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July 31, 2002 - 4:24pm -- jim
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"Geronimo Knew How To Do It"

Hunter Gray

This is about Factionalism and Organizing and Challenges.

Geronimo [Goyathlay] knew how to do it.

The enduring Apache fighter, whose tactical abilities were equaled only by
his tremendous commitment to his people, never gave up. Traveling, often
with his cohesive band encompassing only with a few dozen warriors and their
women and children, frequently crossing vast stretches of formidable
desert -- sucking a small rock or chewing twigs to keep throats moist --
they fought on and on and on against thousands of U.S. Army troops.
Winchesters were as easily incorporated into their culture as computers are
by the Natives of today.

May 1, 2002 - 12:47pm -- jim
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Eye halve a spelling chequer

It came with my pea sea

It plainly marques four my revue

Miss stakes eye kin knot sea.

Eye strike a key a type a word

And weight four it two say

Weather eye am wrong oar write

It shows me straight a weigh.

As soon as a mist ache is maid

It nose bee fore two long

And eye can put the error rite

Its rare lea ever wrong.

Eye have run this poem threw it

I am shore your pleased two no

Its letter perfect awl the weigh

My chequer tolled me sew.

Enjoy the poem

Author unknown

April 7, 2002 - 2:33pm -- jim
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Crack Team Hunts 'Zombie' Corporations

August 28, 2065

NEW YORK--A U. S. Treasury Department spokesperson confirmed
Wednesday the existence of an elite team of economists,
financial experts, and government prosecutors dedicated to
hunting down and eliminating zombie corporations. "The threat
posed by zombies is quite real," explains the unidentified
Treasury spokesperson. "Zombie companies have been
terrorizing the Wilshire 5000 for long enough. We've assembled a
dedicated search-and-destroy team. The days of the zombies are
numbered."

March 29, 2002 - 12:50pm -- jim
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Future Feed Forward, February 8, 2011

New MS Word Feature Checks Files for Copyright Infringement

"...During a feature demonstration, the advisor proved adept at
identifying direct copying, noting almost instantly that "Call
me Ishmael" was taken from Moby Dick, a book once, but no longer, in the public domain. In a cheerful voice, Mickey suggested alternatives, including "My name is Ishmael" and "Call me Ichabod," and also offered to license the phrase for 8 cents in fewer than 50 copies of the document..."

March 19, 2002 - 9:08am -- jim
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American Patriot Registration

March 13, 2002 - 8:24am -- jim
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Steven Duane Wilson writes " In the course of human evolution, an event takes place that awakens all senses to realize that the next step is to be taken now. In the past year things have taken place all around the world that leads me to believe now is the time for the next evolutionary step. If you are looking for truth and freedom, the only way to achieve those things is through anarchy. No longer can mankind ignore the evils of civilized existence.

We must acknowledge the fact that this society is too dangerous for it's own good. We must put down the weights of past glories and climb higher beyond dreams. The human needs change, because if things do not, our being will end with a war over oil or economy or religion or political agenda. The call for intellectual anarchy that I am making is for all to move towards a better day. To understand what is wrong with man and to see how man can change. We need revolution to keep ourselves alive.

The government must go and let man be a world of self-rule, where responsibility isn't a curse but a challenge, and logic and reason will lead. Compassion and peace will be our new world order, and no one will deny us this claim, that I will not fight for Uncle Sam, I will not pay taxes to support a war I do not believe in, I will not vote for federal or state offices to be filled by puppets of pain, I will not obey the lady of justice, and I will not live in this world anymore! Revolution is a piece of evolution, and it is a natural thing. We must think ourselves free, and then move to change a world that was never meant to be. Freedom must be absolute, or it does not exist at all. If your destination is truth and freedom, the road you travel is called anarchy."

March 4, 2002 - 12:48pm -- jim
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Why Should You Ever Believe Anything Anymore?

Joost van Steenis

Dear reader,

Defence Secretary Donald M. Rumsfeld said he has eliminated the secretive Office of Strategic Influence -- dubbed the Lie Machine by Pentagon insiders. The sign outside the OSI has indeed been taken down but how would we know the office is closed, how do we know it was ever open, how do we know
anything? The OSI should work undercover to twist the truth and sway opinion behind President Bush's government by coordinating activities ranging from public press releases to 'secret' information warfare including the spreading of
inaccurate and misleading information in friendly as well as unfriendly countries. Some lies should even be disseminated by outside concerns that have no obvious ties with the government in order to distance the news items from the US Department of Defence.

February 21, 2002 - 1:21pm -- Uncle Fluffy
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I am not sure what to make of this post, the site it points to seems a bit loony. sort of a religious loony with a bone to pick with the religious right.
--Uncle Fluffy

Anonymous Comrade writes: A great book has just been published called Real Prophecy Unveiled: Why the Christ Will Not Come Again, And Why the Religious Right is Wrong. It clearly and thoroughly points out the error and hypocrisy of the Religious Right, exposes the spiritual ignorance of the proud and militant, and tells how the humble and the meek shall indeed inherit the earth. In fact, it tells how we shall at long last do away with divisive partisan politics, get rid of the pretender to the throne, create government of, for, and by the people, and finally share the throne as the equal joint heirs that we are according to real prophecy. This is the long-awaited message that will actually give the power to the people! Check out http://realprophecyunveiled.netfirms.com

February 7, 2002 - 9:17am -- jim
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Anonymous Comrade writes

"Urgent Call from Cheyenne Mountain"

By John Chuckman

YellowTimes.ORG Columnist (Canada)

On the U.S. President's desk in the Oval
Office, a phone's red light urgently flashes. It's the signal for
an incoming call. Only calls from deep inside the vast
command-center redoubt known as Cheyenne Mountain come
in on this line. Constructed during the Cold War, this
hollowed-out mountain contains a virtual Pentagon
satellite-city built to survive a hundred years behind
million-ton blast-proof doors.

The president gleefully picks up the receiver. He just loves
getting important calls.

"Howdee!"

"Mr. President, this is a secure line, so we may speak freely."

"Dick, you old son of a gun, how's it goin' out there, livin'
under the mountain an' all? T'aint getting' to ya none?"

"I'm just fine, Mr. President, don't concern yourself. You know,
I spent a lot of time as a congressman with folks who live in
abandoned missile silos and mine shafts.

January 30, 2002 - 9:05pm -- jim
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polo writes:

"Argentina, The 'Obedient' Victim"

An Interview with Uruguayan Writer Eduardo Galeano

Montevideo, Uruguay, 22nd of January, 2002

"The lesson for the world is, not to buy the IMF discourse, which leads to extermination." -- Galeano.

Interviewer: Argentina did everything the IMF ordered, and it's a broken country -- what's the lesson to learn for Mexico?

Eduardo Galeano: It's not only a lesson for Mexico but for the whole world, but in general I'd say that people just shouldn't believe the story: one has to be a bit more careful; the discourse of power doesn't reveal, but conceals or disguises the truth. The lesson from Argentina is not to follow this (neoliberal) discourse that leads to extermination! And not only has it lead to the destruction of national economies, but it also has horrifying consequences beyond economics. This neo-liberal IMF discourse doesn't only reflect in massive poverty but also produces an offensive concentration of wealth among the few. It is like a slap on the face, a daily insult -- this ostentatious power of the few in the midst of the helplessness of the many.

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