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Phirst Amendment
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Vol. 1 Issue #1
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07 November, 1993
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A KAoS production
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Article I
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Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or
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prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech or
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the press; or the right of the people, peacably, to assemble and to petition
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the Government for a redress of grievances.
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Editing, Story Continuity, & Public Relations...........David Lightman
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Good Cop................................................David Lightman
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Bad Cop.....................................................Anesthesia
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Editorial Assistance, Research, & Footwork.......................Storm
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Table of Contents.<DL>...............................................01
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Introduction.<Anesthesia>............................................01
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Who is KAos? and What is Phirst Amendment?..<KAoS>...................02
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Poet's Corner..<Featuring Danny Elfman>..............................03
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Chemical of the Month <Anesthesia>...................................04
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Money.<DL>...........................................................05
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The New Modem Tax!.<Anesthesia>......................................06
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Funny Money..<George Knoblauch>......................................07
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Food for Thought.<Storm>.............................................08
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Paper Recycling.<DL>.................................................09
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Dumpster Diving.<Anesthesia>.........................................10
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Gnus Around Town.<DL>................................................11
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BBS Connection.<Anesthesia>..........................................12
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The purpose of this first issue of 1A is to greet the community which
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it is intended to serve. We, herein, will give examples of the data to be
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brought to you. We intend to provide this newsletter to the world, with the
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intent of mass dissemination of data we are able to provide. Nothing is to be
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censored as it is provided to us, with the exception of nonsense.
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In future issues we will attempt to educate and inform you in many
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diversified areas. As we are writing this for you, we plan to develop certain
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areas for you, our readers, to submit articles, news going on around the
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community, and OF COURSE, suggestions.
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We will soon have a host of means to support you, dear reader, with a
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multitude of media avenues with which to contact us. We can currently be
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reached through Internet, for those of you with access. If you do not, leave a
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message to anyone who claims to be willing to assist you. Current and future
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issues will be easily found at ``Frayed Ends of Sanity'' @ (606)491-3483 and a
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few other boards TBA. We welcome your comments, suggestions, pizza, articles,
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or whatever you feel like sending (Just send us mail!) We will attempt to
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reply to all intelligible correspondence.
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- Thanks - Anesthesia (606) and David Lightman (314) - Together, we are KAoS. -
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Keep reading and have a Big Dog.
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DLightma@nyx.cs.du.edu
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Who is Kaos? What is Phirst Amendment? +
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Well, Let's get the who before the what, shall we?
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Author Profile: David Lightman Nicknames: Daiv, Spif, Alec and a slew of other
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four letter names.
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Age at this date: 22 Age at other dates: 14,9, and 28 respectively.
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Favorite Books: Unlimited Power- Anthony Robbins
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Roget's Thesaurus- Bob Roget
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Live Debt Free- Ted Carroll
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Past Handles: Richie Adler (for about 1 month) c.'83
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Alec Brenden (stage name when playing with Monde) c.'85
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Handle Origin: When I first started, it was a pretty common handle, but now its
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origin is more arcane. The movie WarGames' main character.
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Height: 'bout 6'0" Weight: 155# Eye Color: Blue Hair Color: Blonde
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Computers: Toshiba Laptop, '286 mutt Clone (built it m'self), AT&T 6300.
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Sysop of: The Dark Tower, Sigma Phi House Co-sysop of: The Forbin Project, The
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Black Hole
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Net Address: DLightma@nyx.cs.du.edu
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How'd it all start? Sheez... that's a question now isn't it? Well...
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When I was REAL young, like 7 or 8, my parents bought a TRS-80 model
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one for their business. It was intended to keep track of inventory and
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customers and the like. It didn't take too long for me to start figuring out
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how to program the thing; writing card games, and text adventures in BASIC.
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I worked on that thing until it about blew up. (In fact, it did, or at
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least the monitor did...) I was always trying to figure out new and faster
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ways to do some of the simplest things. For instance, I spent a week figuring,
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of the 100's of ways to change the screen from compleatly black to compleatly
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white, which was the fastest. I finally found it and was satisfied...
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Muahahaha.
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Anyway, after the thing died, my father bought me a PCjr. The modem was
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cheap and the salesman told him that, with Compuserve, it was a great
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educational tool. (Yeah, right.) I started calling BBSes in the St. Louis area
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at this point. I was calling basic AE boards and a few others and cannot even
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remember what the program was called, but a few boards were The Great White
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North, The Twilight Zone, The Junk Drawer, and The Rolla Link in Exile (some of
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which are still up, I think...)
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I saw all of these programs and decided to write one for the IBM, since
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the only thing available at the time was FIDO and Apple programs. I
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incorporated all of the functions that I found useful and some really stupid
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ones like the spinning cursor and 'f/ph' convention. The Dark Tower was born. I
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spread the number around through chats and teleconferences, and soon had a
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pretty thriving 300 baud board... (laughs)
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I was hanging around with a pretty elite crowd at the time: Knight
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Lightning, Dr. Forbin, Taran King, Forest Ranger, Cool Shades, et. al. They
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were all on my board at one time or another, and they helped make Dark Tower
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what it was.
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Not too long after, my parents divorced. My dad sold my computer for
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like $150 or something. I was pissed. I moved out and lived on the streets for
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a little while. I did so many different things to make money it isn't even
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funny. But, I finally got my high school diploma and a few years of college and
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thought I was good enough to take a crack at the Underground Community again.
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Here I am now, with about 5 years of street knowledge, a grudge the
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size of Milwaukee, and a couple computers... I'm ready to rock. How 'bout you
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Anesthesia?
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Author Profile: Anesthesia
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Age at this date: 23
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Favorite Books: Penthouse, Playboy, Hustler, and Gallery
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Past Handles: Max Headroom
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Ch:>pper
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Space Monkey
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The Illusionist
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Handle Origin: It's a Metallica song.
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Height: 6'1" Weight: 140-180# (depends on the time of year and time of day) Eye
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Color: Blue Hair Color: Brown
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Computers: yes.
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Sysop of: Frayed Ends of Sanity (606)491-3483 Co-sysop of: Too numerous to list
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'Kay... It all started a long, long time ago... in a galaxy far, far... (wait
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wrong story)
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I started off with an original Apple and opened my first board pretty much
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the first day I owned a modem. After looking at the vast availability of BBS
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software in '78, I decided to write my own. That's how and why I learned how to
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program. I learned from a lot of guys at MIT, people on chats across the world,
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Internet, Telnet, Tymnet/Sprintnet. My best advice to anyone is to always use
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the right tool for the wrong job. (as he tries to remove a screw with a pair of
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tweezers) And NO! I don't cook chickens or other farm animals in microwave
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ovens.
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For many years, a member of several interesting and popular groups, my
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board has supported many groups over its 12-13 years of operation and is always
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ready to carry anyone's stuff.
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Of the many people that have influenced me over the years, a few people I
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would like to thank are Taxi, British Knight, Digitone Cypher, Rambo, Scooter,
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Predat0r, but most of all Knight Lightning and Taran King for Phrack. Sorry for
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those I missed due to space considerations, you will be recognized elsewhere
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soon!
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In closing, we would like to express out thanks for giving our first issue a
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chance. With your help, we can only get better! We would also like to thank all
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boards that keep these files available for you. Also, thank YOU, in advance,
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for passing this file on to another board for us. We need all the help we can
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get in spreading our message and this file. We are still establishing out
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distribution network and are counting on you to pass these first few around
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until it IS established. Please keep reading this and STAY FREE!
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- KAoS
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Poet's Corner |
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[Note by David Lightman: For those readers who were of age in the 60's, it's
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real easy to determine what this song is most likely about. How many
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governmental killings have their been? Who can count that high? Without a trial
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of peers, without warning: people who are a threat to the people in power can
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and have been "picked off" quite readily and most hastily throughout the 1950's
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and up. All the more reason to be a dissident, I feel.
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This lyric illustrates, quite vividly, the purpose of this newsletter. Future
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editions of Poet's Corner, will show similar views from other prominent members
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of our society.
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Aspiring Poets... have at it... send us your best.]
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Right to Know
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by Danny Elfman
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from Oingo Boingo's Dark at the End of the Tunnel
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On a cool, dark night, someone's coming down the street,
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With a smoking gun and smile on his face
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for all to see, the rest is history.
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No one knows what's on his mind,
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Except him and his monkey, come on... come on...
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When the big man fell with a secret on his lips,
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So Close, So Close - 'Til the bullet gave its kiss.
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The World cried out. The rest is history.
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No one knows what's on his mind,
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except him and his monkey, come on... come on...
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You've got a right to know...
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You've got a right to know...
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You've got a right to know...
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You've got a right to believe that there's something more to see.
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There's a man at the desk who is talking real soft,
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to a half a dozen guys, but not a word is lost.
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The men depart, they all know what to do...
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With a rifle aiming through a clearing in a bush,
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So close, So close; but no one thinks to look.
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You've got a right to know...
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You've got a right to know...
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You've got a right to know...
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You've got a right to believe that there's something more to see,
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than a big bunch of flowers in a cemetery.
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So why hold out, come on and give your testimony.
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On a phone connection, on the other side of town,
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sits a man with a pencil who doesn't make a sound.
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He nods his head, the rest is history.
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But no one knows what's on his mind,
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except him and his monkey, come on... come on...
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When the big man fell with a secret on his lips,
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So Close, So Close - 'Til the bullet gave its kiss.
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You've got a right to know...
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You've got a right to know...
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You've got a right to know...
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You've got a right to believe that there's something more to see,
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than a big bunch of flowers in a cemetery.
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So why hold out, come on and give your testimony.
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On a cool, dark night, someone's coming down the street...
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[Not sure where to put this next column, so while you're still pumped up,
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here's...]
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/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ Chemical of the Month /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\
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by Anesthesia
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This is where I can share with you some basic information on common
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chemicals. I do plan on compiling these into a series of recipes once you have
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been introduced to the basics of chemistry and rudimentary safety.
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This time it is:
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Sulfuric Acid
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(H2 SO4)
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AKA: Oil of Vitreol, dipping acid
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Description:
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Colorless or dark brown oily liquid
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Uses: Manufacture of iron, steel, rayon, film, fertilizers, and dyes;
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petroleum refining; etching; alkylation catalyst; electroplating
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baths; laboratory reagent; nonferrous metallergy and batteries.
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Hazards:
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Highly toxic, extremely corrosive to body tissue; will cause
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immediate and severe burns. Inhalation of vapor will cause loss of
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consciencesness and severely damaged skin, eyes, and respiratory
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tract. Keep cool and dry.
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[Now for what can best be termed: The Topic of the Month.]
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Money | |
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by David Lightman | |
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Research Assistance by Anesthesia |
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dedicated to My Father | |
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The major focus of my concentration for quite some time has been money.
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Most people really like money. And a good many of our lives would be a little
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inconvenienced by the lack of said currency. But what do we know about our
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currency supply? What do we know about the bills themselves? These things and
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more remain to be explored here...
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*The Role of the Freemasons in our countries history:*
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The remarkable part of the one-dollar bill is the Great Seal of the
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United States (the two circular emblems on back). Some see in the seal,
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evidence of a Masonic conspiracy. At any rate, the pyramid with the eye above
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it is an obvious nod to Freemasonry. (The truncated pyramid represents the
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unfinished temple of Solomon, the eye represents the Grand Architect of the
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Universe.)
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In 1954, University of Texas doctoral candidate, James David Carter,
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wrote a dissertation (Freemasonry in Texas: Background, History, and Influence
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in 1846) that summarized further rumored significance of the Great Seal. It is
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claimed that the eagle on the seal has thirty-two feathers in its right wing
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and thirty-three feathers in its left. The thirty-two feathers symbolize the
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thirty-two Scottish Rite degrees (earned titles) of Freemasonry. There are also
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thirty-three honorary degrees, which accounts for the thirty-three feathers.
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The eagle's nine tail feathers correspond to the nine degrees of the York Rite.
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"E. Pluribus Unum," on the eagle's banner is a masonic motto. Above the eagle's
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head are thirteen stars, representing the thirteen colonies but arranged to
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suggest a Star of David. King David figures into Masonic legend. The glory
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around the thirteen stars is celebrated with alternating long and short marks,
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suggesting the twenty-four divisions of the Masonic gauge (ruler).
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* Other Countries Money *
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US Dollars are much easier to counterfeit compared to many foreign
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countries. Not only to foreign currencies carry watermarks (a valuable
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anticounterfeiting device the U.S. Treasury has declined to use), but they also
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sport various high-tech gimmicks.
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Buried inside the Scottish pound not is a strip of microfilm. Across
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the top of the front one-pound note is written "The Royal Bank of Scotland
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Limited." The Microfilm runs vertically through the 'n' in the word 'Bank'. If
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you hold the note up to the light and examine the strip with a magnifying
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glass, the film is seen to spell out the initials of the Royal Bank of
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Scotland: RBS.
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Israeli currency has an opaque magnetic filament that is said to spell
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out the name of the central bank magnetically, in Morse code.
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The Day-Glo Colors on many Third World currencies are there for a
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reason. Bahamian money, for instance, has a "prismatic background"- a delicate
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pattern of conch shells that grades from turquoise to lilac to pink to orange
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to gold. A counterfeiter trying to reproduce the pastel tones on a color copier
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runs into trouble. Fiddle with the color adjustments as he might, at least one
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of the colors fails to reproduce.
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Queen Elizabeth II's hair has been a source of notaphilic rumours in
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the Commonwealth nations. The 1954 issue of Canadian dollars contained a
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remarkably convincing devil's face in the Queen's hair, just to the right of
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her earring. The portrait was retouched after public discovery of the face.
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Now the devil's face dollars are virtually uncirculated. (Collectors HOARD
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them.) The face was claimed to have been the work of an antiroyalist engraver.
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The current portrait of the Queen on British pound notes has what may be
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interpreted as a panting Pekinese dog. It is also in the hair, on the right
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side, directly in line with the Queen's eyes.
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All of these countries use state of the art anti-counterfeiting
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technology. Yet the U.S. refuses to adopt any of them. Are they too stupid?
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Has the bureaucratic machine become so large and cumbersome that matters of
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security as important as our currency supply are left unguarded (or guarded by
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100 year old security systems)? Is someone being paid to leave American bills
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the way they are? The pound, mark, etc haven't been in their present form for
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the past 200 years? Why has our bill remained the same? (Easily
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counterfeitable)
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In a recent interview conducted with a member of the Tunisian military,
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it is rumoured that Iran has for some time been buying America, chunks at a
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time, with counterfeit cash. He said that there were definitely more reasons
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for the conflict known as Desert Storm than were publicly stated. But that's a
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whole issue in itself.
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If a country in such poor financial shape as Iran can buy our country
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from under us using counterfeit money... how many countries with slightly
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higher standards of living and less morals have thought of the same thing?
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* How easy IS it to counterfeit American currency? *
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The Treasury Department does not produce the paper used to print money.
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The paper's manufacture is contracted out to a private company better known for
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business stationery: Crane and Company of Dalton, Massachusetts. The type of
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currency paper now used, with the red and blue fibres, was developed by the
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Treasury Department in conjunction with Crane and Company. It has been in use
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since 1879.
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Officially, the formulation of the paper is a secret. In fact, however,
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there is very little that isn't know about the paper. Every counterfeiter since
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1879 has tried to duplicate it, with varying degrees of success. From time to
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time, curious paper chemists have broken it down and surmised its salient
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features. It's known, for instance, that the paper is 75% cotton and 25% linen.
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(Originally it was 100% linen, then 75%, and then 50%.) It is permeated with
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red a blue fibres. U.S. Currency has three hidden security features:
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1. The paper fluoresces under and ultraviolet lamp.
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2. The ink is magnetic-not to a degree you could notice with a pocket
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magnet, but enough to be detected with special machines.
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3. The paper is riddled with tiny, invisible holes. Under a
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microscope, pinpoints of light shine through. (Many counterfeit papers
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are solid.)
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Money used to be made from used clothing. Crane purchased old cotton
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shirts, hired ragpickers to remove the buttons, and bleached the fabric white.
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Now most shirts contain polyester, and the dyes do NOT bleach out. "New rag
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cuttings" - small squares of virgin fabric - rather than old shirts are the
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principal raw material of money today. Crane buys them from textile firms.
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The first step in production of any rag paper is to convert the rag
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into pulp. The cuttings of cotton and linen (in a 3 to 1 ratio) are mixed with
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water - probably just enough to cover the cloth- and beaten in large machines.
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Hours later, the mixture is a uniform pulp with no fibres remaining.
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The blue and red fibres must be added at this stage. If they were added
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during the beating, the colored fibres would, likewise, be reduced to pulp.
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Examination of the finished currency paper reveals that the fibres are embedded
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in the paper, not just pasted onto its surface. Therefor they must be mixed
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into the pulp before the sheets are formed.
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The pulp is poured into molds. The paper molds usually consist of a
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wooden frame with a fine wire mesh bottom. They are somewhat larger than the
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dry, finished sheets, to allow for shrinkage. The pulp must be spread evenly in
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the mold, and the amount of pulp must me gauged to a final dry-sheet thickness
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in the range of 0.0042 to 0.0045 inches.
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Excess water drips through the wire mesh, leaving a newly formed sheet
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in the mold. The damp sheets are probably "couched" as most fine paper is -
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carefully transferred to wool mats, or "felts". The sheets and felts are
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sandwiched together and squeezed in a press to further remove water.
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The next step is loft drying, to which currency paper owes much of its
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durability. The sheets are peeled from the felts and placed on a large screen,
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the loft, to dry. The faster paper dries, the stronger it becomes; the loft
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allows it to dry from both sides at once.
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Paper to be used for printing must be "sized". Sizing prevents the ink
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from soaking in and spreading out. If you try to write on a paper towel (and
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unsized paper) with a fountain pen, the ink would feather and the writing
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become illegible. Currency paper, then, obviously is well-sized to take the
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fine writing. The best sizing material, and the one that paper chemists agree
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is used for U.S. currency, is glue. Glue-sizing is actually a gelatin made by
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boiling the hooves, ears, and other unused parts of slaughtered livestock.
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(Ick!!- Anesthesia) It is sold in a dry, flaky form, and dissolved in water to
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yield a thin sizing bath. Dry sheets are immersed in the bath, removed,
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pressed, and dried.
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The exceptional uniformity of currency paper betrays the final step in
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its manufacture. No matter how carefully, the pulp is spread in the molds, even
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thickness is impossible to insure without plate finishing. In this step, the
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sheets are sandwiched between polished, metal plates. Heavy rollers compress
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these sandwiched sheets under great pressure. Although mere lagniappe, this
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finishing is nearly impossible to duplicate with makeshift equipment. High
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pressure rollers are expensive machines. (In contrast, all the steps up to
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plate finishing can be duplicated by amateur paper-makers at home.) The
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thickness of counterfeit paper usually varies outside the Treasury Department
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tolerances.
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The finished sheets are cut to measure 53.5 by 63.0 cm - just enough
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for 32 bills, eight down and four across.
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* What is money really worth? *
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When this country first started doing the currency thing. They adopted
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the term dollar for their bill, to spite the British and NOT call it the pound.
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Instead of having an abstract term for tender that has no REAL value, the
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government at the time, which WAS a good government, decided to back each piece
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of tender with actual precious metals. Coins were made from silver. With the
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exceptions of the lower valued coins which were made from less precious metals.
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It would have been ridiculous to see the size of a coin made from a pennys
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worth of silver. So to make the public more at ease with carrying the coins,
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they were made of a pennys worth of copper and five cents worth of nickel.
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The U.S. Government requested and received permission from all other
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countries and the citizens of America to produce coinage from the
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aforementioned metals. Susan B. Anthony Dollars, Kennedy Half-Dollars, Quarters
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and even dimes were to be bonded with copper and zinc, decreasing in content of
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silver since 1965. In 1983 or so, the value of the dollar had depreciated so
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much that the actual value of the copper in the penny was about 2.5 cents. That
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was when The Department of Treasury decided to start making pennies out of
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zinc. Zinc was NOT one of original metals that the U.S. requested to mint.
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The Original Dollar was the Gold note. Yes, those are very old and ONLY
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worth one dollars worth of merchandise. (except to collectors) But why does
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the U.S. government demand their return when they are deposited into a bank?
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Why do they destroy them? Easy... They are contracts. They state that the U.S.
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Dept of Treasury will pay the bearer on demand, one dollars worth of GOLD! The
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Dept of Treasury now refuses and denies that this contract exists on the bill.
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Incidentally, after the nations gold supply was spoken for, they started making
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the more commonly known 'Silver Note' which is also hunted down and killed, and
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the contract denied.
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The whole reason behind the change of mind about backing the bills with
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physical valuables was simply GREED! American politicians wanting to stimulate
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the economy (and thus stay in office and maintain power) need only print more
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money. Sure it's worth less (sic!), but people are stimulated into spending
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more of it, when there's more to go around. Its effect is similar to decreasing
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the Federal Interest Rate. More money is in the system, so consumers and
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businesses are more likely to spend that money thus further increasing the
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amount of money in physical circulation and the cycle, the politician hopes,
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continues from there.
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So, politicians since the 1900's have been steadily deteriorating the
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value of the dollar, by allowing it to become an intangible item. A citizen can
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live an entire year: Working, spending, circulating "cash"; and never see a
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solitary bill. Direct deposit puts the check electronically in the citizen's
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account. He writes checks and uses credit cards to pay his bills, buy his
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necessities, etc. A check is written to Master Card for the balance, and all
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the while, the citizen feels no doubt that his country's currency is now an
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entirely abstract concept, backed by nothing but the support of the country.
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If, or more likely WHEN, this country does go belly up - every cent in
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every citizens possession will be entirely useless... it cannot be melted down,
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it cannot be redeemed, and no other country will honor currency from a defunct
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country. We will be SOL! Ever notice that when the value of the dollar
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decreases, the value of Gold and Silver increases?!? That is because major
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economic indicators point at one time or another, that the country is nearer or
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further from ruin. Intelligent investors KNOW that it is inevitable. They buy
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tangible, precious metals as doomsday looks nearer. So far it has not
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happened... When will it? I'd need a pair of crystal balls to be able to
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determine that, but now that you KNOW, you can act. Ignorance is no excuse. We
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WILL keep you informed.
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Information from this article has been generated from several books I
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have read over the years and interviews conducted with relevant parties. Also
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a few conventions and recordings from people cited as being 'rebellious' and
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some even charged with supposed 'Treason' and 'Conspiracy', for "leaking"
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information that of which the public should be informed. It is for these people
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I am inspired to keep that feeling alive. To not stop thinking for myself, and
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to NEVER take the word of the government or a politician without physical
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backup.
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[While you're considering how politicians are trying to take more of the money
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they print so abundantly. Here's an...]
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Editorial on | |
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"The New Modem Tax" | |
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by Anesthesia |
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The FCC (Federal Communications Commission) is again attempting to impose
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a "Modem Tax" on all informational services.
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This has been attempted twice before (1987 and 1989) and will always be a
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threat until it is retaliated against. This tax will require that all
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informational services be required to pay for telephone line access based on
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usage. This could cause prices of these services to increase by as much as 300
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percent.
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Some of you may feel that these high cost companies are getting what they
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deserve. This may be true. But if this passes, what is to stop them from
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charging us a tax on ALL modem use?
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We highly suggest that you write your Congressman and local Representative
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to protest this tax and any others like it. If you wish to enjoy your online
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freedom (key word-"free") then We Must all join together and do this.
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-Anesthesia
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[Now that we've whet you're appetite, here's a fine article about how the
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current political regime has illegally produced its non-backed denominations of
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"tender".]
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Funny Money | |
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by George T. Knoblauch |
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I was rummaging through an antique chest in our attic. I found an old
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dollar bill which said "Silver Certificate" redeemable at any bank for one
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silver dollar. I looked at a dollar bill which I had in my pocket but it only
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said Federal Reserve Note. Not a word that I could redeem in silver dollars. I
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thought a note was a debt. I figured: Hell, I'll take it to my bank the next
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time I go and get a silver dollar for it. Would be nice to have an old silver
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dollar for a change.
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The next time I was at the bank, I gave the teller the old silver
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certificate. I asked for a silver dollar to replace it. Her mouth dropped open.
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She said, "I'm sorry, sir, I have no authority to give you a silver dollar
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for this bill."
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"What do you mean? It says right on the bill that it can be redeemed at
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any bank for a silver dollar!"
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"Yes sir, it does. Just a minute while I ask the Vice-President to look at
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it and to give you his decision."
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The Vice-President came to the window with the dollar in his hand. He
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said he was sorry but the redemption of these old bills stopped in 1964.
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"How did that happen?" I asked.
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"Congress passed a law taking us off the silver standard. They set a date
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to allow for the exchange of these old bills for silver. That ended in 1964. I
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can only suggest if you want a silver coin, you'll have to go to a coin shop."
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I stopped at a coin shop on the way home. I found that I would have to pay
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7 Federal Reserve Note dollars to purchase a one dollar silver coin.
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"What a lot of nonsense." I said, "Just what in blazes is going on with
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our money?"
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GOLD--MONEY--SILVER--DOLLARS!
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What did our Founding Fathers have in mind concerning money when they set
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up our Constitution?
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Was it to be a piece of paper with different numbers printed on it? No.
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Do you think they had experience with paper money? You bet they did. In our
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Constitution, (Art I, Sec 8), we gave Congress authority "to coin money".
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Further, they are to regulate the value of our money. Nowhere in our agreement
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for this business of government was the power given to "print money." The
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money experience of the colonists under the Articles of Confederation was
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disastrous! Each of the original colonies had gone through periods of coined
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money and paper money. They had over 100 years of experience with money which
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varied from day to day and from state to state. Paper money was no stranger to
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the men who went to Philadelphia in 1787.
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Roger Sherman was one of the delegates from Connecticut. He was largely
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responsible for the restriction in our Constitution that money had to be coins
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and not a piece of paper. Roger Sherman had the distinction of being the only
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man to sign three major documents in the early history of our country.
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His signature appears on the Articles of Confederation, Declaration of
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Independence and of course, our Constitution. In 1752, he wrote a blistering
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article against paper money entitled: A CAVEAT AGAINST INJUSTICE. He had spent
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many years trying to run businesses in the private sector and experienced the
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evils of paper money first hand. The book has been reprinted by Publisher
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Spencer Judd. It is available from the publisher at
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Spencer Judd
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Post Office Box 143
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Sewanee, TN 37375.
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Major William Pierce, a delegate from Georgia, wrote sketches of all the
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men who attended the Constitutional Convention. This is his description of
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Roger Sherman: "Mr. Sherman exhibits the oddest shaped character I ever
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remember to have met with. He is awkward, un-meaning, and unaccountably strange
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in his manner. But in his train of thinking there is something regular, deep,
|
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and comprehensive; yet the oddity of his address, the vulgarisms that
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accompany his public speaking, and that strange new England cant which runs
|
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through his public and private speaking make everything that is connected with
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him grotesque and laughable; - and yet he deserves infinite praise; - no Man
|
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has a better Heart or a clearer Head. If he cannot embellish he can furnish
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thoughts that are wise and useful. He is an able politician, and extremely
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artful in accomplishing any particular object; - it is remarked that he seldom
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fails."
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(Documents Illustrative of the Formation of the Union of the American States,
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House Document No. 398, 69th Congress, 1st Session) (1965).
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There was a lot of debate during the convention about permission to issue
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"bills of credit" or paper money. The other delegate from Connecticut was Mr.
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Oliver Ellsworth. During debates on money he declared this was a good time to
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shut the door against the future use of paper money. He further stated, "The
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mischiefs of the various experiments which had been made, were now fresh in the
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public mind and had excited the disgust of all the respectable part of
|
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America." On the motion to deny permission for the government allowing the
|
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issuance of paper money, only New Jersey and Maryland voted no.
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Roger Sherman was on the committee which considered the prohibitions
|
|
against state governments. Mr. Sherman felt this was just the right situation
|
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for crushing paper money. One proposition was to allow the issuance of paper
|
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money by the states with the consent of the legislature. He said, "If the
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consent of the Legislature could authorize emissions of it, the friends of
|
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paper money, would make every exertion to get into the Legislature in order to
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license it."
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He and Mr. Wilson of Pennsylvania moved to add some special words. "Nor
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emit bills of credit, nor make any thing but gold & silver coin a tender in the
|
|
payment of debts."
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The entire convention agreed to this clause and included it in our
|
|
Constitution in Article I, Section 10. Let's examine that command. No State
|
|
shall emit bills of credit nor make any Thing but gold and silver coin a tender
|
|
in the payment of debts! I point out a small yet important item in that
|
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restriction. Any Thing is two separate words and the word thing is capitalized.
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Our Founding Fathers were determined that only gold and silver coin could be
|
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legal tender. By capitalizing "Thing", they were certain no one could raise a
|
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question in that aspect.
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If you have a debt with the state in which you live, they cannot make any
|
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thing a tender. This includes repayment of debt in other than gold and silver
|
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coin. You can volunteer, of course, to pay the debt in anything your state will
|
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accept. Be it money orders, checks, federal reserve notes, wampum, bingo chips
|
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or beads. But we know there is no gold or silver coin in circulation. For any
|
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state to force you to pay in any Thing but gold or silver is a violation of
|
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your rights. It is also a violation of a specific state duty under Art. I,
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Section 10.
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The Constitution is the supreme law of the land and is binding on all
|
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states. The supremacy clause makes it very clear.
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On March 3, 1884, the United States Supreme Court changed all that. In a
|
|
case called Juilliard vs Greenman, they said the restriction against the
|
|
issuance of paper money was against the states. It did not apply against the
|
|
federal government. The so-called interpreters of law have, again, taken it on
|
|
themselves to change our Constitution in violation of our amendment process.
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A book written in 1886 by a historian named George Bancroft called "A PLEA
|
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FOR THE CONSTITUTION" clearly points out the illegality and fallacy of the
|
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decision by the Supreme Court. I recommend it highly and it is also available
|
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in reprint from Publisher Spencer Judd, whose address appears above.
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Another authorization we did not allow is for the legislative body to
|
|
delegate any of their duties to any other body, under ANY circumstances.
|
|
However, in 1913, Congress gave permission to a private corporation called the
|
|
Federal Reserve System to control our money. More on this in a later chapter.
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|
Looking back to Section 8 of Article I, we find Congress is to "fix the
|
|
Standard of Weights and Measures." For the sake of our illustration, and to
|
|
show how idiotic it was to hand over the control of our money, let's pretend
|
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Congress also gave that required duty of weights to a private company. This
|
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outfit (whoever it might be) has decided an ounce is now a pound and a liquid
|
|
ounce is now and forever a gallon.
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|
They are controlling only weights and measures... not the value of an
|
|
article. Now a gallon of gasoline costs you $32.00 instead of one dollar. The
|
|
cost of a rib steak is now about $64.00 a pound. Can you imagine how the people
|
|
would explode if this had happened? Only because Congress reneged on its duties
|
|
to fix the standard of weights and measures.
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We know they didn't give this duty to a private outfit. They DID give the
|
|
mandated duty to regulate the value of our money to a private company. Now who
|
|
is breaking the law? The same thing happens to the value of our dollar as in
|
|
the above illustration of variations in weights and measures. The effect is not
|
|
as dramatic because they complete money manipulation slowly and it is carried
|
|
on behind closed doors. People are mostly ignorant on money issues. The
|
|
bureaucracy and the Fed prefer it that way.
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We often hear the phrase "ignorance of the law is no excuse." What do you
|
|
suppose their excuse is for violating our basic law? Ignorance on our part of
|
|
this dereliction of congressional duty is also no excuse.
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Alexander Hamilton in The Federalist Papers, No. 42 equates the value of
|
|
coins with weights and measures. "The regulation of weights and measures is
|
|
transferred from the Articles of Confederation, and is founded on like
|
|
considerations with the preceding power of regulating coin."
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All the gobbledegook in Washington DC will not change the fact our elected
|
|
people in Congress did and are violating their oaths. They are breaking the
|
|
law. And we are the victims!
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James Madison, in paper No. 44, speaks of the restrictions against the
|
|
states (Art I, Sec 10) by saying "The extension of the prohibition to bills of
|
|
credit must give pleasure to every citizen in proportion to his love of justice
|
|
and his knowledge of the true springs of public prosperity. The loss which
|
|
America has sustained since the peace, from the pestilent effects of paper
|
|
money on the necessary confidence between man and man, on the necessary
|
|
confidence in the public councils, on the industry and morals of the people,
|
|
and on the character of republican government, constitutes an enormous debt
|
|
against the States chargeable with this unadvised measure - it may now be
|
|
observed that the same reasons which show the necessity of denying to the
|
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States the power of regulating coin prove with equal force that they ought not
|
|
to be at liberty to substitute a paper medium in place of coin."
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|
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Yet the states cry they have to use whatever the federal government issues
|
|
for money. From what we have looked at so far, we all know this is pure horse
|
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manure. The relationship of the states to the national government is turned
|
|
upside down. The states were jealous of their sovereignty and that was apparent
|
|
throughout the convention. This was to be a union of states, not an all
|
|
powerful federal government which could do no wrong. We've let it get away from
|
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us. What consideration can our elected officials give to their oath? Perhaps
|
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it's just a ritual now, only so many words which have to be recited each time
|
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we return them to the funny farm in Washington.
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If they were honorable men, the oath would be all important and binding on
|
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them. Then we would not have to worry if our Constitution were being obeyed.
|
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Okay, now what do we have to do? Throw them all out of office whenever they
|
|
come up for election. We certainly don't need Republicans, Democrats, liberals,
|
|
right wingers, conservatives or left wingers. There is no requirement that a
|
|
member of Congress be a lawyer either! We need those bakers, butchers and
|
|
computer operators. We need honest Americans as our representatives who will
|
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restore our Republic to the greatness our Founding Fathers intended. Get on the
|
|
phone and call the local offices of all Senators and Congressmen. Ask where
|
|
they found authority to delegate their duties to a private company like the
|
|
Federal Reserve or to any other body for that matter. Write letters to their
|
|
Washington offices and ask the same questions.
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Write your Governors and ask if the United States Constitution is still
|
|
binding on the state. Ask specifically about the restriction in Art I, section
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10! Letters every couple of weeks would not be too often to let them know you
|
|
know what is going on. You want it changed. Certainly it wouldn't be too much
|
|
to require them to obey a document they swore to uphold.
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Reports are that some of the State Supreme Courts have decided that the
|
|
restriction does not apply to their particular states. By what right? Did you
|
|
agree to allow the judiciary of your state to decide that the oaths to support
|
|
the Constitution is no longer binding on them? They need to be denied their
|
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offices also.
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We now have lawyers running and manipulate our lives. Let's make it stop.
|
|
These sort of decisions only show that lawyers are taking care of their own in
|
|
the mutual admiration society called government. If government thinks we would
|
|
agree to paper money instead of gold and silver, submit a proposed amendment to
|
|
our Constitution. Let's find out if we will allow for the change. The amendment
|
|
process is spelled out in Art V. Make them use it and stop these violations of
|
|
our basic law.
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They really have a good deal. They can issue a piece of paper with the
|
|
number one on it followed by as many zeros as they feel necessary. Then it can
|
|
be called money. They also are aware that gold and silver cannot be
|
|
counterfeited!
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They prefer the paper method. AFTER ALL... IT'S YOUR MONEY! But then, they
|
|
will probably ask... just who are you? Simply remind them.
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[This column has a decent introduction of its own, so here's]
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Food for Thought | |
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by Storm |
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This section is to focus a little more attention on one specific aspect of
|
|
our government's 'manipulation', if you will, of our society in attempt to
|
|
maintain full control of our populous, en masse. That aspect is, diet.
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|
Why has the USDA admitted that the amount of protein actually required for
|
|
human life, is about half of what they currently list as the RDA of protein? I
|
|
hate to keep saying this, but it's the common denominator of our culture,
|
|
GREED! Politicians don't stay in office if they displease powerful entities.
|
|
Politicians don't get their juicy kickbacks, if they don't do as the SIGs
|
|
(Special Interest Groups) wish. Why else would lawyers, who otherwise would be
|
|
making at least $100K a year with big law firms, take a job making half of that
|
|
(sic) and be harassed by the public, after spending hundreds of thousands of
|
|
dollars to campaign. It's not their humanitarian nature coming out, it's their
|
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greed.
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One specific SIG we will be addressing, is the Beef Industry. Another, the
|
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American Dairy Council, among others of their ilk.
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I have been a vegetarian for about five years now. Before I made the
|
|
switch, (Yes, I was raised on the standard meat and potatoes fare.) I read as
|
|
much as I could find on the topic of vegetarianism. I found books on every
|
|
aspect: Religious, Dietary (losing weight), Planetary Gain, and Economic.
|
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|
If you live on your own, no doubt you've experienced the sticker shock, as
|
|
I did, when you visit the meat department of your local SunFresh, Safeway, IGA,
|
|
or what have you. That was one of my first motivators.
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|
Being one of the first vegetarians, at the beginning of what seems to be a
|
|
trend, put a spotlight on me. People who were interested incessantly asked for
|
|
recipes, ideas, information on which products are animal based and which are
|
|
borderline, the list of questions goes on and on.
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I've decided that as vegetarianism, for the time being, is an alternative
|
|
lifestyle, there is, indeed, a place for its recognition in The Phirst
|
|
Amendment.
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I'll start with the basics of how the government is doing things that we
|
|
haven't necessarily approved of, with our tax dollars, to support the meat
|
|
industry, even though it is essentially a huge waste. I'll then progress to the
|
|
health benefits, and provide a recipe that you can try to see that, in reality,
|
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one can actually ENJOY a vegetarian diet.
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If there is enough response, I will consider a between issues issue,
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specifically of Food for Thought and a few columns from readers.
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Francis Moore Lappe, food expert and author of Diet for a Small Planet,
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said in a TV interview that we should view steak as a Cadillac. "What I mean",
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she explained, "is that we in America are hooked on gas-guzzling automobiles
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because of the illusion of cheap petroleum. Likewise, we got hooked on a grain-
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fed meat based diet because of the illusion of cheap grain."
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The USDA (United States Department of Agriculture) has compiled data over
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the years, concluding that over 90% of the grain produced in the U.S. are fed
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to livestock that is destined to be slaughtered for meat. Yet the process of
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producing meat from grain is extremely wasteful. For example, the USDA's
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Economic Research Service tells us that we get back only one pound of beef from
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sixteen pounds of grain.
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Dr. Aaron Altshul points out in his book, "Proteins: Their Chemistry and
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Politics", that in terms of calories per acre, a diet of grains, vegetables,
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and beans will support 20X as many people as will a diet of meat. As it stands
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now, over half of the harvested acreage is used to feed animals. If the earth's
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farmlands were used primarily for the production of vegetarian foods, the
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planet could easily support 20G people and more.
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Facts like this have led experts to point out that the world hunger
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problem is mostly illusory. We are producing enough food at this point to feed
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everyone. The allocation of the food we DO have is poorly managed. Rene Dumont,
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a French agricultural economist reported to the United Nations World Food
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Conference: "The overconsumption of meat by the rich means hunger for the poor.
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This wasteful agriculture must be changed - by...a massive reduction of feed
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cattle."
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From the economic viewpoint alone, reduction of our cattle crop would seem
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quite sound - unless you happen to be in the meat industry. In a cow rancher
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trade publication -"Farm Journal", an editorial was printed entitled, "Who Will
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Defend the Good Name of Beef?". The magazine urged the nation's beef-cattle
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raisers to chip in $40 million to finance publicity to keep beef consumption
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and prices sky high. I'm sure you've noticed the ads: "Beef: Real food for Real
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people." and "Beef: It's what's for dinner." and "Beef: Linked with heart
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disease and Cancer - Eat up!"... oh, I don't think that last one made it to the
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press yet... Why, suddenly, are they forking so much of their profits into
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keeping people eating what they have (supposedly) been eating all along and
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know is good for them? Perhaps it's the fact that in England alone, over 28,000
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people switch over to vegetarianism - EVERY WEEK! In England, they mark which
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products have no animal-based products with a nifty little green mark.
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It's a breeze to be a vegetarian, when the government you are ruled by is
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receptive to it. However, our country is spending millions to keep the meat
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industry alive. Where does that money come from? Our pockets! The meat industry
|
|
has managed to grab, through its power as an economic and political force, a
|
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unfair chunk of our tax dollars. The meat industry is so wasteful and costly
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|
that it needs subsidies in order to survive. Consider this: If it were not for
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the subsidies provided by our tax dollars, low-grade hamburger would run
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upwards of $7 a pound. Most people are unaware of how heavily the government
|
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supports the meat industry by outright grants (money that doesn't have to be
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paid back - EVER!), favorable loan guarantees, et al. In 1977, the U.S
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government bought an extra $100 million of surplus beef and school lunch
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programs.
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More tax dollars are siphoned away to support a disease-controlling
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network of inspectors. If an animal dies of disease, we (taxpayers) pay the
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farmer to dispose of the carcass. If we didn't pay him to destroy it, it would
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end up on John and Sally Lunchbucket's dinner table. In 1978, $50 million
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|
dollars were given to cattle farmers for destroying cattle with brucellosis (a
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flulike disease that affects cattle and other animals.) Under another program,
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the U.S. government guarantees loans (meaning if the rancher defaults, the tax
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money covers the tab) for up to $350,000 for meat producers. Other farmers only
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receive guarantees of up to $20,000. An editorial in the New York Times called
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this subsidy bill "Outrageous", stating that it was "a scandalous steal out of
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the public treasury." Also, despite much evidence from government health
|
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agencies showing the link between meat-eating and cancer and heart disease, the
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USDA still continues to spend millions promoting meat consumption through its
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publications and school lunch programs.
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Not only is our economy affected, but so is our environment. The U.S.
|
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Agricultural Research Service determined that the contaminated runoff from
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slaughter houses and feedlots are a major source of pollution to our nations
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water supply. Not only is our fresh water supply being polluted by the meat
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industry, it is being depleted as well. Paul and Anne Ehrlich explain in their
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|
book "Population, Resources, and Environment," that to grown one pound of wheat
|
|
requires a mere 60 gallons in comparison to a pound of meat which requires a
|
|
total of 2,500 to 6,000 pounds of water! One large chicken slaughtering
|
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operation in Tennessee was found to be using 100 MILLION gallons of water
|
|
DAILY! This same volume would supply a city of 25,000 people.
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I overhead a conversation in a bus terminal, where each person was
|
|
pretending to be "Green" (slang for Environmentally Conscious). One was saying
|
|
how the car of the other was generating a deluge of gasses. And that cars, too,
|
|
not just the CFCs (Chloro-fluorocarbons) from spray cans, aided to the global
|
|
warming trend called the "Greenhouse effect". The one who was being attacked
|
|
responded, "Oh, what cars do is nominal compared to the ether produced from all
|
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those cows." TRUE! Know WHY there ARE so many damn cows?? We raise them
|
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specifically to EAT! They don't just wander around the plains and mate so
|
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profusely that we just cannot control their numbers except for hunting them
|
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down and killing them... (oh and we might as well eat them...) We genetically
|
|
control the mating of cows to create the largest one that puts on the most
|
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bulk. The instant they reach peak size... WHAM! in the head with a sledgehammer
|
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and straight to your table, after a couple of weeks hanging around.
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Incidentally, the newest piece of cow in your average market, will be no less
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than one month dead.
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The whole idea of killing things to survive allows us remain desensitized
|
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and therefor be more easily used a puppets. If we kill animals for sport, if we
|
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kill animals for food, if we cause pain or death intentionally; it gradually
|
|
becomes even easier to kill our own kind: not just for our own survival,
|
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perhaps even for sport. This tangent will be continued in a forthcoming issue.
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How do you survive without meat?
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I have no idea how many times that question has been asked of me. But the
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answer is: 'Quite Easily.' With increased evidence of the effect of diet on
|
|
the life and well-being of the human body, more and more people are asking: Is
|
|
it actually better to be vegetarian?
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In search of the answer, let us consider two different aspects - the
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anatomical structure of the human body and the physical effects of meat
|
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consumption.
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Physiological Comparisons
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Meat-Eater | Herbivore | Man
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| | Has Claws |
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No Claws | No Claws
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| | No Skin pores, perspires|
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Perspires through skin | Perspires through skin through tongue |
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pores | pores
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| | Sharp front teeth for |
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No sharp front teeth | No sharp front teeth tearing, no flat molars |
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has flat rear molars | has flat rear molars for grinding |
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| | Intestinal tract 3 times|
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Intestinal tract 10-12 | Intestinal tract 12 times body length so rapidly
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| times body length | body length decaying meat can pass |
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| out quickly | |
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| | Strong hydrochloric acid|
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Stomach acid 20 times | Stomach acid 20 times in stomach to digest |
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less strong than meat- | less strong that meat- meat |
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eaters | eaters.
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Since eating begins with the hands and mouth, what can those parts tell
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us? Human teeth, like those of other herbivorous creatures, are designed for
|
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grinding and chewing vegetable matter. Humans lack the sharp front teeth for
|
|
tearing flesh that are characteristic of carnivores. Meat eating animals
|
|
generally swallow their food without much chewing and, therefore, have no need
|
|
for the grinding capacity that molars provide. Also the human hand, with no
|
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sharp claws and with its opposable thumb, is better suited to harvesting fruits
|
|
and vegetables than to killing prey.
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Once in the stomach, meat requires digestive juices high in hydrochloric
|
|
acid. The stomaches of humans and other herbivores produce acid less than
|
|
1/20th the strength of that found in carnivores.
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|
Another crucial difference between the meat-eater and the vegetarian is
|
|
the length of the intestinal tract. This is where digestion is compleated and
|
|
that which is in the food, be it disease or nutrient, is absorbed into the
|
|
blood. A piece of meat is just a chunk of corpse, and its putrefaction creates
|
|
poisonous wastes within the body. Therefore meat must be passed quickly. For
|
|
this reason, carnivores have short digestive tracts (only 3 times their body
|
|
length). Since man, like other non-flesh-eating animals has an alimentary canal
|
|
12 times his body length, rapidly decaying flesh is retained for a much longer
|
|
time, producing a host of undesirable toxic effects.
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|
One organ adversely affected by these toxins is the kidney. This vital
|
|
organ, which extracts wastes from the blood, is strained by the overload of
|
|
poisons introduced by meat consumption, just as it is the first organ to go in
|
|
alcoholics. Even moderate meat eaters demand three times the work from the
|
|
kidneys than do vegetarians. The kidneys of a young person may be able to
|
|
handle this, but as one grows older, the chance of kidney failure greatly
|
|
increases.
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The inability of the human body to deal with excessive animal fats and
|
|
cholesterol (which is found ONLY in animal products) is another indication that
|
|
meat-eating is not natural for the human body. Carnivorous animals can
|
|
metabolize almost unlimited amounts of cholesterol and fats without any adverse
|
|
affects. In experiments with dogs, up to one pound of butterfat was added to
|
|
their diet over a period of two days, producing absolutely no change in their
|
|
serum cholesterol level.
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On the other hand, the vegetarian species have a very limited ability to
|
|
deal with any level of cholesterol or fats beyond the amount required by the
|
|
body. When, over a period of many years, and excess is consumed, fatty deposits
|
|
(plaque) accumulate on the inner walls of the arteries, producing a condition
|
|
known as arteriosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries. Because of the reduced
|
|
blood flow to the heart, the chance for heart attacks, strokes, and blood clots
|
|
is increased greatly.
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|
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|
As early as 1961, the "Journal of the American Medical Association" stated
|
|
that 90-95% of heart disease, the cause of more than half of the deaths in the
|
|
US, could be prevented by a vegetarian diet. [Diet and Stress in Vascular
|
|
Disease, Jrnl of AMA, 3 June, 1961 p. 806] These findings are supported by an
|
|
American Heart Association report that states, "In well documented population
|
|
studies, using standard methods of diet and coronary disease assessment...
|
|
evidence suggests that a high-saturated-fat diet is an essential factor for a
|
|
high incidence of coronary heart disease." The National Academy of Sciences
|
|
also reported that the high serum cholesterol level found in most Americans is
|
|
a major factor in the coronary heart disease "epidemic" in the United States.
|
|
|
|
Further evidence of the unsuitability of the humans intestinal tract for
|
|
the digestion of flesh is the relationship between colon cancer and
|
|
meat-eating. One reason for the incidence of cancer is the high-fat, low fibre
|
|
content of the meat-centered diet. This results in a slow transmit time through
|
|
the colon, allowing toxic wastes to do their damage. While being digested, meat
|
|
is known to generate steroid metabolites possessing carcinogenic
|
|
(cancer-causing) properties.
|
|
|
|
As research continues, evidence linking meat-eating to other forms of
|
|
cancer is building up at an alarming rate. The National Academy of Sciences
|
|
reported in 1983 that "people may be able to prevent many common cancers by
|
|
eating less fatty meats and more vegetables and grains." In his "Notes on the
|
|
Causation of Cancer", Rollo Russell writes, "I have found of twenty-five
|
|
nations eating flesh largely, nineteen had a high cancer rate and only one had
|
|
a low rate, on that of thirty-five nations eating little or no flesh, none had
|
|
a high rate."
|
|
|
|
Some of the most shocking results in cancer research have come from
|
|
exploration of the effects of nitrosamines. Nitrosamines are formed when
|
|
secondary amines, prevalent in beer, wine, tea, and tobacco, for example, react
|
|
with chemical preservatives in meat. The FDA has labelled nitrosamines "one of
|
|
the most formidable and versatile groups of carcinogens and their role... in
|
|
the etiology of human cancer has caused growing apprehension among experts."
|
|
Dr. William Lijinksky of Oak Ridge National Laboratory conducted experiments in
|
|
which nitrosamines were fed to test animals. Within six months he found
|
|
malignant tumors in 100% of the animals. "The cancers," he said, "are all over
|
|
the place; in the brain, lungs, pancreas, stomach, liver, adrenals, and
|
|
intestines. The animals are a bloody mess."
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|
|
|
Numerous other potentially hazardous chemicals, of which consumers are
|
|
generally unaware, are present in meat and meat products. In their book
|
|
"Poisons in Your Body," Gary and Steven Null give us an inside look at the
|
|
latest gimmicks used in the corporate-owned animal factories. "The animals are
|
|
kept alive and fattened by the continuous administration of tranquilizers,
|
|
hormones, and 2,700 other drugs," they write. "The process starts even before
|
|
birth and continues long after death. Although these drugs will still be
|
|
present in the meat when you eat it, the law does not require that they be
|
|
listed on the package."
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|
|
|
One of the chemicals is diethylstilbestrol (DES), a growth hormone that
|
|
has been used in the U.S. for the last thirty years despite studies that have
|
|
shown it to be carcinogenic. Banned as a serious health hazard in thirty-two
|
|
countries, it continues to be used in the U.S. meat industry, possibly because
|
|
the FDA estimates it saves meat producers more than $500 million annually. So
|
|
in order to stimulate profit, they poison the consumer, willingly and
|
|
knowingly.
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|
|
Another popular growth stimulant is arsenic. In 1972, this well known
|
|
poison was found by the USDA to exceed the legal limit in 15% of the nation's
|
|
poultry.
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|
|
Sodium nitrate and sodium nitrite, chemicals used as preservatives to slow
|
|
down the putrefaction in cured meat and meat products, including ham, bacon,
|
|
bologna, salami, frankfurters, and fish also endanger health. These chemicals
|
|
give meat its bright red color by reacting with pigment in the blood and
|
|
muscle. Without them, the natural gray-brown color of dead meat would turn off
|
|
many prospective consumers.
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|
|
|
Unfortunately, these chemicals do not distinguish between the blood of a
|
|
corpse and the blood of a living human, and many persons accidentally subjected
|
|
to excessive amounts have died of poisoning. Even smaller quantities can prove
|
|
hazardous, especially for young children and babies.
|
|
|
|
Because of the filthy, overcrowded conditions forced upon animals by the
|
|
livestock industry, vast amounts of antibiotics must be used. But such rampant
|
|
use of antibiotics naturally creates strains of antibiotic-resistant bacteria
|
|
that are passed on to those who eat the meat. The FDA estimates that penicillin
|
|
and tetracycline save the meat industry $1.9 billion per year, giving them
|
|
sufficient reason to overlook the health hazards.
|
|
|
|
The trauma of being slaughtered also adds "pain poisons" (such as powerful
|
|
stimulants) into the meat. These join with uneliminated wastes in the animal's
|
|
blood, such as urea and uric acid, to further contaminate the flesh that
|
|
consumers eat.
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|
|
|
In addition to dangerous chemicals, meat often carries diseases from the
|
|
animals themselves. Crammed together in unclean conditions, force-fed, and
|
|
inhumanely treated, animals destined for slaughter contract many more diseases
|
|
than they ordinarily would. Meat inspectors attempt to filter out unacceptable
|
|
meats, but because of pressures from the industry and lack of sufficient time
|
|
for examination, much of what passes is far less wholesome than the meat
|
|
purchaser realizes.
|
|
|
|
A USDA report lists carcasses that passed inspection after diseased parts
|
|
were removed. Examples included nearly 100,000 cows with eye cancer and
|
|
3,596,302 cases of abscessed liver. The government also permits sale of
|
|
chickens with airsacculitis, a pneumonia-like disease that causes pus-laden
|
|
mucus to collect in the lungs. In order to meet federal standards, the
|
|
chicken's chest cavities are cleaned out with air-suction guns. But during this
|
|
process, diseased air sacs burst and pus seeps into the meat
|
|
|
|
The USDA has even been found to be lax in enforcing its own standards. In
|
|
its capacity of overseeing federal regulatory agencies, the U.S. General
|
|
Accounting Office cited the USDA for failure to correct various violations by
|
|
slaughterhouses. Carcasses contaminated with rodent feces, cockroaches, and
|
|
rust were found in meat-packing companies such as Armour, Swift, and Carnation.
|
|
[Jean Snyder, "What You'd Better Know About the Meat You Eat." Today's Health,
|
|
Vol 19, pp38-39.]
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|
For many Americans, protein makes up more than 20% of their diet, nearly
|
|
twice the quantity recommended by the WHO (World Health Organization). Although
|
|
inadequate amounts of protein will result in loss of strength, excess protein
|
|
cannot be utilized by the body; rather, it is converted into nitrogenous wastes
|
|
that burden the kidneys. The primary energy source for the body is
|
|
carbohydrates. Only as a last resort is the body's protein supply used for
|
|
energy production. Too much protein intake actually reduces the body's energy
|
|
capacity. In a series of endurance tests conducted by Dr. Irving Fisher of
|
|
Yale, vegetarians performed twice as well as meat-eaters. By reducing the non-
|
|
vegetarians' protein intake by 20%, Dr. Fisher found their efficiency increased
|
|
by 33%. Numerous other studies have shown that a proper vegetarian diet
|
|
provides more nutritional energy than meat. Furthermore, a study by Dr J.
|
|
Iotekyo and V. Kanpani at Brussels University showed that vegetarians were able
|
|
to perform physical tests two to three times longer than meat-eaters and were
|
|
fully recovered from fatigue in one-fifth the time needed by meat-eaters.
|
|
|
|
You may think that I am preoccupied with living forever and that's my
|
|
motivation. My motivation is to outlive those who are suppressive in our midst.
|
|
By being healthier, I suffer less down time. When I changed my diet to
|
|
vegetarian a few years back, I noticed that I was more aware and could
|
|
concentrate more easily. By subscribing to the common mentality that American
|
|
powers want you to, you can end up an excellent puppet, unable to think, unable
|
|
to stand up for your opinions, which you are unable to form. That's not what I
|
|
want out of my life... How about you? By having an entire subculture aware of
|
|
what is going on around them and able to act, we may just change this country
|
|
around.
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- Storm
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Barbecued Eggplant and Lentils
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|
|
I know there's a lot of social stigma about lentils, being a hippy food
|
|
(as in The Young One's - Neal always making Lentil this or lentil that...) And
|
|
I've never like eggplant all that much... but this recipe is EXCELLENT!
|
|
Definitely worth a try.
|
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|
|
1 cup dried lentils 2 cups water
|
|
1 medium eggplant (1.5 lbs) 1/2 cup whole wheat flour
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|
1/2 teaspoon salt 1/4 cup oil
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|
2 onions, thinly sliced 2 cups tomato puree, juice,
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|
2 tablespoons wine or cider vinegar or pulp
|
|
2 tablespoons soy sauce 1 1/2 tablespoons honey
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|
2 teaspoons chili powder Hot pepper sauce to taste
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|
|
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Combine lentils and water in a 2-quart pot, bring to a boil, cover, and
|
|
simmer over low heat for 30 minutes.
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|
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Meanwhile, cut eggplant into 1-inch cubes, combine flour and salt in a
|
|
paper bag, and shake eggplant in this mixture to coat.
|
|
|
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Heat oil in a large, heavy skillet, add eggplant, and cook about 10
|
|
minutes, turning to brown all sides. Add all the other ingredients except the
|
|
lentils, bring to a gentle boil, cover, and cook over low heat for 15 to 20
|
|
minutes, while waiting for the lentils.
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|
|
|
Taste sauce for seasoning and adjust, if necessary. Stir in lentils,
|
|
replace cover, and continue to cook until lentils are quite tender, about 30
|
|
minutes. If sauce becomes too thick or dry, add more tomato liquid, as needed.
|
|
Cooking too vigorously will cause liquid to evaporate, so try to keep sauce at
|
|
just a simmer.
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[Now that we've all been environmentally enlightened...]
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+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |
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Paper Recycling | |
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by David Lightman |
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+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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You've heard a lot about paper recycling. Some of it's garbage. Some of
|
|
it's not. If you really want to save the planet, you'd better get the straight
|
|
facts on recycled paper. And you'd better make sure that the recycled paper
|
|
you're buying is made from POST-CONSUMER waste. Otherwise, you're doing very
|
|
little to help our environment. Here's Why.
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|
|
|
Post-Consumer waste is garbage. It is USED paper, like newspaper and
|
|
computer paper. It is paper that would normally end up in landfills.
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|
|
|
Manufactured waste is not garbage. It comes from the scraps of paper left
|
|
over after products like envelopes and tablets are made. These scraps have
|
|
always been reused by paper manufacturers. They've never been dumped in our
|
|
landfills. A lot of "100% recycled" papers are made from 100% manufactured
|
|
waste.
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|
|
|
Consider these facts: For every ton of post-consumer waste paper used, 17
|
|
trees are left standing. One ton of post-consumer recycled paper saves enough
|
|
energy to run the average home for six month. Paper takes up 40% of our
|
|
landfills. U.S. landfills are closing at the rate of about one per day. One ton
|
|
of post-consumer recycled paper saves 7,000 gallons of water.
|
|
|
|
Turn it around. Buying and using recycled paper made with POST-CONSUMER
|
|
waste, is only part of the solution. You should also be recycling the paper you
|
|
use everyday.
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[Speaking of trash, and its uses: Here's an excellent article by Anesthesia
|
|
with another viewpoint on that topic.]
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_____________________________________________________________________________ [
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Dumpster Diving: ] [ Why,
|
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Where, When, and How ] [
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by Anesthesia ]
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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This is one of my favorite pasttimes to occupy my extremely spare time
|
|
(HA!) It is like a scavanger hunt for knowledge each time. You would not
|
|
believe what people throw away without a care or worry.
|
|
|
|
First, I will cover 'Why!' The reasons are simple. Trash is in the eye of
|
|
the beholder. [Ouch! - Daiv] There are many useful things you may find or
|
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learn. It is an easy way to gain books, memos of various natures, (including
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password and number changes), and full credit reports to name a few things.
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Plus, it is generally a safer and easier way to gain these items than any other
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way I can name.
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Where? Well, businesses are generally the best. Pick things you are
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interested in. I suggest car dealerships, strip malls, restaurants, and such.
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I tend to stay away from large malls due to the high risk (from the security)
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and difficulty of obtaining useful items. I do know of ways to overcome this
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and I will discuss these in later issues.
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When? I suggest late at night, while wearing dark clothes. [Dark brown is
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much better than black, as black is much darker than natural darkness - Daiv]
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This is my opinion, but I feel it is better to be safe and free than brave and
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(possibly) incarcerated. Social Engineering skills come in handy for any
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daytime diving. Also, avoid patterns and repitition. Do not make a systematic
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plan that involves hitting so many in one area. Spread out, it is much easier
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not to get caught, if they are NOT waiting for you.
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How? Wear dark, nonrestrictive clothing. Do NOT wear baggy items. But if
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you do, try to take them in by using duct or electrical tape. You do not want
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to get your pants snagged while you've got to 'not be where you are' very
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quickly! I also suggest that if you drive - to park a distance from the
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immediate area. I prefer to park on the other side of some woods. Have a excuse
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prepared as to why you are there just in case. The 'poor kid getting aluminum
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cans' is a good one, since you're wearing old clothes anyway.
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Good luck and expect to hear more on this in the future.
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- Anesthesia
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Gnus around Town | |
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by David Lightman |
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This section is to be supported by you, our readers. Keep us informed of
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deals going on around you that can help everyone. Especially if we all do it at
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the exact same time. (heh)
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Ford is currently hosting FREE repairs to Ford Trucks from '84 and up as
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an incentive to new truck buyers and to maintain customer loyalty. If you are
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the original owner, any truck from 1984 to 1993 will be repaired for free. Any
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truck from 1987-1993, regardless what generation owner you are. The types of
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repairs covered by this new promotion is unknown. This program is not being
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advertised widely. Let's make it so.
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Info from: The Mechanic
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Denver, CO
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Although most states have automobile lemon laws, only Florida records each
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instance of vehicles that couldn't be fixed. Its 1991 listings, weighing the
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number of `lemons' against the carmakers' statewide market shares, shows Honda
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as the best, with a lemon index of 0.00. Close behind - with indexes of 0.29
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and 0.50 - are Ford and General Motors, respectively. They are followed by
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Toyota/0.70, and Mazda/0.95. The worst lemons in Florida: BMW/9.32 followed by
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Hyundai/7.34, VW/5.41, Mercedez/3.63, and Volvo/3.32.
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Info from: Florida Lemon Law
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Arbitration Program
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A free newsletter called "Gifted Education News-Page" contains current
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information on educating gifted children. Discussions of current issues in the
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field... reviews of books and educational materials are covered in this bi-
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monthly periodical. Again, it is free.
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Gifted Education Press
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Box 1586
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10201 Yuma Court
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Manassas, VA 22110
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Info from: Oliver Wendell Jones
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St. Louis, MO
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Counterfeiting is escalating. Near-perfect $100 bills are turning up -
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sporadically all around the world. The bills have been improving since 1990-
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although the media only recently discovered that these phony bills exist.
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Problem: These particular fakes are so good, they fool the Federal
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Reserve's state-of-the-art currency handling machines.
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Beware: Phony bills of only slightly lower quality - still very hard to
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spot - are popping up everywhere... thanks to color laser printers.
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Caution: Counterfeit bills should be turned into a bank... but there's no
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reimbursement. Never try to pass phony bills as the real thing. The penalties
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are far more costly than the face of the bad bill.
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by Edward P. Mrkvicka, Jr.
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Reliance Enterprises, Inc.
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P.O. Box 413
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22115 O'Connell Rd.
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Marengo, IL 60152
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Condom allergies are becoming a problem as more people use latex-rubber
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brands for safe sex. About 1-2% of the United States population - male and
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female - is allergic to latex rubber. Symptoms: Redness and swelling in the
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groin, vaginal burning, an eczema-like rash on the inner thighs. See a doctor
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if symptoms develop - a switch to a different type of condom is usually
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helpful.
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Author requested Anonymity
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For those of you familiar with Phrack's mailing service, but haven't
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checked out the server in a while. It's worth checking out again. They now
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offer much more than just mailings of Phrack. Send an Internet message to
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Phrack@StormKing.Com with the body of help for more assistance. A big 'huzzah'
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to the folks at Phrack for the extra services! We DO appreciate them.
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Ranxerox
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Cincinnati, OH
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Sierra, a maker of fine games, has done quite a lot with their new online
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service lately! Interactive games, chat, and picture personalities, just to
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name a few. Call 1-800-Sierra1 for more information, or check out their ad in
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the 1992 issue of online access.
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The Terminator
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San Francisco, CA
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[Every newsletter seems to have a section for plugging BBSs. The following
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column will allow readers to profile BBSs nationwide that have piqued their
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interest.]
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| BBS Connection |
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| by Anesthesia |
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In an attempt to help good users find great boards we would like to review
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certain boards that we call or hear about. If you would like a BBS mentioned,
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write us with details. As an example, I'll use my board:
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Board Name: Frayed Ends of Sanity
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Phone Number: (606)491-3483
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Previous Incarnations: Infinity Complex, Quests End, Terror Dome
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Year of Origination: Circa 1980
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System Type: IBM
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Software Type: Single-User TAG, soon to switch back to The Major
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Sysops: Harvester of Sorrow, and Anasthesia
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Speeds: 1200/2400/9600/38400
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New User Password: NA
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Other Info: An old large board that is always growing. Mainly for support of
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text files, virii research, and freedom of speech. Very
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informative and active with high and varied message content.
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Averages five megs of uploads per day. Always looking for new
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callers and ideas. Give us a ring, we are waiting.
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Conclusion:
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Not too many contributions this issue. We've really given ourselves a
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quick deadline. And, quite frankly, I'm surprised that we've had the response
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we have (and this is the first issue!). By all means, write to us in any way
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you can. Try calling Frayed Ends of Sanity @(606) 491-3483. Send us mail at
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DLightma@nyx.cs.du.edu. We are here for you. We do respond to our mail. If you
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wish either of us specifically to reply, just say so in correspondence at
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either site.
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Any ideas, comments, anything... are welcome. By February we will have a
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mailbox set up. And by March or so, we're gonna set up a BBS. It should become
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increasingly easier to contact us.
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Article I
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Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or
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prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech or
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the press; or the right of the people, peacably, to assemble and to petition
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the Government for a redress of grievances.
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