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Clean Water Food and Shelter for the world, fly's estimate

2012-02-08T19:14:00.000-08:00

approximately US$10b annually for basic water and sanitation services and an additional US$15b to US$20b annually to provide a higher level of service and to maintain existing services.
--http://blueplanetnetwork.org/water/facts

The United Nations has estimated the cost of ending world hunger at about $195 billion a year. Twenty-two countries have pledged to donate this money by contributing 0.7% -- less than 1% -- of national income to international aid, but the goal has yet to be reached.
--http://www.squidoo.com/world-hunger

With the shelter cost of under $2 per person per day, there is now inherent affordability and dignity by the homeless themselves paying for shelter and showers. (2000 Dollars Each!)
--http://worldshelters.org/for-us-unsheltered/municipalstate-agency

My Reply to a TIME world article on Ezra Pound

2012-02-03T15:49:00.000-08:00

"That is, until one remembers that Pound was an admirer of Benito Mussolini, a defender of Adolf Hitler and, that while living in Italy during World War II, he broadcast a series of anti-Semitic radio addresses calling for American neutrality."

Hi, excuse me, Pound did not defend Adolf Hitler, and his admiration for Mussolini was, for the most part, based on his financial strategy. A few large American banks however helped to Bankroll the Nazi war Machine, chemicals and ammunition houses. Pound despised this, and remains one of the clearest critics of Ponzi schemes and the military industrial complex. See his epic CANTOS. Look at it, read him.

There was a lot of other information in his radio broadcasts, besides the antagonism, yes, he called for American neutrality, NO WAR. And, he prescribed we keep a very careful and watchful eye on the bankers, or Usurers as Pound would define them.

Please, do some research besides parroting the cliche' statements about Pound. The above paragraph reinforces the wrongheadedness and simple mindedness at the root of most fascist ideology.

Have you ever read any Pound yourself, Stephan?

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2105702,00.html?xid=gonewsedit

Coordinated attacks on OWS, Gingrich is retarded, Iran, Syria, advice fo...

2012-01-30T13:22:00.000-08:00

Illuminatus Trilogy : "Free Banking"

2012-01-25T11:41:00.000-08:00

FATTENING FROGS FOR SNAKES 2011

Machiavelli Mafia Atoms and Oil (MMAO)

2012-01-14T05:14:00.000-08:00

Bob's grand encyclopedic writings on the subject of conspiracies covered a hell of a lot of ground, in this interview with Richard Smoley for Gnosis magazine, he highlights some of the more probable conspiracy theories, that since the interview in 1998 have proved themselves to be accurate predictions, based on earlier theories of Buckminster Fuller and deployed in Wilson's species of Maybelogic.

Smoley: Of all the conspiracies you've looked at over theyears, which ones are you most inclined to believe in?

Wilson: I put them on a scale from zero to ten. With theones I put above five, I'm more inclined to give then credit than to doubttheta. The ones I put above seven, that's pretty close to belief, except I tryto shy away from belief, I think it's a dangerous state to get into.
Bucky Fuller has a theory of the Great Pirates - thesociopathic types who have always been the dominant force in history. The GreatPirates in modern times make up a group the abbreviates"MMAO": Machiavelli, Mafia, atoms, and oil. It's the internationalbanks, the Mafia, and the atomic and oil cartels. He doesn't claim they worktogether, but they more or less make a singular force. But he also says thatthey're so engaged in conflicts with one another that they're steeringSpaceship Earth in 50 different directions, which is why we^'re goingaround and we^'re not getting anywhere. I tend to find that fairlycredible. A simplification of it is Carl Oglesby's theory of the Yankee andCowboy War - the war between Western and old Eastern wealth. Those seem fairlycredible to me.--Robert Anton Wilson, 1998.

Meet Vermin Supreme 2012 Presidential Candidate

2012-01-13T06:41:00.000-08:00

Robert Anton Wilson: Aleister Crowley [FULL]

2012-01-12T06:32:00.000-08:00

SEX DRUGS AND MAGICK: Robert Anton Wilson

2011-12-28T10:39:00.000-08:00

http://www.rawilson.com/sexdrugs.html

SEX DRUGS AND MAGICK: Robert Anton Wilson.

From the PREFACE:

The 1973 author of this book never could have imagined a State so crazily totalitarian, or a population so brainwashed into sheep-like submissiveness, that such absurdities could occur. But then, only Kafka and Orwell in their most eerie satires on bureaucracy-gone-bonkers could imagine an obscenity like our Piss Police. The State in which we live can only accurately be called Urine Nation.

How can this happen in a once-free Republic where searches of the person are forbidden except by court order after probable cause has been shown? Urine Nation, posing as the representatives of you and me, is engaged in an alleged "War on Drugs." That justifies trashing the Constitution.

Now this is, on the face of it, absurd.

1. Wars on drugs or other insensible things (objects, sub-stances) can only be carried on by lunatics. The Con cannot be accused of insanity: of ignorance, yes, and of fear, greed and zoning laws, but not of being batshit crazy. They are not making war on chemicals—or on the laws of physics, or anything of that sort. They are making war on the American people—on all of us, although only a few of us know that yet.

For instance, as you may read in Pissing Away the American Dream (Pissing Away the American Dream, edited by David Ross, Digit Press), on January 1989 the Minneapolis police smashed down the door of the home of an elderly Black couple, using "flash bang" grenades which accidentally set the house on fire and killed both old people.

The cops were looking for "drugs," but never found any. The chief of police justified the murders of two innocent citizens (and the total violation of the Fourth Amendment) by saying, "This is war."

The war is being waged against people, not chemicals, and it is people who get killed.

2. Even within the off-kilter logic of its own rhetoric, the "War on Drugs" is nonsense.

If you go out your door and drive a few blocks, they say, you will find at least one store boldly declaring that they sell DRUGS, although some say PHARMACY, which can only be deciphered by those who know Greek roots; and in these stores, hundreds of drugs are available. Nearby is a supermarket where you can buy cigarettes, containing nicotine, a drug more addictive than heroin according to former Surgeon General Koop. Next door is a BAR where you can buy dozens of varieties of C2H30H, a heavily addictive substance, statistically linked to wife and child battering, divorce and violent crime.

Urine Nation, thus, is not making war on all drugs, or drug- users, but only on some. The government asserts that the drugs on their taboo list are the worst ones; skeptics like me say they are merely the ones that are either (a) cheap and effective, like herbal medicines, and/or (b) not easy to monopolize, like marijuana or (c) better than the higher priced drugs manufactured by the large pharmaceutical corporations that financially support both political parties.

The only people literally "at war" with drugs—all drugs—are the Christian Scientists. Eight of them are currently appealing their convictions for refusing to give their children the drugs ordained from on high by the Con/MMAO.

As Count Bismarck once said, "Laws are like sausages: you have much more respect for them if you haven't actually seen how they're made."

Many of the chemicals and herbs forbidden by the Con are not only harmless, but are widely believed to be beneficial. The war against the users of these substances is just as vicious as the wars against all other substances on the taboo list.

Over the past 10 years, the Food and Drug Administration has engaged in raids on alternative health companies - companies operating openly and, they thought, legally - that more and more tend toward the violence of DEA raids on suspected crack dealers. In every case, the companies were selling vitamins and herbs that a growing minority of the medical profession approves but which MMAO and the FDA do not approve.

For instance, in 1990, the FDA raided the offices of Dr. Jonathan Wright, a fully qualified physician with an M.D. from the University of Michigan Medical School, terrorized the staff with drawn guns, and seized all the vitamins and herbs they could find. They never did file criminal charges against Dr. Wright for the heresy of giving his patients cheap medicines instead of expensive ones, but this raid was only one of hundreds of similar Gestapo-style operations, creating what libertarians call "a chilling effect" on scientific freedom.
http://www.rawilson.com/sexdrugs.html

Linguistic Relativity (From Wikipedia)

2011-12-27T04:46:00.000-08:00

"The principle of linguistic relativity holds that the structure of a language affects the ways in which its speakers are able to conceptualize their world, i.e. their world view. Popularly known as the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis, or Whorfianism, the principle is often defined as having two versions: (i) the strong version that language determines thought and that linguistic categories limit and determine cognitive categories and (ii) the weak version that linguistic categories and usage influence thought and certain kinds of non-linguistic behavior.

The idea was first clearly expressed by 19th century thinkers, such as Wilhelm von Humboldt, who saw language as the expression of the spirit of a nation. The early 20th century school of American Anthropology headed by Franz Boas and Edward Sapir also embraced the idea. Sapir's student Benjamin Lee Whorf came to be seen as the primary proponent as a result of his published observations of how he perceived linguistic differences to have consequences in human cognition and behavior. Harry Hoijer, one of Sapir's students, introduced the term "Sapir–Whorf hypothesis",^[1] even though the two scholars never actually advanced any such hypothesis.^[2] Whorf's principle of linguistic relativity was reformulated as a testable hypothesis by Roger Brown and Eric Lenneberg who conducted experiments designed to find out whether color perception varies between speakers of languages that classified colors differently. As the study of the universal nature of human language and cognition came into focus in the 1960s the idea of linguistic relativity fell out of favour among linguists. A 1969 study by Brent Berlin and Paul Kay claimed to demonstrate that color terminology is subject to universal semantic constraints, and hence to discredit the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity

December TSOG BLOG Update

2011-12-20T16:36:00.000-08:00

Hi, it's been a busy few months, or a busy year you could say for Global TSOG activities, and I am happy to say various counter-movements to combat the dictatorial and corrupt actions of authorities world-wide.

From the classic old school Police brutality, with the usual militaristic strategy and violent excessive force in the USA, Egypt, Britain, Italy, Greece, to the more sophisticated LAW making, surveillance (The Murdoch phone hacking scandal) and banking Tsarist like activity. (Tsar: Divine guided/deluded king and dictator of whatever one feels like dictating).

Please see Hagbard Celine's LAWS for more insights.

1. National Security is the chief cause of national insecurity.

2. Accurate communication is possible only in a non-punishing situation.

3. An honest politician is a national calamity.

On the OCCUPY MOVEMENT.

The Occupy movement is an international protest movement which is primarily directed against economic and social inequality.^[7]^[8] The first Occupy protest to receive wide coverage was Occupy Wall Street in New York City, which began on September 17, 2011. By October 9, Occupy protests had taken place or were ongoing in over 95 cities across 82 countries, and over 600 communities in the United States.^[9]^[10]^[11]^[12]^[13] As of December 20 the Meetup page "Occupy Together" listed 2,751 Occupy communities worldwide.--http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_movement

On the NATIONAL DEFENCE AUTHORIZATION ACT.

"The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2012 is a controversial bill that has been passed by both houses of Congress separately, and a final version approved by the Senate on December 15, 2011.^[1]^[2]^[3] Though the White House^[4] and Senate sponsors^[5] maintain that the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists (AUMF) already grants presidential authority for indefinite detention, the Act legislatively codifies^[6] the President's authority to indefinitely detain terrorism suspects, including American citizens, without trial as defined in Title X, Subtitle D, SEC 1031(a-e) of the bill.^[7] Because those who may be held indefinitely include U.S. citizens arrested on American soil, and because that detention may be by the military, the Act has received critical attention by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and media sources --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Defense_Authorization_Act_for_Fiscal_Year_2012

On the draconian and wrong-headed SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act)

"These bills, and the enforcement philosophy that underlies them, represent a dramatic retreat from this country's tradition of leadership in supporting the free exchange of information and ideas on the Internet. At a time when many foreign governments have dramatically stepped up their efforts to censor Internet communications, these bills would incorporate into U.S. law a principle more closely associated with those repressive regimes: a right to insist on the removal of content from the global Internet, regardless of where it may have originated or be located, in service of the exigencies of domestic law.--http://boingboing.net/2011/12/19/law-professors-explain-whats.html

On the EURO Crisis:

"Mayhem. Catastrophe. Apocalypse. Chaos. A hail of brimstone. The end of the (consumerist) world. Years of misery … And that's just the more optimistic parts of the media, as they contemplate the breakup of the eurozone. Politicians wring their hands as they contemplate the changing world of ever-lower expectations.--http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/dec/04/eurosceptics-beware-euro-crisis

Robert Anton Wilson talk at Palm Springs Prophets Conference December 2000

2011-12-10T04:44:00.000-08:00

Illuminating Discord: An interview with Robert Anton Wilson

2011-11-08T05:13:00.000-08:00

"Voting wouldn’t excite me unless it included electing the directors of the big banks and corporations, who make the real decisions that affect our lives." Robert Anton Wilson.

CRNLA: What is your present involvement in “movement” activities?

RAW: I’m more involved in space migration, intelligence increase and life extension which seems to me more important than any mammalian politics. What energy I have for terrestrial brawling goes into Wavy Gravy’s Nobody for President campaign, the Firesign Theatre’s Papoon for President campaign, and the Linda Lovelace for President (which I invented myself, since we ought to have a good-looking cocksucker in the White House for once.) I think these campaigns have some satirical-educational function, and, at minimum, they relieve the tedium of contemplating the “real” candidates, a more-than-usual uninspiring lot this year. Voting wouldn’t excite me unless it included electing the directors of the big banks and corporations, who make the real decisions that affect our lives. It’s hard to get excited about the trained seals in Washington. Of course, if voting could change the system, it would be illegal. Teachers would be handling out pamphlets for children to take home proving that voting machines cause chromosome damage, and Art Linkletter would claim that a ballot box drove his daughter to suicide.

http://theanarchistlibrary.org/HTML/Various_Authors__Illuminating_Discord__An_interview_with_Robert_Anton_Wilson.html

Excerpts from HYPERPOLITICS by Mark Pesce

2011-11-08T04:26:00.000-08:00

Introduction by way of a poem:

Good Catch In A Lonely Network

HYPERPOLITICS BY MARK PESCE

EXCERPTS BY STEVE FLY AGARIC 23

"All actions generate equaland opposing forces, rising to meet

them. This is the essence ofTaoism, as well as Newton’s Second

Law of Motion. Politics isthe art of opposition, hence why von

Clausewitz said that war isthe continuation of politics by other

means.—pg 7

The level of direct human addressability of thespecies in toto can

be calculated as the ratioof total number of subscribers versus the

total world population:5,400,000,000 / 6,900,000,000 or 0.7826.

As we move deeper into the21st century, this figure will approach

1.0: all individuals, richor poor, young or old, post-graduate or

illiterate, will be directlyconnected through the network. This

type of connectivity is notsimply unprecedented, nor just a unique

feature in human history,this is the kind of qualitative change that

leads to a fundamentalreorganization in human culture. This, the

logical culmination in thegrowth in human connectivity from the

aural tribe to the landlinetelephone, can be termed

hyperconnectivity, becauseit represents the absolute amplification of

all the pre-extantcharacteristics in human communication,

extending them to ubiquity and speed-of-light instantaneity.—pg 15

A group of hyperconnectedindividuals choosing to

hyperdistribute theirknowledge around an identified domain can

engender hyperintelligence.That hyperintelligence is not a static

actor. To be in relation toa hyperintelligence necessarily means

using the knowledge providedby that hyperintelligence where,

when and as needed. The morecomprehensive the

hyperintelligence, thegreater the range of possible uses and

potential effects.—pg 21.

Page numbers to PDFarticle (not printed page numbers).

“Thedesire to conserve that power led the guilds to

become increasingly zealousin the defense of their knowledge

domains, their ‘secrets ofthe craft’.

The advent of Gutenberg’smoveable-type printing press made it

effectively impossible tokeep secrets in perpetuity. One

individual could pen asingle, revealing text, and within a few

months all of Europe wouldlearn what they knew. Secrets were

no longer enough to preservethe sanctity knowledge domains.

Ritual cast a longer shadow,and in this guise, as the modern

protector of the mysteries,the university becomes the companion

to the professionalassociation, indoctrinating then licensing

candidates for entry intothe professions. The professions of

medicine, law, engineering,architecture, etc., emerged from this

transition from the guildsinto modernity. These professional

associations exist for onereason: they assign place, either within

the boundaries of theorganization, or outside of it. An unlicensed

doctor, a lawyer who has not‘passed the bar’, an uncredentialed

architect all representmodern instances of violations of ritual

structures that have been with us for at least fifty thousand years.

--Hyperpolitics pg.19

Hyperconnectivity,hyperdistribution, hyperintelligence and

hyperempowerment havepropelled human culture to the midst of

a psychosocial phasetransition, similar to a crystallization phase in

a supersaturated solution, a‘revolution’ making the agricultural,

urban and industrialrevolutions seem, in comparison, lazy and

incomplete. Twenty years agonone of this toolkit existed nor was

even intimated. Twenty yearsfrom now it will be pervasively and

ubiquitously distributed,inextricably bound up in our selfdefinition

as human beings. We havealways been the product of

our relationships, and nowour relationships are redefining us.—Pg. 22

They don’t need fancy services – and wouldn’t use them.

They only need to beconnected to other people. That in itself is

entirely sufficient. Peoplecome fully equipped to provide all the

services they need. Nothingelse is required. Five thousand years

of civilization have seen tothat. We know how to organize our

own affairs – and can do sowithout any assistance. But now we

can do so globally andinstantaneously. That’s not a power

restricted to the billionrichest of us; it’s now within reach of half

of us, and improves thelives of the poor far more than it helps us.

Our innate capacity forself-organization, now extended and

amplified almost infinitely,has itself produced some unpredicted

and unexpected effects.—Pg29.

“The net regards censorship as a failure, and routes

around it.”

At the time Gilmore madethis statement, he was talking politics.

Gilmore is a politicalanimal – many of you probably know of his

long-running tangle with USHomeland Security over the free

right to travel within theStates without having to display ID.

And, for many years thisaphorism was interpreted as a political

maxim – that politicalcensorship of the net was essentially

impossible.—pg. 30

In a future which looks increasingly like the present, there is no

center anywhere, no locus ofauthority, no controlling power

ordering our daily lives.There are no governments, no

institutions, no businessesthat look anything like the limited

liability enterprises bornin the Netherlands five hundred years

ago. Instead, there aregroupings, networks within the network,

that come together around aproject or ideology, a shared sense of

salience (meaning) for thatgroup. The product of that network

could be Wikipedia – or itcould be al Qaeda. Buy the ticket, take

the ride. And it’s not overyet. The network hasn’t finished changing, and it

hasn’t finished changing us.—Pg. 33.

But what does the MerakiMini have to do with the end of the

telcos? Just this: a meshnetwork is a network that’s been subject

to the corrosive effects ofa network. There is no center anywhere.

There’s no hierarcy orpreferred route. There’s no gatekeeper

anywhere. You can have onegateway, or twenty. You can have

one mesh node or a thousand.Just throw another mesh node into

the mix, and it’ll all workseamlessly. And mesh networks scale:

the dynamics of a network ofa thousand mesh repeaters aren’t

substantially different froma network with ten. Packets still find

their way, with minimaldelay.—pg. 34.

But for the past thirty five minutes, you’ve all been bathing in

WiFi, which I’m providing toall of you, free of charge. You’ve all

got good signal, and (Ihope) plenty of bandwidth to blog, or

check email, or whatever youmight want to do when I get boring.

And here’s the kicker – it’sall running off batteries. The whole

thing is good for at leastfour hours of fun before someone needs to

go find the mains. And,because it’s both entirely battery powered

and entirely wireless, I candrop it anywhere in I like, whether in

Australia or America or Namibia.—Pg. 36

You need to reach into thatbucket of dreams and

ambitions and pull somethingout to share with us mob, something

that will dazzle and exciteus. It might only do so for a moment,

but, in that moment, yoursocial stock will rise so high that you’ll

never have to worry aboutputting food on the table or paying the

mortgage. You may not retirea millionaire, but you’ll certainly

never go hungry. The mob isa meritocracy – admittedly a very

perverse and bizarremeritocracy – but it is the one place where

“quality will out”. Qualityonly comes from the marriage of craft

and obsession. You have thecraft. Embrace your obsessions.

You will be rewarded.—Pg. 39

I need to leave you with one concrete example ofhow this is all

going to work, and for thisexample I’ve selected the last bastion of

authority and hierarchy –after everything else has dissolved into

the gray goo of the network,one thing will remain. It won’t be

government – that’s halfgone already. It’s medicine. Medicine is

very nearly the oldest ofthe professions, and has been a closely

held monopoly for half athousand years – closer to a guild than

anything resembling a modernprofession. Why? Medicine is

guarded by the twin bulwarksof complexity and mortality:

medicine is rich and deepbody of knowledge, and, if you screw it

up, you’ll kill yourself orsomebody else. While the pursuit of

medical knowledge isconducted within the peer-review

frameworks of science, thatknowledge is closely held. That leaves

all of us – as patients – ina distinctly disempowered position when

it comes to medicine. Butthat is all going to change.—Pg. 39

But the mob won’t wait forever. Remember: itis smarter and faster and stronger than

you. You can try to get infront of it, and get picked up by it –

I’ve given you more thanenough clues to do that – or you can get

run down. That choice isyours. But if I’ve learned anything from

my study of mob rules, it’sthat the future lies in making networks

happen. If you do that, there’s a place for you with us mob. – Pg. 41

The lovely thing aboutscience is that the truth eventually

triumphs. Just this year anumber of papers – including a few by

E. O. Wilson – describe whatbiologists are now calling “multilevel”

selection; that is, aprocess of natural selection which

includes both the individualand groups of individuals. Within the

individual, selfishbehaviors are selected for, but with social

groups, altruistic behaviorscan be just as strongly selected for.

Consider two prides oflions, one of which has a number of females

who have opted-out ofbreeding, while another has an assemblage

of selfish individuals, allof whom are breeding. When each pride

is threatened, or needsfood, the pride with the altruistic

individuals will tend tosucceed, while the pride with only selfish

individuals will tend tofail. The pressures of natural selection will

tend to select altruism overselfishness when selecting between

groups, but tends to select selfish individuals within either group.—Pg46.

Occupy Guy Fawkes Carnival With a 'V' Mask

2011-11-05T03:04:00.000-07:00

The world is being shaken by protests against the excesses of finance, but this is not a revolution – it is a carnival. That does not make it false, but wise. Real revolution is bloody and cruel and mad. A carnival is entertaining and opens up questions that cannot usually be asked. Guy Fawkes has become the king of a carnival of questions. Far from being sinister, his mask is a jokey icon of festive citizenship.

--http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/nov/04/occupy-movement-guy-fawkes-mask

The Rise of the New Global Hacktivists ...

2011-07-01T06:09:00.000-07:00

New America Media, News Analysis, Justine Sharrock, Posted: Jun 28, 2011

SAN FRANCISCO—When the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s John Perry Barlow tweeted last December, “The first serious infowar is now engaged. The field of battle is WikiLeaks. You are the troops,” many in the mainstream media rolled their eyes and dismissed his words as hacker hyperbole.

But the events of the past few days, in which the hacktivst “group” Anonymous launched a major campaign called Operation Anti-Security, show that many more Julian Assanges are indeed waiting in the wings—ready, willing and able to continue what the embattled WikiLeaks founder started when he released a trove of classified State Department cables on the Internet last year. And governments and corporations will find these leakers far more difficult than Assange to capture or control.

The first new batch of classified documents leaked last Thursday came from Arizona law enforcement and Border Patrol, in protest of Arizona’s anti-immigration policies. The next day, Operation Anti-Security released massive amounts of information from NATO, the U.S. Navy, the FBI, and AOL.

Anonymous has successfully leaked information before, including more than 10,000 “top secret” emails from Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs on June 3 and emails from Bank of America in March, but the new campaign will be exponentially larger.
http://newamericamedia.org/2011/06/from-wikileaks-to-sb-1070the-rise-of-the-new-global-hacktivists.php

"What do MasterCard, Visa, Bank of America, Paypal and Western Union all have in common?

2011-07-01T06:01:00.000-07:00

"What do MasterCard, Visa, Bank of America, Paypal and Western Union all have in common? They help you pay for what you want? Well, yes... that is unless you want to help WikiLeaks make the world a better place. To see the shocking details, please go to wikileaks.org/

What Does it Cost to Change the World? from WikiLeaks on Vimeo.

But, of course, "Watching the world change as a result of your work: Priceless."

Bush's War on the Sick and Dying: 13 Hephaistis 82 p.s.U.

2011-05-07T04:19:00.000-07:00

Bush's War on the Sick and Dying
13 Hephaistis 82 p.s.U.

"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution,
nor prohibited by it to the States,
are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
United States Constitution, 10th Amendment

As most of you know by now, my photo went all over the country as the first patient to receive medical cannabis from the city officials of Santa Cruz on September 17; I assume the organizers pushed me up front because of my age, my white beard, my wheelchair and my general resemblence to a colorful Gothic ruin.

I've had a lot of experence with civil disobedience, dating back to Vietnam War days, but this occasion seems unique, in that the mayor, the former mayor, the city council and various other local officials participated [not as patients, but as supporters.] In fact, we all acted perfectly in accord with local and state law: Californians voted to legalize medical cannabis by a 55% majority, and Santa Cruz County by a 75% majority. The TSOG [Tsarist Occupation Government], however, has thrown the tenth amendment into the same garbage heap with the first nine. The Bill of Rights exists now only as a historical curiosity, although you can still find it in the back of a good fat dictionary.

I suggest that you check this out by looking into your own dictionary before His Royal Fraudulency George II has this subversive document removed and thrown down the memory hole.

What will Tsarism in America engulf and devour next? Having invaded medicine -- not only in the present case, but in banning stem cell research-- will the TSOG move on physics next and allow the pointy-headed bureaucrats to decide which of the eight theories of quantum mechanics professors may discuss in class? Will they issue dogmas about mathematical set theory? Will they raid Chinese neighborhoods, indefinetly "detaining" those who prefer herbal meds to allopathic ones? Nothing seems impossible: Tsarist governments use a special logic with deuces, eights and one-eyed jacks wild.

I wonder how many of the serfs even remember that the founders intended to create a free country here.

http://www.rawilson.com/thoughts.html

Geologist Predicts Major N. America Earthquake Imminent!

2011-03-19T08:06:00.000-07:00

FATTENING FROGS FOR SNAKES 2011

Information flow, Quantum Mechanics and Assange

2011-02-05T06:52:00.000-08:00

Maybe, along with the Nobel Prize for peace, Assange could be put forward for a 'information technology' prize for the radical review of Quantum Mechanics and Information theory, known to the world as 'wikileaks'? and what I now like to call a proto hyperintelligence. --Steve fly.

"The other intriguing reason was the way Assange had arrived at his conclusion, which seemed more scientific than journalistic. He asked me to bear in mind that his background was as a computer hacker and specialist in quantum mechanics. He was fascinated by the "media information flow economy".

People forget Assange is as interested in physics as he is in ideology, and that much of his work has been motivated by an application of the laws of mechanics to information. At that first meeting, he pulled a book off the shelf and talked at length about the many propulsions and interests that had got it there – "multiple reasons why the book has arrived on that shelf". There was also "a miasma of interests behind the spread of information," he said, "and the reasons why a piece of information reaches you."And the conversation went on for seven hours in that compelling vein.--http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jan/30/julian-assange-interview

THE ILLUMINATI PAPERS: ROBERT ANTON WILSON.

Lee Perry ~ no peace dub~

2011-01-20T05:02:00.000-08:00

Tragedies cover up financial apocalypse of Federal Reserve and Austerity

2011-01-17T11:01:00.000-08:00

Twitter Is Hero as Feds Attempt to Trample WikiLeaks' Free Speech | News & Politics | AlterNet

2011-01-16T06:02:00.000-08:00

Twitter Is Hero as Feds Attempt to Trample WikiLeaks' Free Speech | News & Politics | AlterNet

CYBERNETIC RAW SOURCE

2010-12-23T06:07:00.000-08:00

Robert Anton Wilson, The tale of the tribe and Open Source Conspiracy theory.

Dr. Robert Anton Wilson lived a life dedicated to sharing. RAWs shared wisdom and information packed writings seem to me to present a special methodology and an illuminating example of comprehensive critical thinking, critical for our grasping a handle on 'what the hell is going on' as he often said. RAW had his hands on the handle or the 'tool' we know as 'language' since a remarkably early age, reading James Joyce, Ezra Pound, William Butler Yeats and Semanticist Alfred Korzybski and many more heavyweights while still in his teens.

RAWs early adoption of various linguistic, mathematical and semantic 'systems', plus his experimental and practical approach to sex, drugs and meditation put him in a unique position during the fabled 1960's consciousness revolution, next to Dr. Timothy Leary and literally--on the same page--as the founding fathers of the 'free' or 'underground press' in the United States: appearing as early as 1958 in Paul Krassner's mother ship of 'hip' scholastic insights; the Realist.

The Realist, standing alone provides us with RAWs performances by example, evidence for his early adoption of principles and methodologies such as 'cybernetics' as defined by Norbert Weiner; 'Synergetics' as defined by Buckminster Fuller, and 'hologrammic Prose' as defined and refined by W.B Yeats, James Joyce and to some extent Ezra Pound who may more properly be summarized in RAWs 'multiverse' of early quality critters by his 'ideogrammic method' or globalist collage of textual exhibits.

Together with RAWs 'belly laugh' and 'lightening wit' and his 'brave' insights and broad experiential knowledge I detect his 'scientific' and 'operationalist' methodology in his first, right up to his last writings and communications. Approximately 50 years of consistent 'critical' thinking expressed through delightful prose and 'balanced' 'fair' feedback, RAW, in my opinion stands out as an exemplary figure who represents the spirit of our 'information activism revolution' kicking into gear and the 'global eye/ear' of the emerging 'digital global village ' in 2011.

In short, RAW has given us an illuminated history of 'information activism' reaching back to the European Renaissance, and one that includes some of the greatest minds of the 20th century with a name yet to come. RAWs History of 'revolutionary information activists' is called 'the tale of the tribe'; with a nod to Ezra Pound, who he liked to called uncle Ez, due to his major IMPACT on RAWs writing and critical thinking. "The Faben Works still intact?"

RAWs 'tale of the tribe' has been the subject of my on-going study since reading the introduction to the unfinished project at the back of his book called TSOG: The Thing That Ate The Constitution, and studying alongside Dr. Wilson himself during an eight week class hosted by the MaybeLogic Academy titled 'tale of the tribe'. My studies into TTOTT have culminated in my own recent six week class, also held at the MaybeLogic Academy: Email to the Tribe, where I reviewed the main characters and their methodologies with the goal of providing a useful resource for others who may discover RAWs 'tale of the tribe' and also wonder 'what the hell it’s all about?'

I found that the best metaphor I can give for what 'the tale of the tribe' is all about is to invoke the theory of 'holograms' or the idea that each section of something (the tale of the tribe) contains a miniature 'copy' of the whole. This Holographic theory is of particular interest and use to me as it seems like it can be quickly fitted to correspond, generally to every characters innovation from Giordano Bruno to Orson Wells, and of course including RAW himself, who of course uses many other terms to describe what I view as the generally holographic' 'hermetic' and 'cybernetic' nature of 'revolutionary information activism'

I might simply argue that the 'revolutionary information explosions' and 'leaks' reflect the nature of information entropy vs. information negentropy, and the dance between 'order' and 'disorder' in any system whatsoever, and the fumble to measure and interpret this 'waltz' or oscillation that I like to think of, as RAW did, generally as the heart and marrow of Daoism. RAW often noted Daoism and Quantum Mechanics as his main interests, and I think that this combination indeed captures the flavour of RAW information activism or Guerrilla Ontology; in his hands these forms take on the feel of 'timeless evidence' and historical scientific support for the 'multiplistic' and 'infinite flux' at play in the Universe.

Call it 'chaos theory' or 'the multiple worlds model' or 'quantum psychology' if you like, but RAW may refer back to Joyce and something like 'the mamma matrix most mysterious' at those critical moments where many other a scientific philosopher would sign off and collect the cheque, no, RAW always takes you all the way through post-absurdum, where logic and reason fly out the window land like rolling papers in a hurricane and your left floating somewhere beyond language, somewhere near the beginning of reading, you might say.

I feel RAW was trying to make us, the readers, smarter, and constantly peppers his readers with references and source after source, in hope that some may get their feet wet and take a dip into the kinds of territory he has been wading in since first discovering that something was not right with the way the United States--in particular, also the rest of the world and its Governments and Religions--were 'fucking things up' in the name of private profit and religious piety. RAW, above his brilliant prose and wit, always aims his critic and gaze at the heart of the matter, striking blows to pivotal points and 'taboos' where most fear to tread with their typewriter when they have evidence for the horrific destructive and violent powers of the beasts they hunt using their 'word' sound power.

This brevity and unwillingness to water down his often 'shocking' truths and observations has helped define RAW, for me; the Bobfather of the 'information activism revolution' and with the additional practical steps all-humanity can take to influence the co-operation and connection of all peoples and 'systems' who favour 'evolution' 'information' and 'perpetual questions' in contrast to 'predictable' 'noisy' and 'secretive'. There seems to be no sides in this 'Information activist revolution' due to the fact that information permeates every bit of any proposed enemy, information permeates each and every part, everyware! Ubiquitous!

To fight information and the decent into novelty is like fighting a mirror or trying to contain the Novelty engines of our neuro-logical and cosmological 'realities' with any 'earth bound' doctrine or scripture, today's news seems out-dated when compared with 'tomorrows' news leaked through a superior 'hyper intelligence' working upon 'hermetic' decentralized principles that simply 'out-mode' and obsolete what came before it i.e.; secret communications between a few private individuals with purely 'company business' interests.

But still the question of 'interpretation' lingers like a fart after twelve scotch eggs, the match and sulphur are contained in the phrase I already quoted in part: "Think for yourself, and question authority". This usually requires a certain level of critical judgement and attention to detail found in artists and philosophers by the bucket load, but usually absent from the limited 'programs' of Governmental representatives and major corporate bodies and think tanks.

Like with the excellent case in point of 'Wikileaks decentralized hyper intelligence', it often takes an underground minority maverick (hacker) to introduce the silver bullet to the chamber of the gun that will fire the crack-shot that starts the ball rolling towards an avalanche and maybe a total 'paradigm shift' or something resembling the idea that everything will change so fast and so drastically our concept of 'revolution' will once more rise through the murk of 'Che' T-shirts, and with luck gain its positive 'information rich' meanings connected to 'cyclical' processes, the 'wheels' of Buddhist 'Samsara', the 'recorso of the ages' from Gimabattista Vico, the 'Gyres' of W.B Yeats and so on; the revolutionary process, the infinite flux of consciousness and all that resembles its traces. Here we touch on a tale that I think deserves a new chapter, the 'information activist' cables of the tribe or 'the common speech of the tribe and its leaders' a leak that illuminates the speech of the great tribal henchmen and women of each nation, a new chapter in any 'poem' including history.

I think that in some sense Wikileaks, among other things it does, brings us a new kind of 'tale' and a new global concept of 'the tribe' together with the novel and probably 'hyper intelligent process' of distribution, marketing, editing and presentation--what I would call 'decentralized, shared and rotational concepts--as I have said before at the Pivot area of Robert Anton Wilson's broad history of 'revolutionary information networks' and those critters that 'translated' the holographic reality of things into a somewhat orderly and defined set of messages: novels, poems, geometries, histories, equations, movies, methodologies etc. Communications containing the seeds of future trends and revolutions, and usually, to add IMPACT, RAW liked to point out how most 'innovators' and 'geniuses' are misunderstood, unacknowledged, and often actively pursued, charged, jailed, executed (as in the case of Giordano Bruno), proving that it can be hazardous to have 'new ideas' when surrounded by morons.

Considering the gravity of the situation in 2010 concerning the Pope and his Catholic Priesthood and their documented 'repetitive' sex offences--child molestation and rape of young boys--we might consider the flimsy allegations currently floating about Julian Assange like a CIA fog seeping into the world media. Can you balance the statements recorded by some Catholic Priests and the Pope himself concerning the use of condoms with the broken condom allegation and 'smear' campaign, I think, being waged against Julian. Have some perspective here, why oh why are we not pursuing these child rapists, hunting them down and trying them for their physical and total crimes against an underage, vulnerable and innocent human being?

I don't wish to get into a Ping-Pong game of back and forth here, trying to compare one criminal case with another as I think that each case should be tried separately and have its own chance to represent the facts. But as a recent Wikileak has shown, the highest authorities within the Vatican actively campaigned to prevent their Priests standing trial, or even being questioned by those investigating claims of 'Catholic Priest abuse of children' Have some perspective please.

Ask yourself and read a few articles about each case, ask yourself where the major media biases are, and why they might choose to protect their interests? Not to mention the low profile stories concerning most of the victims of these leaked cables and war logs, those who actually suffered due to the criminal actions and law breaking by our supposed heroes and soldiers, their stories are not plastered all over the headlines in many media outlets, instead we have the high profile 'whimsy' of what read like celebrity gossip magazine 'news clippings', reaffirming my paranoid contention that 'hello' magazine is a CIA front and Simon Cowell is a sextuple agent working for twenty or more companies and acting as a major bridge between CIA-MI5-Mossad operations.

Joking aside, my decentralized points point here, to the orbiting contention that RAW created the master conspiracy theory, the greatest grandest and 'truest' or 'most probable' conspiracy of all: the conspiracy of the stupid. That those people in power are so dumb and thick that they just don’t know what they're doing, walking blind in a land of thieves and imitators, unaware of the damage and suffering and pain they are inflicting due to their orders, due to their upholding of the strictest laws, the trade embargos and the general warfare on sanity and blockage to the co-operative 'open source' hyper intelligent methodology of our main example: Wikileaks.

I have always liked the connotations to the term 'conspiracy' that imply connection, and in a somewhat Burroughsian fashion, and by extended metaphor we can imagine 'conspiracy' as a virus, a 'language' virus that consumes as it connects, a language 'virus' that assimilates everything and anything in its path, a hyper intelligent 'language' agent. Conspiracy theory seems to me to be unfairly associated with mighty global events and historical events between powerful people, when in effect the 'force' of conspiracy must also have an equal and opposite 'prospiracy' component. Wikileaks has made this apparent and explicit in its all-around-the-world total communication and distribution of 'once secret' documents, reversing the private and secret network upon which so much 'power' hinges, in these times, I think.

The speed at which people receive their feedback based upon the actions and orders they give has sped up to an almost instantaneous momentum, to a world where reports about reports are released before the original 'report' can come out, whatever the original 'report' is. I find it interesting that the mainstream press has always obtained its scoops and dirty-secrets through conventional, tired and tested methods probably passed on by the spy-craft, that include simple payment or blackmail and if necessary a little physical threat of violence.

In contrast to this 'trading in secrets' that goes on behind the scenes of every corporate controlled 'secret cabal' and 'intelligence agency' we have Wikileaks, a decentralized 'process' committed to sharing information, and running based upon donations and voluntary contributions.

Steven 'fly agaric 23' Pratt. Amsterdam, December 22. Greenhouse Effect. 7-8 P.M.

Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane - Evidence

2010-12-22T17:37:00.000-08:00

James Brown - Mind Power

2010-12-11T05:52:00.000-08:00

Production Models for the 21st Century

2010-12-11T04:21:00.000-08:00

Mark Pesce - Words.
CHU - Images.
Steve 'Fly Agaric'' - Mixing

Unevenly Distributed:

Production Models for the 21st Century

I. The Wheels Fall Off the Cart

In mid-1994, sometime shortly after Tony Parisi and I had
fused the new technology of the World Wide Web to a 3D
visualization engine, to create VRML, we paid a visit to the
University of Santa Cruz, about 120 kilometers south of San
Francisco. Two UCSC students wanted to pitch us on their
own web media project. The Internet Underground Music
Archive, or IUMA, featured a simple directory of artists,
complete with links to MP3 files of these artists’ recordings.
(Before I go any further, I should state that they had all the
necessary clearances to put musical works up onto the Web –
IUMA was not violating anyone’s copyrights.) The idea
behind IUMA was simple enough, the technology absolutely
straightforward – and yet, for all that, it was utterly
revolutionary. Anyone, anywhere could surf over to the
IUMA site, pick an artist, then download a track and play it.

This was in the days before broadband, so downloading a
multi-megabyte MP3 recording could take upwards of an
hour per track – something that seems ridiculous today, but
was still so potent back in 1994 that IUMA immediately
became one of the most popular sites on the still-quite-tiny
Web. The founders of IUMA – Rob Lord and Jon Luini –
wanted to create a place where unsigned or non-commercial
musicians could share their music with the public in order to
reach a larger audience, gain recognition, and perhaps even
end up with a recording deal. IUMA was always better as a
proof-of-concept than as a business opportunity, but the
founders did get venture capital, and tried to make a go of
selling music online. However, given the relative obscurity of
the musicians on IUMA, and the pre-iPod lack of pervasive
MP3 players, IUMA ran through its money by 2001,
shuttering during the dot-com implosion of the same year.
Despite that, every music site which followed IUMA, legal and
otherwise, from Napster to Rhapsody to iTunes, has walked in
its footsteps. Now, nearing the end of the first decade of the
21st century, we have a broadband infrastructure capable of
delivery MP3s, and several hundred million devices which can
play them. IUMA was a good idea, but five years too early.

Just forty-eight hours ago, a new music service, calling itself
Qtrax, aborted its international launch – though it promises
to be up “real soon now.” Qtrax also promises that anyone,
anywhere will be able to download any of its twenty-five
million songs perfectly legally, and listen to them practically
anywhere they like – along with an inserted advertisement.
Using peer-to-peer networking to relieve the burden on its
own servers, and Digital Rights Management, or DRM, Qtrax
ensures that there are no abuses of these pseudo-free
recordings.

Most of the words that I used to describe Qtrax in the
preceding paragraph didn’t exist in common usage when
IUMA disappeared from the scene in the first year of this
millennium. The years between IUMA and Qtrax are a
geological age in Internet time, so it’s a good idea to walk back
through that era and have a good look at the fossils which
speak to how we evolved to where we are today.

In 1999, a curly-haired undergraduate at Boston’s
Northeastern University built a piece of software that allowed
him to share his MP3 collection with a few of his friends on
campus, and allowed him access to their MP3s. This scanned
the MP3s on each hard drive, publishing the list to a shared
database, allowing each person using the software to
download the MP3 from someone else’s hard drive to his own.
This is simple enough, technically, but Shawn Fanning’s
Napster created a dual-headed revolution. First, it was the
killer app for broadband: using Napster on a dial-up
connection was essentially impossible. Second, it completely
ignored the established systems of distribution used for
recorded music.

This second point is the one which has the most relevance to
my talk this morning; Napster had an entirely unpredicted
effect on the distribution methodologies which had been the
bedrock of the recording industry for the past hundred years.

The music industry grew up around the licensing, distribution
and sale of a physical medium – a piano roll, a wax recording,
a vinyl disk, a digital compact disc. However, when the
recording industry made the transition to CDs in the 1980s
(and reaped windfall profits as the public purchased new
copies of older recordings) they also signed their own death
warrants. Digital recordings are entirely ephemeral,
composed only of mathematics, not of matter. Any system
which transmitted the mathematics would suffice for the
distribution of music, and the compact disc met this need
only until computers were powerful enough to play the more
compact MP3 format, and broadband connections were fast
enough to allow these smaller files to be transmitted quickly.
Napster leveraged both of these criteria – the mathematical
nature of digitally-encoded music and the prevalence of
broadband connections on America’s college campuses – to
produce a sensation.

In its earliest days, Napster reflected the tastes of its collegeage
users, but, as word got out, the collection of tracks
available through Napster grew more varied and more
interesting. Many individuals took recordings that were only
available on vinyl, and digitally recorded them specifically to
post them on Napster. Napster quickly had a more complete
selection of recordings than all but the most comprehensive
music stores. This only attracted more users to Napster, who
added more oddities from their on collections, which
attracted more users, and so on, until Napster became seen as
the authoritative source for recorded music.

Given that all of this “file-sharing”, as it was termed,
happened outside of the economic systems of distribution
established by the recording industry, it was taking money out
of their pockets – probably something greater than billions of
dollars a year was lost, if all of these downloads had been
converted into sales. (Studies indicate this was unlikely –
college students have ever been poor.) The recording industry
launched a massive lawsuit against Napster in 2000, forcing
the service to shutter in 2001, just as it reached an incredible
peak of 14 million simultaneous users, out of a worldwide
broadband population of probably only 100 million. This
means that one in seven computers connected to the
broadband internet were using Napster just as it was being
shut down.

Here’s where it gets more interesting: the recording industry
thought they’d brought the horse back into the barn. What
they hadn’t realized was that the gate had burnt down. The
millions of Napster users had their appetites whet by a world
where an incredible variety of music was instantaneously
available with few clicks of the mouse. In the absence of
Napster, that pressure remained, and it only took a few weeks
for a few enterprising engineers to create a successor to
Napster, known as Gnutella, which provided the same service
as Napster, but used a profoundly different technology for its
filesharing. Where Napster had all of its users register their
tracks within a centralized database (which disappeared when
Napster was shut down) Gnutella created a vast, amorphous,
distributed database, spread out across all of the computers
running Guntella. Gnutella had no center to strike at, and
therefore could not be shut down.

It is because of the actions of the recording industry that
Gnutella was developed. If legal pressure hadn’t driven
Napster out of business, Gnutella would not have been
necessary. The recording industry turned out to be its own
worst enemy, because it turned a potentially profitable
relationship with its customers into an ever-escalating arms
race of file-sharing tools, lawsuits, and public relations
nightmares.

Once Gnutella and its descendants – Kazaa, Limewire, and
Acquisition – arrived on the scene, the listening public had
wholly taken control of the distribution of recorded music.
Every attempt to shut down these ever-more-invisible
“darknets” has ended in failure and only spurred the
continued growth of these networks. Now, with Qtrax, the
recording industry is seeking to make an accommodation with
an audience which expects music to be both free and freely
available, falling back on advertising revenue source to
recover some of their production costs.

At first, it seemed that filmic media would be immune from
the disruptions that have plagued the recording industry –
films and TV shows, even when heavily compressed, are very
large files, on the order of hundreds of millions of bytes of
data. Systems like Gnutella, which allow you to transfer a file
directly from one computer to another are not particularly
well-suited to such large file transfers. In 2002, an
unemployed programmer named Bram Cohen solved that
problem definitively with the introduction of a new filesharing
system known as BitTorrent.

BitTorrent is a bit mysterious to most everyone not deeply
involved in technology, so a brief of explanation will help to
explain its inner workings. Suppose, for a moment, that I
have a short film, just 1000 frames in length, digitally
encoded on my hard drive. If I wanted to share this film with
each of you via Gnutella, you’d have to wait in a queue as I
served up the film, time and time again, to each of you. The
last person in the queue would wait quite a long time. But if,
instead, I gave the first ten frames of the film to the first
person in the queue, and the second ten frames to the second
person in the queue, and the third ten frames to the third
person in the queue, and so on, until I’d handed out all
thousand frames, all I need do at that point is tell each of you
that each of your “peers” has the missing frames, and that you
needed to get them from those peers. A flurry of transfers
would result, as each peer picked up the pieces it needed to
make a complete whole from other peers. From my point of
view, I only had to transmit the film once – something I can
do relatively quickly. From your point of view, none of you
had to queue to get the film – because the pieces were
scattered widely around, in little puzzle pieces, that you could
gather together on your own.

That’s how BitTorrent works. It is both incredibly efficient
and incredibly resilient – peers can come and go as they
please, yet the total number of peers guaratees that
somewhere out there is an entire copy of the film available at
all times. And, even more perversely, the more people who
want copies of my film, the easier it is for each successive
person to get a copy of the film – because there are more
peers to grab pieces from. This group of peers, known as a
“swarm”, is the most efficient system yet developed for the
distribution of digital media. In fact, a single, underpowered
computer, on a single, underpowered broadband link can, via
BitTorrent, create a swarm of peers. BitTorrent allows
anyone, anywhere, distribute any large media file at
essentially no cost.

It is estimated that upwards of 60% of all traffic on the
Internet is composed of BitTorrent transfers. Much of this
traffic is perfectly legitimate – software, such as the free
Linux operating system, is distributed using BitTorrent. Still,
it is well known that movies and television programmes are
also distributed using BitTorrent, in violation of copyright.
This became absolutely clear on the 14th of October 2003,
when Sky Broadcasting in the UK premiered the first episode
of Battlestar Galactica, Ron Moore’s dark re-imagining of the
famous shlocky 1970s TV series. Because the American
distributor, SciFi Channel, had chosen to hold off until
January to broadcast the series, fans in the UK recorded the
programmes and posted them to BitTorrent for American
fans to download. Hundreds of thousands of copies of the
episodes circulated in the United States – and conventional
thinking would reckon that this would seriously impact the
ratings of the show upon its US premiere. In fact, precisely
the opposite happened: the show was so well written and
produced that the word-of-mouth engendered by all this mass
piracy created an enormous broadcast audience for the series,
making it the most successful in SciFi Channel history.
In the age of BitTorrent, piracy is not necessarily a menace.

The ability to “hyperdistribute” a programme – using
BitTorrent to send a single copy of a programme to millions of
people around the world efficiently and instantaneously –
creates an environment where the more something is shared,
the more valuable it becomes. This seems counterintuitive,
but only in the context of systems of distribution which were
part-and-parcel of the scarce exhibition outlets of theaters
and broadcasters. Once everyone, everywhere had the
capability to “tuning into” a BitTorrent broadcast, the
economics of distribution were turned on their heads. The
distributioin gatekeepers, stripped of their power, whinge
about piracy. But, as was the case with recorded music, the
audience has simply asserted its control over distribution.
This is not about piracy. This is about the audience getting
whatever it wants, by any means necessary. They have the
tools, they have the intent, and they have the power of
numbers. It is foolishness to insist that the future will be
substantially different from the world we see today. We can
not change the behavior of the audience. Instead, we must all
adapt to things as they are.

But things as the are have changed more than you might
know. This is not the story of how piracy destroyed the film
industry. This is the story how the audience became not just
the distributors but the producers of their own content, and,
in so doing, brought down the high walls which separate
professionals from amateurs.

Wikileaks and a new Global Epic?

2010-12-09T06:58:00.000-08:00

Wikileaks and the new Global Epic?
By Steve 'fly agaric 23'

A global epic poem including History or 'tale of the tribe' aspires to create a planetary synthesis of symbolic information, striving for a balanced Multi-cultural 'exhibit' a tale that moves from geographical location to individual 'speech' to the global 'stage' while illuminating special details, and often therefore creating a whole new style. Is Wikileaks a whole new style?

A global epic hopes to bring new information to the people, to inform them of a Global Picture, and to lift the general heart--that great ball of crystal--up to the light, sharing the sources and holding 'objectivity' and 'fairness' in mind, body, and speech whenever possible. Attention to the source, the root causes and the marrow.

In short, with a good editor, the Wikileaks files and their novel methods of distribution maybe a rough outline of 'the tale of the tribe' in some sense: a new global communication network of texts and speech that record a period of evolution into the information activist age. Are they a record of our trajectory towards 'open source' internet and the potential for radical political change, does Wikileaks present a model for planetary synergy? Is Wikileaks demonstrating superior intelligence and methodology that--obsoletes--what came before it? Are the texts sacred and Holy? What makes a text holy, what gives a text its security clearance level, how do secretness and sacredness relate to one another?

Wikileaks obsoleted and changed 'secret intelligence' into public reading material, producing a new widely read—fragmented--Global Epic, (in the hands of some journalists and writers) a specially edited series of texts, and video, that change--and change utterly--the entire worlds perception of Justice, equality and fairness at the highest levels of Government and Corporate business.

May I suggest a few pointers for individuals interested in 'the tale of the tribe' as a way of interpreting Wikileks, and that may extend the possibilities of ‘poetry’. Maybe set some scenes to verse or to some music, an Opera with the strongest voices you could muster, mash-ups, theatre and stage shows, stand-up routines, photoshop jobs, paintings and tales.

1. E-Prime:
Presents an alternative way of thinking and processing languages that removes the 'essentialism' the 'isness' and the 'spooks' from writing and speech, acting as a defence system against many shades of bullshit and 'spin'; a tool for nurturing semantic hygiene and 'good sense' when interpreting messages. I’m still learning to introduce E-prime, on occasion into my own communication in 2010.

2. RAW: Dr. Robert Anton Wilson:
Continues to inspire millions of alternative thinkers and writers around the world, this article is dedicated to RAW (please see CYBERNETIC RAW SOURCE) and I hope anyone reading this who has not yet read him will READ HIM. He defined our current information explosion over 50 years in his works in a clear and witty manner. He also created a character called Hagbard Celine who influenced an entrie generation of 'information hacktivists' and 'abstractivists'.

3. Global Village of Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuahn, like Dr. Robert Anton Wilson, imagined a new world of the electric man connected by Trillions of nodes in a Global Praxis of electric signals and ‘info’ clippings. His model of the Global Village and environs gives us a pre-internet 'lesson or two' in information processing sensory bias and world literature, and in ‘the tale of the tribe’ McLuhan’s ideas may synthesize all six of these pointers and has the punch line—summary’s--for understanding how Wikileaks impacts the Global Village and the electronic man.

4. Planetary Synergetics of Bucky Fuller
Buckminster Fuller teaches us with a Planetary ‘synergy’ model, also pre-internet; that exhibits evidence for an all-around-the-world revolution in information processing, design science, nano-technology and further semantic hygiene, a design science and ‘language’ revolution. Bucky's World Game can show players the impact and difference between what he calls 'Killingry' 'Livingry' essential differentials in any 'Wikileaks' equation, I think.

5. The Cantos of Ezra Pound.
Ezra Pound's ‘Cantos’ maybe a blue-print for a poetic presentation of the 'illuminated' details of history re-illuminated by Wikileaks. The Cantos exhibit a wonderfully Global mixture of ‘tales’ and show us the possibilities of poetry and history copulating. To hang speech next to speech so as to compare and reflect, the Cantos help us distinguish information from noise, I think, read them and study Pound’s ‘Juxtaposition’ and ‘Ideogrammic Method’.

6. Finnegans Wake and James Joyce.
Finnegans Wake can teach us information processing on every page. What does it mean, what does it refer too, who is speaking, where is the action taking place? James Joyce can teach everybody to read and hopefully to also write and speak with a critically balanced perception, a Celtic Taoist sensibility, and to never ever forget the bawdy comedy of leaking secret letters and telling tales and spreading gossip and what’s holy.

MAKE IT NEW!

--Steven 'fly agaric 23' Pratt.

Wikileaks and Umberto Eco

2010-12-09T05:27:00.000-08:00

For the celebrated novelist and intellectual Umberto Eco, the Wikileaks affair or "Cablegate" not only shows up the hypocrisy that governs relations between states, citizens and the press, but also presages a return to more archaic forms of communication.

Umberto Eco

The WikiLeaks affair has twofold value. On the one hand, it turns out to be a bogus scandal, a scandal that only appears to be a scandal against the backdrop of the hypocrisy governing relations between the state, the citizenry and the press. On the other hand, it heralds a sea change in international communication – and prefigures a regressive future of “crabwise” progress.

But let’s take it one step at a time. First off, the WikiLeaks confirm the fact that every file put together by a secret service (of any nation you like) is exclusively made up of press clippings. The “extraordinary” American revelations about Berlusconi’s sex habits merely relay what could already be read for months in any newspaper (except those owned by Berlusconi himself, needless to say), and the sinister caricature of Gaddafi has long been the stuff of cabaret farce.

Embassies have morphed into espionage centres

The rule that says secret files must only contain news that is already common knowledge is essential to the dynamic of secret services, and not only in the present century. Go to an esoteric book shop and you’ll find that every book on the shelf (on the Holy Grail, the “mystery” of Rennes-le-Château [a hoax theory concocted to draw tourists to a French town], on the Templars or the Rosicrucians) is a point-by-point rehash of what is already written in older books. And it’s not just because occult authors are averse to doing original research (or don’t know where to look for news about the non-existent), but because those given to the occult only believe what they already know and what corroborates what they’ve already heard. That happens to be Dan Brown’s success formula.

The same goes for secret files. The informant is lazy. So is the head of the secret service (or at least he’s limited – otherwise he could be, what do I know, an editor at Libération): he only regards as true what he recognises. The top-secret dope on Berlusconi that the US embassy in Rome beamed to the Department of State was the same story that had come out in Newsweek the week before.

So why so much ado about these leaks? For one thing, they say what any savvy observer already knows: that the embassies, at least since the end of World War II, and since heads of state can call each other up or fly over to meet for dinner, have lost their diplomatic function and, but for the occasional ceremonial function, have morphed into espionage centres. Anyone who watches investigative documentaries knows that full well, and it is only out of hypocrisy that we feign ignorance. Still, repeating that in public constitutes a breach of the duty of hypocrisy, and puts American diplomacy in a lousy light.

A real secret is an empty secret

Secondly, the very notion that any old hacker can delve into the most secret secrets of the most powerful country in the world has dealt a hefty blow to the State Department’s prestige. So the scandal actually hurts the “perpetrators” more than the “victims”.

But let’s turn to the more profound significance of what has occurred. Formerly, back in the days of Orwell, every power could be conceived of as a Big Brother watching over its subjects’ every move. The Orwellian prophecy came completely true once the powers that be could monitor every phone call made by the citizen, every hotel he stayed in, every toll road he took and so on and so forth. The citizen became the total victim of the watchful eye of the state. But when it transpires, as it has now, that even the crypts of state secrets are not beyond the hacker’s grasp, the surveillance ceases to work only one-way and becomes circular. The state has its eye on every citizen, but every citizen, or at least every hacker – the citizens’ self-appointed avenger – can pry into the state’s every secret.

How can a power hold up if it can’t even keep its own secrets anymore? It is true, as Georg Simmel once remarked, that a real secret is an empty secret (which can never be unearthed); it is also true that anything known about Berlusconi or Merkel’s character is essentially an empty secret, a secret without a secret, because it’s public domain. But to actually reveal, as WikiLeaks has done, that Hillary Clinton’s secrets were empty secrets amounts to taking away all her power. WikiLeaks didn’t do any harm to Sarkozy or Merkel, but did irreparable damage to Clinton and Obama.

Technology now advances crabwise

What will be the consequences of this wound inflicted on a very mighty power? It’s obvious that in future, states won’t be able to put any restricted information on line anymore: that would be tantamount to posting it on a street corner. But it is equally clear that, given today’s technologies, it is pointless to hope to have confidential dealings over the phone. Nothing is easier than finding out whether a head of state flew in or out or contacted one of his counterparts. So how can privy matters be conducted in future? Now I know that for the time being, my forecast is still science fiction and therefore fantastic, but I can’t help imagining state agents riding discreetly in stagecoaches along untrackable routes, bearing only memorised messages or, at most, the occasional document concealed in the heel of a shoe. Only a single copy thereof will be kept – in locked drawers. Ultimately, the attempted Watergate break-in was less successful than WikiLeaks.

I once had occasion to observe that technology now advances crabwise, i.e. backwards. A century after the wireless telegraph revolutionised communications, the Internet has re-established a telegraph that runs on (telephone) wires. (Analog) video cassettes enabled film buffs to peruse a movie frame by frame, by fast-forwarding and rewinding to lay bare all the secrets of the editing process, but (digital) CDs now only allow us quantum leaps from one chapter to another. High-speed trains take us from Rome to Milan in three hours, but flying there, if you include transfers to and from the airports, takes three and a half hours. So it wouldn’t be extraordinary if politics and communications technologies were to revert to the horse-drawn carriage.

One last observation: In days of yore, the press would try to figure out what was hatching sub rosa inside the embassies. Nowadays, it’s the embassies that are asking the press for the inside story.

heavily fiscalized through contractual obligations...

2010-12-08T05:19:00.000-08:00

"Whereas in the United States to a large degree, and in other Western countries, the basic elements of society have been so heavily fiscalized through contractual obligations that political change doesn't seem to result in economic change, which in other words means that political change doesn't result in change.

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2034040-2,00.html#ixzz17WNUa6u7

Thanks to Stein' for the John Lennon video link.

Schneier's modest proposal: Close the Washington monument!

2010-12-03T05:10:00.000-08:00

Terrorists use the media to magnify their actions and further spread fear. And when we react out of fear, when we change our policy to make our country less open, the terrorists succeed -- even if their attacks fail. But when we refuse to be terrorized, when we're indomitable in the face of terror, the terrorists fail -- even if their attacks succeed. --http://www.schneier.com/essay-332.html

Schneier's modest proposal: Close the Washington monument!

Cory Doctorow at 1:48 PM Thu

No price is to high to pay for security:

The empty monument would symbolize our war on the unexpected, -- our overreaction to anything different or unusual -- our harassment of photographers, and our probing of airline passengers. It would symbolize our "show me your papers" society, rife with ID checks and security cameras. As long as we're willing to sacrifice essential liberties for a little temporary safety, we should keep the Washington Monument empty.

Terrorism isn't a crime against people or property. It's a crime against our minds, using the death of innocents and destruction of property to make us fearful. Terrorists use the media to magnify their actions and further spread fear. And when we react out of fear, when we change our policy to make our country less open, the terrorists succeed -- even if their attacks fail. But when we refuse to be terrorized, when we're indomitable in the face of terror, the terrorists fail -- even if their attacks succeed.

We can reopen the monument when every foiled or failed terrorist plot causes us to praise our security, instead of redoubling it. When the occasional terrorist attack succeeds, as it inevitably will, we accept it, as we accept the murder rate and automobile-related death rate; and redouble our efforts to remain a free and open society.

Close the Washington Monument

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US-vs-Wikileaks-whose-side-are-you-on?

2010-11-29T04:29:00.000-08:00

Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil.--Robert Anton Wilson, Cosmic Trigger II : Down to Earth (1991)

US vs Wikileaks whose side are you on

Read more: US vs Wikileaks whose side are you on? - The Times of India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/US-vs-Wikileaks-whose-side-are-you-on/articleshow/7010095.cms#ixzz16fp4fAcc

WASHINGTON: The mother of all leaks has engendered the mother of all debates.

The US government says by putting in public domain about 250,000 documents, nearly half of them classified and secret, Wikileaks is putting at risk lives of innocent individuals, endangering ongoing military and counterterrorism operations and jeopardizing ties between countries who are partners, allies and stakeholders in confronting common challenges.

Wikileaks says the release of the documents "reveals the contradictions between the US's public persona and what it says behind closed doors - and shows that if citizens in a democracy want their governments to reflect their wishes, they should ask to see what's going on behind the scenes."

The cables, Wikileaks maintains, "show the extent of US spying on its allies and the UN; turning a blind eye to corruption and human rights abuse in "client states"; backroom deals with supposedly neutral countries; lobbying for US corporations; and the measures US diplomats take to advance those who have access to them."

In sometimes angry and bitter correspondence, the two sides slugged it out in the days and hours before Wikileaks ignored pressures and threats to go ahead with the publication through select print media, causing worldwide convulsions that may reverberate for weeks and months to come.

Amid mounting pressure from Washington to back down from publishing a trove of documents leaked to it by a disgruntled and anarchy-loving US soldier, Wikileaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange wrote to the US ambassador in London Louis Susman on 26 November, asking "the United States Government to privately nominate any specific instances (record numbers or names) where it considers the publication of information would put individual persons at significant risk of harm."

Washington's snippy response came the very next day from Harold Hongju Koh, Legal Adviser to the State Department. Ignoring Assange's request for citing cases of risk and endangerment, Koh told him that "Despite your stated desire to protect those lives, you have done the opposite and endangered the lives of countless individuals."

"You have undermined your stated objective by disseminating this material widely, without redaction, and without regard to the security and sanctity of the lives your actions endanger," he said, adding, "We will not engage in a negotiation regarding the further release or dissemination of illegally obtained US. Government classified materials."

Assange's response: "Either there is a risk or there is not. You have chosen to respond in a manner which leads me to conclude that the supposed risks are entirely fanciful and you are instead concerned to suppress evidence of human rights abuse and other criminal behaviour."

The deadlock resulted in Administration officials, from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton down, scrambling to get in touch with their counterparts across the world to assure them of Washington's sensitivity to the situation even as Wikileaks parceled out the trove of information to the New York Times, The Guardian and Der Spiegel.

The primary concern in Washington is that many of the US internal deliberations and assessment will be taken as policy. There are also fears that US diplomats, including ambassadors, CIA station chiefs and political counselors, will lose access to sources and trust of their foreign counterparts.

Washington's new ambassador to Pakistan Cameron Munter led the effort to salvage US credibility, writing in an Op-ed in a Pakistani newspaper that "people of good faith recognise that diplomats' internal reports do not represent a government's official foreign policy. In the United States, they are one element out of many that shape our policies, which are ultimately set by the president and the secretary of state."

But Wikileaks has been unsparing in its critique of US practices. In a preamble to its expose, it taunted the United States, saying, "Every American schoolchild is taught that George Washington - the country's first President - could not tell a lie. If the administrations of his successors lived up to the same principle, today's document flood would be a mere embarrassment."

Instead, it said, "the US Government has been warning governments - even the most corrupt - around the world about the coming leaks and is bracing itself for the exposures."

The embassy cables, it warned, will be released in stages over the next few months, adding. "The subject matter of these cables is of such importance, and the geographical spread so broad, that to do otherwise would not do this material justice."

Read more: US vs Wikileaks whose side are you on? - The Times of India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/US-vs-Wikileaks-whose-side-are-you-on/articleshow/7010095.cms#ixzz16fogI5Ls

Conspiracy is just another name for coalition--Robert Anton Wilson, The Historical Illuminatus as spoken by Luigi Duccio

Bavarian Serbian Spanish Dutch American English Nazi Hunt

2010-11-28T16:53:00.000-08:00

"BERLIN — Germany’s justice minister suggested Friday that a Nazi wanted by the Netherlands could serve his sentence in Germany but Bavaria, where the 88-year-old lives, said it needed significant new evidence.
Dutch prosecutors on Thursday issued a European arrest warrant for SS assassin Klaas Carel Faber, who has been living freely in Germany since escaping from a Dutch prison in 1952 where he was serving a life sentence.
Three previous attempts to bring him to justice have failed, and German Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, amid pressure from Israel, called Friday on the state of Bavaria, which has jurisdiction on the case, "to look for alternative solutions."--LINK

"Serbia is seeking extradition from the United States of a naturalized American citizen who is suspected of serving in a Nazi unit that killed about 17,000 Jewish and other civilians during World War II, the justice minister said Friday. The American, Peter Egner, 88, was born in Yugoslavia but emigrated to the United States in 1960, gaining citizenship six years later. He has lived in a retirement community outside Seattle, fighting federal government efforts to strip him of his American citizenship, which would pave the way for his extradition. --http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/27/world/europe/27briefs-serbia.html

"It is possible that within a short time a court in the United States will prohibit the publication of the account before us. In the meantime, Haaretz has obtained the testimony given last month by William Gowen, a former intelligence officer in the United States Army, at a federal court in San Francisco. The testimony contains historical and political explosives. It links Giovanni Battista Montini, who later became Pope Paul VI, to the theft of property of Jewish, Serb, Russian, Ukrainian and Roma victims during World War II in Yugoslavia. Many studies and stories have already been written about the thundering silence of Pope Pius XII, who reigned in the Vatican during World War II.

Now the former intelligence officer's testimony has revealed that after the war, Montini, who during the war served as the Vatican's deputy secretary of state under the pope, helped hide and launder property that had been stolen from, among others, Jews and was involved in the sheltering and smuggling of Croatian war criminals, such as the leader of the Ustashe movement, Ante Pavelic.

The smuggling and hiding of Croatian war criminals was part of the extensive network known as the Rat Lines. Senior officials at the Vatican were involved in hiding and smuggling Nazi war criminals and their collaborators so they would not be arrested and tried. Hundreds of war criminals were provided with church and Red Cross papers that enabled them to hide in safe houses and then flee from Europe, mainly to the Middle East and South America. Among them were Klaus Barbie ("the butcher of Lyon"), Adolf Eichmann, Dr. Josef Mengele and Franz Stengel, the commander of the Treblinka death camp.

The Vatican network was also used by leaders of the Ustashe - the nationalist Croatian Catholic movement that was active in Croatia and collaborated with the Nazi occupation. "The Reverend Dr. Prof. Krunoslav Draganovic seemed to be in cooperation with the Ustasha network. And he was given a Vatican assignment as the apostolic visitator for Croatians, which meant he reported directly to Monsignor Giovanni Battista Montini," states an American document based on a report from the Italian police; the document was recently placed in evidence at the court in San Francisco where Gowen testified.

The leaders of the Ustashe headed by Pavelic are the ones who stole the victims' property: art and jewelry - silver and mostly gold. After the war they fled with the treasure and laundered it with the help of Vatican institutions. According to Gowen's testimony, Montini, who in 1964 became the first pope to visit the State of Israel, was also involved in the Vatican's help in laundering the wealth.--http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/features/tied-up-in-the-rat-lines-1.62204

"Ratlines were systems of escape routes for Nazis and other fascists fleeing Europe at the end of World War II. These escape routes mainly led toward havens in South America, particularly Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil, and Chile. Other destinations included the United States and perhaps Canada and the Middle East. There were two primary routes: the first went from Germany to Spain, then Argentina; the second from Germany to Rome to Genoa, then South America; the two routes "developed independently" but eventually came together to collaborate.^[1]
One ratline, made famous by the Frederick Forsyth thriller The Odessa File, was run by the ODESSA (Organisation der ehemaligen SS-Angehörigen; "Organization of Former SS-Members") network organized by Otto Skorzeny.^{[citation needed]--http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratlines_%28history%29}

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Spain, not Rome, was the "first center of ratline activity that facilitated the escape of Nazi fascists", although the exodus itself was planned within the Vatican.^[4] Charles Lescat, a French Catholic member of Action Française (an organization suppressed by Pius XI and rehabilitated by Pius XII), and Pierre Daye, a Belgian with contacts in the Spanish government, were among the primary organizers.^[5] Lescat and Daye were the first able to flee Europe, with the help of French cardinal Eugene Tisserant and Argentine cardinal Antonio Caggiano.^[5]
By 1946, there were probably hundreds of war criminals in Spain, and thousands of former Nazis and fascists.^[6] According to US Secretary of State James F. Byrnes, Vatican cooperation in turning over asylum-seekers was "negligible".^[6] According to Phayer, Pius XII "preferred to see fascist war criminals on board ships sailing to the New World rather than seeing them rotting in POW camps in zonal Germany".^[7] Unlike the Vatican emigration operation in Italy, centered on Vatican City, the ratlines of Spain, although "fostered by the Vatican" were relatively independent of the hierarchy of the Vatican Emigration Bureau.^{[8]--http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratlines_%28history%29}

Vatican Banking CIA Coke Bail Out?

2010-11-28T16:40:00.000-08:00

21 September 2010 Last updated at 16:49 GMT

Vatican Bank 'investigated over money-laundering'

The inquiry into Ettore Gotti Tedeschi has surprised the Vatican

The head of the Vatican Bank, Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, is under investigation as part of a money-laundering inquiry, police sources say.--http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11380628

"For Professor Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, economist and banker, and president of the Vatican bank, the main cause of the economic crisis in the West is the collapse in the birth rate. Gotti Tedeschi has been maintaining this thesis for some time, with great vigour. And he argues for it frequently at conferences and in articles in L'Osservatore Romano. Some, however, continue to think that what is blocking economic development is not a reduction, but an uncontrolled rise in the birth rate.--http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=24064

"Gen. Gehlen and Gen. Vlassov formed what became the Gehlenapparat, the CIA's main source of info on Soviet affairs; Gehlen became the fulcrum of the CIA's "Soviet penetration" sector, working under James Jesus Angleton, Chief of Counter-Intelligence, breeder of prize orchids, lover of the arts, and a devout Catholic.

Since the U.S. government based its foreign policies on CIA reports, and the CIA based its Soviet reports on Gehlen and some other former Nazis, plus a crew of Mystical Tsarists, as filtered and interpreted by a Papist intellectual, the U.S. government's ideas and actions became increasingly "weird, " bizarre and frightening, in the view of the rest of the world. The results are very sad and very funny. In a nutshell, most of the world thinks we've gone batshit crazy. "Tsarists and Nazis and spooks, oh my!"--http://www.rawilson.com/tsog.html

The Future of the Future by RAW

2010-11-28T16:27:00.000-08:00

The Future of the Future by Robert Anton Wilson, excerpt from Chaos and Beyond.

There was a Fundamentalist Futurist back in the 1890's who demonstrated that New York City would be abandoned as unfit for habitation by the 1930s. His argument was based on projection forward of population trends, and he correctly estimated that population would grow from 4 million to over 7 million in 40 years. (He didn't guess it would reach over 12 million by now.) It was then obvious, he said, that the amount of horses necessary to provide transportation for that many people would result in a public health hazard of incredible dimensions: there would be horse manure up to the third floor windows everywhere in Manhattan. This illustrates the most frequent fallacy found in Future projections: the "elementalistic fallacy" named by Alfred Korzybski. The elementalistic fallacy as Korzybski noted, seems to be built into our very language. We can talk about Joe Smith in isolation from his (or any) environment; we can therefore think about Mr. Smith in such fictitious isolation; and in such "elementalistic fallacy" we will always draw wrong conclusions, because Mr. Smith cannot exist without some environment. (He will explode in a vacuum, and without a social world his mind will similarly explode -- or implode -- or at least mutate shockingly, as isolation experiments have shown. )

Projecting population forward without projecting other factors forward has produced numerous elementalistic fallacies similar to thinking of Joe Smith without an environment. Malthus, for instance, "proved" that population will always increase faster than resources, but this was disproven by technological history, and we now understand that "resources" only exist when identified by analysis and each new discovery in pure science shows us new resources everywhere.

One example: the Newtonian system allowed us to tap 0.001 per cent of the energy in a glass of water; 19th Century thermodynamics showed us how to tap 0.01 per cent of that energy; we can now tap 1.0 per cent. Nobody knows how much we'll be able to tap in 50 years.

Elementalistic fallacies abound in Future projections (including my own). We are only gradually and gropingly learning to think "non-elementalistically" (in Korzybski's phrase) or "synergetically" as Bucky Fuller liked to say. I have found one quick way to avoid the more obvious elementalistic and Fundamentalistic errors, which is this:

Whenever I project one trend forward, I then re-analyze the situation, projecting at minimum five other trends forward also.

For instance, lifespan and population have both been increasing in the past 200 years. Projecting these trends forward elementalistically (in isolation) has led to some notable Doomsday scenarios in which humanity overcrowds itself to death. An entirely different picture emerges, however, if one projects these trends synergetically along with five other trends, such as:

The effect of industrialism on population. As documented by Fuller (Critical Path) a nation's population only rises rapidly in the transition from feudalism to industrialism, then levels off when industrialism is well established in a country.

The emergence of Feminism and self-choice among women, beginning with the 18th century radicalism of Mary Wollstonecraft and now including Women's Liberation movements in all parts of the world -- even dawningly in Islamic nations.

The movement of communication technology into space, with clear trends indicating that "industrial" (or more likely, post-industrial) technology will follow, with workers and then families and then schools and grocers and museums, etc. moving into space colonies.

The continued improvement in birth control technology and the fading line between contraception and abortion. There is already a heated debate, for instance, about whether certain devices -- e.g. the IUD -- "are" or "are not" abortifacients.

The neuroscience revolution (or H.E.A.D. Revolution -- Hedonic Engineering And Development) with its increasing promise that humans in the near future will achieve more freedom from mechanical conditioned reflexes (both "physical" and "mental") than ever before.

Whenever I try to project all five of these trends even 40 years into the future, I find the "overcrowding" problem seems less likely than New York being buried in horse manure. To get a feel for synergetic thinking, try your own projection, "guestimating" what the next decade will bring in each of these fields, and the decade after that, and so on, to 2029.

TSOG: Inspired by The Tale of the Tribe MLA class 2007.

2010-11-07T11:11:00.000-08:00

"The true patriot does not love his government. The true patriot loves his country and watches his government," Darryl Eberhart.  

"In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies - Winston Churchill to Joseph Stalin

TSOG

In some of the unforgettable courses led by Dr. Wilson at Maybelogic Academy such as Non-Euclidean politics, Illuminatus and The Tale of the Tribe we were presented - for class course-work - his insightful essay TSOG [march 2001] also the title of his book TSOG: [The thing that ate the Constitution] published by New Falcon. The essay seems to me a condensed overview of some of RAW's general concerns: The Tsarist Occupation Government - it's infestations and historical lineage throughout the 20th century, with a focus upon the United States of America. i.e The CIA-Nazi-Tsarist aliegence.

Not surprisingly to many, some parts of RAW's repertoire often get buried, ignored and shrugged off. Fewer folk seem to have looked further into the conspianoid world of TSOG and fewer still dare publish their findings, at least without direct reference to RAW's essay TSOG. This essay is an attempt at just that.   RAW has this TSOG theme running throughout most of his works as a neurolinguistic hook, one single colour in his rainbow of themes, a part of his general method that i like to call holographic prose - orienting the readers nervous system into a more balanced, awake state. A Maybe state.

My interpretation of maybelogic and E-prime are under development and I hope the reader will be gentle with any assertions i make. Writing about RAW and his works seems like writing about Einstein or Alfred Korzybski sometimes, such is his genius and complexity that i often wonder what words can possibly simplify his ideas, yet contributing at the maybelogic academy and upon the various courses with RAW i feel inclined to simply write out my subjective experiences and share them with others.

I wish more people from the Maybelogic Academy would feedback their experiences, we need every bright bard and mystic and Discordian to help turn the tide. Maybelogic Quarterly is such a vehicle, and so i choose to write about RAW explicitly riding the seat of my pants. I aim to provide something of interest to the Maybelogicians and also the general public who may not have read a book since leaving school. I also strive to provide something that RAW himself might enjoy, as he has provided such pleasure and insight and brevity with his own work.

I have re-read the TSOG essay and gone back over some of my posts from the various courses in which this essay was set as the foundation for a weekly assignment, adding a few of my own personal experiences and independent research, guided by lady synchronicity and her band of rapscalions; bringing them up to date and into timespace. Within the last few months [october-December 2006] i have noticed an upsurge of faith based political ideologies and the kind of spooky government behavior that RAW's TSOG essay [March 2001] warns us about so passionately and urgently. I therefore also find an urgency in bringing TSOG and my own interpretations of it to the public - crossing the Atlantic to share this wisdom with Britain and the United States of Europe seems critical if we are to better understand the forces at work within this conspiracy.  I tackle this challenging subject by spinning quotes [mostly from Pound's Cantos] as orienteering tools that help the images connect and take root.

I'll synthesize unconsciously--the quotes--into my own musings about TSOG, hopefully turning hash browns into roast beef. My aims and objectives are to produce an original revisionist historical research investigation that thinks globally and acts locally. It is Conducted and spun by a working class but unemployed British DJ, poet, drummer and swimactivist for the express purpose of drawing attention to the TSOG as described by RAW and including my own 5 penny contributions and weird feedback - something RAW encouraged upon the courses.

Ezra Pound writes: "Peace comes of communication". So pick up your pens and do it. Keep thinking. Asking questions and conducting research.   

Fly Agaric 23.

Everybody who has ever worked for a corporation knows that corporations conspire all the time. Politicians conspire all the time, pot-dealers conspire not to get caught by the narcs, the world is full of conspiracies. Conspiracy is natural primate behavior. --ROBERT ANTON WILSON.The I in the Triangle, speech held at a bookstore in Santa Cruz, California (1990).

For more info on the Gehlenapparat, see The Yankee and Cowboy War by Carl Oglesby, Berkeley Medallion, NY, 1977; and Everything Is Under Control by RAWilson,
Harper, NY, 1998. The best overview of TSOG/CIA operations in general is Norman Mailer's docu-novel
Harlot's Ghost, Random House, NY, 1991, in which Angleton appears as "Hugh Montague" and Gehlen has a walk-on under his own name.
On the Gladio/P2 side of the TSOG, excellent books include The Strange Death of God's Banker, Foot and della Torre, Orbis, London, 1984; The Calvi Affair, by Larry Gurwin, Pan, London, 1984; The Brotherhood, by Stephen Knight, Grenada, London, 1984. The Calvi "ghost banks" and their strange links with real banks, including Chase Manhattan, are discussed amply in In Banks We Trust, Doubleday, NY, 1984, by Penny Lernoux, who leaves open the question of how many of the real banks were unwitting accomplices and how many knew what was going on and just kept mum while raking in the profits.
In God's Name, by David Yallop, Cape, London 1984, covers all this in greater depth, and also explores Licio Gelli's role in creating fake ID for Nazi war criminals, whom he later farmed out to the CIA death squads. It also adds Pope John Paul I to the list of mysterious deaths involving the Vatican Bank, along with Pecorelli, Moro, Calvi et. al.
My current acceptance that the Mafia killed Calvi [in previous writings I was unsure] rests on the confession of Calogero Ganci, a Mafia hitman turned informant, who says he strangled Calvi himself. See London Times, 20 June 1996. Ganci was never told why the mob wanted "God's banker" dead; his job was to kill people, not to ask rude questions. Mrs. Calvi, the widow, still claims the orders came from the Vatican.
Our current Tsar's war crimes are documented in "Overwhelming Force," by Seymour Hersh, The New Yorker, 22 May 2000.
The best depth analysis of Mystical Tsarism remains The Mass Psychology of Fascism, by Wilhelm Reich, M.D. Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, New York, 1970. Although Dr Reich doesn't analyze Tsarism in particular, he relates Fascism to the dogmatic religions, faith in "leaders" ["little Fathers"]and sexual misery of all the "Patriarchal Authoritarian" regimes throughout history, and his major bio-psychological theorems describe both Russian and American Tsarism as neatly as they fit the Holy Inquisition or German-Italian Fascism.
Or -- you can find most of this data, in one form or another by simply surfing the web. Set your search engine for "Rheinhold Gehlen," "Cisalpine Bank,""Licio Gelli," "Gladio" and all the other individual and group names in this synopsis, and you'll be astounded at how many Dirty Secrets are now open to the light of day.

No more rage against the machine - In Depth - Al Jazeera English

2010-11-07T07:16:00.000-08:00

No more rage against the machine - In Depth - Al Jazeera English

The Losing Bet

2010-11-01T07:48:00.000-07:00

The Losing Bet

Robert Anton Wilson - TSOG Maybe

2010-10-31T14:04:00.000-07:00

JOYCE AND TAO

2010-10-31T06:26:00.000-07:00

Joyce and Tao

By Robert Anton Wilson

From The James Joyce Review, vol. 3, 1959, pp. 8-16

Throughout the long day of Ulysses the thoughts of Stephen Dedalus and Mr. Bloom repeatedly return to the East; and this is not without reason. Ulysses is so profoundly Oriental in mood and conception that Carl Jung has recommended it as a new Bible for the white race. Molly Bloom's fervent "Yes" mirrors the author's acceptance of life in its entirety - an acceptance that transcends the dualisms of light and dark, good and evil, beautiful and sordid.

   But every sensitive reader of Ulysses knows that this "acceptance" involved only part of the author's sensibility. The agony, the misanthropy, the (at times) neurotic satire, all testify to Joyce's incomplete realization of what his instincts were trying to tell him. Only in Finnegans Wake does the true Oriental note sing uninterruptedly from beginning to end. The morbid rebel against the most morbid Church in Christendom had to go the long way round to reach the shortest way home. The affirmation of Ulysses is forced (not "insincere" any more than the neurotic's desire to be cured is "insincere"); the affirmation of the Wake engages every level of the author's sensibility, from cortex to cojones - the whole man affirms, as in Nietzsche's Zarathustra.

   The purpose of this present brief essay is to show that the Chinese philosophy of the Tao contributed largely to the shape of Joyce's affirmation. "Laotsey taotsey" (page 242), or Lao-Tse's doctrine of the Tao, explains a great many things about Finnegans Wake: the river -woman symbol, the Shem-Shaun dualism, the special quality of Joyce's humor, the "time" philosophy underlying its form.

   Chapter 6 of the Tao Te Ching says:

                                    The valley spirit never dies
                                    It is called the Eternal Female.

Some Sinologists trace this "Eternal Female" back to a Chinese "Urmutter" myth of pre-Chou times, but Lao-Tse was far beyond primitive mythology. He was using this myth as a pointer, to indicate the values that must have been in the society which created the myth. The distinction between Patrist and Matrist cultures made in such books as Ian Suttie's The Origins of Love and Hate and G. Rattray Taylor's Sex in History (not to mention Robert Graves' The White Goddess ) places the Taoists as representatives of a Matrist social-ethical system living in Confucian Patrist China. The "Golden Age" of the Taoists did actually exist, whether or not it deserves to called Golden: it was the Matriarchal. pre-Feudal China destroyed by the Chou State and official Confucian philosophy. Chapter 28 of the Tao Te Ching defines the psychology and ethics of Taoism:

                              He who knows the male, yet clings to the female,
                              Becomes like a valley, receiving all things under heaven

The female qualities of receptivity, acceptance, passivity, etc. are preferred to the masculine ethical rigor of Confucianism. Kuan Tzu explains this in its simplest terms: "The sage follows after things, therefore he can control them." Every married man knows how typically feminine - and how effective - this is. What is not so obvious is that this is, really, the philosophy of modern science. Bacon says: "We cannot command nature except by obeying her." (Cf. the Marxian "freedom as the recognition of necessity.") A letter by - of all people - Thomas Henry Huxley drives home the point, showing the innate connection between religious humility and scientific method.

         Science seems to me to teach in the highest and strongest manner the great
         truth which is embodied in the Christian conception of entire surrender to the
         will of God. Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every
         preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses Nature
         leads, or you shall learn nothing.

   The Taoists saw this attitude represented most clearly by women and by water, and made these the chief symbols of their religion. Orthodox Christians can understand why this approach is valuable to the scientist, but that it is the highest form of religion also, is certainly difficult for anyone conditioned to dogmatisms to accept. The Taoists put "acceptance" where the West puts "faith."

   The female also stands, in Taoist thought, for those two forces regarded with most suspicion in Patrist societies: sex and love. The orthodox Freudians have said enough to familiarize us all with the neurotic illness that has come into Western culture with the triumph of anti-sex religions; what is not so obvious is how love, also, is under a pall in our society - see the chapter on "The Taboo on Tenderness" in Ian Suttie's The Origins of Love and Hate.

   Water is, as we have said, the second great symbol of Taoism. It is, of course, the receptivity and yieldingness of water that recommends it to Lao-Tse and Chuang Chou. The philosophy of Judo (a Taoist invention) has come out of the observation of water, it is said. Judo co-operates with the attacking force, as water molds itself to its environment. Water and the Judo student bend and survive where bamboo and the ordinary man stand firm and break.

   The values that Taoism sees in woman and water are their harmony with the Tao. I have not translated this key term, and I do not intend to; but Ezra Pound's translation - "the process" - seems to me more adequate than "the Way," "the Path" and most of the other attempts. Students of General Semantics might understand if I say that the "Tao" comes very close to meaning what they mean when they say "the process-world." The Tao is the flux, the constant change, amid which we live and in the nature of which we partake; or it is the "law" of this change. (But, of course, the "law" and the "change" itself are not different in reality, only in our grammar and philosophy.) A Zen master asked how to get in harmony with the Tao, replied, "Walk on!" Water and woman represent adjustment to the Law of Change, which "man, proud man, dressed in his little brief authority," and his abstract dogmas, tries to resist.

   Anna Livia Plurabelle, the water woman, represents the values of the Tao in Finnegans Wake . The very first word of the book, "riverrun" - not the river and the running of the river, but "riverrun" - places us firmly in the "process-world" of modern physics, which is the world of the Tao. As Molly Bloom in Ulysses, Anna gets the last word in Finnegans Wake, and it is a word that transcends the dualisms (Bloom and Stephen, Shem and Shaun, Mookse and Gripes) and affirms the unity behind them.

   The parable of the Mookse and the Gripes expresses this characteristic Taoist attitude with a quite characteristic Taoist humorous exaggeration. Adrian, the Papal Mookse, takes his stand on space, dogma and aristotelian logic; the mystic Gripes verbally affirms time, relativity and the flux; but both are equally emneshed in abstractions and both wither away in futile opposition to each other. Both, in short, are caprives of the dualistic System they ahve themselves created. Nuvolettam the avatar of ALP in this episode, is the Taoist female, unimpressed by the "dogmad" behaviour of the male. With Molly Bloom's resignation, she says:

                         ---I see...there are menner. (page 158)

   It is important to grasp the distinction between the Gripes and Nuvoletta. Seemingly, they represent affirmation of the same cluster of things: time, the river, flux, mysticism, relativity, sex, love, the earth, Nature. Actually, the Gripes' affirmation is verbal only, whereas Nuvoletta's affirmation is anything but verbal. None of Joyce's great Earth-Mother figures are given to philosophizing about "affirmation of Nature," etc. - they just do it. This is a crucial difference. As Lao-Tse says:

                                 Those who speak do not know;
                                 Those who know do not speak.

   Shem is a "sham and a low sham" because he is a "forger." Stephen Dedalus wanted to "forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race;" but Shem merely seeks "to utter an epochal forged cheque on the public." Shem is one of those who speak but do not know; that his career is a satire on Joyce's own is the kind of irony implied in Christ's "Why callest thou me good? None is good but the Father," or the Sixth Patriarch's "I do not understand Buddhism." Probably everyone who ever gains any experience with the Tao begins by faking a little; it is really so much easier to verbalize about this affirmation that to live it. Joyce's portrait of the artist as a young forger is a self-confession that does penance for the whole race; "you and I are in him."

   ALP, the river-woman, does not have any such confession to make. Like the hen Belinda in Chapter Four, who "just feels she was kind of born to lay and love eggs" (p.112), ALP lives in the Tao without question and without making a fuss about it (wu-shih). Her polar opposite is that figure whom Joyce describes as "Delude of Israel," "Gun, the Father," or "Swiney Tod, ye Demon Barber" - the "phallic-destructive" Hangman God whose "criminal thumbprint" on the rock hangs over Ulysses and makes one realize that Molly Bloom's affirmation was something Joyce had not yet quite experienced when he wrote that saturnine masterpiece. In Finnegans Wake the Hangman God is securely put in his place and from the first word, "riverrun," to the last dying murmur "a way a lone a last a loved a long the," the female figure of affirmation dominates the book.

                                                            II

   Putting the Hangman God in his places does not mean abolishing him; it means transcending him, in sweat and blood, rising above the dualistic delusion that makes Him seem credible. Nietzsche's "I write in blood, I will be read in blood," is testimony as to the superhuman effort required for an Occidental to make this transcendence.

   Earwicker, as typical a product of Western dualism in its advanced stages as was Melville's Ahab, is, like Ahab, split down the middle by his own dualistic thinking. Joyce does not symbolize this as Melville did - by the scar from crown to toe that disfigures Ahab - but by projecting the two sides of Earwicker as Shem and Shaun, the Mookse and the Gripes, Butt and Taff, the Ondt and the Gracehoper. The Taoist orientation of Joyce's treatment of these dualities is indicated, on page 246, by the distortion of "Shem and Shaun" to "Yem and Yan." Yin and Yang are the Taoist terms for the paired opposites whose innate connectedness generates the entire world-process. Yin is feminine, dark, intuitive, etc.; Yang is masculine, light, rationalistic, etc. Neither can exist without the other, and both are parts of the Tao, and hence parts of each other.

   The identity of the opposites, a central theme of Taoist thought, is indicated early in Finnegans Wake. The very first appearance of Shem and Shaun is as "the Hindoo, Shimar Shin," (p.10) a single figure. Through the rest of the book they are split into two figures, but they are constantly changing roles and merging into each other (for instance, in the "Geometry Lesson" chapter, where the Shem-type notes, left side of the page, leap suddenly to the right side, and the Shaun-type notes leap from right to left.) Again, in the Mercius and Justius dispute, Shem and Shaun are picked up at the end and carried off together by ALP. "Sonnies had a scrap," she says with feminine equanimity.

   The two philosophers most frequently mentioned in the Wake, Nicholas of Cusa and Bruno of Nola, taught a dialectic of resolution of opposites. Joseph Needham in his monumental Science and Civilization in China, repeatedly mentions both Bruno and Nicholas as the only two Occidental philosophers before Liebnitz to have a basically Taoist outlook.

   Every sensitive reader has noted the difference between the humor of Ulysses and the humor of Finnegans Wake . In writing Ulysses, Joyce's intention seems to have still contained a large element of the motive expressed to this publisher when describing Dubliners: "to show Ireland its own ugly face in a mirror." The humor in Ulysses is mostly satiric and negative, Swiftian; the joyous, Rabelaisian element is comparatively small. But in Finnegans Wake the humor is not only Rabelaisian, but Carrollian: it has that element of nonsense and childishness which only the well-integrated can sustain for long.

   But this humor is also Taoistic. It is now suspected by scholars that the chapter of the Confucian Analects (Lun Yu) which contains a description of the Taoists as a band of madmen was interpolated by a Taoist writer! The mad, jolly, very un-selfconscious parody of Joyce himself in the "Shem the Penman" chapter has the same type of humor. Probably only an Irishman could understand that text about making oneself a fool for Christ's sake as a Taoist would understand it. Joyce, bending his incredible genius to the concoction of place names like "Wazwollenzie Haven" and "Havva-ban-Annah" (not to mention "the bridge called Tilt-Ass") is exemplifying something that exists outside the Wake only in Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear and the Sacred Scriptures of the Taoists.

              ("The Tao is in the dung," said Chuang Chou.)

   To the Taoists, humor was what paradox is to Chesterton: a manifestation of divinity. Tao fa tsu-jan: "The Tao just happens." (Footnote to this: The entire passage reads: Jen fa ti, ti fa ti'en, ti'en fa Tao, Tao fa tsu-jan. "Man is subject to earth, earth is subject to heaven, heaven is subject to Tao, Tao is subject to spontaneity." In short, determinism on one level results from chance on another level, as in thermodynamics.) Whether you call this Organicism and wax as self-consciously profound as Whithead, or call it Materialism and get as self-righteously priggish as the American Association for the Advancement of Atheism, you still miss the point. That the Tao just happens, that it has no purpose or goal, no regard for man's self-importance ("Heaven treats us like straw dogs," Lao-Tse says) - this is not a gloomy philosophy at all. When one understands this fully, on all levels of one's being, the only possible response is to have a good laugh. Taoist humor results from realization that the recognition of the most joyous truth of all seems to the egocentric man (you and I) frightening and gloomy.

   Joyce is nowhere more thoroughly Taoist then when he answers all the paradoxes and tragedies of life with the brief, koan-ish "Such me." Genial bewilderment ("Search me!") and calm acceptance ("Such I am") meet here as they meet nowhere else but in Taoism, and its intellectual heirs, Zen and Shinshu Buddhism and the neo-Confucianism of Chu Hsi. We cannot understand; neither can we escape - "Such me." (page 597)

   It is this attitude - which women seem to be able to grasp much more easily than men - that gives Finnegans Wake its air of goofy impartiality. The Buddhist (outside of the Zen school) labors strenuously to rise over the opposites; the Taoist dissolves them into a good horse-laugh. Joyce's method is Taoistic. "Sonnies had a scrap;" "Now a muss was the little face;" "You were only dreamond, dear" - the tolerant, existentialist female voice, vastly unimpressed by masculine abstractions and ideologies, breaks in at every point where a Big Question is being debated. The Zen Patriarch who said, when he was asked for religious instruction, "When you finish your meal, wash your plates," had this attitude.

                                                         III

   Wyndham Lewis saw in Ulysses an implicit acceptance of Bergson's time-philosophy and denounced Joyce, in his Time and Western Man, for contributing to what he called "the Time Cult" (other members: Einstein, Ezra Pound, Picasso, Whitehead, the Futurist painters, Gertrude Stein.) Lewis, a classicist, set up the dualism of space philosophies (aristotelian, rational, conservative, masculine, etc.) against time philosophies (oriental, intuitive, radical, feminine, etc.) Joyce wrote the Wake from "the Haunted Inkbottle, no number Brimstone Walk, Asia in Ireland" (page 182) placidly, even eagerly, accepting the non-aristotelian position Lewis had attributed to him.

   As is well known, the events of the Wake occur "at no spatial time" and cannot be sharply defined because "every parson, place and thing in the chaosmos anywhere at all connected with it was moving and changing all the time" (page 118). In short, we are within the Einsteinian universe; and Joyce realizes, as did Alfred Korzybski, that the aristotelian "laws of thought" cannot hold in such a universe: "The sword of certainty which would identified the body never falls" (page 51). The Law of Identity, that is, cannot hold in a process-world "where," as the mathematical physicist says, "every electron has a date and is not identical to itself from one second to another."

   The Taoists were familiar with these relativistic considerations long before Einstein.
Chuang Chou writes:

             There is nothing under the canopy of heaven greater than the tip of an autumn
             spikelet. A vast mountain is a small thing. Neither is there any age greater than
             that of a small child cut off in infancy. P'eng Tsu himself died young. The universe
             and I came into being together; and I, and everything therein, are one.

A better description anywhere of the "inner logic" of Finnegans Wake can hardly be found. To ask what "is really happening" on any page is like asking a physicist whether light "is really" waves or particles. Shaun's sermon to the leap-year girls is confession of Earwicker's incestuous desires; is a barrel rolling down the Liffey river; is a postman making his rounds. Anna Livia Plurabelle is a woman, and she is also a river. Earwicker is a man, a mountain, an insect, the current Pope, the Urvater of Freudian theory, Finn MacCool, and he is also both Shem and Shaun. He is, as a matter of fact, every person, place and thing in the Wake - just as every man "is" the sum total of his own perceptions and evaluations. Earwicker is finally able to accept and affirm his world, Joyce is finally able to accept and affirm his world, because they recognize that "I, and everything therein, are one." "Such me." (Footnote to this: Physics, psychology, semantics an several other sciences have entirely rejected the view which sees the universe as a collection of block-like entities. WE now think in terms of relations and functions: iron rod A has no absolute "length," but only length = 1, length = 2, length = 3, etc., as it moves through the space-time continuum. Smith has no absolute "self" but only a succession of roles in a succession of socio-psychological fields. A world of such inter-related processes is a seamless unity, and every perceiver is that unity at every second. That is why Emerson could write - and Joyce could demonstrate - that "The sphinx must solve his own riddle. All of history is in one man.")

   To the space-consciousness of a Wyndham Lewis a chair is a static "thing" out there, apart from the observer; given, concrete, identifiable. To the time-mind of Joyce, the chair is revealed as a process, a joint phenomenon of observer and observed, a stage in the transmutation of energy: "My cold cher's gone ashley," he writes, (page 213) seeing the future ashes in the present object. (Cf. Hiu Shih's paradox, "Ann egg has feathers.") Zen Buddhist teachers make this point, somewhat obliquely, by pointing to a picture of Bodhidharma (who was bearded), and asking the puzzled student, "Why doesn't that fellow have a beard?"

   The answer of the witty Gracehoper to the conservative Ondt: (page 419)

                    Your genus is worldwide, your spacest sublime,
                    But Holy Saltmartin, why can't you beat time?

is Joyce's answer to Wyndham Lewis and the entire Western Tradition back to Aristotle which backs him up. The Gracehoper had "jingled through a jungle of life in debts and jumbled through a jingle of love in doubts" but, as the rhythm and vocabulary suggest, he had vastly enjoyed himself doing so. Time, which strikes him down, will eventually strike down the "anal-acquisitive" Ondt also. All the abstractions man invents to give himself control over events and stave off doubt, all the preparations man makes to stay out of debt, are as nothing before the inscrutable workings-out of the Tao; the search for security, Alan Watts has frequently observed, is the main cause of insecurity. As Nuvoletta says, "Ise so silly to be flowing, but I no canna stay." (page 159) The secret of Taoism, the secret of Finnegans Wake, is very simply expressed in Poe's "Descent Into the Maelstrom," whose hero saved himself by "studying the action of the whirlpool and co-operating with it."

   This is the trick that explains Judo. It also explains Anna Livia Plurabelle's calm acceptance of her own end as she flows out to sea:

                        The keys to. Given. Lps. A way a lone a last
                         a loved a long the

   The only word that can possibly complete that sentence is the "riverrun" at the beginning. We can find ourselves only by losing ourselves, all mystics testify. Anna loses herself into the ocean, but what she becomes is the true self she has always been: "riverrun," the process.

                                                                                                   -New York City

copyright: Robert Anton Wilson

P2 pt 2.

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Under the investigation, financial police seized the money Sept. 21 from a Vatican bank account at the Rome branch of Credito Artigiano Spa, after the bank informed the Bank of Italy about possible violations of anti-money laundering norms. The bulk of the money, euro20 million ($26 million), was destined for JP Morgan in Frankfurt, with the remainder going to Banca del Fucino.--http://www.salon.com/news/catholicism/?story=/news/feature/2010/10/22/vatican_bank

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The investigation is not the first trouble for the bank - formally known as the Institute for Works of Religion. In the 1980s, it was involved in a major scandal that resulted in a banker, dubbed "God's Banker" because of his close ties to the Vatican, being found hanging from Blackfriars Bridge in London.
In the current investigation, financial police seized the money Sept. 21 from a Vatican bank account at the Rome branch of Credito Artigiano Spa, after the bank informed the Bank of Italy about possible violations of anti-money laundering norms. The bulk of the money, euro20 million ($26 million), was destined for JP Morgan in Frankfurt, with the remainder going to Banca del Fucino.-- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/20/AR2010102002351.html

"Another shady rumor about the Grand Loge Alpina - which is worth pursuing a bit, since Paoli first discovered the French secret society through its connection with the GLA - is that the GLA has heavily infiltrated the Vatican Bank, in collaboration with the definitely criminal and conspiratorial P2 (or Propaganda due), the Italian "Freemasonic" group which controlled the Italian secret police in the 1970s, took money from both the CIA and KGB (and apparently double-crossed both), had over 900 agents in other branches of the Italian government and has been accused of every possible felony from massive bank fraud to assassination and terrorism, to laundering Mafia drug money through the Vatican Bank and its affiliates, to plotting a fascist coup. The source of the claim that the Grand Loge Alpina infiltrated the Vatican Bank and aided or abetted the dirty dealings of P2 is David Yallop's sensational book, In God's Name, which is accurate as far as I have been able to check it but contains literally hundreds of assertions which cannot be checked because Yallop claims he cannot divulge his sources without risking their lives. A large part of Yallop's book, therefore, also remains, for non-Aristotelians like me, in the quantum "maybe" state. (For the curious: two books dealing with the frauds and felonies of the Vatican Bank and their links with P2 and the Mafia, which document all their claims and do not quote unidentified sources, are Richard Hammer's The Vatican Connection and Penny Lernoux's In Banks We Trust.)"
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Homogrammic Prose

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EMAIL TO THE TRIBE: WEEKLY PRESCRIPTION.

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Hologrammic Prose and meaningful common speech
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The synergy of history
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Howordz Way by fly (Maybelogic Quarterly issue summer Solstice 2006)

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Howordz Way

By Fly Agaric

Àpollo versed himself into fish with womb
Piloting poets to DELPHI:
                The womb of the Wor.ld
A Womb governing the Oracle of Delphi
Meaning womb
                Sauce of Life and Wisdome

Dolphin flipped into FISH WITH A WOMB by greek logic
The damnable Navy seals and their repulsive poison and accursed ear-
wax
Mistranslate dolphin into
                FISH WITH BOMB!
Shamefully perverting a smiling samaritan and guardian of ships into
                Eliptolis
                Destroyer of ship's
                Smiling merchant of death
Evil and further devilry in the sickly name of national kaution
                Li Sao Li Sao for sorrow
Our only security is change

Sucking my pink thumb i evoke
                A Babel ichthus
Decoding To enable alien races to ©omunicare
Speaking with their aboriginal slangwedge
                As waves begin taking form
                  Rising but formed
                      Holding their form
                         Foam: sparkling cristal 1494:

Aldus Manutius and his Aldine pressa tipografica was sealed by
                Dolphin and Anchor ideographix
Suckling pesci with a womb
                And navire ancorare
Whirling Stenella longirostris twisting like DNA hélix ribbons
                Mind like the whirl without the pool
                A tomb without a corps
Dolphfinnegans: connaissance-without-an-objet
                Mathematizing sea-good Dolphins classified as mammifére in 1776 by Linnaeus
Mankind scrawls his taxinomie of gnumerous goodz in his book

Surfing Dolphinnegans Wake
Lactating mindfield churned inside out
                And turned again into Eins Leary wide uni.verse
La Tao of Joyce
                A delfino voix: JANUS

"Phil Adolphos the weary O, the leery, O,
"                Dolphin in the wildsbillow
"Light a pike on porpoise
"Pannonia on this porpoise
"Can you nei do her, numb? asks Dolph
"Spirit spires Dolph
"                Godolphinglad in the Hoy's Court
"                Godolphing in fairlove

"Dolphin's Barncar. Wan Ceteroom;
"Cods' cradle and porpoise plain
"Simple philadolphus
"Traduced into jinglish janglage
"                For the nusances of dolphins born.
"                Adolphted such an Adelphus! Jerry Godolphing"

Uncertain.tea brewing the womb of future porpossebili.tea
Disentangle the Dauphine stir into Auvergnat
                Realitea
Adding condensed mammal latte for spiral galaxy

Original swinners with oración credentials
                Traduced into jinglish janglage
For the nusances of Delphinus born
                Babel mammal surfing a word warywide web
Barbarous Godolphin horse speak
                And Poseidon took over the titles of le Royal Pallas
Sea beast and salmoneus the human oak king
De Dagdafinn sanghasongs of Salmon read knowledge
                Percolating La Boyne Water

®osa dauphin à gros nez corkscrews up a cherry waterspout
                Gyrating along the Amazon
Like a brief lived raspberryframboise ripple cascade
                A Rubescent ivory strudel.
Salmoneus thrusting out its whirlpoint towards the ruddy riverun
                Above the earth a garden of rose trees
Flowers blooming and dying all-at-once
Pink porpoise cloud portal hatchway for
                Returning Bufeo Colorado

Dusky faces and pearl shoulder blade oscillating through upward fountains
Petals of frosted skin shed and fall
Through the coral cetoessa fontana
                Glowing apricot as sunset leaves
Their ochre clings to their fuselage
                Tangerine rust against the sunlight thrusting up a vertical river mouth
                Godz puckered roseo lips sucking and blowing with circular breath

®osewine vortice linking heaven and terroir
The Ocean sky ladder exited by delphinidae godolphinnx
Leaving munkind a soggy porpoise corpus which reads
                Cherry'O and tanks for all the fish
Tromba d'acqua dances furthur down river back out to the ocean
                And makes porpoise portalz
Suckling up Cetacea With kundalini zing
                Meeting the Palladium moonlight casting a crescent silhouette
Prophecie'd since Aldus printed the
                Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
Transduced as
poliphilidolfinnegan by Flipper
                The great cétacémostro marino
Comming from Greek ketos sea-munster
God A Hikue and goddess Hiuaoioi flipping summersalts

Extraterrestre voices float on the sea aire
                Festina lente as Arion's lyr
And Jason dreams upon his chrusos fleece
Deciphering from Delphine to English
                The ice of the owlphin in aire is lyke whoman?
                Dolpfinnz pronounce owls un ombinaxionx of owls yet
                ill avin rubble ith onsonanz

Shark of the covenant appears quilted in sea-beast skins
And sacred Shoulder blades are boiled and brewed into
                Delphilazarus elixir
                PALLADIUM moonshine
Now Watch the waves as they roll
Ripples and eddies coiling outwards
                From the galactating Dauphine constellation of
                Strange aquatic attractors that inflowenced us here
Comunicación between bard and porpoise
                The Intelligenz sporterspout

Dharma songs ode to Temples of Tethys
Voixed by the sweetest Goddess of la océano
Lamenting mammal babel re©orded in doggerel by hoo-ha GODMEN
                As another TYPE of critter
                And Pelops married Hippodamia down river
                And was sad when she returned to the sea
No longer strange to rediscover fossilized PAKICETUS poems?
A genus of extinct
                Cétacé poesé épica
Found in the upper Eocene of Pakistan
Once-upon-a-time part of the coast skirting
                Tethys Ozean

The truth paddles around the ruins of Peos
With the Sonne in its golden wor.ld cup
                La argent apples of the lune
                Le golden pomme's of the sole mixedmashed
Into a sac.red and whiffy fishélixir Finnsmoothé

Delphinus bathes close to the celestial equatore
                And the same stars glittered above the noir sea
while Howard plays in electric-ultramarine waves then swimming again
                Rushing up the Crathis towards the Styx
                In mating season
Charged with lust up through the river bouche fresh from the mare
                Making haste slowly
Dolphin kicking and jamming, in the year of the water bearer
Li Sao Li Sao for sorrow

Peace Borso Lilly
Be as eternal peace in the vortex of evolution
                Li Sao
And thanks for all the poisson

STOURBRIDGE in 'FINNEGANS WAKE' by James Joyce & 'CANTO LXVI' by Ezra Pound

2010-05-30T08:39:00.000-07:00

STOURBRIDGE IN 'FINNEGANS WAKE' & EZRA POUND'S CANTO LXVI.
Steven James Pratt aka' Fly Agaric 23.

Two Pears, one Ram chained to a bridge?

The Tale of the Tribe class was hosted by the Maybe Logic Academy and led by Dr. Robert Anton Wilson. The group focused on two major texts of the 20th Century: The Cantos of Ezra Pound and Finnegans Wake by James Joyce, both of which Dr. Wilson suggests require mastering, or at least reading, before entering into the 21st Century of hypermedia.

During the 8 week class I would often copy/paste images and hyperlinks to illuminate fragments from these two texts. This process gave me the general impression that the communications within both FW and The Cantos were maximally compressed, and CONDENSED like mp3 files.

I discovered that with sufficient attention and magnification of focus utilizing various webnet tools provided freely on the World Wide Web, a much richer and wholesome technicoloured reading experience emerged.

“I wish Mr. Pound would tell us what he believes,” T.S Eliot lamented in 1932. In Make it New (1933), Pound answered tersely, “I believe the Ta Hsio.” This would seem to settle the matter: Ezra Pound was neo-Confucian.”--Robert Anton Wilson, The Goddess of Ezra Pound, Illuminati Papers, 1980.

Finnegans Wake' by James Joyce, and The Cantos of Ezra Pound exhibit mind like qualities, I have found. Text and ‘reality’ processors sucking in history, even today, maybe tomorrow, but these books have stood the tests of time, and still stand up today as masterpieces of language literature and history, true and tested 'tales of the tribe'. The bar has been set so high that we are still trying to reach it.

Prophecy has a kind of reverse effect of immortality, that may lead to everyone being ‘right’ all the time, but them equally everyone being ‘wrong’ all the time. Getting beyond ‘being’ then might be a good idea for life in the bardo data stream, the digital holographic ‘process’ we experience today in 2010.

Much of the special synchronistic material I have found in the these texts derives from the work catalogued by Robert Anton Wilson in the Joyce/Pound scholarship running throughout every piece of his extraordinary works. I recommend them all highly, especially Quantum Psychology, Coincidance, Cosmic Trigger and the Schroedingers Cat Trilogy.

My collection of relative Epiphanies and most meaningful synchronistic' encounters are the beginnings of my Joyce/Pound research and practice, inspired by Bob and deployed throughout my blogs over the last five years or more.

In August of 2005, I discovered to my astonishment that ‘Stourbridge’ was brewing nicely within Finnegans Wake, right there, slap bang on page 184. Since then I have used this message to me, from James Joyce, as a meaningful enough synchronicity to base my more far-out ideas about Finnegans Wake, and hypertext.

Bonded Warehouse, Stourbridge. 2009.

There is a sister/brother town, or living museaum place called ‘Sturbridge’ in Massachusetts, New England, U.S.A. It was settled in 1729 and officially incorporated into the Union in 1738 E.V. Today the Rotary Clubs of Stourbridge and Sturbridge are twinned and regularly visit each other, but I doubt they are aware of this literary connection with Ezra Pound, James Joyce and with John Adams, who I am sure they do know a bit about, being the second president of the United States, and first Vice President.

From, Finnegans Wake by James Joyce.

"Of course our low hero was a self valeter by choice of need so
up he got up whatever is meant by a stourbridge clay
kitchenette and lithargogalenu fowlhouse for the sake of akes (the
umpple does not fall very far from the dumpertree)"
- Finnegans Wake, part 1, Episode 6. Page 184.

A ‘Lithargogalenu’ maybe derived from the greek lithargyros: a monoxide of lead ore, or dross left after smelting lead, if so, that fits with the local glass and pottery industries around the Stourbridge area. But the word ‘clay’ brings us to the major contributing factor as to why folks settled in and around Stourbridge and why pottery, smelting and the glass industry flourished, the special clay enabled greater experimental conditions for innovating the arts and crafts and industrial applications of ‘fire’ clay.

From Ezra Pound’s Canto LXVI

"and i went in a post chaise
Woburn Farm, Stowe, Stratford
Stourbridge, Woodstock, High Wycombe and back to
Grosvenor Sq" - Canto LXVI, line 30, Page 380.

Canto LVXI by Ezra Pound, page 380.

After some Googling through wikipedia and environs and some traditional book worming I discovered the diaries of John Adams and that he visited England and wrote about his travels in great detail, as a prolific writer, compared with the modern scripted puppets.

It appears from his diaries that he visited Stratford, Birmingham and Worcestershire while on cultural exchange trips. The historical fact that John Adams, the second president of the United States of America was impressed enough to write beautiful verse about Stourbridge and environs interests me deeply, both as a lover of poetry, and of history.

This geographical and historical precedent provides the precise kind of space/time portal of discovery I was waiting for, a link to my biological place of origin and cultural identity with the ‘tale of the tribe’ or two of its major characters and both of their Magnum Opus.

Another word that punched me in the front teeth within the ‘Stourbridge’ Canto LXVI is "Dudley" that is the name of the Metropolitan Borough in which Stourbridge is situated ever since ‘Dudley Borough’ swallowed up Stourbridge into its sovereign state, back in 1974 (54 p.s.U).

Before this date Stourbridge was incorporated into the ancient parish of Oldswinford, that is featured in the doomsday book and the Magna Charta.

Dudley Metropolitan Borough is presently the 2nd most populated town in the United Kingdom and still mushrooming in 2010. Further research led me to discover that Pound was probably referring to William Wade Dudley (1842-1909) a soldier in the American civil war, a sly lawyer and slick government official, a Republican campaigner and a "crooked" electioneer (Election engineer).

In my excitement I thought he meant the brute Robert Dudley, the guy with the castles and the land named after him and his dynasty of Dudley’s. John Dee was Robert Dudley’s uncle, a fact that I find of historical significance due to Dee’s influence on the re-discovery of American and the British Empire.

Another name for the compounded regions around Dudley used colloquially is the ‘Black Country’, so named according to Occult folk-lore, due to the clouds of toxic pollutants and by-products from the 18-20th revolution taking place, or the industrial variety, in the back garden of the Midlands, England. What I interpret today, through the gloss of a gloss of Pound’s Cantos, rampant exploitation and privatization of what is naturally abundant in nature, such as water, gas, oil, vegetation and minerals. Who distributes it, how?

" this 41st section repeals MAGNA
CHARTA the 19th chapter
as follows the words: NO FREEMAN...to... by his peers
and the law of the land
Whereon said Lord Coke, speaking of Empson and Dudley,
the end of these two oppressors
shd/ deter others from continuing the like”
--Ezra Pound, Canto LXVI.

Lord Coke (1552-1634), the colonial entrepreneur and jurist appears in Pound's "Tale of the tribe" as a heroic entity providing a clear exhibit of a mind in history that Pound could anchor his pirate ship poem to, a balanced weight for the latter Cantos.

"A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving". - Lao Zi

At the end of Canto LXVI another word jumped off the page at me: “Shires” This appears on the last but one line of the poem. Shires is used today to identify many rural areas in England, Australia and America, i.e Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Staffordshire, Yorkshire, Cambridgeshire etc.

Readers of J.R.R Tolkien will be familiar with the Shires and their rural context from his popular tales and ubiquitous fictional folk law. Pound's Cantos process and interact through the reader with a similar ‘ubiquitous relationship between mankind and Nature, but Pound in a very different mode to Tolkien, albeit a metaphysical, imagist, ideogramic mode of representation and juxtaposition in the language of poetry. A new language of meaning, a new historic synthesis of world cultures and scripts and texts all mixed up together, like Finnegans Wake in this respect, but unlike Joyce’s ‘nat language’.

By brilliantly harpooning various fragments from many different cultures, often rare and bloody notes collected from the rubble of war and decay around him, Pound brews up a swirling cloud of exhibits that happened to catch ‘Stourbridge’ in its net.

"By another clause (in our Charter)
that the great and general court or assembly
shd/ have power
to erect judicatories courts of record
and other courts
to determine pleas processes plaints actions etc
whereby a law (2 William III) have established etc
and in Edward IV this Beauchamps commission
was, for the uncertainty, VOID
By letters patent and under great seal
in all shires, counties palatine and in Wales
and any other dominions
- Canto LXVI, Page 386.

Stourbridge Town Center. Photo by Fly.

To enact the pushing and pulling forces on the word and sentence to make a literary vortex, may come from turning two valued polarities upon themselves. Joyce and Pound are both masters of casting thousands of shades and subtle tones a rainbow spectrum of light, full and bursting that can shatter and refract any two valued conclusion that may lead to historical certainty.

Poetic ambiguity and multi valued logic systems emerge in the mind of the reader and the tribe of readers and speakers, the vortext of twisted history spins a full turn of human DNA change, civilization unwinding the cosmic ages, coming and going in cycles, chapters, sagas and ragas.

The "Hologramic" process appears wonderfully well detonated within Dr. Wilson's book: "Coincidance: A Head Test." He sometimes calls this phenomena "Holographic prose" but it often escapes identification itself because of its ubiquitous presence, like atomic particles and the question ‘what if?’

Wilson has incorporated vast amounts of illuminated historical details using his own methodological historicism and his holographic writing to the Universe all-at-once.

"Fly Agaric 23: Could you explain a little bit about your holographic prose?

RAW: No. I'm struggling to write a whole book about
that right now and can't imagine how to
condense it. Besides, it's the hardest
part of my work to translate...
I'll give you two related samples from the Illuminatus and see what you
can make of them: "They shall come to gno gods."
"They shall come to gnu godz."

I wish to highlight the positive attributes of historical revisionism as a tool through which poetry becomes a portal for a new kind of Group Cultural Archeology, a social uprising of readers, writers and scholar activists, a network of like minded, and free spirited individuals, a little bit like the 'wikipedia' community of info-phobes. Write on.

Brierley Hill is another local town in the Dudley Borough and turned up some interesting ‘brier’ tuck, when searched as a word in Finnegans Wake, for example:

Triss! Only trees such as these such were those, waving there, the barketree, the
o'briertree, the rowantree, the o'corneltree, the behanshrub near
windy arbour, the magill o'dendron more. Trem! All the trees
in the wood they trembold, humbild, when they heard the
stoppress from domday's erewold. –James Joyce, FW, page 588.

By Steve James Pratt, Stourbridge, England 2006.
Edited in Amsterdam, 2008 & 2010.

Fly @ the Ten Arches, near Stourbridge

Sources:

The Cantos of Ezra Pound, New Directions Publishing
Finnegans Wake, James Joyce. Faber & Faber
The Tale of the Tribe, Micheal Berstein, University Press.
The Adams Papers, Harvard University Press.
Coincidance, Robert Anton Wilson. New Falcon.
The Illuminati Papers, Robert Anton Wilson. Ronin Press.
Illuminatus Trilogy!, Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson,
Wikipedia.com
76' One World and the Cantos of Ezra Pound, Forrest Reed.

Here is a link to the STOURBRIDGE wikipedia entry I edited to include this literary Joyce, Pound, Stourbridge link.

In popular culture

Stourbridge appears in two great works of poetry from the 20th century: Finnegans Wake by James Joyce and The Cantos of Ezra Pound.

“

Of course our low hero was a self valeter by choice of need so up he got up whatever is meant by a stourbridge clay kitchenette and lithargogalenu fowlhouse for the sake of akes (the umpple does not fall very far from the dumpertree)

”

- James Joyce Finnegans Wake, part 1, Episode 6. Page 184

“

and i went in a post chaise Woburn Farm, Stowe, Stratford, Stourbridge, Woodstock, High Wycombe and back to Grosvenor Sq

”

- Ezra Pound, Canto LXVI, line 30, Page 380.
Joyce's interest in Stourbridge is self evident from the passage quoted above and Stourbridge found its way into Pound's The Cantos via John Adams the second President of the United States, whose diary entry from 1786 Pound translated into his own epic poem.

GUNS AND DOPE PARTY

2010-05-11T16:43:00.000-07:00

"THEY'LL TAKE AWAY MY MEDICINE WHEN THEY PRY MY COLD DEAD FINGERS FROM THE PILL BOTTLE" G U N S & D O P E P A R T Y.

http://www.maybelogic.com/gunsanddopeparty/

http://rawilson.com/

Tsar's Marathons

2010-05-10T07:12:00.000-07:00

From the Telegraph:

The idea, they say, is to hold regular 'Tsar's Marathons' starting and finishing at the city's so-called Church on the Blood which was built on the site where Bolshevik executioners shot Tsar Nicholas II and his family in 1918. Runners would head for a monastery where the bones of the murdered Romanovs were found and then loop back to the church again.--ww.telegrap

I might go into training for this, fits with my skull and bones 'international' swimming team. Just do it.

The two BLOOMS and Schroedinger's Jew

2010-05-10T07:02:00.000-07:00

'concerning the genesis of Harold' --James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, pg. 30.

Harold Bloom recently wrote an article for the New York Times called 'The Jewish question. British Anti-Semitism', where he reviews a book by Anthony Julius. When Harold gets around to Joyce he seems to me to imply that the 'jewish ambiguity' that Joyce radiated from 'Poldy Bloom' is a defect, or something that makes 'Poldy' less memorable that Shakespeare's Shylock, and Charles Dickens 'Fagin'. Furthermore he goes on to label Shakespeare with the USURER
patch.

"Dickens created the second most memorable Jew in his superb Fagin. There is no third figure to compete with Shylock and Fagin, not even Joyce’s Poldy Bloom, whose Jewishness is disputable anyway, marvelous as he is.

How does one estimate the lasting harm done by Shakespeare’s and Dickens’s egregious Jews? Himself a usurer, Shakespeare must have known how much he had invested in Shylock. Is that why he punishes the Jew with such ignoble humiliation"http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/09/books/review/Bloom-t.html

The James Joyce scholar, Dr. Robert Anton Wilson posted an insightful and brilliant 'thought of the month' on Bloomsday, 2001, that looked at the question of 'Jewishness', from the perspective of Joyce's fictional character 'Leopold Bloom', and founder of General Semantics
----

:Alfred Korzybski.

I feel that RAW made an important observation about 'essence' and how 'Jewishness' like 'Isness' can be interpreted differently within different cultures and different 'language' structures, some that may preserve 'essences' of being, or provide a more flexible immediate 'plurality of being'.

I am sad to be reading the great Harold Bloom, who seems to be missing the 'humanitas' and 'Union of being' that I feel Joyce displayed, concerning the 'Jewish Question' among many other questions of race, ethnicity, religion, science, patriotism, cosmology etc...

"I suppose Joyce made Bloom such a tangled genetic and cultural mixture to expose the absurdities of anti-semitism; but I also suspect that he wanted to undermine that neurolinguistic habit which postmodernists call "essentialism" and which Korzybski claimed invades our brains and causes hallucinations or delusions every time we use the word "is." -- Robert Anton Wilson. Bloomsday 2001. http://www.rawilson.com/thoughts.html

I thank Harold for alerting me to this hole or missing 'pluralistic model' that like Ben Whorf remarked 'can change our apprehension of the cosmos'

I'll let RAW explain with his claritas, steve fly.

Schroedinger's Jew
Bloomsday 2001 e.v.
16 Juno 80 p.s.U.

97 years ago today Leopold Bloom, a fictitious man, wandered the streets of Dublin, a real city; and Joyce scholars still argue about his odd odyssey. I would like to add to the confusion with a note about Bloom's "Jewishness."

"Is" Leopold Bloom a Jew?

Not according to Orthodox Rabbinical law, which defines a Jew as the child of a Jewish mother. Bloom as the child of a Protestant mother "is not" a Jew.
According to Nazi law, however, a Jew "is" a person with a known Jewish ancestor. Bloom as the son of Rudolph Bloom [born Rudolph Virag], "is" a Jew.
See how easily a person can "be" and "not be" a Jew at the same time?

On the third hand, most humanists define a Jew as one who believes in and practices the Judaic religion. By this definition, Bloom who neither believes in nor practices any religion "is not" a Jew. But Marilyn Monroe, who practiced and probably tried to believe in Judaism while married to Arthur Miller, "was" a Jew by that definition-- for those few years, if not before or after.

Extensionally or phenomenologically, a Jew "is" somebody considered Jewish by all or most of the people he meets. By this standard the multi-ordinal Bloom "is" a Jew again.

Once more: in terms of pure existentialism a Jew "is" somebody who chooses to consider themselves Jewish. Bloom obviously doesn't consider himself Jewish but Irish, most of the time. Only when under verbal assault by the anti-semitic Citizen in Barney Kiernan's pub does Bloom define himself as Jewish ["And Jesus was a Jew too. Your god. He was a Jew like me."] Here he obviously has in mind the "known Jewish ancestor" rule, because he adds "And so was his father," to which the Citizen replies, as a correct Catholic, "He had no father," and Bloom, unfamiliar with that theology -- logic played with deuces, eights and one-eyed jacks wild -- can only pragmatically reply, "Well, his uncle then."

But recalling the incident later, Bloom says "And he called me a Jew, which as a matter of fact I'm not." Here he returns to his customary "believer in Judaic religion" definition.
I suppose Joyce made Bloom such a tangled genetic and cultural mixture to expose the absurdities of anti-semitism; but I also suspect that he wanted to undermine that neurolinguistic habit which postmodernists call "essentialism" and which Korzybski claimed invades our brains and causes hallucinations or delusions every time we use the word "is." --http://www.rawilson.com/thoughts.html

OPEN SOURCE PARTY: UK 2010 election.

2010-05-01T06:47:00.000-07:00

Open Source Party.

Open Source Democracy (b)- DOCTOR MARSH... by flyagaric23

My thoughts on Politics and the democratic VOTE cannot be split from my other thoughts about life and community. My philosophy is one of holism, where art and music are as powerful and important as Law and politics, and have an equal representation in my thoughts and writings upon the political paradigm generally.

I do not resonate with any political party from the UK, and will not vote for any political party in the UK for this reason, why should we forfeit our individual intelligence for the groupthink of political packs?

What would I do? Well, first I would dissolve myself, like an indigestion tablet, so that what we know as governmental power is literally dissolved into the community, rather than printed on a small number of so called representative’s, identity cards so that they, distribute the wealth and information that belongs to us all together, as the collective stewards of the places that we live.

The idea of dissolving the Government into the community and making everyman women and child a co-operative shareholder in the great NATURAL store of wealth we create by our labours, reflects the trend in information theory and ‘things’ generally to diversify, and preserves a significant amount of Novelty.

The great Buckminster Fuller proposed a similar and much more detailed version of this ‘decentralization’ of power structures, and his model reflects an all-around-the-world system of decentralized, co-operative ‘desovereignized’ communal tribes, sharing resources and ideas openly within a McLuhaneque ‘Global Village’.

One look at any of the UK political parties illustrates to me how generally they wish us to stop thinking, trust them, vote for them, and turn over our power as an interacting processing super-computer. Why? Why when most of us are connected to each other and the outer world, and do not require the security and control mechanisms imposed on us by the state/government/council?

The global news media and the global spy networks and their governments manufacture consent, or they manufacture ‘reasons why’ we need them to survive; i.e to protect us from the terrorists, the dope pushers and the criminals as defined by their criminal ‘terror and drug’ network of lawyers and cops, those in charge’ who manufacture a labyrinth of irrational, contradictory and somewhat strategic ‘life’ traps.

My vision for a decentralized, dissolved and resolved community of self representative truly ‘global citizens’ as stewards of their own birth rights as human beings and fellow citizens of planet Earth, displays my reasoning for not voting in their game of death, as I view it, based upon my experiences and ongoing study into politics, language, history, psychology and poetry. I am writing this to inspire a new wave of thinking and questioning of authority, do we require the protection and advice of our governments, I ask.

I know nothing of banking in practice, for example, but if I could round up ten of my friends I might find myself capable of banking within a short period of time, combined with the power of global internet and analytics ‘anybody’ with a sufficient ‘network’ of like minded individuals can take up some positions previously monopolized by a certain ‘class structure’

If the existing mechanisms and channels of global trade, telecommunications and teaching were ‘open sourced’ to the community, via new contractual binding agreements specifically tailored for the particular ‘group’ or tribe of people, and attenuated by a globally connected ‘village’ bulletin board, with no particular moderator, but moderated by the network of individuals connected therefore both locally and globally. This may sound pretty overly optimistic stuff to some, total anarchy and revolution to others, yet, from my perspective I am simply stating the impact of an expanding universe and exponentially expanding information paradox.

Information wants to be free, I guess, and no individual human beings will stop the process of meme’s, bits, genes and atoms differentiating themselves, fusing and finding new means to connectivity, to me, the universe is an information and novelty conserving engine.

I deduct that the old religion-dogmatic paradigm of centralized power and control has run its course and lies dead, slumped at the starting line, the gun about to go. Politically we are recycling the kinds of ideas and dogma you can find in the dark ages, from before the renaissance and the age of ‘reason’.

We seem to be operating on mass ‘Ghengis Khan’ economic model, combined with a crusading ‘Knights Templar’ militaristic ‘model’ and a Machiavellian ‘political’ model, all of which appear to me as representative of the old paradigm. Might makes right, violence, bullying, extortion and bluff, these are the pirate ‘rules’ of their game, and you can see and hear these types of models put forward by governments, politicians, CEO’s, corporate media and military strategists, today.

Open Source ‘minarchy’ cuts out the major causes of war and aggression, poverty and ‘death’ by limiting government to a kind of ‘night watchmen’ that only intervene in some cases concerning ‘life & liberty’. Once more I hope to describe a general theory here, ultimately this leads to YOU and your friends and community writing your own constitution, and operating your own local business enterprise and sharing resources and any profits with others.

The most important attribute to this kind of decentralized government model is feedback. Feedback helps us to define standards and lets us compare and revise our collective models and data.

Feedback between small independent communities seems a critical function for their survival, and it is this feedback, used intelligently that I think will provide the ‘security, advice, and guidance’ currently forced upon us by our governments. I do not need to further my argument that governments force their democracy on its people. Freedom from the banks, freedom from the military and freedom from the government are a part a parcel of the meaning to ‘freedom.

But in this new model freedom is old paradigm and shall be replaced with the principle of ‘novelty’. Freedom to be different and to do new things, freedom to evolve and conserve novelty. Freedom must not be confused with any static state. Freedom concerns a process and changing and moving potential that defies definition.

Thanks for reading my thousand words in defence of not voting for any political party in 2010, I hope you at least think for yourself and consider some of the things I have said. If you do choose to vote, vote for the candidate YOU feel is best suited to the job at hand.

Steve Fly.

http://rushkoff.com/books/open-source-democracy/

TSCOG: TSARIST CYBER OCCUPATION GOVERNMENT.

2010-04-07T09:19:00.000-07:00

Information wants to be NOVEL. And TSCOG habits thwart the connectivity and principles of sharing that the entire Internet and world wide web are based upon.

In 2006 I went to see my local M.P in Stourbridge, UK. After quietly protesting about the lack of debate regarding the Trident missile program (reserved for a select few) and the draconian National Identity Card program, I also left details of a recent white paper (2005) by Douglas Rushkoff (MLA Faculty staff)

"Open Source Democracy: How online communication is changing offline politics.
Foreword by Douglas Alexander, Member of UK Parliament.
http://rushkoff.com/books/open-source-democracy/

I hoped she might read it and reply, or maybe invite me to speak or contribute... in my dreams... she never did, and this was 5 years ago. Another sad story of failed UK democracy, but that's what happened, and is the general experiences of others I have met that visited their M.P and or write to them. Possibly Douglas Alexander could be a sympathetic M.P on this issue though, as he wrote the introduction to 'Open Source Democracy' maybe some of that book has sunk in by now, if he ever read it?

What do Robert Anton Wilson and Internet have in common?

In the new age of web 2.0 hyper-connectivity and Internet Bob has influenced our trajectory in countless ways across a broad spectrum of multicultural terrain. The proof seems to be in the pudding and here I offer to set the table so that the feast can begin. Socio-cybernetics, Hyper-connectivity, Hyper-intelligence, Sharing of RAW data, processed by the likes of Claude Shannon John Von Neumann, Norbert Weiner, Marshal McLuhan

TSCOG: Tsarist Cyber Occupation Government:

The Digital Economy Bill that Ate the global constitution of sharing.

In London at the house of commons (the central point of control and policy making throughout the United Kingdom and environs) some feeble minded individuals are wrestling over a new Bill called the ‘Digital Economy Bill’, a part of DIGITAL BRITAIN business heist.

Many M.P's are trying to pass the new Tsarist like measures that include punishments for the new cybercriminals without debate (like with the Trident Missile program) scrutiny or consultation with anybody but their own gang of paid advisors, economists, bankers, lawyers and military strategists seems a bad idea to these people.

Wars are fought sitting behind screens processing information and data, from the Las Vegas drone aircraft suites to the decentralized headquarters of wikileaks. It's game-on and connectivity is king mob, I think.

A brave few are calling to scrap the bill and draw up another, or none at all. But those voices seem largely ignored and rebuked by claims of defending the musician's, artist's and creative people in Britain. Who at Ofcom can be trusted?

"Live it, love it, lick it, wikileakit"

I say Bollocks to the Digital Economy Bill, if the .Gov want to support creative industries bring the troops home, cut military spending, scrap the trident missile program and develop art, music and craft centres everywhere immediately with that Trillion pound booty.

Oh, and maybe consider an end to the diabolical and failed war on some drugs that would funnel further Billions into the new creative Renaissance in the UK, maybe they could even think of reaching out to Africa and Asia with this extra cash, helping homeless, starving and the disconnected from the around the Global Village, both home and away.

What I feel is misunderstood by many is the fact that now ‘everything’ can be represented in bits, and this bill has implications far far beyond downloading the new Eryka Badu video or Bruckenheimer movie. Although I rate window seat as a stroke of genius. Like wikileaks, just simple, better and honest, compared with the razzle-dazzle of the usual media brainwashing flashing spam.

All INDEPENDENT creative industries and UNDERGROUND artists face a possible ‘cut off’ and annexing from the means to connect. Connectivity is one of the new paradigm definitions of life, religion for example can be defined by the sense of re-connecting. So, it follows sensibly that only the divine guided CYBER TSAR can decide who connects and more importantly who is disconnected in a Tsarist Cyber Occupation Government?

If past this Bill will be like shooting a corpse twice (that represents the UK economy) and then using the blood as lubricant to screw the lifeless body to the tune of 'things can only get better by the old Labour Party friendly pop slags, D:ream'.

How, how did this happen, how did we come to be at the behest of a centralized control system that can dictate our DIGITAL DIET? Well, I have been thinking about this for a while and I have come up with a theory, very loosely based upon a term coined by my teacher Dr. Robert Anton Wilson (TSOG) that stands for Tsarist Occupation Government with a hidden joke... there is NO GOVERNOR, anywhere. My term is (TSCOG) Tsarist Cyber Occupation Government and I am still searching for the hidden joke, maybe the wheels of history will spit some out?

The first music shared down a wire was by a band called THE GRATEFUL DEAD, who are still at the cutting edge of shared music culture and who’s one time lyricist JOHN PERRY BARLOW helped to start the EFF or ELECTRONIC FREEDOM FOUNDATION. Who HAVE NOT BEEN CONSULTED BY THE BRITISH TSCOG about the new DIGITAL ECONOMY BILL: Fatal Digi-E-Con Bill.

"War is over, if you wikileak it"

And we can now see the emergence of new hyperintelligence such as wikileaks out smart and out connect (with hyperconnections) the worlds Trillion Billion funded 'spy agencies' and provide Internet communities with RAW and up-to-date data on some of the most important pressing issues for all humanity.

The psychological warfare unit behind the Digital Economy Bill wants to disconnect. If they take this kind of Big Brother authoritarian attitude and policy they will spawn thousands of wikileaks 'like' enterprises and totally ruin any chance of gaining some 'trust' as a government that operates upon the interests of the people, not their own small group of private agenda's concerning some intelligence that 'we the people' are not qualified to handle.

The People's Intelligence Agency.

Wikileaks operates like the peoples intelligence agency, and talks like one, and FEEDSBACK like one, meanwhile the 'Intelligence Companies' that claim to be protecting the National Security enterprise, and corporate capitalist interests both home and away behave like a rogue terrorist cell, unable to exercise suspended judgement and detailed analysis and feedback, like a gang of criminals plotting their next robbery, the worlds intelligence spooks have been beaten, battered and swept into a corner by the new Magister Ludi of the Spy Game: Julian Assange. (I like him, as he reminds me of somebody Hagbard Celine might invite aboard his submarine to raise a toast to FUCKUP. Hapy Easter Motherfuckers.

Some Sources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_britain

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Frontier_Foundation

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/03/27/libdem-mps-wont-figh.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2010/apr/07/digital-economy-bill-was-your-mp-there

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/apr/01/information-is-beautiful-military-spending

“That’s arguably what spy agencies do — high-tech investigative journalism," Julian Assange, one of the site’s founders, said in an interview on Tuesday. “It’s time that the media upgraded its capabilities along those lines.” http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/07/world/07wikileaks.html?sudsredirect=true

THE TALE OF THE TRIBE.

2010-04-07T09:16:00.000-07:00

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KEEP THE RAVIOLI IN ORBIT (FACEBOOK GROUP)

2010-04-07T09:06:00.000-07:00

"Keep the Ravioli in Orbit" --Robert Anton Wilson

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"In another district of the Gesternheutemorgenswelt meanwhile it's Sunday, March 18th, 2007, and, well, here we are… for one last 23 skidoo, clearing the wire with an important signal coming through from the agnostic wing of Heaven. Robert Anton Wilson went out through the wall into the fire, into the simultaneous parity of eternity, into the splendid timeless fanfare of a life that he has somehow managed to survive, with 35 books weaving his idea in their spectacular diversity, weaving his luminescent consciousness into the intellectual DNA of our painfully slow developing society, and dancing somewhere with his wife, back when he could still dance, and she was still alive."--Alan Moore

"I want to use Internet to accelerate human evolution by replacing faith-based decisions with research-based decisions. The others have similar or compatible goals. Our class leaders include R.U. Sirius, cyber-philosopher; Patricia Monaghan, goddess researcher; Alan Clements, Buddhist monk and activist; Peter Caroll, mathematician and inventor of Chaos magick; Douglas Rushkoff, media maven; and others will join up soon. --RAW [Talking of the Maybelogic Academy] http://www.maybelogic.org/

"The normal is that which nobody quite is."
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"And the Beast said,
By their pee shall ye judge them
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And in the snow shall their names be written
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"Is," "is." "is" — the idiocy of the word haunts me. If it were abolished, human thought might begin to make sense. I don't know what anything "is"; I only know how it seems to me at this moment. "--Sigismundo Celine, The Historical Illuminatus.

"A change in language can
transform our apprehension of
the cosmos'
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"The greatest of all crimes are the wars that are carried on by governments, to plunder, enslave, and destroy mankind.The next greatest crimes committed in the world are equally prompted by avarice and ambition; and are committed, not on sudden passion, but by men of calculation, who keep their heads cool and clear, and who have no thought whatever of going to prison for them. They are committed, not so much by men who violate the laws, as by men who, either by themselves or by their instruments, make the laws; by men who have combined to usurp arbitrary power, and to maintain it by force and fraud, and whose purpose in usurping and maintaining it is by unjust and unequal legislation, to secure to themselves such advantages and monopolies as will enable them to control and extort the labor and properties of other men, and thus impoverish them, in order to minister to their own wealth and aggrandizement. The robberies and wrongs thus committed by these men, in conformity with the laws,--- that is, their own laws ---are as mountains to molehills, compared with the crimes committed by all other criminals, in violation of the laws. --Lysander Spooner
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Animals outline their territories with their excretions, humans outline their territories by ink excretions on paper. --RAW, Prometheus Rising.

"Events which appear crude or offensive in the instant
may become, with a change of perspective, somewhere between droll and riotously funny." --Hannibal Lecter, M.D

"Do not pester people at home.
Do not annoy them at work.
Leave them alone, or they will curse you."
--Dao De Jing, 72

"What amazes me most is the piss police. Even Kafka and Orwell--who wrote the craziest, most far out satires on totalitarianism that their wild surrealist imaginations could imagine--they did not include piss police. And yet we got them and the American public just gullibly and submissively accepts it. --RAW

"I used to be an atheist, until I realized I had nothing to shout during blowjobs. "Oh Random Chance! Oh Random Chance!" just doesn't cut it. -- RAW.

"Maybe Logic is a label that got stuck on my ideas by filmmaker Lance Bauscher. I decided it fits. I certainly recognize the central importance in my thinking -- or in my stumbling and fumbling efforts to think -- of non-Aristotelian systems. That includes von Neumann's three-valued logic [true, false, maybe], Rappoport's four-valued logic [true, false, indeterminate, meaningless], Korzybski's multi-valued logic [degrees of probability.] and also Mahayana Buddhist paradoxical logic [it "is" A. it "is" not A, it "is" both A and not A, it "is" neither A nor not A]. But, as an extraordinarily stupid fellow, I can't use such systems until I reduce them to terms a simple mind like mine can handle, so I just preach that we'd all think and act more sanely if we had to use "maybe" a lot more often. Can you imagine a world with Jerry Falwell hollering "Maybe Jesus 'was' the son of God and maybe he hates Gay people as much as I do" -- or every tower in Islam resounding with "There 'is' no God except maybe Allah and maybe Mohammed is his prophet"?

The Snafu law holds that, the greater your power to punish, the less factual feedback you will receive. If you can fire people for telling you what you don't want to hear, you will only hear what you want. This law seems to apply to all authoritarian contraptions, especially governments and corporations. Concretely, I suspect Bozo knows factually less about the world than any dogcatcher in Biloxi. The Cosmic Schmuck law holds that [1] the more often you suspect you may be thinking or acting like a Cosmic Schmuck, the less of a Cosmic Schmuck you will become, year by year, and [2] if you never suspect you might think or act like a Cosmic Schmuck, you will remain a Cosmic Schmuck for life." --RAW

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-- Ezra Pound

“All forms of Black Magik therefore, depend on confusing and mingling these two classes: the nonverbal experiential and the verbal nonexperiencial.” RAW, Black Magick and Curses.

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-- Anon [found in an ancient historical text]

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Keys Leaks Doors

2010-03-30T19:05:00.000-07:00

A gaspel truce leaks out over the caeseine coatings.
Amid a fluorescence of spectracular mephiticism there caoculates
through the inconoscope stealdily a still, the figure of a
fellowchap in the wohly ghast, Popey O'Donoshough, the jesuneral
of the russuates. --James Joyce, FW. Pg. 349

Never slip the silver key through your gate of golden age. Collide with man,
collude with money. Ere you sail foreget my prize. Where you
truss be circumspicious and look before you leak, dears. --James Joyce, FW. Pg. 433.

-- Blondman's blaff! Like a skib leaked lintel the arbour
leidend with . . .? --James Joyce, FW, g. 508

Old yeasterloaves may be a stale as a stub and the pitcher go to aftoms on the
wall. Mildew, murk, leak and yarn now want the bad that they
lied on. --James Joyce, FW, pg 598.

And all the greedy gushes out through their small souls. And all the lazy
leaks down over their brash bodies. How small it's all! And me
letting on to meself always. And lilting on all the time. --James Joyce, FW, 627.

And may he be too an intrepidation of our dreams which we foregot at wiking when the mom
hath razed out limpalove and the bleakfrost chilled our ravery! Pook. Sing ching lew mang! --JJ, FW, pg. 338

Ann alive, the lisp of her, 'twould grig mountains whisper
her, and the bergs of Iceland melt in waves of fire. -James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, pg. 139.

Riki Leaks vs. Jerry 'well' Springer

2010-03-25T06:13:00.000-07:00

Riki Leaks vs. Jerry 'well' Springer

Peace is no news. For me.
War makes news, information warfare is news
News is information warfare.
And the fighting takes place everywhere
And nowhere at once.

You cannot regulate information for a nation any longer
A new band of more intelligent critters have arrived on earth
Wikileaks: the extraterrestrial ‘information police/care givers’
Who demonstrate the new digital philosophy of open
Source sharing and webactivism 2.0

Good news for the people and the press
Real news that does not come from an Intelligence brief?
Maverick like Chuck Norris, cutting edge like M.I.T,
More scoops than Ben and Jerries,
Maybe the wikileak hearted will inherit the earth.
Everywhere and nowhere at once.

A journalist’s dream or nightmare, depending who you work for,
Everything comes out in the new wikileak wash,
The dirt, the oil and blood stains magnified a thousand times.

As we the people finally get up to speed
With RAW data on current world events, like the intel-news-banking mob
Rather than waiting 60 years for a trickle of truth,
Such as the recently exposed CIA operation in France,
Where the bastards secretly dosed an entire town.
But still truth is a tall order when dealing in a state of
Culture war.

Wikileaks game changer
Warrior spirit threat to the biggest and the richest, the war market
Finally a threat so big and yet so small that all else fails,
Like an elephant fighting a fly.

Without buying any guns and tanks or aeroplanes
Wikileaks has struck a blow to the giant one eyed cyclops
No secret spies, no violence, no bullshit.

Laws and truth and sporting friendship
Flew out the window
When governments and their imperialist army of snoop troops
Started collecting files on its citizens, and trading
Information
Like the way a bully-thief trades switchblades before a robbery.

Read and dig the new ABC guide to
‘KNU culture wars fought on a digital sports ground campus’
Simply sharing secrets from all sides
All quarters that have a similar pomp
And bombast, the bully industries generally.

A Knu strategy in peace making, called
Information sharing.
A priceless business when glossed by the Knowledge Economy.
Surprise = Information.

A new court house and Judge have descended on the New World Order
Like a friendly E.T here shield us from bullying
By information fraudster and money pimps.

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are illegal wars
The global financial meltdown was tempered by illegal banking activity
And so what is a legal practice in war and banking?

After watching Tony Blair on the stand at the inquiry,
And laughing his way back to Jerusalem without a shred of remorse.
George Bush and his religious brand of disinformation scripts
Are copied and distributed willingly by the worlds dying media.

Everything has changed and changed utterly
As if gun powder were just discovered
Or the destructive power of fission fusion bomb,
WLKS is a kind of information knowledge process
A genesis machine for updating the media ecology sphere.

Have no fear but learn vigilance,
Wikileaks is like an information ambulance.
The balance of the forces equally spread, so that all humanity can sleep
Dreaming in bed of a New New world of decentralized order.

The WWW is striking revenge to its own fathers move to the dark side
Like hens coming home to roost
Wikileaks was destined to happen as soon as Claude Shannon,
Norbert Wiener and Alan Turing made their breakthroughs in
Information theory 60 years ago.

Information wants to be free
Some humans heed that call,
Others wish to continue the trajectory from over the last 2000 years
And censor, block, choke, strangle, disrupt and smear the path to
Freedom of information.

What better metaphor to describe the decentralized universe?
"The center cannot hold"

All the plumbers are busy and

Cannot stop the wikigate flood.

‘sticking a p a r t’ in a decentralized

strategy vs.

The massive centralized super state strategy, under one god?
Using a centralized service for anything is probably a Bad idea
In the new age of wikileaks.
Bon Po shamanism springs to mind when I contemplate wikileaks
Bon Po’ used to memorize their scriptures,
And could thereby perform rituals and prayer in the dark
In times without light, or a candle.

Information distribution is changed forever,
Nothing is secure, and never has been, not even your thoughts
And for once this goes for all of us, spies and bankers included.

The big strong brutes always fall hardest, eventually
But rarely without thrashing and kicking on the way,
Wikileaks represents a check-mate.
Now we watch the angry giants make excuses
Excuses excuses for not playing the new game.

The Game’s up. Sorry.
We are witnessing the largest shift in power since WWII
Breaking free from the dogma of conspiracy theory into
RAW information fact.

No more rense snips and Alex Jones bites of the POP con.
Now we all have the RAW data for our own analysis,
If we choose to look and read and think
For ourselves and question authority.

Uncensorable Pirates of information
Let me hear the whistle posse’ blow
Blow like Miles and Dizzy, blow so
The masters of war get wind.

A new philosophy of knowledge dissemination
Flooding the castle with so much knowledge that
Disinformation drowns in its own shit, its own entropy.

The singularity likes wikileaks and so does
Time-wave zero.
Now do you see a little further out to the vast ocean?

As the glaciers melt humanity begins to see the flash flood
Water like information; it wants to be free and equitable and
To flow between poles and cycle with seasons
Forever changing forms.

As wikileaks melts into the course of hot human history
Steam rises and precious gases disperse from the rapid cooling.

If a tweet is a leak then you have Billions of bullets to
Penetrate the bucket. Tweetyleaks to fill the Pacific Basin in
Two weeks,

yours sincerely, Riki Leaks

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