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| Vol. I, Issue #3 |
| March 1992 |
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Lies
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by Quadrac
Remember the old saying that not telling the whole story is just as
good as lying? Since when were American's told the whole story? How
many times have we been lied to in the past by our own "government"?
We should be yelling out and fighting back!
The education system lied to us when we were children. The atrocity
of slavery was never given enough emphasis, or even described as rascism.
The national racism during WWII was never described. The government took
all Americans of Japanese descent and stuffed them into crowded "camps".
Every news report during the war (slaughter) with Iraq was censored. It
was never even mentioned that we blackmailed all of the members of the
coalition into joining by sending the Secretary of State to tell them
we'd cut off all economic aid to them if they didn't.
So, if you want to say nothing, believe everything you see and hear
on TV, then go right ahead. You want to be a real patriot? Do something
to fix your country instead of saluting Bush. When you get finished with
that, help the rest of the world as well.
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Top Ten Reasons to Re-elect the Bush/Quayle Ticket
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1. Guaranteed more money diverted from the poor to the rich.
2. The continued use of inefficient fossil fuel machines.
3. Continued widespread crack epedemics.
4. No more wasting money on useless AIDS research.
5. Lowered education standards to keep the working class overflowing.
6. Less taxes for major corporations and more for the middle class.
7. Changing presidents would only confuse people.
8. Keep America on top as the worlds greatest mercenaries.
9. Continued super-patriotism blinded with a thousand points of light
shining right through the Bill of Rights.
10. More military spending to force the rest of the world to it's knees.
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Election Time
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by Quadrac
Well folks, it's election time again, and we've got a lot more
canidates up for president than usual. I just hope that whoever
you vote for, it isn't the Bush/Quayle ticket. The current president
has to be one of the most powerful of all time. He started a worthless
war for his own self-interest in oil, and rallied almost the whole,
brain-dead country behind him. Blinded their sight with nintendo
warfare, and flashy, happy news braodcasts. At the same time he was
mercilessly destroying our economy and social order. More homeless
and hungry than ever, and seriously lacking education system. He's
being hailed as the peace president because he pulled the short-range
nuclear arms out of Europe. Truth is, we just couldn't afford the
upkeep anymore, much less even need it.
If we don't elect somebody who is going to help our economy soon,
America is going to see it's greatest depression ever. Oh, and
by the way, how could you vote for Bush with a vice-president like Dan
Quayle? That idiot gives Indiana a bad name.
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Cultures and Identity
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by Quadrac
On college campuses across the nation, there has been a great
expanding of awareness about our own cultures. More and more people
are beginning to study their own cultures and developing a cultural
pride that is unrivaled in modern times.
The best example of this awareness is that of Black Americans.
They no more of their own culture than any other American. All other
Americans should take this example to heart. Study your own culture,
and know your history. Once you understand your own, we can all
begin to study each others.
When we all begin to study AND understand each others culture, we
will be able to get along better. This well be another big step
in the march to stamp out all forms of rascism that this country
greatly needs. Global understanding is the largest step towards
world peace that we can make. We have to preserve the life and liberty
of all human beings, instead of creating suffering and hatred.
We need to research all of our politicians for past histories of
rascism, and make sure they are not elected. These kinds of politicians
are all over the country, and they are the descision makers. It's time
for a revolution, and we are the ones who have to start it, and soon.
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And the sun rose brown over the mountains
The dark clouds began to roll in
Lightning cracked on the dirty horizon
And the rain burned on my skin
It was then that I realized
Sunrise would never come again
by The Autarch
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Construction Site Porta-John Philosophy
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1. Never trust anyting that bleeds 5 days out of the month and doesn't
die.
2. Here's to the crack that never heals. The more you rub it, the better
it feels. But, there is no soap this side of hell, that can wash
away that fishy smell.
3. Damned be the one who flushes not the toilet.
4. For a good time call 232-0112.
These sayings were painstakingly researched in porta-johns all over
the city. They are authentic! The writers of Out-of-Step do not
support these views, but we just thought the general public should
know about the few, creative geniuses (yeah, right) that are cool
enough to write on bathroom walls.
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Yet Another Music Review
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by Quadrac
Do you like grungy, hard hitting music? Well, if you do I suggest
a band called Poster Children. The album name is "Flower Plower"
(yes, that's Plower). It's put out on Frontier Records.
Most of the album keeps a fast pace, with a pretty gritty guitar
sound. Such songs as "Dangerous Life", "Modern Art", and "Non-reggae
Song" that drive right through your skull like a Mack truck. Definately
something loud to wake up to that doesn't sound like Metallica.
These guys are based out of Urbana Il., so it's not to difficult
to get to a show if you are a poor, Terre Haute native, or student
here.
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SHOCK * HORROR * EXPOSED
THRASH METAL HEROES UNMASKED
RSPCA Guerrilla Raid On Gorillas
Thrash Metal chart toppers Sonic Destruction are at the centre of an
animal cruelty row following a raid on a recording session by RSPCA
inspectors. The inspectors became interested in the band when an RSPCA
member, Sid Jones, overheard his son playing their 'Barf Out Your Brains'
album.
Sid Jones told us, 'I was sure I could hear the distress call of a
grizzly bear somewhere in the general racket that my son calls music.
When my son mentioned that the band record nearby I organised a raid.'
The raid was planned to coincide with the recording of a single, 'Bog
Eyes And Dandruff', a follow-up to the EP 'Eaten By A Combine' which
topped the indie charts for over a month.
RSCPA men burst into the studio as soon as they heard the first grunt and
crashing chord. What they saw horrified them. Sid Jones takes up the
story. 'We thought they just used a bear to add to the vocals. When we
got in that studio we saw the full scale of the problem. There were three
gorilla's and a chimp tied down to the floor and playing musical instru-
ments. One gorilla had his feet glued to his drum pedals. The place
stank. I don't think the place had been cleaned out for weeks.'
The RSPCA inspectors discovered Dick Devious the band's producer sitting
in the soundproof control room wearing a gasmask to protect him from the
stench. On the mixing desk in front of him lay large quantities of
amphetimine sulphate and several cans full of mixed and edited master
tapes.
It was only when the RSPCA summoned the police that the full story
emerged. Faced with a charge of possessing over a pound of 'Speed' Devious
broke down and confessed that the drugs were not for his use.
Devious named Bob Dog, supremo of Sore Ball records, as the man behind
a scheme to pump the animals full of hard drugs and record them as they
attacked musical instruments in a chemically induced frenzy.
Devious also revealed that the four animals discovered by the RSPCA
had been responsible for nearly all the products released by bands like
Napalm Death, Bolt Thrower and Unseen Terror.
The blubbering producer confirmed the RSPCA theory about a bear but
revealed the animal had been released from the studio following 'Musical
differences' resulting from it's accidental playing of a proper chord on
the guitar. 'That's when we got the chimp in,' mumbled Devious.
With Devious, Dog and a couple of recording engineers removed to police
cells, attempts were made to release the animals. At this point the
animal inspectors encountered problems as the rockin' primates insisted
on hauling themselves back into the studio for further performances.
In one final speed fuelled frenzy the animals cut 'Fascist Inspectors
Piss Off' and 'Sexy Orang Baby Go Down On Me'. With the band now returned
to their respective zoos, the royalties from their single will pay for
their upkeep.
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Education and Slavery and Death
Have you taken a close look at our educational system today? It
stinks. I am continually suprised at the lack of education in our 'so
called' educated people. I went back to school after having been out
of the academic scene for a number of years. It is incredible! We
are breeding a nation of slaves!
I know, you don't see the connection. It is there. Take a look
back in history. Look at our own civil war. That war was NOT fought
to free the slaves, it was fought because of education. If you look
at slaves through all the annals of history, you will see that slaves
were people of lesser knowledge kept by people of greater knowledge.
The reason for this is clear. You cannot fight what you don't know and
you cannot win over someone who does. During the period before our
civil war the slaves were kept ignorant for a reason, it was well
known that an educated slave was a rebellious slave. Why? Because he
had learned enough to understand the inequalities of the situation.
When the slaves were first brought over from Africa, they knew so
little that they could not understand the language let alone how to
stand up for their rights. Every succeeding generation grew to know
more of the American culture, became more educated, less satisfied
with their lot. Eventually, they became educated enough to point out
to people the injustice. Over a period of time enough people listened
that the civil war was fought. But rest assured, if the slaves in
America had not gained knowledge, we would still have slaves today.
As an example let me point out to you what has happened in an
African nation known as Nigeria. Nigeria is where all the blacks who
wanted to go back to Africa went after the civil war. They went there
and immediately subjugated the native blacks of the region. However
they were smarter than we were. They immediately went on a killing
spree, trying to kill entire populations of natives. Their reasoning
was, "They're just stupid ignorant savages". Sound familiar? Yeah.
This continues to this day. They haven't completely wiped out the
indigenous tribes but they are close. And how do they do it? By
denying them an education, keeping them stupid and ignorant. They
don't have the education to plan or to fight so they die. And the
people in power keep on in power straight from the time of the
American civil war. And guess what country's friends with them? You
guessed it, the USA. Yes, we say we are against slavery and the loss
of basic human rights but we go right ahead being friends with all the
worst offenders. Some of them (like Nigeria) for a hundred or more
years!
So, you ask what does that have to do with me? Well, you just
look around you at the education thats being offered today. Everybody
says it terrible, everybody says somebody should do something about
it. But what is being done? Nothing. Every year it gets a little
worse, and they talk a lot about reforms, but they never get
implemented or if they do they make things worse instead of better.
So when you sit back in your complacent little niche in life and
vegetate just think of this for a moment. Who is going to benefit from
the poor education of people today? Not the poorly educated children
of today. Not the worse educated children of tommorow. No, it will
be the people who have maintained their and their childrens education.
They will smile as the poor uneducated trash go out to work in the
fields, singin about how good 'massa' is to allow them to work for
nothing and feed them scraps that he wouldn't feed his hogs. Yes,
thats it, thank him as he lashes their backs and their blood runs free
on the ground.
Are one of those who are going to sit back and do nothing?
The 'it cant happen to me' people? Fine, just realize what you are
selling your kids into. And if you are one of those fat cats who are
going to sit back and let it happen because you plan on being 'massa'
I hope you realize that not all of us are going to go quitely into
servitude.
If you have children or if you plan on having them in the future,
educate them! Its for damn sure that if you don't, the system sure as
hell won't either.
The Grenadier.
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VA Hospitals and Old Pink.
I went to Indianapolis to see my grandfather. He's in a VA
hospital dying of Hepatitis B (which he contracted at that
hospital during surgery), and I'm here to tell you you don't
ever want to end up in a VA hospital. Over the patient rooms
hang blue, orange, red and pink flourescent signs saying:
"THIS PATIENT _(name)_ HAS AIDS. AVOID CONTACT WITH BODILY
FLUIDS. AVOID CONTACTS WITH NEEDLES, RAZORS, BLOOD PRODUCTS..."
and that's it for protection. They have signs for Hepatits
B, Pnuemonia, and a whole host of diseases.
These people are dying alone. There are very few visitors
for the dying; it infuriates me to see these people, led along
by the government, rotting away in dirty beds, dirty halls...
what really gets me is the last 2 presidents. I hold them personally
responsible for my grandfather's death. There is no cure for
hep b. As a direct result of the VA budget cuts Bush and Reagan
used to help balance their budgets (you know, "service cutbacks"),
this guy is gonna die. The VA hospital couldn't afford to
make sure every scalpel was sterile. Image going to a hospital
for surgery and seeing crusty scalpels, rusty needles... oh
well. You have to let go at some point and realize this is
a micro version of what the government has been doing to armed
forces members for years.
Did any of you see the TBS movie, "Nightbreaker"? About the
Army guys who got nuked, and the doctoral student who loved
them? Pretty true stuff. My grandmother said they used to
be able to watch the nukes go off in Nevada. Just watch them
off the back porch, boom, a nuke goes off. And all those army
guys up there, getting nuked, human lab rats. But this is no
different from what goes on today...
I recently found a text file about how the US government started
AIDS. It totally reversed my views in this area. The World
Health Orginization (WHO) and the NSA both agreed it was in
the US's best interest to depopulate specific areas of the
world (Africa) and certain populations (homosexuals, drug users)
and in certain areas (slums). Depopulate is another word for
kill, folks. Viral experts have determined that AIDS is not
releated to any virus in the green monkey, rather it is a kludge
of a cow virus and a sheep virus. The viruses are glued together
to form... AIDS. Excerpts:
---This text excerpted from a 57K textfile about AIDS---
"Reduction of the rate of population in these States is a matter of vital US
national security." [National Security Memorandum, Henry Kissinger]
And we even have a map of those areas in which Kissinger indicates where
depopulation would be desireable. It's all Third World countries -- it's all
brown people and yellow people, of course.
several published articles from the World Health Organization, written about
the same time, which advocated similar kinds of research toward the
development of "a hybrid virus that could selectively effect the human immune
system."
We also pointed out an incredible coincidence. The World Health Organization
went into Central Africa in 1972 -- into an area that is known as the "AIDS
Belt" -- and administered a smallpox vaccination to several thousands of
Africans. This event was followed immediately by the first outbreak of AIDS
on this planet -- a remarkable coincidence -- that was noted as a Front Page
Headline in the London Times, but has never even been mentioned in the US
Media -- never even mentioned.
Another startling fact that was never mentioned in the mainstream media -- the
Hepatitis B Vaccine that was given to several thousand male homosexuals in New
York and San Francisco in 1978. The fact is, every single person who received
that vaccine contracted AIDS -- every single one of them -- without exception.
That is what the first American victims of AIDS all had in common. They were
receivers of the Hepatitis B Vaccine. It is a document fact. AIDS began in
America in 1978 in the homosexual communities of New York and San Francisco,
immediately following a government-sponsored program of Hepatitis B
Vaccinations. This is all completely documented -- it is completely true.
In our first program, we made many references to material that you can and
should read, such as the Strecker Memorandum, by Dr. Robert Strecker. Another
work called "Who Murdered Africa," by Dr. William Douglas. And an incredible
book called "A Higher Form of Killing," which documents over 500 specific
cases of biological experimentation by our government on an unsuspecting
public. If you don't think they do "that kind of thing," you are simply
uninformed.
We also read you an official government report from the Royal Society of
Medicine in Great Britain, in which they state unequivocally that "saliva and
blood are vastly more infectious than genital secretions," and "that AIDS
meets none of the criterion of a venereal disease. That despite the
misrepresentations of the American Medical Establishment and the American
Government, AIDS is not primarily a sexually transmitted disease." All of
that, according to the Royal Society of Medicine in Great Britain.
---This text excerpted from a 57K textfile about AIDS---
This text file is available on Lunatic Labs (203) as AIDSGOVT.TXT.
It's also available on The Phoenix, (812) 466 3478, file area 3.
They go on about how the goverment killed Dr. Strecker's brother
for pursuing this info, and how the goverment killed an Illinois
state legislator for championing the cause.
Anyways, I think perhaps the goverment, uh, to be frank, sucks.
This is what they are doing to us. And VA Hospitals seem to
me to be the perfect way to... try things out. People in the
VA system bought the lies once... why not again?
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Public Enemy: Apocalypse 91... The Enemy Strikes Black
Review by Ego Maniac
This is an OK offering by the black radical band of the decade.
Not on par with earlier jams, but you know. Ice T's OG certainly
wasn't up to par with Iceberg or Power, but you know.
PE cuts some solid jams, though. NightTrain, By The Time I
Get To Arizona, More News At 11, A Letter To the New York Post
are a few of the good jams here. Certainly jeep beats in effect.
But Get The F--- Out Of Dodge, 1 Million BottleBags, and the
other censored tracks suck. Here's a hardcore group censoring
their own work. This is like Ice T's OG video: Not at all
like the album. Why did PE sell out and censor themselves?
Radio play is the only thing I can think of. Shades of Metallica
here... 911 is a joke was One, soon, we'll have PE & Metallica
tours... sell outs sticking together. Oh well.
Terminator X does some seriously righteous cuts on tracks 1,
2 & 3. Tracks 6 and 8 are pretty good, too. The Flav is in
effect on track 12, one of his best (I think it's better than
911 is a joke, but you know...) Chuck is hardcore throughout,
except when he wusses out. Oh well. You know....
I'd rate this album a must have, but you know I'm biased.
PE fairly well rules, but...
If anyone's seen their videos, let me know about them... I
want to hear about them before I buy.
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nomeansno * 0 + 2 = 1
Review by Ego Maniac
Wow. This CD rules. 11 tracks of doom from our Canadian pals.
You just gotta get this CD. Shit. Psychopunk in effect. I'd
like to see an Ice T-NoMeansNo album.
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Pink Floyd: Libest Spacement Monitor
Review by Ego Maniac
This is a first rate bootleg CD, from Swinging Pig (Luxembourg)
records. Embryo, Green is the Colour, Careful with that Axe,
Eugene, If, and Atom Heart Mother (full length version) make
up this boot. It was recorded live at the Playhouse, London,
Sept 16 1970.
The sound quality only wavers a few times, and it almost sounds...
16 track ish. But you know, it COULD have been a guy with
a recorder in his pocket... except in 70 we didn't have pocket
tape recorders to bootleg stuff. Huh.
I found it a Headstone Friends, and I've seen it at Rosco's
and some record store in PurdueVille.
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Terminal City Ricochet Soundtrack
Review by Ego Maniac
Huh. This CD is a mix of hardcore, rappish stuff, and blues
/ acoustic. Huh.
In order, we have: DOA's Behind The Smile, a great track from...
DOA. The BeatNigs: Television fucking rules. It's kinda rap
like but not really. Jello Biafra w/NoMeansNo: Falling Space
Junk (hold the anchovies) is.. OK. I, Braineater: Modern Man
is an OK track from a band I've never heard of. It's kinda
funny, but you know. Gerry Hannah: Living with the Lies is
a cool track. Very cool, if you can get past the music. Kinda
country. Art Bergman: War Party. Hardcore blues. good track.
Jello Biafra w/DOA: That's Progress. Off of Jello w/DOA's
album Last Scream Of The Missing Neighbors, it's ok. Evan
John & The H-Bomb: Madhouse. It's OK. NoMeansNo: It's catching
up. OK unless you have the tape, and they cut the song off
in an odd spot. The Groovaholics: Pull The Trigger, Sunshine.
Great Track. DOA: Concrete Beach. Rulin. Keith LeBlanc /
Jello Biafra: Message from our sponsor / object-subject. Rappish
version of... you know that track. Ice T used it. Jello uses
it. How many versions... but this one is set to a beat.
The CD casing is pink. This looks like a fucking cool movie
if I could find it on video. If you know where I can buy this
videotape, TELL ME DAMMIT.
ne ways, buy it, it's really good. If you don't like it, feed
it to your dog.
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klaus flouride: the light is flickering
review by Ego Maniac.
this 9 track cd offering from dead kennedy's ex member is pretty
good, but if you're after post punk revival stuff, uh, not
here folks. this is a good cd, but it kinda drags in spots.
dancing with shauna grant, plaid shirt, gangbusters, and six
other tracks make up the cd.
this is really mellow stuff. it pokes a lot of fun at modern
music... about the 4th time you listen to it. track 7 is pretty
funny. so is track 5. you ought to buy this. have i said
that before?
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Godel, Escher & Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, by Douglas R Hofstadter.
Review by Old Pink
This is a seriously good book. If you never thought about
thought before, then this is where you get it. It was written
by a guy in Bloomington (imagine), and it's really good. It
focuses a lot on mathmatical incompleteness theory, the math
of Bach, and the art of Escher. This is a heavyweight book
(weighing in at 750+ pages) and is a great read. Plus, it has
a lot of cool Escher stuff in it.
So far, I've read 486 pages and perhaps understood 450. There
a quite a few tough spots you need to reread a few times to
get it right, and a few spots where a laptop is handy (testing
the tortise property of numbers, for example). I also skipped
about 20 pages of a dialogue about Aunt Hillary. Geez, DRH,
get with it. The Dialogues are nifty and kinda cute, but uh,
hey man, WE GET THE POINT after a while. We understand Aunt
Hillary. LAY OFF!
But it's a good book. Don't let my incoherency stop you from
reading it. I've spent the last 3 weeks (and weekends, if you
wondered where I was) reading this thing. Good book.
*/
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Roll Your Own
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by Quadrac
As most of you know, this rag is put out electronically as well as
by paper. If you want to be widespread with your own rag, then that
is what you have to do if your budget is limited. In our new, modern
dirty little world, electronic information systems are up in some
form in just about every country, city, and town. If you like
to blow your mouth off like we do, why not write your own paper?
It doesn't take much computer knowledge to get your word spread all
over the proverbial hell. All you have to do is just know someone
with the knowledge to do it. The only way anything in this world is
going to get changed, is if we all start saying something. Be loud
about it! Voice your opinion before that right get's completely
taken away.
Well, we are here to help you out. If you don't want to write
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Well, people, this version you have just read or skipped through is the
electronic version. This is fundamentaly different that the paper issue.
The paper issue is full of cartoons, cool cover art, and several articles
that are not in the electronic issue. The articles that aren't in it are
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