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Thanks, Robert Sterling Editor, The Konformist http://www.konformist.com For Immediate Release: March 30, 2004 Sew Down Announces New Location - Hollywood Athletic Club and Line Up Addition - Sandra Collins Continuing to evolve as a not-to-be-missed event Sew Down, where the FASHION, ART and MUSIC of the STREET fuse together with LA's grooviest crowd, designer, trendsetter and general wildwoman Atousa is pleased to announce a venue and line up change for this Sunday's fashion fiesta. The LA Fashion Week edition of Sew Down will now take place Sunday April 4th from 6:00pm - 2:00am at the Hollywood Athletic Club, 6525 Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood. Admission is $5 and this event will feature three full rooms with bars, music and fabulous clothes to buy at wholesale and sample sale prices! Thousands of LA's hippest and grooviest fashionistas and music fans attended the previous events, and even more are expected at this even more expanded Sew Down. For Fashion Week 2004 the fashion show and sale will feature the most talented group of local cutting edge designers ever seen at Sew Down including: Atousa, I B Kinky, Renegade Clothing, Polka-Dot Starfish, Hi-Roller, Happy Campers, Minawear, Tom Sleeping, Good Godess, Truth Serum Clothing, Army Pink, Carly Jessica, Uberbabe and Adriani. Sew Down will also feature jewelry from Rebecca Norman and aromatic soy candles & matchboxes from Jen Lew Designs. The main room will feature the planet's most popular female DJ, Sandra Collins plus a live set from LA's acclaimed electronic leaders Electric Skychurch and Bay Area house legend DJ IZ. From San Francisco's Panhandle Records, Jonene and Tasho, will also grace the main room decks along with the ever fashionable and popular Chicago DJ SuperJane's Lady D. The stage where the 9:30 pm fashion show will be held is designed by top visual artist Vello Virkhaus of V2 Labs. Virkhouse has designed visuals for some of today's top touring artists including Beyonce', Sting, Bon Jovi and numerous top electronic artists and events. The "Library" room featuring select designers, and will be complimented by the turntable stylings of a down tempo beat meisters Jean Louis, DJ Valdez, Ben Jammin' and Skinny Big Guns. The "Moroccan" room of the space serves as the gallery for a variety of top street artists including croiX, Mark Dugally, Robert A.D. Frick, Lyuben, Vanessa Martinelli, Julie Koh, Wes Rolan , Paul Simon Poyuzina glass sculpture from Adam Mostow. The room will also feature beat wizardry by Scott K, DJ Sol, and Akiko. Finally the outside patio will feature live graffiti artists and an arts and crafts area. New lines and talent are being added daily. Event creator Atousa is so pleased with the growth of the event. "We knew it was a great concept when we started and after the first three events, we knew it was a great reality too. This time with a new, bigger, venue and new designers, artists and DJs, we are expecting the best Sew Down yet!" she states. Adding, "Come celebrate fashion week with us, it's fun, it's cheap and the deals on clothes are awesome." # # # For more information please contact Susan Mainzer, [EMAIL PROTECTED] or 213-840-0077. www.kucinich.us www.artivistfilmfestival.org www.mpp.org ***** Free Lecture by Adam Gorightly in Austin 3/31/2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] THE ANOMALY ARCHIVES - Lending Library of the Anomalous Austin, Texas - 2007 Bert Ave. 78704 Presents: Free Lecture by Adam Gorightly Tuesday Night, April 13th, 7:30 pm at 2007 Bert Ave Speaking on his new book The Prankster and the Conspiracy: The Story of Kerry Thornley and How He Met Oswald and Inspired the Counterculture. The Prankster and the Conspiracy details the life of one of the 1960s counterculture's most fascinating characters -- Kerry Wendell Thornley, a writer, philosopher, Zen dishwasher, enlightened prankster, and, possibly, an Oswald double with disturbing ties to the Kennedy assassination. A lifelong provocateur, Thornley was linked to many of the fringe elements of the time. He helped create the spoof religion called the Discordian Society and its tract, the Principia Discordia. He coined the term "paganism" to describe various nature religions. And he befriended Robert Anton Wilson, inspired the Illuminatus, and gave his anarchic support to the Bavarian Illuminati, a brilliant prank. But Thornley's path also crossed Lee Harvey Oswald's. It's a fact that the two served together in the Marines. But did they keep in touch later, in New Orleans? And were they both used by foes of JFK? Jim Garrison investigated their relationship -- and so does Adam Gorightly in The Prankster and the Conspiracy, an account of Thornley's tragic yet hilarious life, the JFK conspiracy, and the chaos caused by worshipping the goddess of discord. With a foreword by Robert Anton Wilson. About Adam Gorightly Adam Gorightly is the author of The Shadow Over Santa Susana: Black Magic, Mind Control, and "The Manson Family" Mythos. His articles have appeared in zines such as The Excluded Middle, Crash Collusion, UFO Magazine, Paranoia, SteamShovel Press, Pills-a-go-go, Dagobert?s Revenge, Elf Infested Spaces and Saucer Smear. http://www.ParaView.com/gorightly/ http://www.MansonMythos.com ANOMALY ARCHIVES - Lending Library Austin, Texas - 2007 Bert Ave. 78704 http://www.AnomalyArchives.org Ever wondered about the reality of UFOs? Ever had a strange experience and wondered if others have had similar experiences? Ever wanted to learn about scientific investigations into the reality of Cryptozoological Critters, Parapsychological Paradigms and Parapolitical Cover-Ups? The Anomaly Archives has been a vision of founder SMiles Lewis for over ten years. Finally, the Anomaly Archives have manifested in physical reality as the non-profit corporation the Scientific Anomaly Institute, headquartered at the... Human Potential Campus, 2007 Bert Avenue, Austin, Texas 78704 The Mission of the Anomaly Archives includes: *Preservation and dissemination of scientific research into anomalous phenomena, *Research and analysis of accumulated collections, and *Education of the public regarding scientific investigations into these phenomena. Purposes of the Institute include: *Managing and developing an archive and library for documents and literature with regards to a multi-disciplinary approach to anomalous phenomena, *Supporting, promoting and pursuing research to obtain increased knowledge about anomalous phenomena, and *Pursuing and stimulating a critical, scientific discussion of anomalous phenomena, and providing a forum for information, support, and sharing among researchers while, *Functioning as the archives and library for like-minded organizations, and other groups in the community that have similar interests. Services at the Anomaly Archives will include, *Free In-House Access to Materials for the Public, *Free Searches of Digitized Index, *Bibliography and Virtual Collections, *Lending Library for Membership Discounted Membership with Partnered Organizations, *Research Services for the Public (Discounts for Membership), *Discounted Services for Archives Membership & Partnered Organizations, *Interlibrary Loan with Participating Libraries for Archives Membership, *Discounted Membership & Services for Donated Collections, and *On-line access to digitized collections for Membership. Future Services the Archives will provide include Reprinting of Rare Publications & Anomaly Org Newsletters, Archiving Publications of Anomaly Oriented Organizations, Web Development & Archiving for Anomaly Oriented Orgs, and the creation of an On-line Distance Learning Campus. For more information, visit http://www.AnomalyArchives.org ***** NYT Tommy Boy Friedman Does 'Imagine' By Mickey Z 3-30-4 "There is an odor to any press headquarters that is unmistakable...the unavoidable smell of flesh burning quietly and slowly in the service of a machine." -Norman Mailer I keep telling myself to stop wasting time critiquing Thomas L. Friedman. No one can possibly top the self-inflicted damage he does merely by putting his laughable words on the New York Times op-ed page. But then he goes and outdoes himself...and here I am, furiously typing up an article. In a March 28, 2004 op-ed entitled, "Awaking to a Dream," Tommy Boy confesses that he "didn't listen to one second of the 9/11 hearings and I didn't read one story in the paper about them. Not one second. Not one story." He felt the need to make this public because, as he reminds us: "I am the foreign affairs columnist for The New York Times" (that's enough sin for any single confession, but hey). Tommy Boy explains his motivation for ignoring the hearings. It's not indifference, mind you, but instead: "It's because I made up my mind about that event a long time ago: It was not a failure of intelligence, it was a failure of imagination. We could have had perfect intelligence on all the key pieces of 9/11, but the fact is we lacked - for the very best of reasons - people with evil enough imaginations to put those pieces together." He goes on to declare that the "only people with imagination in the world right now are the bad guys." Or as Middle East analyst Stephen P. Cohen told Tommy Boy: "That is the characteristic of our time - all the imagination is in the hands of the evildoers." Let's not dwell on Cohen's acceptance of Bush's word. (It's like all Fox News outlets adopting the term "homicide bomber" because Dubya asked.) Rather let's consider the proposition that "we" lack "people with evil enough imaginations." Let's also forget the word "evil" (a term best left to the realm of religion) for now and instead take a quick peek at how America stacks up on the sinner's scoreboard. Mr. Friedman, can you imagine a man who trained the Brazilian police force in the 1960s whose techniques involved placing the end of a reed in the anus of a naked man hanging suspended? The other end of the reed is soaked in oil and lit. Imagine that, Tommy. In Uruguay, the same American man taught techniques like electric shocks to the genitals, electric needles under the fingernails, and use of "a wire so thin that it could be fitted into the mouth between the teeth and by pressing against the gum increase the electrical charge." Now imagine those tactics were honed in the American's own soundproof basement room where, on one particular occasion, four street beggars were used to demonstrate the effects of different voltages on different parts of the body. All four men died. That man, Tommy Boy, was Dan Mitrione, head of Orwellian-named US Office of Public Safety. He wasn't the exception...not by a long shot. He was the rule. How much imagination was needed to come up with the post-Good War plot to recruit Nazi war criminals to the United States? How lacking in creativity is a nation where nuclear researchers studied the effects of plutonium on the human body by targeting some 800 African- American prisoners, mentally retarded children, and others who were induced, by money or by verbal subterfuge, to submit to irradiation? How clever were the Americans who figured out how to bomb Korean dams, defoliate Vietnam, and create a fundamentalist Muslim army of fight the Soviets? Here's another solid example of good old American ingenuity at work for you, Tommy Boy: Journalist Thomas J. Nagy has explained how a U.S. document, dated January 22, 1991, entitled, "Iraq Water Treatment Vulnerabilities," spells out "how sanctions will prevent Iraq from supplying clean water to its citizens." "In cold language," Nagy says, "the document spells out what is in store." Clearly, those uninspired decision makers in the U.S. had an idea what war and sanctions could lead to. The document reads, in part: Iraq depends on importing specialized equipment and some chemicals to purify its water supply, most of which is heavily mineralized and frequently brackish to saline. With no domestic sources of both water treatment replacement parts and some essential chemicals, Iraq will continue attempts to circumvent United Nations Sanctions to import these vital commodities. Failing to secure supplies will result in a shortage of pure drinking water for much of the population. This could lead to increased incidences, if not epidemics, of disease. Iraq will suffer increasing shortages of purified water because of the lack of required chemicals and desalination membranes. Incidences of disease, including possible epidemics, will become probable unless the population were careful to boil water." Those same sanctions were killing 300 Iraqi children a day for over a decade. On the May 12, 1996 edition of 60 Minutes, then U.S. Ambassador to the UN Madeleine Albright had the following exchange about the effects of U.S.-enforced sanctions on Iraq: Leslie Stahl: "We have heard that half a million children have died. I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima. And-and you know, is the price worth it?" Albright: "I think this is a very hard choice but the price-we think the price is worth it." Shortly afterwards, Albright was rewarded for her imaginative style and named U.S. Secretary of State. Whether it was the inventive scheming used to exterminate this continent's indigenous population or the artful choice of not saying the word "genocide" until nearly a million Rwandans were dead, the U.S. has cornered the market on deception in the name of butchery. Coddled and dim-witted commissars like Tommy Boy Friedman are rewarded nicely for not only looking the other way, but for being outraged when any official enemy so much as sneers in our direction. Will someone like Friedman ever really get it? In the words of Upton Sinclair: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." Mickey Z. is the author of two upcoming books: "A Gigantic Mistake: Articles and Essays for Your Intellectual Self-Defense" (Prime Books/Library Empyreal) and "Seven Deadly Spins: Exposing the Lies Behind War Propaganda" (Common Courage Press). He can be reached at [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***** Indonesia's Suharto tops 'worst ever' corruption charts Thu Mar 25, 2004 LONDON (AFP) - Indonesia's former president Mohamed Suharto holds the dubious title of being the most corrupt world leader in recent history, heading a "Top 10" corruption list. Plundering a family fortune estimated at anything between 15 billion and 35 billion US dollars (12.4 to 29 billion euros) during his 32- year reign from 1967, Suharto was a clear winner, according to British-based Transparency International. The group gave a corruption "top 10" for global political leaders over the past 20 years, released to coincide with the release of its annual Global Corruption Report, a round-up of government graft worldwide. In second place was former Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos, deposed in 1986, who plundered between five and 10 billion dollars, Transparency International estimated. The Philippines has the unfortunate boast of featuring two of its former presidents in the top 10, with Joseph Estrada, ousted in 2001, making the final spot with a haul of 78 to 80 million dollars. Coming in third was late dictator Mobutu Sese Seko, who acquired around five billion dollars when he ruled Zaire -- now the Democratic Republic of Congo -- from 1965 to 1997, despite an average income per capita which even now is only 80 dollars per year. "Political corruption undermines the hopes for prosperity and stability of developing countries, and damages the global economy," said Transparency International chairman Peter Eigen. "The abuse of political power for private gain deprives the most needy of vital public services, creating a level of despair that breeds conflict and violence. "It also hits the pockets of taxpayers and shareholders worldwide. The problem must be tackled at the national and international level." Despite his estimated gains, Suharto escaped prosecution when an Indonesian court ruled in September 2000 that he was mentally and physically unfit to stand trial. The former dictator has suffered several minor strokes and other physical ailments since stepping down. The complete top 10, with the dates of the rule and estimated sum stolen, are as follows: 1. Mohamed Suharto, Indonesia, 1967-98, 15 to 35 billion dollars 2. Ferdinand Marcos, Philippines, 1972-86, five to 10 billion 3. Mobutu Sese Seko, Zaire, 1965-97, five billion 4. Sani Abacha, Nigeria, 1993-98, two to five billion 5. Slobodan Milosevic, Serbia/Yugoslavia, 1989-2000, one billion 6. Jean-Claude Duvalier, Haiti, 1971-86, 300 to 800 million 7. Alberto Fujimori, Peru, 1990-2000, 600 million 8. Pavlo Lazarenko, Ukraine, 1996-97, 114 to 200 million 9. Arnoldo Aleman, Nicaragua, 1997-2000, 100 million 10. Joseph Estrada, Philippines, 1998-2001, 78 to 80 million ***** Things Are Getting Much Worse In Iraq It's Not Just A 'Spike' Or An 'Uptick' In Violence Robert Fisk 4-1-4 What has happened to the Coalition Provisional Authority, also known as the occupying power? Things are getting worse, much worse in Iraq. Yesterday's horrors proved that. Yet just a day earlier, Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt, America's deputy director of military operations, assured us that there was only an "uptick" in violence in Iraq. Not a sudden wave of violence, mark you, not a down-to-earth increase, not even a "spike" in violence - another of the general's favourite expressions. No, just a teeny-weeny, ever-so small, innocent little "uptick". In fact, he said it was a "slight uptick". Our hands were numb, recording all this, so swiftly did General Kimmitt take us through the little uptick. A marine vehicle blown off the road near Fallujah, a marine killed, a second attack with small-arms fire on the same troops, an attack on an Iraqi paramilitary recruiting station on the 14th July Road, a soldier killed near Ramadi, two Britons hurt in Basra violence, a suicide bombing against the home of the Hillah police chief, an Iraqi shot at a checkpoint, US soldiers wounded in Mosul ... All this was just 17 hours before Fallujah civilians dragged the cremated remains of a Westerner through the streets of their city. When you go to the manicured lawns and villas of the so-called "Green Zone" in Baghdad, you get this odd, weird feeling; that here is a place so isolated, so ostentatiously secure - it is not secure of course, since mortars are regularly fired into the compound - that it has no contact with the outside world. Here the US proconsul. Paul Bremer. lives in Saddam Hussein's former palace. There are fewer than 100 days before he supposedly hands over the "sovereignty" of Iraq to America's own new hand-picked Iraqi government, which will hold elections at an unknown date. And so within the palace walls, the occupying power believes in optimism, progress and political development. When someone asked - just a few hours before yesterday's horror - about the deteriorating security in Mosul, General Kimmitt snapped back that this was only "an assessment that you may be making". Every week, it is like this. >From the hot, dangerous streets of Baghdad with their electricity cuts and gunfire - and an awful lot of "upticks" which never get recorded - we make our way through palisades of concrete drums, US Army checkpoints and searches, into a vast, air-conditioned conference centre, a cavernous Saddamite structure built in 1981 for presidential summits. Next to General Kimmitt often stands Dan Senor, spokesman for the Coalition Provisional Authority who, with his frameless glasses, unsmiling demeanour and his occasional, fearful glances at the general when the latter faces a dodgy question, resembles the kind of doctor who clears his throat and quietly advises his patients to settle their affairs. He almost smiled when General Kimmitt announced his army's intention to conduct "precision operations" against "anti- Coalition elements and enemies of the Iraqi people". But wasn't this all a bit Soviet? Didn't the Red Army conduct operations against "anti-socialist elements and enemies of the Afghan people"? But there was an interesting twist - horribly ironic in the face of yesterday's butchery - in General Kimmitt's narrative. Why, I asked him, did he refer sometimes to "terrorists" and at other times to "insurgents"? Surely if you could leap from being a terrorist to being an insurgent, then with the next little hop, skip and jump, you become a "freedom-fighter". Mr Senor gave the general one of his fearful looks. He needn't have bothered. General Kimmitt is a much smoother operator than his civilian counterpart. There were, the general explained, the Fallujah version who were insurgents, and then the al-Qa'ida version who attack mosques, hotels, religious festivals and who were terrorists. So, it seems, there are now in Iraq good terrorists and bad terrorists, there are common-or-garden insurgents and supremely awful terrorists, the kind against which President George Bush took us to war in Iraq when there weren't any terrorists actually here, though there are now. And therein lies the problem. From inside the Green Zone on the banks of the Tigris, you can believe anything. How far can the occupying powers take war-spin before the world stops believing anything they say? At Wednesday's Five o'Clock Follies, two armed American soldiers stood guard at both doors - watching us, not the approach to the doors - while a backdrop carried a vast shield with the words "Equality, Security, Liberty, Justice". Did I detect, among my colleagues, a quickening of our step as we headed back through the thousands of tons of concrete to the smog and fear of the streets outside? Baghdad may be dangerous. But at least it's on Planet Earth. The Konformist must make a request for donations via Paypal, at Paypal.com. If you can and desire, please feel free to send money to help The Konformist through the following email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you are interested in a free subscription to The Konformist Newswire, please visit: http://www.groups.yahoo.com/group/konformist Or, e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject: "I NEED 2 KONFORM!!!" (Okay, you can use something else, but it's a kool catch phrase.) 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