IMMEDIATE ATTENTION NEEDED : HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL FROM: GEORGE WALKER BUSH 202.456.1414 / 202.456.1111 FAX: 202.456.2461 DEAR SIR / MADAM, I AM GEORGE WALKER BUSH, SON OF THE FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH, AND CURRENTLY SERVING AS PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. THIS LETTER MIGHT SURPRISE YOU BECAUSE WE HAVE NOT MET NEITHER IN PERSON NOR BY CORRESPONDENCE. I CAME TO KNOW OF YOU IN MY SEARCH FOR A RELIABLE AND REPUTABLE PERSON TO HANDLE A VERY CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS TRANSACTION, WHICH INVOLVES THE TRANSFER OF A HUGE SUM OF MONEY TO AN ACCOUNT REQUIRING MAXIMUM CONFIDENCE. I AM WRITING YOU IN ABSOLUTE CONFIDENCE PRIMARILY TO SEEK YOUR ASSISTANCE IN ACQUIRING OIL FUNDS THAT ARE PRESENTLY TRAPPED IN THE REPUBLIC OF IRAQ. MY PARTNERS AND I SOLICIT YOUR ASSISTANCE IN COMPLETING A TRANSACTION BEGUN BY MY FATHER, WHO HAS LONG BEEN ACTIVELY ENGAGED IN THE EXTRACTION OF PETROLEUM IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND BRAVELY SERVED HIS COUNTRY AS DIRECTOR OF THE UNITED STATES CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY. IN THE DECADE OF THE NINETEEN-EIGHTIES, MY FATHER, THEN VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, SOUGHT TO WORK WITH THE GOOD OFFICES OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF IRAQ TO REGAIN LOST OIL REVENUE SOURCES IN THE NEIGHBORING ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN. THIS UNSUCCESSFUL VENTURE WAS SOON FOLLOWED BY A FALLING-OUT WITH HIS IRAQI PARTNER, WHO SOUGHT TO ACQUIRE ADDITIONAL OIL REVENUE SOURCES IN THE NEIGHBORING EMIRATE OF KUWAIT, A WHOLLY-OWNED U.S.-BRITISH SUBSIDIARY. MY FATHER RE-SECURED THE PETROLEUM ASSETS OF KUWAIT IN 1991 AT A COST OF SIXTY-ONE BILLION U.S. DOLLARS ($61,000,000,000). OUT OF THAT COST, THIRTY-SIX BILLION DOLLARS ($36,000,000,000) WERE SUPPLIED BY HIS PARTNERS IN THE KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA AND OTHER PERSIAN GULF MONARCHIES, AND SIXTEEN BILLION DOLLARS ($16,000,000,000) BY GERMAN AND JAPANESE PARTNERS. BUT MY FATHER'S FORMER IRAQI BUSINESS PARTNER REMAINED IN CONTROL OF THE REPUBLIC OF IRAQ AND ITS PETROLEUM RESERVES. MY FAMILY IS CALLING FOR YOUR URGENT ASSISTANCE IN FUNDING THE REMOVAL OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF IRAQ AND ACQUIRING THE PETROLEUM ASSETS OF HIS COUNTRY, AS COMPENSATION FOR THE COSTS OF REMOVING HIM FROM POWER. UNFORTUNATELY, OUR PARTNERS FROM 1991 ARE NOT WILLING TO SHOULDER THE BURDEN OF THIS NEW VENTURE, WHICH IN ITS UPCOMING PHASE MAY COST THE SUM OF 100 BILLION TO 200 BILLION DOLLARS ($100,000,000,000 - $200,000,000,000), BOTH IN THE INITIAL ACQUISITION AND IN LONG-TERM MANAGEMENT. WITHOUT THE FUNDS FROM OUR 1991 PARTNERS, WE WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO ACQUIRE THE OIL REVENUE TRAPPED WITHIN IRAQ. THAT IS WHY MY FAMILY AND OUR COLLEAGUES ARE URGENTLY SEEKING YOUR GRACIOUS ASSISTANCE. OUR DISTINGUISHED COLLEAGUES IN THIS BUSINESS TRANSACTION INCLUDE THE SITTING VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, RICHARD CHENEY, WHO IS AN ORIGINAL PARTNER IN THE IRAQ VENTURE AND FORMER HEAD OF THE HALLIBURTON OIL COMPANY, AND CONDOLEEZA RICE, WHOSE PROFESSIONAL DEDICATION TO THE VENTURE WAS DEMONSTRATED IN THE NAMING OF A CHEVRON OIL TANKER AFTER HER. I WOULD BESEECH YOU TO TRANSFER A SUM EQUALING TEN TO TWENTY-FIVE PERCENT (10-25 %) OF YOUR YEARLY INCOME TO OUR ACCOUNT TO AID IN THIS IMPORTANT VENTURE. THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WILL FUNCTION AS OUR TRUSTED INTERMEDIARY. I PROPOSE THAT YOU MAKE THIS TRANSFER BEFORE THE FIFTEENTH (15TH) OF THE MONTH OF APRIL. I KNOW THAT A TRANSACTION OF THIS MAGNITUDE WOULD MAKE ANYONE APPREHENSIVE AND WORRIED. BUT I AM ASSURING YOU THAT ALL WILL BE WELL AT THE END OF THE DAY. A BOLD STEP TAKEN SHALL NOT BE REGRETTED, I ASSURE YOU. PLEASE DO BE INFORMED THAT THIS BUSINESS TRANSACTION IS 100% LEGAL. IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO CO-OPERATE IN THIS TRANSACTION, PLEASE CONTACT OUR INTERMEDIARY REPRESENTATIVES TO FURTHER DISCUSS THE MATTER. I PRAY THAT YOU UNDERSTAND OUR PLIGHT. MY FAMILY AND OUR COLLEAGUES WILL BE FOREVER GRATEFUL. PLEASE REPLY IN STRICT CONFIDENCE TO THE CONTACT NUMBERS BELOW. SINCERELY WITH WARM REGARDS, GEORGE WALKER BUSH Switchboard: 202.456.1414 Comments: 202.456.1111 Fax: 202.456.2461 Email: president@whitehouse.gov PS: THIS CORRESPONDENCE IS FULLY PROTECTED UNDER THE FIRST AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES AS A PARODY Superbowl, StateOfTheUnion, Grammys. R U Ready??? _ || ' < \, =||= \\ /-|| || || 2003 Janu 26, (( || || || Who'd'a thunk? \/\\ \\, \\ issue343 -- 0301261738 hrs Admit it: Christmas was a retail bomb this year. Downright down, every indicator. Everyone you talk to has a friend or relative about to close down a small business soon. Things are tanking all around. So expect this year's round of Superbowl ads to be a full frontal assault on your senses, your ethics, or your sense of ethics even. Yup, they're gonna be decadent, wasteful and decadently whistful. Nearly a waste of time, but quite the diversion. It should be interesting. We'll have to see what we see, eh? Ready? I am. 4 million dollars a minute. Wow. Expect the graphics to be "louder" than a broken soundbarrier. Or one of those red&white peppermint candies!! And don't expect next month's Grammys ads to be any classier either. They'll be exciting, sleazy, excitingly sleazy and about as decadent as they come. 2 or 3 million a minute I'm sure. 2nd or 3rd biggest american ad-cycle of the year, depending on who you talk to. And the Grammys are going to be sooooooooo boringly boring, the ads are going to serve as some sick form of comic relief. Have you heard any music this year? That's what I mean, have you heard ANY? I mean, unless you count Avril trying to sound like Pink or Pink trying to sound like Pink. Eminem trying to sound like Marilyn Manson, and James Taylor trying to sound like, well, I don't know what you'd call that. And Billie Joel thinks he's Ted Nugent or something. Drunk off his ass smashing into a tree. Now that's rock and roll to me. And Aerosmith? Dare I call it music? Quick, someone ghostwrite us a song or we're going to start wearing those yellow spandex pants again. OK, I'll hold my hands over my ears and scream it out loud so I don't have to hear it. "Music!" "Grammys! Music." "Music! Grammys." They used to mean something together. |||| Musicians aspire to Carnegie Hall. Real Estate Agents, well... [/TD][TD] ===Insert Agency and Logo Here === |||| "Just like his father, Bush is the kind of guy who was born on third base, but convinced he hit a triple." --Milwaukee Columnist Eugene Kane. THIS YEAR'S THEME, READY? The envelope please... And the Grammy goes to... Who?!? NUMBERS: http://www.hardtruth.bravepages.com/hardtruth.topcities.com/wake_up_america.html http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/Ramares010403/ramares010403.html http://www.sfbayview.com/012203/marchagainstwar012203.shtml http://www.popmatters.com/features/021227-conspiracy.shtml http://www.ubu.com/feature/sound/feature_burroughs.html http://flag.blackened.net/ati/zine/senseofnumbers.html http://www.neo-comintern.com/order/pressrelease2.html http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0124-09.htm http://dc.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=46580 http://www.soaw.org/new/newswire_detail.php?id=235 http://ithaca.indymedia.org/media/text/00/00/03/AD http://www.narconews.com/Issue27/article567.html http://www.narconews.com/Issue27/article584.html http://www.etext.org/Zines/ASCII/ATI/ati342.txt http://www.veteransforpeace.org/BerriganRIP.htm http://www.counterpunch.org/hill01042003.html http://212.100.234.54/content/55/29026.html http://www.mfso.org/pages/1/index.htm http://pages.quicksilver.net.nz/blair http://www.daveyd.com/paristrack.mp3 http://amconmag.com/12_2/mailer.html http://www.nonviolentpeaceforce.org http://www.homelessnessmarathon.org http://www.namebase.org/nbhome.html http://oxy67.zaup.org/letter.html http://www.geocities.com/c_oughs http://www.endtheoccupation.org http://www.anti-imprialist.org http://spacehippie.tripod.com http://www.thenewschannel.net http://www.notinourname.net http://www.radicalparty.org http://www.engaged-zen.org http://sustaincampaign.org http://www.freelori.org http://prisonplanet.com http://www.olga.net http://cures.by.ru http://www.plp.org http://www.nion.us http://www.nic.mil & LETTUCE In early February, John Ross will join hundreds of international anti-war activists on the Human Shield Action Caravan to Baghdad in an effort to stop U.S. bombing of Iraqi civilians before it begins. The caravan is being organized by Ken Nichols, a former U.S. marine who participated in Operation Desert Storm. All travel expenses are being paid out of pocket by the volunteers and Ross, an aging poet-author-journalist-activist who dwells in and around the poverty line, is appealing for contributions from those who would like to be part of this action for peace but are otherwise committed, to offset the plane fare to Istanbul where he will join the caravan on February 4th for the bus ride to Iraq. To discuss donations: John Ross 1030 Capp Street San Francisco Ca. 94110. Ross's Statement of Purpose follows: "I GO TO BAGHDAD TO STAND WITH THE IRAQI PEOPLE, NOT WITH SADDAM HUSSEIN" A decade ago, in the wake of the Persian Gulf conflagration, I traveled to Kuwait on behalf of the Palestine Aid Society to expose human rights abuses against Kuwaiti Palestinians by the Bush-Sabah regimes. During that mission, I had occasion to visit the infamous "Highway to Hell" where on February 28th, 1991, 22,000 fleeing human beings (United Nations estimates) were incinerated by wave after wave of U.S. warplanes flying in off the Gulf, a little-remembered massacre now. "It was like shooting fish in a barrel" one U.S. pilot told the press. By the time we got there, the desert was a vast parking lot of charred vehicles. Unexploded cluster bombs and infants' car seats were strewn along the shoulder of the highway. The Yanqui ground troops had come in with spray paint and scrawled obscene slogans on the burnt-out cars. The scene put a heavy hurt on my heart and I vowed to myself that this would not happen again - at least not in my name. I am a journalist and an author based in Latin America and war and repression, often the result of U.S. policies, are the coinage of the countries in which I work. Nearly 40 years ago I traveled from my home in the Purepecha Indian mountains of Michoacan Mexico to sing Bob Dylan's "Masters of War" to a judge, and read him a poem by Bertolt Brecht which says we live in an age so dark that it is a crime to write a poem about a tree because it is a kind of silence about injustice. Then I was led off to Terminal Island federal prison in chains, the first draft resister from the San Francisco Bay Area to go to jail for refusing to kill my Vietnamese brothers and sisters. I have opposed every U.S. aggression against the world's people since and George W. Bush's impending dismemberment of Iraq is no exception. I go to Baghdad gratefully to stand with the Iraqi people, not with the corrupt and undemocratic regime of Saddam Hussein. I have no illusions that the U.S. President will hesitate to bomb his own citizens as well as Iraqi civilians. After all, over the past decade the White House has seen fit to inflict death on hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children for the crime of having been born in a country ruled by Saddam Hussein. The coming war will be a cruel one. Early United Nations estimates calculate a half million casualties - we may indeed be included in that total. But what else can we do? In recent years, I have become closely identified with the rebellion of the largely Mayan Indian Zapatista Army of National Liberation in Chiapas about whose struggle to preserve and strengthen their indigenous identity and still be players in the wider world, I have written three books now. The Zapatistas' war against oblivion, against being obliterated from the face of this malevolently globalized planet, is the story of all peoples rooted in history and the earth, and the Iraqis are some of the world's most ancient peoples. If George Bush is to consummate the genocide of the Iraqi people, I'm sorry to say that it will have to be over my dead body. - john ross mexico city january 2003 to ati@etext.org Hasn't ANYBODY dared to say, even yet, that this whole War-With-Iraq thing is a cheap shot ploy by Georgie-Porgie to get himself reelected? I mean, c'MON now. Every goddamn time the RepubliKKKans get into the presidency, we have a war. And the deficit gets bigger. And check it out for yourself, it's you and me - the little guys in this country - that pay for it all. In blood AND money. Makes me sick. Goddamnit! If you guys that demonstrated had ALL VOTED we wouldn't even BE in this fix. Sisyphus Dear ATI and/or person(s) lazy, I just got done reading John Stockwell's book "Praetorian Guard". As is noted in the book, any thing he publishes must first go through CIA censors do to a court ruling when the CIA sued to try to stop him from publishing. I came across the one part in the book that cuts out mid-sentance and says something like (segment cut do to CIA censorship). The sentance was about students studying abroad and the CIA. So what about students studying abroad and the CIA? If I met John Stockwell I'd ask him what he had to say on the subject. I know this isn't about the Kobar or Khobar Towers, but I thought I'd ask you, anyway. §)~ -s Hey Marco: Francis A. Boyle. Make sure you know that name. Ctrl-Alt To ATI: I hope you realize that some of the links in your "numbers run" lead to sites of Marxists. Corporate Venger [ED NOTE: So what? How many link to NOT marxists??? So there. Wait'll you see this week! There's even some of those "marijuana" smoke sites.] to ati@etext.org http://www.hardtruth.bravepages.com/hardtruth.topcities.com/wake_up_america.html http://www.daveyd.com/paristrack.mp3 http://prisonplanet.com http://amconmag.com/12_2/mailer.html OVERheard in the UNDERground: A CyberJournal Of Last Weekend's Actions by the arachnid. Nicknames and times have been wiped to protect the computer underground. ______________ (14:13:04) __________ is dalnet dead forever? it's been dead forever off and on for 5 years now there's rumours that they'll come back, and thier webserver is finally stable, but who knows? ahahaha "Our members are split 50/50 on Bush. Fifty don't believe a word he says. Fifty think he's a liar." lol ahhh. (11:42:43) just got back from dc. :) How was the marches? Er... How were the marches? great! there were a little more than half a million in dc alone. Haven't heard numbers from sf and other places yet. Expected some of those to be equally humongous. Me and 4 others from IMC Norway are going to Iraq next week. hey...lots of hot stuff going on in dc right now. check out the breaking news yeah, wow! i'm compiling it...and i keep getting these amazing calls... is dc doing any live audio, or should I just listen to blastfurnace right now, or what? um...wbix is doing some live stuff...w/our reporters. later today, i'm going to be on wpfw later i think i want news from dc.. 1:15pm: Sgt. Scott Sear of the US Park Police=16 were arrested. Charges unknown. People are just drumming and chanting. It is like a big street party on H St. along Lafayette Park. how many do you think are in the streets today? and do you think there were as many as halfmillion yesterday? to me it felt like 4-500k no...lafayette park people=about 1,500. youth and student march=several thousand. today? thanks. yes. today next person that calls breaking news line will be asked for estimate what's your wildest guess for yesterday? 1,300 (our count) - 2,000 (police count) in honolulu crowd estimate today=2000. big time arrests about to happen in DC so.. how do we get ppl off the street? Tell them there's a sale at K-Mart cops are letting traffic through the road. 10000 in brussels today (13:37:00) thinks capitalism is in deep doodoo, yet again. I would think this is good news, but the silly system shows an amazing survival capacity 20-30 people squatted the entrace of the german-netherland -corps and took down(why is there no word for "get the flag down" in my dictionary?) german and nato flag how was DC? huge and cold, i know that much great! largest mobiliation I've ever been part of san francisco looked like Fun! never been there for a big rally. it is my favorite city, though.. last count i saw for DC was a bit over 300k. seem about right to you? closer than most corporate media that's for sure. did you see the newswire report about what a paper in colombus ohio did with the numbers? supposedly they said "hundreds of anti-war marchers" and dig this "thousands of pro-war demonstrators" wtf??? washington post said around 150,000, which might be a bit conservative shoot, i saw it way early this morning before coffee. it was either on global or DC Here's my take so far: http://flag.blackened.net/ati/zine/senseofnumbers.html woohooo! have you seen the pictures of the SF ins building? :) Yeah, those SF pictures are mighty inspiring! of course i never advocate of apologize for illegal activities :) gloats the starbucks and victoria secret seemed a bit beside the point, but the ins and the uk counsolate, well, se la vie In so far as Starbucks and Victoria Secret are symbols of cultural imperialism and hegemony, they might as well throw a brick or two as they pass by. But, yeah, I was impressed that they went after the INS and the UK Embassy. Starbucks and Victoria Secret were probably just along the route, I highly doubt they were explicitly targetted. listening to the breaking news, it sounded like the cops were relatively tolerant untill Victorias got trashed.. does that say something weird about the police pychie? :) Yeah, I thought that was a bit funny, too. "Hey! My wife shops there, and they make her look hot! I can't take anymore!! MUST ... USE ... BILLY ... CLUB!" (14:57:38) bush is a lot more like hitler just, lacking the brains. and the little moustache that was the key to hitlers evil, i think. nooo.. he's more like the head of a columbian junta. heh hitler was democraticaly elected however the next global day of protest is Feb 15th, right? they were announcing it yesterday, but i couldn't hear it i was pretty far back yeah. you *know* there was no fraud in *that* election. y'all see this from portland? "J18 organizers deny press packet to portland indymedia reporter" heh. (15:00:41) http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2003/01/1562337.php <--- last pic and caption. !!!!!!!!! how apt. lol _____ hahaha. "asses of evil" i saw an "Asses of evils" poster in toronto yesterday http://dc.indymedia.org/local/webcast/uploads/metafiles/picture_015.jpg <---- very powerful pic to people who know a lot about judeism I think the power we have at this point is our spontaneous gatherings in dozens/hundreds of places at the same time. ____ is going to go photoshop up an asses of evil picture and print it out :) http://dc.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=46585 <------ these faces were incredibly potent there was a great chant in toronto, probably elsewhere too... "george bush, we know you, your daddy was a killer too!" i made that my quit message arrests in DC today! ouch, why? some broke through the berrier at the white house people were jumping the fence onto the white house lawn...hooly crap! that is hardcore i think that was a dozen or so 1:55pm: 50 people went through the fence surrounding the White House--they are being arrested. i wonder if the po po could handle a couple hundred people rushing the fence at the same time i would so jump the fence :) (15:28:03) ____: there's a time and place for shit like that. when the cops arn't doing anything at all it just people were throwing paint bombs cops didn't do anything whats fun is takin a samba band and red block right up to a police line from the wrong side :) they freak _____ know of what i speak http://belgium.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=45792 shiiiiiiiiiiit _____ arrested you didn't know yet? _____? George Bush is now saying: "with or without a new UN declaration" (!) _____: you should sometimes ;) what is the news? seriously. i'm at the _____. i need some news! we had 10.000peepz on the streets in brussels 50+ arrests and police beating old women in the streets is quiet? or was that San Francisco? wrapping up breaking news 25,000 in montreal yesterday people goin over the fence at the white house is at least as radical as smashing up windows. maybe more so violence is useless black bloc sux this place is bugged! copsalready know everything about black bloc in gotenborg they had an investigation about the riots and it turned out that some cops participated and provoked them http://aztlan.net/oiltanker.htm Below is a picture of the oil tanker before Chevron quietly renamed it the "Altair Voyager" and before President George Bush appointed Ms. Rice as National Security Advisor. i don't care about being arrested...just don't want to miss my bus but how many people? but many red, black and black and red flags oh. 25,000 wow in london on feb 15th, everybody is trying for a one milllion march. this is what stop the war coalition is saying the west's leaders may ignore one million but the middle east and the arab world will notice i'm hoping the feb15th will draw huge numbers here in toronto hopefully it's not too cold out if we got 20k yesterday...50k could be possible! citizens' weapons inspection at litton industries/northrop grumman canada tomorrow damn, reading down the features wire, you kinda get the feeling lots of people around the world think war is a bad idea or something? "The breakaway marchers ran down sixth st. to get away from the police. They came to the SF Chronicle building. One bunch held off the cops at one end of the block, one bunch did the same at the other, while the ones in the center graffited the Chron building." -- now that's good thinking:) ______________ (21:34:00) __________ j18 marches got some coverage on cnn earlier ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! Analysing a NewsStory: VA Restricts Veterans Health Care Benefits. In a word? Soldiers -- rethink your allegience! A "commander in chief" who was NOT elected, remains incapable of giving constitutional orders. ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! Whew! That was some issue. To your liking? Watch for ATI443 s00n! I mean 344. Be k00l! ATI, a freedom paper. ATI, a way of life. Changing the way people read for years! ATI, more than just a newspaper, It's the rag read round the world. (A)(C)(T)(I)(V)(I)(S)(T) (T)(I)(M)(E)(S) You'll notice this is/was a fairly "phat" issue. Well, that's what we promised. 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