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Under the agreement being finalized, McDonald's will also
issue a full apology on its website and convene an advisory
board to advise it on vegetarian matters.
--http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0308-02.htm
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COUGAR
Coal, Oil, Uranium and Gold? All Ruined!
Hey, hey, hey, welcome to late breaking ATI.
Well, late showing up, with breaking news. OK.
Better late than whenever, right? hehehe
What is it like, the 13th of March
#'s Is it a new moon? What year is this.
2002? Sure, that'll do.
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LETTUCE
Hello there ati@etext.org!
This is a targeted e-mail being sent to individuals who
have displayed an interest in earning serious extra income
from home.
Would you like to... {snip (bandwidth)}
[How do I put this. Since quitting First Investors Co.
in the late 80s, I have NEVER displayed an interest in
earning serious extra income from home. Am I calling you
a filthy rotten liar? Hmm. I guess you could say that.]
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>I just got permission from my Sammi friend, to post th[is] message.
> This is for All.
> The thing is that many of the Sammi are very quiet...it is their way.
> It is not so usual that they go public with situations affecting them.
> This isue however, is crucial for their way of life and the preservation
> of an ancient lifestyle.
> I get so mad, when i think about it; how Indigenous Peoples who have
> been living a semi nomadic life over decades, now have to "prove" to
> authorities, that theyve inhabited these areas for such a long time.
> Their code of honor has been to walk softly upon Mother Earth to leave
> as little trace as possible, or do as little harm to the Earth as
> possible, by their exsitance. Naturally theyve succeeded and succeeded
> good...there are not much "archelogical proof" that theyve been there
> for a very long time..
> It is the same with the Dineh on the Land. They were once nomadic
> too ( or semi nomadic ) hunting the Antelope and following the Antelope
> herds. Some Navajo People on the Land say they can trace 19 generations
> of relatives living on Big Mountain.
> Yet, this history of "who was there first" is allowed to rule these
> Peoples lives.
> ¤¤¤¤ The thing IS: - All of the Indigenous Peoples where there,
> looong before any white man ever set foot on their Lands. So the
> Indigenous Peoples should be the ones; calling the shots...making
> the rules...
> AWWGH! I hate the white supremacy..
> Carina
http://www.taigarescue.org/act_now/action_alert.php?action=14
http://www.angelfire.com/home/senaasweden
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to ATI:
minimalism should be practiced much more often in music.
just don't take it out on the triplets, man.
take it all out on kenny.
on 03-02-2002 10:34 PM, Mr. Yak Milk ati@etext.org wrote:
> hehehe.
> I like some triplets, as long as there's some negative
> space now and then. There's parts of kenny G and also
> parts of mozart where I suddenly go, "fuck, three less
> of those and that would have been great."
> marco
> ps: I agree with you, there's way more wrong with kenny G
> than just soprano sax triplets.
> Let's start with the hair...
Dear Republican,
They just can't obstruct enough!
First it's the economic stimulus package,
now it's judicial nominees.
President Bush has nominated Judge Charles
Pickering to the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals.
President Bush has worked hard to find qualified
candidates like Judge Pickering who will enforce
the laws on the books and NOT legislate from the bench.
But the Democrat Senators would rather play politics
than act responsibly. And Judge Pickering has been
targeted and attacked not just professionally, but
also personally.
These attacks have little to do with the facts of
Pickering's record as a public servant.
The real target is President Bush and these left-wing
extremists will stop at nothing to score political
points against the President.
You can make a difference in this battle!
Please contact the Senators listed below.
And tell them to stop these infantile games and support
the nomination of Judge Charles Pickering.
Senator Joseph Biden (D-DE) 202-224-5042
Senator Herbert Kohl (D-WI) 202-224-5653
Senator John Edwards (D-NC) 202-224-3154
Senator Max Cleland (D-GA) 202-224-3521
Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA) 202-224-5824
Senator Blanch Lincoln (D-AR) 202-224-4843
[well, whatever. Thanks for contacting us though.]
This week's mix tape: music for cartoon robots.
1. Spike Jones - Telex
2. Carry On Clangers - Erasure
3. Hot Dog (12" mix) - Martini Ranch
4. Psyché Rock (Fatboy Slim Malpaso Mix) - Pierre Henry and Michel Colombier
5. 19-2000 (Soulchild Remix) - Gorillaz
6. Genius of Love - Tom Tom Club
7. Keep Your Eye On Me (extended version) - Herb Alpert
8. Baby Love Child - Pizzicato Five
9. Hunny Hunny (Lovebubble mix) - Book of Love
10. Pop Goes The World - Men Without Hats
11. Beautiful World - Devo
12. Song for a Future Generation - The B-52's
13. Komputer Pop - Komputer
14. The Robots - Kraftwerk
15. Robopop - Hexstatic
For links for these songs, please visit my weblog at
http://www.blithe.com/aa/blog
Cheers,
Aldo
to ati@etext.org
watch out:
- 15. März
- Praterinsel
- DJ Tom Novy
http://www.liquid-lounge.org
to ati@etext.org
Still no feedback from Observer editorial,
are chaps letting down the side
yet again? Promises promises huh?
Drug dealers collect Mig-29s
Jets Arrive in Burma
By Win Htein
Twelve MIG-29 jet fighters arrived in Burma
this week along with Russian military officials.
Full Story:
http://www.irrawaddy.org/news/index.html#jet
mihra
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AND OVERHEARD IN THE INTERMITTENT IRC: *
> [13:14] [beta] do you still do zines? If you have
> favorites you want to nominate for the zine yearbook
> that the folks at Clamor Magazine do, let me know.
> [13:15] [abbie] mine might not fit in as a 'zine
> depending on how strict clamor is because it's email
> and web only, and I fall in thru the cracks of webzine
> because it's text only. But mine's activist times 'zine
> if you wanna put in a good word for me.
> [13:16] [abbie] Neo comintern is a kindred spirit up in
> canada and he maintains http://scene.textfiles.com
> [13:16] [abbie] If I can't "get in" I'd still love to
> see his paper zine get in.
> [13:16] [beta] I don't know what their position is on
> webzines
> [13:17] [beta] their criteria is: fewer than 5000 copies,
> published in 2001
> [13:17] [beta] send the paper zine to Become The Media /
> PO Box 1225 / Bowling Green, OH 43402
> [13:18] [beta] and emails to email@addres___
> [13:19] [abbie] ok, sure. Maybe I'll mail them a copy of
> his and just mention that I'm e&p of ati. I've put out
> paper ones, but that was years ago. And just to table
> or leaflet at shows. Nowadays it's easier for me to just
> print out the indy pdfs and flyer or table that and pass
> out little stickers that mention my zine.
* names were changed to protect the anonymous
ACTIVIST
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PUBLISHERS COLUMN!
[sort of...]
Here at the offices of Koppel, Koppel,
Koppel, Koppel & Koppel news is our
business. You'd think we're a bunch
of attorneys at law. Well, that's
almost true. Some of us got law degrees,
but not so much to practice, but so we'd
have all the power and access we need
to ply the journalism trade in a better
way.
Power and access. Two things of utmost
import no matter what field you want to
go into.
Wish to be the best journalist in
the world? (pronounced millions of
dollars a year??) Get a law degree,
and have a big family.
Wish to win a political seat anywhere
in the Untied States? Get a law degree
and have a big family.
Hell, you got yourself all the skills,
knowledge and everything else it takes
to be the best plumber in your town, but
guess what?
ALL THE CERTIFICATES ARE TAKEN.
No Problema, mon! Get a law degree and
have a big family.
Just call us Attorneys at Journalism.
Here at the offices of Koppel, Koppel,
Koppel, Koppel & Koppel we're (Ted,
Andrea, Grace, Deirdre, Andrew, and
Tara) in YOUR CORNER.
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Request for Research
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The most important "no" that Manuel Noriega told the
US Gov't was that School of Americas could not remain
in Panama unless it got rid of all aspects of counter-
insurgency training. Shortly after that his country
was invaded and he was thrown in Dade County where
he still sits. I recently finished reading his auto-
biography. It left me wondering a lot about Milosovec's
guilt or innocence!
And I worry that no one's ready to hear this: but I
wonder about Bin Laden's guilt or innocence in all this
as well. It seems unimportant now that there might never
have been any evidence, huh? I'm certainly not saying I
respect or admire Bin Laden, what I want to know honestly
and openly what he might have said publicly the day he
was appointed Commander In Chief of the Taliban 30Aug01.
What else might he have said beteen then and mid Sept?
Did he defy the US Government? Did he say something
about Henry Kissinger's mistress? Or Bush's manhood?
Is he pushing the Iran/Contra issue? Maybe he had an
axe to grind against the Enron people. If I can push
the Noriega model perhaps more than I should, does he
have proof that George W Bush is a consumer of Heroin
and Cocain maybe?
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12mar295 - Maximilian refuses military service in Thevesta,
North Afrika. Loses his head.
1979 - Grenada: Revolution begins
16mar1941 - Abbie Hoffman's Sister Phyllis born.
17mar1920 - General strike overcomes Kapp Putsch, Germany
20mar1896 - US Marines invade Nicaragua
21mar1959 - Fidel Castro lectures at Harvard
1960 - Sharpeville: South Afrikan police kill 69 people
22mar1980 - 30,000 march in Wash, DC opposing the draft
23mar1918 - Trial of 101 IWW memebers for opposing WWI
24mar1980 - Archbishop Oscar Romero assassinated
1999 - US and NATO begin 78 days of bombing Yugoslavia
2apr1917 - Jeannette Rankin becomes only member to vote
against WWI and WWII
12apr1989 - Abbie Hoffman dies. Autopsy results - "suicide,"
just 15 minutes after he's pronounced dead.
Any of these names sound familiar?
Aureate
Cydoor
Doubleclick
Give up?
Spyware in your harddrive I bet.
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We end with a poem:
OH AMERICA, WHERE ART THOU?
by Michael o
In the Beginning...
There was a shrieking sound
Rising from the plaint of
The powerless in the face of
The red-hot Sun burning,
Terrifying them.
They fled to caves
As the moon
Rose a'glowing
And the owl screeched
And nocturnal carnivores ate the
Stragglers, the lame and
The young.
Powerless over birth and death,
Their Patriarch's cocks
Shriveled in failure
To fight the winds and waters,
Roaring earth and
Firestorms that tore at them
And the day creatures
That stalked and devoured them
Before being devoured
By them.
During the light of day
They warred against helplessness
In holy feasts and massacres
Of dead blood and flesh
And at night did
Sacrifices and mad dances
In the roaring heat of their captured Sun,
Its light dancing on the
Stark white of stake mounted skulls.
They are called barbarians and savages.
In wars of land and loot conquest,
In merchandising slavery,
They became powerful over
Others who walked like them.
They proclaimed themselves anew
In sermon praises of a
New sunlit day.
'A God,' they cried out,
Bowing before an
Anointed one,
The strongest one,
The most weaponed one,
The richest one,
For possession of land
And gold
Was deification.
Hindu, Buddhist, Jew, Muslim,
Christian, Yahweh, Allah, Jehovah, God...
They prayed and chanted out.
They wrote their myths and
Grew their religions,
Until humankind was but
Servant to them.
In the White man's world...
They called themselves
King, Pope Fuhrer and,
Later, dare I say,
The Holy Trinity of
Doctor, Preacher,
President.
They garbed themselves in
The bloodied robes
Of their risen one,
Chanting the name
Of that dark skinned,
Wooley-haired, Palestinian Jew,
Jesus Christ of Nazareth,
Who their predecessors killed
As quickly as they could,
Lest he lead the people
Against them,
Whom their artists created
Into a pale and weak blue eyed creature
For their manhood's sake.
Soon they costumed themselves
In the role of Merchant, Banker,
Mover, Shaker,
Tithing for yet another
Missionary seminary
Of leaders girding their loins
In their latest, contrived
World wide, alabaster,
Holy Christian War,
One had became one in the same:
The symbol of the dollar followed
The warrior's cross into the battle
Of mercantile.
Do you doubt?
Do you not see
The dying entrails of Enron
Snaking through the Bushes of Eden?
Do you doubt:
As the mammoth machines
Of Halliburton reconstructed,
Under Cheney's watchful eyes,
Vast Asian battle fields
Of the last war's millions dead.
As he and Bush pave
A new and sandy path
For petroleum's
Snaking pipeline desert route
Through Afghanistan?
Far too many of us
Chose the High Mass
Of Denial as our latest opium,
As Bush the former,
Nuked the children
Of the Persian Gulf,
As the protectorate of oil.
And our soldiers came
Home dying of a new rot
In their bodies,
Denied by the very
Corporate government
Who created it and
Sent it and them there.
Just as they did
The Agents of Orange,
Green and Blue.
Then Bubba Bill
Used the same
Uranium tipped
Bombs and bullets
In the Balkans,
Lest the Europe be
Less stable for
Euro-corporate dollar.
And we never saw that
As the Italian, Spanish,
And German NATO
Veterans fell sick,
And dying,
There was a
Look of Hiroshima
In their eyes.
Far too many us have become
Blinded by the glistening,
Rolling, white zealot's eyes of
The avenging Sword bearer Ashcroft,
---Who amidst singing the most pale of
Fundamental nasal-tenor serene hymns,
---Eerily stayed attuned to
This new Leader's Serpentine hiss,
'Terroristsssssssss.'
It is the hiss heard round the world
Everywhere the Burning Bush
Has adopted the fallen flaming Cross
Of the White Man's conscripted Burden.
And lest we forget:
One can hear the
Echoing of Clinton feet,
Once stomping the
Liberal reformist march,
Skittering like fleeing rat nails
In the sacred halls of
Global Crossing and over
The dead and decaying
Bank accounts of countless
Broke and jobless employees.
And suddenly,
All our nation has gone silent as
The steel barred gates of
Executive fiat crash down like
Crusader's sword thrusts
---killing as surely as the murderers of
Danny Pearl---
And the Network Executive hatchet
For rating knife points
---Risking as surely the dénouement
Of Night Line---
Our First Amendment Right to know of our
Elected's documented Wheels and Deals
And as we now know of the
Paranoid Nixon-Graham epithets
Swearing at, and conspiring against,
The unchristian rabble who they feared
Would surround and devour them
As in days of yore.
It hisses forth now that we are
Suspects all...'terroristssssss'...
Oh, America, Nation that I love,
This is not the War to End Terrorism
But the war of Corporate Capital,
Masqueraded in
The Savior's patriot-uniform
Adorned with plastic-colored,
Neon crosses,
Marching to military hymn's
Sang by every
TV Sunday morning,
Gospel weaving
Bible hawker,
Out to eat our hearts and minds
Like sacrifices of old.
'Terroristssssssssss!'
The Leader spits the venom every moment.
'Witches,' his predecessor's screamed.
Hunting them down. Drowning them,
Torching them as pyre kindling
Akin to that what made
The ashes of Salem and
St. Joan fills the sky.
'Heathens, pagans, barbarians,
rabble-rousers, Devil, Shaman,
Infidel, Atheist.'
History records
The never ending
Victim litany of these
Hypocrites.
Oh, and less we forget,
The seventy years of
'Communist Antichrists,'
Who, they raved, were coming
To take our young at dinnertime,
Not with movierola Fava beans,
But to lure them away from the
Eucharist of sacrificial blood-grape wine
And white flesh wafers,
With gifts of Dixie Cups filled with
Mixed fruit Jell-O and
A promise of Heaven on Earth of
Choc-o-late pudding with
Sunday desert plates stacked with
Sugar Icy Crispy Cream donuts, and
By numbing their little, fragile
Impressionable minds
With chlorophyll, and promises
Of freedom and equality
This Red Menace would
Then rape and invade their
Tender virgin bodies with something
Known to them as Godless Atheism.
And even though the threatened marched
And picketed and protested lock step
With these Red villains,
And some of them sexed with
The Commies
And joined with them in their
Pathetic Party,
They seemed to have survived,
Minds and souls
And organs intact,
To think for themselves another day.
That is, those that were not tormented
And driven from their homes and country
As outcasts and traitors for
Opposing the predecessors
Of the Corporate Killing Machine
That lives today.
And today,
The names of the suspects
Have changed.
Today it is Militants, Radicals.
And did I remember to mention,
'Evil Doers?'
Next, they will place
Black and white head shots of
Revolutionaries Wanted Dead or Alive
Next to the Ten Commandments
In every school hallway.
And as they contaminate again
Those once hallowed institutions
You will hear the cries of
The once heroic, oft immortalized,
Revolutionary Heroes,
Jefferson, Franklin,
Washington and Paine,
As they flee for sanctuary
Behind the parchment cloak
Of their Bill of Rights,
Only to find it ripped asunder
And torched with flames from
The firestorm of torch crosses
And burning books.
Like our history,
We have been stolen,
Kidnapped, held hostage.
Our armor of inalienable honor
Pierced as if by U-238 projectiles.
We and the citizens of the world
Are being prepared for rape and murder
By the rogue Wildcat Agents of
Wall Street's mean spirited
White Christendom.
They are cynical barbarians dressed
In Brooks Brothers' Khaki camouflage,
Who, now armed with the omnipotent power
Of an unthinkable war of nuclear first strike,
Go on the Crusade of the Righteous One,
Against the peasants of The World of color,
Raving in sermon and blood letting.
They have taken power
For someone in alarm
Had screamed:
'Because of Bill Clinton,
There will be a Nigger in
The White House.'
And a Sentry of the Right said,
'Not until they pry
This gun from my
Cold, dead fingers.'
"Then Mullahs ruling
The Temple Mount.'
Another shouted?
'Not until this
Uzi falls empty
Across my dead
Child's chest.'
'Shalom,' he wailed,
A friend of a
Hollywood Democrat,
His head banging
Against The Wall
Drowning out
The gavel sounds
Of Nuremberg
And the
Blinding, stark,
Reminiscent
Black and white
Photographic images
Of Jews being rounded-up
In the ghettos of Warsaw.
Just like Palestinians
From the Gaza
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