a c t i v i s t t i m e s i n t . COLUMN? This Brings Us Back To United Fruit Days, Doesn't It? We knew we were getting a war pResident this year. We should have known just HOW bad it was going to be when Bush's only big concern was how much an enlisted man was getting paid and what benefits were available. This issue was more important to him as he articulated it, than anything else brought forward. Of course Bush AND Gore were both scrambling toward that feeding trough. Clinton had just raised the salary from 250,000 to 400,000 a year. The only difference I think between Gore and Bush would have been where the war was going to be. With Gore we get Colombia; with Bush we get the middle east. This was going to be a war year whether we liked it or not. Now what? Who knows. Repression is thicker than its ever been in the history of humankind. For that should we thank those Republicans? Somehow I can't tell. Would a democrat have been this fascist about things? Perhaps more. Perhaps in more subtle ways. We must never lose sight of the fact that Bill Clinton elevated the police state to epic proportions. Perhaps in ways that Reagan/Bush could never have imagined. In fact, if you look at this from a "police state" point of view there has been NO pendulum swing. It has just been a steady climb from Nixxon's time on up to the present day. Oh no, you'll say, I'm also attacking the movement's darling, Mr. Jimmy Carter. Good ol' Habitat For Humanity Carter. Don't get me wrong I respect the man. I always have. There are two sticking points in his career however for me, where I cannot see him as much more than an agent of the gradually increasing police state. He wants the School Of Americas to continue operating as is. And when he called Jane Fonda "that commie bitch" in front of his own camera people and assorted other Habitat volunteers, I got pissed. Not so much directly at his dislike of Fonda. You want my honest opinion I think Fonda should be tried right next to Senator McCain in a world court for human rights violations. Maybe she's wrong, maybe not. We'd sure find out. No, I was mad at his simplistic view. Here's a man who used to be President of the United States. Spooks and death squad leaders, advisors and diplomats at his disposal 24/7 he could ask serious questions of and get serious answers. You'd think he'd be just a little bit more intelligent than, "that commie bitch." So he's an idiot of the police state. "Just tell me what to say, tell me where to stick my grin." I've seen it climb steady since I was a little kid. Rhenquist becoming chief justice, Clinton picking Lloyd Bentson as his oil-baron, er uh, I mean chief economic advisor. Globalism is now finally rearing its big ugly head with the SOA as the training force of the world police that will be enforcing this Gatt/Nafta/NewWorldOrder on steroids thing we'll have to call the worldominatrix or something. But did it appear overnite? Does anyone remember Operation Night Train? Does anyone remember Louis Guiffria running FEMA's California chapter and Reagan making him head of FEMA for the whole Untied States? FEMA, yes, I remember fema, and it's playing hot and heavy in national politics during this "War On Terrorism" which I'd prefer to call "War Using Terrorism." Ah, FEMA. This brings us back to United Fruit. Small world; big peanuts. marco . . . : : :: () : : :::::: ::::: : -/- : :: :: : : :: :: : : \::: ::::: This is issue 299, 0111112300 hrs Next week we hit 300. 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Here's their idea of an economic stimulus package: $1.4 billion for IBM $833 million for General Motors $671 million for General Electric $572 million for Chevron Texaco $254 million for Enron This is war profiteering, and it's simply wrong. Yet the House has just approved it, on a virtual party line vote, ending the recent spirit of bipartisan cooperation in Congress. Will you please join me in speaking up, before the Senate acts? Go to: http://www.moveon.org/warprofiteering Castro says letters being tested for anthrax By Lucia Newman for prime anarchist world newz 2nite PAWN Havana Bureau Chief HAVANA, Cuba (PAWN) -- In a nationally televised speech Friday, Cuban President Fidel Castro said more than 170 letters containing suspicious substances had been sent to his country, and 24 of them were being tested for anthrax. The others, he said, were determined not only to be not dangerous, "but really really tasty." Castro said the letters had been sent from all over the world, as far away as Pakistan and Sweden, and that most of them bore the blue and gold US State Dept seal. Of the 24 letters, 22 were addressed to Castro, and had yellow stickers with the little poision yuck faced guy on the front. Notes were in most of them with the words "assassination attempt # ___" on the top. Castro said he plans to outlive even this recent barrage from the U.S. Government. "You can't kill me," Castro said, "I'm too busy." -30- [audio] CIAgwarmanual.mp3 Chapters 1 thru 3 of the CIA's Guerrilla Warfare Manual, part 1. It was originally distributed back in the late 80s to support the war in Nicaragua that the U.S. was "not" fighting. But it seems to apply a lot to the world around us these days now too. http://flag.blackened.net/ati/ciagwarmanual.mp3 The ATI greatest punkrock band name of the week. "Acoustic Kitty." Associated Press Thrives Desspite Flunking 4th 5th AND 4th Grade. By JON NOODLE, PAWN Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (PAWN) - "Magic Johnson Thrives Desspite HIV" read the finished copy. My editor didn't find it, nor did the publisher. The entire Associated Press just got fired by Norman Minetta. I'm cleaning out my office as we speak. Thought I'd send you this story. My last AP filing I guess. I made a typo, I'll have to remember "I before e, except after ssssssssssssssssseeeeeee." Only one s in despite, snake and CNN. Maybe Reuters'll take me. "Why me? Why, after being the man the United States could count on, did I become the enemy? Because I said no. No to allowing the United States to run a school for dictators any longer in Panamanian territory. No to the request that Panama be used as a staging base for the Salvadoran death squads and the Nicaraguan Contras. Lots of no's." Manuel Antonio Noriega NEWSWATCH Rumors sweeping through the conference halls suggest that the world's most famous and feared intelligence operatives have been registered as part of the official national delegations to the WTO. Understandably, the Americans, who have dispatched three warships with 2,100 marines to anchor off the Qatari capital for the duration of the summit, have shown the most paranoid tendencies. [ref]=[http://www.commondreams.org/headlines01/1112-03.htm] HEY ELPINORE, IS THAT YOU? U.S. Sailor Falls Overboard Updated: Wed, Nov 07 11:20 PM EST (Greece? Rome? Turkey? No One's Talkin') - A search and rescue operation was under way Wednesday night for a U.S. sailor who fell overboard from an aircraft carrier in the Arabian Sea. The sailor fell from the USS Kitty Hawk at 7:22 a.m. EST and a seach was begun immediately, said Navy Lt. Cmdr. Don Sewell, a Pentagon said. Repeated helicopter searches and several dives found no sign of the sailor. "We don't know how long the search is going to continue at this point," Sewell said late Wednesday night. "But we are still proceeding as though the sailor is alive." It was not known how the sailor fell overboard, Sewell said. The Kitty Hawk is supporting the U.S. effort in Afghanistan. ...and the joke nobody's ready for yet. [19:32]Guess what body they unearthed under the WTC this morning? [19:32] *** 10 Minute Channel Information: [(Ops/)100%] [(Non Ops/)100%] [(Total/)100%] [19:32] Jimmy Hoffa. OBSERVATIONS AROUND THE PLACE ...all the undercover cops in this town have the same mustaches and 70's haircuts. I'm learning a second language so I'll never forget. Terrorists Bush and the nation(s) who harbor them. Ken Kesey was '66. I thought about him a lot when I drove along 66 in 92. I was driving about 65MPH when I heard on 91.9 that he died. You could say I was going about 66 and it was 92 on the radio, eh? Skynyrd Parody for SOA today. Sweet Home Alabama I'll be there in (for) just 3 days Speakin truth to the power And their purple loose strife haze. PENDULUM NEAR THE MIDDLE SOMEDAY a short poem Dear Lord, Rush Limbaugh went totally deaf before Garrison Keillor or Studs Turkel. Thank you, thank you, thank you! "The Portable Arthur Miller" "Death of a Salesman" is what some guy in a coffeeshop I frequent is reading. I suggested that now would be a perfect time to "reread 'Crucible' again," he agreed, smiled, nodded his head and said "yes." Well that's about it this week. Prime Anarchist Productions wishes to thank Limewire Gnutella services for the "Sponge Bob Square Pants" theme song, Bach's Chaconne and DMX's "The Great Depression." Mega kudos, shouts and greets to you for keeping me off of television! 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