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You've got the first issue of the 90's!!! Hey, it's...... **** ******** ******** ****** ******** ******** ** ** ** ** ******** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ******** ** ** ** ******** c i n t m c i e . v s i , s t Issue #46 January-sumthin, 1990 Write to us: Activist Times, Inc. P.O. Box 2501 Bloomfield, NJ 07003 Howdy! Welcome to ATI46. I know it's been a while. But, we should be getting on a regular schedule from now on.. like every 2 weeks or so. Thanks for all of your support in the recent months. ATI's readership has been growing, and we've been getting a lot of positive feedback. Keep the comments, positive and negative, coming! This issue brings some new contributors, namely Sk8 The Skinhead (313) and TI-Man (201). Look for their contributions later in upcoming issues! Also, we are happy to announce the return of a BBS run by The Mentor of LOD called The Phoenix Project. It's an excellent board that I highly reccomend. Call it at 512-441-0229 for the most stimulating discusion of computer and telecom-related subjects! Speaking of BBSs.. here is a partial list of boards that you can find ATI on. Give these great boards a call! The Red Phone.............201-748-4005 The Phoenix Project.......512-441-0229 Sycamore Elite............815-895-5573 F/X Animation (amiga!)....201-368-0573 Batcave (C-64 pirate).....201-779-3924 Ry-Lor's Den..............201-759-2066 Wizard's Vale.............516-826-7866 Tessier-Ashpool...........201-830-8835 Cyberspace................201-916-1943 Also, we are proud to announce that ATI has gone international! You can also get ATI issues from a great German BBS at (49) 711 284 351. Call it today!! We are also expecting to be on quite a few more international BBSs. We don't know exactly where ATI is getting to, but these are the places that we know ATI is getting uploaded regularly to. In the next few weeks I will attept to compile a more complete list of boards that have ATI issues. And of course, it goes without saying that if you have ATI issues, please do upload them to any boards you call! Also, we are now offering full sets of ATI issues to anyone who wants them. Just send us $1.00 to cover postage and give us an address, and we will mail you a full set of ATI issues for you to enjoy (and upload to your local boards!). If you already have some issues, then tell us which ones you don't have (issues 1-46) and we will send you them. The disks can be sent in the following formats: Commodore, Amiga, IBM MS-DOS, and Atari-ST. All disks are 3 1/2" size, unless you have a Commodore. If you have a Commodore, we can send you the files on a 3 1/2" disk or 5 1/4" disks. Please do take advantage of this offer, as we want to get as many people reading ATI as possible. We would definitely like to hear from any and all BBS sysops that have the space to put up our issues! (issues 1-46 together make up about 500k) You can also get ATI issues through Bitnet. Just mail tk0eee1@NIU and you will be mailed ATI thru the net! And now, on with the show! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And now, here's P.A.W.N.: DONDE ESTA MI CHINGADA SALADA. It's time for more prime. Prime Anarchist World News. PAWN is brought to you by ATI in conjunctivitis with Murine and Minolta. Famous for getting the red out. I saw a show on cable TV for deprived people called "Bowling for Gas Money to Get Home". Fone area codes for 5 bodies of water (I'm not kidding). 873 gets you the Indian Ocean; 872 is the Pacific, 871 is the Atlantic, Carribean and Mediterranean. Call your favorite oil tanker guy (and guess what?!?! 9 times out of 10? Step-X!!!) GOOD KING GEORGE'S FREUDIAN SLIP-- Discussing an executive order charging 27 prominent people with taking a "drug initiative", George said, "They all share my goal of ridding Americans, er, uh, America of illegal drugs." PAP GOES DECLASSIFIED: the phollowing info has been declassified from PAP's phun philez: Some of PA's aliases from 1981-1987: Yipster, Noriega, Pie Guy, Mud Yuppy, Infomaniack, The Infomaniack, Infoman, The Infoman, Rad Dood, B. Badass, Pro Tester, Anarchist, The Anarchist, NRK, PA, TPA, Prime Guy, PG, and Anne R. Chisolm. More info there'll come later. The GOD pasword to the online game HACKIT (c)1987-88 was "Run N. Gun". Closest attempts at that were Run A Gun and Buy A Gun. Congrats and thanx to all who put up with and frequented Infomaniack BBS while the game was being developed. It was a smashing (crashing???) success only due to your email and feedback. Anyone who wants information on purchasing a copy of Hackit or photo- copying the t-files can kiss my jolly gym shorts. I like strawberry nectar better than peach or apricot nectar. Try it. God, I wish the Cleopatra look would die already. If you don't have black hair naturally, do us all a favor? Don't try. Whether you think "cherish" by madonna is cherishable or perishable, I say throw it out. Having troble discerning a touch-tone or series of touch-tones you've recorded? Play the tones into any Aspen voice-mail system. It will spit the decoded numbers back to you as part of an error message. Or play the tomes into the Bell Labs wakeup call at 201-644-2306. Or play them to an SSCU. Or if you own an Apple-Cat modem you can boot up a prg that will recognize and decode the touch-tomes. (This issue of PAWN continued in ATI47!) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ------->poetry corner--------> first a poem by ground zero: **To Juan** On a planet On which life is cheap You epitomiz the tragedy of a single wasted life. What led to the exit? Solitude? Fear? Confusion? I suppose solitude led to fear and confusion.... If you'd offer'd someone a glimpse of your heart- Could this end have been averted? So what of your lost future? What of the event of an individual being pushed to end his days? What of the collective? We have failed. Miserably. ARMAGEDDON ISLE TO THE TUNE OF: Gilligin's Isle... It all started when we tried to smoke A joint that was too fat. We smoked it from beginning to end In 30 seconds flat. Them buds they crackled 'n' seeds all popped as Paper inched across. I noticed that my head was getting High as a kite. High as a kite. The thoughts grew few and far between, the topics were of peace. If not for the US and our secret wars The whole world would be free. The whole world would be free. So then the others turned to me And this is what one said. We can have peace, And Freedom too, Equality, And justice. But the movie star Is a war monger and greedy bastard. Here on Armageddon Isle. Here on Raygun's Isle. Here on Bush's Isle. TO THE TUNE OF "CHESTNUTS ROASTING" Flame broiled Whoppers in a cardboard box. French fries sizzling in fat. Eat them fast or they're soggy and flat Burger King is where it's at. You know that Herb is on his way. And his whole entire ad campaign is gay Even though, they do it your way, It still costs too much for steroid sandwiches these days. and now, a poem by prime War? Local or far away- Will it ever go away. I draw a peace sign in the sand, A crab bites my toe. I let him go. The woe of aftermath-- Can we hang? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ok. here's a couple thingies from issues 1-2-3-4&5 of YIPL (a TAP production) Hi People, Here's my bill, send me shit on fuck- ing the Bell System. Man do I need info on this kinda shit thanks D.B., State College, Pa. In the office we call it "The System", and use of the word "the" means dog- matic finality. The wall comes up pretty fast when you start tampering with the way things are done within The System, and you either slow down and do things Bell's way or knock your brains out. --AT&T junior executive, spring 1967. U6you consider donating a small percent of what YIPL helps you save. CAUTION: YIPL does not advocate making free calls. However, YIPL doesnt believe in paying for calls, either. If caught, you may be charged with fraud and theft of services. So consider carefully whether you NEED to call long distance, and if you do,, consider whether or not you believe in FREE SPEECH. ...If you wand to discuss this further, call me up sometime. Because of all the agencies claiming to have me under surveillance, it's one of the fastest ways to speak directly to your government. Your voice with a smile, Abbie Hoffman BELL EMPLOYEES!!! If you are a Bell System Employee, you know well enough just what a skinflint company you work for. Write us your documented experiences about working for the largest, most powerful piece of shit in the whole world. If you don't work for the phone company but know someone who does, tell them to write us. Other suggestions might be to post issues of YIPL inside the telephone building or at key places where pissed-off workers are likely to see it. We want to have specific examples of sexism, racism, anti-semitism, pigism, and any other ism you can think of. When sending in fone bills, or income tax returns, forgetting to put a stamp on the envelope won't hold up delivery. So when you do such things, save (8c). These were from 1,2, and 3. More of this schtuff later, prime PS: try this one: (fly Miami on 1.95!!!) Call someone at a payphone. You must pay the first 2 bucks or so. Keep talking way past the click. When you're done talking, the phone'll ring. Pick it up and listen while the recording says to deposit another 7 bucks. Put in about 2 bucks. Hang up, pick it right up, and hang it up again. The next click you hear should be followed by the return of all your change. Maybe more. -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- And now, some words from Sk8 The Skinhead (313): ------------------------------- - A file by Sk8 The SkinHead - ------------------------------- Well, i received a another bill notice in the mail from Litel and along with it was a little News letter thingy called Pulse..in the letter..has a feature on Litel going International (Whoopy doo) also some other lame article..but the article that caught my eye was on Toll Fraud..the article is entitled Toll Fraud a 500$ million dollar issue Last year, the telecommunications industry was defrauded a staggering $500 million. "Toll fraud is a serious matter," said Judy Betts, Litel manager, Fraud Control. "If convicted, perpetrators can face up to 20 years in prison, confiscation of equipment, and be liable for restitution." A primary concern of Litel is to minimize instances of toll fraud on its network. In the last two years, Litel had averaged less than two-tenths of one percent of revenues lost to toll fraud. "By controlling drains on our operating efficiency such as fraud, we are better able to keep our rates lower for our customers," said Tom Byrnes, Litel president and chief operating officer. Judy attributes the company's success to a sophisticated electronic surveilance system and daily management reports. "We look for certain signals and patterns," Judy adds. "By monitoring switch activity on a real time basis, we are able to witness the intrusion on our own equipment." Litel's system is a strong deterrent to fraud, however, Judy has found that public relations is her department's greatest weapon. "The media provides a vehicle for us to educate large groups of people on the implications of toll fraud," she said. Litel's fraud department works closely with all branches of law enforcement local, state and federal. Recently, Judy's department has been joining forces with the U.S Secret Service in arresting and prosecuting the suspects. Judy's department boasts an 85% conviction rate. "We cannot relax our monitoring at any time, though, because the hackers are always looking for new ways to break our security," Judy stated. For Litel's Fraud Control Department, the search continues. Article typed by --Sk8 The SkinHead You can reach me for any reason at the following voice mail box .... 1-800-255-9679 Box #122 : Greets go out to some people..fellow Members of TCC The Flash,Repro,Ground Zero and Cursor. Other greets go to close associates : The Disk Master,SOF,Dark Sorcerror. Whats up to all my other contacts. Slates ============================================================================= -------------------------->random comments from ground zero----> Those who know me well know my scorn of MTV.. I have always said that it overloads the senses and stems creativity. But I do watch MTV from time to time to see what they're up to. And I discovered a very interesting thing. They often run a short commercial that they produced themselves pointing out the dangers of nuclear power and weapons due to the fact that no reliable method has been found to store plutonium, which lasts over 40,000 years. The comercial also urges viewers to only elect officials who will stop the nuclear industry until a safe method of storing plutonium is secured. Well, I'll tell ya. I was surprised.. MTV may not be so bad after all... Speaking of plutnium and energy and all that happy stuff, I have done some researching articles in the New York Slimes for the past few months and have come up with some interesting stuff. For one thing, a study of the Energy Dept. has shown that the agency is run almost 100% by outside contractors, from major decisions to its smallest administrative functions, to the point that Energy Dept officials don't have a clue as to what's going on in their own agency. Another article I found stated that the Energy Dept.'s official position on cold fusion research is that scientists should not participate in it because the Energy Dept views cold fusion as impossible to reproduce on a large-scale level. The Energy Dept maintains this position even though several experiments in cold fusion have shown to be promising. Now, I would venture to guess that the reason why the Energy Dept is against cold fusion is because the dept. is run by outside interests that have huge vested interests in nuclear power plants that are up and running and were expensive to build. Imagine if they were obsoleted by cold fusion? Although cold fusion would clearly benifit mankind by solving the nuclear waste probelem, the Energy Dept. is discouraging its development. Also, the Energy Dept. has been paying the legal fees and fines of companies contracted by the dept. to run nuclear weapons factories and other fuctions. As a result, these companies can operate their plants outside of legal regulations and not be held accountable because the Energy Dept. will pay all legal expense and all fines incurred due to any violation. A no-lose situation for them. The Rocky Flats plant in Colorado, the manufacurer of plutonium for all nuclear weapons is running out of storage space for plutonium waste. It is currently being stored at the plant site, but the plant's storage facilities will be full by June if other sites are not found to store plutonium. One scienific genius thought of WIPP, the Waste Isolation Pilot Project, in which the waste would be transported to salt flats in Arizona. The waste would be stored in metal containers and then stored in salt catacombs. The catacombs, however will fill up with water in the future, and the metal containers storing the most dangerous waste known to mankind will corrode. Luckily, the WIPP project has been put on hold until more studies on its effects are done. But even more frightening is the idea that ol' King George Bush came up with for plutonium waste storage. Bush decided that it would be a grand idea to use US Army bases as "temporary storage sites" for the wastes until sites for permanant storage have been found. Every area considered for storage, however, has officials that emphatically declined to take the wastes, with one exception. The Governor of Colorado offered army bases in Colorado as sites for storage. The Rocky Flats plant, formerly run by Rockwell International up until last fall, is currently involved in a court case for violation of enviromental laws. Even the industry-run Energy Dept. stated that the Rocky Flats plant was violating almost every Federal environmental law in respect to its operations. Rockwell Int. has sued the Federal gov't over a waste dispute. Now.. we have an Energy Dept. run by outside interests that discourages development of new technologies, and allows contractors to violate environmenta l laws by paying their fines and legal fees. And we have elected officials who want to store nuclear waste in salt catacombs certain to fill with brine, or just expediently throw them on an army base. There's only one answer to the question of nuclear power and weapons: SHUT DOWN ALL NUCLEAR PLANTS AND STOP PRODUCTION OF ALL NUCLEAR WEAPONS!! Here's some other stuff of interest I cam up with: DRIGGS, IDAHO- Not even this small farming community is safe from the onslaught of Yuppies. Driggs, pop. 890, is composed of mostly potato farmers. But since it is located near a ski resort area, an entrepeneur decided to start building 880 condominuim units. Residents are opposed to the project because they fear that it will result in speculation and other situations that would cause real estate prices to soar to the point that these modest farmers could not afford it and only rich outsiders could. Conservationists claim the project would an adverse environmental impact on the area. A Federal district court blocked the project until an environmental impact study could be done. Institutional racism- There are only 6 Black judges in the entire state of Louisiana. The military is no closer to accepting homosexuals in the service. It is estimated that 60% or more of the benefits of the cut in capital gains tax would go to individuals with incomes of $200,000 or more. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - :ATI, changing the way people : read for over 2 years. :ATI, a freedom paper. : ATI, a way of life, patriots / :ATI, more than just a - - newspaper, it's the rag / :of justice!!! / - - - - - - - - - - - Subj: MORRISSEY I found this article in SMART magazine. January/february issue. I'll type it in verbatem. (even though I woulda changed a few thoughts) the typer takes no responsibility for this review as he just found it a nice article. He does not necessarily reflect the views of this article. AND NOW THAT THAT'S OUTA THE WAY... Swamp Yankee ------------ BILL MORRISSEY IS a white bluesman the likes of whom we haven't heard much from since Hank Williams stopped riding his horse onto the stage of the Grand Ole Opry. The catch is that Morrissey is a Yankee. But why not a bluesman from the pockets of lost New England? Havent hollows and flats of squalor always bred the best blues and country? Morrissey's first two albums, Bill Morrissey and North, earned him acclaim as "New England's best-kept secret," but his latest, Standing Eight (Philo/Rounder Records), should get him wider notice. In fact, when he howls about feeling "like the wind hung up on barbed wire," you get the sense they're going to like him a lot in Texas. SMART Reader Services P.O. Box 3147 Harlan, IA 51537-3147 Editorial Office 80 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10011 212-727-1671 Subj: bomb-making bbs'er sentenced to 3yrs BOMB-MAKING TEEN SENTENCED TO A 3-YEAR TERM ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP)--A teenager who helped run a computer bulletin board service showing how to make explosive devices was sentenced to three years in prison for his part in a bombing intended to scare a 17-year old girl. David Overeem, 18, Gaithersburg, Md., received the sentence Friday from Montgomery County Circuit Judge John J Mitchell. The computer service, "Pyromaniack Production Systems," reportedly gave formulas for homemade bombs to users as far away as California, prosecutors said. Authorities said Overeem was one of the leaders of a group of acquaintances who called themselves "Damage Incorporated." Assistant State's attorney Constance Junghans said in court that the group loaded the bulletin board with recipes for an array of explosive devices including rockets, car bombs, pipe bombs, bottle bombs, and land mines. Overeem was a junior at Gaithersburg High School at the time of his arrest in April and was described by prosecutors as "emotionally troubled" and a young man of superior intelligence. Overeem pleaded guilty to making a pipe bomb that allegedly was detonated by a friend of his on March 26 outside the girl's home in Germantown, which like Gaithersburg is a distant suburb of Washington, DC. The bombing was intended only to frighten the girl, who was a former girlfirend of Overeem's friend, prosecutors said. No one was injured, but a piece of shrapnel tore through a wall and into a room where three children were asleep, authorities said. Now, some thoughts on legalizing marijuana from Bob McKenzie (201): From: BOB MCKENZIE (#108) Date: 01/08/90 - 3:14 pm Subj: (R)drugs Advantages of Drug Legalization: The most powerful corporations in the world spend millions of dollars every year to keep canabis illegal. Why? The petrochemical industry doesn't want legal hemp to compete with synthetic fuel and fiber. The alcohol and tobacco industries don't want legal marijuana to compete with cigarettes and beer. (Tobacco and Alcohol account for over 400,000 deaths per year). If you were provided with a non-lethal alternative, which would you choose? In Amsterdam, Crack/Heroin/Crack abuse dropped over 50% as legal marijuana/hash cafe's were set up around the country. The easy availability of legal pot curbs the desires to obtain illegal, addictive drugs. Every year, more people die of Skin Cancer (via tanning salons) (6,000) than from illegal drugs (3,600). Ponder that. Take the money out of this ridiculous war and spend it on the real problems, treatment for addicts. 1 in 500 are treated for abuse, that means over 499 are turned down for treatment daily. Ok, here is why I don't think drugs will be legalized yet. I think the Law enforcement agencies are going to want a Breath-Analyzer for marijuana intoxic ation for driving. Once that is developed, Pot should be legalized. For more on these subjects, I recommend "INTOXICATION - Life in the Pursuit of Artificial Paradise" by Ronald K. Siegel, Ph.D. Siegel talks about the motivation to acheive altered states of consciousness is actually "a fourth drive" which is as much a part of the human-animal condition as hunger, thirst and sex. Ok I'll leave you with this: *While growing, hemp produces oxygen and removes carbon dioxide (The Greenhouse gas) from the atmosphere.* *10,000 acres of hemp will produces as much paper as 40,000 acres of trees. Until 1883, 75%-90% of all the paper in the world was made from hemp* *Methanol and methane fuel, made from cellulose found in hemp, cornstalks, and waste paper, can be produced at 10% of the current cost of oil, coal, and nuclear fuel production.* *The glucose produced from manufacturing methane would feed 100 percent of all domestic and farm animals* *The hemp seed (which contains no THC) is a fruit. AS a protein source this seed is second only to the soybean* (swallow them apples) Bob McKenzie GZ's note: Also, a lot less chemicals are needed to make paper fom hemp than currently used to make paper from wood pulp. With the destruction of our environment due to our cutting down the trees that sustain our air supply, it makes sense to make paper from hemp again... !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Guess what! We're out of space again! We have even more stuff, which will have to go in ATI47. Look for it in about a week. Take care, and be creative! 
