https://archives.csusm.edu/student-newspapers/files/original/8e6bb7a02dc498bd71f7203826dc7021.pdf 3e0e0ecc28c22bbdb7145ee624a42a72 PDF Text Text | CSU & UC Spoils System See Page 10! from Outer Spa U l N. 1 o The Revolution is Coming This month represents the 30th “anniversary”of the assassination of President Kennedy This would be of no interest to Plan 9 except for the fact that a large portion of the American public is still operating under the illusions created by the assassins, refined by the Warren Commission and perpetrated by the media. It is high time that we wake up to the fact that Projected Speed / 250 - r President Kennedy was not killed by Lee Harvey Oswald, and was, in all probability the victim of a coup d’etat engineered by members of the American military/intelligence community who PowerPC 601 had realized that Kennedy was in the process of making an about face with respect to Cold War foreign policy, to their very serious detriment. (For an introduction to the problems with the “lone nut” theory, see the article beginning on page 6.) Intel Pentium The question ofwho killed Kennedy is not, as some maintain, “beating a dead horse.”For one thing, there is no statute of limitations on murder. With the single exception ofJim Garrison’s trial <2 200 -of ClayShaw (as portrayed in Oliver Stone’sJFK), no one was ever brought to trial for the Kennedy’s Intel 80486 murder, and according to our Constitution, Oswald must be « 150 - considered innocent until proven Intel 80386 guilty in a court of law. Since that never happened, the case must Intel 80286 ^ 100 -be remain opened. Oswald’s trial Intel 8086 and conviction in the press must have no weight in our minds if we are to finally understand the 1 50 truth of what happened. C O CL As for the Warren Commis­ sion, it has become clear that ----- — — H 1 I--- 1 I— they began with the conclusion The fatal bullet strikes Kennedy on the right 05 Tf CM o CM 00 that Oswald killed Kennedy with 05 00 O ) 00 00 00 00 05 05 05 CD o> o> o> o> front side of his head. This bullet could not three bullets and falsified the Year evidence to in order to support h ave been fired from the Book Depository. The revolution is coming. And there’s nothing you can do to stop it. this viewpoint...with a total disregard for the truth. The Warren Commission report is one of the The PowerPC chip, produced by a cooperative agreement between IBM, Apple and clearest practical examples of Hitler’s “big lie.” From the “single bullet theory” to the falsified Motorola is destined to revolutionize the nature of computing. It will appear in numbers on the autopsy photos, the Warren Commission systematically covered up the truth. As a result, every member of the Commission is an accessory after the fact in murder and treason. It is amazing to market during the first half of next year as IBM and then Apple aggressively introduce lines of PowerPC-based computers. me that one of authors of the single bullet theory, Gerald Ford, went on to become the President What is the PowerPC? The PowerPC chip is the “brains”of a new generation of computers, of this country. Kennedy was no angel, that is clear. He was a politician, and a wealthy one at that. But if the first generation of personal computers to effectively use “RISC” technology. What is RISC Kennedy was indeed assassinated by factions within our own government, then his death technology? Reduced Instructional Set Computing. What is Reduced Instructional Set Comput­ represents the forceful overthrow of the nation’s rightfully elected government and its replace­ ing? (See how insidious computers are?) I’ll get to that later. The important thing is that this ment by an unconstitutional covert government which has been I “RISC” technology represents a very great and very sudden responsible for our involvement in Vietnam ar I covert actions \ advancement in the raw power, speed and capability ofpersonal around the world. In such case, we the citizens of the United States 1 computers. have no choice but to severe our allegiance to this government. As f RISC-based computers have been around for several years the Declaration of Independence avows, this is our unalienable 30 Yean* of f les > in l^e “workstation” market (Workstations are the type ofcomright. puter used to do the graphics effects in Terminator 2 and ... This is no idle issue. Take a look at “your” government. T h e R e v o W io n ls C o m in .g pretty damn Jurassic Parki9 9. Bloated with bureaucracy, filled with dishonest, greedy, self-serv­ Typically powerful.). ing criminals who have no compunction about twisting or com­ The first Etecfremc Computer r — * they’ve cost in the $10,000 to pletely ignoring the law, our government has become a parody of Medio ■ 4 $100,000 range. With the introa true democracy. How can Congressmen write hundreds of PowerPC, that thousandsofdollars worth of bad checksand get offscot (ree when W toS kl BOOfe 4 c t e T f power will cost $3,500 ourchilcta, ace fines or riding abicyclewrthou. ahelmeC How | Media BUZZMWtlS...... 8 3 1 5 1 1 3 1 ! toJ7 ,OOoLng 1994. After that, can the president spend billions of dollars on star wars research , * n , station-level when there are millions of American citizens living in the streets? thecostofworkHow, in a country which has not had to defend its borders for a Book O f • . . . . . . / power will drop T h e P o w e rP C 601 to the $1,500 to 1998, when the .6 $2,000 range by hundred years, can “our”government spend $300 billionperyear | u swaw w as a P atsy.... .... on the military establishment? Heiwell Speaks! % next generation of processors will be introduced; processors in tumTour times as powerful as the PowerPC. It is time fora new revolution. Not one of computer chips and ; PeddlfigBreaSt CaiKM .8 That’s right. The speed of personal computers has been mass media mergers, butoneofthe people of this nation standing jj|g jia SaysPeSttCideS “May” CauseBreaSt Cancer .8 quadrupling every four years since their introduction in the late up. reclaiming the government that is rightfully ours, and creating l t |j ||f t YfflJ Gonna Wake Up? .9 1970's (see graph, above). a future which we are proud to pass on to our children. Whatever ’ - _.•***. jjjjjjjjjjj 10 About every three and three-quarters of a year since 1978, ■hecoshwecandbnole., . _ J Kuj ^ ^ ^ ..10 Intel (the leading manufacturer of PC processors), has intro­ We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; J iRating the R ag s.................. ..10 duced a new computer chip four times as powerful as the that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; fo rcibly nerrtoved from /' previous chip. The reason is simple: so far all they’ve had to do that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; that, to t »h ...c. i isiake the original microprocessor and “scale” it. The goal, since secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving § j | | > i Administrattor denounces “Individuatf Qpitnions” the beginning of the personal computer industry as been to reduce, or scale, the size of the technology by half every four their just powers from the consent of the governed; that, whenever any ■ H K ittroonis ...... years. Cutting the dimensions of a chip in half results in being form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of /Vkteo:Reviews the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying 12 able to put four times the power in the same area-your fourfold increase. The Evolution of the , In This Issue! its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. 12 Continued on page 3 -Declaration of Independence It’s a bird, it’s a plane... ...It’s Plan 9! Source: Byte Magazine, M 1993 ay 30 Years of Lies �! - Letters to Plan 9 Articles, quotes, poetry, lyrics, satire, com­ mentary, artwork, cartoons, essays, letters to the editor and anything else that’s unfit to print, for publication in 9! Abortion Part of our Secret Plan Congratulations on your ability to press through the “network ofcivic management”to express yourviews. I fmdyourwork exciting and it makes possible the fullest explorations of points both in favor of‘Plan 9’and opposed. I am a common spirit (with differing views) and look forward to your next publication, Now, with regard to “What is Plan 9?” and “Our Secret Plan.” Have you considered that the “Secret Plan” goes beyond simple Get involved! consumption? I suggest that abortion is the “Secret Plan”in the same See your name in print! way some of the German’s planned to eliminate the inconvenient and unwanted. I suggest that you are part of that “Secret Plan”- “the Outrage the Establishment! plan to annihilate the {unborn} race. Though many of them liked to Get beat up by beefy rednecks! remain silent about it, the people of {America} were on the whole behind {Planned Parenthood} in {its} ambition to rid the world of Get arrested! {inconvenient and unplanned children }. They invested a lot in the Lose your job! secret plan. They invested their consciences. They invested their Become a homeless person... place among the familyof nations. They invested their self-respect.” They dominate the airwaves with sloganism: “the right of women to ...uhhh, well, you get the idea. control their own bodies” and “every child a wanted child.” Where is your intellectual honesty when you assault “capital” Really, folks, Plan 9 can do only so much for controlling its own resources at the expense of life (with which opinion I agree) without assaulting the victimizes of unborn mil­ without your help. lions? How can you, “...honor, rather than destroy, the human spirit “Duh, so how do I submit sumthin ferto be put that lives in us all,”including the unborn whose thinking minds and in da paper?”, you attempt to ask while spittle beating hearts are snuffed often at the “whim,”encouragement and consent of “sensitive, caring people.” dribblesdownyourchin. Easy! Just take what­ Let us recognize that abortion and many other sick practices of ever it is you want published and mail it to our the current “Secret Plan” are symptoms of the very core sickness P.O. Box address listed below. We’ll come in your paper is in the process of exposing. I do not attack the victims of these symptoms any more than I attack the “innocent” Germans later, have a good laugh over it and toss it into that were caught up in the sick Nazi regime, but I also cannot remain the trash. Dear P silent, norcanyou. Integrityisascarce and endangered resource and consumerism, convenience, popularityand greed are majordestroy­ You still suck! ers of it. Keep up the good work. “ Jesus was a terrorist.” I assert that his liberation of women would acknowledge that every out-of-wedlock pregnancy is “junkculture rape;” that responsibility extends to the whole family of mankind and that that which is conceived in evil can be transformed into the birth of good. That is the terror of the message of God and the “Good News.” Can your paper handle this? Or, will it be edited as popular media does when I submit my opinions there? David A Nilson . Also wanted: Anyone interested in delivering Plan 9 to campuses, coffee shops, bookstores, etc. Plan 9 From Outer Space “Free Speech for All Volume 2, No. 2 November, 1993 Editor in Chief Anthony T. Dunn Contributing Editor Your Name Here Design & Layout Anthony T. Dunn Concept Bill Stacy & Bemie Hinton Plan 9 is published whenever we can afford to by Virtual Media, P.O. Box 87202, San Diego, CA 92138-7202. Please feel free to copy, xerox or reprint anything in Plan 9. Copyrights © Violated 1993. Plan 9 is a Virtual Media Publication. cWe’d love to hear your point of view. Send all corresponr dence to: Plan 9 P.O. Box 87202 San Diego, CA 92138-7202 Please send SASE with all queries and manuscripts. Sorry, but we can’t afford to pay for submissions. You are, of course, entirely correct. Given the foundation upon which Plan 9 is based, the issue of abortion has to be squarely discussed, rather than squarely dodged, no matter how many readers it costs us. In the first issue, we gave abortion no thought, but you are right on target when you say that it too is a symptom of the sickness that Plan 9 aims to expose. Plan 9 maintains that we are in the process of committing cultural (if not racial) suicide. What more direct or efficient form of suicide is there than ;illing our own children? It is the disposable society at its most base. Clearly, the reason that abortion is such a legitimate issue (as opposed to the issues manufactured by the media and the govern­ ment) is that the unborn child and the mother are essentially a single organism. That our society has reached such a state that mother nd child are alienated even before birth speaks clearly to the depth of the sickness that has overtaken us, and to the internal confusion that has resulted. Clearly, no one supports “killing babies.” But our society has often left us little choice. When there is no societal structure to support a poor single mother, what choice does she feel she has but to “terminate” the pregnancy? In a non-money-based communal society such as practiced by chimpanzees (don’t laugh; male chimps play as little role in the upbringing of their children as many human males do, but chimp society is such that it can handle it without resorting to killing babies), the identity of the father is of no consequence because the mother can rely on the support of the rest of the community to help her raise her children. In our society, so much more advanced and civilized than the chimps, we have no such support for mothers. Single mothers have to make it on their own, often living thousands of miles away from their own family, without the support of the community, in an environment polluted with greed and selfishness. What incentive, in such an environment, is there to bring a child into the world? Have we as a society so devalued mothers and children that we can afford to throw them away as we do everything else? And if so, can we expect to long remain on this planet? We at Plan 9 do not condemn those who feel that they have no other choice than abortion; we condemn the society that has made this “choice” not only a reality, but a commonplace one. However, Plan 0 opposes outlawing abortion for the simple fact that we do not believe in the use of force on anyone, mother or child. Abortion itself, is clearly a use of force, but it must be brought to a halt through education and a fundamental restructuring of society, not laws. As for those individuals who take it upon themselves to rid the world of abortion doctors by murdering them, we at Plan 9 have only the most utter contempt. Killing never solves anything. As to editing your letter inthe manner of the popular media, we, unlike the popular media, actually believe in free speech, and so respect your right to say your piece in full. 9 Pocks Apathy Congratulations! Your paper is responsible for actually moti­ vating me to write. I am a great believer in freedom of speech; and what I feel is it’s purest form: the underground newspaper. Vol. 2, No. 1 of Plan 9 (the first issue I’ve seen) is the best “underground” publication I’ve read here in San Diego. So good that I felt I had to break apathy’s grip and encourage your effort! I respect your ideals and principles as set forth in this issue. The journalism overall was not only intelligent and thought out, but clearly heartfelt. Trulya refreshing thing to read. I enjoyed especially the absence of these two attitudes: #1) “Everything is so fucked up that we can’t do anything about it except talk shit.” It is very easy to find fault with today’s reality. The environment, the government, etc... Rather than accept defeat, or shuffle the blame around, your paper did what saves America from total deception by mass media: exercise free speech encourage diversity - offer solutions. #2) “Rebellion is cool. So let’s rebel.” The current fad (as I’m sure you’re aware) is to be “alternative.” Crowded under that enor­ mous title is a mixture of politics, fashion, music and lifestyles; currently all trying to be cool. Not aware, or well informed, or even interested; just cool. The total lack of any advertising by those cashing in on the alternative market convinced me you were for real. Again - you rocked my apathy. To be honest, I have never written a letter to any editor of any paper. But I very much wanted you to know that your paper had made a difference to at least one person. Keep up the good work! James P.S. I am curious how or if I would be able to contribute. Are there certain topics you need people to cover - do we submit whatever we want? Could you explain further in the next edition or, if you have time, write. First of all, thanks for the letter. It makes the whole effort of publishing Plan 9 worthwhile to know that there are people out there who are reading it and appreciating it. The whole intent of Plan 9 is to wake people from the apathetic slumber that we’ve fallen into. I’m glad at least one person is beginning to rouse. We struggled long and hard with the idea of accepting adver­ tising. Since we can’t really afford to be shelling out several hundred dollars a month to publish a paper, advertising would have covered at least some of our costs. But Plan 9 wouldn’t have been an honest paper if we had accepted advertising. And it needs to be honest to have any effect on people. It’s unfortunate, but in today’s world honesty is a novelty, a mysterious curiosity. Everyone just assumes that you have some ulterior motive, some hidden agenda, and you can only surprise them by not hiding anything. To accept advertising would have been to accept the limitations upon freedom of thought and expression that the acceptance of advertising inevitably brings. When the advertisers pay your bills, your hidden agenda becomes to maintain the influx of money. As a result, honesty takes a back seat to financial security. Personally, we’d rather be honest than secure. Security is just an illusion anyway. As to what you can submit, we’re interested in submissions in two very broad areas: personal experiences and signs of the times. Continued on Page 3 Having trouble controlling your sexual urges? ^d e t/ adde d lf W h y bother w ith tbe long road to bell, w hen you can get there today! Rev. H elw ell can sLow you tlie way! O n ly in Plan 9! (see p g -7) Free men do not ask permission to enjoy their freedom , -Timothy Leary �The Revolution Will be Computerized (cont.) However, the current “CISC” (Complex Instructional Set Computing) technology, which has been used since the dawn of PCs, is beginning to run into severe physical limitations. In fact, Intel’s new Pentium processor represents the final major CISC processor to be introduced. The Pentium will be wiped out by the in-every-way-superior PowerPC and RISC architec­ ture will totally replace today’s technology. CISC computers will be as out-of-date as vacuum tubes (well, not quite) .As Byte Magazine said four years ago in May 1989, “Traditional semi­ conductor technology will reach its limits in the mid to late 1990V: So what are “CISC” and “RISC”? Nothing much really. CISC computers have instructions that are complex, large and of varying length. A RISC computer’s instructions are simple, small and all the same size. The important point here is that computers operate faster if the instructions sent to it are simple (reduced), small and uniform. No duh. So much faster in fact that thefirst of a series of PowerPC chips (the PowerPC 601) will double the processing power of the state of the art CISC chip, the Intel Pentium. The Pentium, which still has yet to hit the market in large numbers, itself has double the processing power of the current standard proces­ sor, the Intel 80486 (universally referred to as the ‘486’). But speed isn’t the only benefit of RISC technology. Advancements in semiconductor design make RISC chips smaller, less power hungry and cheaper to produce. Compare the following specs: PowerPC 601 Clock Speed Transistors MIPS* Size Power Use Cost 66MHz 3.1 million 112 16.6x17.6 mm 16W $900 The Players: a s ts & s js s rE = ¥ = ' • “ ’“ You don’t have to be a computer nerd to see which is clearly better. Because of its smaller size and lower power use, the PowerPC gives off less heat than the Pentium, which will ultimately result in higher reliability than the Pentium (micro­ electronics are very sensitive to heat and tend to fail quicker at higher temperatures). The PowerPC’s smaller size means that it is cheaper to produce. Combined with its superior perfor­ mance (and the feet that it has the two largest computer manufacturers in the world behind it), the PowerPC (and its successors) will eventually replace the Intel line as the stan­ dard processor in all personal computers. In effect, in the period of about a year, we are going to see an entire computer generation pass. What’s really happening is that in the process of leaping from one technology to the next, we are realizing the immediate “benefits” of RISC tech­ nology: the equivalent of an entire generation of CISC proces­ International Business Machines Annual Revenue: $63.79 billion 1991 PC Sales: $8.5 billion Apple Computer Inc. Annual Revenue: $6.31 billion 1991 PC Sales: $4.90 billion Motorola, Inc. Annual Revenue: $11.34 billion 1991 Semiconductor Sales: $3.6 billion @ OTOROLA M Pentium 66 MHz 2.8 million « 220 11x11 mm 9W $450 sors. If things then continue as before, by the end of 1998 (when the second generation of PowerPC chips-and Intel’s answer to it-debut) we will be looking at personal computers capable of 500 MIPS*; an order of magnitude more powerful than the fastest 486’s on the market today (486DX2 66MHz: 54 MIPS). Never before in the history of technology have such leaps in capability taken place at such a rate. As a result, we are at a technological cusp between one kind of society and another. It is truly a revolution. But what kind of revolution? Will computers take over the world? (You mean they haven’t already??) Surprisingly, no one in y Intel Corporation Annual Revenue: $4.78 billion 1991 Semiconductor Sales: $4.78 billion really talks about the social impacts of the new technology. And there will be impacts. First of all, computer voice recog­ nition will become a reality. It won’t be too long before you will begin to see people talking to a machine and having it re­ spond. Handwriting recognition will also come of age. But the most important impact will be that of virtual reality. The PowerPC, backed by the two most aggressive pushers of multimedia, W be the platform of choice for ill virtual reality development. By the end of1994you should see VRheadsets appearing for personal computers. People by the hundreds of thousands will clamor for the “new TV.” Fast, interactive, and able to create any fantasy you want, virtual reality will be the ultimate escapism (or to put it into the old “New Left’s” terms, “the ultimate pacification program”). Is that what we want? Has it ever occurred to anyone that in attempting to create a machine in our own image (Isn’t voice recognition just a step in that direction?) and in attempt­ ing to recreate reality itself, we can only get farther and farther from ourselves and from reality? Look at kids today. They P/a/7 P History Lesson: The First Electronic Computer The first tru e electronic com ­ p u ter w as the ENIAC (Elec­ tro n ic N u m erical In teg rato r A nd Calculator). Developed by the A rm y du rin g the Second W orld W ar at the U niversity of | Pennsylvania, it w asn 't com ­ pleted until 1946. It's prim ary | purpose w as to calculate com ­ plex ballistics tables, used in ! aim ing artillery (W hy is it that the m ost pow erful tools h av e alw ays been developed w ith the intent of killing people?). The ENIAC, w h ich h a d the m erest fraction of the processing pow er of your basic pocket calculator, filled a 100' x 18' room. It had 17,468 vacuum tubes. Unlike today's com puters, it h ad no internal m em ory and h ad to be program m ed m anually Spec Comparison Year Introduced: Dimensions: Weight: Power Consumption: Cost: MIPS: Memory: Storage: ENIAC 1946 100’ x 18’ x 10’ 60,000 lbs. 174 kilowatts $500,000 =0.005 O characters 6000 characters *Used by the P lan 9 staff. “Hasta la vista, baby!” Mac Quadra 605* 1993 i 2 ° x i 4 ”x i r 20 lbs. (w/ monitor) 60 watts $1,300 (w/monitor) =20 8 million characters 80 million characters capable of doing 5000 cal­ culations per second. The ENIAC became obso­ lete w ithin a few years of its introduction w hen the first stored program com­ puter (the EDVAC) w as jcompleted, and becam e fatally out of date in 1951 w ith the introduction of the UNIVAC. relate better to their video games than they do to other kids. Imagine spending your entire childhood (as the kids being bom today will) wearing a VR headset, tost in a fantasy where your every wish is granted. How frustrating and disap pointing actual reality will seem! In effect, by recreating ourselves and reality we are at­ tempting to play God. No kidding folks. Follow it out. Where will it end? I don’t hear anyone saying, “Well, we’re going to continue to improve computers until 2005, and then we’ll stop.” Nope. It’s just faster and faster and faster and faster. At the current rate, personal computers will be a thousand times more powerful in the year 2010 than they are today. What that will be like, I can hardly imagine. Ultimately, we’ll have the power to make a sentient machine, a genie capable of granting our every wish (now I finally understand why “Prince Mi...Handsome is he...Mi Abab Wa” has been pounding its way through my head all week). And what then? Star Trek or Terminator? We have to stop now and ask ourselves if computers are taking us where we want to go. The media won’t talk about it because it is in their best interest for the new technology to become a reality. But we must. *MIPS: Millions of Instructions Per Second. Sometimes translated as “Meaningless Indicator of Processor Speed.” Sources: Byte Magazine , January 1990, February 1990. M ay 1993, August 1993; P C Magazine, N ovember 9, 1993; MacWorld, N ovember 1993. Incoming! (cont.) By personal experiences we mean things that have happened to you personally that illustrate either what’s wrong with our society or what can be done to improve it. Satire, if well written and cogent, is a favorite at Plan 9. Signs of the times is everything else. Stories about the operations of large corporations, human rights (particu­ larly local issues), injustices, inequities, the mass media, editorial cartoons, satirical ad takeoffs, etc. We’re also interested in finding new source materials such as good books, magazines and films to excerpt/review in Plan 9. If you have something that you want to say, send it to us. If it meets the rigorous editorial biases of Plan 9, we’ll print it. Money would be nice too. We could give you a cheap rate on an ad! If you don’t have something to say, then maybe you read something worth printing in Plan 9. Send it along! Maybe you read an interesting article on how they’re going to start embedding computer chips in the heads of every baby bom in order to “increase efficiency.” Definitely send f/?afalong! Remember, a letter still costs less than a cup of coffee. Anonymous Support I don’t agree with everything you say, but your point of view is badly needed. Keep up the good work. I hope this contribution helps. Good luck. (Enclosed was $40 in cash.) Thanks for your generous, if anonymous, contribution! And thanks for the support. We need it. I’m glad that you can see through whatever differences in opinion we may have and still be able to support our work. Our problems will never go away until we can accept our differences and our similarities alike. See the back page for a breakdown of how your money was spent. This letter concerns the October 1993 issue. It’s refreshing! It’s informative! And it’s all new to me! I was fortunate enough to stumble on it at the Ken Theatre after coming out of Manufacturing Consent. Iwould like to know how often it reallydoesget published and how I coiild possibly subscribe, inquire, or obtain future editions? I am an avid subscriber to the Christian Science Monitor newspaper and believe that your content in the October issue rates just as useful. Great work, Lisa Matt Perfect! We rushed to get that issue of P/an 9 out before Manufacturing Consent came to town. I bet that the Media Watch section of that issue was particularly cogent after seeing the movie. Plan 9 domes out whenever we have enough stuff to put in an issue and enough money to pay for the printing. We’re shooting for monthly, but we’re not really interested in being tied to any particular schedule. We don’t have the means of maintaining subscriptions, so that option is out. Sorry. However, you can get future issues at the Ken, or in coffee shops, bookstores and the like along Adams Ave., in Hillcrest, OB, and at all of the major universities and community colleges in the area. �Media Watch What’s Happening to the Book Industry? By Dennis H. Dutton The corporatization of media is, I think, unfortunate. I’m especially familiar with the phenomenon as it’s reared its me­ dusa head in the book industry. When such great independent book publishers as Simon & Schuster, Prentice Hall, Pocket Books, Putnam, Grosset & Dunlap, Random House, Knopf, and Little, Brown &Company are swallowed by conglomerates, then the creative editorial visions that impelled these publishers are in serious jeopardy if not lost. The only— repeat, the only— major independent U.S. publisher that now exists is W. W. Norton. One result of this trend is that decisions about whether or not to publish manuscripts are increasingly based on projec­ tions of “pure” market value, while literary quality and other virtues go slighted or ignored. This is not to say that good and great books are not being published, even by the giants. They are. But more and more frequently the bottom line is:Will it sell, and in big numbers? And what’s presumed to have the best selling potential is the manu­ script that’s thought to have appeal to a perceived commondenominator reading public, or to a “select but still large reading public.” This would not be so bad if the people making these decisions had some sound literary principles grounding their good business sense; but it’ more likely that in corporate s publishing, the decisions are being made by executives and bean-counters who don’t give a damn about anything as long as a manuscript can be projected as a money-maker. they wither away in the frost of ill-considered business planning or poor book selection— just plain old bad luck. None of them or have the luxury of being supported by fellow subsidiaries who may be strongly in the black while they linger in the red. Unfortunately, a few of the worst small publishers— in terms of production quality and literary virtue, etc.— manage to thrive in spite of the many challenges of the game; they find their public, pander to it, and sell, sell, sell. They may be small, but they think big. Some of the best hang in there and produce astonishingly fine books with varying degrees of financial suc­ cess. And some of the best die— are absorbed by conglomer­ or ates. In the midst of all this change, more books are being published now than ever, and readers therefore have more tides to choose from. No complaint there, although I bemoan the dreck that eats up forests. But will this continue to be the case for long? The chain superstores (I can’t help but think of the irony in the name ‘Waldenbooks”) can afford to buy books in large quantities and, because they purchase them at high discounts, they can offer them at reduced prices. Most independents can’t. The result is that, especially at peak-buying times such as the Thanksgiving to Christmas season, sales at independent stores is lessened. The independent bookstore is now seen by many in the business to be a threatened species. If the number of independent booksellers dwindles, that’s going to affect the quality, and perhaps the number, of titles available to us. It was not the superstore book buyer that helped Decisions are being made by executives and bean­ counters who don’t give a damn about anything as long as a manuscript can be projected as a money-maker. make the unusual Bridges of Madison County a bookseller; according to both author Robert James Waller and publisher Warner Books, it was the independent buyer. Chain superstore book buyers seldom have the imagina­ tion or courage to order or promote books like Bridges of Madison County. The independent bookseller does, because he or she typically bases book-buying not only on proven track records of certain authors or on what’s trendy or likely to be a hot item with faceless consumers, but on what he or she knows to be the literary tastes and interests of the store’s actual living, breathing, thinking customers. If the superstores destroy the independents— they are and trying to— may eventually find that we’re only able to pur­ we chase books that the superstore book buyers presume to have the best selling potential to a perceived common-denominator reading public, or to a “select but still large reading public;” the choices we readers will have will he in the hands of fewer and fewer people, and those people will be corporate drones and bean counters. Another, I think related, danger to the book publishing industry is illiteracy. Fifty percent of adult Americans are func­ tionally illiterate. I’ll bet that the vast majority of those who have bought an unknown author’s Bridges ofMadison County can read. I’ll also bet that a large percentage of W ELL, M A Y B E NOT THAT E X A C T B O O K ...B U T HEY.' W H Y B UY THAT BOOK FR O ** A LOCALLYYOU’LL CERTAINLY HAVE YOUR CHOICE OF M A N Y OWNED IN D E P E N D E N T B OOKSTORE— W H E N those who bought The Way Things Oughtto F IN E B E S TS E LLE R S - A ND AT V E R Y A F fO R tb YOU CAN B U Y IT S OMEW HAT CHEAPER A T ONE A BLE PR IC E S. T O O ! OF THE M A N Y CORPORATE-OWNED C H A IN Be can’t read; that they bought the book B OOKSTORES P O P PIN G UP A R O U N D T O W N ? NO AM c r o m p s k t: n e v e r h ea r d because old Rush Limbaugh is a good old h im ; m e r e - h o w a b o u t o n e i i c H A E L C R ia m m i n s t e a d boy like them. If the marketplace is being increas­ ingly peopled by illiterates, then we will surely see more books published that aim at this low denominator, and fewer at the higher one composed of those who can read without moving their lips. Yes, I’ll also SO HURRY O N DOWN TO THE NEAREST C H A IN AN D IF YOU’VE ALREADY R EAD THE LATE S T wager that corporate publishers, who are BOOKSTORE O U T L E T - W H ER E T H E Y U N D E R BESTSELLERS, DON’ T DESPAIR ..TH ER E* ALWAYS s ta n d t h a t b o o k s a r e ju s t a n o t h e r THE S IF T BOOK S E C T IO N -W H E R E Y O U'LL FIND market driven above all else— pander to will THE BOOKS A R R A N G E D , CONVENIENTLY ENOUGH, CONSUMER IT E M -A U O T H E ONLY T H IN G THAT R E A LLY M A T T E R S IS U N IT P R IC E ... BY C OST the increasing number of functional illiter­ uM...YO U'RE SURE YOU D O N 'T HAVE C-H-Q-/B-S-K-Y? POLITICAL AN ALY SIS ? ates among us, thus adding to a downward S O R R Y -B U T IF YOU L IK E ■ cycle of despair. P o l it ic s , h o w a b o u t r u s h U M B A U G H 'S B O O K ? iT ’S A Other, and also related, problems are R EAL BARGAIN the diminishing budgets and closures of libraries throughout the country. Taxes are being shifted to support more basic needs in our communities, and so libraries are Reprinted from the Utne Reader; Nov/Dec 1993. either limiting their hours, closing their Potential blockbusters are printed in the hundreds of thousands, even millions of copies, and are given advertising and promotion budgets that could feed hundreds of families for the duration of their lives. Masterpieces with little perceived commercial value are lucky to have runs of3,000 to 5,000, and their promotional budgets are seldom over $1,000. Some folks think the small book publisher is the salvation in the face of the decadence outlined above; that it is the small book publisher who will be the one to take chances on manu­ scripts of quality but, perhaps, limited potential reading publics. There’s some justification for this view, and the advent of the personal computer has had a lot to do with it. The personal computer and access to assorted publishing programs have permitted hundreds of creative individuals to join the publish­ ing game. That’s the good news. The bad news is that the personal computer has permitted hundreds of idiots to join the game too. A lot of trees are consequently being wasted by small publishers who don’t know what the hell they’re doing, who are barely if at all functionally literate, and who don’t care as long as they can pay the printing bills and cover overhead. Small book publishers— you might expect— as sprout in great entrepreneurial profusion like springtime flowers, and doors on days they used to be open, or shutting down entirely. Libraries are buying fewer tides in any case, and tending to not replace worn-out copies of old books. A librarian near my little town in northern New Mexico was quoted as saying, “Who wants to readabook published before 1930?”She was selling off the library’s old stock. In black moments, one can foresee the day when the only access we will have to books is through the largess of the superstore or (for those able to affordit)thecomputer.Orwellian scenarios are easy to conjure. The situation is hardly hopeless. Trends change. But I fear for the state ofthe book in the face ofincreasing corporatization, hypnotism by television and video games; and— yes— inter­ the active CD-ROMand virtual reality technology (excuse me while I download the interactive virtual-reality edition of Tale ofTwo Cities). What to do? Support independent publishers by buying their books. Boycott the superstores. Frequent your library and used-book stores for must-read books by corporate publishers. 4. Support your local independent bookseller, even if the prices of books are sometimes slighdy higher than at the superstores. 5. Get involved in literacy campaigns (check with your li­ brary). For more information, I recommend two excellent maga­ zines: the monthly American BThe Official Maga­ zine ofthe American BooksellersAssociation (560White Plains Rd., Tarrytown, NY 10591, 1-800-637-0037) and the weekly 1. 2. 3. Publishers Weekly. The International News Magazine ofBook Publishing (Address for subscriptions: P.O. Box6457, Torrance, CA 90504). D ennis D u tto n is an ex-m agazine editor ( Drum), e x-associate p u b lish er of a sm all book pu b ­ lishing firm , ex-m anaging edito r of another firm, an d cu rren tly a free-lance book editor an d writer. Who Owns Whom in Bools Addison-Westey Pearson - | Hearst Corporation Ballantine Advance Publications Bantam Bertelsmann Berkeley Matsushita Doubleday . Bertelsmann Grosset & Dunlap Matsushita Knopf Advance Publications Harper Collins The News Corp. Little, Brown & Co. Time Wamer Orion Advance Publications Pantheon Advance Publications Penguin Pearson Pocket Books Paramount Prentice Hail Paramount G, P. Putnam’s Sons Matsushita Random House Advance Publications Simon & Schuster Paramount Time-Life Books Time Wamer Touchstone Bodes Paramount Wamer Books Time Wamer "Ann $1.9 $3.0 $22.0 $56.2 $22.0 $56.2 $3.0 $8.6 $12.0 $3.0 $3.0 $3.0 $4.3 $4.3 $56.2 $3.0 $4.3 $12.0 $4.3 $12.0 ThanksforT 16658340 “The reason C om puterEdge exists is b ecause there was no inexpensive way for advertisers to communicate with PC u sers in San Diego. The advertising dol­ lars and the major interest of our readers lies with the personal computer class of h ardware and software.” - “Digital Dave”, ComputerEdge, Oct., 29,1993 In other w o rd s, d o n 't look h ere for a critical or intelligent discussion of the n atu re an d effects of technology. The issue is how much longer end to what extent we can allow the state to control our mindsr -Ken Anderson, 1969 �A Lexicon of Media Buzzwords Reprinted from Unreliable Sources: A Guide to Detecting Bias in News Media, by Martin A. Lee & Norman Solomon. What we hear over and over again shapes our language and guides our thoughts. As with ad jingles, the drumbeat of repeated news lingo stays with us and takes on a life of its own. In the long run, what’s repeated endlessly becomes social “reality.” For every exceptional media item (notable as an exception), hundreds of stories solemnly present recycled cliches as truisms. Too often, American journalism is not “reporting the news” so much as reinforcing timeworn attitudes. To consume the news dished out every day is to partake ofa steady offering of buzzwords and catch-phrases that range from the vaguely factual to the questionable to the ridiculous. For example: • • • Acting presidential: A grandly nebulous description by TV news correspondents, giving a favorable review to some bit of presidential acting. Bailout: Huge amounts of taxpayers’ money going to wealthy financiers with souring investments in industries like auto production or Savings and Loans. Believed to be, Considered to be: Using the passive voice, the journalist can generalize at will, as though anyone knowledgeable shares the same belief. Big government: A pejorative for regulatory agencies limiting corporate activities, or for social service programs aiding poor and middle-class people—but not for the govemmenfs enormous military expenditures. Brought to you by: A roundabout way of plugging commercial sponsors. Caller claimed responsibility: Mysterious phone tip to a news organization, usually impossible to verify. Who really made the call? The CIA? The KGB? An autonomous lunatic? We’ll never know. Clean up: A scenario for setting right oil spills, nuclear pollution, chemical releases and the like. The phrase sounds comforting—it implies a magical vacuum cleaner at work—except that most ecological disasters can’t be undone. Dangerous drugs: Illegal substances, as distinct from other damaging consumables—alcohol, cigarettes and over-prescribed pharmaceuticals—also widely used. Defense spending: Military spending. Deterrent: Nuclear weapons pointed at the Soviet Union. (Nuclear weapons pointed at the United States never get the U.S. media’s “deterrent” tag.) Efficiency: Frequently shorthand for corporate management’s preferences, maybe involving layoffs, firings, wage cuts and/or union-busting. Experts: A common noun handy for promoting a favored point of view. Extremists, Fanatics, Fringe groups: Political individuals or groupings that meet with U.S. government and media disapproval. Instability: Code for situations overseas where the U.S. State Department is unhappy with current events. Intelligence community: A way of making cloak-and-dagger specialists at the CIA and other spy agencies sound like friendly neighbors. Military leader: A foreign military dictator whom the White House doesn’t mind a whole lot. Military strongman: A foreign military dictator out of favor with the White House. (In 1989, Military Strongman seemed to be the first names of Panamanian General Manuel Noriega. A few years earlier, when he was on the CIA’s payroll, he was a “military leader.”) Moderate: In domestic politics, this favorable adjective is conferred for not rocking the status-quo boat. As a moniker for foreign regimes, “moderate” denotes little inclination to disrupt U.S. government plans. Thus, Saudi Arabia’s monarchy is “moderate”—which would surprise the hundreds of torture victims inside Saudi prisons. Modernization (of nuclear weapons): The United States and NATO proceed to “modernize”nuclear arsenals with new missiles. But American media never apply the benign-sounding term to newly devised Soviet nuclear arms. National security: Confined to subjects like weapons, soldiers and espionage, the connotations bypass vital aspects of true national security—such as environmental protection, public health, social cohesion and a strong economy. Observers: The observers taken most seriously by news media. Radical: Although students protesting in, say, China are “pro-democracy,”in South Korea pro-democracy students in the streets are “radical” demonstrators—with the reasons behind their anti-U.S. protests rarely explained. Reform: In journalese, “reform” can mean just about anything. “Tax reform” during the 1980's was a euphemism for legislation that gave the wealthy major tax cuts. Special interests: This phrase used to be applied to wheeler-dealers relying on big bucks instead of grassroots supporters to sway the democratic process. But in recent years, mass media have turned the “special interests”label upside down and plastered it elsewhere—on large numbers of people with less money and less power—groups of black and Hispanic Americans, labor union members, feminist women, seniors, lesbian and gay rights backers, and other organized constituencies. Stability: A codeword for situations overseas where the U.S. State Department wouldn’t mind if conditions stayed the same. Terrorism: A label very selectively applied, in keeping with U.S. government definitions. So—in the mediaspeak lexicon—bombings, assassinations and kidnappings are “terrorism” if done by Arabs, but not if done by Israelis. U.S. analysts, Western diplomats, etc.: These phrases are broad and pliable enough to serve as springboards for the opinions of American officials and their allies, while obscuring the sources and motives behind the words. T h e " ::;' " : ; " : ; : 00393077 When we had last left our hero, a battle was brewing between two groups of suitors for Paramount’s hand. On the one side was Viacom, backed with funding from Blockbuster Entertainment, Cox Enterprises and Nynex. On the other was QVC, backed by Liberty Media Corp. [a subsidiary of Tele­ communications Inc. (TCI)] and Comcast Corp. By press time, the story remained pretty much the same, though the names of the players were beginning to change. In fact, what appeared to be happening was the beginning of the collapse of the media industry into a single giant corporation. Cox Enterprises changed sides, joining Bell-Atlantic and Ad­ vance Publications Inc. on the QVC side of the deal. All in all, QVC has lined up $1.5 billion in investors to back their bid for Paramount. While all of this was happening, Bell Atlantic announced that intended to buy TCI, lock, stock and barrel. Along with its Paramount stake in the Paramount/QVC merger, this deal would instandy make Bell Adantic one of the largest media companies in the world, controlling everything from the world’s largest cable system (TCI), phone, cellular, and other communications services, along withstakes in theQVC network and Paramount’s holdings. The Players: Company Advance Publications Bell Atlantic Blockbuster Nynex Param ount TC I Viacom Annual Revenues $ 3.0 billion $ 12.3 billion $ 0.9 billion $ 13.3 billion $ 4.3 billion $ 3.8 billion $ 1.9 billion Thepgwer to label is key to manipulation. Book Censorship by Daniel Schreffler, Albany, NY I want to draw your attention to a growing threat to freedom of expression in the U.S. The local independent bookshop seems to be going the way of the comer grocery and neighborhood hardware store. Two large “superstore” chains, Borders (a subsidiary of K-Mart) and Barnes & Noble, are opening giant new stores all over the country, driving independent bookstores out of business with their deep discount prices. If this trend continues, retail book selling will be dominated by these two large companies. They will then essentially be able to determine what gets published, since no publisher will bother to print a book that the chains refuse to sell. The dreary conformity that now pervades other areas of the media will be extended to books. This may not be apparent in the short term as the chains continue to be measured by the standards established by an open and diverse retail market. However, as the inde­ pendent booksellers disappear, the profit motive and the personal whims of the small group of people controlling purchasing will eventually prevail, and controversial books will gradually become less accessible to the public. This letter was originally printed in the September 1993 Z Magazine. Having problems witb emotional swings? H e’s tke man -witb tbe plan, tbe cancer w itb an answer! O n ly in Plan 9! (see p g-7) �Oswald Was a Patsy Beginning ¥ even before the assassination of President Kennedy, a web of lies has been spun to cover the real truth of who killed Kennedy and why. It would be impossible in the space available to go into all of the reasons why Oswald could not have killed Kennedy; there are several excellent books which cover everything of importance. However, for the sake of satisfying those who still blindly believe the official version of the assassination, I will outline the major problems with the “lone nut” theory. 1. On the day he was airested, Oswald was given a nitrate test, the results of which showed that he had not fired a weapon in the previous 24 hours (Ruby shot Oswald 23 hours after the assassination). 2. It was physically impossible for anyone to load, aim and fire the cheap Italian-made Mannlicher-Carcano bolt-action rifle allegedly used by Oswald in less than 2,3 seconds (as established by FBI tests). However, the Zapruder film shows Kennedy and Connelly being hit by separate shots, less than a second apart. 3. In order to account for this discrepancy, the Warren Commission developed the “single bullet theory,” which claimed that a single bullet (which mysteriously appeared on a stretcher at Parkland Memorial Hospital where Kennedy and Connelly were taken) had inflicted seven separate wounds on Kennedy and Connelly. The bullet was found in almost perfect condition (see figures 3 and 4). Even firing at full speed, as required by the Zapruder film, it would nearly impossible for the finest marksman to have hit Kennedy three times, particularly with such a cheap rifle. Furthermore, Oswald was considered a mediocre marksman. The Zapruder film clearly shows the fatal shot hitting Kennedy in front of his head above the right eye, snapping his head backward (see figure 1). 6. Acoustic analysis of a dictablet recording made by Dallas police at the time of the assassination clearly indicated that Figure 1: The fata l shot Zapruder Frame 312 M Si Abraham Zapruder ots six or seven snoi were fired. The acoustics of at least two of the shots, including the fatal shot, indicated that they must have come from in front of the limousine, not behind. Ah :t 50 witnesses to the shooting, including Dallas police officers, claimed that they heard shots and saw smoke coming from the so-called “grassy knoll,”which was in front and to the right of Kennedy’s limousine. Several people ran oyer to the knoll after the shooting, but were turned away by “Secret Service agents.” Records indicate that no Secret Ser­ vice agents ever went over to the grassy knoll. There were gross discrepancies be­ Fig ure 2. D ealey P laza tween the wounds described in official autopsy of Kennedy bullet would be smashed to bits by the time it got to Connelly’s thigh. In fact, the bullet fragments removed from Connelly’s (conducted at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland), and wrist were too large to have come from CE 399. what eyewitnesses to the assassination, Jackie Kennedy, Several other problems exist with the single bullet theory. and the 23 doctors and nurses at Parkland Memorial 1. There was no exit wound from the bullet that hit Hospital in Dallas described, indicating that the body had Kennedy in the back either been tampered with or that the autopsy results had 2. The throat wound was clearly an entrance wound, as been faked (see figures 5 and 6). described by the doctors at Parkland 3. Kennedy and Connelly were never in such an align­ ment that would allow the bullet to travel in the path described The most damning piece of evidence against the “lone The Zapruder Film nut” theory is a short piece of film shot by Abraham Zapruder as the motorcade passed through Dealey Plaza. Zapruder was standing on a monument located on the right side of the As with the single bullet theory, so many problems exist street, between the Book Depository and the grassy knoll (see with Kennedy’s autopsy that only a few examples can be given figured). His camera shot at a rate of 18.3 frames per second, - in the available space, providing a detailed time line of the T able 1. C hronology o f th e Shots assassination. Description Shot Frame* Time His film, though blurred by his 1 157 Osec. Fired from the rear, it misses the car entirety startlement at the sound of shots, 2 188 1.6 sec. Hits President in throat from the front clearly shows at least four shots, 3 226 2.1 sec. Hits Kennedy in the back, from the rear, driving him though two early shots appear to forward have been spiced out of the film. 4 237 0.6 sec. Hits Connelly, severely wounding him The best reconstruction of the 5 313 4.2 sec. Hits Kennedy in right temple from the front, killing him 6 328 0.8 sec. Hits Connelly in the wrist sequence of shots (taken from sev­ As shown in the Zapruder film eral sources, including the Zapruder The Autopsy Report film and the dictabelt recording) indicates six shots (see table 1). Some authors maintain that a seventh shot struck Kennedy at almost the same instant as the fatal shot (#5), though there is no clear evidence for this. The Single Bullet Theory Just before thefatal shot, Kennedy is reacting to bullets #2 and #3. Bullet #2 h it him in the throat, which he is clutching with his hands. Bullet #3 hit him in the back, forcing him forward in the seat. Jackie has turned toface him. Zapruder Frame 313 Kennedy has been struck by another bullet, this one clearly hitting him in thefront o f the head on the right side. Given theposition o f the car, the shot would have originated f rom the so-called "grassy knoll. ” This is the fatal bullet. Zapruder Frame 323 A half a second later, Kennedy *shead has clearly snapped back and to the left. The bullet has blown open the right side o f his head, exposing his brain (visible as the bright spot on the side o f his head). “Sniper’s Nest” There are so many problems with the single bullet theory that I can only list the major ones. This theory was developed by Arlen Spector and Gerald Ford during the Warren Commis­ sion investigation to account for the fact that it was physically impossible for Oswald to have fired shot #3, which hit Kennedy in the back and then, only six tenths of asecond later to have fired another shot (#4), which severely wounded Connelly, as shown in the Zapruder film. Admitting that these were two separate shots would have meant admitting a conspiracy. Therefore, the Commission (against the testimony of Connelly, who maintained that they were separate shots) merged the two shots into one, regard­ less of the fact that this required Connelly to not react to a nearly fatal shot, which supposedly hit him in three separate places, for over a half a second. Specifically, the theory claimed that shot #3, fired down­ ward from the sixth floor of the Book Depository hit Kennedy in the back, turned upward and exited Kennedy’s throat (where shot two had actually entered), turned in mid-air to point downward again, entered Connelly’s back near his right armpit, turned left and exited beneath Connelly’s right nipple, turned right and upward again and smashed Connelly’s right wrist and finally turned downward and left to hit Connelly’s left thigh (see figure 3). Even more preposterous was the fact that the Commis­ sion claimed that a pristine bullet (CE 399) found on a stretcher at Parkland had caused all of these wounds! True, CE 399 had been fired from Oswald’s rifle, but into what? Compare a photograph of CE 399 with another bullet of the same type fired into the wrist of a cadaver (figure 4). Though it might be possible for a bullet to travel the convoluted path required by the single bullet theory, there can be little doubt that such a Massive discrepancies exist between what was observed by doctors and nurses at Parkland Hospital in Dallas and what was described in the “official” autopsy (which took place at Bethesda Naval Hospital) published by the Warren Commis­ sion. There are even severe discrepancies between the “offi­ cial”autopsy photos and several of the “official”autopsy x-rays (see figures 5 and 6). All medical personnel in Dallas described a large defect (“hole”) in the back of Kennedy’s head where as much as a third of his brain had been forcibly blown out. All described _____________ Continued next page Figure 3. T h e sin g le b u llet th eo ry. BULLET FROM ASSASSIN'S SUtt •C M;GH \ BULLET HOLE m SHIRT 3 9/4' BELOW COLLAR E IT U E X frOK R IGHT NlRFLE Diagram o f the single bullet theory, showing the convoluted p ath proposed fo r the bullet. Figure 4. The “m agic b u llet” Left: the so -ca lled | “magic bullet y (CE399), I > which was claimed to h ave caused seven 2 wounds to Kennedy and | Connelly. Right: a test £ b ulletfired into the wrist 2 o f a cadaver. When you gonna wake up?- �Oswald Was a Patsy (cont.) Helwell Speaks! this as an exit wound, indicating that the shot had come from the front. Additionally, they described a small entrance wound in Kennedy’s throat. No mention was made to damage on the top of Kennedy’s head or to his forehead, as shown in the autopsy photos and x-rays, respectively. For years it was thought that the Parkland doctors saw very different wounds than those at Bethesda. The truth, however, is that these doctors have always agreed on the nature of Kennedy’s wounds. The fact is that the Warren Commission blatandy altered and falsified the contents of the Bethesda autopsy report to fit the single bullet theory. Indeed, the doctor in charge of the Bethesda autopsy, Commander James Humes, was forced to burn the first draft of the autopsy to cover up his findings. Figure 5. A utopsy photo. by the Rev. Dr. Bernard “Bernie” Helwell. Hello dear friends. I’m Bernie Helwell and I’ve got an important message for you. I hope to reach the unwashed masses, the heathen, the impressionable young person with money to bum. So I’ve chosen Plan 9 for my new tabloid ministry. Listen! You don’t have to wait until you’re dead to begin eternal punishment! Amazing as it sounds dear friends, with my Perpetual Suffering Plan, you can start paying for your sins today. “Why would anyone want to suffer now?” you ask. Well, it’s really as simple as apple pie; If you suffer now, it will be taken as an earnest of yourgood intentions later, when you’re dead. So sign-up today, Send us your cash donation for free information and a worthless gift. Send no checks. Money orders are OK. HelwelTs Principles are the basis for the Perpetual Suffering Plan. Taken to­ gether and followed assiduously they lead in­ exorably to your personal salvation. 1. Make everyone miserable and all will be well. This is how government works. 2. I f you want it, you can't have it, and the corollary; If it isunnecessary,itisrequired. “Official” autopsy photo showing massive damage to the top o f Kennedy's head, but not to the back o f the head as claimed by witnesses and doctors at Parkland Hospital. Note that entrance wound on his right temple is probably accurate. This photo is in total disagreement with the official autopsy X-ray, below. Who Killed Kennedy? Again, I don’t really have the space to go into this issue. Suffice to say that the theory advanced by New Orleans DAJim Garrison (portrayed in Oliver Stone’s JFK) is the most plau­ sible. In brief, this theory states that Kennedy was assassinated by an anti-Castro special operations wing of the CIAwhich had felt betrayed by Kennedy’s refusal to provide air cover for the Bay of Pigs Invasion. 'When it became clear that Kennedy was also going to pull us out ofVietnam, this contingent of the CIA, with support from operatives in other areas, plotted to bring him to Dallas. Oswald’s associations with Ferrie, Banister and Clay Shaw provide clear links to the CIA (Shaw, who was acquitted of conspiracy in the Garrison trial, was later found to have been a paid CIAinformant.). And who else but insiders would have the ability or motivation to cover up the truth or alter the autopsy report? Additionally, the CIA’s founding director, Allen Dulles, was fired by Kennedy in 1961. Amazingly, Dulles was ap­ pointed to the Warren Commission in 1964. Figure 6. A utopsy X -ray. 3. This is the basis of the insurance industry. You can put this simple principle to work for your own ends. Suffering is cumulative. The incremental raising of the level of dissatisfaction throughout society results, ultimately, in greater suffering for all. This is why we have a so-called “drug problem,” and why Brenda Spencer doesn’t like Mondays. And this is why the crosses atop Mt. Soledad and Mt. Helix must come down. Letters to Rev. Dr. Dear Rev. Dr. Helwell: Myson will not behave. He does nasty things just to annoy me and his poor suffering mother. He dropped out of medschool to race bicycles. But he’s so rude, never studies, reads only junky publications and refuses to say grace before meals. What can we do? Please help. Dear Please help: The problems you describe with your son are sadly, common in today’s*don’t-give-a-damn world. We have had, before the limousine emerged from behind some trees; the first two shots clearly occurred before this point.). In the November 29,1963 issue of Life there is a foil twopage spread of images from the Zapruder film, 31 separate frames in all. However, the critical series of frames showing Kennedy’s head being snapped back by the fatal shot are completely skipped over. No frames between about frames 220and330areshown (see table 1, previous page, forchronology of shots). In the December 6,1963 issue of Life, and article titled “End to Nagging Rumors: The Six Critical Seconds” states plainly: Was it really Oswald who shot the President? “ Official”u to p sy X-ray,Jfom thefront, showing the entire a right side o f Kennedy’s skull missingfrom the eye upward. Compare with autopsy photo, above, showing forehead intact. At least one o f these photos, if not both, have been faked. (White circles have been adde The Media Role in the Cover Up The media’s role in the cover up was primarily one of willing dupe, though complicity can be established through a few facts: Abraham Zapruder sold his film to Time-Life Inc. within days of the shooting. After this time, the frames which would have shown the first-two shots were “accidentally” spiced out (According to the lone nut theory, Oswald could not have fired Yes. The evidence against him is cir­ cumstantial and it received ah incred­ ibly bush-league battering around by the Dallas police, but it appears to be p ositive. Three shots were fired. Two struck the President, one Governor Connally. All three bullets have been recov­ ered—one, deformed, from the floor o f the limousine; one from the stretch­ er that carried the President; one that entered the President’s body. All were fired from the 6.5mm Carcano car­ bine which Lee Oswald bought by m ail last March. Though the case against the dead Oswald was only circumstantial, and witnesses persisted in talking about six or seven shots, shots coming from the grassy knoll, etc., Life has no problem making a blanket statement that Oswald did it. Their certainty is absolute. Why isn’t ours? /lim b e r, 1993Page 7p l a n ' however, considerable success with a new product, the Electro-Veracity Extractor. Working on the principle of a hand-cranked electrical generator, the Extractor pro­ duces simply remarkable results, without the tell-tale burns caused by the famous military models. Several short sessions with the Extractor will change your son’s behavior perma­ nently. Dear Reverend Helwell: My wife’s daughter, my step-daugh­ ter, is causing real havoc. She has gotten a bad rep by being caught several times having sex with her high school music and drama teachers. All she wants to do now is have sex with her several boyfriends. The boys fight over her and one was recently ;stabbed in our front yard (it was quite messy, blood everywhere, but the rose bushes loved it). Her mother and I have tried all sorts of therapy, to no avail. She continually steals, all sorts of drugs and drinks gin straight out of the bottle. To top it off, she is a pathological liar. She is very well groomed and petite. What can we do? Dear What can we do?: Your daughter’s condition is serious and needs personal attention. It so happens that I am researching conditions like your daughter’s for a new music-video. I would very much like to meet your daughter. Dear Dr. Helwell: Desires haunt me. I want to torture fat peopler make them scream. I love to insult middle-aged women, chop off heads of guinea-pigs and force honest people to commit daily crimes. What should I do? William S. Gilbert Dear Bill: Always act in accordance with the dictates of your con­ science, my boy, and chance the consequences. N e x l t i i n e J f i M ofVes tf o /ri ip The Reverend Doctor Helwell is Professor Emeritus of Demonology and Social Warfare at Slipknot Bible College* Slipknot, North Carolina. He will answer your questions relating to superstition, science, politics, or your personal problems. Please scrawl your question on the margins of a twenty-dollar bill and send it to H elwell Speaks, Helwell International Ministries, C /O Plan 9, P.O. Box 87202, San Diego, CA 92138-7202. Finally, the October 2,1964 issue of Life finally shows frames 313 and 323 of the Zapruder film (see figure XX), but switches their position so that frame 323 appears first, making it appear that Kennedy’s head movedforward after being hit from the rear. Further Reading Though hundreds of books exist on the Kennedy assas­ sination, I suggest the following as a starting point: Rush toJudgment, Mark Lane, 1966 (The classic defense of Oswald.) High Treason, RobertJ. Groden &Harrison E. Livingstone, 1989. (Probably the best single overview of the assassination.) On the Trail of the Assassins, Jim Garrison, 1988 (Garrison’s personal account of his investigation.) Here's an experiment in ;media watching thatyou can try at home! 1. Go to the drama section of Tower Video on Sports Arena Blvd. 2. There should be two versions of the movie the release version and the “Director’s Ciit," which is 20 minutes longer. 3. Check out both versions. 4. Watch them to see what’s different, (the bulk of the cut out material is at the beginning of the film). 5. Ask yourself why Stone’s documentary history of C IA covert operations was removed from the release version. I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together �p ianffj November, t Peddling Breast Cancer by Monte * Paulsen risk factors. “No one has any idea what’s really going on here,” dioxin in a German pesticide plant experienced higher rates of says Dr. Susan Love, co-founder of the National Breast Cancer breast cancer and double the cancer mortality rate of the Reprintedfrom theN/D.1993, Utne Reader. oe vc Coalition. German population as a whole, according to a 1991 study The National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the American published in the British medical journal The Lancet. Astudy of Cancer Society (ACS) have spent more than $1 billion “com­ C n Cu C arci ogens a se ancer U.S. chemical workers produced similar results. bating” breast cancer since 1971, when President Richard Agrowing number of doctors and biologists outside the • High rates of breast cancer have been found among Nixon signed the National Cancer Act into law and declared a cancer establishment have a radically simple proposal: “Can­ women professional golfers, most of whom have played daily “war on cancer.” Twenty-two years later, cancer is winning. cer,” says Sandra Steingraber, a biologist at Columbia College since their youth. Manyof these women suspect that they have And breast cancer is leading the assault. in Chicago, “is caused by carcinogens. Astonishingly, you can been poisoned by the chlorine-based herbicides and pesti­ This year, an estimated 183,000 Americans will be diag­ read entire tracts about cancer published by the ACS and the cides with which most golfcourses- and many home gardens— nosed with breast cancer. Nearly all of them will be women. A word carcinogen never comes up. These seemingly authorita­ are saturated. third of them will die. In the two short decades since Nixon tive agencies have framed the cause of the disease as a “These findings suggest that environmental chemical began shoveling money into the NCI, breast cancer has claimed problem of behavior rather than as one of to dis­ contamination with organochlorine residues may be an im­ more U.S. lives than the Vietnam War, the Korean War, World ease-causing agents.” portant [causal] factor in breast cancer,” concludes Dr. Mary War I, and World War II put together. Breast cancer accounts “Forthefirst time in the history of the world, every human Wolff, the study’s principal author. for 32 percent of cancer incidence in women and 16 percent being is subject to contact with dangerous chemicals from the Studies done in Israel, the one place in the industrialized of all cancers, but breast cancer has not received as much moment ofconception until death,”wrote Rachel Carson. Her world where breast cancer rates aren’t rising, also suggest an attention as cancers of the lung, colon, and prostate, which 1962 book, Silent Spring, which highlighted the deadly effects organochlorine connection. Through the 1970's, Israeli breast predominantly strike men. The ACS spent only 4.5 percent of of pesticides such as DDT, gave birth to the modem environ­ cancer rates were among the highest and fastest-rising in the its $380 million 1992 budget on breast cancer research; the mental movement. DDT and the other toxic chemicals inves­ world— were Israeli levels of organochlorine pesticides in as NCI allocated only 10 percent of its $2 billion 1993 budget. tigated by Carson are just a handful of the more than 10,000 human milk and tissue. Then, in 1978, Israel aggressively Today’s treatments for breast cancer are the same ones synthetic chemicals, known as otganochlorines, created when phased out several pesticides. Levels of otganochlorines in that were available 50 years ago: surgery, radiation, and che­ chlorine gas is bonded to carbon-rich organic matter. This mother’s milk dropped quickly, and after a decade the inci­ motherapy or slash, bum, and poison, as bitter patients often large class of chemicals includes a handful of the most toxic dence of breast cancer zmongyounger women also began to call them. In many cases, these techniques actually shorten and carcinogenic chemicals anywhere: DDT, PCBs, CFCs, and fall. This, the study’s authors say, is strong evidence that the patients’lives. Even less progress has been made in identifying dioxins. pesticide phase-out caused the decline. the causes of breast cancer. The cancer establishment identiOrganochlorines concentrate in the fatty tissue of aniNone of these studies, on its own, proves a connection between organochlorines and breast cancer. But together they present a compelling argument that organochlorines are For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is subject to contact with dangerous chemicals from the moment of conception until death. fies three primary risk factors: heredity, hormones, and diet. But there are major questions about each of these factors. Women with a family history of breast cancer are statistically more likely to develop the disease themselves, but no study has established whether this is a result of genetic disposition or shared environment. Nor does genetic vulnerability explain the jump in breast cancer incidence during the past halfcentury—from 1 in every 20 women during the 195Q's to 1 in 9 today. Dietary fat is the most controversial risk factor associated with breast cancer. In the 1960’s, epidemiologists observed that nations in which people ate more fat had higher breast cancer rates, and that fat consumption in the United States rose during the same period of time the incidence of breast cancer rose. They theorized that fat must promote breast cancer. But numerous subsequent studies have failed to dem­ onstrate a consistent relationship between breast cancer and dietary fat. And laboratory studies have not established any mechanism by which dietary fat could promote breast cancer. One possibility ignored by cancer establishment researchers: Perhaps it’s not the fat that increases the risk, but chemicals in the fat. Many known carcinogens concentrate in animal fat, so people who eat more fat also absorb more chemicals. But the most serious problem with the causes proposed by the cancer establishment is simple: Three out of every four women who develop breast cancer have none of these primary mals. As those animals are eaten by others, the synthetic chemicals move up the food chain and their concentrations rise exponentially. Creatures at the top of the food chain accumulate high concentrations of organochlorines. In less than two decades of their use,” wrote Carson, “these synthetic pesticides have been so thoroughly distributed throughout the animate and inanimate world that they occur virtually everywhere.” Including in the human body: More than 177 organochlorines have been found in the tissues of the general population of the United States and Canada. Organochlorines have been linked to epidemic health problems in fish, birds, reptiles, and mammals. Their effects include infertility, birth defects, miscarriages, immune system suppression, metabolic dysfunction, behavioral disorders, and hormonal abnormalities. And many of the chlorine-based compounds are known to cause cancer in humans, though the ways they promote the disease vary. Because these chemicals tend to strike reproductive systems first, and because many of them are known to be carcinogenic, there is good reason to suspect that they play a role in promoting breast cancer. Epidemiological evidence confirms that suspicion: • Women in Long Island’s Nassau and Suffolk counties, which were routinely blanketed with aerial sprayings of DDT during the 1950's, suffer among the highest rates of breast cancer in the nation. Female chemical workers exposed to high levels of Vital Statistics Imperial Chemical Industries Home Office: London, England A merican Headquarters: Wilmington, DE T oll-Free Phone Number: 800-456-3669 A nnual Revenue: $23.35 billion E mployees: 128,600 Products/Services: Manufacture and sale of chemi­ cals, petrochemicals, paint (Glidden), specialty chemi­ cals, biochemicals, synthetic fibers, plastics, agro­ chemicals (fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides), pharmaceuticals & industrial explosives. Subsidiaries Operate in: USA, Mexico, Canada, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Peru, France, Germany, Poland, Austria, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark, Belgium, Finland, Spain, Greece, Morocco, Israel, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Zambia, Zim­ babwe, South Africa, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Ma­ laysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, Philippines, H ong Kong, Taiw an, Japan, South Korea, Bangladesh, India, New Zealand and Australia. Agrochemicals: Herbicides (crops used on): Achieve, Arrosolo (rice), Betasan, Devrinol (almonds, apples, cherries, citrus, etc.), Eptan, Eradicane, Fusilade (soybeans, cotton, etc.), Fusion (soybeans), Gramoxone, Ordram (rice), Prefar, Reflex (soybeans), Ro-Neet, Surefire, Sur­ pass, Sutan+, Sutar, Tillam, Tornado (soybeans, etc.), Touchdown Th e LosAngelesTimes reported on October 22 that nineteen pesticides in current use on U.S. crops are “believed” to disrupt Insecticides: Ambush (“dozens of fruit, vegetable, thehuman hormone system by mimicking naturally occurring hormones. More than 110,000 tons (220 million pounds) of these fiber and grain crops”), Cymbush, Dyfonate (corn, pesticides are applied to 68 different crops in the U.S. annually. peanuts, potatoes, etc.), Force (corn, etc.), Karate Ofthese “endocrine disrupters,”three are “suspected”ofcausing breast cancer. These pesticides, when metabolized, mimic F ungicides: Anvil, Captan (almonds, apples, cher­ female hormones, particularly estrogen. According to the Times, “estrogenic pesticides may affect a woman either through ries, grapes, strawberries), Impact, Magnetic 6, repeated exposure or through exposure during some critical phase of development- as a fetus in the womb, as she reaches Shirlan, Vapan (all crops) Media Savs Pesticides “May” Cause Breast Cancer - OnlyYears Late 30 v puberty or as she approaches menopause.” At least two of the three identified estrogenic pesticides have already been proven to cause sexual abnormalities in animals. This is no idle worry or something that’s happening only to people on the other side of the globe. Many of the endocrine disrupters, including all three estrogenic pesticides, are used on common crops here in California. According to th article, supermarkets have “found residues of one or more endocrine disrupters in more than one-third of a sample of sever! fruits and vegetables.” Wake up, folks! It was proven decades ago that many pesticides accumulate in fatty tissue (like the breast). It has also been proven that many pesticides can cause a wide range of maladies, from birth defects to cancer. Still, the media uses headlines like “Pesticides May be Linked to Breast Cancer,” as in the LATimes article. When are we going to stop the bullshit and realize that these poisons are killing us? We are sacrificing the lives of our wives and daughters for the sake of unblemished tomatoes. How many women have to die before we realize that this is a devil’s bargain? Pharmaceuticals: Budcladin-S, Diprivan (anesthetic), Kinesed, N olvadex (anti-cancer), Sorbitrate, Tenormin (car­ diovascular), Zestril (cardiovascular), Zoladex (anti­ cancer) Sources: Hoover’s Handbook of World Business 1993, Chem Sources U.S.A., Moody’s Industrial M anual 1993,1993 Directory of Corporate Affilia­ tions, ICI’s Guide to Agricultural Products. slli ruoy eruc reven ll’taht sgurd ‘nilaed srotcod souethgirnu Better living through chemistry means..: �Peddling Breast Cancer (cont.) at least as important a cause of breast cancer as hormones and heredity— and may explain why family, diet, and age are risk factors. Yet not one of these findings came from within the cancer establishment. Nor have the NCI and the ACS taken much interest in them. “The chemical agents ofcancer have become entrenched in our world in two ways,” wrote Rachel Carson more than 30 years ago. “First, and ironically, through man’s search for a better and easier way oflife; second, because the manufacture and sale of such chemicals has become an accepted part of our economy and our way of life.” Rachel Carson died ofbreastcancerinApril 1964. She was 56 years old. Imperial Chemical Industries “Eariy detection is your best protection. Don’t be an easy target— a mammogram now. ” That’s the message of Na­ get tional Breast Cancer Awareness Month. It’s the same every October, on every one of the hundreds of thousands of posters, pamphlets, radio spots, newspaper ads, and promo­ tional videos distributed by the event’s sponsors. But few of Why a moratorium? Because several studies suggest that the radiation accumulated through these yearly X-rays may actually be causing breast cancer. “These pamphlets give the impression that if you are a good girl and get your mammograms, you’ll be OK,” says Steingraber. “But having a mammogram is not like flossing your teeth. A mammogram does not prevent breast cancer.” ICI also stands to profit every time a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer because an ICI spin-off, Zeneca Pharmaceu­ ticals, sells the leading treatment drug for breast cancer. Nolvadex is Zeneca’s trade name for tamoxifen citrate, an anti­ estrogen drug with annual sales of almost $500 million. More than half of those gross sales are in the United States, where Zeneca Nolvadex costs about $1.38 per tablet. Generic tamoxifen, available in Canada and other countries, is as low as 24 cents per tablet. Tamoxifen doesn’t cure the existing cancer, but it can help prevent the spread of the disease in patients who are diagnosed eariy. ICI’s sponsorship of BCAM is just one example of the many conflicts of interest that pervade the cancer establish­ ment. “Underlying the cancer establishment’s fixation with di- ICI has been the sole financial sponsor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month (BCAM) since the event’s inception. In return, ICI has been allowed to approve— or veto— every poster, pamphlet, and adver­ tisement BCAM uses. Not surprisingly, carcinogens are never mentioned in BCAM’s widely distributed literature. the women who participate in Breast CancerAwareness Month are aware that an international chemical giant— Imperial Chemi­ cal Industries (ICI)—pays the event’s bills and cashes in on its message. ICI is one of the largest chemical companies in the world. Its annual sales exceeded $23 billion in 1991. It stands among the world’s largest producers of chlorine- and petroleumbased products, including plastics, explosives, pharmaceuti­ cals, and paint. ICI also has a dismal environmental record: One Quebec paint-pigment subsidiary single-handedly con­ tributes a third of the toxic chemicals dumped into the St. Lawrence River, according to the government agency Environ­ ment Canada. ICI co-founded National Breast Cancer Awareness Month (BCAM) nine years ago, together with Cancer Care Inc. (a support group) and the American Academy of Family Physi­ cians. Since then, BCAM has become fully integrated with the cancer establishment. The ACS and the NCI are represented on the BCAM board. ICI has been the sole financial sponsor of BCAMsince the event’s inception. Altogether, the company has spent “several agnosis, treatment, and research into new drugs is an institu­ tionalized alliance between interlocking professional and fi­ nancial interests,” says Dr. Samuel Epstein, a professor of occupational and environmental medicine at the University of Illinois Medical Center in Chicago. “At the hub of this alliance is the highly profitable pharmaceutical industry.” As a result, the cancer establishment remains more interested in treating cancer than in preventing it, more interested in developing drugs than in finding carcinogens. Even the NCI’s much-publicized Breast Cancer Preven­ tion Trial is really just another drug-pushing deal in which perfecdy healthy women are being given a known carcinogen to see ifit will “prevent”breast cancer. Last year, the NCI began recruiting 16,000 U.S. and Canadian women for the 10-year study. Half will receive a placebo. The other half will get tamoxifen. The idea is to see whether those on the anti­ estrogen drug develop fewer breast cancers than those on the placebo. “The tamoxifen study is particularly galling,”says Epstein. “It is a scientific and ethical travesty. [The NCI’s] conduct verges on criminal recklessness.” The NCI is conducting the ICI also stands to profit every time a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer because an ICI spin-off, Zeneca Pha-maceuticals, sells the leading treatment drug for breast cancer. million dollars” on the project, according to an ICI spokes­ woman. In return, ICI has been allowed to approve— veto— or every poster, pamphlet, and advertisement BCAM uses. Not surprisingly, carcinogens are never mentioned in BCAM’s widely distributed literature. “Researchers are investigating the role ofheredity, lifestyle, and diet,” says one BCAM pamphlet. “But you can’t assume that modifying your diet or lifestyle will make you safe from disease. Early detection is your best protection.” And what does ICI suggest that women do to “protect” themselves? “Get regular mammograms. See your doctor regularly. Examine your breasts monthly.” Monthly self-exams are a good idea. But mammograms are risky and of question­ able value. Regular mammograms do not improve survival rates for most women, according to several recent studies. By the time a tumor is detectable on a mammogram, it is already six to eight years old— woul^l soon be detected through a and breast self-exam. “There is no evidence to support introduc­ tion of service mammography for women under 50,” said a recent editorial in TheLancet. “And some may argue that there should be a moratorium on all mammography for symptomfree women in this age group.” experiment despite evidence that tamoxifen, which is known to cause blood clots, uterine cancer, and liver cancer, may harm more women than it will help. By the NCI’s own esti­ mates, tamoxifen will prevent breast cancer in only 62 of the 8,000 women who take it. The other 7,938will risk uterine and liver cancers for the sake of “science.” And for the benefit of Imperial Chemical Industries . ICI’s Nolvadex is already the top-selling cancer drug in the world. But if tamoxifen were approved for use as a preventive drug, ICI could sell even more Nolvadex. ICI used its BCAMcontacts to convince the NCI to spend $70 million of taxpayers’money on this prevention trial— small feat, considering that the no NCI’s entire annual budget for breast cancer research is only $196 million. . Ifthe Breast Cancer Prevention Trial shows that tamoxifen is effective in preventing breast cancer, Nolvadex will become a multi-billion-dollar-a-year drug. Every woman on the planet would be a potential customer. In the meantime, ICI contin­ ues to sell almost a half a billion dollars worth of treatment each year for a disease that it may be causing by selling tens of billions of dollars worth of toxic chemicals each year. These are the profits of misery. Better dying through chemistry! When You Gonna Wake Up? by Bob Dylan God don’t make promises that he don’t keep You got some big dreams baby But in order to dream You gotta still be asleep Counterfeit philosophies have Polluted all of your thoughts Karl Marx has you by the throat And Henry Kissinger’s got you tied up in knots You got innocent men in jail Your insane asylums are filled You got unrighteous doctors dealing drugs that’ll never cure your ills You got men who can’t hold their peace W omen who can’t control their tongue T he rich seduce the poor And the old are seduced by the young Adulterers in churches And pornography in the schools You got gangsters in power And law breakers makin’ rules Spiritual advisors and gurus To guide your every move Instant inner peace And every step you take has got to be approved Do you ever wonder Just what God requires? Do you think he’s just an errand boy T o satisfy your wandering desires? You can’t take it with you And you know it’s too worthless to be sold They tell ya time is money As if your life was worth its weight in gold There’s a man on a cross And he be crucified for you Believe in his power T hat’s about all you got to do When you gonna wake up? When you gonna wake up? When you gonna wake up? Strengthen the things that remain Note: P lan 9 is not a Christian publication, nor do we promote any particular “Christian” philosophy. W e printed these lyrics solely because they seemed relevant to the world as it is today. Old Zimmie appears to have seen that “Slow Train” cornin’ a long ways off. T hese lyrics were written in 1979. The Gang of Three The th re e e stro g e n ic pe sticid e s id e n tifie d as ca usin g b re a st cancer. Chemical: Endosulfan Chemical Name: 6 ,7 ,8 ,9 ,1 0 ,1 0 -H e x a c h lo r o 1 ,5,5a,6,9,9a-hexahydro-6,9-m ethano-2,4,3benzodioxanthiepin 3-oxide Manufacturers: C hem Service Inc.; Cresent Chemical Co. Type: Insecticide Used On: g rapes, lettuce, tomatoes Chemical: Dicofol Chemical Name: 4-Chloro-oc-(4-chlorophenyl)-a(trichloromethyl)benzenemethanol Manufacturers: R ohm & H aas Co.; Aldrich Chemical Co., Inc. Type: A caricide Used On: Chemical: M ethooxyclor Chemical Name: 1,1’-(2,2,2-Trichloroethylidene)b is[4-methoxybenzenej; also known as methoxy-i D DT Trade Names: M arlate Manufacturers: S igma Chemical Co.; California Bionudear Corp. Type: Insecticide; ectoparasiticide Used On: Sources: Chem Sources U.S.A., Los Angeles Times, The Merck Index �p ia n M NovemPage 10 Kampus Korner CSU & UC: Education for the Masses or Spoils System? Rating the Rags On September 15, the LosAngeles Times ran a piece titled “Raise Urged for Cal State Presidents.” In it CSU Chancellor Barry (“The Tan Man”) Munitz claimed that CSU presidential salaries (which average $120,075) are 21% below those at comparable public universities elsewhere in the country. A week later, the Times ran another article, this one claiming that UC Chancellor salaries (which average $188,767 according to the Times) lag 14% behind those of chancellors and provosts at schools such as Harvard and Yale. (Note: In the UC system, the President lords over all and the Chancellors mismanage the individual campuses. In the CSU system it’s the other way around: the Chancellor is the big cheese, and the Presidents are the local dictators.) A little over two weeks after the second article appeared, the Times published yet another article, this one titled “Another Round of Fee Hikes Sought at UC, Cal State.” Proposed increases for next year were stated as $342 for Cal State (to $1,440) and $650 at UC (to $4,377). The article stated that “administrators of both systems”wanted to raise fees in order to “halt the erosion, of educational quality.” Bullshit. Fees have been going up virtually every year for the past four years, and the quality of education has onlygone down. With these hikes, fees at UCand CSUcampuses will be more than double what theywere in 1989. Given the logic that more money = better education, the CSU and UC systems should be offering twice the quality of education they were four years ago. Instead, you’d be hard pressed to find anyone who thinks that the quality of education is even as good as it was four years ago. So why are fees increasing? To pay the salary increases of our poor, starving chancellors and presidents, and other high administratdrs like them! According to the Times, there are 58 administrators in the UC system alone making in excess of $100,00 per year. That’s a m inimum outlay of $5.8 millicfn dollars (the actual figure is closer to $9 million), just for 58 people. We should be firing university presidents and chancellors for gross incompetence, not giving them raises. I can’t understand it. Why should we be giving these people raises? Have they demonstrated their administrative competence by improving (or even maintaining) the quality and cost of public higher education in California? No, they haven’t In feet, in the past four years thing have gone to hell. Instead of giving these people raises, we should be firing them for gross incompetence! Wake up people! The reason that public higher education is failing in California is because it is being run by people who are in it for their own personal advancement, not because they give a shit about providing affordable college education to the California public. President Peltason ($280,000/yr) and Chancellor Munitz ($l49,000/yr) are the inheritors of a system of spoils for the privileged administrator class. From the 43% pay raises that former CSU Chancellor Ann Reynolds and her cronies voted themselves to the $737,000 “severance package”approved by the UC Regents for retiring President David Gardner, it is clear what the prioritiesofthe top administration are: “get it while the gettingis good.”At the bottom of the food chain,as usual, thestudents reap the true reward of this policy: closed programs, fewer classes, outdated lab equipment, libraries with no budgets to buy books, fee increases every year, etc. This has to end! Throw the money-mongers out of temple of education! Demand that the money earmarked for education is spent on education, not on bloated administrative salaries. Demand that no more faculty positions be cut until 20% of UC and CSU administrative positions have been eliminated. Demand a radical restructuring of UC and CSU administration, focusing on decentralizing authority and granting greater autonomy to each campus and department. Demand the elimination, not of academic programs, but of superfluous administrative offices. It’s your education. You’re paying for it. Demand what you deserve. A Guide to Campus Newspapers The Guardian (UCSD) m Published Mondays and Thursdays. The best of the “offi­ cial” campus papers. Reasonably good coverage of campusrelated issues. Overkill on topical issues, such as gays, etc. Too much sports (any is too much), too many ads, too goddamn PC. The Daily Aztec (SDSU) & Published daily during the week. The Daily Spastic is elstinko. Too much sports, too little intelligent writing. Insipid and uninspired coverage of even the most vital campusrelated issues. At a campus this size, you’d think they could find at least one good writer. The You Name It (CSUSM) Published once every two weeks. The You Name It is the successor to the ill-fated Pioneer, which folded after attempt­ ing to address some serious issues. It’s name will change after a permanent name is chosen. Only one issue has come out so far, and it was pretty weak. On the other hand, its editor did interview the editor of Plan 9, so it can’t be all bad. One thing at least: this paper can’t get any worse. The Koala (UCSD) Published periodically. The best of the “unofficial”papers (actually, it’s the only qne we’ve seen so far). Basically, the Koala is a nihilistic, pornographic excuse for TP written by drunken, immature students (you’re welcome). What can we say? It makes us laugh. Plan 9 (everywhere) M & M M M Hey, Plan 9 is simply the best. Numero uno. We give it nine peace signs. Intelligent, funny, sexy. It’s got it all. And it’s free! What a deal! Did you really expect us to say something bad about our own paper? Get a life! 1 see budgets being slashed and doors being closed to students and the more privileged sectors helping themselves to more and more of the reward.” -Tom Hayden, 1993 The university is the place where people begin seriously to question the conditions of their existence and raise the issue of whether they can be committed to the society they have been born into. After a long period of apathy, students have begun not only to question but, having arrived at answers, to act on those answers. This is part of a growing understanding among many people in America that history has not ended and that a better society is possible. — Mario Savio, An End to History, December, 1964 One of the most distressing tasks of a university president is to pretend that the protest and outrage of each new generation of undergraduates is really fresh and meaningful. In fact, it is one of the-most predictable controversies that we know. The participants go through a ritual of hackneyed complaints almost as ancient as academe while believing what is said is radical and new. — Clark Kerr, President of the University of California, 1964 One Out of Six Ain’t Bad Department Trillion National Debt) (No Jobs) (Exhausted Economy) Hey You! Yeah, You! • Want news from your school plastered all over Plan 9? • Want to outrage the administration? • Want to cause a campus riot? • Want Atkinson/Day/Stacy to call out the National Guard? • Want to get mowed down with highpowered rifles, just like at Kent State? Then send anything you think worthy to Plan 9! Ju st send it to : P lan 9 fro m O u te r S pace P.O . Box 87202 S an D iego, C A 92138-7202 And don’t worry! We understand that as a college student, you’re incapable of stringing two sen­ tences together. We can decipher your scrawl. (Social Disintegration) (Environmental W ip eo u t)' (A Nice-looking Piece �Charlie Manson Forcibly Removed from Computer Lab The following e-mail exchange took place last February at the nation’s newest university, CSU San Marcos. The players are: Bill Stacy, President of CSUSM, Bill Robinson, former Director of Computing and Telecommunications, and myself, the computer lab manager. I had been directed by Robinson to come up with names for each computer in the labs, with each lab having its own “theme.” The theme I chose for the lab in question was “prominent people from the 60’s.” The main issues raised by this tempest in a teapot are those of censorship and intellectual fascism at public institutions of higher learning. President Stacy s position appears suspect, particularly in light of the furor which resulted from the plan to dedicate the university’s administration building after state Senator William Craven, who, a week before this exchange, had referred to undocumented workers as being “on the lower scale of our humanity.” In retrospect, I would not have removed Manson’s name, thus forcing the university administration to either recognize the value of freedom of expression and thought at a public university or to resort to the use of force to get things their way. Date: 2/15/9311:28 AM From: Bill Stacy To: Rich Millman, Bill Robinsion, Anthony Dunn SimUniversity is the first c omputer simula­ tion of higher education. Rich and Bill, I received a complaint that we have been insensitive in some of the naming of our computer stations in Academic Hall. Apparently we have a series of names to the work stations (probably user friendly or cute). The complaint asked me how I would feel to see Manson in my classroom if I were a friend of one of his victims—or just simply if I thought a university ought to classify Speck or Manson as role models for our mission. I think the complaint is well taken. We have misplaced our sense of humor or whatever our intention was with such names. Could you manage to get the offensive names out of there? And, yes, I know that to the Lab manager and perhaps to others as well, this, too, will sound like censorship or fuel the next sophomoric diatribe against the university — least San Marcos Man. at I can wait for the barrage of crap. But I think there is a boundary of sensitivity to the feelings of folks who are not so amused to see mass murderers glorified or honored in a captive environment. I would appreciate your help in this matter. Date: 2/16/933:35 PM From: Anthony Dunn To: Bill Stacy, Bill Robinson First there was SimCity... Then Came SimEarth... Finally There’s With SimUniversity you can create your o wn campus, complete with constipated b ureaucracy, ridiculous graduation require­ ments and registration nightmares. Play P resident! Oppress students! Hike registra­ tion fees! Cause sit-ins! Y ou h ave total control! Campus Design The colleges have got to say: on this campus all books, all expres­ sion, all inquiry, all opinions are tree. They have got to maintain that position against the govern­ ment and everyone else. If they don’t, they will presently have nothing that is worth having. Use one of 11 campus layouts (including UC Berke­ ley, Stanford and Michigan State) or... Design your own custom campus: • Control student access by not building parking lots • Confuse students by designing labyrinthine Administration buildings • Aggravate everyone by hiring incompetent contractors • Spend billions on buildings nobody needs OK. Manson is gone. But I feel that I have to comment on this issue before I let it rest. I believe that you misunderstand the issue. The comput­ ers in ACD 211 were given names based on a theme; the theme was the sixties. I choose ten names of “radical” figures, ten Administration names of political figures, and ten names of prominent musi­ You control the administration! Hundreds of settings cians. The names were deliberately chosen to be controver­ allow you to: sial; and they were chosen in a serious vein, not with a • Create oppressive policies “misplaced” sense of humor. I chose the names with the • Randomly alter graduation requirements intention of making people think about that period in Ameri­ • Add layers of bureaucracy • Raise fees at will - Bernard PeVoto, “Easy Chair,” Harper's, September 1949 can history, not to make them feel good, and certainly not to • Give yourself-and your buddies-a fat raise “glorify or honor” anyone or to set them up as “role models.” ^ ::' “Could you manage to get the offensive names out of here?”I don’t think that’s possible. I imagine that everyone is offended Students Custom settings allow you to: by at least some of the names used in ACD 211; Peggy LePere objected to having “Bobby Kennedy” in the lab, and chose to sit • Alter composition of student body to fulfill state at “Barry Goldwater.” Personally, I find Goldwater (“We should bomb the Vietcong back into the stone age.”) much more enrollment quotas offensive than Charles Manson. • Adjust levels of student apathy and hostility Where do we draw the line on offensiveness? Malcolm X advocated the overthrow of white racist Amerika; Huey Newton • Raise or lower student IQs walked into the California State Capitol building with a semi-automatic rifle; Timothy Leary advocated the use of hallucinogenic • Select from dozens of wardrobes (from Prep to Grunge drugs; Mario Savio led a movement that brought the administration of UC Berkeley to its knees; LBJ and Richard Nixon sent 50,000 American soldiers and countless Vietnamese to their deaths. What’s offensive, and to whom? Many whites still find Malcolm X and Huey Newton not only offensive but threatening; capitalistic corporate America finds Mario Savio and Timothy Leary offensive; and human rights activists find LBJ and Nixon offensive. My response to people who are offended: These names are here to make you think about the things that led to Malcolm Buccaneer Software X, Timothy Leary, Richard Nixon and, yes, Charles © 1 9 9 3 Manson. Manson is as legitimate part of the sixties as any other figure; as such we should not be offended, we should be instructed. In the words of Santayana, “Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it.” Personally, I am offended by the comments Editor's Note: I received the following e-mail message from made by Senator Craven with respect to mi­ Betty Huff, the Director of Enrollment Services at CSU San grants in this country. Bythe same logic that you Marcos, a few weeks before I was fired. The message refers to desire to have Manson’s name removed from an art piece displayed in one of computer labs created for Visual the labs, should we not remove Craven’s name Arts 302 (The Computer and the Visual Arts) by Students Jeff from this building? Should we expunge all refer­ Henson and Don Scott. The piece was in two parts. The first part ences in our history classes to the internment of consisted of about a hundred or so cut-out soldiers pasted to the Japanese-Americans during WW II because walls, about one in ten of which were pink. The second part was a simple statement, made of cut-out letters pasted above the someone might be offended by it? I know my blackboard. It read, “They gave me a medal for killing two men parents would be. Should we refrain from speak­ and a discharge for loving one.” ing about the holocaust because some students I wish I could say that I was stunned to receive a message might be offended by references to Nazi Ger­ criticizing the expression of “individual opinions” at a public , / . . ’A / SMOKE AT LEAST TW O OF * many or by references to Jews? I know people of university. Unfortunately, such narrow-mindedness was pretty t h e s e every day f o r o n e . , /* . .ir . v c u ! one mkhm OW*T FAIC > < YCM • WOT «*•*»!#• n urr »■< •> ' / / . | % % » N each sort. In the end, the only way not to offend much par for the course at San Marcos. This message was, and p u n MIL THAT GOOD SMOKE fiRT TftK f S tt DOVaJM i n t o Y ouq L O tt& S . p n N O T E -X H A L F.1* y O « iA " JO IN T ' 0 « W W&bLe . someone is to not exist. Our challenge at this is, indicative of the administration’s views on freedom of expres­ university is to widen people’s perceptions to sion and thought at CSU San Marcos. the point where they cease to be offended and Date: 4/30/9311:01 AM begin to understand. We don’t have to like From: Betty Huff Manson to understand why he existed. And To: Bill Robinson, Anthony Dunn, Ernest Zomalt knowing why he existed is the only way to insure T E.V IR*C EM LBRAIN, HC M *A L TN* E U E O CLS * EMLs t. w*k.ii»cW TthU H Aacatm ndamau-Y A5AW. ft" o u g m U. FineT YdMSEIE * n A . x ME SOsore H eG A S YOU R E G ' LL O Y I just returned from a presentation in the Computer Lai ► ftlN* m m t nd that others like him never exist again. fa q c e SS W U . TO TAKE I t r t C T * C ot ML T O T#AC H6ft|V % in ACD 211 and feel compelled to express my displeasure and Charles Manson is gone, but I hope that you will think about the issue that has been concern regarding the “interior decoration” in that public raised, and hopefully you will see that neither it, facility. I am not denouncing anyone's opinion of the military, pro or con, but feel that the message presented in that room nor I, are “sophomoric” as you imply. is reflective of individual opinions and is inappropriate in a classroom. SimUniversity: Don’t leave the labs without it! H E IP M M D A BETTER CSUSM Administrator Denou “Individual Opinions” in Classrooms’ NOW. YOU DON’T MEED A "SHRINK” TO FLUSH OUT KARMIC OONJfSTION! Help stamp out individual opinions! Enroll at CSU San Marcos! �pianff I do the movie re­ views for Plon Did you know that there ore several thousands of my friends in your world, controlled by men whose hearts are filled with Novem fear and hatred? UJell, it's true! Rnd we just can't wait to come out and play with you! UJell, I have to go now, but I'll see you real soon! Video Reviews OK, so you’re hypnotized by the flickering phos­ phor screen. But if you’re going to have your b rain m elted by TV , you should at least watch s omething with a m essage. All titles available at T ow er Video on Sports Arena Blvd. Atom ic C afe M r Happy Cloud’s personal fa­ vorite. No actors, no dialogue, just a collection o f governm ent and educational films about the B omb. Funny, scary, horrifying. Awesom e nuke b last footage! BOOM!!! This one gets five mush­ room clouds! Radio Bikini A nother favorite of Mr. Happy C loud. This is the story of Operation Cross­ roads, the first peacetim e use of nuclear w eap­ ons. Our treatm ent of the Bikini islanders is g uaranteed to open your eyes to the “benevo­ lence” of US foreign policy. “Hey, they were s m all, peaceful and powerless, so we took their h ome aw ay from them and then nuked it! Yup, w e’re the all-powerful USA!” Koyaanisqatsi T his is the best movie ever m ade on the state of our society. No actors, no d ialogue, but some of the most disturbing and right-on-target im agery. Soundtrack by Phillip G lass. See this movie! Berkeley in the Sixties T his docum entary is w here P lan 9 g ot its start in campus politics! E verything from the Free Speech Movem ent to the People’s Park, this video is the single best introduction into student activism in the 1960’s. Interviews with the actual participants makes this the most genuine docum entary w e’ve ever s een. Flan 9 Index of the Times Estimated number of American women who will get breast cancer this year: 183,000 Estimated number of American women who will die from breast cancer this year: 46,000 Number of U.S. deaths during the Vietnam War (1964-1973): 58,151 Estimated number of American deaths from cancer in 1991: 509,000 Estimated number of American deaths during World War II: 405,000 Incidence of breast cancer in American women, 1950: 1 in 20 Incidence of breast cancer in American women, 1991: 1 in 9 Number of pounds of toxic chemicals released into the environment by industry in the U.S., 1990: 4.8 billion Number of pounds released per square mile of U.S. territory: 1,200 Number of UC administrators earning over $ 100,000 per year: 58 Average UC Chancellor's salary: $188,767 Average CSU President's salary: $120,075 UC fees 1991: $1,820 Proposed UC fees 1994: $4,377 CSU fees 1989: $708 Proposed CSU fees 1994: $1,440 Annual salary of UC President Jack Peltason: $280,000 Annual salary of CSU Chancellor Barry Munitz: $ 149,000 1993 Annual budget, UC system: $1,805,645,000 1993 Annual budget, CSU system: $1,483,244,000 National rank in budget of UC system: 1 _______ National rank in budget of CSU system: 2 _____________ Sources: The U niversal Alm anac; The 1993 Inform ation Please Alm anac; The 1993 Inform ation Please Environm ental Almanac; The L os Angeles Times,, T he C hronicle of H igher Education (10-27-93). 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