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From: berman@ihlpg.UUCP (Andy Berman)
Newsgroups: net.misc.coke,net.politics,net.misc
Subject: Coke and the Real Thing
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Date: Thu, 11-Jul-85 14:26:44 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 11 14:26:44 1985
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>OK folks, now that ALL of you have assumed you were the ONLY
>ones who heard the old Coke is coming back, and just HAD to
>tell the WHOLE WORLD (who undoubtedly knew already anyway),
>you can stop patting yourselves on the back.
>
>WE ALREADY KNOW!
>WE ALREADY KNOW!
>WE ALREADY KNOW!
>WE ALREADY KNOW!
>
>So shut up already.
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This week 7 Black South Africans were killed by the Apartheid regime.
The media took scant notice. The most massive air bombardment in the
history of the Western Hemisphere continued in El Salvador as US supplied
planes and bombs attacked people in zones of rebel control. The media
took absolutely no notice. Congress just authorized CIA funding to
overthrow the governments of Angola and Nicaragua. Barely a word on the
net.  But the media and those who control the public consciousness
go to town over the reformulation of a soft-drink. 
And, alas, we are taken in, and pretend to care about such nonsense. 

As in Roman times,
give them circuses to distract them. 

I mourn for my country.
             ihnp4!ihlpg!berman