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Here's another piece of poetry maybe to stick in ATI...
"Linger not, stranger; shed no tear;
Go back to those who sent us here.
We are the young they drafted out
To wars their folly brought about.
Go tell those old men, safe in bed,
We took their orders and are dead."
A.D. Hope (I think)
-- Matt/Moby
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PUBLISHER'S COLUMN
I finally figured out what bothers me so much
about Mozart's compositions. Triplets. Overuse
of triplets. Just like Kenny G.
Well, here's a new issue of ATI 'Zine. Hope you
like it. We've got poetry, music, all kinds of
stuff. The usual letters, numbers. You know the
drill.
Enjoy! OK, you ready?
I was reading an article someone published about
environmental illnesses, and health issues regarding
the newest version of Capitalism that our United States
is fast morphing into.
Since it was in an interactive newspaper, I had the
pleasure of replying with the following. Thought I'd
share it with you.
For the past two years I've been filtering my tap water.
Coffee, rice, soups, lemonade. Everything. I have to
filter my water now or I get ill. If I buy artesian spring
water I'm the healthiest for two or three days straight,
but I seldom can afford the $1.20 or so per gallon for
drinking water.
So I have found that I'm my most totally ill drinking
from the tap, somewhat ill whenever I need a new filter
but can't afford one yet, much better with a brand new
filter and I'm at my best while drinking water that has
nothing to do with my own local groundwater.
Scientists who aren't bought out by the Rand Corporation
or the CIA will tell you that there's much too much
chlorine in my citywater, and the pesticide runoff from
the local farms surrounding this city is mixing to provide
chloroform, which apparently commercial filters can only
remove portions of.
But I'm sure that's only one part of the whole. At any
rate, I filter my water now or I get really sick. And for
your begging question, I'm sure -- I'll tell you -- we're
talking dizziness, diarrhea, rectal bleeding, stomach ulcers,
vomiting, chills and other flu symptoms without the fever.
Yeah, and backpain to boot.
Oh, and four times in the last four years about a 2 inch
patch of hair has fallen off both my wrists overnight and
then grown back over a month or two, left wrist first,
then the right wrist. Yes, it grows back evenly with all
the other arm-hair as if it had never fallen out in the
first place.
If I sound nonchalant about it, it's only because it's
happened to me three other times before. I am right now
seeing stubble on my right wrist getting bigger and bigger,
wheras my left wrist has all the hair fully grown back.
I was definitely not easy-going the first time! I looked
around my pillow and bed furiously to see where the hair
might have gone. Did it just burn off into the air? I'll
never know.
So this is some real shit, man. I feel like I'm in the
middle of a scene from "Jacob's Ladder."
I wouldn't complain much, but here's the rub. If I
simply switched my lifestyle a little so I can afford
about $2900 a year in artesian spring water, I'm pretty
sure I'd see every one of these symptoms go away as if
they'd never come. Problem is not only am I unable to
afford THAT, the reason I get into trouble is that the
lifestyle I've chosen over the last 14 years or so,
(simplifying life down to consuming about 80% less than
I did in my late teens and early 20s for the sake of the
environment) paying $8 a month for a Brita filter happens
to be my third largest regular expense.
I'm definitely the canary in your coalmine. By the time
all of you get out of denial, I'll either be dead, or
will have figured something holistic out that forces
me to become a capitalist slave to just so that I can
attempt to get it out to all of you sorry-ass louts.
Oh, and one last thing. You bet your bippy, pResident
George "W" Bush has an environmental illness.
He's environmentally retarded.
marco
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Do That Thing You Do: SPOUT THE NUMBERS!
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http://www.mackido.com/Humor/mouseballs.html
http://www.commercialalert.org/sesame_street.html
http://flag.blackened.net/ati/opm/lovemeimaliberal2.mp3
http://www.indymedia.org:8081/front.php3?article_id=138338
http://www.asile.org/citoyens/numero13/pentagone/erreurs_en.htm
http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Internet/Domain_Names/Disputed_Domain_Names
http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/main/uncommon/winter98/205.html
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http://www.aimoo.com/forum/freeboard.cfm?id=321122
http://www.thisbrightapocalypse.com/linksound.html
http://www.brown.edu/Students/SSC/altmedia3.html
http://www.satirewire.com/news/jan02/axis.shtml
http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Trails/1942
http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=3977
http://www.blin.com.ua/c.asp?r8u8w491574987
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http://www.mindspring.com/~fragments/links.html
http://nopause.berkeley.edu/latuff/Latuff_pro-semitic.jpg
http://www.indymedia.org:8081/front.php3?article_id=140655
http://www.progressive.org/0901/intv0202.html
http://www.mackido.com/Humor/mouseballs.html
http://www.psiu.mus.br/entrevistas.php?id=6
http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR1382
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\http://www.nmt.edu/~schlake/daily.html
http://www.poetix.net/autry_feb.htm
http://www.paradigmshift-zine.com
http://www.giver.com.mx/tjimc
http://www.liquid-lounge.org
http://www.dharmawalk.org
http://hypodermic.net
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to ati@etext.org:
Found your VERY old post about not knowing who to credit for
this song... ["Old Folksinger"] did you ever get a response?
It's by Merle Kessler, aka "Ian Shoales" from Duck's Breath
Mystery Theatre.
A.E.
[ Wow! Thanks, A.E. I've searched off and on for wow,
I hate to say it, almost 15 years now. Almost everywhere
I've performed it I've asked the audience if they knew.
No one knew. You might have solved one of the largest
riddles of time. OK, at least in my musical life. Thanks
so much! ]
http://artists3.iuma.com/IUMA/Bands/Marco_Capelli/index-2.html
http://www.frucht.org/audioclips.asp
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to ati@etext.org
The Europeans are flat out not buying the image
that US-based media is selling.
Most of the "news" on the "war on terror" you
are getting from Bush is "disinformation"
bush.bush
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Dear Friends:
Wearing white is NOT a requirement for coming to the octagon
floor blessing party this Saturday evening. If wearing white
is a problem for you, any color you choose is fine. We are more
interested in you than your clothes. Do plan to arrive by 7:45
so we can begin our evening promptly together at 8 pm.
Hope to see you there.
- Sirius
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dude,
could you have been big-time disciplined for the camping?
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who is the woman to whom you wrote?
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thanks for the fun links you keep sending.
- i've got a buddy who got cracked in ny during the mayday
protests, he may enjoy the cop coloring book.
-J.D.
[yes, it was a major risk. The woman is wife of a past
governor of Colorado. hehe]
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PARAPHRASE OF THE WEEK
All it takes for evil to prevail is
for good [people] to do nothing.
I'm paraphrasing Howard K. Smith quoting
Edmund Burke.
He was canned for making that statement.
In 1961, he narrated a CBS special about the civil
rights movement. Author Stanley Cloud says Smith
wanted to end the broadcast with the Edmund Burke
quote, "All that is necessary for the triumph of
evil is for good men to do nothing." Cloud says
then-CBS Chairman William Paley objected, Smith
disagreed and Paley fired him.
[ref]=[http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/smith_obit020218.html]
Maybe a good start for kicking evil's ass is
for corporate media types to risk getting fired
again. Wouldn't that be a fresh and new seeming
idea these days?
(of course you'd risk the wrath of George W Bush's
Patriot act now, wouldn't you? Hmmm. Against all
odds. Like a well paid Davie versus Goliath. Go
for it.)
HOW PEOPLE BEHAVE: THINGS THEY SAY AND DO
One day Henry Kissinger came to the meeting late, and everyone
had to wait. Now mind you, this is not a meeting of the Supreme
Court, where law prescribes where everybody sits, according to
seniority. The National Security Council, at least at that time,
met in an office in the White House, wit-in an oak table and
some drapes and some maps, but no electronic flashing boards
or anything like that. People sat around the great big table,
with the staffers sitting in an outer ring of chairs so they
could lean forward to advise their individual masters. Often
staffers were not present when sensitive decisions were being
made.
The Secretary of Defense plopped down in a chair to talk to
somebody while we waited for Kissinger, and then Kissinger came
steaming in and he told the Secretary of Defense, "I am here.
We can go to work. Move down to your chair."
To which the Secretary of Defense replied, "Well, I am all
spread out here. You sit there today." And Kissinger said, "No,
I am the Secretary of State, this is my chair. You sit down there."
They proceeded to argue like five-year-olds for about five minutes.
Eventually the Secretary of Defense would not move, and Kissinger
had to go sit down at the far end of the table, but he turned his
back on the briefings and sulked. He wouldn't pay attention to what
we were saying that day because he couldn't have his chair-and we
were making decisions that were getting people killed in Angola.
I am not exaggerating that incident one bit.
John Stockwell from his book entitled:
"Praetorian Guard: The U.S. Role in the New World Order."
AND NOW FOR A FAIRLY UNDERDEVELOPED THOUGHT.
Raw for you to gnaw on.
The conservatives and the liberals are
Fundraising together.
It's like watching the Titanic go down
From atop an iceberg.
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"I would say there's been a huge widening of
the do-it-yourself 'zine culture that may be
the best gift punk has given the world, even
more than all the cool music.
"It widened further when Riot Grrrl happened,
and now it's caught on to the point where even
high school students are publishing their own
'zines about their school, or about the education
system itself."
- Jello Biafra
[ref]=[http://www.indymedia.org:8081/front.php3?article_id=139258]
A Quotable Quote -
Things have changed greatly since the days that I,
and my friends explored the telephone system, and
discovered some of its many wonders. Security is
downright _MEAN_, laws have been written, programs
are better, etc. I would not trade for anything, the
memories I have, nor the friends I have made over
the years pursuing my "hobby". Today though, things
are changing so rapidly that I sadly, cannot even
hope to keep up with it all. To me at least, the
telephone system will always remain a most interesting
beast.
April 21, 1993
The Marauder
Legion of Doom!
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"New and improved" lyrics to the Jello Biafra/Mojo Nixon
version of Phil Ochs' "Love Me I'm A Liberal."
I cried when they shot John Lennon
Tears ran down my spine
And I cried when I saw "JFK"
As though I'd lost a father of mine
But Carlo G and Ice-T had it coming
They'd got what they asked for this time
So love me, love me, love me
I'm a liberal
I go to pro-choice rallies
Recycle my cans and jars
I'll honk at your dancin' bear stickers
hope those funny grunge bands become stars
But don't talk about revolution
That's going a little too far
(ch)
I cheered when Clinton was chosen
My faith in the system reborn
I'll do anything to save our schools
If my taxes ain't too much more
And I love blacks and gays and latinos
As long as they don't move next door
(ch)
Bush, Cheney, Ridge, Thompson and Ashcroft
Should all hang their heads in shame
I can't understand where their heads at
Perhaps Ooprah should set them all straight
But if neighborhood watch doesn't know you
I hope the cops take down your name
(ch)
Yeah I logon to Indymedia
FreeRepublic and Slashdot too
If I vote it'll be for a democrat
With a sensible economy view
But when it comes to them terrorist A-Rabs
There's no one more red, white and you
(ch)
Once I was a young punk with attitude
Stickers covered the car I drove in
Even went on some direct actions
When there weren't too much riot gear seen
Ah, but now I've grown older and wiser
And that's why I'm turning you in
(ch)so love me, love me, love me
I'm a liberal
http://flag.blackened.net/ati/opm/lovemeimaliberal2.mp3
NEED A POEM?
OK, I'll be fast.
Tide and Saran Wrap.
It's what's expected
To set us free.
So says George "W" Bush.
Really he's just
Quoting Nixxon.
Gee, you don't think Enron goes right back
to Iran/Contra, do you?
How about Energy Crisis 73-76???
"You can't hardly tell the difference between any
of the winners. But it's worth watchin' it sometimes,
every once in a while there's a weird one like Bob
Dylan or Santana."
-Arlo Guthrie on 2002's Grammies and how homogenized
music has become these days.
(He's telling this to a very homogenized Green Bay
Wisconsin audience the night after the Grammies!
Now I happen to know that while the Grammies were
on television he was performing in some other part
of Wisconsin. Did he see this on his tourbus? in a
hotel? Did someone tape it for him?)
Dear Billy,
Talking of English identity, why has your singing voice
taken on a slight American twang?
ps. not to say I don't like what I have heard of the
new album..NPWA .... absolutely !
BiIIyBragg - 02:46pm Mar 1, 2002
I think I caught it off of Wilco
http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?50@@.eea0d5c
MORE QUOTES:
The most important difference between today and the '60s
is that now we have an internet music culture that people
from everywhere can participate in. We can directly communicate
back and forth around the planet at any emotional depth, and
really liquidate whatever conflicts and blockages we suffer
from in a way that was never possible before. Now not only
can we think globally and act locally, we can feel globally
and act locally, which in time will make a lovely difference.
http://stations.mp3s.com/stations/263/drop_dead_gorgeous_valentines_.html
I left Calcutta in 1908. When I came to Iraq, I met some of
the Iranian revolutionaries. In Egypt I came into contact
with the followers of Mustafa Kamal Pasha. I also met a
group of young Turks who had established a centre in Cairo
and were publishing a weekly from there.
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad in his book "India Wins Freedom."
WELP, THAT'S ALL FOLKS...
Hope you liked the 'zine!
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Kudos to another dead man:
Howard K. Smith.
Risks taken. Souls shaken.
Thanks for your legacy.
You and your kind have sustained me
with your words and deeds.
marco
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