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Cogjm.Vol-3 Num-8.Pdf (1.131Mb) CONTROL YOUR CUNT: LAUREL HARA State of ocal author, Laurel Hara, believes it’s not crazy to want to control what happens to Disunion LEFT IS RIGHT? Lyour cunt. Her recent article in Clamor Magazine describes an underground abortion NUMBER OF NOVEMBER 2005 VOL. 3 NO. 8 MINERS NUMBER OF technique called ‘menstrual extraction.’ DETAINEES Hara states that as an anarcha-feminist who killed by the Colorado National at Guantanamo Bay: found herself pregnant & distraught, she “didn’t 680 want to pay a wealthy white man to perform an Guard at the FOLLOW THE MONEY invasive and traumatic procedure” on her. Instead, NUMBER OF she chose to have a menstrual extraction. Colombine Coal Strike: LEFT-WING MEDIA AND THEIR PAYMASTERS 6 TALIBAN and The menstrual extraction technique differs AL-QAIDA from a conventional abortion procedure in that it funds, have supported youth groups, labor DATE FIGHTERS involves no anesthesia, no dilation of the cervix, airlifted to Pakistan unions, universities, publishing houses, and other and no scraping of the uterine walls. Instead, a of the Massacre: mass-media outlets here and abroad. The Ford 11-21-27 with US approval: fl exible plastic instrument is inserted into the 5000+ Foundation, with over $10.3 billion dollars in uterus, and its contents (i.e., the fertilized egg) assets, is the most prominent of these foundations. NUMBER OF DAYS are manually suctioned out using a syringe. NUMBER OF DAYS The Ford Foundation works so closely with the Oh yeah, and it’s illegal. Menstrual US citizen, CIA that it had to create a committee just for CIA Jose Padilla it took the US to launch extraction is legal to perform on a woman an investigation into collaborations. From the CIA’s point of view, large without a confi rmed pregnancy, but the moment a has been detained: 1289 Janet Jackson’s nipple: charitable organizations are the perfect conduit fertilized egg is present, the practitioner is at risk 1 for funds because they are not accountable to of being charged as a felon. “Most women don’t realize that for thousands NUMBER OF shareholders, voters or moral code. Many of the CRIMES NUMBER OF ‘Establishment left’ media institutions such as of years, reproductive healthcare was a woman- MONTHS controlled practice,” and that the true crime is the that he has been Mother Jones, Democracy Now!, The Progressive, charged with: it took the US to launch Alternet, FAIR, Zmag, TomPaine.com, and The illegality of mensrual extraction, Hara said. an investigation into Hara credits the technique with having 0 Nation receive large grants from CIA backed Plamegate: charitable funds. infl uenced her life for the better. “Instead of 2.5 being one of the most traumatic experiences of my NUMBER OF TIMES The subtle trade-off journalistically was Bush has mentioned life, my abortion was one of the most empowering NUMBER OF summed up best by John Moyers, Executive experiences. Every woman needs to know that Osama Bin Laden in Director of TomPaine.com, when he said, “If they the last three State of MONTHS menstrual extraction is available to her.” it took the US to launch don’t like what we’re doing, we don’t get funded Laurel Hara is a reproductive rights activist the Union next year.” What does the CIA get for their Addresses: an investigation into and a member of The Confl uence Collective in 9/11: funding of the alternative media? Historically, the Grand Junction. Her article, “Reproductive Self- 0 CIA funds leftist media to turn anti-establishment Care: Menstrual Extraction,” can be found in the leftist movements into pro-establishment‘reform Nov/Dec issue of Clamor Magazine, which can be movements.’ Today, if we look at the ‘alternative ordered at www.clamormagazine.org. • CALL TO ACTION ince the 1950s, the CIA has worked media’ outlets mentioned above we can see that The Red Pill is looking for volunteers: graphic designers, hand in hand with large charities, such there are things that they are not covering. None writers, poets, cartoonists, artists, and photographers are Sas the Ford Foundation, The McArthur have asked tough questions about the events of needed. Get your work published now. Help distribute Foundation, The J.M. Kaplan Foundation, The 9/11, and have in fact gone out of their way to The Red Pill in your community, church, and school: Rockefeller Family Fund, and other establishment smear the 9/11 truth movement. Rarely do any of charities, to co-opt leftist movements. In her these alternative sources challenge our basic Neo- contact us at [email protected]. You can also do your book, THE CULTURAL COLD WAR, Frances liberal economic system. Nor do any of them talk part to keep us in print by donating time, paper, fi lm, Stoner Saunders details the Ford Foundation’s about Ford Motor Co’s use of Jewish slave labor in copies, and of course money (it doesn’t print itself). collaboration with the CIA. Although the exact Germany during WWII. extent of CIA’s involvement with establishment This month, leftist media icon, Michael charitable foundations is not know, a 1976 Moore, was busted in the right-wing attack book, Select Committee appointed to investigate US “Do As I Say, Not As I Do: Profi les in Liberal intelligence activities, reported that in the period Hypocrisy,” for owning over 2000 shares of between 1963-6, of the 700 grants, over $10,000 Halliburton Stock. In addition, according to The Red Pill is produced by Grand Junction Alternative granted by 164 foundations, at least 108 were Moore’s “Schedule D” capital gains declaration Media, with the aim of publishing stories and ideas that partially or wholly funded by the CIA. From form, he also owns 2,000 shares of Boeing, 3,000 the mainstream media won’t cover. It is distributed free, the 1950s continuing on through today, the Eli Lilly, 8000 of Bank One, and others. Maybe collects no advertising, and is completely staffed by CIA has used these funds and foundations to that’s why Moore will attack corporate excess, wage a cultural war by funding a ‘parallel non- but not the economic system and its inherent volunteers. All materials are copyleft, no rights are reserved. Communist left.’ CIA covert culture operations, injustices. Follow money and fi nd out your PHOTOCOPY AND DISTRIBUTE AT WILL! funded through these prestigious charitable media’s true alliances. • [email protected] [email protected] THE LIBERTARIAN LEFT TORTURE INC. n the United States, the word libertarian The libertarian left often encompasses e have been repeatedly told that the mutilated with razors, been beaten on their feet, is often associated with a fi scally an egalitarian distribution of land and natural United States does not use torture. If been sodomized, forced to walk on their feet over Iconservative political party that advocates resources back into the community (but not Wyou actually believe this is true; you broken glass, and had their holy book, the Koran, the streamlining of federal government with a necessarily the mechanical means of production). probably believe in the tooth fairy and the great urinated, and defecated on. If you can read this deregulation of the economy; in actuality this This sentiment is echoed by the words of Thomas pumpkin. It’s your choice to remain ignorant, but paragraph again, and let the stuff soak in, and is the right-wing of libertarianism. What most Paine, “Men did not make the earth. It is the value you must accept part of the responsibility that you be O.K. with it, you probably would feel more people don’t know is that there has been a left- of the improvements only, and not the earth itself, are at least peripherally involved in an inhumane comfortable in Nazi Germany than the U.S.A. wing side to libertarianism dating as far back that is individual property...” scheme of torture. The U.S. of A. Is HEAVILY This torture is taking place at U.S. as the French Revolution and is still prevalent The libertarian left considers that involved in worldwide torture. facilities in Poland, Romania, Thailand, Egypt, in Europe today. Some prominent fi gures with information is a universal right to humanity. Morocco, Syria, Jordan, Yemen, Uzbekistan, and libertarian left leanings, past and present, are Information is not proprietary and can be Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Is this your vision of Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Pain, John Locke, considered another natural resource. The idea is America? Thomas Jefferson, Dennis Kucinich, the Dali that freedom of information to those who seek it If so, you agree with Vice President Dick Lama, Nelson Mandela, Edward Abbey, and promotes more thoughtful progress then corporate Cheney, who wants to expand the program. Noam Chomsky. or government controlled information. A good When we look back at Nazi Germany, we The one thing that unifi es libertarians of both example of this is with open source computer often ask, “how could they let things get so bad the right-wing and the left-wing is the adherence technologies like Linux. with out fi ghting back?” Perhaps your best action to a non-aggression axiom. “No person may The libertarian left senses that the current response would be to take a good long look into initiate or threaten to initiate the use of coercive wage system is unjust. The augment is that the mirror and see if you see a freeman or a tyrant. physical force.” Were the libertarian left diverges the current system is built from debt. In this • in interpretation is in the belief that inaction can manner the company provided monetary value be coercive.
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