watched first plane? Key 9/11 planner linked to London bombings: Musharraf

He does however reveal a wealth of detail about the Al-Qaeda network, including that Mohammed, fellow conspirator Ramzi bin al-Shibh and three others watched the first plane hit the World Trade Center from a Karachi Internet cafe.

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I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by Google

Ted got busted because we do graffiti. Losing Ted was a big setback, as Ted was the only guy in our gang who knew how to steal aerosol spray cans. As potent instruments of teenage social networking, aerosol spray cans have "high abuse potential".

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Chavez at UN calls Bush 'the devil'; Crosses himself worries about smell of "sulfur"!
see replays on C-SPAN for better sound.
metaup over the Binds/Bonds.
amaze yourself as Chavez recommends to world to read Chomsky's~!!

Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance (The American Empire Project) (Hardcover)
by Noam Chomsky

Atheism taking off! Sam Harris, Dawkins, Dennett; time to get a "religion" update, upgrade, open source "religion"

Illustrations by David Johnson for Newsweek
A New Take on Atheism: Armed with evolutionary psychology and inflamed by the 9/11 attacks, these authors--Richard Dawkins (left), Sam Harris (center) and Daniel C. Dennett--treat belief in God as a superstition the modern world can no longer afford

The New Naysayers

In the midst of religious revival, three scholars argue that atheism is smarter.

By Jerry Adler

Newsweek

It is not just extremists who earn the wrath of Dawkins and Harris. Their books are attacks on religious "moderates" as well—indeed, the very idea of moderation. The West is not at war with "terrorism," Harris asserts in "The End of Faith"; it is at war with Islam, a religion whose holy book, "on almost every page ... prepares the ground for religious conflict." Christian fundamentalists, he says, have a better handle on the problem than moderates: "They know what it's like to really believe that their holy book is the word of God, and there's a paradise you can get to if you die in the right circumstances.



Best update, upgrade, & open source "religion" process was done by Timothy Leary way back
in the 60's called "The Seven Tongues of God"! check it out in "Politics of XTC", 1968.

Environmental Heresies by Stewart Brand; go nuclear power?

The founder of The Whole Earth Catalog believes the environmental movement will soon reverse its position on four core issues.

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Mark Pesce demurrs on 2012 Paranoia > audio from Burning Man

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The 2006 Palenque Norte Lectures at the Burning Man Festival

This was the most ambitious schedule yet for the Palenque Norte lectures, 39 speakers in four days. Thanks to the good folks at Entheon Village who provided the facility, which was one of the largest tents on the playa this year, they took place without too many problems sneaking up on us. In this podcast you will hear sound bites from the talks given by Mark Pesce, Erik Davis, Daniel Pinchbeck, Alex Grey,

Palenque Norte 2006 - Burning Man Sound Bites Podcast

By Lorenzo on September 12th, 2006
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Well, I finally got a new podcast published. As promised, I’ve included a few sound bites from this year’s Palenque Norte lectures at Burning Man. In order to get this online in a hurry, I used cuts from some poor quality cassette tape recordings I made during the talks. Before another week is up I plan on having the first of the higher quality recordings in podcast format. . . . Right now I’m still recovering (and cleaning my camping gear) from a week in the Black Rock Desert. . . . Stay tuned, as they say.

jewish nazi uncovered by Mystic: see probable 911 liars?>>

Monday, September 11

leo strauss - the neocons - jihad

you say you are a patriot
I think that you're a crock of shit
stones ~ sweet neo con

Several months ago, I mentioned -- in the usual elliptically discursive and maddeningly en passant manner that substitutes for style on this blog (see, even I know it) -- something I'd read in The New York Times Book Review about a book about Leo Strauss. As I recall, the review -- and reportedly the book -- basically said that it was weird that Leo Strauss kept being associated with the neoconservative Bush League in Washington, DC.

But as this is the web I've lately been tangling with, that's probably why Leo Strauss and the American Right recently popped up in my Amazon recommendations. It's by Shadia B. Drury, of whom I'd never heard, so I was somewhat amazed (further demonstrating my deep ignorance of these waters) to find she has a page on Wikipedia. My interest might have ended there, had I not read that she "has called Strauss himself 'a Jewish Nazi'" -- especially as some attentive Wikieditor has added the tag "citation needed." Well goodness, I should say so!

I can't imagine a better way to commemorate the fifth anniversary of 9/11 -- and I can't recommend these films highly enough. You'll see.

The Power of Nightmares

Part I: Baby It's Cold Outside

http://mysticbourgeoisie.blogspot.com/2006/09/leo-strauss-neocons-jihad.html

Someone is Lying/! who could it be?!> Domestic mostly Christian terrorists

Max Blumenthal Bio

09.08.2006

Discover the Secret Right-Wing Network Behind ABC's 9/11 Deception (271 comments)

READ MORE: 9/11, Google, 2006, New York Times, Disney

Less than 72 hours before ABC's "The Path to 9/11" is scheduled to air, the network is suddenly under siege. On Tuesday, ABC was forced to concede that "The Path to 9/11" is "a dramatization, not a documentary." The film deceptively invents scenes to depict former President Bill Clinton's handling of the Al Qaeda threat.

In fact, "The Path to 9/11" is produced and promoted by a well-honed propaganda operation consisting of a network of little-known right-wingers working from within Hollywood to counter its supposedly liberal bias. This is the network within the ABC network. Its godfather is far right activist David Horowitz, who has worked for more than a decade to establish a right-wing presence in Hollywood and to discredit mainstream film and TV production. On this project, he is working with a secretive evangelical religious right group founded by The Path to 9/11's director David Cunningham that proclaims its goal to "transform Hollywood" in line with its messianic vision.

Before The Path to 9/11 entered the production stage, Disney/ABC contracted David Cunningham as the film's director. Cunningham is no ordinary Hollywood journeyman. He is in fact the son of Loren Cunningham, founder of the right-wing evangelical group Youth With A Mission (YWAM).

271 comments, con.>>>>>>

Loose Change 2nd Edition Recut

Today, we talk about some of the 9/11 theories and the arguments against... http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/11/1345203

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/11/1345203

Bio-Logic updates with Rich Doyle at Bios conf. this 15-17 Sept., 2006

On Beyond Zebra? Minding and Metaprogramming the Evolution of Novel Dissipative Systems

Richard Doyle

Bios: The Poetics of Life in Digital Media
West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV | September 15-17, 2006

http://biotelemetrica.pbwiki.com/OnBeyondZebra

by Rich Doyle>
Out of the [lamination of selves], Zebra, which is supra- or trans-temporal, came into existence: pure energy, pure living information.
Valis, Philip K. Dick

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This seminar will review the recent history of the life sciences and their re-encounter with mind - from Schrödinger to the present - in the hopes of informing diverse creative practices emerging at the nexus of consciousness and evolution, e.g. biotechnology.

Research and theorization over the past ten years on the thermodynamics of living systems suggests that such living ecologies are teleologically attracted to the increased dissipation of information. Consciousness, once viewed as an evolutionary oddity or epiphenomenon, can now be viewed as an "attention sink" integral to this telos, and can be defined as the perception of the differential thermodynamic futures of implicate ("potential") combinations of ecosystemic interconnections at scales ranging from the cosmic to the quantum. This perception, clustered or "laminated" together in patterns, is'' the unfolding of subjective experience and has transformed the planet, where a "thinking stratum" evolves: biologist V.I. Vernadksy dubbed it the "noösphere." Here collective self reference and its infinite regress emerges, enabling a massive increase in the processing of information: the process becomes holographic in nature, replicating the subjective unfolding of the implicate order in a larger scale dissipative structure of planetary and perhaps cosmic dimensions.

The Terror Timeline book & film : 9/11 Press For Truth

On the Air: The Visionary Activist Show

http://kpfa.org/

Caroline features Paul Thompson's "The Terror Timeline."

Up next:

	Visionary Activist with Caroline Casey Thursdays 2 pm to 3 pm Show Archives
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		The Visionary Activist show is the wedding of spiritual magic and compassionate social activism. Insights on the nature of magic and reality, astute political analysis, storytelling, magical ceremony, music and songs, and always her brilliant humor.

http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/

http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/project.jsp?project=911_project

The Terror Timeline

Year by Year, Day by Day, Minute by Minute: A Comprehensive Chronicle of the Road to 9/11--and America's Response

By Paul Thompson

t's New?

New documentary on 9/11

In 9/11 Press for Truth, five of the most prominent members of the Family Steering Committee tell their story for the first time, providing the most powerful argument yet for why 9/11 still needs to be investigated. The documentary is based in part on Paul Thompson's Complete 9/11 Timeline.
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http://www.911pressfortruth.com/

Christian Facist Bush plan for dodging war crimes indictiments

Graham said that any system used on foreign detainees must be the same as U.S. officials would want to see for American personnel captured overseas.

"Whatever we do … could come back to haunt us," Graham said.

"Do Americans want their sons or daughters tried under these kinds of circumstances?" Katyal said.

THE PRISONER PROBLEM

Bush's Plan Allows Coerced Evidence

Convictions could also be based on material unseen by the accused. The Senate may object.

By Maura Reynolds, Richard B. Schmitt and David G. Savage
Times Staff Writers

September 7, 2006

WASHINGTON — President Bush asked Congress Wednesday to approve a new system of military-style justice for terrorism suspects that would, for the first time, permit convictions in American courts based on the use of coerced evidence.

The Bush administration proposal also would permit war crimes convictions based on evidence that was never made available to the accused.

Bush said reliance on such controversial information at trial would be strictly limited, permitted only under a judge's ruling that it was relevant and credible, and that the use of coerced statements would stop short of allowing evidence obtained through torture.

mostly Christian Terrorists vote in Senate for more terror on civilians

U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 109^th Congress - 2^nd Session

as compiled through Senate LIS by the Senate Bill Clerk under the direction of the Secretary of the Senate

Vote Summary

Question: On the Amendment (Feinstein Amdt. No. 4882 )
Vote Number:	232	Vote Date:	September 6, 2006, 12:00 PM
Required For Majority:	1/2	Vote Result:	Amendment Rejected
Amendment Number:	S.Amdt. 4882 to H.R. 5631
Statement of Purpose:	To protect civilian lives from unexploded cluster munitions.

Vote Counts:	YEAs	30
	NAYs	70

Vote Summary

By Senator Name

By Vote Position

By Home State

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=2&vote=00232

Torture outsourced by Pentagon

Pentagon Spends Billions to Outsource Torture

By Joshua Holland, AlterNet
Posted on September 7, 2006, Printed on September 7, 2006
http://www.alternet.org/story/41314/

In addition to Joshua Holland's article below, five other progressive media outlets have produced articles on war profiteering in Iraq in conjunction with Robert Greenwald's documentary, Iraq for Sale. Make sure to check out these articles, and AlterNet's compendium of recent stories on the war profiteers.

The thousands of mercenary security contractors employed in the Bush administration's "War on Terror" are billed to American taxpayers, but they've handed Osama Bin Laden his greatest victories -- public relations coups that have transformed him from just another face in a crowd of radical clerics to a hero of millions in the global South (posters of Bin Laden have been spotted in largely Catholic Latin America during protests against George W. Bush).

Christain Facist Bush, world's leading terrorist

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Bush is obviously the world's leading terrorist, enemy of the state who hates America. bin Laden is peanuts compared to Bush. Bush has his finger on the red button which could fire of 10,000 nuclear weapons at once and he has boasted of believing that using nuclear weapons are reasonable. If that doesn't make him the world's leading terrorist than we have a mad man with his finger on nuclear trigger and that is even more frightening.

Bush's Tactics Aid the Terrorists

By Matthew Stannard, San Francisco Chronicle
Posted on September 7, 2006, Printed on September 7, 2006
http://www.alternet.org/story/41367/

With the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks fast approaching, President Bush took to the podium Tuesday to speak to Americans about his administration's global war on terror.

Three things can be expected from Bush's speech, according to a new study by three Columbia University researchers: The media will repeat the president's remarks. Public fear of terrorism will increase. And the president's poll numbers will rise.

Those have been the effects of presidential pronouncements on terrorism since the Sept. 11 attacks, according to political scientists Brigitte Nacos, Yaeli Bloch-Elkon and Robert Shapiro, in a report prepared for this month's annual meeting of the American Political Science Association.

Torture Builds Better Terrorists

Torture Builds Better Terrorists

Eventually you have to either execute these alleged terrorists, or jail them indefinitely, but unless you maintain their imprisonment at some point you have to release them.
by Davy in comments

Mixed messages on torture

While Bush was defending "tough" interrogation at one press conference, the Army was calling torture useless at another.

By Mark Benjamin

Sep. 07, 2006 | In the war on terror, abusive interrogations of suspects don't work. You get faulty information. The rough stuff has been proven worthless and should be banned.

Or, harsh interrogation tactics have been a successful and indispensable tool that has generated crucial intelligence to foil terror plots that would have otherwise caused death and destruction inside the United States.

Both versions were true in Washington on Wednesday, depending on whom you asked -- the Pentagon or the White House -- and depending on whether you watched the president's nationally broadcast afternoon press conference or a press conference by a general on a cable channel little seen outside military bases.

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/09/07/torture/

"The military intelligence people, when it comes to human intelligence, do it in a much more standardized, regulated way," the general explained. "That is separate from what the CIA and the Special Ops guys do."

"The [new Army] field manual reflects exactly what the conventional senior generals have felt for a long time," concluded the general.

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/09/07/torture/

Sace the Internet Day! this is for real!

posted on Tuesday, September 05, 2006 10:15 AM

Net Neutrality Action Day

Back in June, I stood by my PRO-Net Neutrality decision: to prevent Telecom companies, such as AT&T and Verizon, from controlling the Internet. Since then, I've been closely watching the debate, wondering what's going to happen next.

If you agree with me and countless other Web users, then you may want to take part in Net Neutrality Action Day, to be held on Friday, September 8 at 8 a.m.

SaveTheInternet.com advocates will be visiting all 100 local branches of their state Senators' offices and drop off petitions with 50,000 signatures, asking Senators to make a televised statement about their position on the Net Neutrality issue.

So far, 26 senators are for Net Neutrality; 14 are against it; 4 are "waffling"; and 56 are unknown. Among the senators that want to preserve Net Neutrality are Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY), Barbara Boxer (D-CA), and Mark Pryor (D-AR). According to SaveTheInternet.com's list, it appears that Democrats are for Net Neutrality and Republicans are against it.

Derek Wallace, a concerned citizen and Internet user, created this video and MySpace page to publicize this issue. He wants everyone to bring a camcorder, camera or camera phone with them when visiting their local Senate offices and upload the footage to YouTube.com.

If you haven't yet already, you can sign SaveTheInternet's petition. After submitting the form electronically, it will automatically be sent to your Members of Congress.

For more information on the Net Neutrality debate, visit SaveTheInternet.com.

Noosphere Yes! PsYchedelics & Evolution of TechnoScience talk by Richard Doyle

http://www.pharmacratic-inquisition.com/
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Lecture/Lecture Series

Computer and Information Technology Institute Humanities Research Center Office of the Vice Provost and University Librarian

Speaker: Richard Doyle Pennsylvania State University Technology, Cognition and Culture Lecture Series: Just say yes to the Noösphere: Psychedelics and the Evolution of Information Technologies Monday, October 9, 2006 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM McMurtry Auditorium Duncan Hall Rice University 6100 Main St Houston, Texas, USA

Abstract: Before its possession became a criminal offense in the United States, the psychedelic compound LSD-25 was given to engineers and designers to break "creative logjams" and promote innovation in the Cold War United States. In the late 1950's and early 1960's, for example, the Ampex Corporation(inventor of the Video Tape Recorder) studied the effects of LSD on their engineers, and the result was a growing body of literature and data on psychedelic regimens and their effects on technical innovation.

These regimens included precise and intensive algorithms for psychedelic experience such as the epigraph above – although essentially ineffable, psychedelic experience was treated as fundamentally and essentially programmable. This talk will offer an historical, evolutionary and ecological framework for comprehending and evaluating recent claims by innovators such as Mitch Kapor (Lotus, spreadsheets), Mark Pesce(Virtual Reality Markup Language) and Kary Mullis (Polymerase Chain Reaction) that psychedelics played an integral role in the invention of their breakthrough information technologies. Given the importance of programming to psychedelic experience, the talk will suggest that psychedelic adjuncts were useful to engineers and scientists less because they "expanded" consciousness than because they trained subjects in practices of focused attention.

http://cohesion.rice.edu/services/events/index.cfm?eventrecord=6696

Continuing his collaborative work on the “transhuman imperative”, Doyle is currently completing the trilogy with a scholarly book about archaic and contemporary psychedelic media technologies and the evolution of mind: LSDNA: Ecodelics, Rhetoric and the Evolution of Mind. Other current projects include [a novel about the life of writer Philip K. Dick and a book, Admixtures: Dialogues After Genomics with Mark Shriver. Doyle directs the Penn State Composition Program and serves as Expert, Wetwares and Human/Machine interaction for international organizations.

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LSDNA : Consciousness Expansion and the Emergence of Biotechnology
Richard Doyle
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wonders of Gmail check it out

Hack Attack: Become a Gmail master

by Adam Pash

Gmail is hands-down the best web-based email service on the 'net. Conversation threads, search, tagging, and keyboard shortcuts have completely revolutionized the way I look at my inbox. I manage all of my email from my personal Gmail inbox, including the daily flood of Lifehacker messages. At this point, I can't imagine a program I could use to manage my email any more efficiently.

Despite my undying love for Gmail, there are still a lot of people who aren't won over by sheer enthusiasm alone, and still others who just aren't taking full advantage of the features and functions they've got at their fingertips in Gmail. Either way, the only thing a Gmail naysayer needs is a better understanding of everything you can do with Gmail.

War and Globalization - The Truth Behind September 11

In this lecture by Michel Chossudovsky, he blows away the smokescreen put up by the mainstream media, that 9/11 was an attack on America by "Islamic terrorists". Through meticulous research, he has uncovered a military-intelligence ploy behind the September 11 attacks, and the cover-up and complicity of key members of the Bush Administration. According to Chossudovsky, the "war on terrorism" is a complete fabrication based on the illusion that one man, Osama bin Laden, outwitted the $40 billion-a-year American intelligence apparatus. The "war on terrorism" is a war of conquest. Globalisation is the final march to the "New World Order", dominated by Wall Street and the U.S. military-industrial complex. September 11, 2001 provides a justification for waging a war without borders. Washington's agenda consists in extending the frontiers of the American Empire to facilitate complete U.S. corporate control, while installing within America the institutions of the Homeland Security State.

Pronoia World of Rob Brezsny

Pronoia World of Rob Brezsny


story about Brezsny:
Berkeley: 'Pronoia' invites surrender to the unfathomable
- Rick DelVecchio, Chronicle Staff Writer
Friday, October 7, 2005

Rob Brezsny says the apocalypse is now, so let's dance.

"We are in fact living through the apocalypse," the San Anselmo astrology columnist-author-musician declares in his radically optimistic self-help bible, "Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You With Blessings," (North Atlantic Books/Frog Ltd., Berkeley, 296 pages, $19), a surprise top-1,000 seller on Amazon.com.

The book rotates, something like a Tibetan prayer wheel, around the idea that love underpins being and that it's ours if only we have the courage to take it. If we don't go to this original and endless source, then we inherit the classical hell-on-earth of depression, decay and destruction.

Around and around his theme the verbally acrobatic, mystically literate Brezsny lets fly a thousand zingers, each with the feel of having been carved with some poetic effort to express a hard reality instead of a platitude.

Love is Brezsny's prescription. Love smarter, love till it hurts. Up the ante on love. Take chances to express it through intimacy, dialogue and work. Express it sexually, intellectually, artistically, meditatively, socially.

"Again and again over the years," Brezsny writes, "you're pushed to a brink that challenges you to either rise to the occasion or else surrender to demoralizing chaos. The crises may come in the form of divorce or illness or job loss, or even in less dramatic events like a misunderstanding with a friend or the inexplicable waning of a once-passionate dream.

"Seeded inside each of these personal turning points is the crux of the evolving global apocalypse: You get to choose whether you'll adjust by taking a path that keeps you aligned with the values of the dying world or else a path that helps you resonate with what's being born.

"In effect, you get to vote, with your entire life," he writes, "for which aspect of the apocalypse you want to predominate."