To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Disinfo-Member) Subject: Disinfo Newsletter Date: Fri, 9 Jul 1999 11:37:05 -0600 Here it is, folks, you can exhale now, the brand spankin' new Disinformation Spamwich, coming right your way: Okay, first off, our Associate Editor Alex Burns (our man in Australia) has put some interesting Oz related research online for you weekend reading pleasure. New in The Revolution(r) is Alex's dossier on savvy media prankster John Safran, who sounds ike *our* kinda guy, one part Malcolm McClaren, one part Dr. Hunter S. Thompson! Read about him here: http://www.disinfo.com/disinfo?p=folder&title=John+Safran And in Police State, you'll find Alex's essay on the infamous Rabelais Four case which resulted in what is possibly the narrowest definition of (so called) "freedom of speech" in the Western world! As Alex points out, Gandhi himself couldn't be published in Australia under the legal definitions these guys are using! Some scary stuff, kids and going on right now. Read about it in our Police State section: http://www.disinfo.com/disinfo?p=folder&title=Rabelais+Four Also, we're still planning our "Disinfocon" counterculture convention for November, here in New York, so keep watching the skies and keep you calendar free! Speakers will be announced soon! Lastly many of you have no doubt heard of the recent allegations that Disinfo icon Dr. Timothy Leary was an FBI informant, "ratting" on the very people who risked their lives and liberty to help spring him from jail in the 70's. What is not pointed out, either by our friends at The SmokingGun.com or by any of the media outlets who picked up on the opportunity to kick a man when he's DEAD (like Newsweek, the BBC or the heinous SF Chronicle) is that um, he might have been LYING to the Feds to get his ass out of jail! No one was arrested as a result of Leary's testimony. No one. Doesn't this say volumes about the quality of his information? After years of solitary confinement (Leary was next to Charles Manson for a while. I mean he was in THE black hole of the California prison system) how current could his information have been?????? Hmmmm... something doesn't add up, here, does it? The FBI's selectively leaked documents only tell HALF the story, but the media seems happy to repeat that half story parrot-style, all over the place. No doubt what the FBI wanted. Make up your own mind by perusing our Leary section at: http://www.disinfo.com/disinfo?p=folder&title=Timothy+Leary THIS guy is an FBI "songbird"? Highly unlikely. Make up your OWN mind, don't let others (even us, or especially us!!!!) make it for you. Question authority! Think for Yourself!!!! And have a great weekend! Love, Your pals at Disinformation. www.disinfo.com Everything You Know is Wrong. P.S.-- If you happen to be in the Baltimore, Maryland area this weekend, don't miss the premiere of "Rest in Pieces" a new documentary on painter Joe Coleman at the Charles Theatre. Shows at 7:30 and 9:30. Joe will also be lecturing at 6PM on Saturday night at the Museum of Visionary Art and at 8PM "psychobilly" legend and one man band Hasil Adkins will be performing in Joe's honor!!!! And we hear Joe plans to jump onstage with The Haze and sing a few ditties. Sounds like fun to us! The Disinformation Newsletter Spamwich Brought to you by your friends at Disinformation, the subculture search engine. http://www.disinfo.com Thanks for reading! Subscription/Unsubscription information available at: http://www.disinfo.com/disinfo?p=focus&area=Newsletter
