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Rumor Club (Gossip as Direct Action) (Mickey Z.)
Mickey Z. -- World News Trust

"A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way." --John Tudor
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Did you know there are alligators-discarded pets flushed down urbantoilets-living in the NYC subway...getting fat and edgy on a steady diet ofrats and the coffee runoff from all those Starbucks franchises?
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Long before Al Gore invented the Internet, Winston Churchill declared: "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."

WMDs... the Saddam/Osama connection... we will be greeted as liberators... mission accomplished...

The power of suggestion vs. reality. Gossip vs. guns. Rumors instead of demonstrations. Could this be a viable tool for dissent? Ani DiFranco sez: "Every tool is a weapon if you hold it right" (but don't let Alberto Gonzalez hear you say that).
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Elvis is alive and well; he's sharing a summerhouse in the Hamptons with Marilyn Monroe, Bruce Lee, and Jim Morrison.

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