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. ] __ .__ _/ |_|__| _____ ____ ________ \ __\ |/ \_/ __ \\___ / | | | | Y Y \ ___/ / / |__| |__|__|_| /\___ >_____ \ \/ \/ \/ 0206012059 hrs ------------- C O L U M N ------------- & 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 _____________ * 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 __ .__ _____ _/ |_|__| \__ \\ __\ | / __ \| | | | (____ /__| |__| \/ & 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 ---------------------------------------- Attack #2 -- 5/28/2002 7:27:41 AM Local Port: 1099 BFevolution ---------------------------------------- Attack #1 -- 5/26/2002 9:24:58 AM Local Port: 113 Invisible Identd daemon ----------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------- * duplicates [snipped] of course. Also, IP addy's have been stripped off to protect the guilty but perhaps misunderstood. \]\]\]\]\]\]\]\]\]\]\]\] 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? ---------------------------------------- oops! a belated FAH-Q 2 column... ---------------------------------------- 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.