April 27, 2000
THE FUTURE IS REALLY MESSED UP
Robert Ghost Wolf, a
mixed-blood Native American who researches Mayan, Lakoda,
Navajo, and Hopi prophecies will be in Vancouver doing a
weekend workshop entitled Teachings of the Indigenous Masters
on the Emergence of the Fifth World. The great thing about
Ghost Wolf is that he's not afraid to make outrageous
predictions, like when he warned that a three-day long solar
eclipse would darken the Earth in 1998, or that "strange
animals and insect, created by radioactive pollution, will
appear in the deserts." Cool! Ah well, even if he's not always
right, his heart's in the right place, and he's a fascinating
speaker. Catch him April 28-30 at the Vancouver Planetarium.
SUBVERT THE ADVERTS
Global activists and culture jammers have
launched a 250+ image-bank of anti-capitalist, anti-corporate,
anti-consumerist and anti-environmental destruction
"subvertisements." These images - many in the style of Adbusters
ad parodies - are largely copyright-free and are meant to be
downloaded and reprinted in newspapers, magazines and websites
across the world (like these ads parodies of Marlboro and
Suzuki). The site is meant as a forum for activists
around the world with one main focus, "that people and the
planet should be put before corporate profits." Check it out
at www.subvertise.org
BRINGING DOWN THE BANKS
More corporate subversion can be
found at www.whirledbank.org
, which takes the piss out of the
unholy trinity of economics: the World Bank, the IMF and the
WTO. Their slogan is "Our dream is a world full of poverty."
The best part of this website is the on-line confessional,
where you can confess to, among other things, exploiting
natural resources, "resettling" people, downsizing jobs, or
adding "unusual nutrients to the water or the air". Then, if
you cough up enough dough, you'll be blessed 50 bucks will get
you prayed for. A million bucks will get you straight into
Heaven. Congratulations.
IT TAKES ONE TO KNOW ONE
Paraguay's official anti-corruption
chief has been charged with various forms of corruption,
including bribery, extortion, forgery, tax evasion,
conspiracy, and money laundering. He must be doing something
right however, as in 1999 Paraguay was ranked as the world's
8th most corrupt nation, a vast improvement over its second
place ranking in 1998. (Reuters)
IS THERE ANYBODY OUT THERE?
Missouri's Secretary of state has
approved language for a ballot initiative that would ask
voters to approve a proclamation urging the U.S. Congress to
end "the government cover up of the UFO experience." MUFON
(Mutual UFO Network) is organizing a petition drive to get
75,000 signatures before May 7 in order to get the initiative
on the ballot. (Paranormal News)
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Copyright 2000 by Andreas Ohrt
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