. . . ati midweek crisis . . . Chicago, wILL. (PAWN) - AIR & RAIL LAYOFF 30K IN FRIENDLESS MERGER. United and Amtrack will become one big transportation company, thanks to a corporate merger of the two conglomerates. They will each fold their phone card companies and multi-level network marketing divisions into one big megacorp. Redundancies will be severed overnight in good form. "Fly and ride the friendly skies and rails," said chief spokesman and pillow flufferupper Fred Frendly. "Now I can do five jobs for the wage of 1.5!!! Would you like fries with that?" He went on to say that this is really good for the US economy. Especially people benefitting will be people in Plains, GA. "Would you like a bag or two of peanut?" ++++++++++++++ Grtngs, & Wlcm 2 ctvst tms nc. "Packed with Flavour-Crystals, Activist Times Really Satisfies." THIS UNIT NOT LABELED 4 SALE. _____ _ _ ( _ ) (2)_ _ _ (7)_ | (_) | ___ | ,_)(_) _ _ (4) ___ | ,_) | _ | /'___)| | | |( ) ( )| |/',__)| | | | | |( (___ | |_ | || \_/ || |\__, \| |_ (_) (_)`\____)`\__)(_)`\___/'(_)(____/`\__) _____ (_ _)_ | | (_) ___ ___ __ WARNING: THIS ZINE MAY OR MAY | | | |/' _ ` _ `\ /'__`\NOT CONTAIN A PEANUT. SOME | | | || ( ) ( ) |( ___/ CONTENT MAY SETTLE DURING (_) (_)(_) (_) (_)`\____) SHIPPING AND HANDING PUBLISHER's COLUmN...later today, from cspan2 a discussion of homer's odyssey... Christopher Hitchens! ...hi there, I'm prime anarchist and 2day we bring U a big phat ati in the middle of the week. & Y? Because we filled up so much 2 fast, and got so many submissions - we simply decided 2 bROADcast 2nite, & again this coming sun or mon. Now there's a rumor that ATI will endorse Nader. That was topic 4 4 different letters 2 the editor that won't get printed here 2day. Y? 2 reasons, each said the same durned thing almost the same durn way, and we couldn't get hold of any1 at the return adDRESSes, so we've reason 2 believe the names aren't "pseudo" 4 ANY of the listed "good reasons." Plus they used way 2 many foulmouth words. [and just what IS 2 many filthy words 4 an ATI? It's more the intent than the word; & the redundancy. If a swear keeps the phrase, sentence, paragraph or even an entire story going, for Christ's sake keep it. (Or 4 ALL R sakes really...) But if U'r just trying 2 sound like Hunter Thompson or Richard Nixxon, give it up, ok? And PLEEZ!!! Conjugate your verbs properly or don't send me anything. There's nothing worse than noticing that some1 can't tell the difference between a verb and a noun.] [for eggs ample: in the phollowing sentence "eat shit and die," a writer is leaving it completely unclear whether s/he meant there 2 B 2 verbs or 2 nouns. Or perhaps even 3 verbs.] Anyhew, I digress horribly here. I haven't endorsed Ralph Nader. And I won't. Just because I think Gore "W" Bush and Bilbo "Baggins" Bore each suck raw eggs worse than the other 1, doesn't make an endorsment. Don't B silly. I am going 2 VOTE 4 him and his running- mate Winona LaDuke, but I don't ENDORSE them. I don't endorse ANYBODY. U'R welcome 2 vote > 4 whoever the "hello operator" U desire 2 represent you and U'r country. Who do U think we R N Eway, Nu Yourk Slimes? WaSHIngTon Toast? OK, next story. Y R we coming out twice this week? A few reasons. There's an election coming up. And in R effort 2 find plenty of stuff that has nothing 2 do with voting 2 offset N E thing we cover about the elections, so U won't have 2 think that all we talk about is voting when there's tons of other news out tHERE that's not 2 do with the eLectIONs - elections, schmelections, well you get my point. A bunch of stuff has come R way, and I made the decision on my own 2 publish today, and once more Sunday or Monday night. Buried in this zine and the next will B something resembling a "special election issue(s)." I've come 2 know that what gets me the most new suBscRIpTiONS and the least "unsuBscRIBEs," is - whenever the press beats something 2 death - 4 this 'zine to B out standing [sic.] inso meth ingelse [tired.] that ISN'T riddled with the haughty, heated hated topic at hand. & Y stop now? We provided that service during OJ Simpson's trial, during Clitnon's imPEACH imPAIRments, when the Packers went 2 N'Orleans, Desert Swarm and Panty Shield, Brosnia, Some Allya etc. When Matt BeDrudge and Dan RatherNot were beating the drum slowly for Israel's jusTIFICATION 2 bomb the tar out of human B-ings that R only slightly different than them in that their economics [etym. def: ykonos - house; miks - keeping : housekeeping] R a little different. Did we harp on "TOP 10 REASONS 2 BOMB PALACE INDIANS" or anything like that? NO. We did NOT. & Y? Because I'm a journalist and a reporter and a gonzo musician. NOT A FRIGGIN' SLAVE OF THE CORPORATE PENTAGON MEDIA. THE LAST TIME I WAS EVER A SLAVE OF THE SCHMORPORATE PENTAGRAM MEDUSA WAS 1986. AND 2 QUOTE THE ONLY PROFOUND THING THE WHO EVER SAID I "WON'T BE [sic. AND tired.] FOOLED AGAIN." No, we don't harp on the same things the corporate media harp on. And Y is that? Because of journalistic ethics, at their tRUEst, that's Y! Accuracy, Brevity and Clarity, the abc's of journos! 2 call a plaid a plaid, is accuracy. To call it something U'R advertisers, & the silent partners, & the people who own your press, all agree U should call it, is NOT accuracy. To digest a ton of disinfo, misinfo, jargon, slant, rhetoric and propaganda then, using your well-tuned BS detector 2 get 2 the bottom of what's really going on & pay out the truth in 5K of content that any 11th grader can understand, now THAT'S brevity. And we already dis-cussed clarity at the same time. (something ATI and PAP is always willing 2 sacrifice 4 the other 2, whenever needed.)(unlike some other press which like 2 sacrifice some of the other 2 4 the 3rd.) & U'll notice the word "balance" doesn't come into that equation unless indirectly, eh? Y? B cause the word in both connotation and denotation has been soiled by the corporate media since about 1891! That's Y. Here at ATI we SELDOM interview someone about 10X farther 2 the right of Atila the Hun & attempt 2 offset him with some1 just a tiny bit more fascist than Jesse "hangsover the" Helms in the name of balance. And further, I should mention we never have N E desire 2 take some1 like Jesse Jackson (another conservative racist bastard in real life - I'm talking about his personna) and attempt to offset him with someone like Oliver North so there is balance. If U want THAT, turn on your teLEviSION or pick up 1 of U'r all-2-expensive local papers. This rant brought 2 you by the phonebook. 1 of the most "yellow," propagandistic, rhetoric-filled print media U'll have EVER subSCRIBEd 2. -Prime Out- oh, ps: Our #'s run is phat this week. Enjoy the heck out of it. U'r in 4 1 fun journey. & pps: LETTUCE alone, leaf me be. We've got letters, have we got letters. Anyone wanna keep that fine thing going? ati@etext.org (hint, hint, hint.) One more ps: (I promise I'm not a zapatista, really) Trent Lott. Yuck. oct 29th. (black sunday?) I wonder how the DOW will do tomorrow? [ed note: it was up 250 or so. hmmmm. Can you say "more artificial than a store bought limb?] Drop an eye on THAT... It's the year 2000, I'm going to watch Christopher Hitchens discuss Homer's Odyssey on CSpan with a 286 laptop in front of me. Should I grab a notepad instead? Or a Tandy model 100? What's more appropriate? Two laptops would just look, act and feel too weird. The null modem cable from hell. Can you say spaghetti from olden times? Just glad the laptop's not current. That would be a horrible bore. The mouse, the windows, the hum of the kHz. Yuck. Oh: ppps: No, I don't have source code for WINDslOWS. -=30.5=- "Breakin' that cotton curtain." Lerone Bennett he wrote "forced into glory." The famous Prime Anarchist Productions #'s Run for Halloween. Click Or Greet. http://www.a16.org http://www.31337.com http://www.teen.co.za http://www.localo.com http://www.mihra.org/2k http://www.niti.org/news http://www.sondra.net/al http://www.soapboxgirls.com http://www.michaelmoore.com http://www.visi.com/~neurotic http://devrandom.net/~dilinger http://www.rfnash.org/links.htm http://www.infoshop.org/news.html http://www.luckyboys.com/main.htm http://www.nativeamericanmusic.com http://members.nbci.com/ahimsazine http://monkeyfist.com/articles/702 http://www.folkweb.com//davidrovics http://cosmos.lod.com/~ati/ati235.html http://robotwisdom.com/log1998m11.html http://www.megademps.com/theories.html http://jessup.twu.net/images/pumpkin.JPG http://www.macronet.org/cia/ciadrugs.html http://www.theaterofmemory.com/links.html http://www.vincenttruman.com/morestuff.htm http://www.digitalmaven.net/31337/geek.html http://cosmos.lod.com/~ati/flyntoutsbush.html http://members.tripod.com/~randyotto/LFL2.html http://www.marrder.com/htw/may2000/central.htm http://www.modernhumorist.com/mh/0010/greenspan http://users.netonecom.net/~marc/pics/e-pumpkin.jpg http://akita.textfiles.com/bbs/BBSLISTS/hackbbs3.txt http://www.puce.org/index.php3?thedate=19951105141000 http://www.angelfire.com/pa3/twistmagick/activism.html http://www.soapboxgirls.com/oct00/fiction/boatpoem.html http://www.bloomington.in.us/%7Elev/0spec.b/car.old.htm http://www.greenbaynewschron.com/page.html?article=104797 http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/watchwatch1_wk8.html http://www.meer.net/~johnl/e-zine-list/keywords/activism.html http://www.providence.edu/polisci/projects/zapatistas/america.html LETTUCE, WE GOT LETTUCE - We're Your Friends At ATI [ed note: in the instant feedback dept, this first one was a response to our #'s run THIS WEEK, don't ask, s/he just got in somehow] Mr. Yak Milk wrote: > http://devrandom.net/~dilinger Now this is a good one. [submitted anonymously from san jose] I say we bring back the Whigs. :) t.u.n. [And About Issue 246] are you kidding ? freedommag is a link for the 'church' of "scientology" be sure to check those somewhat crappy links next time! keyser [Search Engines:]-[http://gpcm.tripod.com/search.html] Do you know that the "Columbine hs student" part is most likely a hoax, as I've seen that text before. A good improvement to an urban myth / spam email though. -Aaron- Quite ironic. I've seen this forward for years and suddenly now it's written by a Columbine student. I think we should start punishing people that send us forwards. Collect'em all, and when you have a substantial amount (say, 2000 of them) forward them all to the bloke that sends you one. Maybe he'll get the hint. Maybe. leandro to marco: > A Columbine High School student wrote: He wrote nothing, he copied George Carlin's "Paradox" -Hit1 to ati@etext.org Write to Marco Capelli. Perhaps he knew Abbie. His e-mail address is: ___@____.org > What was Abbie like???? > Tell me the craziest thing you two ever did > together.. I promise I can keep a secret -mbw- [& from some Yale hckrz almost as kEwl as seattle's wndr twnz] to ati@etext.org G3orge W Bvsh was/is a coke dealer Yes it's true, completely true. He was known in his fraternity as the guy you could get cocaine from. I know people he went to school with who know this for a fact. Sh3l to ati@etext.org Wondering if you had contact with Ground Zero? Sk8 The Skinhead of the TCC [ed note: fraid not, maybe she'll see this blurb and will send along contact info, a "meet-me" or something. Good luck Sk8, great to hear from ya.] what a plate of shrimp. the other day a friend and i started putting together http://www.PROCAGEM.net which is just a list of some people's sites and a big "PROCAGEM supports ralph nader" pic that links to votenader.org -nifkin -=[this next one's sort of a LETTUCE yet it's sorta PRESS RELEASE-looking. It remains here]=- First Public Announcement: Spirit, a new female white buffalo was born approximately May 1. No humans were present at her birth, and therefore it is assumed to be a natural birth. Spirit is currently living with her mother and father, in the same field. Both are alive and well, and living with a small group of other buffalo. "This is a very important sign, to not only our people, but all people and all nations everywhere... This is the seventh, and comes in times of great importance. I will pray on this for full understanding." ~ Chief Arvol Looking Horse, 19th Generation Keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Pipe "She is approximately 6 months old, now. Very gentle. We thought she should be shared with people to let them know the legend is alive and well. We have seen how the others were marketed, and we do not want to make her into circus, but we want her to just relax and enjoy her surroundings." "She is very far from any road... hardly any one has seen her... but maybe 10 people." "We have just been enjoying her because she is so very gentle." ~ A friend of Spirit Updates will be posted exclusively at http://www.spiritual-endeavors.org/native/wb.html _____ _ ( _ ) ( )_ _ | (_) | | ,_) (_) | _ | | | | | | | | | | |_ | | (_) (_) `\__) (_) Take a duh peppa. Now goah. Gratzi. Join Sean Jeweler with Comedea Centrist's Indigestion 2000. Pepper lessons with Senior Carlo. Make a me proud. Freshie pepper for the bushie man with the bushy beard. Say when. Tune in tomorrow when Marco and Carlo open a restaurant and downsize the heck out of anyone who ever mistreated them. You think Bono thinks he's John Lennon? He sure looks and sounds like it lately. _____ (_ _)_ | | (_) ___ ___ __ | | | |/' _ ` _ `\ /'__`\ | | | || ( ) ( ) |( ___/ (_) (_)(_) (_) (_)`\____) All Hallows Eve Eve - Green Bay, WI I just got Republicrat Al Gore to defend his mining policy on the land of the U'Wa inside Colombian borders. "SHOW ME YOUR OTHER HAND!" barked the Secret Service man to Gore's left [my right] when I chucked Gore's left shoulder with my right hand. I showed the SS man my other hand after he barked his command a second time. "The U'Wa, Al," I shouted and I swear to God a human being somewhere deep inside Al looked me dead straight in the eyes and told me that the "environmentalists down there are split on that issue right now, and that's who I'm taking my counsel from at this time." I told him while I still had a chance, "Ingrid lived one mile, I mean one hour north of here, Mr. Gore and I'm not split on this one at all..." "Well, good," he told me, shaking his head up and down giving me his continued undivided-looking attention. Of course right then I said I believe that "mining just plain sucks, period end of paragraph, how about a moratorium?" And that's when he moved on to the next person, but not before giving me that one look my republican mom always gives when you've said something that sounds completely wacked out, and she'd rather not have even heard it. http://www.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=6822 KUDOS TO INDYMEDIA DOT ORG Yesterday, Ted Koppel said good things about http://www.indymedia.org on a Boston NPR call-in show. "Are you familiar with indymedia org?" asked a caller. "Yes I am," said Koppel who went on to say he thinks it's finally shaking up the [I don't remember if he used to word] ostriches in his field. He said there's always going to be a market for people like him because a lot of viewers and readers aren't diligent enough to go beyond corporate media for their information, but now "any kid can spend less than $500 for a digital camera and less than $500 for an internet connection with a computer and start disseminating content. He said he was glad to see this change. Here's program notes from my local station's broadcast of it: 6:00pm THE CONNECTION After six, THE CONNECTION welcomes Ted Koppel for a discussion about the success of Nightline and how it has become the franchise for serious journalism on television. [ref]-[http://www.theconnection.org] -[http://www.theconnection.org/archive/2000/10/1030a.shtml] PRESS RELEASE NAMMYS! Announcing confirmed performers for this year! Andrew Vasquez Mary Youngblood Medicine Dream Robert Tree Cody Also, Thunderbird Sisters, Randy Wood of Northern Cree Singers, Jana, Litefoot, Robert Mirabal, Bill Miller, Joanne Shenandoah and Indigenous. Plus: Jim Pepper Hall of Fame Induction Rita Coolidge Lifetime Achievement Award Plus special guests to be announced. This weekend! Albuquerque. goto: http://www.nativeamericanmusic.com or call (212) 228-8300 for info. PRESS RELEASE Close the SOA, will ya??? N17, N18 and N19 - Colombus, GA. Be there or wish you were... http://www.soaw.org or http://www.indymedia.org for more info. PRESS RELEASE Friday Nov 10th PENNY AND THE LOAFERS w/ Plain White Ts at the HARD ROCK CAFE!!! in Chicago show starts at 11 and it's FREE!!! + + + + + + For a free subscription of this 'zine send: SUBSCRIBE ATI to mdaemon@franklins.net Get back issues at: http://www.angelfire.com/wi/kokopeli/cygnus.html http://www.etext.org/Zines ftp://ftp.downcity.net/pub/ati See our never-official website at: http://www.thepentagon.com/primeanarchist send contribs to: ati@etext.org "A horrible Bore beats a Royal Gush Anyday. Or does it???" & don't forget 2 DIAL W/ CARE.