Alternative Miss World Goes To The Dogs (October 22)

15 'neither male nor female but superhuman' contestants will be
competing at the Alternative Miss World beauty pageant in London next month
which returns after a six year absence.

The event's organisers revealed this week that the ceremony is being
planned along the lines of a pedigree dog show.

"The event is modelled more on Crufts than the world famous beauty
pageant (Miss World). However, they do share the same competition
categories: daywear, swimwear and eveningwear with catwalk promenade and
personality interview," they explained.

Previous winners include film director Derek Jarman and 84 year old
Russian man who picked up the crown at the last event in 1998. This
year's proceedings are being co-hosted by Kashpoint impresario Matthew
Glamorre, one of London's most dedicated followers of extreme fashion.

"The majority of young people in this country have made their opinions
irrelevant by their eagerness to conform to the consumerist society,"
Glamorre told Skrufff in a recent chat.

"Many people don't realise quite what a serious fuking job dressing up
is; that actually what you're doing by dressing up is going out to
battle. The whole idea of flamboyance is to show others their
imprisonment," he added.

Alternative Miss World takes place at the London Hippodrome on Friday
October 22; tickets cost ý25 and are available from the venue.

http://www.alternativemissworld.com/1985%20-%20Water.htm

American Conspiracy Links:

http://www.parascope.com ('While you may laugh at the idea that a
secret society has members in high places who run the world, keep in mind
that your next president will be either John Kerry or George Bush, both
members of Skull & Bones . . .')

http://www.nhgazette.com/cgi-bin/NHGstore.cgi?user_action=detail&catalogno=NN_Bush_Nazi_Link
('Bush - Nazi Link Confirmed: In 1952, Prescott Bush was elected to the
U.S. Senate, with no press accounts about his well-concealed Nazi past.
There is no record of any U.S. press coverage of the Bush-Nazi
connection during any political campaigns conducted by George Herbert Walker
Bush, Jeb Bush, or George W. Bush. . .')

http://www.freedomunderground.org/memoryhole/pentagon121.swf (Pentagon
9/11 unanswered questions- long download, thought-provoking)

Russia's Reefer Cops Rave Against The Machine

Officers from Russia's Federal Drug Control Service charged a
shopkeeper with disseminating 'drug propaganda' this week after they found him
selling mobile phone covers decorated with cannabis leaves.

Arresting officer Nikolai Sumburov told the Moscow Times they view the
phone casings as 'gateway drugs' in their own right.

"Sixteen- and 17-year-old teenagers buy the cell phone so they can
consider themselves to be part of the so-called subculture," he explained.

"Then they start thinking about trying the drug."

The surprise move came just three months after President Putin
decriminalised personal use of all drugs (including heroin and cocaine) making
possession of up to 10 'average single doses' punishable with a fine
rather than prison. Previously users risked long prison sentences if
caught with even a single spliff with many unconvicted suspects being
jailed for up to 4 years before facing trial.

"The real impetus for the (decriminalisation) change probably lies in
the country's festering, overcrowded, and disease-filled prison system,"
Stopthedrugwar.org reported in May.

"With some 850,000 prisoners, Russia is second only to the United
States in the number and percentage of its people it imprisons and an
estimated 200,000 to 300,000 of them are incarcerated on drug charges," the
civil liberties group pointed out.

The shopkeeper targeted by the Federal Drug Control Service faces a
fine rather than jail, the Moscow Times reported, through local drug
reform agencies are reportedly alarmed by what they see as an escalating
turf war between rival police agencies.

http://www.phaseloop.com/foreignprisoners/exp-russian_tats.html
(Russian Prison tattoos: 'From the mid-1960's to the 1980's, thirty-five
million people were incarcerated, and of those, twenty to thirty million
were tattooed. More than simple decoration, the images symbolically
proclaim the wearer's background and rank within the complex social system of
the jailed . . .'; amazingly grim pictures)

http://www.whosarat.com (Real life American snitch/ grass database)

http://www.PetitionOnline.com/ccd443 ('We the undersigned herewith
express the view that justice has been miscarried in the case of Mr. Marc
Emery - who has received a sentence of 90 days for passing a marijuana
cigarette to anther individual: online petition')

http://www.mcst.uklinux.net/mixmag (take part in Mixmag's annual drug
survey)

How Can You Make The Most Of Your Enemies?

Barefoot Doctor: 'The idea of someone being your enemy, is merely a
concept in your mind. So rather than taking their words or actions towards
you personally, see it as the cosmic drama unfolding and realise
they're doing the best they can according to their current conditions and
personal stage of evolution.

Next, look at them and ask what they've come to teach you about
yourself. Generally this means you learning to acknowledge that whatever
negative trait you despise or reject in them, is precisely the negative
trait you need to acknowledge, accept and forgive in yourself.

Alternatively, view their actual or potential actions against you as a
theatrical device to let you know where your defences or character are
weak and need strengthening. It's about switching your focus away from
them towards your own internal workings. Then, having done everything
necessary to defend yourself against any attack they might launch in
your direction in the future, wish them well and continue on your way."

"The best predictor of whether a white American votes Republican is not
his or her income but how often he or she goes to church." (Sunday
Times)

79% of whites who went to church at least once a week voted for George
W in 2000.