Sunday, May 30, 2010

Sharing drugs as 'atoms' and sharing drugs as 'bits'

As I have said before, I feel that the new rulings on file sharing and digital rights in Britain reflect the same zero-tollerance and uniformed 'fascist' dictatorial methods of making responsible, informed policy based up the best and most up to date research in our Zero sum game.

Preferably data gained using human subjects and social data fields, reaching back to the long history of human drug interfacing, not results from tests on Rats and a small groups of test-subjects from Oxford and Cambridge breeding programs.

The Digital Economy Bill has defined another 'war' with the culture of 'self owning ones' by threatening to punish shared digitalis.


My major preoccupation is the question, 'What is reality?' Many of my stories and novels deal with psychotic states or drug-induced states by which I can present the concept of a multiverse rather than a universe. Music and sociology are themes in my novels, also radical political trends; in particular I've written about fascism and my fear of it.
  • Statement of 1975 quoted in the Dictionary of Literary Biography (1981) vol. 8, part 1

"Philip Kindred Dick (December 16, 1928 – March 2, 1982) was an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist whose published work during his lifetime was almost entirely in the science fiction genre. Dick explored sociological, political and metaphysical themes in novels dominated by monopolistic corporations, authoritarian governments, and altered states. In his later works, Dick's thematic focus strongly reflected his personal interest in metaphysics and theology. He often drew upon his own life experiences and addressed the nature of drug abuse, paranoia and schizophrenia, and transcendental experiences in novels such as A Scanner Darkly and VALIS.[4]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_K._Dick






New rules on illegal filesharing: three strikes and you're blacklisted

Friday 28 May 2010.

Copyright infringers may be blacklisted

Persistant filesharers now run the risk of being added to a 'copyright infringement' blacklist, under new rules being put into place by Ofcom following the Digital Economy Act.

Now that the Digital Economy Bill (as was) has passed into law, and the new coalition government has announced that it has no plans to repeal it, the responsibility rests with Ofcom to draft a code of practice enforcing it. The code of practice will be subject to consultation before being finalised, but at present Ofcom is working on a proposal which would force ISPs to keep records of people accused of illegal filesharing. After three such accusations, details of that user will be placed on a blacklist. Once blacklisted, user identities can then be applied for via court order by any copyright holder making a piracy allegation; allowing legal proceedings to be launched against the accused.

Each accusation of filesharing will result in a warning letter being sent out, and Ofcom is hoping that these letters will be sufficient to 'significantly reduce' copyright infringement; although if after a year no significant reduction is seen the regulator will consider more stringent measures such as temporary disconnection.

ISPs will have to keep details of filesharing accusations for a period of one year from the time that they are made, so that three accusations in a twelve month period will trigger the blacklisting. There is also a procedure for anyone believing they have been falsely accused to contest the accusation anonymously via a tribunal; which could result in rights holders and ISPs being forced to pay damages.

At present the requirement to keep tabs on filesharing accusations won't apply to ISPs with fewer than 400,000 customers, or mobile broadband providers.

McLuhan's TETRAD of MEDIA EFFECTS (Cyber-neuropsychology)

Tetrad of media effects

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Generally speaking, a tetrad is any set of four things. In Laws of Media (1988) and The Global Village (1989), published posthumously, Marshall McLuhan summarized his ideas about media in a concise tetrad of media effects. The tetrad is a means of examining the effects on society of any technology/medium (put another way: a means of explaining the social processes underlying the adoption of a technology/medium[1]) by dividing its effects into four categories and displaying them simultaneously. McLuhan designed the tetrad as a pedagogical tool, phrasing his laws as questions with which to consider any medium:

  1. What does the medium enhance?
  2. What does the medium make obsolete?
  3. What does the medium retrieve that had been obsolesced earlier?
  4. What does the medium flip into when pushed to extremes?

The laws of the tetrad exist simultaneously, not successively or chronologically, and allow the questioner to explore the "grammar and syntax" of the "language" of media. McLuhan departs from his mentor Harold Innis in suggesting that a medium "overheats", or reverses into an opposing form, when taken to its extreme.[2]

Visually, a tetrad can be depicted as four diamonds forming an X, with the name of a medium in the center. The two diamonds on the left of a tetrad are the Enhancement and Retrieval qualities of the medium, both Figure qualities. The two diamonds on the right of a tetrad are the Obsolescence and Reversal qualities, both Ground qualities.[3]

  • Enhancement (figure): What the medium amplifies or intensifies. For example, radio amplifies news and music via sound.
  • Obsolescence (ground): What the medium drives out of prominence. Radio reduces the importance of print and the visual.
  • Retrieval (figure): What the medium recovers which was previously lost. Radio returns the spoken word to the forefront.
  • Reversal (ground): What the medium does when pushed to its limits. Acoustic radio flips into audio-visual TV.

See also

Liberal Cannabis Party Hash Egg

"What we haven't tried, is the Dutch system. The Liberal Democrat system, of allowing adults in the UK to make an educated choice over whether they decide to use alcohol, or cannabis.

Lets face facts here. Its a choice 4 million take every single day and regardless of how the law stands.

Cannabis use at a personal level has been decriminalised for 30 years in the Netherlands, and in that time they have constantly languished at the BOTTOM of the league for European drug addicts, and contrary to the best efforts of the United Nations "bookery cookery ".

Furthermore, they have no problems with drug factories setting up in residential areas because if the locals want to buy cannabis they can simply head down to their local "government licensed" premises and buy it, paying tax as they do. --http://pr.cannazine.co.uk/20080207151/cannabis-news/no-evidence-for-cannabis-reclass-nick-clegg-mp.html


CANNABIS CULTURE - UK's Liberal Democrats, polling higher than ever in the lead-up to a federal election, want to remove criminal penalties for cannabis possession and allow Dutch-style cannabis cafés.

Internal party policy documents leaked to the UK's Daily Mail suggest permitting possession, social supply to adults and cultivation for personal use. The release of the documents follows an internal party vote to make it "no longer a crime for the occupier or manager of premises to permit someone to use cannabis on those premises."

According to the Daily Mail, "cafe owners could allow customers to smoke the drug outside or buy ‘hash brownies’ and vaporised cannabis." --http://cannabisculture.com/v2/content/2010/05/04/Liberal-Democrats-Want-Legalize-Cannabis-UK


From wikipedia: HARM REDUCTION.

Harm reduction (or Harm minimisation) refers to a range of public health policies designed to reduce the harmful consequences associated with recreational drug use and other high risk activities. Harm reduction is put forward as an useful perspective alongside the more conventional approaches of demand and supply reduction.[1]

Many advocates argue that prohibitionist laws criminalize people for suffering from a disease and cause harm, for example by obliging drug addicts to obtain drugs of unknown purity from unreliable criminal sources at high prices, increasing the risk of overdose and death.[2] While its critics are concerned that tolerating risky or illegal behaviour sends a message to the community that these behaviours are acceptable.

Firey Tongues

John Sinclair Radio Show #325 (Firey Tongues 2010)

John Sinclair Radio Show #325

John 
Sinclair Radio Show #325


The John Sinclair Foundation Presents
Virije Tongen, Ruigoord
Sunday, May 23, 2010 @ 5:00-6:00 pm [20-1021]
Amsterdam, NL.

Today Steve the Fly, Raymond Wiley & I took the 82 bus west to Ruigoord, the venerable alternative art & cultural community just outside of town, where I participated in the Vurige Tongen (Fiery Tongues) poetry festival with MC Hans Plomp and poets Jordan Zinovich, Jim Christy, Baden Prince jr., Ted Jackson, Robert Priest, Kain the Poet, and Eddie Woods, whose readings were crudely recorded by the Fly and edited for this episode of the radio show, interspersed with pertinent recordings by Thelonious Monk and a single cut by John Sinclair & His Blues Scholars featuring Wayne Kramer.



Playlist 325

[01] Opening Music: Thelonious Monk: Epistrophy
[02] John Sinclair Intro & Opening Comments with Steve Fly Agaric
[03] John Sinclair & His Blue Scholars: Cow
[04] Intro > Ted Jackson: Birthday Poem
[05] Ted Jackson: Van Gogh
[06] Thelonious Monk: Thelonious
[07] John Sinclair Conversation with Raymond Wiley
[08] Thelonious Monk: Rhythm-A-Ning (fragment) > Hans Plomp Intro >
[09] John Sinclair: a monk suite for ruigoord
[10] Thelonious Monk: Well You Needn’t
[11] Robert Priest: Reading the Bible Backwards
[12] Robert Priest: Conversation with John Sinclair, Steve Fly & Raymond Wiley
[13] Thelonious Monk: In Walked Bud
[14] Hans Plomp Intro > Kain the Poet: The Fear of Isolation
[15] Eddie Woods: For Roberto Valenza
[16] Closing Music: Thelonious Monk: Epistrophy

Hosted by John Sinclair for Radio Free Amsterdam
Recorded by Steve Fly Agaric at Vurige Tongen, Ruigood, Amsterdam
Produced, edited & assembled by John Sinclair at Fly Agaric Studio,
Amsterdam, May 24, 2010

Remixed & re-edited by John Sinclair at Fly Agaric Studio, May 26, 2010
Annotations corrected May 27, 2010 with special thanks to Eddie Woods
Posted by Larry Hayden
Executive Producer: Larry Hayden
Special thanks to Hans Plomp, Ted Jackson, Steve Fly & Raymond Wiley
© 2010 John Sinclair. All Rights Reserved.

Saturday, May 1, 2010

Why can’t our politicians come clean on drugs?


Cannabis spliff
Heavy, man: half of Californians wanted cannabis taxed to relieve the state deficit
 
What is the single most curable evil afflicting community life in London? The answer is the criminalisation of drug use under the 1971 Misuse of Drugs Act. 

It blights half the capital's youth at some stage or other. It hovers as a black cloud over every neighbourhood, pub and street corner. It causes crime and gangland disorder. It packs the courts and fills the prisons. It costs billions of pounds in personal loss and public spending.

Needless to say, not one party in the current General Election is prepared to discuss it. As a result, London is about to be taught a lesson in social policy by, of all places, America.

contin....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misuse_of_Drugs_Act_1971

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_UK_election