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Issue 2
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-Table of Contents-
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1. Editorial
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2. Letterz!
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3. Solar Power (Excerpt from CENSORED)
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4. Fear of a Utopian Planet
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5. You're Next!
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6. Stop the Planet, I Want Off!
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7. An Ode to Ozone (Excerpt from CENSORED)
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8. It Speaks
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9. Woodstock (C) (R) (TM) '94!
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Comments, questions, anything else of relevance, should be directed towards
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mto@foul.cuug.ab.ca
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Editorial:
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We-hell.... I started this issue in about the middle of summer, right
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after doing the last issue. It's now about.... Well, Halloween to be exact.
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So yeah, I've been putting alot of time and effort into this. I was
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actually just getting comfortable in my Working-Guy routine, so now that
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I'm comfortable... Lets get the show on the road again.
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Alot of this text may seem outdated at this point, but some of the ideas
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presented still hold some semblence of validity, so I decided to leave them
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in.
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This is a fairly small issue, due to the fact that instead of continuing
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where I left off, I would rather just start over again on the long awaited
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(yet unheard of) More Than One #3.
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Wow, I actually got a letter! Well, I got lots of mail, but not all that
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much pertaining to the magazine or its contents.
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Greetings. I just finished reading MTO001, and I was quite impressed. Most
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of the things in there I had heard about in one manner or another, but seeing
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it all put together into a nice coherent package was definately better.
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Some mention of the Drug War and its misgivings were included... How about
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something in the future about the problems which would be fixed INSTANTLY
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given the legalization of currently controlled substances like marijuana, LSD,
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as well as the countless other lesser-known halucinogins and euphorics that
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cause less physical harm than your average cigarette or bottle of wine?
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The War On Drugs fails to distinguish between drug-related, and
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drug-related-violence deaths stemming ENTIRELY from the illegalities of the
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drug trade. Were most of the now-illegal drugs to be legalized, a) no one
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would be killed over 'territory', b) fewer overdoses would be possible due to
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government regulation, and distribution of 'standard' dosages by government
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agencies, c) the government would rake in HUGE piles of tax money, and d)
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people would be healthier and, overall, happier.
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A 'joint' of marijuana contains one substance: marijuana. You know what you
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are getting when you smoke it. You cannot be physically addicted to marijuana
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(nor can you be physically addicted to many of the other Evil Killer Drugs
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sought after by the War Against Drugs).
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A cigarette bought from the supermarket, however, contains literally HUNDREDS
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of varieties of poison, seeking to fill your lungs with tar, your blood with
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carcinogens, and your brain with nicotine.
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As everyone is well aware, cigarettes are VERY addictive. "Even more so than
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heroin," according to those who apparently have had the misfortune of being
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addicted to both. If cigarettes are so bad, and if all the things in them are
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bad, and if they are more addictive than one of the most physically addicting
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substances known to mankind, why, may I ask, are they available over the
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counter and out of dispensing machines anywhere you go?
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Similar arguments can be made against the use (and sale) of alcoholic
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beverages. Alcohol makes many people violent, overly brave, and, let's face
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it, plain stupid. Alcohol causes sclerosis of the liver in people who imbibe
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a bit too often. THOUSANDS of people are killed annually by people driving
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under the influence of alcohol. Yes, those are all GREAT things. Things we
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should have MORE of in this already fucked up world. In the USA (perhaps not
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in all States), they sell beer and wine at gas stations. This is just
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perfect. People can drive around all night, getting both gas AND beer in one
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convenient spot, running merilly over pedestrians and into other cars as they
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go.
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In this case, marijuana is probably not a wonderful substitute. For some
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people it may be, but, like alcohol, it should probably never be used while
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driving. If, however, someone DOES decide to drive under the influence of
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marijuana (or any other perception-'heightening'/altering euphoric), their
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reaction time will likely be better than those of the same person under the
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influence of alcohol (in quantity).
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You may not agree with some of this, or, indeed, any of it, but that is your
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prerogative. I would be happy to argue about anything if you are like-minded.
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Oh yes, I am entirely against cruelty to animals as well, so we can't very
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well argue about that. I do drink milk, but not in quantity. I will probably
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quit drinking it entirely in the near future, though. I do not eat eggs, and
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I do not eat meat, either, so those are out, too. I guess we have nothing to
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argue about after all. Damn. Cruelty to vegetables? sure, I laugh and point
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like all the others, but that's ok, isn't it?
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The Ranger
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I'm not all that sure about which problems legalization would stop and
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which it would cause. There would be an obvious increase in the number of
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people using the currently illegal drugs, I'm sure. And with this increase
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would probably be an increase in apathy which seems to go hand in hand with
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the use of drugs.
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Even if 'most' of the currently illegal drugs were legalized, there
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would always be someone fighting over territory. Look back into the Chicago
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gang era. The main cause of violence in the drug trade is not the drugs,
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it's the money that the drugs generate. And even if marijuana and LSD were
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to be legalized, there would always be new and innovative illegal drugs to
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fight and die for.
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The number of chemicals in marijauna is actually also in the hundreds.
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Chemicals can also be added to marijuana just as they are added to tobacco.
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While you may not be able to get physically addicted to marijuana, there is
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still such thing as psychological addiction.
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Cigarettes are indeed very addictive, and quite destructive from what I
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have seen and experienced myself. I'm currently a smoker. One of the few I
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know who fully supports and agrees with the anti-smoking movement. There
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are several ways one can quit smoking. Self-help groups, nicotine patches,
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nicotine chewing gum, or just be a real Punk Rawk god and do it yourself.
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I, however, am obviously not a real Punk Rawk god.
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Alcohol is also a problem I see in society. Which makes me a hypocrite,
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because as of recent I've 'fallen off the wagon' and been drinking. I've
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never been violent when drinking, perhaps a bit overly brave, and perhaps a
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bit stupid, but not violent. I think the major thing that attracts people
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to alcohol is that they get an excuse to act stupid. Perhaps if people
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lighten up and take into mind that you only live once, they wouldn't need
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depressants or stimulants to have a good time. [Note: Taking into mind that
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you only live once is NOT the same as saying 'who gives a shit'. One has to
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realize that if we have had our chance to live and make our mark on society
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(which is hopefully not a gaping wound) that it is our responsibility to
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make sure that others that come after us also have the same chances.]
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Cruelty to animals is something alot of people are against. Alot of
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people however either do not consider cows/chickens/pigs (the majority of
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meat people eat) to be animals, or do not think that living out your entire
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life in a cage and ending it all off with having your throat slit, dumped
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in a pot of boiling water, to be cruel. People do not want to give up their
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leather, and their hamburgers. And once again, I am a hypocrite. I wear
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leather boots. I wear a leather belt. I still eat meat on occasion. But,
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if I was faced with the decision of buying leather boots, or non-leather
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boots today, I would choose the non-leather. I have cut down drasticly on
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my meat intake. I plan on cutting it out entirely once I know what
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suplements I need and what vegetable foods I should consume. Once again,
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thank you for writing.
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- Bobby
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Taken From "CENSORED: The News That Didn't Make The News--And Why"
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By Carl Jensen
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Solar Power Eclipsed by Oil, Gas and Nuclear Interests
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Synopsis: On November 27, 1991, the California-based solar energy firm Luz
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Internation Limited announced that it had filed for bankruptcy. Luz
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designed, built and operated the world's nine largest Solar Electric
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Generating Systems (SEGS), which generated 95 percent of the world's solar
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electricity.
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Luz's collapse reflects the problems faced by a solar power industry
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shackled by hostile government policies and the protection of natural gas
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and oil interests. While the Department of Energy (DOE) claims to be
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committed to the development of solar energy, the facts reveal that while
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the cost of generating solar power has decreased 73 percent from 1980 to
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1990, federal research and development (R&D) spending on solar energy has
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decreased 90 percent.
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Presently, the nuclear industry receives more than 70 percent of the
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DOE's funding outlays for technology-specific development. According to the
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DOE's R&D budget, the total administration request for nuclear fission and
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fusion for fiscal 1993 is $1,377 billion, an increase of $100 million from
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1992. However, the total request for conservation R&D, renewable energy and
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state and local conservation, combined, is just $768 million, down $100
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million from 1992.
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Investigative author Julie Gozan reports that if it weren't for the
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government subsidies, nuclear power would be priced out of the market.
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Gozan notes that while the cost of solar is down to 8 cents per kilowatt
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hour, the cost of producing nuclear energy is nearly 13 cents per kilowatt
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hour.
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According to an article in the Christian Science Monitor, the next
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generation of solar plants, which had been planned for construction by Luz
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in 1994-5, would have brought the costs down to 6 to 6.5 cents per kilowatt
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hour--less than the cost of natural-gas electric generation.
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Government obstacles to safer, cleaner energy go beyond fiscal favors
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for nuclear power and the oil and gas industry. Lawmakers set a cap of 80
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megawatts on the amount of energy that a solar plant can generate and sell.
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Luz, which had the capacity to build SEGS that would generate 200
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megawatts, or enough energy to meet the electricty needs of 200,000 homes
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daily, was forced to build plants below this optimum usage and had to
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"dump" solar energy rather than use it.
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Author Gozan also reports that in order to compete with oil and gas,
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solar power must somehow match hidden government subsidies given to
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conventional fuels. Oil and gas receive the equivalent of a 25 percent tax
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credit. These include an immediate tax write-off for drilling costs and
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"percentage depletion" for the cost of pipes, pumps and tanks used to
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complete a well.
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As Luz International Chairman Newton Becker observed when the company
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filed for bankruptcy, Luz's demise was not attributable to technical or
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economic failure; it was simply the result of our not having a national
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energy policy. Meanwhile, environmentally sound solutions fall victim to
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money and politics.
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Sources:
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Multinational Monitor
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PO Box 19405
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Washington, DC 20036
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Date: April 1992
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Title: "Solar Eclipsed"
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Author: Julie Gozan
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The Christian Science Monitor
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One Norway Street
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Boston, MA 02115
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Date: 3/12/92
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Title: "Unbind Solar Energy From Washington's Red Tape"
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Author: James Weinstein
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[
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And here's a little something that just kind of goes hand in hand with
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the last one. ]
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Plutonium is Forever
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Synopsis: In the 1950s, a nuclear energy critic warned "nuclear waste is
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like getting on a plane, and in mid-air you ask the pilot how are we going
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to land? He says, we don't know--but we'll figure it out by the time we get
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there." Well, 40 years later we're ready to land our nuclear plane, and we
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still haven't figured out how to do it.
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Each year, the nuclear industry produces tons of high- and low-level
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waste not knowing what to do with it. Nicholas Lensen, a researcher at the
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Washington-based Worldwatch Institute, estimates the world-wide volume of
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nuclear waste at more than 80,000 tons. In 1990, the world's 413 commercial
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reactors produces 9,500 tons. And that's not counting the tens of
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thousands of tons from weapons programs, and medical and industrial uses.
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In 1989, U.S. reactors alone produced 67 times the plutonium it would take
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to give everyone on earth lung cancer.
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There have been two great hopes for nuclear waste disposal--Yucca
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Mountain in Nevada and the Waste Isolation Plant (WIPP) in New Mexico.
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Yucca Mountain was selected by the Department of Energy (DOE) as the
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national "permanent repositor for high level nuclear waste." But after ten
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years of research and $6.7 billion spent by industry including $2 billion
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in taxpayer funds, not a single hole has been dug in the mountain. The
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primary obstacle to the Yucca Mountain site is public opposition. In June
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1992, a 5.6 tremor confirmed fears in Nevadans already leery of their state
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becoming the permanent home for tons of waste which remains dangerous for
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hundreds of thousands of years. It now appears that their repository will
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evolve no further.
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Unlike Yucca, WIPP is not intended to house high-level waste but rather
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low-level nuclear garbage--radition contaminated rags, rubber gloves, test
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tubes, pipes, etc. Nonetheless, the dangers of radioactivity in this waste
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make it imperitive that WIPP not leak (appreciably) for the next 10,000
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years.
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Incredibly, the site selected for WIPP is in a stratum of salt thought
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to contain significant amounts of brine. The DOE itself estimates that
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within 20 years of burial, the thousands of soft-steel drums containing
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waste will corrode and their contents will be exposed. Despite the
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potential hazard, however, WIPP seems destined to open. It is the only
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existing repository and, with the apparent demise of the Yucca repository,
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the pressure for a dump site is building. In any event, critics say that
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WIPP is only a partial solution. To contain the volume of
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plutonium-contaminated waste currently in retrieval storage across the
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country would require three WIPPs; to hold the entire backlog of military
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and commercial waste, ten WIPPs would be needed.
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Yet another hurdle must be jumped--what kind of a sign do you put up to
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warn whoever may be inhabiting the earth in 10,000 years to "Keep Out" of
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WIPP? The simple "keep out" sign probably would not suffice. As Alan
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Burdick reminds us, of the original Seven Wonders of the World, only
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one--Khufu's pyramind in Egypt--still stands, a mere 4,500 years old;
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Stonehenge is a thousand years its junior. And remember, plutonium is
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forever.
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Sources:
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Utne Reader
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1624 Harmon Place, Ste. 330
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Minneapolis, MN 55403
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Date: July/August 1992
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Title: "Plutonium Is Forever"
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Author: Monika Bauerlein
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Harper's Magazine
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666 Broadyway, 11th Fl.
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New York, NY 10012-2317
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Date: August 1992
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Title: "The Last Cold-Way Monument"
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Author: Alan Burdick
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Los Angeles Times
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Times-Mirror Square
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Los Angeles, CA 90053
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Date: 7/26/92
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Title: "All Shook Up"
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Author: Jennifer Warren
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Cholesterol Content of Common Foods
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Animal Food Plant Food
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Cholesterol Content
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(In Milligrams per 100 Gram portion)
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Egg, Whole - 550 All grains - 0
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Kidney, beef - 375 All vegetables - 0
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Liver, beef - 300 All nuts - 0
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Butter - 250 All seeds - 0
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Oysters - 200 All fruits - 0
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Cream Cheese - 120 All legumes - 0
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Lard - 95 All vegetable oils - 0
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Beefsteak - 70
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Lamb - 70
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Pork - 70
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Chicken - 60
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Ice cream - 45
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Source: Pennington, J., _Food_Values_of_Portions_Commonly_Used._
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Harper and Row, 14th ed., New York 1985
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Fear of a Utopian Planet
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By Bobby Quine
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I've been hearing alot about gun control lately. The need for more
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gun control laws, no wait... less gun control laws... or was it bigger guns
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for officers of the law... maybe it was bigger guns for movie stars... In
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any case, I began thinking (wow), what would the world be like, if there
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were no guns? Well "hmmm," I thought, lets pretend:
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- One Instrument Of Death & Destruction
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= a beautiful utopian planet???
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Well, not really. We've found hundreds of thousands of innovative ways
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to inflict death and destruction. Guns however, are seemingly the most
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popular among the masses. Perhaps because of their wide variety of styles
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and shapes. I can just see myself in a gun shop now, "Ooooo, look at that
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baby, wouldn't you love to blow a quarter inch hole through someones head
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with that!" Yes. I am being sarcastic.
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I'm all for rights and freedom, but would the world be a horrible
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place if we all lacked the ability to go out and purchase a "killing
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machine", with which we could pointlessly end animal/human lives, take
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out old man Stanford's christmas lights, or perhaps even rob a bank? For
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some strange reason, I doubt it.
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I'm all for fighting crime, as well. However I fail to see how police
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officers carrying larger, more powerful weapons, is going to put an end
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to crime, or even have a slight effect on the amount of crime, for that
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matter. Does a bank robber contemplate how large the police officer's gun
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is going to be when he robs a bank? I wouldn't know, I've never robbed a
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bank before, but for some strange reason, I have trouble believing that
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too.
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The world may not be a beautiful utopian paradise without guns, but I'm
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almost positive it would be a better place than we happen to inhabit at
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the current moment.
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YOU! Yes YOU!
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I was reading the paper, and what do I come across but the old
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"Grandpa Kills Over Computer" story. A rundown is in order for those of
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you who are not familiar with the scenario:
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MANILA -- A Filipino grandfather shot and killed his daughter because
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she wouldn't let him play with the family computer police said Sunday.
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Retired soldier Benjamin Raymundo, 60, was so incensed by his 29
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year-old daughter Jessica's refusal to let him use the computer he shot her
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in the face in their Manila home Saturday night, investigator Justiniano
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Estrella said.
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Raymundo also fired at his eight-year-old grandson but missed.
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He then fled and is still at large.
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(Taken from section A2 of the Calgary Herald on Monday, July 18, 1994)
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So I'm left wondering, what the hell is going through people's heads? Why
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is it that stupid things like this are happening on a daily basis?
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Another example:
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There was a story not too long ago of a man who started shooting at a
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car for no apparent reason. Upon questioning afterwards he said that he
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began shooting because the license plate "JABU" on the car had reminded him
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of a traumatic incident in which he had been stabbed in prison.
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You'll have to forgive me for saying so, but I find this kind of
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behaviour absolutely moronic. A man kills his daughter because she wouldn't
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let him play with the family computer? Another is thrown into violent
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flashbacks because of a license plate? How long can we continue to think of
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ourselves as the 'intelligent' species when things like this are happening?
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* In November, Dr. Avi Ben-Abraham, president of the Americans
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Cryogenics Society, told an audience in Washington, D. C., that several
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high-ranking Roman Catholic Church leaders support human embryo cloning,
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despite the Church's public stance against such research. According to
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Ben-Abraham, those Church leaders hope to reproduce Jesus Christ from
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DNA fibers found on the Shroud of Turin. [George Washington University
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Hatchet, 11-11-93]
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* In Seattle in May, attorneys for 409-lb. death-row inmate Mitchell
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Rupe argued that his July 11 execution by hanging would be cruel and
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unusual punishment because he would be instantly decapitated due to the
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pressure of his weight on the rope. [North West Florida Daily
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News-Seattle Times, 5-14-94]
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* In Pittsburgh in March, Donita Jo Artis, 24, told prosecutors and the
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judge, after being denied custody of her three-year-old son and
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sentenced to prison for beating him until he was blind, deaf, and unable
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to walk: "You guys are so unfair." [USA Today, 4-1-94]
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An Ode to Ozone
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CANADA GREEN PARTY F.Y.I.
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The following was taken from Project Censored "THE TOP 25 CENSORED NEWS
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STORIES OF 1990" and THE GULF WAR: TRUTH WAS THE FIRST CASUALTY
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by Carl Jensen.
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This book is published annually and if you wish to get a copy send $10
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U.S. to:
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CENSORED PUBLICATIONS
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Sonoma State University
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Rohnert Park, California 94928
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NASA AND THE OZONE LAYER
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SOURCE: EARTH ISLAND JOURNAL, 3OO Broadway, Suite 28, San Francisco, CA 94133
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DATE: Fall 1990
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TITLE: "Soviets Say Shuttles Rip Ozone Layer"
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AUTHOR: Gar Smith
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SOURCE: SSU STAR, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA 94928
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DATE: 5/8/9O
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TITLE: "Doc Caldicott Prescribes Medicine'
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AUTHOR: Mindi Levine
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SOURCE: SAN FRANClSCO CHRONlCLE, 901 Mission St., San Francisco, CA 931O3
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DATE: 8/21/9O
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TITLE: "Group Says Space Shuttle Damages Earth's Ozone"
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AUTHOR: David Sylvester
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COMMENTS: Gar Smith, editor of Earth Island Journal, said he was surprised by
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the limited coverage given to this story considering the variety of other
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problems with NASA's space programs that were being reported during the same
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period. "It is worth noting that this story appeared in the European press
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over a year before I discovered a reference to it in the London- based South
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Magazine." Smith also said that he faxed a press release, citing this story
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among others, to daily newspapers, radio and television stations in the San
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Francisco Bay Area, as well as to AP, UPl, Reuters, Time Magazine, etc., and
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there was no interest in the story. (However, he noted that another writer,
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Lenny Siegel, had been working on the story independently and had produced a
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l2-page report that was the basis for a story in the San Francisco Chronicle
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and an article in Mother Jones magazine.) Smith concludes "The story still has
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not penetrated the mainstream press. On December 6, (1990), the AP carried a
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story on NASA's plans for '27 Shuttle Flights Set for Next 3 Years' that
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carried no mention of the environmental impacts of such flights for the
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integrity of the ozone layer."
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NASA SPACE SHUTTLES DESTROY THE OZONE SHIELD
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"Every time the space shuttle is launched, 250 tons of hydrochloric acid is
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released into the air. With each launch, .25% of the ozone is destroyed. So
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far, the space shuttle has destroyed 10% of the ozone."
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Dr. Helen Caldicott, world renown physician and environmentalist stuns
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audiences when she makes that statement in her talks across the country.
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A brief article, in a small-circulation environmental publication,
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supports Dr. Caldicott charges.
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Two Soviet rocket scientists have warned that the solid fuel rocket
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boosters used on the space shuttle release 187 tons of ozone destroying
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chlorine molecules into the atmosphere with every launch.
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Valery Burdakov, co-designer of the Russian "Energiya" rocket engine, also
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noted that each shuttle launch produces seven tons of nitrogen (another ozone
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depleter), 387 tons of carbon dioxide (a major contributor to the "greenhouse
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effect") and 177 tons of aluminum oxide (thought to be linked to Alzheimer's
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Disease) before reaching an altitude of 31 miles.
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Burdakov also notes that the history of ozone depletion correlates closely
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with the increase of chlorine discharged by solid fuel rockets since 1981.
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Soviet rockets employ a fuel combination that is 2000 times less damaging than
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the shuttle's but which still destroys 1500 tons of ozone per launch.
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According to Burdakov and his colleague, Vyacheslav Filin, a single shuttle
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launch can destroy as much as 10 million tons of ozone. This means that some
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300 shuttle flights could completely destroy the Earth's protective ozone
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shield.
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All other solid fuel rockets also contribute to ozone destruction. Near the
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top of the list are the U.S. Delta rocket (which destroys eight million tons
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per launch), the U.S. Titan, and the French Ariane V.
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In an article published originally in South, Burdakov warned that, at
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present rates of increase, rockets will soon be pouring 100,000 tons of
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chlorine and nitrogen into the atmosphere annually. Burdakov has called for
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international controls and a phase out of solid fuel rocket technology as well
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as a ban on supersonic aircraft flights into the stratosphere.
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The extraordinary charges by the Russian scientists were supported by
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research done by the Military Toxics Network, headquartered in San Francisco.
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Working with the Russian figures and data obtained from NASA, the Network
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concluded that significant damage was being done to the ozone layer by the
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space shuttle launches.
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SSU CENSORED RESEARCHER: DIRK VANWINKLE
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'When I just babble on and on... when I just babble on and on...'
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- Fracture
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Listening to the radio, in my little basement suite. Nothing to do, but
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think. That's what I'm doing right now. The Smith's are playing in the
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background while some new radio D.J. is figuring out his shit. And I wonder
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about the world and what's going to happen. I wonder about the children.
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I wonder seriously what it's going to be like for them when they are adults.
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Is the world going to be total shit? Or is it all going to somehow work out?
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I can't answer these questions and really can't think of anyone who can.
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I've been listening to news programs the government would probably prefer I
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didn't hear. I've been reading text files the government probably doesn't
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want me to read. Why do I think that? Because information in the hands of
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the general populace is dangerous to the people who make the rules. Damaging
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information that could damage the the way things are run. All run for the
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rich and powerful. Isn't that what it's always about after all? Money? You
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can't deny it and neither can I. The EVIL capitalist society revolves
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around money. That's right, I call it evil. When was the last time you were
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thinking of something to do, and low and behold, you can't think of anything.
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Why? Because you have no money. Well, maybe you don't think of that, but I
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do. I have no money. I can't get a job. That's a lie. I can get a job, but
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it's only ever temporary. The politicians need their income too. Don't fool
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yourself into thinking they're actually doing their jobs because they want
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to work for the good of society. Maybe at first they do, but they figure it
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out. They can't change the system any more than you and I can. So what do
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they do? Nothing. They are there now, all they have to do is make it look
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like they are doing something so that they can keep their constituents happy
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so that they can get re-elected. So that they can collect a pension. It's 4
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o'clock in the morning. The D.J. is running down his play list. He needs a
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name for his show. 666-6666, that's the number he wants you to call to give
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him some ideas. Back to the music, back to thinking. Back to this. What is
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this? I don't know. When I was a kid (I can actually remember some of it)
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things were different. I don't even see the change so much as I feel it.
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It's different, and it's not better. The world is slowly sinking into
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chaos. Big corporations and banks run the world now, more than ever. They
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will soon rule the world. It's only time that stands in their way. People
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won't do anything until it's too late and then they'll wonder "How did this
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happen?" They'll be scratching their heads and they still won't do anything.
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And they won't be free. Not like they are free today. You better enjoy what
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you have now, you may not have it tomorrow. Maybe when the day comes that
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countries are possessed by the banks, and ruled by them, maybe when that day
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comes, the people will rise up and say, "no, this isn't right, we've worked
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for what we have, you just can't take it away" and there will be fighting.
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But guess what? The people don't have anything to fight with. It's all been
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engineered already. Governments have already taken away anything people had
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to fight with. The people are defenseless to the Army of the Banks. Chaos.
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Not for the banks, it will be all orderly for them. All numbers for them.
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Chaos for the people. People struggling to find out where their country went.
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This is where I come back to the children. What is in store for them? I
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wouldn't want to be them, not knowing freedom in adulthood. Previous
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generations have destroyed the world. For the "Generation X" crowd and
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beyond, there is nothing. They will try and tell you different, but it's
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gone. Our parents took it away, or rather, let it be taken away from us.
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Previous generations destroyed the world under the capitalist flag. The flag
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of money. Everything for money. And now, no money for the "Generation X"
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crowd and beyond. It all belongs to the Banks and the wealthy. Forever out
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of everyone else's grasp. All under the flag of money. A state of wealth for
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the wealthy, a state of no money for everyone else. This is what will happen,
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or at least what I think will happen (actually, IS happening, right now) and
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we are forever lost. Unless we do something. But of course no one will.
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Someone will take care of it, right? Who, me? No way, you're going to save
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us all. Yeah, that's it. Oh, in case you were wondering, the radio show's
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new name is 'Vascular Surgery for Dummies'
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Peace...Ya Right
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*** Beastman
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[ This is a wee bit outdated, but I spent at least 15 minutes writing it,
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so I decided to leave it in anyways. ]
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The Woodstock '94 Experience
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Hell no, I'm not going. I don't have thousands of $$$ to go to a music
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festival to see bands that I don't even like. But I was wondering... What
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kind of person would be going to this? What kind of person would buy into
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this pathetic rehashing of the past? Well, to figure this out, I guess we
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have to look to the festival itself. So lets look, dammit.
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First of all, none of this is fact. I watched Turning Point when I was
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half asleep, and this is what I got out of it.
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You are not allowed to bring your own food to Woodstock '94. I'm sure
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this is for security reasons, we wouldn't want anyone being beaten to death
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with a peanut butter sandwhich now would we? Of course there is always the
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chance that the sponsors of it would like to make as much money as they can
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at their food concessions. Nahhhh, they wouldn't do THAT.
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You are not allowed to bring anything metal (that can be used as a
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weapon, Ie. Tent Pegs) to Woodstock '94.
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You are not allowed to bring any alcohol or drugs to Woodstock '94.
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You are not allowed ...
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You are not allowed ...
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You are not allowed ...
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Etc..
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So I have a sharp enough picture of what kind of person is going (or has
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already gone, actually, since by the time this is out Woodstock '94 will be
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over) to Woodstock '94. Obviously the same kind of people who went to the
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first Woodstock concert, right? Those anti-establishment fun and love
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loving hippie types, of course! Someone told me the that Pepsico has now
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officially purchased the words Hippie and, Anti-Establishment. This just
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in... Woodstock '94 festival deemed to be complete corporate sell-out and
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quick money making scheme.
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So when they clone Jesus Christ from DNA, what is the Christian Science
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Monitor going to say?
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