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AUSTRALIAN men are overwhelmingly more likely than women to be at fault in car crashes, says a study by the NRMA. In fact, men are responsible for 75 per cent of car accidents - and also cause more expensive damage when they do have a crash. And the old excuse for men - that there are more men on the road and therefore they cause more accidents - no longer holds sway. The study across most of Australia took into account the fact that more men drive further and more often than do women. Crashes involving male drivers cost more to fix, with the average crash caused by NSW men costing $4574 in repairs - the second most expensive in the country, the leading insurer said. In comparison, crashes by women in NSW cost an average of $4074 - or $500 less. It found 73 per cent of NSW males were at fault in crashes - a figure exceeded only by Queensland males, who were at fault in 75 per cent of motor accidents. Executive of personal insurance for the NRMA Insurance Group Rick Jackson said that men were more likely to take risks on the road, while women drivers were more cautious. "There is a long-standing notion that men think they are better drivers than women. Often men will choose to take the wheel over a female companion, but this shouldn't always be the case," Mr Jackson said. "Perhaps some men are over-confident in their driving ability and this leads to risk-taking." Mr Jackson said men tended to drive more aggressively than women and are more likely to be involved in a bigger impact. The trend was reflected in the road toll, with three times as many men as women killed every year in motor vehicle accidents. NRMA research shows younger men are most likely to be at fault in a collision. In NSW and the ACT men 30 and under are 30 per cent more likely to cause a crash than women the same age, and 40 per cent more likely to cause an accident than men aged 31 to 50. Young men applying for insurance would face higher premium rates if their driving record shows they have been in accidents. NRMA hoped this threat to men's "hip pocket" would make them safer drivers. Women are also being rewarded for their good driving history, Mr Jackson said, with reduced premiums. The survey showed that compared with drivers in other states, NSW men were the second-worst, along with South Australian males, with men from Queensland the ones most likely to cause an accident. Male drivers in Western Australia had the best result, with the women in that state almost catching up to them - the likelihood of a WA man being at fault was only 51 per cent. The study covered drivers in all states except Tasmania and the territories. http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,6089650%255E421,00 .html
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Against the Machine.
Against the Machine: The Hidden Luddite Tradition in Literature, Art and Individual Lives To be published by Island Press in November, 2002. FROM the cars we drive to the instant messages we receive, from debate about genetically modified foods to astonishing strides in cloning, robotics, and nanotechnology, it would be hard to deny technology's powerful grip on our lives. To stop and ask whether this digitized, implanted reality is quite what we had in mind when we opted for progress, or to ask if we might not be creating more problems than we solve, is likely to peg us as hopelessly backward or suspiciously eccentric. Yet not only questioning, but challenging technology turns out ot have a long and noble history. In this work, I examine contemporary resistance to technology and place it in a surprising historical context. I have tried to illuminate the rich but oftentimes unrecognized literary and philosophical tradition that has existed for nearly two centuries, since the first Luddites--the "machine breaking" followers of the mythical Ned Ludd--lifted their sledgehammers in protest against the Industrial Revolution. Tracing that current of thought through some of the great mids of the 19th and 20th centuries--William Blake, Mary Shelley, Charles Dickens, John Ruskin, Thomas Carlyle, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Morris, Rovert Graves, Aldo Leopole, Rachel Carson, D. H. Lawrence, E. M. Forster and others, I have tried to demonstrate that modern protests against consumptive lifestyles and misgivings about the relentless march of mechanization are part of a fascinating hidden history. The Luddite tradition, I am convinced, can yield important insights into how we might reshape both technology and modern life so that human, community, and environmental values take precedence over the demands of the machine. http://www.nicolsfox.net/work3.htm AND http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1559638605/qid=1047035071/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-8357565-5279023?v=glance&s=books
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Hypatia of Alexandria was the first woman to make a substantial contribution to the development of mathematics. Hypatia was the daughter of the mathematician and philosopher Theon of Alexandria and it is fairly certain that she studied mathematics under the guidance and instruction of her father. It is rather remarkable that Hypatia became head of the Platonist school at Alexandria in about 400 AD. There she lectured on mathematics and philosophy, in particular teaching the philosophy of Neoplatonism. Hypatia based her teachings on those of Plotinus, the founder of Neoplatonism, and Iamblichus who was a developer of Neoplatonism around 300 AD. Plotinus taught that there is an ultimate reality which is beyond the reach of thought or language. The object of life was to aim at this ultimate reality which could never be precisely described. Plotinus stressed that people did not have the mental capacity to fully understand both the ultimate reality itself or the consequences of its existence. Iamblichus distinguished further levels of reality in a hierarchy of levels beneath the ultimate reality. There was a level of reality corresponding to every distinct thought of which the human mind was capable. Hypatia taught these philosophical ideas with a greater scientific emphasis than earlier followers of Neoplatonism. She is described by all commentators as a charismatic teacher. Hypatia came to symbolise learning and science which the early Christians identified with paganism. However, among the pupils who she taught in Alexandria there were many prominent Christians. One of the most famous is Synesius of Cyrene who was later to become the Bishop of Ptolemais. Many of the letters that Synesius wrote to Hypatia have been preserved and we see someone who was filled with admiration and reverence for Hypatia's learning and scientific abilities. In 412 Cyril (later St Cyril) became patriarch of Alexandria. However the Roman prefect of Alexandria was Orestes and Cyril and Orestes became bitter political rivals as church and state fought for control. Hypatia was a friend of Orestes and this, together with prejudice against her philosophical views which were seen by Christians to be pagan, led to Hypatia becoming the focal point of riots between Christians and non-Christians. Hypatia, Heath writes, [4]:- ... by her eloquence and authority ... attained such influence that Christianity considered itself threatened ... A few years later, according to one report, Hypatia was brutally murdered by the Nitrian monks who were a fanatical sect of Christians who were supporters of Cyril. According to another account (by Socrates Scholasticus) she was killed by an Alexandrian mob under the leadership of the reader Peter. What certainly seems indisputable is that she was murdered by Christians who felt threatened by her scholarship, learning, and depth of scientific knowledge. This event seems to be a turning point as described in [2]:- Whatever the precise motivation for the murder, the departure soon afterward of many scholars marked the beginning of the decline of Alexandria as a major centre of ancient learning. MORE ON... http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Hypatia.html
Report Condemns Police.
Report condemns police actions at WTO protests by DALE MILLS 9:47pm Fri Mar 7 '03 article#43318 address: UTS Community Law and Legal Research Centre, PO Box 123, Broadway NSW 2007 - phone: (02) 9514 2914 - fax: (02) 9514 2919 [EMAIL PROTECTED] SYDNEY - A report criticising police behaviour at the November protests at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Sydney mini-summit was released by the Legal Observers Team, based at the University of Technology Sydney, on February 25. A press conference, held at Parliament House to release the report, was attended by Greens NSW MLC Lee Rhiannon and Gavin Sullivan from the UTS Community Legal Centre. The report supports allegations of unreasonable and excessive force by police during arrests, unlawful denial of bail, unlawful detention, unnecessary strip searches and injuries created by the use of police horses. Almost all the protesters arrested and charged with offences have pleaded not guilty and cases are still continuing. Civil action against the police for compensation is being considered. Of special interest is what the report calls "pre-policing". This is the use of the media as part of an orchestrated campaign to discredit protesters and as an attempt to justify police violence against protesters in advance of the protest. In the case of the anti-WTO protests, this was shown by NSW police minister Michael Costa when he publicly calling for the banning of the Indymedia web sites based in Sydney and Melbourne. Indymedia encourages non-commercial reporting of current events and advertised the protests. The sites were referred to as "encouraging violence, mayhem and anarchy". However, an independent investigation by the Australian Broadcasting Authority concluded that the sites did not breach any laws or government regulations. Further attempts at "pre-crime" occurred when media outlets referred to the demonstrations as being "banned" or "deemed illegal", based on the fact that the police had not issued a march permit. Based upon the law and court decisions, the report concludes that protesters have a right to peacefully demonstrate, regardless of whether or not the police have issued a permit for a demonstration. Indeed, the word "permit" does not exist in the Summary Offences Act, the relevant piece of legislation governing demonstrations in NSW. The report examines the use of police horses at demonstrations and recommends an end to their use. At the anti-WTO protests, numerous protesters were injured, some severely, by being trampled on by police horses. The report expresses concern at the arbitrary use of strip searches of arrested protesters, the only purpose of which was to humiliate detainees. The strip-search becomes, in effect, an extra-judicial punishment for protesting. The research in the report, as well as the collection of evidence, was carried out by 40 lawyers and law students from around Australia. The full text of the report can be found at http://www.utscommunitylaw.org/ . [Dale Mills is a member of the Socialist Alliance and a volunteer with the Legal Observers Project.] From Green Left Weekly, March 5, 2003. Visit the Green Left Weekly home page @ http://www.GreenLeft.org.au/ www.law.uts.edu.au/~utsclc/ http://www.melbourne.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=43318&group=webcast
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As women around the world prepare to celebrate International Women's Day (IWD) on March 8, the world stands on the brink of war. In a thinly veiled grab for some of the world's most lucrative oil fields, the US and its allies in Australia, Britain and parts of Europe, have sworn to defend the interests of multi-national corporations against the anti-US regime of Saddam Hussein. Caught in the middle, the long-suffering people of Iraq are viewed as "collateral damage" by the US State Department, which is planning an invasion of Iraq, bombing of Baghdad, and hasn't ruled out the use of nuclear weapons. The majority of the world's population are opposed to the looming war on Iraq. On the weekend of February 14-16, 30?? million people world wide marched against war. Here in Australia, where John Howard has been one of the staunchest defenders of the US-led war, almost one million people participated in marches, and opinion polls show a vast majority opposed to a unilateral US war. WOMEN AGAINST THE WAR Women around the world are making opposition to the war on Iraq the central theme of International Women's Day. In Australia, opposition to the war is central to IWD marches in all major cities. Women's groups have led a daring series of naked anti-war protests around the world, and are at the front line in Baghdad acting as human shields. In the United States, since November 17, "Code Pink: Women's Pre-emptive Strike for Peace" has maintained a vigil in front of the White House in Washington to protest against Bush's war on Iraq. Women at the site have been fasting for days or weeks at a time. This vigil will culminate on International Women's Day. The war on Iraq will have a disproportionate effect on women. It will fall to women to care for those rendered vulnerable by the war - children, the sick and injured, and the elderly. According to UNICEF and the World Health Organisation, over 1 million Iraqis have died since 1991 as a result of sanctions, nearly 60% of them children. Up to 95% of pregnant Iraqi women suffer from anaemia, and give birth to weak, malnourished children. Birth defects have soared due to the 300 tonnes of depleted uranium from US shells and bombs leftover from the 1991 war. While the US and its allies pose as 'liberators of women' in Afghanistan and Iraq, the truth is that no imperialist war can liberate women. War and economic sanctions create poverty, displacement and dependence. In Iraq, many women have been forced to abandon their jobs and education since the 1990 Gulf War, thereby losing their financial independence and opportunities for future self-determination. Most women focus all their efforts to search for enough food and clean water to ensure their own and their family's survival. The impending war on Iraq must be opposed by the women's liberation movement -- not just because of its impact on women but because the fight to place human rights ahead of corporate profit is a fight which will advance the struggle for women's rights. NEO-LIBERALISM: THE WAR ON THE WORLD'S POOR The mis-named "war on terror" is only the latest manifestation of a war on the world's poor and working people which has been taking place for decades. The doctrine of neo-liberalism has been used by wealthy imperialist nations such as the US, Australia, Germany, Britain and Japan to increase the profits of multi-national corporations at the expense of the resources and people of the third world. Institutions such as the World Trade Organisation(WTO) are used to pressure third world governments into free trade agreements which open up their markets to exploitation by multinational corporations based in the first world. Loans to poor countries from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are made conditional upon price increases on basic commodities, cuts to food subsidies, privatisation of state-owned assets, and cuts to social services. Many countries who have resisted compliance with these conditions in the past, have found themselves on Bush's hit-list of countries who may be harbouring terrorists. Women make up the majority of the world's poor, and are therefore hit hardest by these policies. Throughout Asia and Central America women are forced to work long hours under horrendous conditions by US clothing and shoe manufacturing companies, who reap massive profits while those women receive as little as a dollar a day. Many women are forced to care for large extended families without state support, forced to work overseas and many are drawn into prostitution to make ends meet. In Australia the Howard government has been a whole-hearted supporter of the neo-liberal model. The privatisation of public assets, the introduction of the GST, cuts to social welfare, public health, child care and education, tax breaks for big corporations, and attacks on trade unions, are all policies which increase the burden on the poor and particularly on women
What will follow War.
What comes after these slaughters and capitalism! I'd imagine what you and I are proposing pretty well coincide, casting aside preconceptions that is. A society whereby the workers that produce the wealth of society form workers assemblies in each of their workplace and having occupied their workplaces, taken over the means of production and kicked out the bosses,decide for themselves in these workers assemblies how they will manage their workplace. And that each workplace assembly in a particular industry mandates a delegate to an regional industrial federation whereby industry-wide issues of production beyond those of the workplace are organized. That each workplace delegate is immediately recallable and is mandated with specific agreements, that have been decided before by the workers in assembly. That each regional industrial federation mandate delegates to a international (or global) federation of industry where issues of co-ordination of production between regions and continents are managed. That each of these regional delegates are similarly immediately recallable and charged with specific agreements. That parallel to these industrial federations, each workplace mandates a delegate to a federation comprising all workplaces of every industry in a particular geographic locality to organize issues of production,distribution and social organization in a particular locality. That each locality (or free municipality) mandates delegates to a provincial federation of municipalities, which in turn comprise regional federations of provinces and international federations of regions, all organized according to specific and recallable mandated delegations. That this, being how society can be organized from the bottom up, without leaders, infused with the principles of liberty, equality, free association and justice, has no need for all parliaments, judiciaries, police forces, armies, bureaucracies and all states, whether they be designated capitalist, state-capitalist, communist, socialist or workers state. That this new social organization is commenced not after the "withering away of the State", not decreed by any vanguard or revolutionary government, but is formed as much as possible now, in the shell of the old, and from the birth pangs of revolution takes control of the organization of society. I've yet to hear any Leninist, Trotskyist, Stalinist, Maoist, Castroist, Guevarist or any other creed that "co-incides" with this!
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Thursday morning, March 6, 2003, a 19-year old Czech student Zdenek Adamec committed a suicide, when he set himself on fire at the historical Wenceslas Square in the historical center of Prague, at the St. Wencelas monument. He made a living torch of himself, much like his predecessors, starting with student Jan Palach in 1968, protesting at the time of Russian occupation of the Czechoslovakia, trying to move and shock the people to an action. This time against the war and violence in world (article 1) http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=242427&group=webcast
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Give Cheese a Pance.
Citizens for Spreading the Cheese would like to point out that a couple of hundred years ago the French were America's first ally, helping the colonies in the War of Independence against Britain. Spread Cheese Not War! In recent weeks there have been reports of anti-French sentiment breaking out all over the US. Our Congressmen have called for boycotts of French wine, cheese and other products. Republican voters are dumping their wine in the streets and SUVs have been seen smashing photos of President Jaques Chirac. there is even a restauranteer who has changed the name of french fries to "freedom" fries. And on the legislative front U.S. House Speaker Rep. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) has said he'd like to impose stricter health sanctions on French mineral water and introduce other economic sanctions to damage the French economy. Many politicians claim Americans support these sanctions because of the French government's refusal to go along with U.S. military actions in Iraq and against Saddam Hussein. These same politicians like to mention that France would either be a Nazi or Soviet republic if we did not come to their aid to liberate them from Nazi occupation so many years ago. Citizens for Spreading the Cheese would like to point out that a couple of hundred years ago the French were America's first ally, helping the colonies in the War of Independence against Britain. And we hope this tradition of mutual aid will continue in the years ahead. It seems clear to us that the French are merely doing what they are good at: resisting totalitarian impulses and policies that today are evidenced by the current Bush administration. This "French resistance" is an old form of protest that we Americans should investigate more thoroughly. Keep in mind World War 3 America is not the same America that went to fight in WW 2. Perhaps the French experience with fascism may allow us to face our domestic challenges with some élan and instruction. see the site, cher ami http://www.lumpen.com/cheese/buy.html www.lumpen.com/cheese/buy.html http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=242464&group=webcast
1939 Polish border incident repeat in Kuwait?
The electrified fence marking the DMZ between Kuwait and Iraq has been prepared for invasion by cutting gaping holes. US Marines IN CIVILIAN CLOTHES identified within the DMZ. This news blurb was either on ABC or NBC (Peter Jennings or Tom Brokaw). The story is that huge sections of the electrified fence marking the Kuwait-Iraq border have been removed to allow the passage of large vehicles. Prior to the discovery, fifteen men wearing civilian clothes but later (somehow) identified as US Marines were observed within the off-limits area marked by the now-breached fences. That's it. Not much on detail, but HOW were the men identified as US Marines, and why the hell were they dressed in civilian clothes? Under the rules of war and the Geneva Convention, these guys were subject to be shot on sight. Looks like they're just preparing the entry points for the start of a ground assault, but what self-respecting military commander would endanger his men by ordering them to shed their uniforms and thereby strip them of their Geneva rights and impose on them the status of spys or illegal combatants?
Gangs of DC.
Global Eye -- Gangs of D.C.
http://www.tmtmetropolis.ru/metropolis/stories/2003/03/07/120.html
By Chris Floyd
"And the war came."
-- Abraham Lincoln
The war is always coming, it's always here, either in utero, full fury or
chaotic aftermath. The newest war -- the invasion of Iraq -- will come
because a gang of like-minded men is willing it into being. They want it --
it's as simple as that. They want what they believe this war will give
them: wealth, dominion, and empire.
The ultimate goal is not Iraq -- that bombed, blockaded state partially
controlled by a witless thug whom the gang once succored -- but domination
of the world's oil supplies in the coming century, when the surging nations
of China and India will reach their economic peak. These vast entities
could eventually tilt the imbalance of world wealth away from the
Anglo-American elites who have for so long held the high and palmy ground
of privilege. But the voracious economies of the Asian behemoths will
require unstinting draughts of the oil reserves now locked under the sands
of Iraq and Saudi Arabia. There is oil elsewhere, yes -- but nowhere else
in the world are there reserves deep enough to satisfy the thirsts of China
and India as they come into their own.
Therefore it is imperative for the Anglo-American elites to dominate this
indispensable resource, if they are to maintain their wonted ease beneath
the palms. Or so they believe. Actually, the narrowly-concentrated wealth
of the West is so staggeringly great that these elites could quite easily
devote abundant resources toward developing new forms of energy, national
self-sufficiency, and what used to be known in Abraham Lincoln's day as
"internal improvements" -- roads, schools, hospitals, parks, the extension
of liberty, leisure and opportunity -- and still keep their corpulent noses
planted deep in the trough of their unearned riches.
But alas, they too -- like the thugs they hire and fire so easily (Noriega,
Saddam, bin Laden) -- are moral idiots. They don't care about their own
nations. They don't care about the hapless people they rule -- except, of
course, as cannon fodder or hired help. The "national interest" is what
best serves the elites and their retainers.
Throughout history, elite factions have always acted in similar ways to
maintain and augment their dominance. At various times, for various
reasons, their interests converge and they act loosely in concert; at other
times, they tear each other to shreds -- killing millions of people in the
process. You can see this pattern of behavior -- the belligerent lust for
dominance coupled with crafty temporary alliances -- at work among many
primate groups. Our modern "elites" (the Ba'athist clique, al-Qaida, the
Bush Regime, the British Establishment, etc.) are simply secretions of the
most primitive and ape-like elements still lurking in our brains. They're a
kind of heavy scum that forms on the free-flowing, light-dazzled stream of
human existence.
So, the attack on Iraq isn't really a war for oil, not in the strictest
sense. The United States doesn't need Iraq's oil. In recent years, America
has been carefully diversifying its own sources of foreign oil, and is no
longer overly dependent on the Arab-held fields. In fact, that's one reason
the long-planned attack on Iraq is coming now. Before, America couldn't
risk a military takeover of one of the major oil states (minor Kuwait, of
course, has been occupied since 1991): Too much could go wrong,
irreplaceable supplies could be cut off. Now, however, the game is worth
the candle; even in the highly unlikely event of disaster -- an Arab oil
embargo, a long, intractable war -- the Bush Regime believes they can ride
it out until the situation stabilizes by drawing on other sources: Africa,
Venezuela, Russia, plus the oil still lying off America's coasts and under
its scarce remaining wilderness.
Iraq is not the end, but the means. What America needs -- or rather, what
the thugs in the Bush Regime desire -- is dominance of Middle Eastern oil
in order to hold the economies of China and India hostage in the coming
decades. The aim is not conquest, in the classic sense; our elites are
imperialists, not colonialists. They don't want to settle amongst all those
funny-looking foreigners; heaven forefend! It's bad enough there are so
many of them in God's country already, where, as one august national
leader, Republican Representative Sue Myrick, noted recently, they "run all
the convenience stores," thus posing the ever-present danger of gustatory
terrorism. ("What's that white powder on my donuts? Aieee!")
No, what is sought -- what is demanded, what will be enforced with human
cannon fodder and treasure extorted from ordinary citizens ("You're under
attack! Give us your money!") -- is that the emerging powers become pliant
"friends" and business partners, along the lines of Western Europe.
Naturally, this will require
Chile on sleazy Rice's tail.
SANTIAGO -- Chile will protest an alleged wire-tapping incident by the United States through diplomatic channels, President Ricardo Lagos said Thursday. An article Sunday in the British newspaper The Observer said the United States has been tapping UN Security Council diplomats' telephones ahead of a crucial vote on a new US-Spanish-British resolution to authorize war on Iraq. The Chilean president made only passing reference to the matter, and did not state whether Santiago would make a formal protest over the incident. "The government does what it is required to do via diplomatic channels and is doing so. Don't worry," he told reporters. Lagos's comments came ahead of Foreign Minister Soledad Alvear's trip to New York ahead of Friday's Security Council meeting. Alvear postponed her flight early Thursday so that she could meet with Lagos. The Foreign Ministry has said that it had been told the issue of electronic espionage in Chile and other countries would be investigated, as the Security Council's 15 members prepare to take a formal stance over a new Iraq resolution. . www.utopia2000.org
Iran and North Korea plan nuclear tests.
Disarm and get invaded. Develope a credible military detertant like North Korea has, and the Bushies back down and politely ask the Chinese to broker negociations. Welcome to the new global arms race. U.S. has photos of secret Iran nuclear sites http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/meast/12/12/iran.nuclear/ From David Ensor CNN WASHINGTON (CNN) --The United States has evidence that Iran has secretly been building large nuclear facilities -- sites that could possibly be used to make nuclear weapons, senior U.S. officials tell CNN. Commercial satellite photographs taken in September show a nuclear facility near the town of Natanz and another one near Arak, the officials said. (View map) But Iran's foreign ministry spokesman said the country's only nuclear activity is of a peaceful nature, and its facilities have been "regularly and frequently" inspected by the International Atomic Energy Agency, or IAEA. "Iran hasn't committed any acts that can be considered against international rules, and will not do so in the future," Hamid Reza Assefi told CNN. "At the same time, no country could, for its own political objectives, prevent Iran from achieving its own goals." A spokesman at the IAEA in Vienna, Austria confirms the agency is seeking access to the two sites and has so far been put off by Iran. The vice chairman of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee said the development was "disturbing news." "We don't need another nuclear power -- not with Iran sponsoring terrorism that it has in the past," said Sen. Richard Shelby, an Alabama Republican. "The fact that they are seemingly pursuing an avenue to build nuclear weapons should be disturbing to everybody." Assefi said the United States was trying to start a negative publicity campaign to divert attention from other issues. "This kind of publicity is not new," Assefi said. "Certain circles within the United States are trying to create tensions and poison the international atmosphere, and to avert international public opinions away from the real regional danger, which is Israel." Iranian dissidents have long contended that Iran has been working on nuclear capabilities. But the new satellite photographs and the conclusions drawn from them by nuclear experts are the first evidence to support such claims. Nuclear expert David Albright said the size and secrecy of the program suggest Iran might be working toward building nuclear weapons. Albright is head of the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS), which identified the photographs. The non-profit, non-partisan ISIS focuses on stopping the spread of nuclear weapons. The satellite picture of the facility near Arak concerns nuclear experts. Corey Hinderstein, also of ISIS, said the site resembles heavy water plants found in Pakistan and contains a similar Z-shaped structure. The large facility at Natanz appears to U.S. intelligence officials to be a uranium-enrichment plant, and civilian experts, including Hinderstein, agree. Iran has a declared nuclear program at Bushehr that is designed to produce nuclear power for electricity only, according to the country's U.N. ambassador. "I can categorically tell you that Iran does not have a nuclear weapons program," Mohammed Javad Zarif said in an interview with CNN. "Any facility we have ... if it is dealing with nuclear technology, it is within the purview of our peaceful nuclear program." (Transcript of interview) Iranian officials say a visit by senior IAEA officials is expected in February. IAEA officials say they want to visit Arak and Natanz on that trip. IAEA officials also point out that nothing Iran is known to have done has violated international law. Bush labeled Iran part of an "axis of evil," along with Iraq and North Korea, in his State of the Union address this year.
Nikkei Hits 20 year Low.
takes hit after altering guidance National Post - 25 minutes ago Intel Corp. shares dropped as much as 5% in after-hours trading yesterday after the world's leading chipmaker tempered its first-quarter revenue guidance. Intel narrows sales forecast, memory chip demand dips Toronto Star Intel lowers revenue projection San Jose Mercury News Houston Chronicle - Portland Business Journal - Yahoo News - InternetNews.com - and 75 related » SCO sues IBM for $1 billion for 'devaluing Unix' The Register - 2 hours ago What could be stranger than one Linux business suing another Linux business for devaluing UNIX ? The SCO Group (formerly Caldera), which owns the UNIX&trademark; trademark, has filed suit against IBM for investing in Linux and ... Caldera sues IBM for giving Unix secrets to Linux community The Inquirer SCO Group Slaps IBM with $1B Suit eWeek InfoWorld - Forbes - InternetWeek.com - Seattle Post Intelligencer - and 23 related » Tokyo stock indexes hit post-"bubble" lows Mainichi Shimbun - 4 hours ago Two key Tokyo stock indexes sharply declined Friday to close at the lowest levels in about 20 years as growing concern that a US attack on Iraq is imminent triggered massive sell-offs in Tokyo. 20-Yr Low For Tokyo Stks Sparks Concern, Not Panic Yahoo News Nikkei-225 closed down 225.03 at 8144.12 London Times Forbes - Channel News Asia - Austin American Statesman - Star - and 136 related » Enron falsified condition of finances, examiner says Arizona Republic - 4 hours ago Enron Corp. inappropriately counted $5 billion it raised in the four years leading to its December 2001 bankruptcy with the knowledge of two major banks that played "significant roles" in the transactions, a court-appointed examiner said. Recovering for Enron Creditors Washington Post Enron scams fill 2000 pages Guardian USA Today - Financial Times (subscription) - Yahoo News - Salt Lake Tribune - and 45 related »
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The Friends of Frank disgraced Silicon Valley.
Much as the friends of Tim May have disgraced cypherpunks. Dan Gillmor: Quattrone clique disgraced Silicon Valley By Dan Gillmor Mercury News Technology Columnist There's little shock value these days in new stories of shifty dealings by Wall Street insiders. So disciplinary charges filed Thursday by the NASD (formerly known as the National Association of Securities Dealers) only amplified the notoriety of Frank Quattrone, the Silicon Valley investment banker who has come to personify the worst excesses of the technology-bubble days. No one could have been amazed at the latest litany of how supposed ``analysts'' at a Wall Street investment bank were part of a scheme to pump up stock prices as a quid pro quo for lucrative banking business. In this case, Quattrone's ``everyone was doing it'' defense rings true. There was some eye-opening detail in NASD's description of Credit Suisse's practice of ``spinning'' initial-public-offering shares to ``Friends of Frank'' -- executives of companies with which the firm wanted to do business. Spinning was a pervasive part of the operation that generated billions of dollars in fees. But there's a deep sense of sadness today in seeing how many Silicon Valley ``friends'' Quattrone accumulated in his zeal to dominate technology investment banking. Thanks to my colleague Deborah Lohse, who obtained a list of some of these good buddies, we now can put many more names and faces on the valley's expanding hall of shame. Keep in mind how this all worked. In the vast majority of cases, according to NASD and some of the recipients, the Friends of Frank didn't do the trading. They had ``discretionary'' brokerage accounts. They gave Credit Suisse brokers control over when to sell the insider shares they had received. Like the analysts who praised junk companies, these brokers were better informed than the average member of the public. The brokers sold the insiders' shares regularly and usually for significant profits. The Friends' risk was next to zero. They were being given what insiders called ``free money'' in the late 1990s. The free money came in big, big bags. And their companies did business with CSFB -- big business. ``Scandal'' is too small a word for this behavior. Remember who lost in this spinning. First were the little investors who bought over-hyped stocks that have since crashed. Second were the companies selling stock; the huge gains their shares tended to make at the peak of the bubble meant that the investment bankers were pricing the offerings much too low. That meant less money in the coffers of small companies, some promising, that would eventually need every dime. The other losers were the Friends' own companies -- or, to be more precise, their investors. If someone was going to make a payoff for investment-banking business, the money should have gone to the shareholders, who were truly picking up the bill for the banking fees. Choosing an investment bank to handle a transaction -- IPO, secondary offering, merger, whatever -- is serious stuff. Some of the Friends would undoubtedly have picked CSFB to handle their companies' deals even in an arms-length environment. Quattrone, who steadfastly denies any wrongdoing, is enormously talented, with great knowledge and unparalleled connections. He had a hard-working, brainy team. But the shareholders of these companies will never know if they might have gotten a better deal from a different bank. The Friends of Frank disgraced Silicon Valley. And along with the other insiders who profited so handsomely at such cost to so many others, they've just about wrecked American capitalism. http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/business/5338548.htm
2047 years after the Roman emperor Julius Caesar was stabbed to death.
WHAT: An anti-capitalist, anti-authoritarian contingent in the March 15th anti-war protest. WHEN: Meet at 11:00. WHERE: Meet at the I.A.C. rally. We will march as part of the larger demonstration. Later, many of us will be going on the unpermitted march as individuals. BRING: Black, red and red & black clothing and flags. Banners. Pamphlets and flyers. DO: We want this to be a chill space for anarchists and anti-state, class warriors to make a public showing, with a clear political message. We will not be doing any direct actions or using any confrontational tactics while marching with the larger anti-war demonstration. The United States government is preparing to escalate its periodic bombings on Iraq into a full-scale invasion. This war, like all wars between nations, is not about disarmament or human rights. It is about control over resources. It is about making profits for those who own and control society, expanding their business and military empires. It is also about distracting poor and working people in the U.S. away from our discontent with our lives under early 21st century American capitalism. It is about increasing nationalism. It is an attempt to get us to identify with our rulers and exploiters, in the face of a foreign enemy. We will not be confused or distracted. We are clearly opposed to this war, and all wars between nations, whether sanctioned by the U.N or not. But our alternative is not pointless grumbling, an abstract plea for 'peace' or an attempt to convince our rulers that war is not in their interest. War between nations is never in OUR interests. In a society largely stuck in a debate between capitalist war and capitalist peace, we hope to show that another kind of peace is possible, a peace without poverty, without exploitation, without governors, bosses and managers. But to achieve that kind of peace, another kind of war is necessary, a war that sees not only Bush, Blair, Bin Laden, Chirac, Schorder and Saddam as our enemies, but all bosses, bureaucrats, politicians, police, landlords and capitalists. So on March 15 -- international day against police brutality, 2047 years after the Roman emperor Julius Caeser was stabbed to death --we will loudly declare our opposition to the American empire, and our solidarity with working class resistance around the world. Convening endorsers: Anarchist-Communists of Berkeley International Makhnovist Support Apparatus of the Einsteinist Tendency Kevin Keating, Mission Yuppie Eradication Project Black Hat Bloc -- " target=_blankhttp://www.blackhatbloc.org Aufheben Reading Circle Provos Action (Belo Horizonte, Brazil) http://prov0s.subversao.com Internationalist Communist Group (Lviv, Ukraine) If your organization would like to endorse this callout, please email us at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A world based on true libertarian socialist ideals: Anarchy.
he Dispossessed: An Unambiguous Masterpiece, March 15, 2001 Reviewer: David Duck (see more about me) from Phoenix, AZ USA Simply put, this is one of the greates science fiction books I have ever read. Beyond Le Guin's compelling storyline, masterful character development, and brilliantly constructed setting (all of which can be found in any of her other books), The Dispossessed is a social commentary the likes of which I had never experienced before. Most people, I am sure, hear the word "anarchy," and it brings to mind images of smelly punk-rock kids throwing rocks and trashing cars (direct action!) However, the layperson generally cannot see beyone the premise of "no government = chaos." Le Guin tears down the philosophical walls and false presuppositions and proposes a world based on true libertarian socialist ideals: Anarchy. These people are not terrorists, but hard working, sincere individuals, possessed with all the faults that we have always had. It adresses the problems that could arise in an anarchist community plagued by extreme scarcity, but its message triumph over tribulation rings true. It is this book which radically changed my political philosophies, and if is powerful and beautiful enough a piece of literature that it can do the same for all who read it. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0061054887/qid=1047051201/sr=1-8/ref=sr_1_8/103-8357565-5279023?v=glance&s=books
Journalist being screwed by the government.
I find it fitting that a classy dame like Ms. Devinn Lane would be playing
a classical musician in her first boy/girl feature.
She was simply ready to do guys, she told me. After three years of limiting
her onscreen sexuality to girl/girl action, Ms. Lane has decided that she's
ready. She's been making a list of who's naughty and can maintain both wood
and a good attitude on a fifteen hour set. And for Wicked's new Improper
Conduct Ms. Lane works her way down the list - having sex with Steven St.
Croix the day before, and today she's taking on Scott Styles. Later this
week, she may or may not have sex with another guy - she likes to keep the
orgy scenes somewhat improvised.
After take after take of Brad Armstrong's exacting direction to establish
the sex scene, Devinn Lane jumps on Styles, throwing down his violin (he's
a violinist, she's a cellist banging the composer who is played by Steven
St. Croix). She starts to go down on him, then starts to titty-fuck him
with those 36D's. Kim Chambers, Stylez' significant other, is watching from
the peanut gallery along with what seems to be the entire editorial staff
of AVN (Kernes taking his famed 3D photographs, Wayne Hentai showing his
new roommate what porn is like, and Tod Hunter there to make a social call.)
One thing is sure as Ms. Lane mounts Styles in a reverse cowgirl - she's
taking to boy/girl scenes eagerly and readily. Her face emotes passion as
Styles works her through a number of positions and what seems to be a
number of orgasms. Great audibles that quite frankly make the "girl next
door" seem like a sex-starved nympho. She's incorporated for goodness' sake.
("Pound my toilet hole" is not a phrase one expects from corporations.)
Eventually, the scene ends with Styles coming on her face, and the crew
breaks down the set as the cast and the peanut gallery go downstairs to eat
- contrary to recent media claims, there is plenty of food on the set -
fish, fruit, brownies, mashed potatoes and more.
Bridgette Kerkove is getting her makeup done. She's playing a hooker. Her
character gets picked up by Ms. Lane and Steven St. Croix. She goes down on
Ms. Lane, who abandons the limo along with Steven St. Croix, leaving
Kerkove alone to satiate her desires with a champagne bottle.
Kerkove brought her own 'hooker coat' - but Armstrong decides he'd rather
have her use his.
Interesting non-porn related fact about porn stars: they all keep receipts.
Styles and Chambers get to deduct a portion of their house because they use
it as an office, and get an extra deduction for their house because they
have webcams in every room so people can watch the couple get wild at home.
Ms. Lane has to file twice - once as a corporation and once as Ms. Lane -
she keeps receipts for both entities, but most of her deductions end up
going through her corporation. Bridgette and her husband Skeeter both keep
receipts for their stuff as well. While I, a journalist, a so-called man of
letters, have no receipts. And I'm looking to get very screwed by the
government this year. I guess when you get fucked for a living, you get
used to not letting anyone, not even the government, fuck you without
paying you
.or at least having your permission.
Improper Conduct will be a late spring/early summer release.
http://www.avninsider.com/stories/sr21203.shtml
Re: Fw: Drunk driver detector that radios police
Screw that - just buy a few thousand of these little devices, disable them so that they're always transmitting "drunk driver" and install them in politicians' cars all over DC (make sure you install'em in cop cars too.) You can also leave them in cabs. They'll be banned immediately. --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :NSA got $20Bil/year |Passwords are like underwear. You don't /|\ \|/ :and didn't stop 9-11|share them, you don't hang them on your/\|/\ <--*-->:Instead of rewarding|monitor, or under your keyboard, you \/|\/ /|\ :their failures, we |don't email them, or put them on a web \|/ + v + :should get refunds! |site, and you must change them very often. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sunder.net On Fri, 7 Mar 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > A tiny fuel cell that detects the alcoholic breath of a drink-driver and calls > the police has been developed by a team of engineers at Texas Christian > University. A pump draws air in from the passenger cabin, a platinum catalyst > converts any alcohol to acetic acid, which then produces a current > proportional to the concentration of alcohol in the air. A chip analyses the > data, and if it is too high, turns on a wireless transmitter that calls the > police.
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We will,we will rock you.
Students Take the Streets Students around the country took to the streets on Wednesday March 5 to protest against any war on Iraq. In Melbourne, 5000 rallied outside the State Library in a carnival atmosphere before marching to Parliament House. Many of the students were present in school uniform with home made banners and placards opposing war. Tens of thousands participated around the country, incuding 10 000 in Sydney which had three arrests and reports of police harassment. Some of the banners said: "Our lives have just begun, don't end them with a gun"; "2 wrongs don't make it right So why r we going 2 fight"; "There is no oil in Korea" on an American flag; and of course "Books Not Bombs"; and "No War". [Melbourne Report | Pictures] Check out local stories and photos from Brisbane, Adelaide [1 | 2 | 3] Perth, Wollongong, Albury, Canberra and Launceston. There were also protests in Geelong, Hobart, Darwin, Ballarat, and Newcastle. In other news, the Department of Defence has withdrawn advertising from all student media around Australia because of an 'adbust' done by Vertigo, the student newspaper of The University of Technology, Sydney. Global Reports [ Books not Bombs reports + National Network of School Peace Groups ] http://www.melbourne.indymedia.org/
Re: Fw: Drunk driver detector that radios police
Good job. You just caused law enforcement to ignore emitters from all cabs, government, and police vehicles. My guess is that the unit will perform a self-check and emit a "broken" signal instead of "drunk". Maybe the police will only pull over "broken" vehicles not listed above, knowing that broken ones from average citizens are far likelier to have been sabotaged. Quoting Sunder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Screw that - just buy a few thousand of these little devices, disable them > so that they're always transmitting "drunk driver" and install them in > politicians' cars all over DC (make sure you install'em in cop > cars too.) You can also leave them in cabs. > > They'll be banned immediately. > > > On Fri, 7 Mar 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > A tiny fuel cell that detects the alcoholic breath of a drink-driver and > calls > > the police has been developed by a team of engineers at Texas Christian > > University. A pump draws air in from the passenger cabin, a platinum > catalyst > > converts any alcohol to acetic acid, which then produces a current > > proportional to the concentration of alcohol in the air. A chip analyses > the > > data, and if it is too high, turns on a wireless transmitter that calls > the > > police. > >
Is Shrub on Ludes?
George W. Bush kept seeming to lose interest in his own remarks last night as the president did that rarest of rare things -- for him -- and held a prime-time news conference. Televised live on all the major networks from the East Room of the White House, the occasion found Bush declaring this to be "an important moment" for America and the world, yet he spoke with little urgency and no perceptible passion. Have ever a people been led more listlessly into war? It's tempting to speculate how history would have changed if Winston Churchill or FDR had been as lethargic as Bush about rallying their nations in an hour of crisis. There were times when it appeared his train of thought had jumped the tracks. Occasionally he would stare blankly into space during lengthy pauses between statements -- pauses that once or twice threatened to be endless. There were times when it seemed every sentence Bush spoke was of the same duration and delivered in the same dour monotone, giving his comments a numbing, soporific aura. Watching him was like counting sheep. Network commentators by and large tippy-toed around the subject of Bush's curiously subdued performance. But at least Terry Moran of ABC News dared to say that the White House press corps had definitely seen Bush "sharper" than he was last night. Tactfully and gingerly, Moran said Bush seemed to be "trying to keep his mannerisms as cool as possible" as he fielded questions and spoke of ultimatums. The lethargy was contagious; correspondents were almost as logy as Bush was. Nobody even bothered to ask a question about Osama bin Laden, whose capture was rumored to be imminent yesterday and is still in the public mind a more reprehensible monster than Saddam Hussein. Bush popped the balloon that bin Laden had been found when he failed to make a dramatic opening statement, instead reiterating for the umpteenth time some of his many charges against Hussein, whose token efforts at disarmament amounted to "a willful charade," Bush said. In one of his more effective moments, Bush said that the tragedy of 9/11 showed what terrorists can do with only four airplanes and so we should imagine what Saddam Hussein could do with his notorious weapons of mass destruction. But there were few effective moments. At times during the hour, Bush almost appeared to be backing off the previously immutable notion that Hussein's intransigence makes war virtually inevitable. "We don't have to go to war," he said at one point. "I'm hopeful that he does disarm," Bush said of Hussein. "It may require force" to get him to do it, but "I hope it can be done peacefully," he said in separate remarks. While at another point he seemed to say, contrary to previous statements, that he was "optimistic" about "diplomacy" doing the job so that U.S. troops won't have to, he also said, with respect to disarming Hussein: "Diplomacy hasn't worked. We've tried diplomacy for 12 years." He also said the "use of force" remains "my last choice" as a means to disarm the Iraqi leader. "I recognize there are people who don't like war. I don't like war," Bush said. But as in the past, he referred to Hussein at various points as a cancer, a murderer, a master of deception and just generally an inhuman fiend who must be destroyed or exiled. The statements did not come across as particularly cogent or consistent. Then again, perhaps Bush was just offering a summary of everything that's been said on the issue over the past few months. The contrast between the foggy Bush of last night and the gung-ho Bush who delivered a persuasive State of the Union message to Congress not so long ago was considerable. Maybe Bush thought he was, indeed, coming across as cool and temperate instead of bored and enervated, and this was simply a rhetorical miscalculation. On the other hand, it hardly seems out of order to speculate that, given the particularly heavy burden of being president in this new age of terrorism -- a time in which America has, as Bush said, become a "battlefield" -- the president may have been ever so slightly medicated. He would hardly be the first president ever to take a pill. MORE ON... http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54629-2003Mar7.html
An act of self determination.
Still Following the Morning Star The Morning Star Concert for West Papua at the Melbourne Concert Hall on Febuary 28 highlighted two things: Australians' ignorance of the issues surrounding West Papua, and their willingness to find out more about it. Performers from Australia and overseas played to a packed house and a standing ovation at the end of the night, but there's still a long way to go before West Papua can breath free. Hopes of greater Papuan autonomy after the Indonesian dictator Suharto was overthrown have not eventuated. Papua New Guinea meanwhile looks set to forcibly repatriate into the arms of Indonesian military 400 West Papuan refugees who fled over the border two years ago. The refugees say they have no faith in assurances of their safety, and activists are lobbying the PNG government to relent. Pictures from the concert 1 | 2 | 3 | Video [ free west papua + Previous West Papua Feature ] http://www.melbourne.indymedia.org/
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Mole Hunt in the WSJ.
Anti-war WSJ staffer knows it's best to keep his mouth shut New York Observer A NYC media person who supports President Bush's war stance stands out as a strange artifact, say Joe Hagan and Alexandra Wolfe. "The first time it hit me, I was at cocktail party Tina Brown gave for Arianna Huffington's book," Steve Brill tells them. "All the toasts came back to war and how horrible Bush is. My wife said, 'This room is so unlike the rest of the country. It's like being on a different planet.'" MEANWHILE, AT THE WSJ: Heather Mac Donald of the Manhattan Institute says: "I have a friend who works at The Wall Street Journal on the editorial side, and he's anti-war and he won't even mention it, because there the unanimity is so strong." Posted at 12:41:30 PME-mail this item | QuickLink: A23579
Sleep walking through history with the worst president ever.
Senator Byrd, who will appear here tomorrow night said in the February 12 speech accusing his colleagues of sleep walking through history. I want you to comment on this. "As this nation stands at the brink of battle, this chamber for the most part is silent, there is no debate, no discussion, no attempt to lay out for nation the pros and cons of this particular war. We stand passively mute in the U.S. Senate paralyzed by our own uncertainty." AND WOODWARD: OK, you obviously can't reopen the debate in either formal way. But Senator Dodd, saying in some sort of informal way, to get information in -- and the reality here is there is an immense amount of anxiety that the public has. KING: You spent a lot of time with him for the book. Does he ever question -- he answered tonight that he does not -- he sleeps well. Does he ever question -- did you ever get the impression that he questions his resolve? WOODWARD: I asked him -- President Bush about this, and he just -- he almost, again, almost jumped out his chair. He said I just have no doubts. And literally said that -- this was on the war on terrorism. But when it comes to Iraq and his decision-making, I think he is a person who grinds it out in the war cabinet and then makes a decision and does not revisit it. KING: The question is, is that good to have no doubts? WARNER: Oh, I defer to what you have in your book says an accurate recitation of your own views and what he said. But he's a human being. And he spoke of his faith. And, to me, faith implies you've got to listen to others and be mindful of the wants and the needs of others. And I'm certain that he does that. But we cannot have someone out there blinking and flinching at this hour, and I commend you. WOODWARD: I think exactly what he feels -- what President Bush feels. DODD: This is not about blinking or flinching. It's about making sure that we're going to do is going to make a lot of sense for us here. You know, again, I almost sound like I'm listening to people who support the president. I think he's losing it. I thinking he's doing a great job with this in the sense he's achieving good results here. We're acting like this is somehow a major setback. We're achieving our desired goals, at least to this juncture. The only question remains whether or not you're going to have the kind of support that we ought to have. WOODWARD: But what about the public anxiety? I'm sorry, that is a big -- that is the elephant in the room. FROM http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0303/07/lkl.00.html It's the president's demeanor. (UNINTELLIGIBLE) Bob has said and I certainly don't know him well enough to disagree with at all. The sense of being comfortable, at ease with where you are. Confident about your decision-making process is. And I think the conclusion one would reach, still the good news, he's going to go to the U.N. and try to get that resolution. But I think behind all of that is we're going to war, and that's what came across tonight, I think, to most people probably watching this. KING: Let's take a call. San Francisco, for Bob Woodward, Senator John Warner, Senator Chris Dodd. Hello. CALLER: Hello. There appears to be only yes people surrounding the president. Who on this panel is willing to give him a reality check on how strongly the American people are opposed to going to war with Iraq alone? KING: Well, the polls don't show that they're strongly opposed. Do they, Bob? What's the latest poll? Significant number. (CROSSTALK) WOODWARD: ... people want, if there is a war, for it to be U.N. backed. KING: I'll give you a question (UNINTELLIGIBLE), is there a George Ball in the president's circle? George Ball was the one guy who told Kennedy don't send one troop to Vietnam. Is there a George Ball in this administration? WARNER: I feel that he gets good, strong, cross-section of the diversity within his cabinet. Certainly Powell and Rumsfeld go at it pretty well, as they have, and their predecessors have had. (CROSSTALK) WARNER: ... that's a good question she asked. KING: Hold on a second. WARNER: And I'd like to answer it. I would simply say that your voice is counting and your voice is being heard. And across America and across the world, I think people of clear conscience are gravely concerned. And I'm sure the president is taking that into consideration. KING: New York City, hello. CALLER: Hello? KING: Yes. Go ahead. CALLER: I have a question for Senator Warner. Why can we not meet France and Germany's demands for last-ditch diplomatic efforts now? WARNER: The president tonight did not foreclose the options that France, Germany and Canada and great Britain are putting towards the Security Council. He simply said in a very straight-forward way, let's wait and see. KING: Senator Dodd, is there a Democratic Party position on this? DODD: No, and the leader Tom Daschle, Nancy Pelosi have not asked even for one at all. KING: Should you have one? DODD: No, I don't think so. I think in the conduct of fo
Killing Bush and Cheney is self defence.FUCK the SS!
His message, left shortly after midnight last Friday, is marked "urgent." Listening to the first five minutes or so of his rant, I buy most of his gist, if not his wording. "I am a retired architect who at 72 is up to his eyeballs in fighting American fascism," says the voice on the answering machine. "I've been in a state of shock and semi-coma since November 2000, when five uninvestigated crooks on the Supreme Court stopped a recount in Florida where I think Gore won and put the most incompetent, wrong-winged know-nothing schmuck in the White House that I have ever seen in my entire life. Even for America, this act of fascism was incredible. "Of course," he continues, "you know as well as I do that the economy is a wreck, he is destroying the environment, he took $179 billion out of environmental legislation the first month he was in office then he proceeded to do all kinds of things like coming out against affirmative action. This guy is a dick-brained fascist moron from Texas who should be sent back down to Texas." OK. But then the architect takes a dark turn. "Tell me if you know anything that I don't know about what the hell in God's name we can do to stop this son of a bitch," he says. "I have been thinking about getting a gun, going down there and killing him and saying I've done this on behalf of the American people and I am doing it in self-defense and in their defense. That's it, Bush. Pop pop, one for him, one for Cheney." Uh-oh. I wonder what to do. On the one hand, this guy sounds so desperate, so lonely and so needy. On the other hand, he is talking about killing the president. I should probably call the Secret Service, but I cringe at the thought of diming out the poor old guy. I call our lawyer, the Poynter Institute, the national editor at The New York Times. They all say the same thing. Make the call. Which I do, holding my nose and feeling like a rat. "Secret Service, this is Lisa Parmagiani," says the woman on the other end of the phone line. I explain who I am and why I am calling, adding that "I don't think this guy is really a threat, but that's not my job to decide, it's yours." "You can't threaten the president when the country is at war," Parmagiani says, adding that agents will visit the man's house within the hour. Great. They are going to haul this poor, lonely old man off to the hoosegow and it is all my fault. Well, not really. He's the one who left the message. Still, I feel bad, so a few hours later, I call his apartment. I am relieved when he answers the phone. "Two freaks from Ashcroft's Secret Service knocked on my door," he says, somewhat peeved (and misinformed -- Secret Service works for the Treasury Department). "They said, Do you have any idea what you did?'" The old architect, whose name I am withholding because I don't really believe he means to kill Bush, readily acknowledges that he erred. I tell him that I would report any message left on my machine threatening to shoot someone. He says the agents, "a very nice-looking Italian girl and a black kid," were courteous and kind and listened patiently as he explained what it was like growing up with a wealthy mother and a Democratic Socialist father. "I asked these kids if they were not allowed to have political thoughts, left or right, and they said that is correct. I feel sorry for them." He says the agents asked if he owned a gun. "Of course not," he says. "I said they could search the place if they wanted to, but they said it wasn't necessary." The old man tells me that he chatted with the Secret Service agents about how he, a white Jewish guy, was so passionate about civil rights that he joined the NAACP as a child. Then, during his questioning, he received a phone call. "It was the Franklin Mint," says the man. "So that reminded me to show the agents my tchotchke collection of Franklin Mint Coca-Cola items and teddy bears." Explaining that he never married because "I was so busy fucking myself I was not going to drag anyone else into this with me," the old architect, who gave all his money away to lefty political causes, says that the agents listened politely as he showed off his collections. When their interview was over, the agents asked to take the copy of City Paper, last week's "Real Costs of War" issue, that inspired the old man to call me. Then they took his picture and left, to pay a visit to his psychologist. As soon as the agents left, the man says he called a friend in Maine, who immediately freaked. "He said that he was worried not so much for himself, but for his wife, who has a teaching job. He's afraid of the Secret Service, that they are going to check my phone logs and see that I talk to him from time to time. He got spooked." Not to worry, says agent Parmagiani. "Nothing is going to happen," she says. "We went out, we talked to him, he is a very nice man. He didn't realize it would get this far." http://citypaper.net/articles/2003-03-06/pretzel.shtml
Re: Give cheese to france?
"I'm ashamed to be on the same list with you statists and fascists." Lot's I don't get here. First of all, stating one perhaps should have the right to wear whatever T-shirt you want in a mall isn't necessarily "statist". There are, possibly, non-state-originating arguments in favor of such a notion. More than that, there CERTAINLY are ways in which such a "right" could be enforced sans state. More than that, what's all this about "dousing" hating, and whatever about supposed "statists" and "fascists", just because they wrote something on the friggin internet? If I believe that George W. should be king and Lord of all who gives a crap unless I actually try to DO something about it? Talk is cheap. Even laws are cheap...I don't get too worked up over fascistic laws and violation of the constitution or watever until someone actually starts trying to restrict my 'rights' (whatever the hell that actually means). -TD From: Tim May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Give cheese to france? Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 19:21:52 -0800 On Thursday, March 6, 2003, at 02:11 PM, Major Variola (ret) wrote: Besides, the publicity has been great. I was told that after it made news, 150 women wearing the same T-shirts showed up at the mall. The security guards locked themselves in their offices. Probably messed their pants, too. If people didn't leave my property when told to, and the actual police would not expel them, then I would consider it morally justified to start shooing those 150 bitches. Sometimes people don't understand anything except bullets. My defense would be that it was my property, they were trespassing, and the police refused to do their job. Frankly, many of you on this list really need to be doused with gasoline and then lit. I'm ashamed to be on the same list with you statists and fascists. The Eurotrash nitwits are the worst. It's as if they were born in Communist countries and never shook their early training...which, come to think of it, is probably likely. --Tim May I'm ashamed to be on the same list with you statists and fascists. _ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus
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Lyn Cheney, Madame Lash.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/story/64880p-60446c.html Parody Web site gets veep bleep By MAKI BECKER DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Don't mess with Dick Cheney's woman. That's the message sent to John Wooden, the Brooklyn-based editor whose www.whitehouse.org site parodies the Bush administration's official Web site (www.whitehouse.gov). Two weeks ago, Wooden got a letter from the Office of the Vice President requesting that he delete photos and a phony biography of Second Lady Lynne Cheney from whitehouse.org - as well as remove the Seal of the President from his site. "It is important to avoid using her name and picture for the purpose of trade without her written consent," the letter said. "It is also important to avoid portraying her in a false light." "Honestly, I was shocked," Wooden said yesterday. "I was incredulous at the notion that this is what our tax dollars are being spent on - generating threatening letters to parody Web sites." The bio takes aim at Lynne Cheney's staunch conservatism by detailing books she has written, including a fictional Western that incorporates themes about feminism and lesbian relationships. Wooden, 31, who runs his Web site from his Park Slope apartment, took the letter to the New York Civil Liberties Union. It sent a response Tuesday to Vice President Cheney's counsel. Lynne Cheney "is certainly a public figure for the purposes of First Amendment law," said Christopher Dunne, the NYCLU's associate legal director. "Why is the vice president's office even weighing in on this? As far as we know she's not a government official, which makes it all the more inappropriate." The veep's office did not return calls for comment yesterday. But the letter ended by noting that "nothing in this request should be construed as expressing any view concerning the lawfulness, wrongfulness or inappropriateness ... of your Web site." Not missing an opportunity to poke more fun at the White House, Wooden posted a link to the letter, drew clown noses on Lynne Cheney's photos and added a disclaimer: "[We] are confident that any rumors about Mrs. Cheney formerly being a crystal meth pusher are 100% likely to be absolutely untrue." Originally published on March 6, 2003 www.whitehouse.org/subscribe.html
Tie a strip of duct tape round the old oak tree...
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Song revised, recorded in support of "Duct Tape Across America" antiwar
campaign
TIE A STRIP OF DUCT TAPE ('round the old oak tree)
Song released in support of "Duct Tape Across America" peace campaign
Punk-rock recording artists Piggi have recorded a new version of the 1970s
pop hit "Tie A Yellow Ribbon," in support of www.fuckthewar.com's "DUCT
TAPE ACROSS AMERICA" peace campaign.
Entitled "Tie A Strip Of Duct Tape ('round the old oak tree)," the song is
a sardonic reply to "yellow ribbon" campaigns in support of military action.
"Duct Tape Across America" is a campaign urging anti-war activists to
prominently place strips of duct tape in public places to visibly highlight
the absurdity of the Bush administration's ineffectual recommendations for
"homeland security."
Piggi are a group based in Detroit, Michigan. The band has granted
permission for unrestricted reproduction of the song's lyrics. The band can
be reached for interviews and comment via their publicity agency,
OrwellMedia, at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Lyrics reproduced below).
TIE A STRIP OF DUCT TAPE ('ROUND THE OLD OAK TREE)
(To the tune of "Tie A Yellow Ribbon")
As recorded by Piggi for www.f*ckthewar.com.
Verse:
Poison gas can make us blind
And suitcase nukes could make us hard to find
Bio terror weapons could give us all some bad disease
Seems the only thing that can save us is duct tape around our trees
Duct tape around our trees
Chorus:
So tie a strip of duct tape 'round the old oak tree
Do it in the name of homeland security
That little strip of duct tape is what keeps the US free
And lets us bomb Iraq with complete immunity
Verse:
Saw george bush on TV today
Seems Saddam Hussein just won't go away
Won't let Iraq become a U.S. colony
So now we have to start a war in the name of peace
In the name of peace
Chorus:
So tie a strip of duct tape 'round the old oak tree
It'll keep us safe from WOMDs
As we bomb Iraq to get the oil to fuel our SUVs
We'll be safe because of all the tape around our old oak trees.
Verse:
As the white house spins its web of lies
And hundreds of thousands of Iraqis die,
America stands proud and strong, the country of the free
And to think we owe it all to duct tape around our trees
Duct tape around our trees
Chorus:
So tie a strip of duct tape 'round the old oak tree
It'll keep us safe from WOMDs
As we bomb Iraq to get the oil to fuel our SUVs
We'll be safe because of all the tape around our old oak trees.
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Arid Zone Cops out of control.
Gary Gaynor is charged with third-degree criminal trespassing at UA. SHELLA CALAMBA Tucson Citizen March 6, 2003 Tucson Citizen photographer Gary Gaynor was arrested yesterday while covering an anti-war protest at the University of Arizona. Students also gathered to criticize the school's plans to raise tuition and cut major programs. When they were prevented from delivering their demands to President Peter Likins, three students and one university employee chained themselves to a railing in the lobby of the administration building. UA police arrested the four, as well as Gaynor, who was photographing the protesters. "I was photographing at the doorway as they began moving the protesters out the door," Gaynor, 54, said. "They just told me it's my turn to leave." After he told an officer he is with the Citizen, the officer asked to see an identification card. But police still insisted that he leave. Gaynor said he continued working without saying anything further to the officer. "I wanted to stand there, and they tried to push me in one direction," he said. "Another guy came over and grabbed the camera," ultimately breaking it. Other officers subdued and handcuffed Gaynor, he said. "I was pretty shocked that they would do that to a reporter," said Roberto de Roock, spokesman for the Student Taskforce for Democracy. "They really manhandled him." Gaynor was charged with third-degree criminal trespassing, which is a misdemeanor, said Sharon Kha, a UA spokeswoman. Police at the scene declined to comment on what took place at the protest. A call to the UA Police Department was not returned. "He was on assignment, doing his job as a journalist when he was arrested," said Michael Chihak, publisher and editor of the Citizen. At some point, he said, there will be plans to address First Amendment issues surrounding the incident. "Our first and foremost consideration here is Gary's legal situation," Chihak said. "We will support him in the legal contesting of the charge against him." Gaynor said he was handcuffed and detained in the building for more than an hour with the four chained protesters. Police later unlocked the right side of his handcuffs but had to use a cutter to release his left hand, leaving it bruised, Gaynor said. Gaynor said other reporters and photographers were covering the protest inside the building when he was approached by police. Gaynor has worked for the Citizen for 34 years http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/local/3_6_03protest_side2.html
Hey another snitch like Tim May!
What should an editor do with a threat on Bush's life? Philadelphia City Paper The man on Howard Altman's answering machine said: "I have been thinking about getting a gun, going down there and killing (President Bush) and saying I've done this on behalf of the American people and I am doing it in self-defense and in their defense. That's it, Bush. Pop pop, one for him, one for Cheney." Uncertain what to do, the Philly City Paper editor called his lawyer, Poynter, and a New York Times editor for advice. "They all say the same thing," says Altman. He dialed the Secret Service. Posted at 10:34:45 AME-mail this item | QuickLink: A23534 Tim 'Mongo' May was a creepy little snitch for the fascist police state of Kalifornia under RReagan who ordered an assault on Peoples Park that led to the death of one young man at the hands of the brutal Kali KKKops.
A Roman Catholic, conspiracy-minded cultist whinger,Mel Gibson also a fast breeding reactor.
MEL Gibson is furious at the New York Times over a story that will depict him as a pope-hating, conspiracy-minded cultist. Gibson went on Bill O'Reilly's show in January claiming reporter Christopher Noxon was doing a "hit piece" on him and "digging into [his] private life . . . getting into [his] banking affairs . . . harassing [his] family, including my 85-year-old father." It's no wonder Gibson was upset. In a story in this Sunday's Times Magazine, Noxon writes that Gibson embraces an ultra-traditional "strain of Catholicism rooted in the dictates of a 16th-century papal council and nurtured by a splinter group of conspiracy-minded Catholics, mystics, monarchists and disaffected conservatives." The traditionalists disdain the Second Vatican Council of 1962-1965, say Mass in Latin, and fast on Fridays. Women wear hats in church. Noxon got onto the story because his father lives near the Holy Family church Gibson financed on 16 acres near Malibu. Gibson refused to be interviewed, but Noxon located the star's father, Hutton Gibson, in a Houston suburb. The elder Gibson has railed against the Vatican for more than 30 years, having written such books as "Is the Pope Catholic?" and published a quarterly newsletter, "The War Is Now." Hutton told Noxon that Vatican II was "a Masonic plot backed by the Jews," called Pope John Paul II "Garrulous Karolus, the Koran kisser," and denied that the Holocaust ever happened. "Go ask an undertaker or the guy who operates the crematorium what it takes to get rid of a dead body," he said. "It takes one liter of petrol and 20 minutes. Now, six million?" Mel Gibson has never expressed such views. But the Times article suggests that "The Passion" - the movie he's directing about the last 12 hours in Christ's life - could revive the medieval charge that it was the Jews who killed Christ. Gary Giuffré, a traditionalist and pal of the Gibson family, says in the story that the film "will graphically portray the intense suffering of Christ, perhaps as no film has done before." Giuffre says the movie, which Gibson is financing with $25 million, will "lay the blame for the death of Christ where it belongs." Noxon tells PAGE SIX he never harassed Gibson or his family: "This story fell into my back yard. Mel has played hardball with me the whole time, and gone ballistic. I tried to be thoughtful and fair, but all he knows how to do is whip up the armies." http://www.nypost.com/seven/03062003/gossip/pagesix.htm
When will scientism finally replace racism?
There are 8 stories within this collection, more or less arranged in order
of length, and really in two halves - the initial short stories and the
later long stories. The shorts are a varied lot and range from the
whimsical and slight ("The Ascent of the North Face", a bizzare scaling of
the "summit" of a London house) to the punchy and thoughtful ("Newton's
Sleep", the problems that accompany a generational starship that flees
Earth). While Le Guin is able to indulge her passion for strange alien
cultures (e.g. a down-trodden race of sculptors who find messages hidden in
the works they make for their masters, the possible uses of a pipe that
makes no noise) and human relationships here, it's tightly written and
makes a few good points. "Newton's Sleep" in particular is very perceptive
and illustrates Le Guin's thesis that perhaps racism is coming to be
replaced by an equally falacious 'scientism', a contempt for those who are
less 'wired-in' and technologically adept than yourself.
FROM
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Mongo the cypherpunk Trotsky.
1921 -- Russia: Specially selected forces of the Red Army (commanded by Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Field Marshal Leon Trotsky) opens fire on the forts of Kronstadt. Trotsky: "One can't make an omelette without breaking eggs" Voline: "I see the broken eggs -- now where's this omelette of yours?" A number of articles on the Russian Revolution, http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/russia.html 1921 -- Russia: As Trotsky orders the artillery bombardment of Krondstadt, Emma Goldman & Alexander Berkman, feeling that their last tie to the Bolsheviks has been broken, decide to leave Russia & alert the world to what they have witnessed. Berkman writes The Bolshevik Myth & help Emma with her book, My Disillusionment in Russia (1923). http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/bright/berkman/bmyth/bmtoc.html http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/goldman/disillusion/toc.html They shall rise up heroes, there will be many, None will prevail against them at last. They go saying each: "I am one of many"; Their hands empty save for history. They die at bridges, bridge gates, and drawbridges . . . Kenneth Rexroth, "From the Paris Commune to the Kronstadt Rebellion" (1936)
Someone explain...Give cheese to france?
Tom Veil wrote...
"These fuckards really need to learn what private property is."
('Fuckards'. I like that. GIMMEE.)
Alright. There's something I'm not getting here, so the Libertarians on the
board are free to enlighten me.
Let's take one of my famous extreme examples. Let's say a section of the New
Jersey Turnpike gets turned over to a private company, which now owns and
operates this section.
So...now let's say I'm black. NO! Let's say I'm blond-haired and blue eyed,
and the asshole in the squad car doesn't like that, because his wife's been
bangin' a surfer. So...he should be able to toss me off the freeway just
because of the way I look? (Or the way I'm dressed or the car I drive or
whatever.)
The way I see it is there's private property, there's public property, and
then there's reality with lots of stuff in between.
-TD
PS: And don't get all huffy. I'm actually asking a question, not trying to
make some huge point...yet.
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Military Mooks.
"Military men are dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns for foreign policy." -- Henry A. Kissinger, quoted by Monika Jensen-Stevenson, Kiss the Boys Goodbye, Dutton, 1990, Page 97, citing The Final Days, Woodward and Bernstein (Simon & Schuster, 1976) What Henry Kissinger Thinks of Our Military By Lisa Guliani "Military men are dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns for foreign policy." ~ Henry Kissinger ~ January-February 2003 edition of Eagle Newsletter The above statement given by Henry Kissinger should dispel any possible doubt or confusion in the skeptics among us as to just how little our servicemen matter to the elitist madmen calling the shots. No longer do they spew empty words to placate the masses. They are admitting outright that our soldiers are expendable and disposable. If the above statement by Kissinger doesn't make your blood run cold, then tell me, what will? While the war-mongers relentlessly push us into a war nobody else wants, our troops are scattered far and wide, preparing for the unpredictable and seemingly inevitable confrontations which lie ahead. Some are saying this war will lead to peace. The absurdity of such a statement is apparent. Why must we engage in war to obtain peace? What will be the ultimate price of such peace? How many American lives must be sacrificed as collateral damage to purchase this "peace"? How many of our sons and daughters will die in order for the Controllers to achieve their insidious ends? It's beyond horrible to consider. My son recently informed me that he intends to enlist in the Army in November when he turns 17. He has already spoken with an Army recruiter. Like so many other young people his age, my son has bought into the "Illusions of the Machine". He feels strong, invincible, and is all "gung ho" to go into a combat situation to "protect America" from terrorists. The extent of his misperception is incredible. How many of our young men and women are feeding into this crap? Too many, I imagine. While my son is trained in how to use deadly weapons, will he realize that someday he may be ordered to use them against his own people? Has he considered this possibility? No. My son is not politically aware of how the Machine operates and who is truly in command. . He simply sees the opportunity to jump into the fray, travel to distant lands, and dress up like G. I. Joe, probably imagining he is "Rambo". He envisions excitement and danger and a break from monotony. He likes the idea of being a "hero". What I would really like to do is take my son to Washington, D.C. and let him check out the Korean War Memorial and the Vietnam War Memorial Wall. Perhaps some of his perceptions would change if he could look at the faces of war, if he could feel the pain and horror of war, if he could taste the blood of war. The Korean War Memorial has a wall of its own. On it is inscribed a simple sentence: "Freedom Is Not Free." My son has no concept of this sentence at this point. If he joins the Army in November, he is in for one hell of a rude awakening. Sadly, it is this feeling of invincibility that is all too prevalent in our society today. Americans do not believe anything can touch them or hurt them. Not really. Many of our people are still disconnected from the big picture, simply because nothing horrible is happening in their own backyards. I hearken back to 9/11/2001, and remember the disconnection of some of the people in my life to that unforgettable mass murder. I couldn't believe it then, and I still have a hard time with it. America, when are you going to realize that what happens to SOME of us happens to ALL of us? Our young men and women are steadily disappearing into Bush's War Machine, where they will be forever changed. They don't realize just WHO they're fighting FOR. They don't know because our fine military leaders aren't going to tell them. They don't need to know - because our war-crazy leadership isn't going to tell them either. They are viewed as "dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns for foreign policy", remember? And still they enlist, never realizing perhaps, until it's too late, that they've put their very lives in jeopardy for the true "evildoers", the plutocrats designing this war to suit their heinous schemes. These "dumb, stupid animals" are OUR children and they're being shipped out and set up to die on foreign soil. How does this sit with you? It makes my blood BOIL. And while I will do my best to dissolve the smoke & mirrors clouding my son's thinking, the writing is already on the wall. The Machine wants to chew up another "dumb, stupid animal" - my child. I'd like to ask Henry Kissinger to personally explain his statement to me and all the other American mothers and fathers out there whose children are gearing up to fight this obscene war under false pretenses. My message to George Bush and the rest of the lunatic Machine is: "I'll see you all in HELL.
How to threaten the president in wartime and get way with it.
Killing Bush and Cheney as Simple Self Defence. (english) profrv@(nospam)fuckmicrosoft.com 9:04am Fri Mar 7 '03 article#242514 Now it's time to stand up and bring down the Temple.We need a few thousand more Samsons like this goodfella.There is a Saddam F/X,where is one for ALL the wardogs? Wolfowitz,Rumovitz,Chenowitz and Shrubowitless. His message, left shortly after midnight last Friday, is marked "urgent." Listening to the first five minutes or so of his rant, I buy most of his gist, if not his wording. "I am a retired architect who at 72 is up to his eyeballs in fighting American fascism," says the voice on the answering machine. "I've been in a state of shock and semi-coma since November 2000, when five uninvestigated crooks on the Supreme Court stopped a recount in Florida where I think Gore won and put the most incompetent, wrong-winged know-nothing schmuck in the White House that I have ever seen in my entire life. Even for America, this act of fascism was incredible. "Of course," he continues, "you know as well as I do that the economy is a wreck, he is destroying the environment, he took $179 billion out of environmental legislation the first month he was in office then he proceeded to do all kinds of things like coming out against affirmative action. This guy is a dick-brained fascist moron from Texas who should be sent back down to Texas." OK. But then the architect takes a dark turn. "Tell me if you know anything that I don't know about what the hell in God's name we can do to stop this son of a bitch," he says. "I have been thinking about getting a gun, going down there and killing him and saying I've done this on behalf of the American people and I am doing it in self-defense and in their defense. That's it, Bush. Pop pop, one for him, one for Cheney." Uh-oh. I wonder what to do. On the one hand, this guy sounds so desperate, so lonely and so needy. On the other hand, he is talking about killing the president. I should probably call the Secret Service, but I cringe at the thought of diming out the poor old guy. I call our lawyer, the Poynter Institute, the national editor at The New York Times. They all say the same thing. Make the call. Which I do, holding my nose and feeling like a rat. "Secret Service, this is Lisa Parmagiani," says the woman on the other end of the phone line. I explain who I am and why I am calling, adding that "I don't think this guy is really a threat, but that's not my job to decide, it's yours." "You can't threaten the president when the country is at war," Parmagiani says, adding that agents will visit the man's house within the hour. Great. They are going to haul this poor, lonely old man off to the hoosegow and it is all my fault. Well, not really. He's the one who left the message. Still, I feel bad, so a few hours later, I call his apartment. I am relieved when he answers the phone. "Two freaks from Ashcroft's Secret Service knocked on my door," he says, somewhat peeved (and misinformed -- Secret Service works for the Treasury Department). "They said, Å?Do you have any idea what you did?'" The old architect, whose name I am withholding because I don't really believe he means to kill Bush, readily acknowledges that he erred. I tell him that I would report any message left on my machine threatening to shoot someone. He says the agents, "a very nice-looking Italian girl and a black kid," were courteous and kind and listened patiently as he explained what it was like growing up with a wealthy mother and a Democratic Socialist father. "I asked these kids if they were not allowed to have political thoughts, left or right, and they said that is correct. I feel sorry for them." He says the agents asked if he owned a gun. "Of course not," he says. "I said they could search the place if they wanted to, but they said it wasn't necessary." The old man tells me that he chatted with the Secret Service agents about how he, a white Jewish guy, was so passionate about civil rights that he joined the NAACP as a child. Then, during his questioning, he received a phone call. "It was the Franklin Mint," says the man. "So that reminded me to show the agents my tchotchke collection of Franklin Mint Coca-Cola items and teddy bears." Explaining that he never married because "I was so busy fucking myself I was not going to drag anyone else into this with me," the old architect, who gave all his money away to lefty political causes, says that the agents listened politely as he showed off his collections. When their interview was over, the agents asked to take the copy of City Paper, last week's "Real Costs of War" issue, that inspired the old man to call me. Then they took his picture and left, to pay a visit to his psychologist. As soon as the agents left, the man says he called a friend in Maine, who immediately freaked. "He said that he was worried not so much for himself, but for his wife, who has a tea
Re: Fw: Drunk driver detector that radios police
So you hook it up to a wad of cotton dipped in Jack... Whatever. Fuck Big Brother. Fuck it in the ass until it squeals, then fuck it some more. --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :NSA got $20Bil/year |Passwords are like underwear. You don't /|\ \|/ :and didn't stop 9-11|share them, you don't hang them on your/\|/\ <--*-->:Instead of rewarding|monitor, or under your keyboard, you \/|\/ /|\ :their failures, we |don't email them, or put them on a web \|/ + v + :should get refunds! |site, and you must change them very often. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sunder.net On Fri, 7 Mar 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Good job. You just caused law enforcement to ignore emitters from all cabs, > government, and police vehicles. > > My guess is that the unit will perform a self-check and emit a "broken" signal > instead of "drunk". Maybe the police will only pull over "broken" vehicles not > listed above, knowing that broken ones from average citizens are far likelier > to have been sabotaged.
Road to Oaxaca.
INCREASED REPRESSION AGAINST THE CIPO On March 4, 2003, at 1:30 p.m., in the Attorney General's office, in Avenida Independencia, in Oaxaca, Mexico, a group of Federal Police attacked and tried to detain, without an order of arrest, Raul Gatica, a member of the Popular Indigenous Council of Oaxaca - Ricardo Flores Magon, CIPO-RFM, after he had finished placing charges (file: A.P//110/2002) against the paramilitary groups of San Miguel Aloapam, headed by Conrado Garcia and Cayetano Santiago. ANTECEDENTS: We are the CIPO-RFM, an organization of indigenous communities that fight for the defence of our collective, human rights, the development of our peoples, for justice, freedom, the defence of nature, women, autonomy and practice of helping each other, working collectively, deciding everything in assemblies and having our own view of the cosmos. Since our founding, November 18, 1997 until now, we have suffered repression, jail, murder, disappearances, exclusion, marginalisation and all types of aggressions from the Federal and State government, in general, all of the major violations against basic rights: 195 men and 17 women detained (without an order of arrest); 47 members, all men, kidnapped; 22 members, all men, tortured; 195 men and 82 women wounded; besides nearly 500 orders of arrest. Some of the most outstanding are: a) The arrest and torture of 106 members of our indigenous community on April 18, 1998, that made the CNDH (the National Commission of Human Rights) to emit their recommendation of 26/99. b) The kidnapping and torture of 46 members of our indigenous community on January 1, 2002 that made the CNDH emit their recommendation of 15/2002 CURRENT SITUATION. 1) On March 4, 2003, around 1:30 p.m., Raul Gatica together with Reyna Perez Hernandez, Cesar Chavez and Mayolo, of the Teachers Union, went to place charges (filed as A.P./110/2002) against the paramilitary groups of San Miguel Aloapam. After placing the charges, when leaving Attorney General's office, a group of 6 federal police, without an order of arrest, without showing any identification, began to interrogate Raul Gatica with great violence, surrounding and trying to grab hold of him, saying "you are under arrest." Our comrade made it very clear that he would not let himself be arrested very easily. There was a lot of turmoil, as we would not let the police seize him. Before the mayhem got out of hand, a person who had left to consult came back and shouted "the order is a 50", and the police said: "go, but we will arrest you later." Although on this occasion the company of Reyna, Cesar and Mayolo of the Teachers' Union frustrated the arrest, the threat continues alive against all the organization. 2) Due to this, and seeing as the following comrades are about to go and declare in other court cases (Cesar Chavez Garcia, Fernando Torija, Carmen Perez Chavez and Raul Gatica) together with the following citizens (Celia Martinez Altamirano, Reyna Perez Hernandez, Gonzalo Santiago Garcia and Adelina Perez Cruz), we are worried that they might be arrested when arriving to declare. 3) It is clear that the repression against the CIPO-RFM has become worse after we denounced the paramilitary groups and the government of Murat, because it is not just by chance that they wanted to arrest us after ratifying the charges against the paramilitary groups. 4) Without a doubt this is part of a new wave of pressure and harassment against our organization and in particular against Raul Gatica who we fear may be arrested, kidnapped, "disappeared" or murdered in any moment, or that a wave of repression hits our communities and other members of the organization, as is suggested by the following facts: a) On 3 November, 2002, a commission of the CIPO-RFM formed by Reyna Perez Hernandez, Simon Illescas and Raul Gatica denounced before the group of experts of the U.N. Working Committee on Arbitrary Arrests, formed by Louis Joinet, Miguel del Alama, Pierre del Prado and Soledad Villagra, the endless number of arbitrary arrests that they have been subjected to as members of CIPO-RFM, with the complicity of Governor Jose Murat and of the paramilitary groups of Sierra Norte and Tuxtepec, headed by Jacobo Chavez and Cesar Toimil. We made the experts aware that we could suffer reprisals for the abovementioned charges. This situation was summed up when arbitrary arrests were made against Reyna Perez Hernandez and Raul Lopez in Ixtlan de Juarez Oaxaca on November 18, 2002; against Luis Rey Matadamas in Sta. Cruz Huatulco on November 19, 2002; against Juan Diaz and Elizabeth Luna in Sta. Cruz Huatulco on November 20, 2002; and the attempt to arrest Raul Gatica on that same day, in front of the palace of government of Oaxaca. In all the cases, the policemen who arrested our comrades said: "this is to remove the trouble makers so they stop speaking badly about the Murat government." b) On January 29, 2003, a Commission of the CIPO-RFM, formed by Carmen
Futures unimagined by the streetsmart cyberpunks and silicon capitalists.
In this world hellbent for either Tomorrowland or Blade Runner (or a combination of both), filled with the rhetoric of machine-age ejector-seat teleology, millenarian hype and encounters of the cybernetic kind, we sometimes forget how tough and redoubtable this planet is and how totally uncaring. The world has been around since before the first trilobyte and has shrugged off the mighty T. Rex. Assuredly, the ecology will eventually roll over us, despite our silicon dreams and Internet sex. Unless, of course, we give up our militaristic need to conquer nature and embrace a different way--an approach of interaction and interpenetration. It's hard, because the memes of scientific progress and technologic manifest destiny may have already crucified us. Future Primitive, an anthology of stories partly inspired by Ernest Callenbach's Ecotopia, offers us visions with those difficulties sharply in focus -- futures unimagined by the streetsmart cyberpunks and silicon capitalists. The multiple award-winning "Bears Discover Fire" by Terry Bisson surprises in its clarity, dazzles with its simplicity and angers with its conclusion. The title ursine characters remind us how we must have been, long ago, when we first harnessed technology--way before smart bombs, plutonium and ozone holes. Ursula K. Le Guin's "Newton's Sleep" points out that man is but the ultimate herd animal, the most highly evolved of all lemmings, either unable to heed reason, or unwilling to let go of it, to see the truth behind the veneer of consensus reality. Howard Waldrop's 1976 story, "Mary Margaret Road Grader" describes a future in which Native Americans take back a piece of America and mix tribal customs with a sort of retro-white-trash pastiche of tractor pulls, keggers, and bad blood. The machines exert and tear the land, the men smoke hemp and a single woman changes everything forever. It all ends not in a crescendo of steel and gears, but the silence of rust and unforgiven bygones. There are other stories too, by Robert Silverberg, Gene Wolf, Pat Murphy, and Ernest Callenbach among others. A worthy anthology for any collection and an important voice in science fiction. Copyright © 1997 by Thomas Myer Thomas Myer is a technical writer and freelance scoundrel. When he's not reading or writing, his family (wife Hope, and dogs Kafka and Vladimir) makes him mow the lawn and scrub floors. He also happens to be an excellent scratch cook. Check out his homepage, The Writer's Paradise. http://www.sfsite.com/08a/fut14.htm
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Assassination Tango.
An assassin (Duvall) is sent to Argentina to kill a general, but when his target delays his return to his homeland, the killer decides to um, "kill time", with a beautiful dancer, Manuela (Pedraza), becoming obsessed with the fascinating culture of tango dancing... (Blades plays the man who introduces him to the world of tango clubs) Filming: Production started on May 1st, 2001 in Buenos Aires and elsewhere in Argentina, where filming will last for about eight weeks. There will also be a week of filming in New York City. Genre: Musical, Thriller Official Site: MGM.com (where you can watch the trailer) Message Board: Share your thoughts on our "Assassination Tango" Message Board http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hp&cf=prev&id=1808402967&intl=us
Re: Using time-domain reflectometry to detect tamper attempts ontelecom cables
1. The NSA doesn't own it's own sub - they used a Navy sub - several infact. I think you're refering to how a US sub snuck into a Russian harbor, looked for and tapped phone lines. This was during the cold war. (It's possible that they own their own subs now.) They found the lines because signs were posted saying "Don't dig here", attached the probe and returned with all the tapes they got, then they sent another sub, and got more signals, etc. 2. They didn't cut the wires, they attached a device around an amp (signal booster.) This was tempest based. Not sure what happy fun technology they used to separate one phone call from another, likely they had lots and lots of sensors to get differing but anyway, the physics of listening into to a signal traversing a wire is simple. (A wire parallel to another will pick up the RF signal in the opposite direction - this is why the difference between cat3 and cat5 is the number of twists - the more twists, the more you eliminate crosstalk at higher frequencies.) Not sure what the NSA would do to tap fibers, certainly tempest wouldn't work - except if there are repeaters nearby - or if they actually cut into the fibre to splice it. It's not too late for undersea fibers - just encrypt all traffic across. --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :NSA got $20Bil/year |Passwords are like underwear. You don't /|\ \|/ :and didn't stop 9-11|share them, you don't hang them on your/\|/\ <--*-->:Instead of rewarding|monitor, or under your keyboard, you \/|\/ /|\ :their failures, we |don't email them, or put them on a web \|/ + v + :should get refunds! |site, and you must change them very often. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sunder.net On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Tyler Durden wrote: > As for looking for spooks and terrorists, it's been known for a long time > that NSA has its own sub that makes undersea taps, for monitoring > intercontinental traffic. I've thought about how you'd detect such a splice, > and I believe it would be difficult but do-able. Difficult because there's > going to be a mandatory few dB of loss associated with the split, but that > kind of thing can easily happen to fibersmaybe a killer dolphin chewed > on the cable or something (and of course they'll use an isolator in order to > hide whatever's on their side of the tap). > > But that kind of splice might have a characteristic signature that will look > different from other random kinks or attenuation, particularly when combined > with certain databases. (I'd say looking at it over time would help, but its > probably too late for the undersea fibers.)
Netwar favors the prepared LEADERLESS mind.
Imperial Washington, like Berlin in the late 1930s, has become a psychedelic capital where one megalomaniacal hallucination succeeds another. Thus, in addition to creating a new geopolitical order in the Middle East, we are now told by the Pentagon's deepest thinkers that the invasion of Iraq will also inaugurate "the most important 'revolution in military affairs' (or RMA) in two hundred years." According to Admiral William Owen, a chief theorist of the revolution, the first Gulf War was "not a new kind of war, but the last of the old ones." Likewise, the air wars in Kosovo and Afghanistan were only pale previews of the postmodern blitzkrieg that will be unleashed against the Baathist regime. Instead of old- fashioned sequential battles, we are promised nonlinear "shock and awe." Although the news media will undoubtedly focus on the sci-fi gadgetry involved - thermobaric bombs, microwave weapons, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), PackBot robots, Stryker fighting vehicles, and so on - the truly radical innovations (or so the war wonks claim) will be in the organization and, indeed, the very concept of the war. In the bizarre argot of the Pentagon's Office of Force Transformation (the nerve center of the revolution), a new kind of "warfighting ecosystem" known as "network centric warfare" (or NCW) is slouching toward Baghdad to be born. Promoted by military futurists as a "minimalist" form of warfare that spares lives by replacing attrition with precision, NCW may in fact be the inevitable road to nuclear war. Read more Link: http://slash.autonomedia.org/ http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/03/07/4881571 pr writes on Friday March 07 2003 @ 10:06AM PST: [ reply | parent ] As most people in the world want peace and will eventually buy it in a leaderless network the US war machine is doomed.(I trust they wont take us all with them.)They would have bought in assassination politics by now if they were not scared it would boomerang.
The Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.
World of Ends What the Internet Is and How to Stop Mistaking It for Something Else. by Doc Searls and David Weinberger Last update: 3.6.03 There are mistakes and there are mistakes. Some mistakes we learn from. For example: Thinking that selling toys for pets on the Web is a great way to get rich. We're not going to do that again. Other mistakes we insist on making over and over. For example, thinking that: ...the Web, like television, is a way to hold eyeballs still while advertisers spray them with messages. ...the Net is something that telcos and cable companies should filter, control and otherwise "improve." ... it's a bad thing for users to communicate between different kinds of instant messaging systems on the Net. ...the Net suffers from a lack of regulation to protect industries that feel threatened by it. When it comes to the Net, a lot of us suffer from Repetitive Mistake Syndrome. This is especially true for magazine and newspaper publishing, broadcasting, cable television, the record industry, the movie industry, and the telephone industry, to name just six. Thanks to the enormous influence of those industries in Washington, Repetitive Mistake Syndrome also afflicts lawmakers, regulators and even the courts. Last year Internet radio, a promising new industry that threatened to give listeners choices far exceeding anything on the increasingly variety-less (and technologically stone-age) AM and FM bands, was shot in its cradle. Guns, ammo and the occasional "Yee-Haw!" were provided by the recording industry and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which embodies all the fears felt by Hollywood's alpha dinosaurs when they lobbied the Act through Congress in 1998. "The Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it," John Gilmore famously said. And it's true. In the long run, Internet radio will succeed. Instant messaging systems will interoperate. Dumb companies will get smart or die. Stupid laws will be killed or replaced. But then, as John Maynard Keynes also famously said, "In the long run, we're all dead." MORE ON... http://www.worldofends.com/
Nomad netwar machines.
There are few books that fulfill their promise to describe tomorrow. This is one of them. The "texting tribes" ride the same currents as our "post-literate" age, using technology to augment and implement our human need for communication. Rheingold describes a coming new world where one-to-many communication is focused on "doing" things and where the "one" can be anyone with a mobile phone. Teens and protesters are using texting (a function available on many cell phones) both to "hang" with each other and to coordinate movements. What he has seen in Japan and Finland is becoming commonplace in America's public schools as teenagers flock together in texting "virtual" space more easily than they can in "real" space. Recent reports show that texting is becoming as popular as the telephone -- and it is certainly more stealthy for those seeking to circumvent nosey parents. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0738206083/ref=pd_sim_books_2/103-8357565-5279023?v=glance&s=books
Driven to Distraction.
Seen in a Seattle bookstore and put on my to-read list immediately. When I actually got a chance to read it (I'd been distracted, heh), my hopes were confirmed. Bruce Sterling's Distraction is perhaps the most perfect novel it's possible to write under that name, a marvelous political sleight-of-hand, a Primary Colors for the 21st Century. Oscar Valparaiso is a campaign manager of particular genius, a fast-talking manipulator who never, ever lies, because he never has to. The truth should always be enough, if you spin it right - and Oscar's the master of spin. But Oscar also has a longstanding "personal background problem" that even he can't spin enough, a problem that despite his talents and high-profile childhood keeps him from taking center stage himself. As the book opens, Oscar has successfully shepherded an almost unknown architect into the U.S. Senate (not as wonderful an achievement as it sounds, what with unConstitutional "Emergency Committees" running almost everything and sixteen political microparties squabbling over the rest), and has been shunted off down to Buna, Texas, in an armored campaign bus with the rest of his election krewe for a little R&R. But Oscar gets... distracted, in such a way that the reader also gets distracted, and neither he nor the reader knows what's coming until it gets there. In ideas per second, Distraction is right up there with Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash, and while it also shares with that book an abrupt and somewhat disappointing ending, that may just be the unavoidable letdown you feel at the end of a roller-coaster ride... damn, it's over, and so soon! Highly recommended. http://home.pacifier.com/~ascott/nonfic/revsterl.htm
AmeriKKKa Tortures Detainees to Death
I'd really like to see FOX News do a poll on who is more dangerous to world peace, Bush or Saddam. Here's a lovely story from this morning's news, on how the US is treating its prisoners of war in Afghanistan. Hopefully, this will encourage AmeriKKKa's victims to treat US POWs with similar kindness. http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=38 - America admits suspects died in interrogations By Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles 07 March 2003 American military officials acknowledged yesterday that two prisoners captured in Afghanistan in December had been killed while under interrogation at Bagram air base north of Kabul - reviving concerns that the US is resorting to torture in its treatment of Taliban fighters and suspected al-Qa'ida operatives. A spokesman for the air base confirmed that the official cause of death of the two men was "homicide", contradicting earlier accounts that one had died of a heart attack and the other from a pulmonary embolism. The men's death certificates, made public earlier this week, showed that one captive, known only as Dilawar, 22, from the Khost region, died from "blunt force injuries to lower extremities complicating coronary artery disease" while another captive, Mullah Habibullah, 30, suffered from blood clot in the lung that was exacerbated by a "blunt force injury". US officials previously admitted using "stress and duress" on prisoners including sleep deprivation, denial of medication for battle injuries, forcing them to stand or kneel for hours on end with hoods on, subjecting them to loud noises and sudden flashes of light and engaging in culturally humiliating practices such as having them kicked by female officers. While the US claims this still constitutes "humane" treatment, human rights groups including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have denounced it as torture as defined by international treaty. The US has also come under heavy criticism for its reported policy of handing suspects over to countries such as Jordan, Egypt or Morocco, where torture techniques are an established part of the security apparatus. Legally, Human Rights Watch says, there is no distinction between using torture directly and subcontracting it out. Some American politicians have argued that torture could be justified in this case if it helped prevent terror attacks on US citizens. Jonathan Turley, a prominent law professor at George Washington University, countered that embracing torture would be "suicide for a nation once viewed as the very embodiment of human rights". Torture is part of a long list of concerns about the Bush administration's respect for international law, after the extrajudicial killing of al-Qa'ida suspects by an unmanned drone in Yemen and the the indefinite detention of "enemy combatants" at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a number of whom have committed or attempted to commit suicide. President Bush appeared to encourage extra-judicial solutions in his State of the Union address in January when he talked of al-Qa'ida members being arrested or meeting "a different fate". "Let's put this way," he said in a tone that appalled many, "they are no longer a problem to the United States and our friends and allies." -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"
Re: Using time-domain reflectometry to detect tamper attempts on telecom cables
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 11:33:32AM -0500, Sunder wrote: > > Not sure what the NSA would do to tap fibers, certainly tempest wouldn't > work - except if there are repeaters nearby - or if they actually cut into > the fibre to splice it. I'm sure I read about a way to do fiber, or that someone had developed a device, that only involved removing a bit of the covering, not cutting into the fiber at all. -- Harmon Seaver CyberShamanix http://www.cybershamanix.com
Re: Using time-domain reflectometry to detect tamper attempts on telecom cables
I'm sure I read about a way to do fiber, or that someone had developed a device, that only involved removing a bit of the covering, not cutting into the fiber at all. Yes, there is such a device, and I've used one. The only problem with them is that the amount of attenuation that results from the tap is not very repeatable, but I'd bet there are military grade ones used terrestially that will consistently be undetectable. Remember, a few dB in an optical network can mean the difference between 'acceptable' operation (10e(-10) BER) and nearly complete dropout of the optical signal, initiating a protection switching event. (They also squeeze the fiber in a distinctly anisotropic way, which creates PMD which can kill an OC-192 signal in worst cases.) Undersea, I've heard that NSA uses splices, and that NSA has its own sub for that purpose. (And the company I used to work for did some work on undersea NSA optical projects, so I tend to believe the rumors I heard there.) -TD _ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail
Re: Fw: Drunk driver detector that radios police
At 12:52 AM 3/7/03 -0600, you wrote: A pump draws air in from the passenger cabin, a platinum catalyst converts any alcohol to acetic acid, which then produces a current proportional to the concentration of alcohol in the air. I had an acquaintance years ago that always kept a bottle of cologne in the car. If he was ever pulled over after drinking, he would take a swig of the cologne before the cop got to his window. All the cop would then smell was the cologne and not the beer/whiskey/whatever he was drinking. In any case, alcohol in the cabin does not equate to an impaired driver. A chip analyses the data, and if it is too high, turns on a wireless transmitter that calls the police. Hackable and able to be spoofed. Cheers, Dan
Re: Fw: Drunk driver detector that radios police
I don't guess you read the article. It answers at least your first question. Another option to breathing through a tube might be to not drink alcohol before driving. Wow, you know... deterring people from drinking and driving might be a favorable side effect of this public-monitoring, information-gathering tool of big brother's. Erle http://ganns.com Quoting stuart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > ggc> University. A pump draws air in from the passenger cabin, a platinum > catalyst > ggc> converts any alcohol to acetic acid, which then produces a current > ggc> proportional to the concentration of alcohol in the air. A chip analyses > the > ggc> data, and if it is too high, turns on a wireless transmitter that calls > the > ggc> police. > > but what about other passengers who have been drinking, and what about open > windows? unless we're going to be forced to drive with tubes stuck in our > mouths... > -- > stuart
Re: Fw: Drunk driver detector that radios police
Actually, read the article. It covers sober driver and drunk passengers. Quoting Bill Frantz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > At 10:52 PM -0800 3/6/03, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >A tiny fuel cell that detects the alcoholic breath of a drink-driver and > calls > >the police has been developed by a team of engineers at Texas Christian > >University. A pump draws air in from the passenger cabin, a platinum > catalyst > >converts any alcohol to acetic acid, which then produces a current > >proportional to the concentration of alcohol in the air. A chip analyses > the > >data, and if it is too high, turns on a wireless transmitter that calls the > >police. > > So much for the sober designated driver with a load of drunk passengers. > > Cheers - Bill > > > - > Bill Frantz | Due process for all| Periwinkle -- Consulting > (408)356-8506 | used to be the | 16345 Englewood Ave. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | American way. | Los Gatos, CA 95032, USA > >
Re: Fw: Drunk driver detector that radios police
Wow, easy there, chief. I think you have some aggression you may want to let a professional address. Besides that... I'm not crazy about everything that the government does, but there are trade- offs in a non-perfect society. One of them is monitoring the innocent to, in turn, attempt to prevent the guilty from trampling over everything, God willing. I'm pretty sure that your Jack-dipped cotton swab will fall under tampering and intentional abuse of law enforcement resources, so you will pay your fine, then come back here to complain about "the man" that is trying to take away your world of lawlessness and accountability. There are countries that are very differing in their laws and liberties. Don't lose hope by thinking that this is the only one for you. You can try a few of them until one suits your flavor. Isn't freedom great? Amen! Quoting Sunder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > So you hook it up to a wad of cotton dipped in Jack... Whatever. Fuck > Big Brother. Fuck it in the ass until it squeals, then fuck it some more. > > --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- > + ^ + :NSA got $20Bil/year |Passwords are like underwear. You don't /|\ > \|/ :and didn't stop 9-11|share them, you don't hang them on your/\|/\ > <--*-->:Instead of rewarding|monitor, or under your keyboard, you \/|\/ > /|\ :their failures, we |don't email them, or put them on a web \|/ > + v + :should get refunds! |site, and you must change them very often. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sunder.net > > On Fri, 7 Mar 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Good job. You just caused law enforcement to ignore emitters from all cabs, > > > government, and police vehicles. > > > > My guess is that the unit will perform a self-check and emit a "broken" > signal > > instead of "drunk". Maybe the police will only pull over "broken" vehicles > not > > listed above, knowing that broken ones from average citizens are far > likelier > > to have been sabotaged. > >
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Cellphone Hell.
In Indonesia,Pakistan and Yemen,the cell phone has been a homer for the predator drones of the US Borg.While Al Quim are said to normally use encrypted e-mail their security culture (or lack of) and the apparent yen to yammer common to many close knit cultish outfits has bought them undone. Their sacrifice shall not be in vain however as each generation learns from the mistakes of the past.Already cells are forming with the objective of blinding the enemy.These cells will have full autonomy.Until a workaround is found to cell phone triangulation strangulation,assassinphones will be off tap.Also a way to destroy the dongle with the passphrase MUST be used and set up EVERY night a jehadi sleeps.Encryption is the only hope for more crypto-anarchic spectacular terrorism. When Cypherpunks are called "terrorists," we will have done our jobs.
Suspect reportedly once worked at Intel plant.
Tom Mangan is ex-BATF now ATF and setting up copwatch activists on bogus 'pipe bomb' charges.See... http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/03/05/5004504 Prior takedowns inc.ATF seizes large weapons cache: Suspect reportedly once worked at ... ... ATF seizes large weapons cache: Suspect reportedly once worked at Intel plant in ... in Massachusetts on unrelated weapons charges, agency spokesman Tom Mangan said ... www.metrowestdailynews.com/news/local_regional/ ap_weapons01172003.htm - 13k - Cached - Similar pages He started in Mass and is working his way west,heads up Mongo.I hate your statist rascist stinking guts but I hate Uncle Sams more.
Wacking out Mangan at a Kiwanis Bar-B-Q.
Tom Mangan needs killing as a flash priority code ultra violet-gun grabbing weasel sanction.Torture not required but approved as a deterrent measure. Valley of the Sun Kiwanis, Phoenix, AZ - Calendar of Events ... PD's Central City Precinct. 26, Tom Mangan, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF). Other Important Kiwanis Events. 2003 Bar-BQ ... voskiwanis.homestead.com/files/Calendar.html - 22k - Cached - Similar pages "If the police get in the way of our march, tangle with the blue-helmeted motherfuckers and kill them and send them to the morgue slab."
Tarballzip Bomb for Mangan.
Salt Lake City Weekly - Totally Awesome Firepower ... Representatives from the ATF said they don't know what Schanze is talking about. "It's ridiculous," said Tom Mangan, with an incredulous tone. ... www.slweekly.com/editorial/2002/city_2002-01-10.cfm - 12k - Cached - Similar pages Mystery of Canadian's unregistered missile collection 'chilling' ... ... these warheads and tracking back to make sure he obtained them legally," said Tom Mangan, an agent with the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF). ... ca.news.yahoo.com/020825/6/ojlg.html - 16k - Cached - Similar pages CNN.com - US seizes missiles at New Mexico school - August 18, ... ... and immigration charges, said Special Agent Tom Mangan of the ... the number of explosives and warheads, ATF officials have ... using the school as a front, Mangan said ... www.cnn.com/2002/US/08/18/newmexico.missiles/ - 27k - Cached - Similar pages CNN.com - Feds search weapons school again - August 20, 2002 ... at least two Arab countries, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen, learned how to use shoulder-fired missiles at the school, said ATF Special Agent Tom Mangan. ... www.cnn.com/2002/US/08/19/newmexico.missiles/ - 27k - Cached - Similar pages Worldandnation: Missiles found in NM; man charged ... classes for students from the United Arab Emirates and Yemen, said Tom Mangan, a US ... The ATF agents were summoned for a search of HEAT facilities in Roswell and ... www.sptimes.com/2002/08/19/Worldandnation/ Missiles_found_in_NM_.shtml - 41k - Cached - Similar pages [Another strange tale out of Roswell NM] - The Patriot Files :: ... ... Pete Domenici, RN.M., has asked ATF to report on what has been done so far. ... classes for students from the United Arab Emirates and Yemen, said Tom Mangan, a US ... www.patriotfiles.com/forum/archive/topic/19984.html - 13k - Cached - Similar pages Feds Probe Counterterrorism Training Center in NM ... Monday to continue carrying out their search, according to Tom Mangan, a special ... ATF and Customs agents found 49 wooden crates containing 2,352 warheads in ... www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/ 2002/8/19/175448.shtml - 29k - Cached - Similar pages Roswell Daily Record News ... ATF Public Information Officer Tom Mangan said the 2,352 warheads in High Energy Access Tools Corp's., magazine could be detonated even though no rockets ... www.roswell-record.com/archives/082202/news06.html - 6k - Cached - Similar pages [ More results from www.roswell-record.com ] ???2400 ... ... United Arab Emirates and Yemen, said Tom Mangan, an agent ... are cooperating with the investigation," Mangan said by ... The ATF agents were summoned for a search of ... www.asyura.com/2002/war14/msg/599.html - 15k - Cached - Similar pages SurvivalForum.com ... the Islamic terrorism angle to avoid mass "panic" in the area, an ATF official told ... for students from the United Arab Emirates and Yemen, said Tom Mangan, a US ... www.survivalforum.com/ modules.php?name=News&new_topic=26 - 101k - Cached - Similar pages ATF Online - Speech ... are extended to the various ATF contributors who ... paper, including the following: Pete Mangan, Bill Hogewood ... West & Northeast teams, respectively; Tom Novak and ... www.atf.gov/press/speech/fy00/ 060800counterterrosim.htm - 50k - Cached - Similar pages MetroWestDailyNews.com - Printer Friendly ATF seizes large weapons cache: Suspect reportedly once worked at Intel plant in ... in Massachusetts on unrelated weapons charges, agency spokesman Tom Mangan said ... www.metrowestdailynews.com/.../www.metrowestdailynews.com/ news/local_regional/ap_weapons01172003.htm - 5k - Cached - Similar pages Latest News ... like his father and his grandfather before that." ATF Special Agent Tom Mangan conceded Friday that some of the equipment is inoperable or non-explosive. ... www.theksa.com/News.htm - 72k - Cached - Similar pages The Salt Lake Tribune -- LDS Meeting House Fire Not Caused by ... ... We're obviously grateful that it didn't turn out to be an arson with the history of this church," said Tom Mangan, an ATF spokesman. ... www.sltrib.com/2002/may/05162002/utah/737337.htm - 17k - Cached - Similar pages
BRINGING THE WAR HOME (THE DAY THEIR WAR STARTS)
BLACK BLOC THE DAY THE NEW WAR ON IRAQ STARTS: Anti-war groups have called for a protest the day the new US war on Iraq begins. The protest will meet at 5pm the day the war starts in the following locations: ORANGE COUNTY: Bristol & Anton, Santa Ana CA (take the 405 and exit BRISTOL) LOS ANGELES: Westwood Federal Building (11000 WILSHIRE BLVD) RECONVERGENCE POINT: We are calling on all people who missed the original 5pm meeting point, or who just want to see the resistance continue in the street to meet at the next day at 12:00 PM (noon) against at the following locations: ORANGE COUNTY: Bristol & Anton, Santa Ana CA (take the 405 and exit BRISTOL) LOS ANGELES: Westwood Federal Building (11000 WILSHIRE BLVD) EMERGENCY ACTION FOR ORANGE COUNTY & LOS ANGELES WHEN THE U.S ATTACKS ANTI-WAR ACTION CALLOUT BRING THE WAR HOME (THE DAY THEIR WAR STARTS) A CALL FOR BLAC BLOCKS IN ORANGE COUNTY & LOS ANGELES In Afghanistan, the US military has killed thousands of people. The US spends billions funding genocidal policies against the Palestinian people. In Colombia, the US is escalating a civil war in which thousands of labor activists and peasants have been murdered. In Iraq, economic sanctions and radioactive weaponry have killed hundreds of thousands in the decade since the last war. The US War on Terror keeps expanding, threatening millions around the world. This is not a war between the people of the US and the people of the world. It is capitalisma war on the poor. Investors in US oil companies will get a new pipeline through Afghanistan and increased access to the Iraqs oil reserves (second only to Saudi Arabia). The weapons manufacturers will get new contracts and the US politicians will have an excuse to increase their power. Meanwhile, the poor and working people of America will definitely not be better off. We continue to live in a world of unemployment and minimum wage jobs, of racism and harassment, of surveillance and prisons, of impossible rents and evictionsa world not built for us, but on top of us. The brutal displays of the police in Oakland or L.A. bring to mind images of the Israeli Army in occupied Palestine. The thousands of Arab and South Asian desaparecidos in the US since September 11th recall the US-supported fascist regimes of Latin America. Even the foot soldiers the government uses to expand its empire will come home, as they did in the last Iraq war, with diseases from depleted Uranium ammunition. For us, the poor and working people living in the US, the war is not in Iraq, Palestine, Afghanistan or Colombia. It is right here at home, against the rich. The growing anti-war movement has called a number of demonstrations in the upcoming weeks and months. We will be there in solidarity. But we are worried that our protests have become nothing more than parades. Protest isnt protest if it doesnt threaten the established order or physically disrupt the functioning of the war machine. So lets use our collective power to change things directly. Wear black in mourning for the victims of capitalism, racism, state violence. Lets stick together and watch each others backs. Lets fight back. Join us for a creative rampage. LOOK FOR THE BIG BLACK ANTI-WAR ACTION FLAGS BLAC BLOC THE DAY THE NEW WAR ON IRAQ STARTS: Anti-war groups have called for a protest the day the new US war on Iraq begins. The protest will meet at 5pm the day the war starts in the following locations: ORANGE COUNTY: Bristol & Anton, Santa Ana CA (take the 405 and exit BRISTOL) LOS ANGELES: Westwood Federal Building (11000 WILSHIRE BLVD) RECONVERGENCE POINT: We are calling on all people who missed the original 5pm meeting point, or who just want to see the resistance continue in the street to meet at the next day at 12:00 PM (noon) against at the following locations: ORANGE COUNTY: Bristol & Anton, Santa Ana CA (take the 405 and exit BRISTOL) LOS ANGELES: Westwood Federal Building (11000 WILSHIRE BLVD) http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/03/07/6813547
Americas Aztec God.
America admits suspects died in interrogations By Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles 07 March 2003 American military officials acknowledged yesterday that two prisoners captured in Afghanistan in December had been killed while under interrogation at Bagram air base north of Kabul reviving concerns that the US is resorting to torture in its treatment of Taliban fighters and suspected al-Qa'ida operatives. A spokesman for the air base confirmed that the official cause of death of the two men was "homicide", contradicting earlier accounts that one had died of a heart attack and the other from a pulmonary embolism. The men's death certificates, made public earlier this week, showed that one captive, known only as Dilawar, 22, from the Khost region, died from "blunt force injuries to lower extremities complicating coronary artery disease" while another captive, Mullah Habibullah, 30, suffered from blood clot in the lung that was exacerbated by a "blunt force injury". US officials previously admitted using "stress and duress" on prisoners including sleep deprivation, denial of medication for battle injuries, forcing them to stand or kneel for hours on end with hoods on, subjecting them to loud noises and sudden flashes of light and engaging in culturally humiliating practices such as having them kicked by female officers. While the US claims this still constitutes "humane" treatment, human rights groups including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have denounced it as torture as defined by international treaty. The US has also come under heavy criticism for its reported policy of handing suspects over to countries such as Jordan, Egypt or Morocco, where torture techniques are an established part of the security apparatus. Legally, Human Rights Watch says, there is no distinction between using torture directly and subcontracting it out. Some American politicians have argued that torture could be justified in this case if it helped prevent terror attacks on US citizens. Jonathan Turley, a prominent law professor at George Washington University, countered that embracing torture would be "suicide for a nation once viewed as the very embodiment of human rights". Torture is part of a long list of concerns about the Bush administration's respect for international law, after the extrajudicial killing of al-Qa'ida suspects by an unmanned drone in Yemen and the the indefinite detention of "enemy combatants" at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a number of whom have committed or attempted to commit suicide. President Bush appeared to encourage extra-judicial solutions in his State of the Union address in January when he talked of al-Qa'ida members being arrested or meeting "a different fate". "Let's put it this way," he said in a tone that appalled many, "they are no longer a problem to the United States and our friends and allies." Link: http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=384604
Fire in the belly of this Architect.
"I am a retired architect who at 72 is up to his eyeballs in fighting American fascism," says the voice on the answering machine. "I've been in a state of shock and semi-coma since November 2000, when five uninvestigated crooks on the Supreme Court stopped a recount in Florida where I think Gore won and put the most incompetent, wrong-winged know-nothing schmuck in the White House that I have ever seen in my entire life. Even for America, this act of fascism was incredible. "Of course," he continues, "you know as well as I do that the economy is a wreck, he is destroying the environment, he took $179 billion out of environmental legislation the first month he was in office then he proceeded to do all kinds of things like coming out against affirmative action. This guy is a dick-brained fascist moron from Texas who should be sent back down to Texas." OK. But then the architect takes a dark turn. "Tell me if you know anything that I don't know about what the hell in God's name we can do to stop this son of a bitch," he says. "I have been thinking about getting a gun, going down there and killing him and saying I've done this on behalf of the American people and I am doing it in self-defense and in their defense. That's it, Bush. Pop pop, one for him, one for Cheney."
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Netonomics.
David Isenberg and Dave Weinberger wrote a manifesto called The Paradox of the Best Network. They suggest that private markets will not provide the best communications network. They say that the best communications network is a "stupid" network, meaning one that is not designed optimally for any particular application, such as voice or television. Like the Internet, the network moves packets of information, and leaves it to the devices on the edge of the network to interpret the packets. Isenberg and Weinberger argue that it is not in the interest of incumbent communications firms (phone companies, cable companies) to provide the best network. Arguably, building the best network is a Public Good. It will boost the economy, open global markets, and make us better informed citizens, customers and business people. So, perhaps we should let the government do it. Perhaps we should insist that the government do it. But governments tend to make mistakes. Big governments tend to make big, costly, persistent mistakes. We do not want government to lock us into particular technologies or certain ways of doing things, no matter if they seem to be the most promising technologies and methods today. ...we are stuck between the Scylla of big government and the Charybdis of free market dynamics. We need to find wise ways to proceed. If we dont, telephone company lobbyists will write the next chapters of the communications story. In my view, Isenberg and Weinberger have made a case that the best network would be good for the public. However, they have not made the case that the best communication network is a public good, in the economic sense of the term. In economics, a public good is a good which can be enjoyed by people who do not pay for it. As a result, the tendency will be for that good to be under-supplied. Charging people for Internet connectivity is not a problem. Andrew Odlyzko pointed out in Content is not King that people in fact pay more for connectivity than for content. I do not buy the public good argument. I am more sympathetic to the argument that the government has granted monopoly franchises unwisely. Local phone companies are monopolies. Cable companies are monopolies. Spectrum is parceled out to monopolies. Each of these monopolies was chartered to provide a specific service. The monopoly charters run directly counter to the ideal of the stupid network. The challenge for government is how to undo the past granting of monopoly charters. · Do you tell the monopolies that they are now free to offer pure connectivity? So far, the government seems to say "yes" to telephone and cable companies but "no" to most spectrum owners, particularly broadcasters. Would changing the charters provide sufficient market stimulus to get the current monopolies to head toward the most efficient solution for providing pure connectivity? · Instead, do you confiscate the assets of the monopolies, such as the phone companies' wires and the broadcasters' spectrum licenses, and make these assets available to any company that wants to use them for pure connectivity? If you confiscate assets, how much compensation, if any, do you offer existing owners? In my view, the "public good" argument is misleading. The policy issue is what to do about the legacy of monopoly charters that were granted for specific services. Discussion Question. It also is argued that connecting certain classes of people to the Internet (rural residents, or poor people) is a public good. Is this valid, given the economic definition of public goods? http://arnoldkling.com/gqe/arch8.html
Re: Fw: Drunk driver detector that radios police
On Fri, 7 Mar 2003 Sycophantic Fascist Troll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> farted: > You seem to be such a hopeless case that I don't even know where to start. Oh, but I do know where you could start! Leaving this list would be a great start, but in your case, I'd recomend that you get totally drunk and then go for a nice long drive on the same tracks facing the business end of an oncoming freight train. Either that, or have yourself lobotomized - oh wait, from your comments I see you've already been snipped, and are now a worthless mouthpiece tool of the man. > Your vulgarity alone gives paints a pretty good picture of you. If you > prefer to carry on like an immature grade-school kid, I'll be ignoring you. Oh horrors! I've managed to piss off a pussified busy-body boot licking ass whore who values the false security of prison fasicsm over freedom. Oh woe is me, whatever shall I do, I'm being ignored by a brain washed sheep! My vulgrarity pales in comparison to the real damage you and your kind of spineless smiley glad hand fascists do to our freedoms. > Let me know when you want to have an actual conversation with viable content > instead of scraping the bottom of the vocabulary barrel. That's great! How about the day that you figure out that liberty and privacy are far more valuable than netting few drunk driving morons that are going to be eliminted from the gene pool anyway? Please, do tell us which day that will be, so I can mark my calendar. Meanwhile, go find yourself a nice anti-American dictatorship to expatriate yourself out to. You'd fit right in, slimeboy. And whatever you do, DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT procreate! You're a prime candidate for a Darwin Award, don't forfeit your reward by having kids. They'd only rat you out to the man, and all they'd get for their troubles would be a lousy D.A.R.E T-shirt. --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :NSA got $20Bil/year |Passwords are like underwear. You don't /|\ \|/ :and didn't stop 9-11|share them, you don't hang them on your/\|/\ <--*-->:Instead of rewarding|monitor, or under your keyboard, you \/|\/ /|\ :their failures, we |don't email them, or put them on a web \|/ + v + :should get refunds! |site, and you must change them very often. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sunder.net
Stop me before I blog again!
Is the Universe a computer?: I don't understand it, but I'm pretty sure people are drawing some false analogies from it. Pardon me while I make a bigger fool of myself than usual. In fact, I'd like to make fool of myself in two stages. First, I want to tell you what I don't understand, in the process getting much wrong. Then I want to tell you what worries me about the topic I don't understand and am wrong about. Sound like fun? Here goes! The universe is a computer. So suggests Stephen Wolfram and others... The "You First" digital ID pledge: Can we as customers get vendors to agree not to hurt us? My worry about digital ID is that even with the most user-centered technology users inevitably will be faced with a Hobson's choice: Vendors will insist that we give them more than we want to in order to do business with them. So, we need more than technology that gives us control. We need a marketplace that lets us exercise that control... Bloogle: Google's acquisition of Blogger.com puts it in a position to do Good or Evil. Now we see what Google is made of. Google got to be the #1 brand name world-wide, beating Coke and Osama not by out-spending them or by having a catchier jingle. No, they did it the way (frankly) Cluetrain said: by having value and values... FROM http://www.hyperorg.com/
Call for the immediate obsolescence of the vertically integrated.
Let Telcos Fail Fast Letter to Chairman Cites "Natural Process" Washington, DC, October 21, 2002 - An influential group of Internet analysts and business executives today urged the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to let failing telecom companies fail, and "fail fast." The 44 signatories, led by independent telecommunications analyst David Isenberg, said in a letter to FCC Chairman Michael Powell that Internet-based technologies are subsuming the value embodied in the traditional telecommunications networks. According to the group, "This is causing the immediate obsolescence of the vertically integrated, circuit-based telephony industry of 126 years vintage. [Telephone company] bonds used to purchase now-obsolete infrastructure assets have become (or are inexorably becoming) bad debt." The group urges the FCC to resist telephone company pressure tactics to prop up businesses that technological progress has made obsolete, in order that advances in newer, better forms of communication not be stifled. Calling the current telecom troubles "not a disaster, but a natural event," the letter says a "revolution in productivity and human benefit as big as the agricultural and industrial revolution" could result. "Too many business analysts are talking about bubbles and over-leveraged balance sheets as the root cause of current telecom troubles," said Isenberg, commenting on the letter. "This confuses the symptoms with the disease. These things are just symptoms of the fact that Internet technology has made phone companies obsolete. If the government tries to treat the symptoms, the American economy will actually stay sick longer than if the natural process is allowed to run its course." The proper course, according to Isenberg, is to write down all circuit-based telephone assets to reflect their obsolete value, and re-capitalize the industry with as little government intervention as possible. "People will continue to use the existing telephone network for years to come, just as people still rode in horse-drawn carriages for years after the automobile was invented. But the government never subsidized buggy whip makers, and it should not subsidize telcos now." MORE ON... http://netparadox.com/fccletter_press.html
White collar psychopaths paradox philosophy.
Joe liked to persuade people that life was best lived and business best done according to what he called "paradox" philosophy. It was a combination of situation and utilitarian ethics: the ends justified the means, and one should do whatever had to be done to benefit oneself. From different perspectives, the same item or situation can have contradictory qualities: White is black and black is white. Everything depends on how you look at it. As long as there was a payoff, one could reconcile oneself to doing anything. Anything. The core group of "boys," as they called themselves, prepared a presentation in 1983 to give to 30 prospective members, in which Joe outlined how the club would be formed. Sue Horton points out that he took his central tenets from science fiction: People would operate in "cells" comprised of a small number of members, and a "nexus" for communication. They would propose "shapes," or monetary projects, for approval by the whole club, and the shape would have an "output." The club itself was to be run by specific levels of personnel, and the three founders were to be called "Shadings." A Shading - someone who operated in a shaded realm between black and white - was eligible for leadership because he was the one who best understood paradox philosophy and who was committed to protecting it by doing whatever needed to be done. Shadings would be judges in the Paradox Court, and they would resolve all internal disputes. As Joe put together his company and brought in more membersalways young men from families of wealth or breeding - he gave them a test, which was later described in court as the following: "Would you murder someone, if you knew you could get away with it, for a million dollars?" "No." "Would you do it if it were a matter of saving your life?" "No." "Would you murder someone if you had to do it to save your mother?" "Well yes." "Then you can't claim that you have a line you won't cross." If there were no moral absolutes, as Joe contended, then it was just a matter of believing sufficiently in the situation to take the necessary action. MORE ON... http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/young/joe_hunt/3.html
The madness of king Mongo.
If people didn't leave my property when told to, and the actual police would not expel them, then I would consider it morally justified to start shooing those 150 bitches. Sometimes people don't understand anything except bullets. My defense would be that it was my property, they were trespassing, and the police refused to do their job. Frankly, many of you on this list really need to be doused with gasoline and then lit. I'm ashamed to be on the same list with you statists and fascists. The Eurotrash nitwits are the worst. It's as if they were born in Communist countries and never shook their early training...which, come to think of it, is probably likely. --Tim May <<< Another classic,like the offer to chainsaw green activists locked together in a logging companies office.Mongo is more statist than many on this list AND is clearly a self admitted fascist,propertarian division.Another example of his joining with his old snitch buddy Reagan in overdue runaway senility.At least RR has Nancy to wipe his ass.
What is the plot of a self-help book which has no pages or words?
Koans of the Zen Librarian - http://homepage.interaccess.com/~smitters/lafnlibn/koans.htm "The Zen Librarian meditated for ten years on this question: What is the plot of a self-help book which has no pages or words?..." Zen Puzzle Page - http://www.phys.psu.edu/~endwar/izen/zpp.html An entertaining collection of "puzzles" inspired by Zen. Consider them pop-culture koans. Master Zen-Dao Meow - http://www.masterzdm.com/ Zen-influenced comic strip. Zen Jokes - http://www.serve.com/cmtan/buddhism/Lighter/funny.qna.html The Zen Happy Pages - http://qualteam.tripod.com/thezenhappypages/ Musings of a Newfoundland Zen-Cod Master who makes dukkha funny: "The journey of a thousand miles begins with a broken fan belt and a flat tire." MORE ON... http://directory.google.com/Top/Society/Religion_and_Spirituality/Buddhism/Lineages/Zen/Humor/
Parrondo's paradox.
As long as various Mongo's continue to assert that narrow self-interest is the sole motivator of rational behavior, thoughtful cypherpunks may not take this issue and the related economic analysis seriously. ...So we must fly a rebel flag As others did before us, And we must sing a rebel song And join in rebel chorus. We'll make the tyrants feel the sting O'those that they would throttle; They needn't say the fault is ours If blood should stain the wattle It seems somewhat ridiculous to talk of revolution . . . But everything else is even more ridiculous, since it implies accepting the existing order in one way or another. Situationist International #1 By SANDRA BLAKESLEE Spanish physicist has discovered what appears to be a new law of nature that may help explain, among other things, how life arose out of a primordial soup, why President Clinton's popularity rose after he was caught in a sex scandal, and why investing in losing stocks can sometimes lead to greater capital gains. Unfortunately, these tactics won't work at the casino. Called Parrondo's paradox, the law states that two games guaranteed to make a player lose all his money will generate a winning streak if played alternately. Named after its discoverer, Dr. Juan Parrondo, who teaches physics at the Complutense University in Madrid, the newly discovered paradox is inspired by the mechanical properties of ratchets -- the familiar saw-tooth tools used to lift automobiles and run self-winding wristwatches. By translating the properties of a ratchet into game theory -- a relatively new scientific discipline that seeks to extract rules of nature from the gains and losses observed in games -- Dr. Parrondo discovered that two losing games could combine to increase one's wealth. "The importance of the paradox in real life remains to be seen," said Dr. Charles Doering, a mathematician at the University of Michigan, who is familiar with the research. "It gives us a new and unexpected view of a variety of phenomena," he said, "and who knows? Sometimes finding that one piece of the puzzle makes the whole picture suddenly clear." Dr. Derek Abbott, director of the Center for Biomedical Engineering at the University of Adelaide in Australia, said that many scientists were intrigued by the paradox and had begun applying it to engineering, population dynamics, financial risk and other disciplines. Dr. Abbott and a colleague at his center, Dr. Gregory Harmer, recently carried out experiments to verify and explain how Parrondo's paradox works. Their research is described in the Dec. 23 issue of Nature. The paradox is illustrated by two games played with coins weighted on one side so that they will not fall evenly by chance to heads or tails. In game A, a player tosses a single loaded coin and bets on each throw. The probability of winning is less than half. In game B, a player tosses one of two loaded coins with a simple rule added. He plays Coin 1 if his money is a multiple of a particular whole number, like three. If his money cannot be divided by the number three, he plays the Coin 2. In this setup, the second will be played more often than the first. Both are loaded, one to lose badly and one to win slightly, with the upshot being that anyone playing this game will eventually lose all his money. "Sure enough," Dr. Abbott said, when a person plays either game 100 times, all money taken to the gambling table is lost. But when the games are alternated -- playing A twice and B twice for 100 times -- money is not lost. It accumulates into big winnings. Even more surprising, he said, when game A and B are played randomly, with no order in the alternating sequence, winnings also go up and up. This is Parrondo's paradox. Switching between the two games creates a ratchet-like effect. With its saw-tooth shape, a ratchet allows movement in one direction and blocks it in the other. "You see ratchets everywhere in life," Dr. Abbott said. "Any child knows that when you shake a bag of mixed nuts, the Brazil nuts rise to the top. This is because smaller nuts block downward movement of larger nuts." This trapping of heavier objects -- moving them upward when one would expect them to fall down -- is the essence of a ratchet. The same is true for particles that tend to move randomly within cells but can be captured, or ratcheted, into performing useful work. This is how many proteins and enzymes are designed, Dr. Abbott said. Sharing an interest in microscopic ratchets, Dr. Abbott and Dr. Parrondo met in a coffee shop in Madrid in 1997 to discuss the phenomenon. They started to wonder what might happen with a so-called flashing ratchet. First, they imagined two tilted slopes that could be laid on top of each other or held apart. One is smooth and s
Re: Using time-domain reflectometry to detect tamper attempts on telecom cables
> But getting the bits from under the ocean somewhere back to > Fort Meade without being detected must be more interesting. Can't they hire their own fiber in the cable, splice it, and feed the preprocessed data in there? > It probably is true that the right wavelength laser will > penatrate water for some limited distance so a link could be set up from > a bouy near but below the surface to a sensitive telescope in earth > orbit. I heard copper vapor lasers would do, that they are used for eg. intersubmarine communication. But can't confirm nor deny this. > ...as there was no overlap of traffic on multiple wires. What techniques are used to pick the data from the mix of the signals from the cables with more wires? > Doing this for a sonet ring carrying 10 gbs or so as some > undersea cables now do seems rather challenging - at the very least > how one would follow changes in channel allocations and traffic loading > would seem very problematic. And intercepts that are weeks or months > old would be very much less interesting in most cases than near real > time intercepts - particularly of targets like terrorists. It's being said that NSA is losing its grip on communications, to their great joy. It must make them mad. Hee! :) ...maybe the era is coming when even the US will be forced to play fair?
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Terrible Nightclub Fire in the Baghdad Hooters.
Geraldo reports... Anyone who believes the attack on Iraq is about defending the U.S. against terrorism should listen to veteran FBI agent Coleen Rowley. Rowley, you'll recall, caused a sensation when her testimony in front of Congress fingered higher-ups in the Bureau who inexplicably obstructed and effectively derailed the anti-terrorist effort in the crucial days prior to 9/11: she wrote a letter to the FBI's top brass that exposed the near-criminal incompetence of her superiors and set off a firestorm of recriminations that has yet to abate. Now she has written another letter, pointing out that the problems she identified back then have gotten worse: "In June, 2002, on the eve of my testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee, you told me that you appreciate constructive criticism and that FBI agents should feel free to voice serious concerns they may have about senior-level FBI actions. Since then I have availed myself twice of your stated openness. "At this critical point in our country's history I have decided to try once again, on an issue of even more consequence for the internal security posture of our country. That posture has been weakened by the diversion of attention from al-Qaeda to our government's plan to invade Iraq, a step that will, in all likelihood, bring an exponential increase in the terrorist threat to the U.S., both at home and abroad." The capture (by Pakistan) of Bin Laden's reputed second in command has led some to argue that the U.S. government can walk and chew gum at the same time, but the sudden elevation of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed from number 22 to number 2 in the terrorist hierarchy strikes many as suspicious. In any event, Rowley's accusations, this time around, are devastating, not only to the FBI high command but to the War Party. She writes: "What is the FBI's evidence with respect to a connection between al-Qaeda and Iraq? Polls show that Americans are completely confused about who was responsible for the suicidal attacks on 9-11 with many blaming Iraq. And it is clear that this impression has been fostered by many in the Administration." The government's war propaganda is actively undermining the FBI's effort to identify and root out terrorism in this country. Rowley points to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's contention that the Saddam-Osama connection is certain, counterposing it to Brent Scowcroft's skepticism, and asks: which is it? "The answer to this is of key importance in determining whether war against Iraq makes any sense from the FBI's internal security point of view. If the FBI does have independent data verifying such a connection, it would seem such information should be shared, at least internally within the FBI." Could it be because such a connection doesn't exist? Americans ought to be shocked by Rowley's revelation that the FBI has yet to interview Zacarias Moussaoui, the man she was prevented from investigating, who has since been shown to have a direct connection to the events of 9/11. The "shoe bomber" Richard Reid has also, somehow, escaped extensive interrogation. What's up with that? It's a matter of priorities, says Rowley: and apparently the chief priority of the U.S. government is not preventing future terrorist attacks on American soil, but prosecuting a diversionary war against the wrong enemy. Rowley shows that the break with our longtime closest allies hurts the war on terrorism, since the great majority of Al Qaeda operatives are based in Europe, and makes the cogent point that it was the French, after all, who fingered Moussaoui. She also exposes the mass round-up and detention of thousands of Arabs as largely a political ploy: "After 9/11, Headquarters encouraged more and more detentions for what seem to be essentially PR purposes. Field offices were required to report daily the number of detentions in order to supply grist for statements on our progress in fighting terrorism." Particularly striking is Rowley's analogy likening the attack on Iraq to the FBI's assault on the Branch Davidians at Waco. Like Saddam Hussein, David Koresh was demonized by government officials and the media in preparation for the strike: like Iraq, the Davidian "compound" was said to be the source of a weapons cache; like the Iraqi dictator, the Davidian guru was said to be abusing his own people (according to Janet Reno, he was sexually abusing the cult's children). Much of the case against Koresh and his followers was debunked after the siege incinerated those children, and the FBI, says Rowley, has learned its lesson from the Waco disaster but the U.S. government has failed to apply this lesson to the foreign policy realm: "We learned some lessons from this unfortunate episode and quickly explored better ways to deal with such challenges. As a direct result of that exploration, many subsequent criminal/terrorist 'standoffs' in which the FBI has been involved have been resolved peacefully and effectively. I would suggest that present circumstances
Bad Sectors.
GOOD WARS: The Self-Fulfilling Prophecies of Statists by Russell Madden Consider the following situation. Suppose there is an average Joe. He goes to the dog pound and picks out a relatively placid canine as his pet. He takes the dog home and installs it in his back yard. Over time, he feeds and waters the dog, provides it with a reasonably comfortable house, gives it toys to play with, and generally teaches it to obey him. Then Joe's play gets a bit rougher. He teases the dog, yells at it, and removes some of the dog's favorite toys. Next, he chains the dog to a stake and starts prodding and poking the dog with sticks. He yells at the dog and torments the beast until it barks and strains at its leash, eager to attack its master. One morning, while the dog is sleeping, Joe slips off the leash. He wakens the dog, then works his once-docile pet into a frothing-at-the-mouth frenzy. He opens the gate in the fence as a group of strangers walk past. He steps behind a concealing tree as the dog leaps free onto the sidewalk. The dog spots the bystanders and tears into them, ripping and scratching and biting at the now-screaming men, women, and children. Shouting in alarm, Joe jumps into the open and, smiling, uses a club, beats the dog into submission, and breaks its bones as he renders the animal unconscious. Joe goes up to the bleeding and crying victims of the dog-attack. "This is horrible," he says. "I'm glad I was nearby to save you from this thoroughly evil and vicious dog. What a nasty creature. I'm sure you'll want to thank me for saving you. It looks like the dog may die, but he brought this on himself by attacking you. I had no choice but to do what I did." ... Now. Joe did save these people from a very real and immediate threat. Should the victims of the dog attack thank Joe? Should they admire him and sing his praises for his compassion and bravery? Should we evaluate his actions as moral and justified? No? No. In its short, two-and-a-quarter centuries of existence, the United States has been involved in over forty armed conflicts and wars. (See the list at the end of this article.) Nearly every single one of those wars, large and small, has been thought of by someone as a "good" war, i.e., that it was justified and necessary. The ultimate "good" war of modern times, of course, was World War II. Even to suggest that the people of these United States should not have been involved in this wasteful conflict is to elicit a firestorm of protest: Hitler! Pearl Harbor! Hitler! Jews! Hitler! England! Pearl Harbor! Hitler! The mere mention of "Hitler" and "Pearl Harbor" is designed to intimate any heretic into remorseful and shameful silence. The backers of World War II as a "good" war are "sickened" by any doubts as to the moral worth of America's four-year military involvement in Europe and the Pacific. Hmm. Economists long ago demonstrated that State interference in the marketplace degrades the situation that the initial intervention was nominally intended to correct. Then the new, worse conditions brought about by the State's own actions are used as an excuse for even more interference, while the original causes are buried in the muck of State-approved and -disseminated history. This downward spiral continues until something like a massive depression breaks the cycle. The State then might brazenly claim responsibility for any improvement that arises even though it had nothing to do with the change for the better. Throughout the entire process, the State claims moral rectitude and expects the gratitude of those whose lives it has helped ruin. This same shameless routine is evident in regard to most of the wars and conflicts that have embroiled the United States. The number of truly justified conflicts could probably be counted on one hand: the Revolutionary War, the War with the Barbary Pirates, the War of 1812, perhaps the Texas War for Independence. But most assuredly not the big ones always held aloft as sterling examples of "good" wars: the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, World War I, or World War II. The Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Gulf War, and other modern conflicts are even farther back in the pack. Statists screw things up, create a danger, then use the danger they helped spawn to justify even more wars that generate still more problems that lead to additional wars. This applies whether the "wars" are against foreigners or the American people themselves. The Drug War, the War on Poverty, the War on Whatever, these State-initiated and -sponsored conflicts destroy neighborhoods, obliterate individual lives, inflict massive financial costs on the citizenry, weaken freedom...and are used to drive the stakes ever deeper into our hearts, all the while making the problems of drug addicts, poor people, and whatever worse than they were in the beginning. The ultimate moral inversion: failure as the definition of success
Fatal Error.
I have twice seen the same film clip on CBS news: an Iraqi citizen buying what looks like a machine gun (Kalashnikov), and another citizen trying out a semi-automatic pistols slide action. Both times, the voice-over warned of Iraqis preparing to defend themselves. Nobody mentions the obvious: unless the film clip was staged, Saddam Hussein lets Iraqis buy guns and ammo. This testifies against the theory that Saddam fears an organized uprising. If he fears assassination his supposed use of look-alikes in public he doesnt fear it enough to impose complete gun control. He claims that he has no weapons of mass destruction. In a recent article posted on the generally hawkish World Net Daily, physicist Gordon Prather cites long-suppressed evidence from a top Iraqi defector that there are no WMD in Iraq. The defector was General Hussein Kamal. He was Saddam Husseins son-in-law. He was assassinated when he later returned to Iraq. Separately, Kamal was interviewed by Rolf Ekeus, chairman of the U.N. Special Commission on Iraq and Chief Inspector Maurizio Zifferero of the International Atomic Energy Action Team, both established by the U.N. Security Council to implement UNSC disarmament resolutions. Newsweek has obtained the U.N. document, verified its authenticity and reports in its current issue that Kamal told the same story to the CIA and to the Brits. Immediately after the Gulf War ceasefire, but before the U.N. inspectors had arrived in Iraq, Kamal said he ordered the destruction of all chemical and biological weapons stocks and the missiles to deliver them. . . . The UNSCOM-IAEA inspectors and hence all U.N. Security Council members have known for at least four years that, as best the U.N. inspectors could subsequently discover, Kamal did tell the truth, when, in response to the question posed by UNSCOM inspector Nikita Smidovich: Smidovich: Were weapons and agents destroyed? Kamal: Nothing remained. Smidovich: Was it before or after inspections started? Kamal: After visits of inspection teams. You have an important role in Iraq with this. You should not underestimate yourself. You are very effective in Iraq. So, according to Kamal, himself, not only were all chembio "weapons and agents destroyed", but U.N. inspectors had been "very effective" in ferreting out what the Iraqis had done. This information was kept secret until Newsweek published it on February 24 of this year. You might think that this story would have been front-page news in every newspaper in the world. It wasnt. As I have repeatedly said, the coming war in Iraq isnt about al-Qaeda. Its also not about weapons of mass destruction. Its about the control of the price of oil at the margin and placing U.S. troops in the Middle East to keep the pipelines open. If Iraq has no WMD, then the invasion should be a cakewalk. But there is a wild card: the willingness and the ability of Iraqis to defend themselves from attack, house by house. Urban warfare is no picnic if the residents are willing to die, taking an invading soldier with them, one by one. (Unless, of course, the invader uses gas.) This raises the issue of the distribution of guns in Iraq. HITLERS GUN CONTROL LAW OF 1938 The medias talking heads constantly cite the governments accusation that Saddam is another Hitler. In one crucial sense, he is nothing like Hitler. Nazi Germanys 1938 gun control law was signed into law on March 18, 1938. The following information is posted on the Web site of Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership, a pro-Second Amendment organization. If you want to know why there are Jewish supporters of this organization, which has been around a long time, read the following. You may be amazed. Until 1943-44, the German government published its laws and regulations in the Reichsgesetzblatt, roughly the equivalent of the U.S. Federal Register. Carefully shelved by law librarians, the 1938 issues of this German government publication had gathered a lot of dust. In the Reichsgesetzblatt issue for the week of March 21, 1938, was the official text of the Weapons Law (March 18, 1938). It gave Hitlers Nazi party a stranglehold on the Germans, many of whom did not support the Nazis. We found that the Nazis did not invent "gun control" in Germany. The Nazis inherited gun control and then perfected it: they invented handgun control. The Nazi Weapons Law of 1938 replaced a Law on Firearms and Ammunition of April 13, 1928. The 1928 law was enacted by a center-right, freely elected German government that wanted to curb "gang activity," violent street fights between Nazi party and Communist party thugs. All firearm owners and their firearms had to be registered. Sound familiar? "Gun control" did not save democracy in Germany. It helped to make sure that the toughest criminals, the Nazis, prevailed. The Nazis inherited lists of firearm owners and their firearms when they lawfully
Re: AmeriKKKa Tortures Detainees to Death
> Our much vaunted 'free-press' has turned into administration lapdogs. Sad development. >From Pentagon Papers to Pentagon's Papers. For some interesting articles see: How the mass slaughter of Iraqi (Gulf War 1) went unreported http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,894708,00.html Clips from Afghan Massacre http://tv.oneworld.net/tapestry?story=584&window=full How the media has downplayed opposition to war on Iraq http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20030225/4894862s.htm AP headlines millions of protesters out of existence, BBC tells the truth http://www.thememoryhole.com/media/protest-headlines.htm Court overturns jury award to an ex-reporter, implies media can lie http://news.tbo.com/news/MGABC55E8CD.html How the news will be censored this war http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=381438 Pentagon ground rules may limit reporting http://www.editorandpublisher.com/editorandpublisher/headlines/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1822054 Pentagon's Recipe for Propaganda http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=15220 Antiwar ads refused by media http://www.msnbc.com/news/872684.asp?0cv=KB20&cp1=1 Bush cites report that doesn't exist http://www.newsday.com/business/printedition/ny-e3142018feb23,0,2678986.story ...and that's only few I got by a single visit to thememoryhole.org The question stays, what we can do with it (except keeping ourselves informed)?
The CIA liked Snowball.
The cartoon that came in from the cold Article about the CIA's financing of the 1954 animated film version of George Orwell's Animal Farm ( Karl Cohen via Guardian ) » See also this longer version of the above article, and this NY Times article from 2000 http://www.hullocentral.demon.co.uk/site/anfin.htm
The US Empires 15 minutes of Fame.
Suez 2. The Short-Lived American Empire Just over two thousand years ago, when the Roman republic turned itself into an empire and extended the 'pax romana' over most of the known world -- western Europe, the Mediterranean and the Middle East, plus the great reservoir of barbarian tribes in eastern Europe and central Asia -- Rome exercised direct control over about half the total population, and was able to tax them and raise troops from them. So the Roman empire lasted over four hundred years. Many people in Washington now talk openly of turning the American republic into an imperial power that enforces a 'pax americana' around the planet, but the United States has only 4 percent of the planet's population, and its people are equally averse to high taxes and US casualties. The demand for US troops and money will rapidly outrun the supply, so the American empire will last about twenty minutes -- but it may be a hectic and painful twenty minutes. The dream of American empire has attracted American neo-conservatives for decades, but it gained a much broader following after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. The only apparent constraint on US power had been removed, and the idea that the world will be a safer place if it is governed by multilateral organisations under the rule of law began to give way to the fantasy that the United States can and should make the world a safer place (particularly for American interests) by the unilateral exercise of its own immense power. Official Washington was starting to oppose any new international rules that might act as a brake on the free exercise of US power even in Bill Clinton's administration. It was Clinton, not George W. Bush, who fought an international ban on land mines and tried to sabotage the new International Criminal Court. President Bush's cancellation of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, the US veto on new provisions for intrusive inspections under the Chemical Weapons Convention, and Washington's more recent rejection of similar attempts to write some provisions for enforcement into the Biological Weapons Treaty simply follow in the same path. As Boston University professor and retired US army officer Andrew Bacevich wrote in a recent edition of 'The National Interest', "In all of American public life, there is hardly a single prominent figure who finds fault with the notion of the United States remaining the world's sole military superpower until the end of time." This is called hubris, and it is generally followed by nemesis. That will probably arrive during the next phase of the fantasy: the wildly ambitious project to make the conquest of Iraq the cornerstone for a wholesale restructuring of the Arab world along American lines. "America has made and kept this kind of commitment before, in the peace that followed a world war," said Mr. Bush late last month, comparing the project with the rebuilding of German and Japan after 1945. "We will remain in Iraq as long as necessary." You don't know whether to laugh or cry, but tears are probably more appropriate, for that is where this is all going to end. Iraq is no more like Germany than Saddam Hussein is like Adolf Hitler. Germany and Japan in 1945 were industrial states with strong national identities, several generations' experience of democracy, homogeneous populations, and fully professional bureaucracies. Iraq is an artificial state of competing ethnic identities with no democratic tradition and a deeply politicised, totally corrupt state apparatus dominated by a single ethno-religious minority. Never mind running the world or spreading democracy throughout the Middle East; merely occupying Iraq is likely to prove too heavy a burden for the US public to tolerate for very long. The Kurds in the north will try to keep the de facto independence they have enjoyed for the past ten years, and the Turkish army will move in to ensure that they don't set up an independent Kurdistan that would act as a beacon for Turkey's own huge Kurdish minority. The Iraqi Kurds will fight if the Turks invade, and America can either intervene in this no-win situation or leave the north of Iraq to another round of bloody fighting. The Shia Arab majority of Iraq's population, long excluded from power by the Sunni Arab minority, will also try to leave Iraq unless it gets the lion's share of power in Baghdad. That won't happen because the loyalties of Iraqi Shias lie with their co-religionists in Iran, and Washington will not allow a pro-Iranian government to emerge in Baghdad that would control Iraq's oil and menace Saudi Arabia's. So the US will end up running Iraq through the same Sunni Arab elite that Saddam Hussein's Baath party draws most of its members from, and as a result Shia militants will soon be attacking American occupation forces in southern Iraq. The Romans dealt with this sort of stuff all the time. In fact, they often had four or five situations like this going on in various parts of their empire at
The right to a fair procedure.
The Impact of Human Rights Speech by the UK's highest ranking judge, in which he takes the opportunity to reiterate his defence of the UK's Human Rights Act following criticism of the judiciary by the Home Secretary ( Lord Woolf via LCD ) » See also this Guardian coverage, and this article from The Lawyer » See also this Independent article indicating that the Blair government plans to make begging a criminal offence Only in America 'From a militant Christian point of view, America is close to rotten. The entertainment media are loose. Bare belly-buttons pop onto every TV screen, as open in their statement as wild animals' eyes. The kids are getting to the point where they can't read, but they sure can screw. So one perk for the White House, should America become an international military machine huge enough to conquer all adversaries, is that American sexual freedom, all that gay, feminist, lesbian, transvestite hullabaloo, will be seen as too much of a luxury and will be put back into the closet again. Commitment, patriotism, and dedication will become all-pervasive national values once more (with all the hypocrisy attendant). Once we become a twenty-first-century embodiment of the old Roman Empire, moral reform can stride right back into the picture' ( Norman Mailer via NYRB ) http://www.hullocentral.demon.co.uk/site/anfin.htm
Declan a criminal in the UK?
I'm not sure if this is just for meatspace... Government to outlaw begging By Andrew Grice, Political Editor 07 March 2003 Beggars will be handed criminal records, and fixed penalty fines will be imposed on antisocial children as young as 10, under plans to be announced next week. A White Paper leaked to The Independent includes measures to crack down on "nuisance neighbours, yobs, drunks, drug users and beggars" and to tackle problems from "dysfunctional" families. MORE ON... http://news.independent.co.uk/low_res/story.jsp?story=384601&host=3&dir=62
Re: Using time-domain reflectometry to detect tamper attempts on telecom cables
At 12:49 PM 3/7/03 -0600, Harmon Seaver wrote: > I'm sure I read about a way to do fiber, or that someone had developed a >device, that only involved removing a bit of the covering, not cutting into the >fiber at all. Evanescent waves. A *lot* easier to 0wn the landing points, and technicians with access thereof. And the telecom manufacturers.
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Re: Fw: Drunk driver detector that radios police
At 02:56 PM 3/7/03 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I'm not crazy about everything that the government does, but there are trade- >offs in a non-perfect society. One of them is monitoring the innocent to, in >turn, attempt to prevent the guilty from trampling over everything, Allah willing. Wrong compromise. See Franklin, B. >I'm pretty sure that your Jack-dipped cotton swab will fall under tampering and >intentional abuse of law enforcement resources, so you will pay your fine, then >come back here to complain about "the man" that is trying to take away your >world of lawlessness and accountability. You might have picked the wrong list. We analyze systems. And societies are systems too. We look at weaknesses from an adversary's viewpoint. We switch viewpoints faster than Kasparov. We are the rabbit, and the fox, and the dynamics. We argue about which cuts of the sacred cow are the tastiest. We believe such studies are interesting by themselves, and sometimes practical, for instance letting us strengthen these systems based on our reasoning and experimentation. We use the plural singular as agitprop and to piss Tim off. Security science, bub. You propose a (hysterical big brotheresque--is some friend red asphalt?) system, and we study it. You don't even have to ask us, just make us aware of it :-) >There are countries that are very differing in their laws and liberties. Yes, doncha just miss the Stasi? And what sharp uniforms!
Re: Give cheese to france?
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 11:20:39AM -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: > First of all, stating one perhaps should have the right to wear whatever > T-shirt you want in a mall The better way to frame the question: May a private property owner legally exclude people from it? Seems to me the answer should be, as a general rule, yes. -Declan
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