia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://reclaimthe.net/"&gt;!Re&lt;/a&gt;claimThe.&lt;a href="http://reclaimthe.net/"&gt;Net!&lt;/a&gt;Media.WAR&lt;br /&gt;Ur&lt;a href="http://infowar.net/warathome"&gt;ban&lt;/a&gt;+&lt;a href="http://warat.home.xs2.net/"&gt;War&lt;/a&gt;fare=WAR+on+TERROR?Corporate+Fascism!Media.War|&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;SOURCE: &lt;a href="http://mediafilter.org/"&gt;Media Filter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://eeng.net/CS/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1438" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/tags/Conspiracy/default.aspx">Conspiracy</category><category domain="http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/tags/politics/default.aspx">politics</category><category domain="http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/tags/classics/default.aspx">classics</category><category domain="http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/tags/activism/default.aspx">activism</category><category domain="http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/tags/media/default.aspx">media</category><category domain="http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/tags/internet/default.aspx">internet</category><category domain="http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/tags/links/default.aspx">links</category></item><item><title>Al Qaeda is a Hoax</title><link>http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/2008/02/16/1435.aspx</link><pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 16:18:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">111a0b63-85c4-49af-87c5-bf9d5fd2cde1:1435</guid><dc:creator>smileycoyote</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=1435</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/2008/02/16/1435.aspx#comments</comments><description>Pravda: “ &amp;#39;Al Qaeda&amp;#39; is nothing more than a broad euphemistic umbrella classification used to group any Middle Eastern fighter under the Sun as an enemy. The most diabolical aspect of this public relations stunt is that it enables the current Administration to label any group it feels necessary to attack to appear to be related to an unprovable organized enemy while at the same time actually increasing its approval ratings by exploiting the basic primal fears of the American public.&amp;quot;
&lt;p&gt;
&lt;a href="http://english.pravda.ru/mailbox/22/101/397/13821_AlQaeda.html"&gt;Al Qaeda Does Not Exist and Never Has&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.angelfire.com/mi/smilinks/alqaeda.html"&gt;Al Qaeda are the U.S. Gov&amp;#39;t&amp;#39;s Greatest Ally&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;
&lt;a href="http://justanotherblowback.blogspot.com/2006/09/bush-and-bin-ladens-shared-political.html"&gt;Bush and bin Laden&amp;#39;s Shared Political Goals Are Enough To Freak Out Anybody&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/00000006DFED.htm"&gt;Does al-Qaeda exist?&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;
&lt;a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2550513.stm"&gt;Israel &amp;#39;faked al-Qaeda presence&amp;#39;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;
This ought to be a good test.  In the past, posting this meme to various forums has drawn hacks, cracks, and character attacks.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://eeng.net/CS/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1435" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/tags/Propaganda/default.aspx">Propaganda</category><category domain="http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/tags/9_2F00_11/default.aspx">9/11</category><category domain="http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/tags/Conspiracy/default.aspx">Conspiracy</category><category domain="http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/tags/social+engineering/default.aspx">social engineering</category><category domain="http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/tags/big+brother/default.aspx">big brother</category><category domain="http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/tags/meme/default.aspx">meme</category><category domain="http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/tags/terrorism/default.aspx">terrorism</category><category domain="http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/tags/al+qaeda/default.aspx">al qaeda</category></item><item><title>Not that bright?</title><link>http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/2008/02/15/1433.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 23:16:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">111a0b63-85c4-49af-87c5-bf9d5fd2cde1:1433</guid><dc:creator>smileycoyote</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=1433</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/2008/02/15/1433.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;span&gt;&lt;i&gt;(note: On the official &lt;/i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/"&gt;&lt;i&gt;HAARP site &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt;there is a Q&amp;amp;A section in which it was said that the artificial aurora produced during HAARP experiments is negligable.  &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;In
this paper submitted to the Second World Space Congress held in 2002,
another story seems to emerge. Excerpts are from an abstract at the &lt;/i&gt;&lt;a href="http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2002cosp...34E2539G"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Smithsonian NASA/ADS Astronomy Abstract Service&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt;)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote style="font-style:italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/haarp/faq.html" style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Quote&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;:
HAARP is so much weaker than these naturally occurring processes that
it is incapable of producing the type of optical display observed
during an aurora. However, weak and repeatable optical emissions have
been observed using HAARP (and reported in the scientific literature)
using very sensitive cameras.&lt;/span&gt; -&lt;a href="http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/"&gt;Haarp.alaska.edu&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.copernicus.org/COSPAR/COSPAR_houston.html"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.copernicus.org/cop-icons/COSPAR_logo.gif" style="margin:0px 10px 10px 0px;float:left;width:114px;height:116px;" alt="" border="0" height="116" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span&gt;Heater-induced artificial airglow observations from a recent campaign at the HAARP facility&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;b&gt;Author:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Gerken,E.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;b&gt;Publication:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt; 34th COSPAR Scientific Assembly, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.copernicus.org/COSPAR/COSPAR_houston.html"&gt;The Second World Space Congress&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span&gt;, held 10-19 October, 2002 in Houston, TX, USA&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;An
artificial airglow campaign was conducted from January 31 to February
19, 2002 at the High Frequency Active Auroral Program (HAARP) in Gakona
AK.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;[An]
artificial airglow was observed on thirteen nights during the campaign.
The campaign was a collaborative effort with participating instruments
from a number of institutions. Three cameras were located at the HAARP
facility: an all-sky imager, a 60 degree field of view camera, and a
telescopic imager.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Two
cameras were located off-site for side view imaging- one at Poker Flat
Research Station, and the other alternating between Nenana AK and
HIPAS. An SEE receiver was operated in Gakona and the Kodiak SuperDARN
radar was run in a dedicated mode for part of the campaign.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.polar.umd.edu/haarp/riodata.jpg"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.polar.umd.edu/haarp/riodata.jpg" style="margin:0px 0px 10px 10px;float:right;width:200px;" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span&gt;In
addition data was gathered throughout the campaign by the HAARP
diagnostic instruments including a riometer, magnetometer, digisonde,
ELF receiver, and TEC tomographic system.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span&gt;(image at right example of HAARP &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.polar.umd.edu/haarp/haarp.html"&gt;&lt;i&gt;riometer data&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span&gt;) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Several preliminary results have emerged from observations during the campaign.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bright 630nm (several hundred Rayleighs) and 557.7nm (over 50R) airglow were observed simultaneously during F-layer heating.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A
dramatic enhancement in airglow brightness was observed when the HAARP
heater beam was aimed along the magnetic field lines (15 degrees from
vertical).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;ALSO SEE: &lt;a href="http://theblanketeffect.blogspot.com/2007_11_08_archive.html"&gt;Straight from the Source: The High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://eeng.net/CS/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1433" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/tags/surveillance/default.aspx">surveillance</category><category domain="http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/tags/environment/default.aspx">environment</category><category domain="http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/tags/ecology/default.aspx">ecology</category><category domain="http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/tags/global+warming/default.aspx">global warming</category><category domain="http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/tags/signals+intelligence/default.aspx">signals intelligence</category><category domain="http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/tags/geophysics/default.aspx">geophysics</category><category domain="http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/tags/electrostatics/default.aspx">electrostatics</category><category domain="http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/tags/technology/default.aspx">technology</category><category domain="http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/tags/energy/default.aspx">energy</category><category domain="http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/tags/weather+modification/default.aspx">weather modification</category><category domain="http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/tags/HAARP/default.aspx">HAARP</category><category domain="http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/tags/full+spectrum+dominance/default.aspx">full spectrum dominance</category><category domain="http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/tags/chemtrails/default.aspx">chemtrails</category><category domain="http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/tags/atmospheric+physics/default.aspx">atmospheric physics</category></item><item><title>Yellowstone Bison Slaughter a Sham</title><link>http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/2008/02/15/1431.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:58:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">111a0b63-85c4-49af-87c5-bf9d5fd2cde1:1431</guid><dc:creator>smileycoyote</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=1431</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/2008/02/15/1431.aspx#comments</comments><description>Once again the state of Montana, along with Yellowstone National Park, are killing bison migrating out of Yellowstone National Park. The slaughter of Yellowstone’s bison is represented as a disease contamination program, but it is really a sham. If disease control were the issue, we wouldn’t be killing bison. The more you know about the brucellosis-bison issue, the angrier you get.
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By George Wuerthner , 2-13-08
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Once again the state of Montana, along with Yellowstone National Park, are killing bison migrating out of Yellowstone National Park. The slaughter of Yellowstone’s bison is represented as a disease contamination program, but it is really a sham. If disease control were the issue, we wouldn’t be killing bison. The more you know about the brucellosis-bison issue, the angrier you get. 
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For instance, news reports always note that so many bison “tested positive” for brucellosis. Most people assume that this means that the bison in question have brucellosis. In reality field-testing only demonstrates that the bison in question have antibodies to brucellosis. They have been exposed to the disease—perhaps even in the womb, but it doesn’t mean they can readily transmit the disease. I would test positive for polio because I was “exposed” to polio virus as a youngster—but I cannot transmit polio to anyone. 
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Secondly, transmission of brucellosis is difficult and seldom—if ever—happens, with wild free roaming animals. The usual pathway for transmission is for a cow bison to abort an infected fetus. Then a domestic animal like a cow has to come along and lick the fluid before the brucellosis bacteria dies—which under wild conditions is fairly quickly since the bacteria is not able to survive outside of the body. The domestic animal would also have to beat a scavenger like coyote, raven or other animal to the aborted fetus before the scavengers consume it. 
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Additionally, nearly all bison abortions—and abortion in wild bison is an extremely rare event—occurs in the late winter. In most of the habitat used by bison at this time of year, cattle are not present. They are back at the home ranch being fed hay. That is why simply keeping cattle and bison separated is a fairly easy solution to conflicts—if a solution were something that the Ag boys were interested in creating. 
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Third, because it is through abortion of a fetus, bison calves, and bison bulls cannot transmit the disease even if they have it, yet calves and bulls are regularly killed. If fear of brucellosis transmission were really driving this program, there would be no reason to kill these animals. 
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Fourth, far more elk in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem carry brucellosis than bison. A high percentage of elk in Wyoming carry brucellosis because of the feed grounds that the Wyoming Game and Fish maintains. The unnatural concentration of elk favors brucellosis transmission. Yet the US Dept. of Agriculture does not require the state to close the feed grounds that would go a long ways towards reducing brucellosis occurrence in the ecosystem. Additionally, they don’t slaughter elk—at least not yet.  Why? Because hunters and perhaps, more importantly, some outfitters would come unglued if the same policy of non-tolerance of elk outside of our parks were implemented.  &lt;br style="font-family:verdana, geneva, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /&gt;
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There is plenty of cattle-free bison habitat outside of Yellowstone. The Upper Gallatin River drainage in the Teepee Creek and Daily Creek areas has no livestock. Much of the Dome Mountain and Eagle Creek basin near Gardiner are livestock free, as are other lands in the region. And of course I would advocate that other public lands be open to bison by removal of livestock or the understanding that any rancher grazing these public lands must accept the low risks involved. In Wyoming, ranchers regularly graze their cattle on allotments with bison—demonstrating once again that brucellosis transmission is a rare, if non-existent risk that most ranchers are willing to accept. 
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The slaughter program is driven by antiquated federal policy. Originally the desire to eradicate brucellosis was done under the guise of public health. Brucellosis can also occur in humans—where it causes fever like conditions, swelling of the joints, and in rare cases even death. Back in the 1930s when the brucellosis control program was implemented, many people were exposed to brucellosis either because they lived around livestock and had contact with infected animals or they drank unpasteurized milk. Today the disease is very rare and about the only people who get the disease are veterinarians and others who work around infected animals.
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So the original purpose—a public health issue—no longer applies. So why does the US government continue to spend money on brucellosis eradication? Well, one by-product of the brucellosis control program is that it saved ranchers money. Brucellosis can cause abortion of a fetus in infected cows. To save ranchers the loss of some calves and potential profit, Ag interests successfully persuaded the government to continue its brucellosis eradication program—at a cost of billions to taxpayers—with all the benefits now largely going to the livestock industry.
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One incentive that the Department of Agriculture implemented to get states to crack down on brucellosis was to threaten the loss of brucellosis-free status. Why is this important? Well, again it’s money. A state without brucellosis-free status must test and certify that any cattle moved out of state are free of the disease. This adds a slight bit to costs and more paperwork for producers. Also in brucellosis-free states, livestock producers may not be required to inoculate their livestock against the disease—again saving some expense. 
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However, there is no rational reason producers across an entire state should be penalized because one or two herds of livestock become infected. The Department of Agriculture has the authority to quarantine individual herds. But the threat of state-wide loss of brucellosis-free status continues because Ag interests want to control wildlife. Their zero tolerance policy is both unrealistic and harmful to the free movement of wildlife. Why should bison be denied access to public lands in Montana, or any other state? We don’t impose zero tolerance on any other native wildlife just for moving into a state. 
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I think there are several reasons for the continued slaughter. One is the long term goal of Ag interests to gain control over wildlife—to wrest it away from state Fish and Game agencies and the public. Short of doing that, they want to control the wildlife agenda of state wildlife agencies—which in many western states they already do.
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Beyond that, I suspect some livestock producers fear the widespread movement of wild bison on to other public lands. Bison are a direct competitor with cattle. If more bison are grazing Forest Service or BLM lands, there will be less forage left for domestic livestock. They also fear that wildlife advocates such as myself will start to question why we shouldn’t have bison grazing our public lands instead of someone’s privately owned livestock. Their fears are justified. I ask exactly that question. 
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In short livestock producers fear that if they let the genie of wild bison grazing on all public lands out of the bottle, they will never get it back inside, and in the end that can only hurt the ability of ranchers to graze public lands. 
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It’s time to let wild bison roam our public lands. Our parks should not be prisons, maintained by a fence of bullets or traps. There is no good reason why wild bison cannot co-exist This shameful destruction of wildlife to appease an irrational and increasingly irrelevant industry must end.  
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&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;SOURCE: &lt;a href="http://www.newwest.net/city/article/yellowstone_bison_slaughter_a_sham/C396/L396/"&gt;New West&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; 
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&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;" class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Also see: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333333;font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;line-height:20px;" class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;a href="http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/2007/04/14/339.aspx" style="color:#254694;text-decoration:none;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;" class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Cowboy Mentality Dominates Bison Slaughte&lt;/span&gt;r&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;font-family:verdana;font-size:16px;line-height:22px;" class="Apple-style-span"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
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Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 15:14:35 -0500 (CDT)&lt;br /&gt;
To: undisclosed-recipients:;&lt;br /&gt;
From: &amp;quot;All the News That Doesn&amp;#39;t Fit&amp;quot; &amp;lt;&lt;a href="http://petrel.riseup.net/horde-3.1/imp/compose.php?to=nytr%40blythe-systems.com&amp;amp;thismailbox=INBOX" class="fixed"&gt;nytr@blythe-systems.com&lt;/a&gt;&amp;gt; (by way of NY Transfer News &amp;lt;&lt;a href="http://petrel.riseup.net/horde-3.1/imp/compose.php?to=nyt%40viola.tamara-b.org&amp;amp;thismailbox=INBOX" class="fixed"&gt;nyt@viola.tamara-b.org&lt;/a&gt;&amp;gt;)&lt;br /&gt;
Subject: [NYTr] Guinness 2008: MOVE Bombing Now Called a &amp;quot;Mass Suicide&amp;quot;?!?&lt;br /&gt;
Message-Id: &amp;lt;&lt;a href="http://petrel.riseup.net/horde-3.1/imp/compose.php?to=200710092014.l99KEZX5065550%40pencil.math.missouri.edu&amp;amp;thismailbox=INBOX" class="fixed"&gt;200710092014.l99KEZX5065550@pencil.math.missouri.edu&lt;/a&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Via NY Transfer News Collective&amp;nbsp; *&amp;nbsp; All the News that Doesn&amp;#39;t Fit&lt;br /&gt;
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[The Philadelphia cops&amp;#39; bombing of the MOVE home leveled a whole city&lt;br /&gt;
block. Now it&amp;#39;s called a &amp;quot;mass suicide&amp;quot; and MOVE is called a &amp;quot;cult.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Guess the Iraqis will be the next &amp;quot;mass suicide&amp;quot; -- all 1 million-plus&lt;br /&gt;
of them. What is WRONG with the Guinness Book of World Records? -NYTr]&lt;br /&gt;
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FreeMumia via&amp;nbsp; Joan Malerich - Oct 9, 2007&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.freemumia.com/" class="fixed" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.freemumia.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MumiaNYC" class="fixed" target="_blank"&gt;http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MumiaNYC&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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[This is quite amazing.&amp;nbsp; The police murdered babies when they attacked &lt;br /&gt;
the MOVE house.&amp;nbsp; Now they want to say that this was mass &amp;quot;suicide.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
So, I guess that anyone who defends his/her home now should understand&lt;br /&gt;
that he/she will be classified as suicidal for refusing to leave a home&lt;br /&gt;
that the militarized police is attacking.&lt;br /&gt;
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For those not familiar with the Move group and the imprisoned Move 9, I &lt;br /&gt;
have pasted a summary below Ramona Africa&amp;#39;s message. -JM]&lt;br /&gt;
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ONA MOVE Everybody!&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
This is Ramona and there is an issue that MOVE needs your help in&lt;br /&gt;
addressing. The 2008 Guinness Book of World Records lists MOVE under&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Mass Suicides&amp;quot; based on the May 1985 bombing and MURDER of MOVE people.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
They also list us with &amp;quot;cults&amp;quot; - and list the source of this &lt;br /&gt;
misinformation as &amp;quot;The Cult Information Centre.&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp; We are not a cult, we&lt;br /&gt;
ARE an organization and certainly did not commit suicide. This is a&lt;br /&gt;
malevolent and very dangerous lie. It&amp;#39;s a deliberate tactic of this&lt;br /&gt;
system to defame and misrepresent this organization so that when&lt;br /&gt;
officials wrong us, treat us unjustly and even murder us, a lot of&lt;br /&gt;
people will accept and dismiss it because of how we have been&lt;br /&gt;
characterized by this system. We have discovered that both the Guinness&lt;br /&gt;
Book of World Records and The Cult Information Centre are based in&lt;br /&gt;
London.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
We have their addresses, which I will include at the end of this email,&lt;br /&gt;
but we would like to get an email address for both these people and&lt;br /&gt;
start some actions against them. Any of you that can help with this,&lt;br /&gt;
please let us know. If you have any ideas about some good ways to&lt;br /&gt;
confront these people, please us know. We don&amp;#39;t intend to let them&lt;br /&gt;
defame us like this, it&amp;#39;s wrong and it&amp;#39;s dangerous. I look forward to&lt;br /&gt;
getting some information and feedback from you all. In the meantime,&lt;br /&gt;
take care and stay strong--Ramona&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Guinness World Records Limited&lt;br /&gt;
184-192 Drummond Street&lt;br /&gt;
3rd Floor&lt;br /&gt;
London NW1 3HP&lt;br /&gt;
United Kingdom&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
CULT INFORMATION CENTRE&lt;br /&gt;
BCM CULTS&lt;br /&gt;
LONDON&lt;br /&gt;
WC1N 3XX U.K.&lt;br /&gt;
Tel: 0870 777 3800&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://www.nightslantern.ca/prison/move9.htm" class="fixed" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.nightslantern.ca/prison/move9.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
*the move nine*&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
many move members were killed; nine were falsely accused, convicted for &lt;br /&gt;
the murder of a police person, sentenced to from thirty to a hundred &lt;br /&gt;
years; merle africa died in prison in 1998; surviving and currently &lt;br /&gt;
serving out this sentence are michael davis africa, charles simms &lt;br /&gt;
africa, edward goodman africa, william philips africa, delbert orr &lt;br /&gt;
africa, janet holloway africa, janine philips africa, debbie simms&lt;br /&gt;
africa.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
historical note - this group is/was based on the teachings of john &lt;br /&gt;
africa, believing in life, protection of the environment from corporate &lt;br /&gt;
misuse, caring for people, caring for animals, birds, fish, all living &lt;br /&gt;
creatures; his teachings are pro-nature and anti-racist; the group &lt;br /&gt;
usually provides a community resource centre in the philadelphia area, &lt;br /&gt;
counseling prisoners, addicts, alcoholics, the poor, child raising, &lt;br /&gt;
interrupted by police attacks and brutality; in the seventies police &lt;br /&gt;
abuse focused on move members who were pregnant women, forcing &lt;br /&gt;
miscarriages, beatings by police in the victims&amp;#39; home, alleged murder&lt;br /&gt;
by police of one of the children, and culminated in the deaths of six&lt;br /&gt;
women and five children in the police bombing of move&amp;#39;s address at&lt;br /&gt;
osage avenue in 1985, a police attack which may have killed the&lt;br /&gt;
movement&amp;#39;s founder; a previous police free for all assault on the the&lt;br /&gt;
move dwelling in 1978 resulted in the wounding of police and fire&lt;br /&gt;
personnel and the death of a policeman by a single possibly errant&lt;br /&gt;
bullet; nine move members on premises in the 1978 assault were charged&lt;br /&gt;
in the death and are noted above; move men members have spent as much&lt;br /&gt;
as six years in solitary confinement through religious refusal to cut&lt;br /&gt;
their hair; women have spent as much as three years in solitary&lt;br /&gt;
confinement for not giving blood; while several of the mothers were in&lt;br /&gt;
prison their children were killed in the police bombing and assault of&lt;br /&gt;
1985; the history of move reveals such extreme local law enforcement&lt;br /&gt;
persecution of this group, without any protection by the federal&lt;br /&gt;
government, under adversarial courts, that its purposes have appeared&lt;br /&gt;
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move: john africa&amp;#39;s organization&amp;quot; at &lt;br /&gt;
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organization/ &amp;quot;statement regarding harassment by the news media&amp;quot; at &lt;br /&gt;
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================================================================= &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://eeng.net/CS/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1426" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/tags/Propaganda/default.aspx">Propaganda</category><category domain="http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/tags/Conspiracy/default.aspx">Conspiracy</category><category domain="http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/tags/social+engineering/default.aspx">social engineering</category><category domain="http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/tags/big+brother/default.aspx">big brother</category><category domain="http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/tags/police/default.aspx">police</category></item><item><title>the latest chapter in the sometimes evolving saga of mike ruppert vs. eric stewart</title><link>http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/2008/02/09/1412.aspx</link><pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2008 19:58:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">111a0b63-85c4-49af-87c5-bf9d5fd2cde1:1412</guid><dc:creator>smileycoyote</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=1412</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/2008/02/09/1412.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;
I&amp;#39;d like to remind folks that libelous slander, in the United States, only exists in cases in which an issuer&amp;#39;s claims are not true.  In the U.K. that is not true and &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style:italic;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;we&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; are not in the U.K.  That said, here is the latest, small chapter in the psy-op known as the Mike Ruppert Entourage.
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Lori Price of CLG (&lt;a href="http://www.legitgov.org/"&gt;Citizens for a Legitimate Government&lt;/a&gt;) runs a &lt;a href="http://lists.riseup.net/www/info/911truthalliance"&gt;9/11 listserv&lt;/a&gt; at &lt;a href="http://riseup.net/"&gt;Riseup.net&lt;/a&gt;.  It was on, at one time, one of Mike Ruppert&amp;#39;s mailing lists.  By and large, folks tuned in to find out the latest on the 9/11 investigation and, at the time, most of the good ones were expected to come from Mike.  I felt the same way.
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Readers at &lt;a href="http://www.memes.org/"&gt;Memes.org&lt;/a&gt; are, for the most part, keenly aware of the Mitre-Ptech connections to &lt;a href="http://memes.org/tags/9-11"&gt;9/11&lt;/a&gt; and the fight some of this research&amp;#39;s proponents have gone through to bring it to light but in case you are new to this story, &lt;a href="http://eeng.net/9-11-information-mike-ruppert-doesnt-want-you-hear"&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt;.  Once you are somewhat familiar with the material, the following will make vastly more sense.
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I recall the day when I first submitted said memes to a list Mike was on and it is the one at Yahoo known as &lt;a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CIA-Drugs"&gt;CIA-Drugs&lt;/a&gt;.  I had already had a bad bout with Mike (not the moderator) when he claimed that the usage of methamphetamines by intelligence agencies to practice behavior modification was off topic for a list whose purpose was to unearth the connection between the uses and sales of drugs and the activities of intelligence agencies.
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Yeah, I know it&amp;#39;s crazy.
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As to the Mitre and Ptech connections to 9/11 he said they were so ridiculous that he didn&amp;#39;t even need to look at them.  That&amp;#39;s right: they were so ludicrous, that they didn&amp;#39;t even warrant the kind of examination that determines ludicrousness in the first place.  That&amp;#39;s called a rabbit hole, friends.
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Some moons later, at the list moderated by Lori Price, I submitted the evidence again.  Mike was on the list but I was not looking for his approval anymore.  I already knew what I needed to know about Mike Ruppert.  No, I was attempting to put this information between serious reserachers, some of whom were obviously drawn to any list with him on it.  As well, I thought, maybe he would reconsider and tackle the information or maybe he would be forced to by the tide of other researchers and public demand.
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That was not to happen.  I was told to stop making libelous statements about Mike and though, believe you me, they were on my mind, at this time I had never made any accusations against Mike Ruppert.  This is a typical rabbit hole invitation.  It put me immediately in the position of having to explain &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style:italic;"&gt;myself&lt;/span&gt; instead of Mike having to explain why &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style:italic;"&gt;he&lt;/span&gt; was attempting to squash &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style:italic;"&gt;my&lt;/span&gt; researcher, which is the situation I was &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style:italic;"&gt;hoping&lt;/span&gt; to facilitate.  Of course, as I have said, I had not at this point issued any accusations against Mike but obviously he knew they were coming and so did Lori.
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After Lori told the list that I was attempting to hack the list (during the period that I, miraculously, didn&amp;#39;t have access to the list and was, therefore, unable to respond to the accusations, let alone know that they existed) I contacted Riseup admin, the host of my email address and the mailing list Lori and Mike headed.  Lori had told the list that the matter was being investigated with the Riseup Collective but the collective told me that Lori had never even contacted them.
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