"If it's impersonal it has no meaning." -- Martin Sheen vol. 3 issue 37 December-something-02 ************** ** disclaimer **____________________ ************** / / 0212161216hrs/ / _________/ Activist Times, Inc. ATI is a journalistic, causistic, / /cyberpolitical / /organization, / /trying to / /help y'all, and us / change the world / radically, in less / than two minute / increments. ____/ ____________/ ASK YOURSELF - How many times has Britney Spears claimed she was 20, then how long for 19? 18? 17? NUMBERS http://www.raisethefist.com/news.cgi?artical=wire/-----9854803t4a.article http://chiapas.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=103875 http://www.plastic.com/article.html?sid=02/12/10/06090413 http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/1216-01.htm http://www.americanpolitics.com/index.html http://talkingtree.org/index2.htm http://www.councilofpeace.net http://www.smartmeme.com http://linefeed.org http://www.wtj.com bringing your attention to: Bimbo Brand (tm) Toasted Bread since Oct. '99 LETTUCE From: "Jennifer Harbury" To: Date: 15Dec02 08:54:11 -0600 Dear Friends...As you read this I am heading for guatemala. My family has been attacked there. We urgently need as many calls as you and your friends can possibly make to the Guatemalan embassy this week, starting Monday morning.... THANKS.... Jennifer http://mke.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=1601 ************* hey hey hey * it's ATI * *** ! *** ******* "As activists we need to spend less time compiling reams of data and more time rewriting our cultural stories -- the very mythology that society gets its values from -- and do it quick." "writers" calling themself the "smart meme project" http://www.smartmeme.com A bad poem written time wasted once more you were not smitten I was a bore. -- MKE Poet Irene Loffe --<><><><>-- comments?: ati@etext.org --<><><><>-- / Pvt. Torres, a soldier in the US Army / has decided to refuse to go to the / Gulf to fight. He's the first US / soldier taking this stance yet. -------------------------------------- & IN PRIME ANARCHIST WORLD NEWS 2NITE: -------------------------------------- NAZI SS GUARD AND CIA AGENT DIE IN SECRET SUICIDE PACT. WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (PAWN) Theodore "Ted" Shackley, 75, the youngster in the duo, killed his boyfriend Anton Malloth, 90; but not before letting his victim kill him too. The two both pointed their machine guns monday, each at the others' private parts just as they'd agreed decades ago. They counted back from ten in German and right after 3,2,1, both closed their eyes, and pulled the triggers on fully automatic. Wow. What a mess. Shackley, known as "The Blond Ghost" joined the CIA in its earliest days, 1951. Malloth, a former Nazi SS guard was sentenced last year to life in prison for beating a jewish concentration camp inmate to death in 1944. He'd already been convicted of killing a prisoner for hidden cauliflower in her jacket and her Reebok pump sneakers. Shackley and Malloth tried killing Fidel Castro twenty years ago and vowed to keep trying once a year for two decades. If they failed the 20th time, they agreed they would kill each other. Monday's infamous double murder, suicide, homicide was listed as the first and only successful joint mission the CIA and SS ever conducted in human history. CARDINAL LAW AND DOCTOR KISSINGER SEEN LEAVING TOGETHER. PAWN - (Vatican City) Henry left first, and then came Bernard holding out an open hand like a lady-in-wait before hopping on the double-wide escalator. Flashbulbs galore burst as a glib Kissinger reached back an extended arm for Law to grab and the two descended the escalator walking hand in hand for most of the rest of their day. The pair was seen leaving dozens of different places while they continued on their all-exenses-paid end-of-career shopping sprees throughout Italy, France, England and Wales. They will settle tomorrow in beautiful Marion County feeding each other grapes and boiled cauliflour roll-ups in a condo of their own choosing. The two will summer at the Broadmoore Estates in Colorado Springs. Officiating at the ceremony was of course none other than Pope John "Wayne" Paul himself. He gave them his blessing and they're now starting their new life together. Kissinger leaves behind plantations, factories, and unfinished phase-two time-share apartments all over the continental United States, while Law leaves behind just a whole lot of power, authority and young slaves. Kissinger will keep his blood-sausage-making-facilities which had made him his first millions, so he can easily assure himself and the little-vicar a healthy retirement. The only thing Law was interested in keeping was a spiffy red and white singaporian hand-made festival hat. =========================== = info following brought = = on by a need for more = = real information =) = =========================== OK, After all these fantastical fake stories, here's a real one that'll simply blow your mind. Berkley mayor Tom Bates will plead guilty to trashing newspapers. When the UC Berkley paper printed an endorsement of the mayor's opponent, he was witnessed by three unique people removing papers, (is it still called the Berkley Barb? Or was that a different pape?) and throwing them into a trash can on Sproul Plaza, which is very ironic because it's famous for being what people called the birthplace of the 1964 Free Speech Movement. Bates apologized at the next City Council meeting and announced he'll plead guilty and pay a $250 fine. A TIP FOR REMEMBERING YOUR COMPASS POINTS. Never Eat Shredded Wheat. \ BEWARE THE BLUNTED E-ZINE! \ A blunted or chipped e-zine can permanently \ \ Damage your most valuable personality. A worn \ \ E-Zine will impair the quality of content you / / Take in. Make sure your e-zine is certified "K-Rad," / / Or "Decent," before reading this T-Phile. If in / Doubt, have Prime Anarchist Check it for you. / Because only Prime can detect E-Zine Blunt. SIODOH - The Sitting-In-Front-Of-Dahmer's-Old-House Column. (This one goes long, but I need every word. Enjoy.) Middle High German, Or WWRD?: What Would Reagan Do? Have you ever had someone ask you where you stand on assassination? Have you ever looked deep into their eyes? Could you even find their eyes? I've been asked this five times I remember, and I'm thinking I better discuss this as a phenomenon rather than avoiding it more. OK, I've been running homeless shelters since the early 90s now, and it seems to show up mostly at these kinds of places. Only once did I hear it from a fellow shelter provider, the other four were people right there in the belly of abject poverty. This is where this type of sentiment festers, boils and takes root. Fanatical religious groups seem to recruit heavily around here and the poor are so vulnerable, they're ripe for this kind of abuse. It's one thing for a clergy to say something like "Jesus says you must be firm," it's entirely something else when someone stands there surrounded by a black and brown aura so thick you can't get near them, oozing out with violence and aggression, saying "don't you believe in assassination?" or "this nation's biggest problem is when it went away from allowing for assassination." Woah! What do you say to that?? "I love you," didn't work, nor did "I feel sorry for you." Logic won't get you anywhere I guess. And my one time trying silence felt icky because in a case like this I'm fearful it was seen as agreement or affirmation. Yuck. I just don't know how to respond. Each time I think I left behind a feeling of shock from even knowing there's more than a tiny handful of anti- social psychopaths acting semi-functional out there who feel that way. Unfortunately I must point out that this energy spreads way to fast - especially in a time of war (or whatever you must call 13 years of military organized genocide). Dozens of "terrorists" are now on the CIA's "kill-if-you-need-to" list. What is this list anyhow? Where did it come from? Aside from brand new leaks, it's about as illusory as the domestic "No-Fly List." Apparently the Anti-Social-Psycopath- In-Chief himself, but no one will confirm this beyond the usual Woodward/Bernstein non-commital commitals. You know, "do you still beat your children..." "no comment..." - you tell your boss he said yes... "What list?" "if there is a list we only use it as last resort... Oh... don't quote me. There is no list." An old executive order still bans assassinations, and of course Bush keeps trying like hell to get "his" congress to overturn it. They went for a lot of dark dreary things but even a congressionally complicitous war criminal (if he's not quite a full-on psycopath himself) won't agree to something like this, so they voted him down again. Bush is not allowed to assassinate ANYONE. The language is rather clear. But how does he react? Probably chants the daily mantra: WWRD - What Would Reagan Do. Bush has provided written legal authority to the CIA to hunt down and kill the "terrorists" when and where (and how) they want. Jeff Smith, a former general counsel for the CIA and now just a DC lawyer, said it is important for the US to keep the assassination ban intact. "The ban is good policy, and we don't want to create a situation where assassination becomes an accepted form of behavior." My only question after a truth like that is, but will we allow for the regular use of it as an accepted form of unaccepted behavior? Did that come out right? I think you know what I mean. I'll end this suggesting you look up the etymologies of two words. Terrorist and Assassin. You may want to brush up on origins of the word Putsch also. ############################################### #### YOU ARE TUNED TO KATI; 2002 ON YOUR FM DIAL #### ############################################### AND IN MKE SPORTS: Tim Thomas and Ray Allen had great game bringing to a 101-79 win over the Portland Trailblazers. Portland's Scotty Pippin played really well but the Trailblazers seemed a bit off overall. Maybe too much hanging around in the Hyatt or carousing around town before the game. It was not easy to root for my newest hometeam this game for two reasons. 1) from Connecticut. 2) REALLY LIKE OPONENT'S COLOR SCHEME!!! I landed these tickets late enough to have no chance to check with more sports-competent friends. Not sure how a Bucks win or loss might affect any Celtics outcomes. Red and black is the shit, man. I'm telling you. As a youth, I played for both soccer teams and baseball companies that had red and black "anthems." And besides I just plain dig everything red & black stands for. That's why my favorite bird in the world is the little old vulture they call the redwinged blackbird. But I digress. I watched Tim Thomas grab two three-point plays in a row, and a normal basket right after that. Some playing! He had game with 5 threepointers total, among 25 points and under the boards he got himself seven rebounds. Cassell did almost as well as Thomas getting himself 19 points and 10 assists. I'll be honest, I'm rooting for the hometeam for one reason since my other indicators were absent. Ray Allen's my boy, being from UCONN territory and all. This game wasn't a blowout by any stretch. The only huge bursts came in the 3rd and 4th quarters, making for some exciting b-ball. So here's some misc. from the recesses of my brain throughout the game. Who played sax at the beginning of the show? That's the first National Anthem I've heard in about 11 years I didn't find downright boring. It was quite a rendition. And the ending was outragious. Twice he commanded incredible applause, and never once did he bust into those stupid Kenny G stylistic triplets that every intermediate level player falls into often. Who's smoking dope? I smelled some serious marijuana out there! Seemed to be coming from the VIP section. Hmmm. So at 9-9 early on they played the Car Wash theme. Quite popular around here for some reason. My partner says she wishes they'd play more than just the snippet though. She and I really wanted to show off that not only are we old enough to remember the whole tune, but good enough to sing it out. So you knew the Bucks were going to win when Portland called the first time-out at 16-9. They play a good game of catch-up from that moment on. Jose Feliciano's Feliz Navidad plays while TV-Landia gets to watch couples all over the bleachers get mistletoed. So what member of what team had their birthday February 26th? I missed the answer. Wasn't paying attention really because I was so bothered and turned off by the whole "Verizon sponsors 'Meet The Bucks,'" thing. At 22-19 Bonzi gets net -- makes me think Portland has a chance. Here comes that Carwash theme again. The Bucks cheerleaders make their first appearance to Jimi Hendrix' "Let Me Stand Next To Your Fire." Never mind that I know a couple of them, I have to say that not only are they much better looking than the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders used to look when I was a teenager, but they seem to be a heck of a lot more savvy and intelligent. Something tells me that Cheer in general is nowhere near as ditzy-dinghy a field as it used to be when I was coming up. Maybe it's me, call me old-fashioned, but when the hometeam makes noise during a free- throw I get not just annoyed but deeply offended. Why? That's just rude. Over the top, man. When I played b-ball (and don't get me wrong. It was my least accomplished sport behind soccer and baseball) we were completely disallowed from making noise during a freethrow. Some of the penalties levied for such obnoxious behavior were things like clearing the bench, single fouls, or in the case of the crowd doing it one of the coaches was given a technical. Halftime seems to serve about one purpose. An open floor to place sandwich boards for your favorite corporate muckety muck. "Tonite's game of Dodgeball is sponsored by Midwest Express and Piggly Wiggly, Klements sausages and Senator Herb Kohl." No it's not, all that and Dodge itself. The winner gets a brand new Dodge car. Gee if that doesn't keep you from buying Chevy or Ford, I don't know what will. Or any car, for that matter, right? OK, it's Verizon text messaging time. Get out your verizon cellfones. (we'll allow other fones so long as you let us keep saying verizon out loud. Verizon) Call the verizon fone number on the centercourt teleprompt and whoever's the first to hear the operator try to sell you fone service will win a nifty verizon prize. Did I say verizon? Verizon. Wow, the crowd goes simply wild for snippets of Ozzy's "Crazy Train." And Tim Thomas has 25 points. The "guy" shooting halftime hoops as Bango the Bucks mascot has a dirty little secret I should tell you about. Yup, even deeper than Victoria, of Victoria's Secret fame. You ready for this? Bango the Bucks' mascot boy is a girl. She's 30 and she rocks! The woman behind me in the bleachers does her hair. This was whispered to me by her daughter. It turns out the woman's only done her hair once, but the rest is fact. Her mom thinks her name was Jennifer. So was it a Portland timeout or MKE when the cheerleaders performed a rendition of Bachman Turner Overdrive's "Takin' Care Of Business?" Besides "Crazy Train," this was clearly the only other song to outdo "Carwash" in pop smash. First verse and the chorus three times. My partner and I showed off bigtime. Not only did I smell pot two or three times throughout the game, but I went to bed last nite and woke up this a.m. with that grungy grimy gooey throat I tend to get whenever I leave the east-coast casinos Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun. I don't request they cut out smoking if that's what it was, but I would suggest they spend the millions needed to ventilate the whole stadium properly. Do it fast before people sue you for second hand smoke damage. The only reason Foxwoods didn't lose their shirt over that one is they were making so many billions per month they could afford the low millions or high hundred thousands to settle out. So I had a really good time at the Bucks game last night. I want to thank the secret donors who got me there. In my current lifestyle, if I had the extra forty-bucks- a-ticket in cash lying around I'd surely spend it on something else like breakfast here in the Hyatt or parafin for my bike chain or something instead. But I did have a great time nonetheless. So yes, there's probably a lot I can say bad against corporate sports, but one thing I must point out about the Bucks besides being owned and operated by one of the WORST senators the US has ever seen, is that the stadium donates leftover foods to the shelter I help run on a fairly regular basis. That is compassion at its finest. Shit! I was gonna end this here and pay out the damage, but I just met two guys from my favorite sport. Yup. Soccer. The Force are here to play the Wave this afternoon. So I was schmoozing with them a little. They're cool. And to top it off, I had enough schmoozing, so I ended saying "Beat Milwaukee, please. I'm from CT," and one of them held me back saying, "which part?" He's from Newtown. Ah, the Newtown Bee newspaper, and visions of WLAD before it went easylistening danced in my head. I told them about Italian soccer showing on bigscreen tomorrow morning at the best coffeeshop in town if they have time before their next road game, and made my way back to the laptop and the morning paper. So hopefully now I can put this story to "galley" and "blow this taco stand" before I bump into some girl from a bus-and-truck show, or some talkshow host or cheesecake salesman. t h i s h a s b e e n f r o m t h e p r i m e a n a r c h i s t ' s i m a g i n a t i o n i n i t s e n t i r e t y _____ _ ( _ ) ( )_ _ | (_) | | ,_) (_) | _ | | | | | | | | | | |_ | | (_) (_) `\__) (_)You had a choice and you chose us. Thank you, thank you, thank you! ----<><><><> comments?: ati@etext.org <><><><>----