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Activist Times Inc. Issue 347
Happy 58, Buffy Saint-Marie.
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Fre3dom, sl4ck and cybe7punks 0303221238hrs
& of course there's #('s)
http://eldred.cc
http://www.neo-comintern.com/writers/bmc.html
http://www.blacktriangle.org
http://www.darpa.mil/body/strategic.html
http://www.anada.net
http://www.coxar.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk
http://www.sixgirls.org
http://standupny.org/speakers.html
http://www.instrumentality.com/themanual5.html
http://www.frucht.org
http://www.darpa.mil/body/strategic.html
http://www.regolith.co.uk
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/59/29368.html
http://www.cultdeadcow.com
http://www.dutchguard.com/products/George_W_Bush_Doll.html
http://www.anada.net
http://www.hoffman-info.com/occult1.html
http://www.womeninblack.net
http://data.tcf.ua.edu:591/TIFRL
http://www.regolith.co.uk
http://www.ververtasty.com/soe/files/soe-0088.txt
http://flashpoints.net
http://brain-terminal.com/articles/video/peace-protest.html
http://www.blacktriangle.org
http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/havenscenter/radfst03.htm
http://oxy67.zaup.org/F15.html
http://www.ccmep.org
http://www.counterpunch.org/ferlinghetti02152003.html
http://burn.ucsd.edu/heart5.htm
http://www.oneill.net/spam/make_penis_fast.html
http://www.notbored.org/index1.html
http://www.cultdeadcow.com
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~martinh/poems/yeats.html
http://www.moveon.org
http://www.borg.com/~wpl/occum.htm
http://www.instrumentality.com/themanual5.html#groove
http://www.sixgirls.org
http://www.notbored.org/index1.html
http://www.moveon.org
http://burn.ucsd.edu/heart5.htm
http://not.invisible.net/dot
http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/havenscenter/radfst03.htm
http://www.womeninblack.net
http://standupny.org/speakers.html
http://flashpoints.net
http://adfu.blockstackers.com/servfu.pl?l,everything2
http://misnomer.dru.ca
http://www.borg.com/~wpl/occum.htm
http://data.tcf.ua.edu:591/TIFRL
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/59/29368.html
http://www.punchdown.org/rvb/F15
http://www.coxar.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk
http://www.ugu.com
http://www.everything2.org/index.pl?node_id=1109809
http://www.ugu.com
http://www.ugu.com/sui/ugu/show?tip.today
http://misnomer.dru.ca
http://www.instrumentality.com/themanual5.html
http://oxy67.zaup.org/F15.html
http://www.spazoutny.com
http://www.hoffman-info.com/occult1.html
http://www.zinebook.com
http://www.ververtasty.com/soe/files/soe-0088.txt
http://www.ccmep.org
http://www.ugu.com/sui/ugu/show?tip.today
6:50 AM 2/24/2003
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BOMBING IRAQ IS
SO LAST MILLENIUM
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& OVERHEARD IN ALT.SOCIETY.ATI
would Martha Quinn look more buxsom in here?
good gawd mahn, you don't even get spam in here,
what the hell are ya doin?
GACK SOY PRODUCTS
Dylan's "Hurricane" plays on the radio here while
I start my second cup of coffee, I see the following:
There's a guy typing at a fold-up keyboard on a PDA.
Freaky, it's practically a laptop.
Freakier still:
In the very next booth two grrls play chess with the
largest pieces I've ever seen in Milwaukee. 8" tall
each piece. Or the Queens are maybe 10" even. Wood
blocks.
Quite a contrast to the guy with the "laptop," eh?
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SCAREY SCAREY SCAREY!!!
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YIKES! dARPA Seems To Have Just Released A Sinister Plan
Which I Don't See How Anyone Could Be Proud Of As A "Life's
Work.
Jasmine Strong writes the following about it at Global IMC.
The US defence research agency, DARPA, today announced its
strategic long-range plan. It made worrying reading. The DARPA
was required to release a long term plan under Senate Report
107-151's accountability program.
In clarifying DARPA's mission there was palpable doubt from
the management of DARPA over the future of the agency. It points
out: "None of the most important weapons transforming warfare
in the 20th century -- the airplane, tank, radar, jet engine,
helicopter, electronic computer, not even the atomic bomb --
owed its initial development to a doctrinal requirement or
request of the military."
That's all well and good- excepting that they got the
history of the computer wrong- but the disturbing part comes
next. DARPA states that it plans to automate the battlefield,
developing autonomous 'swarms' of hunter-killer robots, robot
tanks and killer drone aircraft.
Perhaps this isn't too surprising; many militaries have
wanted for quite some time to get their people out of the
line of fire and telepresence would seem to be a good way
of doing that. This, however, makes it effectively possible
to fight a riskless land war, to march robots through the
chemical and nuclear wastelands of a first strike. Worse,
an autonomous robot army could present similar problems to
landmines; how does one track down and deactivate them if
they lose communication?
More fundamentally, does the US really need to be any
better at beating up smaller countries? It seems they're
quite good enough at that already. If they can eliminate
the last elements of risk on the battlefield then the only
thing left to do is to fortify the country against terrorist
attack and go on the rampage. What's more, it represents an
escalation in telerobotic warfare. In a war between two robot
armies, the only people who stand to die are the civilians.
The "assured use of space" is the next worrying topic. The
five-pronged approach to the problem of other people having
satellites includes a new "rapid small-payload launch vehicle",
which sounds awfully like a missile capable of reaching
synchronous orbit to me. "Space Mission Protection and
Denial" is about stopping others from launching things
towards orbit and "Space-based Engagement" is vaguely
defined as extending the orbital capabilities already
available to the military. The militarization of space
represents another escalation in military capabilities.
The scary stuff doesn't stop there. The second half of
the report concerns longer-range research projects intended
to prevent the human from becoming the "weakest link" in
warfare, the disturbingly-titled "bio-revolution". They
define this as "[exploiting] life sciences to make the
individual warfighter stronger, more alert, more endurant,
and better able to heal". This does not sound at all good.
They cite direct neural interfaces to computers and military
hardware as an example of this, but that doesn't add up; it
seems more likely that their goals would be achieved through
genetic modification or advanced pharmaceutical intervention.
The military of the future doesn't sound like it would be
much fun to be around.
http://www.darpa.mil/body/strategic_plan/strategic_text.htm
GREAT BUMPERSTICKER IDEA
FOR A CAR THAT'S A GUZZLER:
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THIS VEHICLE STOPS
AT ALL GAS STATIONS
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CONCEPT OR MEME? YOU DECIDE
"Wow. Someone needs to tally up war on drugs,
war on terrorism, and war on communism and
estimate how many bologna sandwiches could
have been given out for free to every world
citizen each day for years instead."
StarWarsLexicon. You ready for this?
Key: C3PO = Opec. r2d2 = adar (short for radar???)
So what about yoda? Or Luke Skywalker?? Anagram:
lukky dysleky war oea
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COMING SOON:
WEIL HUMMER
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Is there a new building being brought up to sell
exclusively Hummers in your town? What timing, eh?
Maybe we're just one purchase away from mass oblivion.
I feel like I'm in a worst episode from a bad sci fi
movie.
Let's see if I got this right.
If the war on communism seemed to just draw more
and more "communists" into this country, and the
war on drugs every bit more made drugs rampant
all around the nation, I'm absolutely frightened
over the side effects of this "war on terror."
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RESERACH AID: Anyone know
this? What kind of kafiya
did jews wear centuries ago,
and what were they called?
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IN HOLLYWOLLYOLLY NEWS: Britney Spears denies accusations
that she snorted cocaine at a beach nightclub called the
Crobar. Her lawyer is going to slap defamation lawsuits
onto all 5 or 6 of her accusers including Star magazine
and E!
I mean how on earth would a grrl like Hitme Britney get
any, anyhow??? It's not like coke and heroine and stuff
are readily available to actors and recording artists or
anything...
AND IN MORE ... NEWS:
Are you angry about spam?
So is AOL. America OnLine is pressing for tougher federal
restrictions against sending out all those free offers to
"just anyone..."
Oh wait...
N E W S F L A S H :
NYammys Not Nearly As Boring As They Mighta -
Film At 11.
Hello Simon my old friend,
I fin'ly sing with you again.
OK, I've got a pot of coffee brewing -- it's time to
watch the annual NYammys on TV.
It's nice to see Garfunkel and Simon not lip synching.
They're singing live AND altering some of the harmonies
and even a couple words to their "Sound of Silence."
I wonder who you have to pay (and what) to get permit
to do THAT.
Oh. Yeah. I called this year's caligulaic, bombastic,
plastic, orgyastic, annual-post-superbowl-pre-war event
NYammys. First I thought of calling it the Dammmys since
it's so damned. But it's also so overly NYC this year.
So NYammys it is.
My friend Jasmine, a recording artist in England says
maybe they should call it the Sonys.
Common side effects are headache, nausea and abdominal
pain.
Sheryl Crow's guitar strap read "No war" during her duet
with Kid Rock, but her hair diplomatically obscured the
"No" portion of her political statement. Really? I never
saw it. Maybe they airbrushed it out for my viewing. Or
used Claritin. Gone like Ashley Judd's nose-ring. They say
she had a peace-sign necklace on too. Maybe her neck-hair
obscured that too, or something.
So let me ask you. Madison Square Garden. What, was Radio
City Music Hall booked??
Dustin Hoffman says for the first time in the NYammys'
history it's hosted by no one except the people of New York.
Hmmm. You mean they've tried to remove the commercial
from the rock? The biz from the muzic? Oh, you mean host
host, not sponsor host. I get it. Along with his announcement
there was a long period of time without ads OR sponsorship
announcements. I really started to think maybe the city
itself'd underwritten the event.
So Gwen Stefani comes out in a tight sportsbra with the
word "LOVE" stamped across it. And the drummer, well, he's
got a bra on too.
She's got camo shorts. hmmm. And her gogo dancers seem
draped in some camo covering on over their shirts too. So
THAT's where the expression camisole comes from, it's camo
sole. I vote her most likely to do USO tour after USO tour
after USO tour.
Are they yelling "Lou," or are they booing Lou Reed? Hard
to tell.
So Dustin's hosting? Or did he just come on early? Either
way, how cool is that?
Faith Hill, umm. Now, tell me how your band tonite can get
construed as "country?" You're like Pat Benatar meets Ozzie
Osbourne. Or Kiss maybe, with all the make-up you got on.
You're starting to get that Tammy Faye Baker look. Maybe
you've been hanging around with the McGraw-Hill Hills too
much, or something.
Yeah, you can always count on James Taylor not putting on
too much makeup. Just the modest amount. Yeah.
No offense to YoYoMa, but get bach to the Johann Sebastian
Back playing, dude. [sic.] I really enjoy and appreciate your
sonatas and allemandes, valses and courantes but that background
CallAndResponse stuff's gotta go. First of all, I only heard you
about 3 times and that was only for a vibrato'd note or three
each time. BB King you're not.
And was I asleep, or what? Congrats to Johnny Cash for his
11th career NYammy. I'm not sure what song it's for though,
I haven't heard a peep from him all year really.
So Jesse Harris wrote Nora Jones' hit eh? I think she's my
favorite recipient this year -- the talented AND beautiful
Norah Jones. She's proof that good things CAN come from
nepotism every once in a blue moon, eh?
And one other redeeming thing I must say about her. She
chooses to allow the writers of her songs be known. Too many
insist that their "supply closet" remain little more than
ghost writers hell.
Hmmm. I feel a parody coming on. To McCartney and Lennon's
"PaperBack Writer."
I wanna be, a Beatles ghostwriter. Beatles ghostwriter.
Beatles gho... hey baby, hey baby hey. A Beatles ghostwriter.
Wait, this just in. Norah Jones won rekkid of the year
AND album of the year. I know, lets top this for next
year, by adding CD of the year, Compact Disc of the
year, recording of the year, AND TimeInTheStudio of
the year.
"small signs against the impending war," wrote Newsday,
"against Iraq throughout the ceremony. Flaming Lips singer
Wayne Coyne wore a bandage on his face as a silent protest
to the war. 'We're not supposed to talk about it, so I thought
I would wear it to get people to think about peace -- no black
eyes,' said Coyne, whose band won best rock instrumental
performance for a track from its 'Yoshimi Battles the Pink
Robots' album."
"Forget about building a mystery," said Bonnie Raitt,
"let's start building some peace." Overall there wasn't
very much talk about the war. In fact it all seemed overly
subdued and compressed. Limited, enveloped or wahwah peddled
maybe. Something tells me if you planned on saying something
political you were required to run it through a team of special
truth analysts or something.
Everyone in the "hip and withit" albeit corporate media is
mentioning a thing or two about the Neptunes getting slighted
by NARAS this year so I'll leave it at that. Nothing else from
me here.
So is everyone going to thank Donnie Iner at Columbia or what?
First time around I thought it was Don Imus they were thanking.
Then it became more clear. But how DO you spell his name?
Dixie Chicks got to thank Sony AND Columbia. Kewl. And their
dad. So is he Sony or Columbia? Maybe the Oscars and the NYammys
can have a corporate merger soon. We could call them the annual
GrouchPotatoAwardCeremony.
Lemme see if I've got this straight. Survivor is "frikkin
genius," and Justin Timberlake would like to grab Kylie's ass.
"Cop a feel," and "Girls Gone Wild," goes wrestling. Where are
we going with all this besides war, decadence and mass oblivion?
NYammys sponsored by dnL. Hahaha. Turn it around and that's 7up.
How clever. Now you're thinking. They've turned the cola world
on its ear.
So did the inside of Avril's sportcoat say "No War?" or what?
They refused to let us see it when she opened it up. That was
made demonstratively clear by the camera who stopped moving.
Not an inch. Filming behind her he was, the whole time. We're
censoring truth, can we be more obvious?
Mary Youngblood won the Native American category for "Beneath
the Raven Moon." The one single solitary NDN music award. So
who did she have to compete with, one artist from each different
style of music? Or perhaps. Carlos Nakai, Carlos Nakai, Carlos
Nakai, Carlos Nakai, and Carlos Nakai...
"I hope we're all in agreeance," said Fred Durst, "this war
should go away."
P Diddy. What was your name again? I think I'll change my
name each year, to Marc Diddy, then Muff Eddy, then M. Fuddy.
Looks like Target's gonna try and trademark (tm) red (tm).
What the hey. Pepsi's already got blue (tm) who wants white?
Oh yeah, that's Cheney and Ashcroft already.
I think I'll write an ad with a fireman in it. That'll get
me an Emmy for sure! Like a knife in warm butter. Can you say
pander? Can you say jingoistic?
Star Search is back. Run To The Hills!!! Number of the beast!
So which mafia don will host these ones?
Robin Williams intros Bruce Stringbean and the D Fleet Canned.
Hmm, do you think Robin stopped snorting coke about the same
time George W Bush did? Though it's nice to see Little Steven
in EStreet again. He's been sorely missed out there thinking
he's TVLandia all that.
Am I imagining it or the older Bruce gets the more he looks
like Mojo Nixon? Well, I should tell ya, someone needs to get
ol' "Stevie V" a mic of his own. He keeps trying to borrow
everyone elses'.
Ah cool. Erika Badu came out in a Dead Prez t-shirt and
whoa girl. your fro makes me think of Link in the Mod Squad.
Who the heck is Alan Cumming? He looks like Pee Wee Herman.
OK, from a songwriter's point of view I must complain with no
disrespect intended. Ashanti's tune about dreaming is very empty.
Devoid of... well, devoid of everything. She got the operatic
pronunciation of "dweems" almost as good as a Stevie Nicks or
a Bob Dylan, but come on. Everything else about the song really
sucks. It was just so bland. Inspirational my ass. That inspires
me to go watch paint dry. Drink some geritol or cod liver oil.
Or watch the NYammys.
"Their sold out one night only TOUR." --Ed Bradley about the Bee
Gee(s) - a one-nite tour - is that like a 4th book in a trilogy?
NSinc actually made some real melodies into a real medley though,
neat. Good work. Makes me think they're getting less hate-able with
age.
Woah, triple woah. There are at least 4 (count 'em four) grrls
in the first two rows who look exactly like Chelsea Clinton.
That's downright frightening.
"All ahead, as the 45th annual..."
[cut off by something much more urgent, right? A frikkin
Mastercard "priceless" ad.]
I coulda waited, ya know...
--marco
ps: nope. turns out, Avril's jacket flaps said "rock on."
Maybe the censors were just afraid it was going to say
"raw on" or nowar backwards. That stiff frozen camera
was oh so obvious, wasn't it?
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