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Activist Times Inc. Issue 321
PART ii OF "IS THE CATHOLIC CHURCH SCAPEGOATING
S/11 OR ENRON? WHAT ABOUT BOTH, WHAT ABOUT THE
WHOLE NATION? MERRILL LYNCH, IS THAT YOU???"
...the three or four hundred who do it, that's your
business.
Is he serious? He seems to have meant it.
Like I said, he had me, and I chose to quit rather
than take the whole place down including him, her,
him and all the others.
What are their names? What's the corporation? Soon,
soon. Soone on the company, but you're not getting
names, sorry. That part just ain' my job.
If you've read my columns before, you'll probably
try guessing Subway, Taco Bell, First Investors
Corporation. You're wrong, but very close. Soon,
I promise.
So listen, corruption above me. That I can handle.
What about systemic defilement, collusion, bribery,
essentially the "caligulaism" below? Mmm. I don't
think I can stomach that. Not when it's such a
clearcut indication that the entire ship is made
out of veiny horrendous purple and white petrified
dog shit, OK?
Army, you're going to guess next. My shortened
but honorable stint in the signal corps? Nope. Wasn't
there, but I can warm you up with a half-way decent
army analogy here as a minute or two digression if
you would like.
In basic training I was a team-chief (squad leader)
because I had two and a half years college behind me.
I was fully in charge of 10 or 11 men. The same went
for A School with about the same amount of people but
that was men and women. I think, wait. Did we see
women in A School? Yeah. That's right.
We'd be given a task to do as a team and there I'd
be telling my entire squad they must help me. I would
work just as hard or harder than all of them for as
much of the same time as I could. I might give myself
regular breaks that they dind't get because afterall
I was the chief, right? But that's it. They were very
short breaks, just long enough really, to keep me
going for a 10-12 hour day before sleeping for the
next day of the same old, same old. Back at it quick
enough to get in there and lead by example.
Our squad was in danger of getting things done too
quickly, too efficiently. I came to the attention of
all three drill sergents pretty quickly. The head of
the three would take me aside at least 10 times in
the last half of the 8 weeks and remind me that my
job was NOT to do the work, but to stand around, be
a little bit meaner, and make sure it all gets done.
IN THE TIME ALLOTTED. NO MORE, NO LESS.
I pretended to learn and apply this valueable,
important, profound and almighty lesson. Then I
repeated my "errors" in A School. Same results only
this time in Georgia instead of South Carolina.
Worse results actually. I guess the stakes were a
little higher. I think I was taken aside there at
least 15 times in those 8 weeks.
So essentially I waited out my time toward re-up
where I would opt out. Basically quitting the army.
Or the closest you can come to such a thing.
Fortunately for my world, a medical discharge came
my way, presenting itself when they ruined my right
knee's ligament and cartilage badly enough to become
useless to them. Two operations and I was out in my
three years instead of the four I'd upped for. 9 or
10 months early if I remember right. Thank you, I'll
take it.
Never looked back. So that points a little to the
NATIONWIDE corruption I wish to discuss here.
Please stop trying to guess what company. I'll tell
you that soon enough.
So corruption below me, wow. You go to your super's
supervisor's super and discuss someone lower "ranking"
than you.
"Give her to me, I'll take care of her," she says.
(TO BE CON'T In 322 and others.)
[ if you can't wait to read the rest, go to ]
http://www.etext.org/Zines/ASCII/ATI/trilogy/americorruptionron.txt
[ and enjoy it early. I'll get the rest of it there as ]
[ soon as I can. I think parts iii and iv are up already. ]
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& NOW HERE'S PRIME ANARCHIST WITH A WEEKLY COLUMN
Clinton Lied; And Bush Swore By It.
So let's see if I've got this right. Decades of
the War On Drugs brought no decrease in the amount
of drugs on the streets, the amount of drugs at
parties, the amount of drugs being done by children.
The war on Terrorism is about 8 months old, and
there's been no decrease in terrorism that anyone
can point to as "results."
Of course, we're being warned that this will take
a very long time. Hmmm. By people who will be in
office 4-8 years? Ummm. Do they give a shit what
happens on that 9th year?
Be afraid, be very afraid.
Not only have there been no decreases in drugs OR
terror, there's been increases. Damned near to exponential.
And we'll probably argue for decades to come whether
it was a direct result of the "War On ___," or a
side effect, or unrelated, or what. But I certainly
have my own personal credible suspicions. They're
probably the same as yours. And unfortunately I'm
building up such a lifetime of anecdotal evidence
it's frightening.
Where and when else in the history of humanity do
so many "credible" people ignore so many warning
signs, so much data, so much anecdotal evidence.
We're not addicted are we??
Perhaps we should look into that.
War On Drugs. Hmmm. Who was one of the biggest
recipients of good drugs during the Reagan/Bush
years?
George W Bush. No, I'm serious. He admits that
part. And is cocky about it, to boot.
Who's probably the biggest recipient of hospital
grade cocaine and field grade heroin right this
minute?
No, he won't admit it, but are you going to believe
him? If he bites you in your ass will you believe
him that he was only trying for your leg? He's after
your soul, you better wake up quick.
So now we're being warned by Cheney, Bush, Asscroft,
Riddler, everyone that there's soon to come terrorism
on american soil like we've never known before.
Who imported it?
I'll get extra cynical and tell you that one is from
Arkansas and lives in New York, and another is from
Connecticut and purports to live in Texas. Truth be
told they each own land in about 20 states in this
nation.
Yes, Bill Clinton and George W Bush are bigtime drug
addicts. If not up their very own noses, then for the
purpose of moving money around fast while the rest of
us suffer inflation, unemployment, gunfire in the
streets at night, etc.
That alone should put the two of them up for international
war crimes trials if you ask me.
Clinton lied. Sure, but George W "I can't count to 21 without
taking off my pants" Bush swears by it.
#'s *
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=1343
http://www.thedailypage.com/features/docfeed/archive/2002/25
http://www.france.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=19718
http://belgium.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=24620
http://hbharti.com/h_bharti_mcd/mc_d_apology.htm
http://radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=4776
http://www.thekiln.org/coin/ballot.gif
http://www.humanscapeindia.net
http://www.wispolitics.com
http://www.somafm.com
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* a note about the #'s run this week.
[may be little but it knows kung fu...]
LETTUCE -
to ati@etext.org
Maybe you can do a story about the carlyle group?
Fran
to ati@etext.org
Are you running late, or what???
sp0r3
to ati@text.org
what about your best of?
I work with those. Get a move on!
anon.
To ATI,
It's with a heavy heart that I am writing today. It's finally time to
announce the end of an era for the Essential Media Counterculture Catalog.
When I first founded EM six years ago, I was fresh out of college brimming
with passion... and I could afford to be poor. The service I provided to my
eccentric customers encouraged my efforts, as did the acclaim from
countless publications and organizations (mainstream and otherwise).
However, now I have the added responsibility of a family and am forced to
be a bit more practical. As you may have noticed, EM ceased to be my 9-5
job some time ago. I haven't been at the EM office to take your orders in
person, and I certainly have missed that connection to the "Counterculture
Community."
To allay your fears, EM is not going away completely. I'm just not certain
what shape it will take quite yet. In the meantime, it is necessary to
unload most all of the EM inventory. To that end, everything's onsale at
http://www.essentialmedia.com . Also, if you're in the Los Angeles area,
there will be enormous savings of 40% to 80% off on Saturday, June 1st, in
a HUGE PARKING LOT SALE!
Click here for details:
http://www.essentialmedia.com/Sale/emsale.html
Feel free to drop me a line with any feedback or business development
issues. EssentialMedia.com is still among the most popular alternative
culture sites on the web!
Best,
Kevin Segall
Dear ati@etext.org,
The completely updated May / June 2002 edition of The A&R Registry
has been released! As you know there has been a very large amount
of activity within the A&R Community over the last 2 months and
every change, move, hiring, firing is documented in the new issue
The A&R Registry is the music industrys ONLY A&R directory that
keeps you completely up-to-
[snip. note... Ummm. I don't think I'll renew, sorry...]
All of the changes that have occurred in A&R departments over the
last 2 months- including hirings, departures, new label formations,
A&R moves and label closures.
[ooh, tempting... but no...]
A completely updated 2002 music conference calendar including
[ooh, flattery got you a LOT farther than bribery will.
Let me assure you...]
Music Business Registry
Dear Class Member:
Pursuant to a court order, dated May 1, 2002, preliminary
approval of settlement was granted. Attached please find
court approved Notice of Proposed Settlement. Please read
the notice and deadlines set by the court carefully.
[snip]
Please check our website (http://www.hbharti.com) for other
details of settlement.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Harish Bharti
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& IN VIRUS NEWS:
The phollowing trojans tried getting
into my system just this past week alone.
No wonder my utilities packages keep telling
me 2x / week they need to update themselves.
These misguided (& perhaps disguided) c0derz
must spend each waking hour trying to outwit
each other.
And with you and me caught in the crossfire?
Yikes. What a world we've recreated!
Attack #1 -- 5/28/2002 7:23:08 AM
Local Port: 1050 Mini Command 1.2 Access
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Attack #2 -- 5/28/2002 7:27:41 AM
Local Port: 1099 BFevolution
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Attack #1 -- 5/26/2002 9:24:58 AM
Local Port: 113 Invisible Identd daemon
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Attack #2 -- 5/26/2002 9:36:55 AM
Local Port: 1090 Xtreme
Attack #3 -- 5/26/2002 9:38:05 AM
Local Port: 1097 RAT
Attack #6 -- 5/26/2002 9:46:58 AM
Local Port: 1170 Psyber Stream Server
Attack #7 -- 5/26/2002 9:50:19 AM
Local Port: 1225 Scarab
Attack #8 -- 5/26/2002 9:53:05 AM
Local Port: 1245 VooDoo Doll
Attack #9 -- 5/26/2002 10:04:47 AM
Local Port: 1256 Project nEXT
Attack #1 -- 5/20/2002 3:05:22 PM
Local Port: 1033 NetSpy
Attack #4 -- 5/20/2002 6:05:46 PM
Local Port: 1777 Scarab
Attack #5 -- 5/20/2002 8:37:04 PM
Local Port: 2600 Digital Root Beer
Attack #6 -- 5/20/2002 9:59:06 PM
Local Port: 2801 Phineas Phucker
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* duplicates [snipped] of course.
Also, IP addy's have been stripped
off to protect the guilty but perhaps
misunderstood.
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Target Greatland
a poem
by marco
First impressions
Late Monday
Food court? Identical 2 walmart
Smell of the floor cleaner
assaulting the nostrils
No "respit"
except 4 outside.
22 checkout lines
2 R open.
Gee, did we
overbuild??
(_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_(
I just figured out how the THONG BIKINI
got it's name.
Turn a thong sandal upside down so the
big toe and the "middle" toe are a pair
of legs.
See the butt?
Sing the "Thong Song."
"The 'American Century' has ended, and an
increasingly competitive global economy
will force the US to seek a new role, not
as dominant power but as a member of one
among several large trading blocs in the
'new world order.'"
-"America: A CONCISE HISTORY"
Second edition; instructor's manual.
THE PROBLEM; LIKE THE KURDS?
a poem by marco
Everybody wants Kashmir
Nobody wants Kurdistan
And Israel wants everything
Every body wants Kasmir
Nobody wants Kurdistan
And Washington wants everything
And Palestine just wants a state.
Like the Kurds?
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oops! a belated FAH-Q 2 column...
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My son asked me...
" Why do cats always land on their feet?"
My short answer...
" Cats always land on their feet because they don't
want to break their necks"
Extended answer...
" If toast always land butter-side down, and cats
always land on their feet, what happens if you strap
toast on the back of a cat and drop it? After a great
deal of experimentation, in which I used up two loaves
of bread, a tub of butter, and quite a few cats, I can
say that the results are inconclusive. Eighty percent
of the time, the cat landed on it's feet. I suspected
however that this might be due to the disproportion
in the cat/buttered-toast masses. Increasing the number
of slices of buttered toast as well as decreasing the
size of the cat seemed to bear this supposition out.
The closer the relative weights of cat/buttered-toast
approached 1:1, the more the initial drop configuration
( i.e. cat up or down ) seemed to influence the landing.
My conclusion was that buttered-toast didn't work.
My observations, however, inspired me to try strapping
two cats back to back and dropping them. I discovered that
if you work from a sufficient height ( a second-story balcony
seems to do nicely ), 30% of the time one of the cats lands on
it's feet; however, in the other 70% of the trials, the two cats
land on their sides. This confirmed my observations of the cat/
buttered-toast experiments, that the assemblage was capable of
rotating under its own power as it fell. In other words, angular
momentum was being generated, and this suggested that, if it could
be harnessed, it might prove to be a source of relatively clean and
cheap energy.
I tested this hypothesis a few times with four cats strapped to a
4 X 4 beam dropped from a height of 10 meters. Unfortunately the
muscular energy of just four cats proved to be insufficient to cause
the mass of the beam to rotate at all. An 8-cp ( eight cat-power ),
assemblage with a four-cat array strapped at either end of such a beam
should, in theory, work; but trials have revealed that, with this many
cats involved, their individual efforts to land feet-first are canceled
out because the cats don't all try to right themselves in the same
direction or at the same time. Although some angular motion does occur,
it is erratic at best.
I intend to continue this research by experimenting with lighter,
composite material beams and also with better ways of timing and
coordinating cat-effort delivery and will be getting on with it just as
soon as the suspicions of the neighborhood's ( former ) cat owners have
been allayed and a new supply of cats is available.
_)_)_)_)_)_)_)_)_)_)_)_)_)_)_)_)_)_)_)_)_)_)_)_)
"We don't believe you. If you were a man of honor you
would renounce the presidency right away. It's nothing
personal -- you are not you. Now you represent an unjust
system."
-- Sup Marcos to pResident Zedillo
Pssst. You ever heard of an "UNStrike?"
http://atlanta.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=5456
ati@etext.org <---- comments.
ati@text.org <---- comments.
ati@text.org <---- comments.
ati@etext.org <---- comments.
We end with "POST-INAUGURAL"
a poem by Eve Merriam
from her book The Nixon Poems.
I cannot pronounce his Presidential name.
Still stumble over it
like getting up at night
and groping down the hall
where is the bathroom door?
eyes closed all the while
swaying holding on to the wall
then padding back to bed
pulling the pillow over my head.
As though descending into personal shame.
