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The information in this publication although intact are for entertainment purposes only and the writers are not responsible for actions taken by the reader. Welcome to the fourth issue of URBAN magazine, the magazine for the urban guerilla/hip-hop/B-Boy motherfucka in everybody. This issue is jam packed with CD reviews, movies, shit, info and all sorts of shit! I just got out of jail so this issue may be a little later than expected, but it's here so enjoy! (Hint: Never shoplift even if you think you know how much security is on you. Especially if you have a bad feeling about it at the time!) {---------------------------------------------------------------------------} Table of Contents {---------------------------------------------------------------------------} 1. MUSIC - Artifacts, Paris, O.C., Brand Nubian, Keith Murray Pete Rock & CL Smooth 2. TV & MOVIES - The Crow, True Lies, You So Crazy, Sugar Hill 3. FYI - FEMA files 1-4 4. DA GOOD SHIT - Exploding Pen, Mousetrap Switch, Butane Bomb, Coin Changer Fraud, Ammonium Nitrate (& it's uses) and more... {---------------------------------------------------------------------------} M U S I C {---------------------------------------------------------------------------} Iiiight! What's up B-Boys and Girls, we got mad shit to review so let's kick this shit off right with the flava... PETE ROCK & CL SMOOTH "The Main Ingredient" - One word: DOPE!! This album is straight butter! I loved this motherfucka from start to finish. The production is consistent throughout the album and CL lyrics are at the top of the motherfucking game. If Boogie Monsters was the tape for fall, this is the definite slammer for the winter. The tracks are more laid back this time than last but are all sure shots and PR has his little intros on most of his cuts and in the liner notes thanks niggas for samplin his shits! The best cuts on this definite winner are "Escapism" (PR flows slightly but the tracks is so FUCKIN DOPE!!), "Worldwide" (Rob-O rips this track to threads!), "It's on You" (CL makes his debut as a gangsta who ready to take care of business!) There's is no way anyone who remotely likes rap should not buy this album!!! RATING: * * * * 1/2 (4.5) Slammin just missed being a classic! PARIS "Guerilla Funk" - This album dissapointed me. The P-Dog from The Devil Made Me Do It has pretty much seemed to have died. Before your black medallions in an uproar, he's still pro-Black but his productions sounds like a lot of the West Coast (read G-Funk bullshit) music that's out right now. The title track and "It's Real" if I didn't read the liner notes I thought were produced by Dr. Dre. The rest of the CD is OK, with "Keep Running", a nice mellow jam. "One Time 4 Yo Mind" is also pretty straight. But the dopest and funniest song is "40 oz & A Fool" where Paris becomes Paris Dogg and talks about the house nigga who sells out for some loot. This album fell short of my own expectations: RATING: * * (2.5) Needs Work O.C. "Word..Life" (Half of the original review got erased somehow) First before I go on, Wisdom has this to say about the Source's 3 mics review of this album, "The Source can suck my dick". This album is fat as hell. It's starts out with the "Intro" with Organized Konfusion chipping in to load shots up to the dome. Then "Word..Life" comes in with more butter to add to the verbal sandwich O.C. delivers. "Born to Live" is my favorite song because of the track and the lyrics (although the reminiscing thing is kinda played). "Point O Viewz" is fat as is "Constables" and "Ga Head" is fucking stuck in my head and describes how any nigga feels when his lady tricks off with another LADY?!?! This is definetely a dope album and although I'd have liked more tracks like "Time's Up" this is straight butter! RATING: * * * * (4/5) Slamming BRAND NUBIAN "Everything is Everything" - First, I didn't buy the second album cuz motherfuckas told me it was butt. (Then I realized the niggas that said it was butt, fake ass wanna be bitches!) But, I was looking forward to this and much to everyone else's (alt.rap) dismay, I like this shit. Yes, this is not "One For All" II but these Gods are about taking heads and educated youth. The biggest beef alt.rap peeps had was the fact that BN advocated (or seemed to) guns and their use, but lets be serious... if niggas want you or your shit, you got to protect self which is basically what they saying. "Word Is Bond" and "Nubian Jam" are more for the video shows but are both musically and lyrically sound. "Alladat" has Busta Rhymes on the chorus and the song talk about them bitches and nigga that think they all that. "Step In Da Cipher" is a cipher jam where Serge, Maestro Manny and Snaggapuss rip shit over a basic track. When are these kids gonna get signed? "Off Da Head" is exactly that, Lord Jamar and Sadat X freestylin with some pretty fat lyrics. The rest of the album is pretty nice but "Down for the Real" is kinda uneven with the rest of the album cause it sounds like some West Coast (gangsta-rap) shit. (not musically just topic-wise) RATING: * * * (3.5/5) Straight KEITH MURRAY "The Most Beatifullest Thing in The World" - This album really hurt. This kid has mad skills but has boring ass track. Will somebody please tell Erick Sermon to try some new shit cuz the funk shit is giving me added Z's. The lyrics throughout the album are phat with Keith's use of big (usually not found in Webster's) words. I hate "Herb's Pumpin" and "Psycho- ward" so please skip them. Standout cuts are "How's That" (with Redman and Erick Sermon rapping), "Bom Bom Zee" (with Hurricane G), "Take It To The Streets" (with LOD), and "Escape From The World". Basically, if you got spare loot get it, otherwise save the papes and dub the songs you want. RATING: * * 1/2 (2.5/5) Needs Work That's it here, but I just got Redman and it's phat review in the next issue of URBAN. That new Group Home single "Superstar" is dope and I heard some new Kool Keith shit (something about murder in the paper or something like that more next issue) {---------------------------------------------------------------------------} T V & M o v i e s {---------------------------------------------------------------------------} Yo, wassup kids this is that nigga Wisdom with the phat ass flicks for you to peep so let's motivate... "You So Crazy" - This Martin Lawrence movie is pretty straight and if you have heard "Talkin' Shit" (his tape) then you might feel like I felt. The shit was funny but I didn't really seem to be too much new shit in this one. If you like Martin, you'll like this. RATING: * * * (3/5) A Hit "True Lies" I had no idea this movie was going to be this funny. (Intentional or not) This is the funniest Arnold Swartznegger(?!) has ever done. The basis of this movie is that Arnie is a secret agent who saves the free world, while masquerading as a computer sales guy. This movie is larger (and funnier) than life. In on scene, Arnie plays a trick on his wife and she (unknowingly) dances sexy for him and while pole dancing, loses her grip and falls on her shit. Another scene involves Arnie being handcuffed and under truth serum, tells his tormentor how he's goin to kill him and the guard and when the doctor asks how, he replies that he picked his cuffs and he kills the doctor. This movie was pretty good if not unbelievable. I was very high with crew when I watched this but we got our $1 worth, so catch this shit if you can. the action is even pretty good. RATING: * * * (3/5) A Hit "The Crow" - This was to be Brandon Lee's breakout movie and if he were alive today we'd have fat ass flicks to watch while high! This movie, high or not, is the fuckin bomb! The plot is... Brandon & his girl are killed by a gang and he's resurrected for revenge against them. His powers lie with a magical crow by his side. The fighting scenes are very well done and Mr. Lee kicks ass like dad. The special effects and settings are so fuckin dope. There's not much more to say but just see this movie and you'll love it! RATING: * * * * (4/5) Slamming! "Sugar Hill" This movie is in the mold of most drug dealer movies except the drug dealer is trying to get out. Wesley Snipes plays a heroin dealer in NY who has the blocks sewed up but meets a young lady and decides he wants more out of life that drugs can give him. His lunatic brother is his main man who runs shit right along with him and in the end turns into his downfall. While trying to get out, the Italian who supply him and his brother cross them and they cross back and a war ensues... This film was straight, but I've seen this all before. Drug dealer with heart of gold meets lady wants to settle down... Yawn! The action scenes (the few that exist) are OK but this ain't the greatest flick that Wesley ever did. If you got some extra $$$ see it, otherwise wait til HBO gets it. RATING: * * 1/2 (2.5/5) Needs some work Well that's it for the TV type shit, but I'm gonna see Speed and kick the 411 on that next time and I might have seen that Street Fighter movie by then so look out! {---------------------------------------------------------------------------} F Y I {---------------------------------------------------------------------------} What's up! We got that FEMA info I was looking for so peep this shit and see what the United Snakes of America are on.... FEMA File #1: [From the CONTACT 5/31/94 with permission] THE GREAT ELECTION FRAUD OF 1994 A great legal fraud has come to light which must be resolved in 1994 or the elections normally held to fill all public offices may have to be cancelled, nationwide, based on the statutes of fraud. Here are the facts to be considered: On March 9, 1933, the U.S. Congress delegated to Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) the WAR POWERS--emergency rule by Executive Order--(which temporarily SUSPENDED THE U.S. CONSTITUTION AND THE BILL OF RIGHTS, hereinafter referred to, collectively, as CBR) in order to deal with the [orchestrated] monetary crisis then existing. Much of the bureaucracy with us today was created during the first one hundred days of the FDR Administration, when most official acts were, delib- erately, unconstitutional--but nobody cared because of the so-called monetary crisis. This unconstitutional "bureaucracy" created in 1933 could only exist and operate WHILE EMERGENCY RULE REMAINED IN FORCE AND THE CBR REMAINED SUSPENDED! Keep this in mind. However, it soon became apparent to those [crooks] in the seats of power that a permanent state of "emergency" was deemed necessary if the unconstitutional (fully socialist) bureaucracy, created in l933, were to remain functional and given some form of accepted legality. To accomplish this without alerting the people, a practice was developed [National Emergencies Act., Sec. 202(d)] whereby the President transmits to the Congress (quietly) a notice to extend the "emergency" for another year. President Clinton did his part on May 25, l993 when he "extended" the national emergency created by George Bush the year before [Executive Order #12808] using the crisis in Bosnia for the excuse. Clinton will have to repeat that "extension" again in 1994, using the same, or some other, contrived "emergency" to keep his fullv socialist and unconstitutional bureaucracy alive and well for one more year. But there is a far more sinister side to these yearly "extensions" which we need to examine here and now. When the President "extends" the Emergency, he also fully SUSPENDS AND NULLIFIES THE CBR WITH THE FULL COOPERATlON AND KNOWLEDGE OF THE CONGRESS--BUT WITHOUT THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE PEOPLE. It is NOT a media event. These are deliberate and premeditated acts of TREASON and SEDITIOUS CONSPIRACY TO OVERTHROW the CBR by the Federal Government. It has resulted in 61-years of governing where the CBR has been "OFFICIALLY", BUT SECRETLY, SHELVED. Now we know how and WHY unconstitutional bills get legislated. (NAFTA, Brady Bill, etc.) This "OFFICIAL" SUSPENSION OF THE CBR--see Title 12 USC Sec. 95(a) & (b)--the current law of today--needs to become the chief issue for anyone running for public office, except those who are Democrats or Republicans, as they are responsible for the above crimes. Candidates winning an election could never promise, or give their constituents any REPRESENTATION whatsoever and COULD NOT BE SWORN-IN, by law, to support and defend the CBR when IT HAS BEEN,AND STILL IS, "OFFICIALLY" SUSPENDED, BY STATUTE! THE ENTIRE ELECTION PROCESS IN 1994, for reasons above, is only for fools and knaves for it is total FRAUD as long as "EMERGENCY RULE" REMAINS IN EFFECT. You can become a prime mover TO END EMERGENCY RULE and restore the CBR to its rightful place in the affairs of Government. Get yourself informed on this issue (see below) and may God guide you and bless you in this Pursuit! [END OF QUOTING] [second article] [QUOTING:] NEWS RELEASE MAY 26. 1994 CONSTITUTIONAL TREASON (Puyallup, Washington) Just in case you missed it, on February 1, l994, CBS Radio News announced that Senate Republican leader Bob Dole of Kansas had been "enlisted" to fight the so-called "WAR ON CRIME". The "sound bite" containing Senator Dole's own words stated he had become a "convert" and that he would now support a "thirty-million- dollar FEDERAL GUN BUY BACK program", similar to ones that have been utilized with mixed success at the State and local levels. Dole admitted, however, that with 200-million guns on the streets, the program won't do much to stop crime. [H: Dear ones, don't you see what is more important HERE? A 'WAR' is the same as announcing an "emergency". By declaring the ongoing "war on crime" you have JUST EXTENDED THE STATE OF EMERGENCY!] Under the disguise of "crime prevention" and "health care reform", a massive effort is under way to disarm Americia, being promoted under various pretenses at all levels of Government. Here, in Washington State alone, a total of 65 or more anti-gun measures had been impressed upon the Legislature, some under the heading of "youth violence reduction". This anti-gun feeding-frenzy threatens honest, law-abiding Citizens and their unalienable right to keep and bear arms for self defense. But why is it that those who are most in favor of "gun control" are the ones softest on the criminal? Why is it that collectivist methods are the only solutions they propose? The answer should put you inta a state of fear. Little is known about an obscure, yet dramatic, piece of legislation that was enacted into law by the Congress in 1961. At the behest of then Senator Prescott Bush of Connecticut (yes, the father of George Bush) President John F. Kennedy signed into law Public Law 87-297 on September 1, 1961. This law can be located in the United States Code, Title 22, and beginning at Section 2551. This law set the stage for the creation of the "United States Disarmament Agency" and set in place the political machinery to DESTROY our nation's sovereignty. Notice the word "disarmament" in the title of this agency. Every Congress and every President since 1961 has worked, methodically, and craftily, to implement various provisions of Public Law 87-297. It is all part and parcel of the march to merge America into the "New Wor1d Order" All public policy is a result of the "emergency" OF 1933. WHAT "EMERGENCY...you say? Read on. With the foregoing in mind, are we now to believe that all of a sudden Senator Bob Dole has had a "change of heart" from his previously stated position, that he was now a "convert" and would support the WAR ON CRIME, and that he will now support the filibuster of the Schumer/Feinstein Amendment, the socalled "Assault Weapon Ban" contained in H.R. 42967 which let the first salvo of the Brady Bill pass with only THREE SENATORS ON THE FLOOR. In January, he urged the President-- on national television--TO SUPPORT THE SENATE VERSION OF THE CRIME BILL containing the FEINSTEIN GUN BAN. This is the same Senator Bob Dole who also introduced a resolution SUPPORTING CLINTON'S POSITION ON THE CHICAGO GUN SWEEPS--WITHOUT WARRANTS--TO SEARCH FOR AND SEIZE GUNS. And remember well: with the suspension of the Constution FOR The United States OF America on March 6, 1933, and its continuation for the past 6l years by various Presidential Executive Orders, including those recent Executive Orders of President William J. Clinton, the American people are under the awesome power of a Constitutional Dictatorship, under the War Powers and the Trading with the Enemy Act of October 6, 1917. Since 1933, the American people have not had the often quoted and misheralded 2nd Amendment Right to "keep and bear arms". It is only through "license" by the "statutorily created right" that you presently have the ability of firearms ownership. One must understand the legal meanings of the words: "owner" and "transfer" as used in the law as it pertains to the Federal Firearms--under license--as a result of the Constitutional Treason and the Acts of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the 73rd Congress of 1933. The remedy? First things first. Because the American people are unaware of being unaware, they must first be made aware. Therefore, we strongly recommend: that Americans be made aware of the treason and seditious conspiracy, and the "emergency" we've all been under for the past 61-years, by obtaining the material presented in the prior writing. The materials are not copyrighted; therefore, once you obtain a master set, you may duplicate and distribute them at will. But remember: the messengers have paid dearly to bring you this research to put all of the pieces together, starting at a single focal point, from which all the rest of America's problems originate. Once the American people understand what the problem is, we can then begin to correct the misdeeds of the past 61 years of the "emergency". Once the American people understand the perfidy, greed and avarice that have held them in bondage all these years, there will be no need to run in circles from one Patriot meeting to the next in search of that elusive and magic "silver bullet". [END OF QUOTING] Thank you. Please support these people, readers. They have no magic to attend them and if their voices are silences--it will be YOUR loss, for they mostly have nothing more to lose! NOTICE: This flyer was prepared and distributed by Citizens For A Constitutional Washington, 11910-C Meridian East, #124, Puyallup, Washington 98373. For a complete and detailed analysis concerning the contents of this flyer, write for a copy of the 2-hour video presentation WAR AND EMERGENCY POWERS and the accompanying 153-page booklet with the Government's own documents and exhibits. WAR AND EMERGENCY POWERS video is available for $25.00. The accompanying booklet is available for $20.00. Add $5.00 shipping & handling. Please: NO CHECKS OR CODs. U.S. Postal Money Orders or Cash only. ---------------------------------------------------------- FEMA File #2 & #3: FEMA stands for the "Federal Emergency Management Agency." It isn't an elected body, it has a quasi-secret budget in the billions of dollars, and it has more power than the president of the United States -- it is the most powerful organization in the United States and most people don't even know it exists. It was originally created to insure the survival of the U.S. government in the event of a nuclear attack. It was also provided the task of being a federal coordinating body during times of domestic disasters, such as earthquakes and hurricanes. But it wasn't created under Constitutional law or an act of Congress, it was created by EXECUTIVE ORDER. There was an Act, called the "Emergency Management Act" that was passed in 1935. This act says that the President can issue Executive Orders in times of National Emergency. Since that time, we have *always* had a declared state of "National Emergency" in the United States, even though you didn't know it. You can find these "declarations of National Emergency" in the Combined Federal Register and the records of Congress. We are in one right now. Many Executive Orders have been issued since then. The order inacting FEMA is one of them. Since only Congress has the authority to appropriate funds, the Executive Order creating this agency is unconstitutional or, at best, it should have remained unfunded.] An Executive Order, whether Constitutional or not, becomes effective upon publication in the Federal Register. Congress is by-passed. General Richard Secord and Lt. Col. Oliver North who orchestrated the Iran-Contra operation that smuggled in weapons and cocaine to this country, using our CIA and US Air Force to do it, was in charge of FEMA for several years, during which it grew into the monster it is today. Some of the black helicopter traffic reported throughout the United States are flown by FEMA personnel. FEMA has been given responsibility for many new disasters, in addition to floods, hurricanes, and earthquakes, including: urban forest fires, home heating emergencies, refugee situations, urban riots, and emergency planning for nuclear and toxic incidences. In the West, FEMA works "in conjunction with" the 6th Army. FEMA has only spent about 6% of its budget on National Emergencies. The bulk of their funding has been used for the construction of secret underground facilities to "assure continuity of government in case of a major emergency, foreign or domestic" and to build prisons and "holding facilties" under the designation of "refugee facilities" (which have never been used for holding refugees). ---- Executive Order #12148 created the Federal Emergency Management Agency that is to interface with the Department of Defense for civil defense planning and funding. An "emergency Czar" was appointed. ---- Executive Order #12656 appointed the National Security Council as the principal body that should consider emergency powers. This allows the government to increase domestic surveillance of U.S. citizens and restrict freedom of movement within the United States, granting to the government the right to isolate large groups of civilians. The National Guard may be used to seal all borders and take control of US air space and all ports of entry. The following orders are written but not implemented and could be implemented at any time, suspending the Constitution of the United States and using FEMA to do it: ---- Executive Order #10990 - allows the government to take over all modes of transportation and to control all highways and seaports. ---- Executive Order #10995 - allows the government to seize and control the communication media. ---- Executive Order #10997 - allows the government to take over all electrical power, gas, petroleum, fuel, and minerals. ---- Executive Order #10998 - allows the government to take over all food resources and farms. ---- Executive Order #11000 - allows the government to mobilize civilians into work brigades under government supervision. ---- Executive Order #11001 - allows the government to take over all health, education, and welfare functions. ---- Executive Order #11002 - designates the Postmaster General to operate a national registration of all persons. ---- Executive Order #11003 - allows the government to take over all airports and aircraft, including commercial aircraft. ---- Executive Order #11004 - allows the housing and finance authorities to relocate communities, build new housing with public funds, designate areas to be abandoned, and establish new areas for populations. ---- Executive Order #11005 - allows the government to take over railroads, inland waterways, and public storage facilities. ---- Executive Order #11051 - specifies the responsibilities of the Office of Emergency Planning and gives authorization to put all executive orders into effect in times of increased international tensions and economic or financial crisis. ---- Executive Order #11310 - grants authority to the Department of Justice to enforce the plans set out in Executive Orders, to institute industrial support, to establish judicial and legislative liason, to control all aliens, to operate penal and correctional institutions, and to advise and assist the President. ---- Executive Order #11049 - assigns emergency preparedness function to federal departments and agencies, consolidating 21 operative executive orders issued over a 15 year period. ---- Executive Order #11921 - allows the Federal Emergency Preparedness agency to develop plans to establish control over the mechanisms of production and distribution of energy sources, wages, salaries, credit and the flow of money in U.S. financial institutions in any undefined national emergency. It also provides that when a state of emergency is declared by the President, Congress cannot review the action for 6 months. ----------------------------------------------------- FEMA File #4: NATIONAL SECURITY, MARTIAL LAW, FEMA AND YOU ===================== ~From: Covert Action Information Bulletin, #33 (Winter 1990). ===================== The Rise of the National Security State: FEMA and the NSC by Diana Reynolds The Following Reply Files Contain These Chapters: 1. A STATE OF NATIONAL EMERGENCY 2. CIVIL SECURITY PLANNING 3. MILITARY RULE 4. THE FALL OF FEMA 5. THE NATIONAL SECURITY STATE AND THE DRUG WAR 6. ODDS & ENDNOTES The original article contained 33 footnotes. To obtain the complete article in print form, send $3.50 to: Covert Action Information Bulletin, PO Box 50272, Washington, D.C. 20004. Specify issue #33 (Winter 1990). Subject: Re: U.S. "concentration" camps /* Written 9:16 pm Dec 8, 1992 by cberlet in igc:publiceye */ /* Written 7:37 pm Dec 8, 1992 by cberlet in igc:p.news */ /* Written 5:50 pm Jan 25, 1991 by nlgclc in igc:publiceye */ NATIONAL SECURITY, MARTIAL LAW, FEMA AND YOU ===================== ~From: Covert Action Information Bulletin, #33 (Winter 1990). Copyright 1990, Covert Action Publications, Inc., All Rights Reserved Posted with permission of the author & publication. -- Please do not print out this text-- See information on ordering print copies at end of article ===================== [Additional note: The author believes the current Gulf War crisis and antiwar protests could also trigger implmentation of some or all of the powers described in her article, but warns that these laws only present a POTENTIAL abuse of power, and that it would take what the genral public could be convinced was a serious national emergency for the President to have the political support to actually IMPLEMENT the most Draconian of these laws. -Chip Berlet] ===================== COVERT ACTION INFORMATION BULLETIN The Rise of the National Security State: FEMA and the NSC by Diana Reynolds A STATE OF NATIONAL EMERGENCY Since the advent of changes which took place during the Reagan regime, America has been a presidential directive away from a civil security state of emergency which, if ever enacted, could create a constitutional crisis equal in severity to the American Civil War. A national state of emergency can be declared by a concurrent resolution of both houses of Congress or by the President in the case of natural disasters, nuclear war, a massive mobilization in anticipation of an enemy attack on U.S. territory, or domestic civil unrest. A disturbing shift in policy occurred during the Reagan years which could have profound consequences with respect to civil liberties. Whereas civil defense planning in the past had focused on disaster relief, the national security focus of the Reagan administration meant implementing new ways to expand police powers in times of nuclear war, domestic unrest, or civil disorder. Bending under pressure brought by the Reagan Administration, Congress gave the president and his executive agencies sweeping emergency powers. This article will examine how those powers came to be, and will explore a possible scenario--the U.S. government's war on drugs--in which these powers might be used. Subject: Re: U.S. "concentration" camps /* Written 9:16 pm Dec 8, 1992 by cberlet in igc:publiceye */ /* Written 7:37 pm Dec 8, 1992 by cberlet in igc:p.news */ /* Written 5:51 pm Jan 25, 1991 by nlgclc in igc:publiceye */ CIVIL SECURITY PLANNING Since WWII, the U.S. government has had contingency plans in preparation for a large scale disaster or attack. However, during the last twenty-five years--beginning with civil unrest at the height of the Vietnam War--the government's plans have increasingly on focused ways of controlling political dissent. On October 30, 1969 Presdent Richard Nixon issued Executive Order 11490, "Assigning Emergency Preparedness Functions to Federal Departments and Agencies," which consolidated some 21 operative Executive Orders and two Defense Mobilization Orders issued between 1951 and 1966 on a variety of emergency preparedness matters. In 1976 President Gerald Ford ordered the Federal Emergency Preparedness Agency (FEPA) to develop plans to establish government control of the mechanisms of productions and distribution of energy sources, wages and salaries, credit and the flow of money in American financial institutions in any (heretofore undefined) "national emergency." This Executive Order (EO 11921) also indicated that, when a state of emergency is declared by the President, Congress could not review the matter for a period of six months. Even arch-conservative activist Howard J. Ruff was quick to point out that, since the enactment of EO 11490, "The only thing standing between us and a dictatorship is the good character of the President and the lack of a crisis severe enough that the public would stand still for it." While Ruff thought a national emergency might be used to destroy the free markets in the U.S. and take away the C.B. radios and guns of Americans, was alarmed for more rational and obvious reasons. In an editorial, the paper repeated Ruff's warning: "Executive Order No. 11490 is real, and only the lack of a crisis big enough, a president willing enough, and a public aroused enough to permit it to be invoked, separates us from a possible dictatorship, brought about under current law, waiting to be implemented in the event of circumstances which can be construed as a `national emergency.'" President Carter evidently did not share this concern and, in 1977, he signed Executive Order 12148 which created the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to replace the Federal Emergency Preparedness Agency. This Presidential Directive mandated an interface between the Department of Defense (DOD) and FEMA for civil defense planning and funding. When Ronald Reagan came to power he gave FEMA vastly expanded executive emergency powers and appointed retired National Guard General Louis O. Giuffrida as his "emergency czar." Giuffrida's creation of contingency emergency plans to round up "militant negroes" while he was at the Naval War College caught the attention of then-Governor of California Reagan and his executive secretary Edwin Meese III. As Governor, Reagan called on Giuffrida to design Operation Cable Splicer. Cable Splicer I, II and III were martial law plans to legitimize the arrest and detention of anti-Vietnam war activists and other political dissidents. In 1971, Governor Reagan, with a $425,000 grant from the Federal Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, established a counterterrorism training center--the California Specialized Training Institute (CSTI)--and made Giuffrida its commandant. Shortly after he assumed the directorship of FEMA in 1981, Giuffrida had flooded high-level FEMA posts with friends from CSTI and the military police, had created a Civil Security Division of FEMA, and had established a Civil Defense Training Center in Emmitsburg, Maryland--based on the CSTI model. By 1984, the Center had trained one thousand civil defense personnel in survival techniques, counterterrorism and military police methods. From February to July of 1982, President Reagan signed a series of National Security Decision Directives (NSDD)--presidential decisions on national security objectives--on civil defense policy and emergency mobilization preparedness. While Reagan's real U.S. civil defense policy is contained in the classified NSDD 26, some of the law enforcement and public safety provisions of the policy are made public in NSDD 47. This National Security Decision Directive provides for an intensified counterintelligence effort at home and the maintenance of law and order in a variety of emergencies, particularly terrorist incidents, civil disturbances, and nuclear emergencies. Reagan gave the National Security Council (NSC) authority over the planning for civil defense policy with its expanded civil security powers. He mandated the creation of a senior-level interdepartmental board, the Emergency Mobilization Preparedness Board (EMPB), and charged it with responsibilities for policy and planning guidance, coordination of planning, resolution of issues, and monitoring progress. The members of the EMPB were the Assistant for National Security Affairs (as its Chair), the DOD's Secretary of Defense for Policy, the Director of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and representatives from 10 other federal agencies. FEMA provided the staff, support secretariat and operational supervision for the EMPB and their working group on civil defense. According to then Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger, by February 1983, the EMPB had prepared--and the President had approved--a national policy statement on emergency mobilization preparedness. Oliver North served on the EMPB, having been assigned there from 1982 to 1984 by former National Security Advisor Robert McFarlane. General Giuffrida was there too, providing operational supervision. By forming the EMPB, Ronald Reagan made it possible for a small group of people, under the authority of the NSC, to wield enormous power. They, in turn, used this executive authority to change civil defense planning into a military/police version of civil security. Subject: Re: U.S. "concentration" camps /* Written 9:16 pm Dec 8, 1992 by cberlet in igc:publiceye */ /* Written 7:37 pm Dec 8, 1992 by cberlet in igc:p.news */ /* Written 5:54 pm Jan 25, 1991 by nlgclc in igc:publiceye */ MILITARY RULE In January of 1982, FEMA and the Department of Defense issued a joint paper entitled, "The Civil/Military Alliance in Emergency Management" which specified many of the provisions of Reagan's policy on emergency mobilization preparedness. This document indicates that FEMA had been given emergency powers to acquire resources from federal and state agencies (including National Guard personnel) and the private sector (banking, communications, transportation, etc.) "for use in civil disturbance operations." Apparently General Frank S. Salcedo, Chief of FEMA's Civil Security Division and Giuffrida's former colleague at CSTI, wanted more. In 1983, in a workshop at the annual meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Salcedo recommended expanding FEMA's power further in the areas of survivability training, research on imposing martial law, and the potential threat posed by foreign and domestic adversaries. As he saw it at least 100,000 U.S. citizens, from survivalists to tax protesters, were serious threats to civil security. Salcedo saw FEMA's new frontier in the protection of industrial and government leaders from assassination, and of civil and military installations from sabotage and/or attack, as well as the prevention of dissident groups from gaining access to U.S. opinion or a global audience in times of crisis. "THIS IS ONLY A TEST, REPEAT..." While improving capabilities to respond to civil security emergencies was for the most part a planning activity with the Reagan Administration, FEMA was also active in exercises to test these plans. In 1981, FEMA and DOD began a continuing tradition of biannual joint exercises to test civilian mo,bil,ization, civil security emergency and counterterrorism plans using such names as "Proud Saber/Rex-82," "Pre-Nest," and "Rex-84/Night Train." The Rex-84 Alpha Explan (Readiness Exercise 1984, Exercise Plan), indicates that FEMA in association with 34 other federal civil departments and agencies conducted a civil readiness exercise during April 5-13, 1984. It was conducted in coordination and simultaneously with a Joint Chiefs exercise, Night Train 84, a worldwide military command post exercise (including Continental U.S. Forces or CONUS) based on multi-emergency scenarios operating both abroad and at home. In the combined exercise, Rex-84 Bravo, FEMA and DOD led the other federal agencies and departments, including the Central Intelligence Agency, the Secret Service, the Treasury, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Veterans Administration through a gaming exercise to test military assistance in civil defense. The exercise anticipated civil disturbances, major demonstrations and strikes that would affect continuity of government and/or resource mobilization. To fight subversive activities, there was authorization for the military to implement government ordered movements of civilian populations at state and regional levels, the arrest of certain unidentified segments of the population, and the imposition of martial rule. Attorney General William French Smith finally became aware of the abuses of the Emergency Mobilization Preparedness Board operating under the NSC. He admonished McFarlane, Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, who theoretically chaired the planning group. In a letter dated August 2, 1984, Smith responded to a request by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to review, for form and legality, a draft Executive Order revising the powerful EO 11490, assigning emergency preparedness functions to federal departments and agencies. The Attorney General said that apart from the legal review by the Office of Legal Counsel, "...I believe that the draft Executive Order raises serious substantive and public policy issues that should be further addressed before this proposal is submitted to the President. In short I believe that the role assigned to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) on the revised Executive Order exceeds its proper function as a coordinating agency for emergency preparedness. "This Department and others have repeatedly raised serious policy and legal objections to the creation of an `emergency czar' role for FEMA. Specific policy concerns regarding recent FEMA initiatives include the abandonment of the principle of `several' agency responsibility and the expansion of the definition of severe emergencies to encompass `routine' domestic law enforcement emergencies. Legal objections relate to the absence of Presidential or Congressional authorization for unilateral FEMA directives which seek to establish new Federal Government management structures or otherwise task Cabinet departments and other federal agencies. Subject: Re: U.S. "concentration" camps /* Written 9:16 pm Dec 8, 1992 by cberlet in igc:publiceye */ /* Written 7:37 pm Dec 8, 1992 by cberlet in igc:p.news */ /* Written 5:55 pm Jan 25, 1991 by nlgclc in igc:publiceye */ THE FALL OF FEMA Smith's letter signaled what seemed to be the beginning of the end for FEMA and Reagan's Emergency Mobilization Preparedness Board. Federal Bureau of Investigation Director William Webster had previously complained when FEMA's Director of Civil Security, General Salcedo, had intruded into the FBI's domestic intelligence jurisdiction under the rubric of counter terrorism. Salcedo was forced to turn over to Webster some 12,000 names he had been compiling on a list of potential threats to civil security. Furthermore, it came to light that while FEMA had been expending the lon's share of its energy and funding on building a civil security infrastructure, it had neglected its authorized civil defense role. On June 15, 1984, barely a month after Giuffrida filed his glowing accomplishment report with Meese, Robert Guffus, Inspector General of FEMA, wrote a draft report on FEMA's Comprehensive Cooperative Agreements (CCA) (with states) in civil defense preparedness. He concluded that management actions were needed to improve the effectiveness of programs with state and local governments. In his review of the CCAs he found inadequate FEMA management control, imprecise program guidelines and a lack of personnel resources. Programmatic and financial weaknesses were a result of fiscal mis-management, unclear assignment of responsibilities, overlapping job descriptions, inflated training figures, and lack of written procedures. McFarlane removed North from the EMPB and assigned him to help with conducting unconventional warfare in Nicaragua. Giuffrida resigned in 1985 after a House subcommittee charged that FEMA was being mismanaged, and it was publicized that Giuffrida had staffed FEMA with his military/police cronies and had allowed $170,000 of agency funds to be used to outfit a deluxe bachelor pad at the Civil Defense Training Academy at Emmitsburg. He now operates a security consulting firm in Washington, D.C. General Salcedo has moved on to be Presidential Liaison to Veterans Organizations at the Veterans Administration. There is some debate about what happened to the plans for a civil security emergency. There was a rumored joint investigation conducted by the Defense Department and the CIA into the unconstitutionality of planning for a civil security emergency by several government agencies. Supposedly, the two investigators, Special Forces Lt. Colonel Kvererdas and the CIA's William Buckley, prior to his fatal Beirut assignment, destroyed the plans and the exercise data. Some believe that much of the planning was incorporated into Vice President Bush's Report from his Task Force on Combatting Terrorism which has inspired civil security contingency planning at the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service by an Alien Border Control (ABC) Committee. The working group within the INS was designing plans and programs regarding the control and removal of alien terrorists, potential terrorist aliens and those "who are likely to be supportive of terrorist acti within the U.S." The most obvious resting place for the material is the National Security Council. In 1987, Reagan signed another NSDD, number 259, which superseded both NSDD 26, the secret civil defense plan of February 25, 1982 and the unclassified version dated March 16, 1982. Even though the 1987 version is shorter and more vague than its predecessors, no significant changes are evident in civil defense planning and programs from the 1984 EMPB scenarios. Just before he left office, Reagan signed Executive Order 12656 which assigned new emergency preparedness responsibilities. Reagan's final national security legacy to civil defense planning puts the NSC clearly in charge. In Section 104, EO 12656 states that the NSC is the principal forum for consideration of national security emergency preparedness policy and will arrange for Executive branch liaison with, and assistance to, the Congress and the Federal judiciary on national security emergency preparedness matters. The Director of FEMA has now been promoted to advisor to the NSC on mobilization preparedness, civil defense, continuity of government, technological disasters, "and other issues, as appropriate." The Director of FEMA is also authorized to assist in the implementation of national security emergency preparedness policy by coordinating federal departments and agencies; as well as state and local governments. The exercise program is to continue and plans and procedures "will be designed and developed to provide maximum flexibility to the President for his implementation of emergency actions." On the same day that Reagan signed EO 12656 he also signed the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 which provided yet another in a series of get-tough-but-do-nothing drug policies produced by the Reagan Administration. If and when the Anti-Drug Abuse Act fails--a victim of underfunding and bureaucratic in-fighting--then Executive Order 12656 could become an historic document in the war on drugs. Date: 28 Jul 93 20:29 PDT Subject: Re: U.S. "concentration" camps /* Written 9:16 pm Dec 8, 1992 by cberlet in igc:publiceye */ /* Written 7:37 pm Dec 8, 1992 by cberlet in igc:p.news */ /* Written 5:56 pm Jan 25, 1991 by nlgclc in igc:publiceye */ THE NATIONAL SECURITY STATE AND THE DRUG WAR The U.S. government's proposed "war on drugs" is one such case in which the U.S. government will have the authority to use the national security apparatus to suppress civil liberties. It may be the first opportunity to call into action the years of planning and expense used to develop the emergency preparedness network. The Anti-Drug Abuse Act was passed in the final hours of the 100th Congress, when incumbents were anxious to return to their districts in order to campaign and when public opinion was calling for drastic action in the war on drugs. The Act was quickly drafted by congressional committees and private consultants, then passed by Congress without the usual legislative hearings and debate. The Act broadly defines the programs, goals, guidelines and appropriations for all the 58 federal departments plus the thousands of state and local agencies involved in the national war on drugs. Some provisions were made for drug education, prevention, treatment and rehabilitation, but much of the text focuses on the punitive measures to be taken by the government. The anti-drug policy authorizes the use of the U.S. military to assist in the drug war at home. If you live in federal housing or if you reside in large urban areas such as New York, Boston, Washington DC, or Los Angeles--where crime and addiction have turned neighborhoods into combat zones--this Act will authorize the military to fence off your streets, keep track of who comes from and goes to your home, stop and frisk you, your friends and family, and regularly inspect your home and belongings. If you or anyone who visits you is suspected by the authorities of using, selling or trafficking in any kind of illicit narcotic substance, you can be evicted from your home whether your landlord is the government or a private party. The Act increases state powers in the areas of government surveillance, intelligence gathering, and seizure of private property. It authorizes regional intelligence sharing centers, which not only compile statistics but provide contracts to states, local criminal justice agencies, and non-profit organizations for purposes of identifying, targeting and removing criminal conspiracies and activities spanning jurisdictional boundaries. The Justice Department is given the power to confiscate private property and deny state and federal entitlement by decree. Once caught, even casual marijuana users could be subject to the confiscation of their homes, cars, and bank accounts. The government seizure takes place through civil proceedings where the burden is on the defendant to prove his or her innocence, unlike the "innocent until proven guilty" due process guarantee of criminal proceedings. A NATIONAL DRUG CZAR William Bennett, as the Director of the Office of National Drug Policy, is an adviser to and voting member of the National Security Council. It is here in the NSC that the ultimate drug war could be fought. All it would take is a President determined enough, a Congress pliant enough, and people desperate enough for the drug war in America to be declared a national security emergency. If and when that happens, the NSC--as part of civil emergency preparedness--would be in charge of its implementation under the guidance of the President. A national security emergency would without a doubt decrease drug use in America. The government would be authorized to increase domestic intelligence and surveillance of U.S. citizens. State security measures would be enhanced by restricting the freedom of movement within the U.S. and granting the government authority to relocate large groups of civilians at will. The U.S. Continental Forces and a federalized National Guard could seal off borders and take control of U.S. airspace, all ports of entry, and interstate highways. It was James Madison's worst nightmare that a righteous faction would some day be strong enough to sweep away the constitutional restraints, designed by the framers to prevent the tyranny of centralized power, executive privilege and arbitrary government authority over the individual. These restraints, the balancing and checking of powers among branches and layers of government and the civil guarantees contained in the Bill of Rights would be the first casualties in a drug-induced national security state with Reagan's civil emergency preparedness unleashed. Nevertheless, there will be those who will welcome the National Security Council into the drug fray, believing that increasing state police powers to emergency levels is the only way left to fight America's enemy within. In the short run, a national security state would probably be a relief to those whose personal security and quality of life has been diminished by drugs or drug related crime. And as the general pblic watches the progression of institutional chaos and social decay, they too may be willing to pay the ultimate price: one drug-free America for 200 years of democracy. Subject: Re: U.S. "concentration" camps /* Written 9:16 pm Dec 8, 1992 by cberlet in igc:publiceye */ /* Written 7:37 pm Dec 8, 1992 by cberlet in igc:p.news */ /* Written 5:57 pm Jan 25, 1991 by nlgclc in igc:publiceye */ ODDS & ENDNOTES =========================== Diana Reynolds is a Research Assocaite and Program Director at the Edward R. Murrow Center, The Fletcher School, Tufts University. She is also an Assistant Professor of Politics, Bradford College and a Lecturer at Northeastern Univeristy. Research assistance for this article was provided by Charles Haber. =========================== Thanks to the staff of Covert Action Information Bulletin for providing the disk for this article. The original article contained 33 footnotes. To obtain the complete article in print form, send $3.50 to: Covert Action Information Bulletin, PO Box 50272, Washington, D.C. 20004. Specify issue #33 (Winter 1990). ===== end repost ================= Christopher Burian == cburian@uiuc.edu -------------------------------------------------------- Interesting reading if I say so myself... The rest of the files will be put in the next couple issues! {---------------------------------------------------------------------------} D A G O O D S T U F F {---------------------------------------------------------------------------} Welcome to the place which puts a frown on law enforcement's face! The place where being destructive is considered constructive. If you like past installments of Da Good Stuff, you'll love this one... (By the way I corrected the household chemicals list, it was supposed to say "not 100% correct", instead of "100% correct") Household Chemicals -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- This is a chart of chemical names and their more common household names. This chart is not 100% correct. The household substitutes must be checked before using them to be absolutely sure that they are what you want. Be sure that the chemical you want is alone, since if it is included in the household substitute , but not isolated, the extra ingredients may counteract the desired results. CHEMICAL NAME HOUSEHOLD SUBSTITUTE ============= ==================== acetic acid vinegar aluminum oxide alumia aluminum potassium sulfate alum aluminum sulfate alum ammonium hydroxide ammonia carbon carbonate chalk calcium hypochloride bleaching powder calcium oxide lime calcium sulphate plaster of Paris carbonic acid seltzer carbon tetrachloride cleaning fluid ethylene dichloride Dutch fluid ferric oxide iron rust glucose corn syrup graphite black lead hydrochloric acid muriatic acid hydrogen peroxide peroxide lead acetate sugar of lead lead tetroxide red lead magnesium silicate talc magnesium sulfate Epsom salts naphtalene mothballs phenol carbolic acid potassium bitartrate cream of tartar potassium chromium sulfate chrome alum potassium nitrate saltpeter silicon dioxide sand sodium bicarbonate baking soda sodium borate borax sodium carbonate washing soda sodium chloride salt sodium hydroxide lye sodium silicate water glass sodium sulfate Glauber's salt sodium thiosulfate photographer's hypo (?) sulfuric acid battery acid sucrose cane sugar zinc chloride tinner's fluid ------------------------------------------------------------ Exploding Pen -=-=-=-=-=-=- This little gem will make a small explosive device out of a regular clicking pen. Enjoy!! Materials: ---------- 1 Clicking Ball Point Pen Gun Powder or Black Powder 8-10 Match Heads 1 Match Stick 1 Sheet of Sandpaper Unscrew the pen and remove all the parts but leave the button in the top of the pen. Stick the match stick in the part of the pen clicker where the other little parts and the ink fill was. Roll sandpaper up and put around the match stick that is in the clicker. Put the remaining match heads inside the pen, make sure that they are on the inside on the sandpaper. Put a small piece of paper in the other end of the pen where the ball point comes out. Fill the end with the piece of paper in it with gunpowder. The paper is to keep the powder from spilling. It should look like this: Small Paper Clog Gunpowder Matches & Sandpaper \ | | \ | | \ _________________________|_________________|_____ < | |=== -------------------------------------------------- | | Clicker To use this device, replace a someone pen with this and when they click it, the sparks will fly! Have fun! ---------------------------------------------------------- Mousetrap Switch -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Materials: ---------- 1 Mousetrap 1 Hacksaw or File Some connecting wires Remove the trip lever from the mousetrap using the hacksaw or file. Also remove the staple and golding wire. Retract the striker of the mousetrap and attach the trip lever across the end of the wood base using the staple with which the holding wire was attached. (If the trip lever is not made of metal, a piece of metal of approximately the same size should be used.) Strip one inch of insulation from the ends of 2 connecting wires. Wrap one wire tightly around the spring loaded striker of the mousetrap. Wrap the second wire around some part of the trip lever or piece of metal. (If a soldering iron is available, solder both of the above wires in place.) One way to use, is place the switch inside a box which contains the eplosive and the batteries. The spring loaded striker is held back by the lid of the box and when the box is opened, the circuit is closed. -------------------------------------------------------- Coin Changer Fraud -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= You need a coin changing machine and a dollar. Look at which way the dollar goes in. Take some ink that is DARK BLUE (black and green) and run the whole side of the dollar (the right side) thru the ink. Get it dark blue about 1/4" into the bill. If the dollar goes in the long way first, then left side of the dollar with ink. Now insert the dollar. If you are lucky, it will come out, with part of the ink pushed back to the point the dollar went in furthest. Mark that point. (The ink should still be wet!) Now get a ruler and measure the distance between the first part of the bill that goes in, and where the ink stopped. Be VERY accurate! Do this 5 or 6 times!! With this measurement, you can cut a small (1/8" slit) into the bill like so: ____________________ |##### ink----> |##### | |##### | slit---> ========= | |/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\| Now, if you insert the dollar, and the measurement is correct, the money will spring back out, and the change will come out too! Usually the dollar only works a few times, because once it starts to unstiffen (a new dollar is a good dollar!), is stops working and you only get your dollar back or just the change. ------------------------------------------------------- Butane Bomb -=-=-=-=-=- (Originally written by FBI and edited by Low-Life) Well, this bomb was constructed by us in an attempt to not only make an antipersonnel device which was easy to construct, but also to create the biggest fireball that the world has ever seen. So, you get the power of pure butane, with the added advantage of simplicity in construction...have phun! 1. A Cannister of Butane Fuel: Easy to obtain, this can be found at just about any good drugstore, certainly at a hardware store. 2. Gun Powder: See above. 3. Plastic Container: Preferably a TupperWare-(tm) glass, as it will both melt away and explode, while glass will shatter with heat, and metal will not explode. 4. A Fuse: You can buy these in places, but if you don't want to go thru the hassle, simply rub model glue all over a string, it'll work just as well. 5. Masking Tape: Or electrical tape, or cellophane tape, or whatever kind of tape that you've got lying 'round the house. Assembly: 1. Fill the plastic container with 1/4 to 1/2 inch of powder. 2. Center the butane in the container, atop the powder. 3. Fill the rest of the container with powder, around the butane. Pack it down -- lightly, just so that it fully fills in the container. 4. Insert the fuse at least 1/2 inch into the powder, and pack the surrounding powder as in step 3. Seal the top of the container around the butane with a small covering of masking tape. 5. Plant the device in a target area. 6. Light the fuse, and... 7. RUN LIKE HELL!! 8. (Detonation): If this is done correctly, and you get well out of range of the fireball, the immediate, (and non-immediate), area will be "up in smoke," persay. A Diagram of Proper Construction __| Butane | / | Cannister | >*< _ / | | | / \ _| |_ __| Tape | | Bomb |______| / \ / | Covering | | Fuse | _|_| |___/ |.|.| |.:.| |:|:|_______|:.:|_ |.|.| |.:.| \ |:|:| RONCO |:.:| \__| Plastic | |.:.|_______|.:.| | Container | |:.:| |:.:| |.:.| |.:.| |:.:| |___|______| Notice the "designer" | |_:.|_______|.:.| | butane fuel, here! | | Gun |__/|:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:| | Powder | |_______________| ______________________________________________________________________________ Use propane instead of Butane. Use an oxygen tank along with the butane/propane.(BIG WHITE BOOM!!) Ever see those HUGE propane canisters used in outdoor BBQ's? Get the idea?!? No oxygen tanks?? Use Whipped Cream(in the spray container) No butane/propane?? Use WD40 or other aerosols!! (WD40 and other lubricants are the best tho) All of these should make your little butane bomb capable of nuking a city.. Or.. just drop yours off by the local propane cylinder exhange at your corner store.. heh heh.. Of course.. there are those HUGE propane canisters.(6-20 ft long!!) those would be fun to watch. --------------------------------------------------------- Ammonium Nitrate -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ammonium Nitrate is easily found in instant cold packs in your local drugstore. Just break them open and the AN is the white crystalline powder you find inside with a pack of water. Ammonium nitrate is used in the making of dynamite and other explosive compounds like nitroglycerin, picric acid, etc. due to the amount of oxygen it furnishes. Ammonium Nitrate Compounds -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The amounts are in ratios so figure it on your own. Make in small amounts at FIRST!! Ammonium Nitrate 60 Ammonium Nitrate 94 Potassium Nitrate 29.5 Potassium Nitrate 2 Sulfur Flour 2.5 Charcoal Powder 4 Charcoal Powder 4 Woodmeal 4 Ammonium Nitrate 88 Ammonium Nitrate 75 Charcoal Powder 12 Aluminum Powder 25 ------------------------------------------------------ Well, That's it for this issue of URBAN! The next one I'll try to have out before New Year's but for now this long one should hold everyone over til then. Have fun! {---------------------------------------------------------------------------} Places to get URBAN: ftp.etext.org in pub/Zines/URBAN ftp.eff.org in pub/Publications/CuD/URBAN aql.gatech.edu in pub/Zines/Urban cyberden.com in CyberLink/Zines/Misc_Zines Mail your feedback and suggestions to: mtc@gagme.wwa.com Any submissions should include your name and whatever neccesary info is needed for it. And we appreciate any feedback, bad or good!!