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Activist Times Inc. Issue 340
What is the sound of a guitar gently weeping?
Live! From the low-band of Kevin Mitnick's
HamRadio it's aTi. At Thousand-Oaks Island.
Judge Richard Sippel, do you copy? A small
piece of justice recovered. You are a better
man for it. Over. Thank you, thank you, thank
you.
Out.
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ATI 340! For the week ending tomorrow or
yesterday, depending on which ethnicity
you like or dislike.
PUBLISHIARY COLUMNIARY
You prolly noticed something extra "under your
tree" this year.
Something really neato. Keen.
Yeah, that's right. Counting this issue, you
got three (count em 3) editions of ATI. Activist
Tiactivist Iactivist.
Mumbo jumbo. That's a lot o' rant, ramble, raving
writing and parithmetic. (the PA is silent) Yup.
That's because there's much to say, lots to do. and
mega bigtime hella lot to share.
I've also had six (count em 6) people ghostwriting
this month. A couple will continue on, but the rest
are done until summer or so, they say. I bet they
don't come around until next year though.
Either way, I think that's a record here. Truth
be told, aTi has never been written by more than
three or four people at a time. And in our 13-year
history I must say most weeks have gone by with
this one lonely little old me to write, edit AND
publish, save for the occasional "letted" or #s
RUN URL submission.
At any rate, things welled up so much by mid-Dec
we decided to put out 3-in-a-row as close to the
day they call "XMas" as possible. So here's the 3rd
of 3.
Enjoy.
Could we sustain this kind of behavior? 2 or 3 per
week? Hells no. But could this be the sign of a shift
toward a 2X / wk schedule? Wrong again. No way.
Nah! Just there's so much coming in -- much needs
to go out, and you know I don't like to edit things
down too tiny, or very much at all, eh? Brings us back
to the "weekly" periodicity. About 4-a-month. Fairly
close-tuned to the lunar fazes. I mean phases. Er uh,
er, I mean phrases.
Word.
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you wanna.
Print out this 'zine, get some scotch tape
and wrap up a belated gift for someone.
Yes, give them homemade ATI "newsprint" giftwrap.
Washington's economy won't thank you, but worry
not! Mr. Housekeeping (ekonomos) is an ingrate
anyhow. You'll get your thanks from the entire
universe.
And contrary to popular belief, the US. Eco -
Nomy's NOT senior ranked to the universe.
SHARDS
a poem by marco
59 beads is a rosary
33 is the same but anglican
33 or 99 makes muslimism they say
108 is the hindu mala
And it is said that 27,
54 or 108 beads make you a buddhist.
Gee is it any clearer?
That we are each left with
Just a few pieces of the
Whole truth.
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http://www.antiwar.com
http://www.blackopradio.com
http://www.newsmakingnews.com
http://www.notowar.com/media.html
http://www.rawilson.com/links.shtml
http://www.indieradio.org/submitrecordings
C&C: A More Harounish Satanic
Versesish Comparison And Contrast:
Tallit and Kafiya:
How similar;
How different?
SIFODOH: Sitting In Front Of Dahmer's Old House
The Weekly Column On Violence In The Untied States
Yesterday, I saw Bowling For Columbine again.
My second time. This doesn't mean much to this
column in the grand scheme of things, but I just
thought I'd mention this as the documentary asks
some of the same questions you and I do.
QUESTION: Of Child Husbandry
Is four minutes a proper time-out?
And is 4+ moving toward being seen as abuse?
Is time-out in a corner, a bathroom floor or a
currently unoccupied room proper for a timeout?
But is a closet abuse? Especially if you lock the
door, right?
Where do parents and "careworkers" draw these
lines, and where do children? How about child-advocates
and how about the state? We really need to ask these
questions "aloud" don't we?
When is an egg-timer therapy, and when is it a subtle
form of torture? What exactly *IS* a timeout anyways,
and how many times a day is still "effective?"
Did Jack the Ripper have timeouts? And how about
Timothy McVeigh? Did Benjamin Spock do timeouts? Mr.
Rogers? Captain Kangaroo?
George W. Bush?
Baby Bush. I'll leave it at that.
[INLINE]
(PAWN) Unemployed Japanese look over job listings on
computers at an unemployment office in Kadoma City,
Osaka. As the EnronOsaka price-per-share plummets,
so jobless rates and bankruptcies soar.
QUOTE:
"For better or worse, Americans by the millions get
their information about politics from 'The West Wing.'"
--Frank Luntz
QUOTE:
& NOW ATI'S FUNNIEST QUOTE
OF THE WHOLE WEEK QUOTE:
"This is not a porn video, it is a clean-cut
strip video only."
[found in a weekly newspaper ad looking for "acters."]
A SHORT NOTE FROM THE GLICK BOOK
In Berkeley, California in the late 1960s, activists used
whistles, noisemakers, and spotlights to ward off FBI and
police harrassment. When law enforcement personnel entered
an area, the first person to spot them would alert other
activists in the vicinity. Soon dozens of people were
gethered around the intruders, blowing loud whistles,
shining bright lights on them, and demanding that they
leave. The effect was to ridicule the FBI and police and
undermine their intimidating mystique. Activists had fun
in the process, and gained a sense of their collective
power.
[ref]=[http://www.publiceye.org/liberty/War_at_Home/Glick_Overview.html]
ANOTHER GREAT QUOTE (OR PRETTY GREAT...)
"Tasteful wear has become part of an album's look
and is a visible metaphor for an LP's history."
-- Art Greinke
OPEN LETTER TO POWERBALL WINNER
So, how's it feel to win big?
Oh, we already asked you that the last couple
careers, didn't we?
Meeting Daily, US Nerve Center Prepares Terrorists
(PAWN) NORAD, Colorado - At about 8:45 most mornings
in a conference room deep inside a mountain, the CIA,
FBI, and a dozen other 3 & 4-letter agencies meet to
debate how the Pentagram should respond if the whole
ship leaks and sinks too much.
Four Star General Phillip R Eberhard throws out
doomsday scenarios for a new wave of attacks easily
blamable on Al Queda, or some other GOT (group-of-terror)
such as the Daschle-Feingold Brigade (nicknamed Dirty
Buggers or DFB) or the dreaded Simbiotic Leiberation
Army.
For up to an hour each day in what is blandly called
"The Commander's Situational Attitudinal Maintainance
Meeting" (or C-SAMM for short) General Eberhardt asks
representatives of the 14 agencies (that we're allowed
to discuss) a roster that includes DOS, NSA, NASA, NAUSA,
the FAA, the FASA, and the FAUSA, essentially everyone
EXCEPT FEMA (yes, FEMA's never there. Repeat, FEMA's
never there. Do you hear me? FEMA is NOT there every
morning.) for updates from their experts and advice on
what if the worst happens.
There are boxes of alka-seltzer in each hallway along
with Pain-Aid (TM) and Aspirin (TM) and the brand new
Eli Lillies (Also TM) and a psychotherapist sits in a
front lobby Info-Booth that strongly resembles Lucy from
the Peanuts cartoon.
Eberhard says he is sensitive to the concerns of Civil
Liberties and that he would respond to a terrorist attack
ONLY IF the White House and Pentagram tell him it's O.K.
"We understand Civics101," he said. "I really don't
think based on those checks and balances, that we're
going to get into a situation where the military will be
doing something they shouldn't."
T R I L O G Y
DEPART MENT: Store Blues
A story in three parts.
1) ati 340
2) ati 341
3) ati 342
I shopped at Caldor the other day.
I bought three things; all from different departments.
I always like giving Caldor my money even though the
original owners sold it many years ago; back in the 80's
I'm told. Carl and Deloris Bennet live comfortably now
somewhere in western Connecticut. One of the managers
at the Norwich store tells me they're doing well. Just
your typical retired old people, I guess.
Once when I was young I went to the Groton Caldor
wearing a shirt and tie; and I filled out a job application.
Those were the days when you didn't need a resume to land
minimum-wage jobs. But a young man was always assured that
a tie gave him a "shoe in."
I honestly don't know if it was a manager or an owner
who took my application, but she directed me into her
office saying it just happened to be a slow moment and
if I was willing she could interview me right away. She
offered me coffee and I obliged. I honestly didn't know
how I liked coffee yet, so I asked for it "with everything."
All went well with the interview until she got to the
line about my date of birth. Yes it was my 14th birthday.
She wished me a happy birthday and explained to me that
by law she couldn't hire me for another two years.
She said I was a very nice charming determined young man,
and that she was certain I would do quite well for my self
in all of life. If I came back in a few years, I had her
word that she would personally find me a job somewhere
within the company.
I thanked her, shook her hand, held up my face until I
left the building and then cried all the way home.
I never took her up on that job offer two years later
as I'd ended up working at a local Elks Club that paid
twice the minimum wage. Cash! And a year early, but I
won't go there in THIS story.
A year later I found out at a family reunion while my
father was picking on me for what I'll always remember
as "that Caldor moment," that my grandmother used to
buy fruit from Deloris Bennet back during the depression.
Lots of fruit. My grandmother supported my grandfather's
two failing clothing stores by selling apples in front of
factories during shift changes and breaks. Her philosophy
was, "If they can't afford anything else, they should at
least buy fruit."
"You actually knew Carl Bennet?" I asked my grandfather.
"Knew him?" he said. "I helped him open the clothing
departments to all his stores years ago."
When my grandfather sold his three clothing stores back
in the 70's, you could say he went on to live and die
comfortably in Pawtucket and Warwick, Rhode Island. I'll
never forget when my 9th grade prom was coming up and my
grandfather looked me up and down and said "38 short."
No tape measure or anything. Grampa still "had it."
That was long after he'd sold off his stores. One became a
chain of "Gentleman's Wearhouses," and the others are still
in Warwick and Providence run by children of some of his
original partners.
My dad took me to Anderson Little outfitting me a really
cool light brown corderoy 3-piece suit. "36 medium," the
salesman said measuring me with tape. He tried a few suits
on me and they looked almost right in the mirror, but never
felt right. (CON'T Next Issue)
ANALYSIS: Lies Don't Figure; Music Figures Don't...
AP says best-selling albums for '02 *WERE* by
Eminem
Nelly
Avril Lavigne
Dixie Chicks
8Mile Soundtrack
Pink
Ashanti
Alan Jackson
O BrotherWhereArtThou
Shania Twain
Hmm. Only four of these sound the least bit familiar
to me, and I listen to, play, write and record music
all day, every day.
What's wrong with this picture?
Best selling according to who? Is this dollar returns
for each artist? Some for each corporation? Each major
label?? Or is this perhaps based on how much each
artist's PR department budgets for a year's worth of
"Product Recognition?"
Is this how much was bought anywhere in the world,
just the US? One state like NY or L.A.? Or perhaps
only one store?
And since there's still four days left to the year,
I should ask if this isn't only part of a year, like did
they poll just a coupld stores for a couple days? Weeks?
And since the album publishing season really only goes
from like mid-Sept til about late Dec, I would have to
ask out loud whether this didn't just reflect Christmas,
Chanuka, Kwanzaa sales?
So who does AP claim made this year-end "Top 10?"
Nielsen SoundScan.
Figures.
VOTER ALERT:
If Hillary runs I might vote (for her).
If she picks Liebensheizahozen though, I
will definitely not. Frankly, I've no room
in my heart for fascism, no matter which
ethnic group it eminates from.
Clinton gave the "radio address" retort
yesterday. Didja hear it? Me either. But I
sure did read about it, thank you very much.
It was big news everywhere. Didn't you notice?
It's her first radio addy, according to the
AP. APparrently you must ask permission of the
democrats to do this. Since when do you need
permit to key a mic? (DON'T ANSWER THAT!) So
she's going to get a lot of mileage out of
saying she's definitely not running for
pResident the next few months.
I predict she makes it official March 1.
'Zine #340 ends with a
POEM: Because We All Need More Thneeds
Needless Things;
Need Less Things
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