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September 20, 2003 - 5:42pm -- jim
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"The Montauk PsyOp"

Alexandra Bruce

"Here is where we get to the potential uses of this meme in mass consciousness: it is not only a latent means of tracking the general population's ability to grasp such concepts. It is a way to get the readers' consciousnesses to resonate with potential parallel realities -- where events like those described in the Montauk Project books are actually taking place -- creating a peer-to-peer bridge between the readers in this universe and parallel versions of themselves existing in reality fields such as those described. It could be a form of mass consciousness entrainment, on a multiversal scale, targeted to the group of individuals who resonate with this information."


Full story: http://newworlddisorder.ca

September 20, 2003 - 5:30pm -- jim
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"All Aboard the Black Magic Bus!"

Adam Gorightly


"Dean nodded in approval, and had his friend put the gun away and leave the house. Manson then handed the portly and balding preacher a tab of acid. 'Here, this will keep your blood pressure down.' Dean paused, gave the pill a blank look, and downed it with a sip of soda. Then he began where he'd left off, telling Charlie what his life was going to be like after he was condemned to Hell for 'doing' his lovely young daughter. After awhile -- as the acid started to take hold -- Morehouse began to mellow out, and reconsider his position. Charlie advised Dean that he might want to get in his friend's car and go home, and Dean agreed to this suggestion. When he came looking for Charlie again a few weeks later, it wasn't for his daughter's sake, but because he was in search of more acid. Charlie had revealed to Dean 'The Way of the Bus', and The Way was Psychedelic. Like many another spiritual searcher from the spaced-out 60's, LSD had opened Morehouse's mind, but unfortunately the vacuum between his ears was soon to be filled with the ambiguous metaphysical psycho-babble of Charlie Christ."


Full story: http://newworlddisorder.ca"

September 11, 2003 - 8:15am -- jim
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Anonymous Comrade writes:

"Some Theses on the Use of Words"

Council for the Use of Words

in 1: the introduction of an old idea;
in 2: critique of separation by words;
in 3: three questions;
in 4: the pleasures of bodies and minds gathered, making art as space;
in 5: the purpose of the use of words, the quest by posing of questions;
in 6: the use of words in organizations, and the ways to judge them;
in 7: what the poets do, practically, if not nothing;
in 8: the relation between users of words, organized life, and research;
in 9: a formulation and a dissolution.

1. We are definitely not the first, and perhaps not the last in a historical series of poetic groups that have suggested the route elaborated in this vulnerable text. But that is not the point. The route proposed has all the characteristics of a modern, that is to say a romantic movement. It is romantic because we place in the forefront our urgent desire at the present moment, and its practical form. And it is modern because we have no desire at all to return to, or reproduce in new forms the poverty and endless repetitions of this world. Instead we have chosen to surpass it completely, starting from the present state of things in order to realize a world of poetry, and through it to realize our desires for a new life made by none other than ourselves. It is not a new idea…

September 6, 2003 - 2:07pm -- hydrarchist
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Anonymous Comrade submits "A chapter from curious george brigade's new book, Anarchy in the Age of Dinosaurs. To get a copy check your local infoshop or visit the web-site www.ageofdinosaurs.net or www.yellowjack.mahost.org

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THE INEFFICIENT UTOPIA OR HOW CONSENSUS WILL CHANGE THE WORLD

Over and over again, anarchists have been critiqued, arrested, and
killed by "fellow-travelers" on the road to revolution because we were
deemed inefficient. Trotsky complained to his pal Lenin that the
anarchists in charge of the railways were 'inefficient devils'. Their
lack of punctuality will derail our revolution." Lenin agreed, and in
1919, the anarchist Northern Rail Headquarters was stormed by the Red
Guard and the anarchists were "expelled from their duties." Charges of
inefficiency were not only a matter of losing jobs for anarchists, but
an excuse for the authorities to murder them. Even today, anarchist
principles are condemned roundly by those on the Left as simply not
efficient enough. We are derided because we would rather be opening a
squat or cooking big meals for the hungry than selling newspapers. These
criticisms from the larger activist scene have had scurrilous effects.
More disturbing than these outside attacks, anarchists have begun to
internalize and repeat this criticism. Some have attempted to gain
efficiency with such means as officers, federations, and voting. All of
this is done to scare away the hobgoblin of inefficiency that has dogged
anarchism for so long.

August 30, 2003 - 6:53pm -- jim
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Anonymous Comrade submits:

"How To Start A War In Iraq"

William Rivers Pitt

truthout Perspective
, Friday 29 August 2003


"Well, I guess they had it coming."

"We've all got it coming, kid." -- Unforgiven

1. Lose an election and win a lawsuit. Move into the White House. Surround
yourself with
(http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/042103I.shtml) ideological extremists from
the far-right
wing of the Republican Party. Put them get to work
(http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/09.18C.iraq.plann ed.htm) planning 'regime
change' in
Iraq, something they themselves have been planning for years.

August 29, 2003 - 1:45am -- hydrarchist
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NOT BORED! writes "Translator's introduction to
Words and Bullets The Condemned of the Lebovici Affair





The Lebovici Affair (new translation)

At 6:30 pm on 5 March 1984, Gerard Lebovici -- a prominent Parisian film producer and publisher -- left his office and went to meet someone who claimed in a telelphone call received earlier in the day to be acting on behalf of Sabrina Mesrine. Lebovici was very close to Sabrina, who was the daughter of the infamous bank-robber Jacques Mesrine, who'd been killed in a police ambush in 1979. Not only had Lebovici officially adopted Sabrina as his daughter, but he'd also reprinted her father's book, L'instinct de mort, which had been suppressed by the Ministry of Justice several years earlier.

August 17, 2003 - 7:41pm -- jim
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jim submits ""Ravachol"

Octave Mirbeau

Translated and introduced by Robert Helms


Francois-Claudius Koeningstein (Oct. 14, 1859 -- July 11, 1892), known to posterity as Ravachol, was born to Dutch and French parents at Saint-Chamond, near St. Etienne in Eastern France. He was angered by two actions taken by the French government on May 1, 1891. One was at Fourmies, where the newly designed Lebels machine gun was used against a peaceful May Day rally at which women and children were carrying flowers and palms. Casualties there numbered 14 dead and 40 wounded. The other incident was at Clichy, where police attacked a six-man anarchist labor rally. The workers defended themselves with pistol-shots and were subsequently given long terms at hard labor.

August 10, 2003 - 8:09pm -- jim
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Anonymous Comrade submits:

"The Painful Horrors of Political Autism"

John Chuckman, August 8, 2003

I've read that severe autism involves receiving a storm of sensory perceptions, literally assaulting a mind unable to properly sort them out. It is a terrifying experience, driving sufferers to avoid human contact. That description of autism resembles what I briefly sometimes experience from the passing parade of political events.

July 24, 2003 - 10:12pm -- jim
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"A Nation of Assassins"

Douglas Valentine

What do you call it when George W. Bush, without provocation and based on false pretenses, sends an army to invade a foreign nation; and then, without any attempt to negotiate a surrender, effect an arrest, or put this nation's leaders on trial and present evidence of their crimes, instead puts multimillion dollar bounties on their heads, relies on collaborators and spies to track them down, and then corners them and blows them away in their homes, in their own country?

Do you call it what the Israelis, who lately have done it hundreds of times, call it? A targeted kill?

What would you call it if Saddam Hussein hunted down and killed George Bush's daughters in Texas? Cold-blooded murder?

How about calling this sort of behavior assassination?

July 24, 2003 - 6:16pm -- jim
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Anonymous Kumquat submits:

"The Beast of Property"

Johann Most, c. 1884


 "Among the beasts of prey man is certainly the worst." This expression, very commonly made nowadays, is only relatively true. Not man as such, but man in connection with wealth is a beast of prey. The richer a man, the greater his greed for more. We may call such a monster the `beast of property." It now rules the world, making mankind miserable. and gains in cruelty and voracity with the progress of our so called `civilization " This monster we will in the following characterize and recommend to extermination.
        

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