old capt. mission had a busy couple of days, ups and downs, lots of conflict and unheavel, it's a funny old world but not with out its beauty to, which reminds me i had a lovely visit from my style consultant who came to visit me on friday. yeah all the way from the blue mountain in her little motor car. i don't know why they call it the blue mountains when she lives there, but there you go. gotta say, i really enjoyed seeing her, unfortunatly mission control is extremely cold at this time of year so we went for a walk with pansy, had a coffee, watched the clouds and gazed at the ocean, talked about magick and art. all my favorite things. later evan and pop invited us for dinner at the japanese resturant down the road where they ran out of rice. it was a lovely evening but old capt. mission was exhuasted, all his resources were being used to fight the cold.
then straight into work, lots of conflict and tension, lots of discord hanging around so it was a long weekend, dragging longer and getting more painful, i could feel the stress in my head building up, i could feel the crash and sure enough at about 9am Monday morning, it came. Crash!
I've taken two days of to get my head sorted, if feels filled with those metal washers and nuts, and throbs like a metal machine music. there's war in the world, there's war at work, there's war in my head.

Paul Sheehan wrote a brilliant article in the herald this afternoon, i had to call and tell him how excellent i thought it was, they may publish my letter tomorrow. Here it is in all it's glory for you if your intrested:

Paul Sheehan asks why Western feminists are mute on the plight of their Islamic sisters.

When a beautiful young woman from Somalia wrote a screenplay entitled Submission, about the treatment of women in Muslim culture, and a Dutch artist, Theo van Gogh, then made the film, Muslim fundamentalists in Holland delivered a famously spectacular review.
Van Gogh was shot eight times and his killer was apprehended while attempting to decapitate the body, just in case the message had been too subtle.
As for the screenwriter, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, she was taken into police protection and moved from house to house.
The van Gogh murder, committed in 2004, lives on in Europe as an emblem and a threshold in the accumulating body of evidence and incidents of intimidation by Muslims living within Western society. In Australia, our own extreme symptom and threshold in this same trend and cultural struggle was the gang-rapes of dozens of young women by Muslim men in Sydney. Nine trials have worked through the courts so far as a result of these crimes.
In this cultural clash, the treatment of women is the most hotly contested terrain. Not just the treatment of non-Muslim women by Muslim men, but the treatment of Muslim women within Western culture. Many Muslim women live under constraints that are unacceptable to wider society. For years, a symptom of this tension, which is largely submerged, has been the distraught young women turning up at the Australian embassy in Beirut to escape forced marriages.
In the midst of this cultural and moral struggle one element has been conspicuously missing - the feminists - the authors, academics and commentators who rose to prominence as advocates of women's rights. In Australia and Europe, their response to the growing levels of sexual intimidation, harassment or suppression of women by Muslim men has either been a deafening chorus of silence, or denial and blame-shifting.
Instead, the combat has been left to journalists, and the heaviest work has been done, at great risk to themselves, by dissident women inside Islamic culture. Women such as Hirsi Ali, who, before her life in Holland became intolerable and she retreated to the United States, wrote The Caged Virgin, a book in which she comments: "Islam dominated the lives of our family … I was taught that Islam sets us apart from the rest of the world, the world of non-Muslims. They, the others, the kafirs, the unbelievers, are antisocial, impure, barbaric, not circumcised, immoral, unscrupulous, and above all, obscene; they have no respect for women; their girls and women are whores …
"Islam is strongly dominated by a sexual morality derived from tribal Arab values dating from the time of the Prophet … a culture in which women were the property of their fathers, brothers, uncles, grandfathers, or guardians …
"[Yet] the adherents to the gospel of multiculturalism refuse to criticise people whom they see as victims … Criticism of the Islamic world, of Palestinians, and of Islamic minorities is regarded as Islamophobia and xenophobia … I cannot emphasise enough how wrongheaded this is. It is racism in its purest form."
Her voice was joined by that of Wafa Sultan, a psychiatrist who fled Syria after members of the Muslim Brotherhood gunned down one of her university professors in the classroom. She became a legend on the internet this year after standing up to a fundamentalist cleric on Al-Jazeera TV, brilliantly articulating the real schism facing the Western world: "The clash we are witnessing around the world is not a clash of civilisations. It is a clash between two opposites, between two eras. It is a clash between a mentality that belongs in the Middle Ages and another mentality that belongs to the 21st century. It is a clash between civilisation and backwardness, between the civilised and the primitive, between barbarity and rationality."
Last year, from the safety of Canada, a Muslim woman dissident, Irshad Manji, wrote The Trouble With Islam, which challenged the Koran's core statements on women (such as, "Men have authority over women because God has made the one superior to the other"). She also raised the issue of double standards among Western liberals: "Why does the legitimate questioning of some people (Muslims, for instance) carry the charge of being racist while legitimate questioning of other people (say, non-Muslim Americans) doesn't?"
She was joined this year by other writers, including the Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen, who fled to Europe after her novel Shame invoked death threats from Muslim fundamentalists, when they signed an open letter calling for an end to the double standards of liberal Western intellectuals: "We reject 'cultural relativism' which accepts that men and women of Muslim culture should be deprived of the right to equality, freedom and secular values in the name of respect for cultures and traditions … Islamism is a reactionary ideology."
The most recent and most scathing commentary has come from a British journalist, Melanie Phillips, whose new book, Londonistan, examines the culture which produced last year's terrorist bombings in London by British Muslims. She is outraged by the dangerous hypocrisy of self-styled "progressives": "It is remarkable that the left … with its obsessions with issues like gay rights, equality for women and sexual licence … should have forged an alliance with radical Islamists who preach death to gays, the subjugation of women and the stoning of adulterers. It is an eye-opener to see, on the streets of London, so-called 'progressives' marching shoulder to shoulder with radical Islamists under the metaphorical banner of human rights and the literal banners of Hamas."
In Australia, much the same. Prominent feminists have responded to the cascade of reactionary provocations by Muslim men in this country with an ideological forbearance, and a pall of silence.
The silence of the lambs.


I also made the most and had a chat with an editor and suggested one of his journalists do something really innovative and write something about 'disproportion' when reporting on the old mid east conflict. The lady that took my call was quite amazed when i suggested this to her, she said no one seems to have even considered this. I said, 'yeah chances are it won't get a mention, it never does.'
the other amazing thing i discovered was a brilliant article taken from Howard Blooms new Book which may be published in 2010 but it was about journalism and how it is shaped by conformity enhancers, absolutly brilliant reading but is the world ready for it, 'The Puppets of Pandamonium.' I so want you all to read it unfortunatly there is no net version for me to cut and paste however here is his intro to his TOE, brace yourself:

"For those who worry that our ingenuity has upset nature's equilibrium, Bloom has a message that is both reassuring and sobering. 'We are nature incarnate,' he writes. 'We are tools of her probings and if, indeed, we suffer and we fail, from our lessons she will learn which way in the future not to turn.'" The New Yorker

"I am speechless with admiration, overwhelmed by virtuosity." Walter J. Freeman, M.D. Walter J. Freeman Neurophysiology Lab, UC Berkeley, author How Brains Make Up Their Mind


In the coming weeks, months, and years, this website will present hors-d'ouevres, desserts, and solid meals for the mind, bits of brainfood harvested from author and mass-behavior expert Howard Bloom's Grand Unified Theory of Everything In the Universe Including the Human Soul.

Grand unified theories are normally the province of physicists or of crackpots. Bloom is neither.

Bloom is the author of two critically-acclaimed books, The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of History and Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind From The Big Bang to the 21st Century. He is a visiting scholar in the Graduate Psychology Department at NYU and is the founder of two fields, mass behavior and paleopsychology.

Christopher Boehm, director of the Jane Goodall Research Center, says: "Howard Bloom should be taking notes on what he does every hour of the day. He is single-handedly creating a scientific revolution." Gear Magazine adds that, "Howard Bloom…may just be the new Stephen Hawking, only he's not interested in science alone; he's interested in the soul." And Britain's Channel 4 TV declares, "Howard Bloom is next in a lineage of seminal thinkers that includes Newton, Darwin, Einstein, Freud, and Buckminster Fuller…he is going to change the way we see ourselves and everything around us."

Bloom is the founder of The International Paleopsychology Project, a founding member of the Epic of Evolution Society, a Founding Council Member of The Darwin Project, and a member of the New York Academy of Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Psychological Society, the Academy of Political Science, the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, and the International Society of Human Ethology.

Bloom dove into cosmology, theoretical physics, and microbiology at the age of ten, built his first Boolean algebra machine when he was twelve, crafted the concept for a Westinghouse-Science-Prize-winning computer at the age of thirteen, participated in research on the immune system at the world's largest cancer research center (The Roswell Park Memorial Cancer Research Institute in Buffalo, NY) at sixteen, and did research on programmed learning at Rutgers University's graduate school of education before his freshman year of college.

It was at sixteen, while aiding in cancer research, that Bloom established a life goal--to see the pattern that emerges when one views all the sciences at once. A Grand Unified Theory, Bloom felt, has to include more than just the origin of quarks and galaxies. It has to include what the Big Bang's quarks have now become--you and me, our passions, our hungers, our insecurities and our lusts.

Nearly 50 years later, Bloom's Grand Unified Theory of Everything In the Universe Including the Human Soul takes up over 300 Mb on a computer hard drive. If it were printed out, it would fill 600 books. The table of contents to the work lists over 3,900 chapters and increasing daily. And their titles are mouthwatering.

Bloom's cross-disciplinary theories trace crowd patterns from the precipitation of the first protons in the Big Bang to future trends in the life of humankind.

We, in the Big Bang Tango Media Lab, find Bloom's raw notes fascinating. We think that you will, too.

At heart, science and the arts both aim at the same target--seeing what we take for granted from radically unexpected points of view. Those of us who shatter the barriers built by specialization need to carve out a niche of public recognition for ourelves. If we succeed in doing so, we'll make big picture thinking legitimate for the young who come behind us. This world needs those who want the whole panorama and nothing less-its Leonardo da Vinci's and Renaissance Men. If we succed in showing that microbiology, psychology, neurology, physics, cosmology, marketing, business, photography, the fine arts, publicity, journalism, and popular culture all relate, others will follow. And if they do, they will take further what I've been attempting-to make aesthetics, intuition, emotion, logic, politics, business, and science all facets of a common process…a common search for creativity, empowerment, and truth.

Okay obviously i am not going to post the whole lot here on me humble Blog but here's the link www.bigbangtango.net and here's howards own web page www.howardbloom.net

enjoy and be dazzled