, _ || ' < \, =||= \\ /-|| || || (( || || || \/\\ \\, \\ the special something-or-other edition of Activist Times Heavy Industries. issue #353. [oops. that was bkwrds. sorry. 353. Yeah.] 0304081529 hrs to 0304101958 hrs About the half-moon or so. #s http://www.soaw.org http://www.tldp.org http://www.nabj.org http://www.anada.net http://www.pgink.com http://www.aztlan.net http://www.kunstler.org http://www.cokewatch.org http://www.off-center.com http://www.treasoninc.com http://www.activate.8m.com http://www.motherfools.com http://www.eatthestate.org http://www.lasolidarity.org http://www.lakesidepress.org http://www.rationalenquirer.org http://www.mindspring.com/~wnpj http://www.sit.wisc.edu/~infoshop http://www.geocities.com/b_norrell http://www.themadisoninsurgent.org http://www.bradleycoredrilling.com http://www.awolbush.com/cheney.html http://www.thethursdayshow.com/peace http://bancs.lod.com/~ati/ati168.html http://www.towardfreedom.com/index.htm http://radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=6819 http://mediawar.com/euphonic/frameset.html http://www.gulliver.com.br/htmls/index3.htm http://www.manhunt.com/news/stories/2785.html http://www.michaelkelly.fsnet.co.uk/aaron.htm http://www.etext.org/Zines/ASCII/ATI/ati344.txt http://www.petitiononline.com/3d4b/petition.html http://www.coloringthenews.com/html/rebuttals.html http://www.gristmagazine.org/maindish/ig040803.asp http://www.moveon.org/moveonbulletin/bulletin1.html http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=308385 http://www.yvwiiusdinvnohii.net/articles/hangpoet.htm http://www.inthenameofsecurity.org/html/screening.html http://www.unamericanfilmfest.com/unamerican/program.html http://www.ericturemuhammad.com/AReportFromCapitolHill.html --=])> P U B L I S H E R ' S C O L U M N <([=-- COLUMNIZATION PUBLICATION NOTINOURNAME-ION I just watched a male girls-soccer-coach (about my age) abuse the hell out of a young girl who hopes to make the team. "Do you understand what I'm saying here?" "I don't mean this in a mean way, but..." "This is not meant to hurt your feelings or anything, but..." I asked a woman sitting one more table away from them if she'd heard what I heard, and she said, "how could I not?" Yup, so I WAS hearing what I thought I was hearing. I was so bummed out because they both left at about the same time. I so wanted to slip her a note or mention a couple things to her after he left, about things she ought to consider rethinking from their conversation. "He's setting you up to lose your self esteem," I might say. Or, "I hope you already noticed he's abusing whatever self esteem you have left in your life. Don't let him get to you; you're much more than that..." Etc. But alas, it's probably not my place as just the innocent bystander and fellow coffee drinker eh? Yes. I overheard all this in a coffee shop. She wanted his advice about the recruiters that are coming her way these last years of high school, and also asking about trying out for his semi-pro team. I hope that's not his only reason for being in that business; an endless supply of young excitable women half-drained of self esteem. He'd be better off agenting fashion models or underage singing sensations or something. And we'd be better off watching him get his pants sued off in a bunch of sex-arrasment cases. -30- ps: one last thought. You know, if HE had any self esteem he could fully get to know quite a few of them, even intimately, leaving each one feeling great about herself and maintaining the same or more self esteem as she goes about the rest of her up and coming lifetime. Don't you dare ask me where I learned THAT. N, 'EXT UP IZZUH POME Ghazal II - Spice by BMC turn left grab right bend release straighten turn left grab (repeat for eight hours) Dumping hundred pound barrels of powder, the garlic is a virus that modifies my genome. Cigarette science in the trailer, cramming two into fifteen. I’ve gotten good at standard. Driving home, my fist fuses with the gearshift, forms a new socket. You curl away from me as I try to stroke your hair the profession of my fingers floating over you. _______________________ BMC is an author in cyberspace best known for his writing under the name BMC. That's the longest most involved biographical note you can get for now. OPEN LETTER: Hunter S Thompson. Dear Hunter, It's enough to make one wish to raise the flag on the Hill, to raise Cain, to raise a fist in righteous, (not Christian self-righteous) anger! .......... FOX TV has done almost enough to get an Euro "thinking public" to think, maybe even to remember? This recently regenerated new world America must think that it can "get away" with just about anything, as long as its "troops are on the ground" and on my home TV. FOX TV decided that it should employ a front line reporter, someone who really should still be languishing in an American prison, as a commentator on Gulf2, who many still think he needs to be lined up, along with his shield of "human rights" and Uzied in front of our very single standard eyes? FOX TV via Sky TV, are ranting on about Saddam and his regimes abuse of human rights in Iraq, before the "liberation force" arrived to set free all that oil. FOX TV are showing how dumb an executive can be, FOX TV has employed a major abuser of human rights as a Gulf2 commentator. Not only is this most discreet of commentators publicising his own commercial aspects, his fictional work, he is very very good as "fiction". But also this man, to whom you seem to have taken a personal dislike, along with Gen Secord and Admiral Poindexter, really should be behind bars. Is being invited into sentimental style secret briefings by the American forces. Even to someone with only half a Fear and Loathing brain cell, this must be a great mistake by those who are trying to impress the watching world with straight ethic. But maybe there is nothing straight about FOX, and nothing straight about their freshly found war orator? Our American hero of the Reagan era, who secretly brought arms to Iran, who swopped S American cocaine for guns, who must have flinched when his main man Barry Seal got murdered by those resident not that far away from then Governor Clinton's back office. And someone who should be in prison for gross abuse of human rights himself, is now strutting his ugliest of stuff on TV screens all over Europe. Col Oliver North, who retains unofficial keys to about every high level secret in American political and military life, part due to his accomplice of old, Admiral Poindexter, a recent Dubya appointee, now being in charge of the world number one spy machine, is back on our screens. But not as the villain you and I know he is, but as a hero reporter on the front line of Dad and Dubya's latest excursion into the Mid East. Indeed there are some very very strange animals waiting outside the walls of Saddam's palaces, probably the most strangest of all being reporter Col Oliver North, who some good folks still term "The most dangerous man in America"? And all this, courtesy of a desert which one should rapidly desert from off of our Euro- screens As in, "Out with a permanently disgraceful Ollie North and take your steenking fox wih you Sir!" Indeed your "Generation of Swine" seems to have returned with its usual poison? Do have a good day Hunter, take no prisoners, and do get someone to have a word with FOX huh? . best. Roger Bunn The opinions expressed in this missive, exclusively reflect the views of the Music Industry Human Rights http://www.mihra.org COPS' LOG - CARDATE 0304082109 by Rupert Hurloch. Special to Prime Anarchist World News Tonite. [reprinted from http://bancs.lod.com/~ati/ati232.html] (PAWN) - Anywhere, USA - Police are on the lookout for a poetical prankster they say is travelling town to town committing close calls with his alliteration, rhyme scheme and armed manic near-murderous mayhem. "Nobody dies," said Natalia Derosers," but we all get such close calls it's so stressful." She said he picks a new city every Saturday, but in a very haphazard way he seeks someone to simulate a slow motion meditated murder with. Take Derosers' husband for instance. "He threatened his life with a knife, pressed it against his chest, and then made it look as if he'd stabbed him in the abdomen," said she. She went on to say he left the knife on the ground and walked off without a sound, stepping it up to a run in his Tevas and Levi 501's. Police are still searching and have this to say, "If he comes to your city, he should be considered armed, shirtless, and extremely witty." More PAWN: THE WAR IN CONTEXT Embedded journalist Ron Marts believes the fortuitous appearance of two soldiers saved him from embarrassment and possibly outing-as-a-republican during a firefight near Baghdad's airport. Marts, an Atlanta Regular-Constitution reporter, is attached to the 4th Infantry in Iraq. He was riding on an armored personell carrier last weekend as its company travelled through Baghdad. Bullets and red- glare grenades peppered the convoy of armored vehicles of which he was a part. In fact, Marts was filling in as General's driver because the E-3 he was riding behind called in sick. "A bullet hit the soldier to my immediate left in the right arm, right where his swastika tattoo used to be," Marts wrote in a Regular-Constitution article. "just a few inches from my left arm." Marts wrote that he yelled out, "I'll-get-you--you- commie-pinko-fag-liberal-democrat-nigger-kike-bastard." It was just then that PFC Marco Frucht saved him. The signal soldier managed to send out a full blast of pink noise and static on his radio so almost no one was sure what the heck they heard. Frucht suggested if he got called in for UCMJ, he should insist what they heard him say was "salami stinks like a rag dipped in chigger spit when you ride a bike haphazardly." Marts got his chance later that day and passed with flying colors. Ironically, the soldier who shot near him by accident was SFC Paul Robeson, from the 3rd Infantry, attached to the 2nd of the 77th cav. "Yes, I'm pink-friendly," said the young special forces soldier from Mobile Alabama, "registered democrat, black russian jew by heritage, AND born out of wedlock, but I took exception to the 'communist' remark." Robeson pointed out that he isn't gay or bi, but some of his best friends are LGBT. The soldier behind Marts, was hit in the left wrist and left eye by a bullet that struck the side of the armored personnel carrier and shattered. "Both were wounded by bullets that could have hit me," Martz writes. He even got a chance to help Spc. Shawn Gulliver extricate the medical supplies from the hundreds of pounds of gear on the floor of the vehicle and preparing the injured soldiers for their depleted-uranium injections which allow each injured soldier to live at least 3 extra days. ________________________ "The War In Context" is an ongoing look at books, websites and newspaper articles for a deeper understanding of the CIA's work during war in Iraq and related issues. THINKING OUT LOUD Does Neil Diamond have a "Mr Bojangles" out there? No way. I think that's what I'm hearing here, for the first (and hopefully last) time. HORRIBLE THOUGHT AS FOLLOWUP. [KINDOF A CALLBACK, HUH?] You know, for all the fun-poking I do over that mega-cliche'd song, I really oughta do a cover or a parody or something someday, huh? My Favorite Verse From A David Rovics Song by marco From Groton to Tacoma On many a factory floor The workers talked of solidarity And refused to build weapons of war No more will we make missiles We're gonna do something different And for the first time Their children were proud of their parents And somewhere in Gaza a little boy smiled and cried After the revolution And My Fave Verse From Another David Rovics Song And as your Caterpillar tracks Upon her body pressed With twenty tons of deadly force Crushed the bones within her chest Could you feel the contours of her face As you took her life away Did you serve your country well On that cool spring day Good news, and good nite. "I dunno, think we should try Bush in the Senate?" 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