TITLE:THE FORBIDDEN ARTICLE - WHO WANTED TO HIDE IT?
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3                             THE FORBIDDEN ARTICLE

2                            Truth revealed by Macno


The  article  that  follows was written 10 months ago.  It comments some strange
happenings  in  the  diatribe  2RAW-Upstream1,  the  attacks,  the  silences,  the
allusions, the psicological war.
It  evidences  the  first  flames  of  the universal Mag Wars that exploded some
months ago, when strong mags like 2Propaganda1, 2Compass 1and2 421 started to consider
the leading duo at their reach.

The article was sent to2 The Ripper 1who was preparing the come-back of a glorious
mag of the past, 2Freedom Crack1.
Everything seemed ready for the new issue but something got wrong.
First  The  Ripper  joined  2Polaris 1 and he decided with his new mates to make a
fusion of Freedom Crack and2 The Outer Limits1, Polaris' own mag.
The new staff started to prepare the new issue of the mag where this article was
intended  to  be  published.  Months passed and nothing happened, The Ripper was
mysteriously  compelled  to  leave  the  scene  for  various months, most of the
Polaris  members joined 2Banana Dezign1, the new mag (probably a re coded issue of
The  Outer  Limits  with  The  Ripper  as one of the main editors) found further
unexpected problems and all the articles written and gathered became outdated.

2Something or somebody has stopped the release of The Outer Limits.
Something  or somebody, maybe, had stopped the publishing of the article you are
going to read, which, in a slightly different version, had been previous sent to
another VERY important mag and refused.
Is there something forbidden in its contents?
Who has practically compelled The Ripper to give up with his mag?
Who has wanted to impose the silence on its truths?
As  you can read now, this article talks about very dangerous and taboo matters,
the 2 Masters  of  the  Scene1, the Priests of the Scene, the beginning of the Mag
Wars.  Maybe something in it could not be seen by the public?
We  want  to  dare,  we  want  to  publish  it in its entirety.  After months of
scandalous hinderings every scener can finally read it and judge it with his own
mind.
We  don't  know  if  this move will cause us some problems, maybe these are just
paranoid  fantasies,  we  sincerely  hope so, the Masters, if they exist (I have
doubts about their real existence), seem more dangerous than expected.
Maybe  they have been the real responsibles of the Mag Wars and they have wanted
to stop immediately an article that could obstaculate their plans.

He  it  is  then,  the forbidden article, the one for which two mags and various
sceners were eliminated...



  3                    UPSTREAM'S ATTACK TO RAW'S SUPREMACY
    3                      THE NEW PRIESTS OF THE SCENE

      3                        A SCENOLOGY DOSSIER


One  of  the  hottest  and  most  difficult  scenology field is the study of the
Masters  of  the  Scene,  the  hidden persons who control and direct the scene's
life.   We  still  don't  know  much about them, someone has suggested that they
don't  exist,  that there could be just one man behind everything, that it's the
scene  itself  which  unconsciously influences itself.  The theories are various
and up to now they are just suppositions.

Nevertheless it's sure that, like in every other field, there are persons in the
scene who try to have more influence and power.  We can call them the PRIESTS Of
The  Scene.   They  are  the  ones  who  try  to direct and influence the public
information and opinion, not from an hidden place, like the Masters, but somehow
more  evidently and less subtly.  Diskmags are the most powerful media to obtain
that  and  to diskmags editors we have to look in order to discover who tries to
influence the scene and its members.

One  of them is surely Lord Helmet, main editor of the most known diskmag on the
scene.   We  have  made  a  deep  and  documented research about his plan to get
himself  rid of the Zine spectre and we have found out how, from the first issue
of  RAW,  he  has  started  a  slow  and  successful  demolition  work, realized
completely  with  issue  6,  where  the  same  members of Brainstorm Productions
polemize with the old mates of their ex-group.  There are, anyway, new forces in
the  scene  willing  to take Lord Helmet's place and they are following his same
steps in order to catch the supremacy in the diskmags field.

Let's  take  a look at some articles of Upstream 6, later we'll comment them and
we  will  demonstrate  that RAW has to be afraid, because new aggressive priests
want to break into the Chambers of Power.


Slogans: 2We Try Hardest
         2When RAW is not enough

Editorial by the main editors, Wolfman and Cesium.
2"RAW  chose  to follow a path when they're now publishing scene-related articles
2only.   We  think  it's  a  dead end, but it will be exciting to see how they'll
2handle this."

RAW pools by Upstream Poll Inc. (The main editors)
After some more or less funny invented results they write:
2"Conclusion:   Most  People  Don't  like  RAW"  ...  "Conclusion 2:  Sorry guys,
2popularity is sinking".

Article: "Todays diskmags - An analysis" by Wolfman.
2"Raw is as Lord Helmet himself have said, a kind of scandalmag" ...  "Instead of
2their slogan WE TRY HARDER, they should change it to WE PISS ON YOU"
(The  article  is  a  detached  and  serious  analysis  of  RAW,  Top Secret and
Sledgehammer, it hasn't any spandimerding attitude)


What do these words contained in different articles mean?
Magbox was one of the most promising mags of the new flood, it was climbing fast
the  charts  and  its  fusion  with  Upstream  has  resulted in a sixth issue of
superior quality.
Wolfman  and  Cesium  know  this and know that they can try to reach the charts'
Top.
The  last  issue  of  RAW (6) has been quite a nervous and extremely spandimerda
one,  following  and  boosting  the  usual  aggressive  style  (which, we remind
you,  is  imitated  by  many  other  mags),  which  has  impressed more than one
commentator.   It  seems that with this issue Lord Helmet has tried to underline
who  is  the  most  powerful  Priest of the Scene and he has acted consequently,
trying  to  influence  the  sceners opinions about certain topics in an obvious,
evident,  way.  In other words he has wanted to show who is the strongest.  That
can  be  even  interpreted  as  a  sign of weakness, as it seems that Upstream's
editors  find easily new topics and ideas and are receiving a wide response from
the  scene  (just look at their fast charts climbing, they are actually stealing
votes to RAW itself).

On  the  other  hand  we cannot not notice how is insistent the way the Upstream
editors refer to the "leading mag".
They  know  that  their target is RAW, all the other major scene mags suffer too
much  of  delay's  problems,  and  with  RAW  they  start their match.  From the
slogans,  to  the allusive comment in the editorial (just note how they keep the
same  attitude  used  by  RAW  with  Zine:  2 "It will be exciting to see...."1 is
equivalent  to  RAW's: 2 "Come on Brainstorm.  Keep releasing Zine.  We need your
2competition  to  improve even further!"1), from the irony of the fake poll to the
serious analysis, they are all evident signs of how RAW is the point to refer to
for them.

Something strange, anyway, is happened with issue 7 of Upstream.  Here there are
practically  no words about RAW.  The attack towards the major Priest is frozen,
maybe  in  the wait for a reaction from the new issue of RAW.  Well, RAW 6 comes
and  NO  reaction takes place.  Lord Helmet has decided to ignore the opponents,
well knowing that they are the only ones who could disturb his mag's supremacy.

What will happen then?
RAW  seems  weaker  than before, its releases are always delayed and it has lost
some  of  the  impact  it had on the scene, also because it has been imitated by
many.  Its power is still remarkable, just see how they have raised from nothing
the  tempest  against  Brainstorm, but this new competitor seems to have all the
right weapons, included some of the same weapon RAW has always used.
We  foresaw  a  battle  between  these  two  mags,  made with irony and sarcasm,
friendly  remarks  and serious reviews, satiric comments and jokes, but the last
issues of RAW and Upstream have maybe traced a new path:  they could just ignore
themselves.   It could be an interesting and somehow paradoxical solution, which
actually  probably  wouldn't  be  appreciated  by the spandimerda community, but
that's another point.

The battle will last for some issues, probably, and, if Upstream's possibilities
are powerful as it seems, the final result will be very uncertain.
The final winner will be new most powerful priest of the scene, it will lead the
scene opinion and the tangible sign of that will be the supremacy in the charts.
Predictions  are  difficult, but I suspect that Upstream has more enthusiasm and
determination, they haven't already tasted the smell of power.
I've  seen  signs of weakness in RAW, its future is in the hands of Lord Helmet,
if  he  will  be bored or will lose interest for the scene, RAW will slowly die,
but  if  he  will  keep  on, trying even harder, finding the motivations that he
seems  to  lack  in  these days, well, we'll see fireworks and wars, battles and
duels.   Probably they won't be open, evident or clamorous, its not in the style
of the editors, they will live on provocations and low blows.

The final winner will just handle the scene.


2Macno/Abnormalia