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On location from the coca fields of Colombia, it's.....
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Issue #40 August-something, 1989
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Special I-got-the-blues Issue!
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Write to us: Activist Times, Inc.
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P.O. Box 2501
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Bloomfield, NJ 07003
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Ok, ok.... So it took more than 2 days since ATI39. Sorry! I got caught up in
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final papers and exams for summer courses, and other projects..
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But anyway, on with ATI40. First up is Prime Anarchist, with his new feature
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called P.A.W.N., Prime Anarchist World News. Here we go!
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P*A*W*N*P*A*W*N*P*A*W*N*P*A*W*N*P*A*W*N*P*A*W*N*P*A*W*N*P*A*W*N*P*A*W*N*
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Prime Anarchist World News
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Greetings Fellow Humanoids:
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Did you know that one of the newest Cyberpunks was one of the oldest Pop
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artists? Yeah, Willian Burroughs longtime friend of peoploids like Andy
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Warhol, Jack Kerouak and Allen Ginsberg is featured all the time in RE:SEARCH
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magazine.
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So look out Tim Leary -- you're not the oldest hipster anymore.
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If you use a cellular phone where I'm at *98 and *97 are toll phree
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numbahs. Is this a global, national or regional phenomenon? If anyone's done
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any work with this numerical number assignment pattern, I'd appreciate hearing
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about it through either ATI or some other open meduim. What I'd like to know
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most is what stops payfones and home fones from responding to these star
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codes. A tone? A code? A cable pair?
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Everyone is by now aware of my feelings up to today about the People
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magaze article about Abbie Hoffman's death. Heck, I published that opinion
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EVERYWHERE. I thougt it was by far, the BEST handled Abbie article this side
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of the century, this side of the world.
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That's until I picked up the July issue of High Times magazine. Steven
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Bloom made an awesome compilation of discussions with a bunch of people who
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knew Abbie, and it was filled with good schtuff. David Peel, Paul Katner,
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Aaron Kay and Willian Kunstler made for the most interesting of the speels.
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Also reprinted was an interview John Holstrom did with Abbie around February
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last year.
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I'll bring forth some of the parts that really tugged at my heart.
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"Born on the Fourth of July" will star Tom Cruise as a Vietman vet who
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comes back to America and becomes a peacenik. John Tower is a lip service fag
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of the Ayatollah's "Satan America".
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The current 60's revival will only last 2 years. Now, because of
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Woodstock, next year because of Kent State, and NOT the following years
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because, "No one wants to remember 1971, I guarantee you. It was a mess".
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The Rutgers attempt (at a national student left conference last year) was
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too broad. Too wide open. Every faction of the world was at each others'
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throat. A great opportunity was lost. Better comprehension of electronic
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bulltin boards and computerizing is needed.
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Abbie Hoffman was a great mind. Many of us often picked for thoughts when
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we knew something was up but just couldn't prove it. Abbie could always get
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you proof.
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Abbie was a manic depressive -- for that we can be thankful. For it was
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from his mood upswings that we got entire novels or painfully truthful poems,
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lectures, movie roles, comedy acts or great events.
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Abbie was the only man alive in the early 80's capable of exposing the
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CIA's efforts in Iran, Nicaragua, Angola, and Guatemala. I'm not suggesting
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that Abbie's death was a fascist plot.
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I'm insisting it.
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I also noticed in this issue of High Times that marijuana is going for
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$120 an ounce these days. I can't believe my eyes! That's an outrage. I know
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we'll never go back to the days of 30-40 bucks for a 4-ounce, but c'mon. Stop
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paying the big piper. Grow your own.
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Well, that's all for this afternoon. More later promise. P.A.W.N.
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Now, we have an article from The Unbeliever (201) (formerly The Mad Pirate):
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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******Light Speed... And why it's not possible.********
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Ok. I know what you're thinking. You have this big question. "Why isn't
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faster than light travel (For the sake of space, I'll call FTL, which stands
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for [F]aster [T]han [L]ight.) possible? What is so magic about the speed of
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light? If you keep accelerating an object, won't you eventually reach the
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'speed of light'? Un huh. No way. That's what I'm going to explain right here.
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Most people believe that if force is applied to an object, it accelerates in
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the direction opposite of which the force is applied. As long as the force is
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applied, the object will continue to move faster and faster. Under ordinary
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conditions, there is no sign that this will change; no mysterious speed limit
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at which this object will stop accelerating, no matter what the force.
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Physicists are quite sure that as a force is applied to an object, the
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momentum of the object will increase indefinitely, and come ever closer to
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infinite. The same can be said of an object's kinetic energy.
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Since the common sense notion is that the mass of a body (easily defined as
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"the quantity of matter it contains") does not change with motion, it follows
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that momentum and kinetic energy must increase only because velocity increases.
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And if momentum and kinetic energy increase indefinitely as a force continues
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to be applied, that can only mean that velocity must increse indefinitely.
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There seems no way out of that syllogism, so what is all this junk about the
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speed-of-light limit.
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This "junk" started with Albert Einstein in 1905. It seemed to Einstein that
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the speed of light in a vacuum must always be measured at the same speed (just
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under 300,000 kilometers per second) no matter what the motion of the light
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source might be relative to the observer who was making the measurement.
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This consistancy of the speed of light did not seem to make sense. Ordinary
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objects, like a thrown rock, had speed that depended in part on the motion of
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the person or object throwing the ball, and it definitely seemed this rule
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should apply to everything, including light. Why should light have a special
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status?
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Einstein developed his 'Special theory of Relativity' to describe a universe
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in which light behaved in this unusual fasion. For light o behave as it does,
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Einstein showed that mass ought to increase in quantity for a moving object. It
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should increase, as a matter of fact, according to a set relationship:
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M = m/(sqr(1-v^2/c^2))
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(The above is written in commodore style formulas, because the C64
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doesn't support exponents and square root formulas.)
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Where v is the speed of the object, c is the speed of light in a vacuum, m is
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the mass of the object when it's not moving and M is the mass of the boject
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when it IS moving at velocity v.
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Until the begining of the 20th century, nothing had ever attained the speed
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of even 0.1 kilometers per second, or 1/3,000,000 the speed of light. Even if
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you add interplanetary rockets to the list, 15 kilometers pre second, or
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1/20,000 the speed of light is all we have obtained.
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If we use Einstein's formula and imagine a 1 kilogram object moving at 15
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kilometers per second, it's mass at that speed would be 1.0000000013 kilograms.
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It would have gained 1 1/3 micrograms, or a little over a billionth of it's
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rest mass.
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Imagine an object moving at the enormous speed of 30,000 kilometers per
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second. Such a speed is 1/10 that of light and by Einsteins equation, I 1
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kilogram object moving at that speed would have a mass of 1.005 kilograms. It
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would have increased in mass by only approximately 0.5 percent.
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A 1 kilogram object with the velocity of 60,000 kilometers per second would
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have a mass of 1.021 kilograms. At 90,000 kilometers per second, it's mass
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would be 1.048 kilograms; at 120,000 kps it would be 1.091 kilograms; at
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150,000 kps it would be 1.155 kilograms.
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150,000 kilometers per second is half the speed of light. Even then, the gain
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in mass is only 15.5 persent. This doesn't seem very serious, but please note
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that the mass has been increasing at a faster and faster rate as the speed
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increases.
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By the time we reach a speed of 290,000 kps (97 percent the speed of light),
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the mass of the moving body is 3.892, almost four times the original mass. At
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295,000 kps (98.3% speed of light) the mass equals 5.52 kilograms; at 299,000
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kps (99.7% speed of light), 12.22 kilograms, at 299,999 kps (99.9997% speed of
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light) 383.5 kilograms.
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At the speed of light itself, if that could be reached, the mass would be
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infinite- as would be momentum and kinetic energy.
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A faster spped is impossible because neither mass, momentum or kinetic energy
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can be more than infinite. Besides, at infinite mass, no force, however great,
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can produce any acceleration, however small, so the speed cannot increase. So
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the speed of light is the limit which cannot be passed.
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And yet all this depends upon the validity of Einsteins equation, which in turn
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depends upon a correct deduction from Einstein's basic assumption. What if the
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equation is wrong, has been incorrectly deduced, or is based on faulty
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reasoning?
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Perhaps we would still be wondering about that, were it not that a decade
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before Einstein advanced his theory, subatomic particles had been discovered.
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These tiny objects move at large fractions of the speed of light. Their mass
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could be measures with considerable precision, and it was found not only does
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their mass increase with speed,but PRECISELY to the amount predicted by
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Einstein's equation.
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Whew! That was a long file! Well, that's all for now... Until next issue!
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(Most of the information for this I obtained from an essay about the
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speed of light written by Issac Asimov.)
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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And now, a few words on the flag and democracy by MAC??? (213)
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The USA member of The NATO Association
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gives his thoughts on burning the flag.
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by MAC???
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The American flag, it can show you at a glance whether you are
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standing in a part of the world where saying you don't agree with
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something won't get you taken away in the middle of the night.
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A configuration of symbols that represent the freedom to say you
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don't agree with the government or the church.
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I am very glad I am an American and even though I would never
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burn our flag I realize that making a law that states that you can't
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burn it takes us a little closer to that middle of the night.
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It is true that much blood has been shed to make sure it can
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be safely put outside your house to wave in the breeze, but it does
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not just represent this, it represents your right to do with it as
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you wish.
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So when you see the flag know that you have a responsbility
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as well a a great burden upon you. The responsbility, making sure
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the flag is where it should be (whereever you think that place is).
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The burden, showing the world that the blood we shed to keep chaos
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back was worth it!
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NOTE: If you have any comments to the
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above I can be reached on The
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Red Phone.
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u!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Notes from Ground Zero.....
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Crack/AIDS connection: New York city public health officials have spoken about
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the new link between crack use and transmission of AIDS. It happens because
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crack users often resort to prostitution to get money for the drug. This has
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led to huge upswing in venereal disease cases. When intercourse takes place
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with open sores cause by venereal diseases, this allows for the blood-to-blood
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or semen-to-blood contact necessary for transmission of the AIDS virus.
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Huey Newton, co-founder of the Black Panthers with Bobby Seale back in the
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60's was shot to death in Oakland, Ca. this week. He was 47. Uncertain as to
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who killed him and why.
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Racism in the Garden State: The NJ Turnpike is seen as a key link in the
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transportation of drugs to New York and other points north. So NJ State
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troopers have taken to searching cars for drugs after stopping them for
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traffic violations. The problem is that the majority of those stopped are
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Blacks and Hispanics, stopped for very minor traffic infringments, (like an
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improper lane change) and treated in an extremely rude and abusive manner in
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many cases. This statistic speaks for itself: Blacks/minotities make up for
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only 30% of drug arrests nationwide, but the percentage of Black/minority drug
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arrests from car searches in the NJ Turnpike in the southernmost section near
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Philadelphia is 86%. In the section of the tunpike near New York, 89% of drug
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arrests from car searches are Black/minority. A clear case of race selection.
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(Source: WOR-TV News, Secaucus, NJ)
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Movie: "Rude Awakening" was an interesting movie, full of very funny moments.
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It's about 2 hippies who go to live in exile in the Central American jungle in
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1969. But today, in 1989 they come across a killed CIA agent with papers that
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detail US plans to invade Central America. They decide to go back to New York
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to expose the papers to the media. They look up their old friends, who
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abandoned their radical 60's ways and became successful. I thought the movie
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was great, but the get-active-and-save-the-planet message in the end of the
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movie should have been more spread out. The movie should have integrated the
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hippies' awareness of the extreme new problems of the late 80's throughout the
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movie. I think the extreme swing to the right in the Reagan-Bush era should
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have been addressed also. But the movie did admirably demonstrate the apathy
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of today's college students.
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All in all, I recommend the movie. It's very entertaining!
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That's all for ATI40. Look for ATI41 in about a week. Barring accidents! :)
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