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What is the sound of a guitar gently weeping?
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ATI, Issue 323. For the week ending
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shortly after Tuesday, June something, 2002
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"The goal is not to bring your enemies to their knees
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but to their senses. -- Mahatma Gandhi"
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/oops, looks like this is coming out closer
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/to the 20th than the 11th, eh? I guess I
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/should explain. Last weekend was the Mayors
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! /Conference in Madison. I was away for two
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/days, and at almost the exact same time, our
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/Milwaukee indymedia site went down. It's still
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/down until Friday or so. Heavy bummer. Hectic,
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/stressful stuff. So even though ATI was on my
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/mind each day or so, publishing it wasn't. So I
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/dropped a feature story or two in every once in a
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/while and just put it off 'til things slow down a
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/bit. Well they're almost slow enough to publish now.
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/So tonite or tomorrow, you should be able to get this
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/in your inbox.
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LETTUCE CORRESPONDING TO CORRESPONDENCES WHICH ARE
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OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, AND THEREBY LETTUCE READ THEM
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to ati@etext.org
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As we emailed to you on June 4, 2002, our records
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indicate that payment for the account specified
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below was never received, so web and email forwarding
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for it has been suspended. To reactive your account,
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please log in and visit the 'Payment Center' for more
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information.
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> http://www.thepentagon.com/primeanarchist
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>
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> this is still not working.
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> Any idea what's wrong?
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to ATI
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"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility
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against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."
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--Thomas Jefferson.
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sent in by mbw
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From: Smitiee
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Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 12:11:27 EDT
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Subject: (no subject)
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To: ati@etext.org
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the goverment censors all signs, books, protests, ect.
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about knowlege and life to pacify the world. they are
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trying to make it a conservative planet where the only
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reason of living is to be successful.
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to: ati@etext.org
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hi we are luke's secret following
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we love luke fictitious
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we are also your long lost friend
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this email has nothing to do with lukes official site
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we just wanted to say hi
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and have a beautifull day!
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"your long lost friend"
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I was reading your web page and am trying to
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understand what you mean by Lex Luthier? Does this
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mean something or refer to an actual person or a media
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character?
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Thanks for shining some light on this for me.
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Ellen
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Last Ditch Effort NJ PUNK Rock
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Check out this Punk rock band breaking out of NJ.
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Yeah were from NJ, we know we know, no need to say it.
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But
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You should check out our website and download some
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of our music when you have the time. So if your not
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going there now, just save this email somewhere so
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next time you can jump on over and visit our site.
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Http://ldenj.com
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Be sure to check out the people who created our website
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also, there some awesome people. They got one kick
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ass website also that is a Production so make sure
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to head on over there as well.
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Http://ldenj.com/index1.htm
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NUMBERS -
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http://pmxtv.com
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http://www.diymedia.net
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http://www.mustardplug.com
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http://www.angry.at/racists
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http://www.saveinternetradio.org
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http://www.microcosmpublishing.com
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http://www.democraticunderground.com
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http://www.geocities.com/PRIMALSESSIONS
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http://www.indybay.org/features/judibari
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http://yorick.infinitejest.org:81/1/cards.html
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http://nyc.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=25430
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http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=185662
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http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?3d4b&1
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http://victorian.fortunecity.com/dali/102/ganjahouse/108_06.html
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http://www.01lab.org/public/project/radio/live-streams.php
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http://madison.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=5673
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http://www.things.org/~jym/ef/the-palco-papers.html
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http://users.bigpond.net.au/mechtoys/teabag.html
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http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2002/06/131351.php
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http://www.kusumi.com/chinasupport.net
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http://www.olivebranchcommunity.org
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http://66.155.17.109/peace
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http://www.reamweaver.com
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http://www.phantomfm.com
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http://www.judibari.org
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ASKING: A Question About Unions And the Pursuit of Socialism:
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by BMC
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In a capitalist society, members of the ruling class use the means of
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production to accumulate capital. The working class is a part of the
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means of production, and individuals within that group own nothing that
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can be used to acquire wealth but their own ability to work. There is a
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great deal of difference between the economic value of a factory with many
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machines in it and the value of the labour of one worker; the value of one
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body is practically nothing in comparison to the worth of a factory full
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of machines. Because of the low value placed on labourers, employers have
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the ability and desire to treat workers unfairly by offering them low
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wages and poor working conditions. The way for workers to gain control is
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through unity.
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In a factory each machine may only have marginal value, but all machines
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in conjunction with one another are worth a great deal. As all of the
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machines in a plant are owned by the same person, they can be used
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together to mass-produce goods of value. Human beings are much the same
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in that they are most valuable when used together in a workforce, but,
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unlike machines, employers do not own them. Since workers are human
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beings, they are considered by law to have a slight degree of autonomy and
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all of the benefits and detriments that come with it. For example, they
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have to supply themselves with their own food and shelter, even if they
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must live in substandard conditions as a result. When workers are
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underpaid by their employers, struggling to make ends meet, receiving less
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than their fair share of the profit made by producing goods, it is time to
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take action to improve the state of worker/employer relations.
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As independent agents workers have little bargaining power, but in unity
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with other workers it is easy to recognize them as an important part of
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the economic institution. Like the machines, goods could not be produced
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without their effort. When workers organize and form unions, they can
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demand better working conditions and higher wages. If employers refuse to
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meet the workers' needs, production stops. Through unity the working
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class can organize and refuse to support the capitalist system unless they
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receive better treatment.
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A problem with unions: like flawed socialist policy, union efforts are
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localized. There are tonnes of unions throughout North America, and also
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many jobs that are not unionized at all. When unions negotiate for better
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working conditions, they do it on behalf of the employees that work for a
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certain company or work at a certain trade. They do not show concern for
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the working conditions of people outside of their own sphere. Working
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within the system of capitalism, they demand higher wages in exchange for
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the perpetuation of capitalist production, and do not focus on the
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elimination of capitalism or the improvement of conditions for the working
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class as a whole. In this way, they are only using the rhetoric of
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socialism to effect capitalist growth for themselves.
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As an example, unions were once more male-centered than they are now. As
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more women joined the workforce and entered into less domestic-type jobs,
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there was a hesitancy to allow them to join the capitalist shelter
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provided by unions. Because the prospect of offering union privileges to
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women would reduce the number of non-unionized workers, and therefore the
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privileges that the union workers enjoyed at the expense of the
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non-unionized masses, a xenophobic response was natural. Male union
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members would have been likely to rely on myth and discrimination to keep
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privileges restricted to the already-privileged. This exclusion of women
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was likely because one cannot advance one's own position in a capitalist
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society without exploiting someone else or, more accurately in this
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instance, allowing someone else to be exploited. By keeping enough people
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out of unions, average pay rates stay low, inflation stays low, and the
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income earned by unionized employees remains relatively high. So these
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so-called socialists are using their unions to lead privileged lifestyles
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at the expense of others, in this case women.
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As more women have joined unions, they too have developed the ability to
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exploit a new lower class. As people in our society's lowest pay brackets
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get bumped up to white collar or unionized jobs, corporations do us the
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favour of finding new people, people in other countries, poor people in
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places with no labour laws, undereducated people, children, and other
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easily exploitable people to do all of our most tedious, most dangerous,
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and (most importantly) lowest paying jobs so that we can continue to
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improve our own standards of living while keeping the system of capitalism
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running smoothly. Ultimately, as the improvement of our own lives within
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this system comes at other people's expense, unions are just another way
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of passing the buck, expanding North America's middle-class and creating a
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new, more desperate, group of working poor. As long as we see personal
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financial growth as equivalent of success, we'll be staying safely away
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from making a real difference, namely the eradication of capitalist
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imperial imperialism and a bit of compassion for people other than
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ourselves.
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Try to Relax
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by David Soriano
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The more you try struggling
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Faster you sink
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It can occur almost anywhere
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With proper conditions
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It is basically just sand
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Saturated with water.
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Mushy mix of sand and water
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Supports no weight
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Those struggling sink the fastest
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Very rarely deep
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By just trying to relax
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Body lighter than the quicksand
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Escape its clutches
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And get on with life!
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Quote Of The Day
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"In these awful days, George W. Bush has become
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the American Yasir Arafat, an empty, repetitive,
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shifty public personality who talks out of both
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sides of his mouth, with little or nothing to say
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from either of <20>em. Oh, he<68>s still Israel<65>s man:
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maybe not quite as much as he was on Tuesday, but
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more than he was on Thursday, though by Sunday,
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who knows, he might be back in staunch-ally mode
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again, or conversely he might have a few encouraging
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words for the Arab side. He<48>s as purposeful as a
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wind-up toy boat with a bent rudder doing circular
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putt-putts in the bathtub."
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-- Nicholas von Hoffman, New York Observer
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PAWN - Prime Anarchist World News 2nite
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BMG Buys Mcdonalds in $3dB Deal
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FRANKFURT, Germany -- Mcdonalds Music and Food Group,
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owners of Britney Spears, 'N Sync, Backstreet Boys and
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the Hamburgler, is exercising an option to sell out to
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BMG, the music division of German media conglomerate
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Bertelsmann AG.
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Guetersloh-based Bertelsmann, which already holds a
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minority stake in Britney Spears, Mcdonalds, Napster,
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Vanessa Carlton, Heinekin, Pink, The Gap and Lou Reed,
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will buy the shares it doesn't already hold from majority
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owner Clive Davis, according to a joint statement released
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late Tuesday.
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A price for the purchase wasn't announced by the
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companies, both of which are privately held. WSJ,
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Financial Times and Billboard however reported it was
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somewhere around the $3 decibel range.
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This move frees up the 78 McDonald's restaurants in
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Hawaii to finally add the new menu item they've been
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working so long on perfecting - Spam.
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More than 3,000 portions of low- sodium Spam, scrambled
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egg and rice were served in a single day during a test run
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of the meal, according to Mandy Moore, McDonald's local
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marketing manager.
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"I'm not sure why it has taken so long," Moore said of
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the Spam breakfast, which she said is offered at no other
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McDonald's in the world.
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Hawaii residents consume 5.3 million cans of Hormel Foods'
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processed Spam luncheon meat each year, four times the national
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average. A favorite local variation is Spam sushi.
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This weekend, Hormel is holding a "Spam Jam" for the grand
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opening of its 16,500-square-foot Spam Museum in Austin, Minn.
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The celebration honoring the product introduced in 1937 as
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"the miracle meat" had been scheduled for September but was
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postponed because Bertelsmann hadn't finalized buying them
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out yet.
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"With the acquisition of Mcdonalds, Bertelsmann will strengthen
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its global market position for the long term," they said. BMG,
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smallest of the big five record companies, has tried to expand
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by merging with competitor EMI but was blocked by antitrust
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authorities.
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Bertelsmann bought a 25 percent stake in Mcdonald's music
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publishing business in 1991 and a 20 percent stake in its recording
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unit in 1996, the company said. The sale is subject to approval by
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antitrust authorities and to final review by the companies.
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Mcdonalds' other artists include R. Kelly, the R&B star currently
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under indictment on charges of child pornography, Weird Al Yankovic
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and Michael Bolton.
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Spam will be a very good thing for them too.
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If you're looking for Latuff stuff:
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http://www.sinkers.org/latuff
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http://www.machination.org/latuff
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http://www.44an.com/latuff/index.htm
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http://www.b92.net/latuf/indexs.html
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http://members01.chello.se/rakim/zapa
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http://www.richardleveson.com/Peace6.html
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http://alaqsaintifada.org/sharoncartoons.htm
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http://www.judentum.net/europa/indymedia.htm
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http://www.geocities.com/pepe_montfort/main2.html
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http://www.rapprochement.org/cartoons/cartoon.html
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http://www.granbaol.org/dahome/num61/vignetta5.htm
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http://www.gapabahia.org.br/boletin_34/rev34_0.html
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http://www.sooderso.de/zeitung/sos11/s12webwatch.htm
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http://www.palestine-net.com/misc/durra/cartoons.html
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http://www.indigenouspeople.org/natlit/chiapas/latuff
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http://pages.infinit.net/mbc/resistanz/nouvelles/latuff
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http://free.freespeech.org/kokopeli/latuff/violence.html
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http://www.antiglobalizacion.org/Germinal/arte/ap00001.htm
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http://www.innernet.gr/filesofKnowl/article.asp?article=207
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http://www.thetruthasiseeit.com/Archive/2002/2002_03_31.html
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http://www.jt.estadao.com.br/editorias/2002/03/26/int006.html
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http://www.chretiens-et-juifs.org/PILORI/Indymedia_persists.htm
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http://www.terrornapalestina.hpg.ig.com.br/cartoons/page_01.htm
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http://www.msstate.edu/Fineart_Online/Gallery/2000/eyesee/latuff.html
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http://sfgarbatella.dns2go.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=55
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http://www.fzln.org.mx/modules.php?op=modload&name=My_eGallery&file=index&do=showgall&gid=14
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http://www.torturanuncamais.org.br/mtnm_mil/mil_eventos/latuff/eve_latuff01.htm
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http://www.velotrol.com.br/velotrol10/bau/velo08/nankin/guerreirodonankin.htm
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http://kurdweb.humanrights.de/keo/english/culture/art/caricature/latuff
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http://camposunder.virtualave.net/entrevistas/entrevistas-latuff.htm
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http://www.observatoriodaimprensa.com.br/obstv/obstv100420021.htm
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http://animalpicturesarchive.com/animal/APAsrch3.cgi?qt=Latuff
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http://www.oficinainforma.com.br/semana/leituras-991023/4.htm
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http://www.diario.it/cnt/afghanistan/vignette/vignetta42.htm
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http://www.poormagazine.com/index.cfm?L1=news&story=726
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http://www.rebelion.org/internacional/latuff250102.htm
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http://www.editorialcartoons.net/latuff-mainindex.html
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http://www.photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=163684
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http://www.geocities.com/katariuta/arte1latuff.html
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http://hjem.wanadoo.dk/~wai19207/html/artlatuff.htm
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http://members.tripod.com/~seaton_kan/index-7.html
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http://www.angelfire.com/la/latuff/pinochet.html
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http://www.vietvet.org/artsofwar/newlatuff.htm
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http://www.niteroi-artes.gov.br/latuff03.html
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http://www.israel.marxist.com/izr/latuff.htm
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http://www.ariga.com/peacewatch/kosovch.htm
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http://sites.uol.com.br/j.oscar/latuff.htm
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http://www.narco.news.xs2.net/warroom.html
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http://www.iso.org.au/nowar/cartoons.html
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ICAO_20020403/pri_tem_030402_176.htm
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http://www.angelfire.com/la/latuff
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http://www.akdh.ch/latuff2.htm
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http://www.akdh.ch/latuff.htm
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Let's end with a Spoken Word
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"Dow Jone's hoverin
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Unemployments still risin
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Measure of the market
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Ain't the measure of my mother's purse
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But your daughter's trust fund
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Sign says no suit no admittance
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Oughta be sayin no portfolio, no rights
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Seems we got only 500
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fortunate enough for democracy
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the rest of us?
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5.15 an hour or get the fuck out
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one dollar, one coke
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one million, one vote
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For the rest of us i hear there's a blue light special
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on freedom of choice, aisle 1
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101 necessities of life
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202 variations a piece
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your dollar is your one way
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ticket to a better life
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so the line forms on the right
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and please have those ballots ready !
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for a bigger television set
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tighter blue jeans
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the fastest damn car on the road
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we got everything you need
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without the one thing you dont
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candidates &! nbsp; ; open those wallets shut your mouth and mind
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400 billion a year's a small price
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for 1.45 per gallon of freedom
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our kids are bombin their tests
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while those candidates are bombin the rest
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of the world
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third world voicin dissent with the new world
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order up a burger with fries
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as you choke down their lies
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in the place where your soul used to be
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a big red sticker proclaims
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as seen on tv &! nbsp; fully automated humans going to polls
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punching ballots or market surveys
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its all the same, may as well ask
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pepsi or coke, mcdonald's or wendys
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as republican or democrat
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got feedback?
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ati@etext.org
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