Hail To The Thief.

[professor rat]

Radiohead's sixth album, Hail to the Thief, will be released on June 10th. 
The album will be the band's first since 2001's Amnesiac.
Radiohead recorded the fourteen-track Hail in Oxfordshire, England, and Los 
Angeles. They produced the album with Nigel Godrich, a Radiohead 
collaborator since 1995's The Bends. Hail follows Radiohead's most 
experimental albums, Amnesiac and 2000's Kid A. Both records found the band 
exploring more abstract soundscapes, after the success of 1997's lavishly 
produced guitar-rock album, OK Computer.

The band has lined up a seven-date tour of the U.K. and Ireland to launch 
in Dublin on May 17th. A June 28th appearance at the Glastonbury Festival 
is also on the docket, with a North American tour set for the late 
summer/early fall.

Hail to the Thief track listing:

2+2=5
Sit Down. Stand Up
Stand to the Moon
Backdrifts
Go to Sleep
Where I End and You Begin
We Suck Young Blood
The Gloaming
There There
I Will
A Punch-Up at the Wedding
Myxamatosis
Scatterbrain
A Wolf at the Door
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/newsarticle.asp?nid=1

Are May and Hettinger our Pons and Fleischmann's?

[professor rat]

I just bring this apropos nothing really...except it does get a little 
annoying to hang around this list with Hettingers endless predictions of 
the end of the (financial) world while Mongo fussess around like a broody 
hen.All the while we are no closer to the 'cold fusion' hack simple enough 
to knock back spam.
This is the so called 'millicent ghetto',scorned by chowderhett and the 
Mong,the ghetto protected by millions of copyright cops in a scaled down 
simalacrum of the real  (Chaumian?) world protected by the Molochs of 
money,power and inertia.
This RIAA thang is no sideshow dontcha know...and Linux IS 'open source 
communism'
We don't need Cold Fusion so much as a Hot Revolution,ignorance is no excuse.
DAVID!
Why has thou forsaken us?

Iraq News Slam.

[professor rat]

US chief apologises for 'friendly fire' incidents
The chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Richard Myers, has 
apologised for "friendly fire" incidents in the Iraqi conflict.

Wounded British soldiers have described their anger at being attacked by a 
US warplane.

On Saturday, one member of the Royal Household cavalry was killed, and 
several injured when their unit came under fire from an American A-10 tank 
buster.

Survivors of that incident say the pilot was a cowboy and there was no 
excuse for him mistaking them for the enemy.

General Myers says every effort is made to avoid friendly fire accidents.

"I suppose in the middle of war, which is by nature a very chaotic event at 
certain times on the battle field that those things happen," he said.

The Australian Army has charged several members, including a sergeant, with 
drug abuse.

It comes after an extensive investigation by its military police division.

The Army's official newspaper has reported on the investigation, but does 
not reveal which soldiers are involved, where they are from and how many 
have been charged.

But it does quote a sergeant who is about to be discharged for using 
illegal substances, including steroids, cannabis and amphetamines.

The sergeant says steroid abuse is a lot more widespread within the 
infantry than in most other corps.

He also says there are a number of soldiers he has known over the years who 
have died as a result of drug abuse.

The US military says a man wearing civilian clothes has driven a truck into 
a group of US soldiers as they stood in line outside a store, injuring 15 
of them.

Soldiers nearby opened fire on the truck driver, who was described as being 
"a third country national", shooting him in the upper chest and shoulder.

"He is in critical condition after surgery," a military statement said.

One of the soldiers hit by the truck will have to be flown to Germany for 
treatment to an injured knee. The other 14 were only slightly hurt by the 
impact and have returned to duty.

The truck drove into the group of 5th Corps soldiers at around 1:00pm local 
time (8:00pm yesterday AEST) near Camp Udairi north of Kuwait City.

A worker in the camp told Reuters he had heard the sound of shooting and 
said the alleged attacker and an accomplice were whisked away in an ambulance.

Egyptian immigrant workers who had been working nearby were made to lie on 
the ground and were questioned.

Qatar-based satellite television Al Jazeera later interviewed Abdul Razzak 
Al Shayji, a spokesman for the radical Islamist Al Salafiah Movement in 
Kuwait, who said the driver worked at the US base and had had a "personal 
disagreement".

The attack was the first on a US military base in Kuwait since hand 
grenades were thrown into tents at a US camp earlier this month, killing 
two soldiers and wounding several.

A US soldier was arrested in connection with that incident.

Kuwait was the main launchpad for the March 20 invasion of neighbouring 
Iraq by US and British forces, and still hosts thousands of servicemen and 
women from both countries.

US-led forces are on high alert for this kind of attack after an Iraqi 
suicide bomber detonated a car bomb at a military checkpoint near the 
central Iraqi city of Najaf on Saturday, killing four soldiers.

Ethan Hunt confirmed dead in Sydney as Bruce Willis is sent back in time.

[professor rat]

Radical Islamic groups from countries neighbouring Iraq have started 
sending suicide bombers to help fight the coalition forces. The Arab 
television network, Al Jazeera, has broadcast pictures of Syrian holy 
fighters arriving in northern Iraq brandishing weapons and pictures of 
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
The Iraqi Vice President's threat to use suicide bombing as a military 
tactic has Australian warships in the Persian Gulf on the watch for 
"suicide speedboats".
Hows about SARS Martyr's ?
A fourth person has died in Canada from the pneumonia virus, Severe Acute 
Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). That brings worldwide fatalities from the 
virus to at least 55, most of them in Asia and most of those in southern 
China.
Australian researcher Aileen Plant is heading up the World Health 
Organisation's monitoring of the SARS outbreak in Vietnam. There have been 
58 cases of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) reported in Hanoi 
since late February.
Australia's Chief Medical Officer Richard Smallwood says overseas 
laboratories believe they now have a test for the deadly pneumonia sweeping 
Asia.
Professor Smallwood says the claims will have to be validated and a vaccine 
is still a long way off.

He says the risk of contracting the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome 
(SARS) is low, with a mortality rate of about three to 4 per cent compared 
with 30 per cent for smallpox.

At a national conference on communicable diseases in Canberra, Professor 
Smallwood says surgical masks can be effective but the disease is more 
difficult to catch than measles or the flu.
The Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad says a suicide bomb attack 
which injured almost 50 people yesterday is a gift to the people of Iraq.
Kagaa ratpox will be my gift to the whole world.

Government has banned the export of $US200,000 mass spectrometer.

[professor rat]

The federal government has banned the export of a scientific instrument
which won its Melbourne maker a top science award, citing fears the
device could be used to make weapons of mass destruction. 
Ron Grey was last week lauded with a prestigious Clunies Ross medal for
developing high-tech instruments used in a range of areas including the
treatment of cancer. 
Now it has emerged that the federal government has banned the export of
his $US200,000 mass spectrometer because of concerns it could be used to
make weapons of mass destruction. 
"What we're doing is we're stopping Australian industry and science
from growing ... and we're sacrificing it on some sort of political
expediency, which is not very smart," Mr Grey said. 
Mr Grey's Dandenong-based company, GBC
Scientific Equipment, makes spectrometers, instruments used to
identify substances by sorting through streams of charged particles.

They have applications in nuclear medicine, water analysis, agriculture,
environmental science and archaeology. 
The company has distributors in 85 countries and has exported more than
$250 million worth of instruments. 
His Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer can measure all elements in a sample
simultaneously, making it 10 times faster than existing technology. 

One of these was recently installed in an Iranian hospital for the
production of isotopes for radio-imaging and cancer treatment. 
But in a letter from Defence Minister Robert Hill earlier this month, Mr
Grey was informed his application to export another mass spectrometer to
the Amir Kabir University of Technology in Tehran, Iran, had been
rejected. 
The March 20 letter informed Mr Grey that "in the national interest
I have denied your application". 
Senator Hill said export of the spectrometer could be considered as
"dual-use technology" contributing to the proliferation of
weapons of mass destruction. 
"Australia is a member of numerous multilateral export control and
non-proliferation regimes where ... we fully support the common
objectives to control the proliferation of weapons of mass
destruction," Senator Hill wrote. 
Mr Grey said he was awaiting shipping permits for other countries around
the world, with about $2 million worth of sales held up. 
"I'm waiting for Defence to give me permits, which from what I've
seen, they may or may not do," he said. 
Professor Peter Cullis, of the Department of Applied Chemistry at RMIT in
Melbourne and head of the Mass Spec Society of Australia, said almost any
scientific weapon could be implicated in the production of weapons of
mass destruction under current export controls. 
"Such an all encompassing view would clearly ...act as a strong
impediment to trade in scientific instruments in general," Prof
Cullis said. 
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/03/31/1048962685236.html

Ratpox to the Rescue!

[professor rat]

Australia's Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Richard Smallwood says Australia is 
well prepared for potential biological and chemical threats.

At a communicable diseases conference in Canberra today, Professor 
Smallwood said government health authorities are coordinating with national 
security and emergency response agencies to deal with any potential threats.

He says we now face the possibility of the smallpox virus being released 
back into the world to confront a virtually non-immune population.

Professor Smallwood says Australia has 50,000 vaccinations, which will be 
substantially increased in the next two or three months.

"We do have smallpox vaccine here, again... there are response plans, 
national and those in various states and territories, so I think we're 
again well prepared should something like that occur," he said.

"The risk as we understand it is very small."
Hong Kong health authorities have ordered an entire housing block to be 
quarantined to prevent the spread of the mystery pneumonia known as Severe 
Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS).
There has been a large increase in the number of confirmed dengue fever 
cases in far north Queensland. Another 20 Cairns residents are confirmed 
with the potentially fatal mosquito-borne disease, bringing the count to 200.
Search on virulent and mousepox and Geelong...take pecillin you die soon.

When The FBI takes Your Laptop.

[professor rat]

Going cheap
By Darren Yates
March 29 2003
Icon
It's pretty hard to miss the big, glossy ads for shiny new desktop and 
notebook computers with their equally large price tags.

For many people, though, new features such as turbo-powered graphics cards 
and high-speed processors are the only way to play the latest 3-D games or 
edit home movies and make DVDs.

These users may have plenty of money but, at the end of the day, not 
everyone needs a $4000 PC to check their Hotmail account.

But there's a good question - how much do you really need to spend? $2000, 
$1500 or $750?

It's fair to say that for standard letter writing, bookkeeping, surfing the 
internet and checking your email, you don't need to spend anywhere near 
that much.
How does $220 grab you?

That's the price I found on a refurbished IBM 350MHz Pentium II computer 
with 15-inch monitor and 3GB hard-disk drive on eBay. But for that price, 
what sort of guarantee can you get? And what can you do if it stops working 
two hours after you've brought it home?

Second-hand computers can be a real goldmine for the bargain hunter, but 
they can be a world of trouble to the novice. The tricky thing here is the 
hard-disk drive.

Most hard-disk drives will run for at least five years but there are no 
guarantees and it depends as much on the amount of work it has done in the 
past, as well as how mechanically sound it is.

The best tip is to assume your computer's hard-disk drive will fail at some 
time, usually when you can least afford it.

Where to look

While online auction sites can be a great place to find bargains, tread 
carefully if you're looking for a computer.

First, you don't always get the full picture of what you're getting for 
your money - a small out-of-focus shot of a computer without an accurate 
description is as worthless as a tick on a dog.

Second, computers generally don't travel well through the mail and they 
sometimes struggle to survive a courier delivery in one piece.

And then when you receive it, what sort of warranty do you have? In the 
end, it can be very little if anything at all and getting your money back 
can be an arduous task.

But those low prices are very alluring so if eBay is still your favourite, 
choose a system that's local to you - that way, you may be able to arrange 
to pick it up in person.

There are other auction sites worth shopping at for bargains, too. 
Laptop.com.au has a range of notebook computers starting from $299 for a 
120MHz Toshiba Satellite Pro 430 and that includes a one-year warranty. 
Grays Online specialises in clearing ex-sale items direct from major 
vendors including Sharp and Dell. Dell in particular clears many computers 
here and these are recent premium desktops and notebooks that are mostly 
ex-demonstration models. At the time of writing, Dell had 56 lots available 
with $9 starting prices including a 1.8GHz Pentium 4 desktop (no monitor) 
for $334. Although this includes no warranty, you can purchase a warranty 
from Dell separately by giving the company the serial number of the product 
purchased.

AuctionTrader is a similar service to Grays Online but often deals in 
liquidation stock and operates from Collingwood, Victoria. Again, you have 
to register but there appear to be some real bargains; for example, a new 
Athlon XP 2000+ desktop PC with CD burner and everything except a monitor 
for $450. Check carefully whether the product carries a warranty - some do, 
some don't.

Other bargain zones

When you can, see the second-hand computer in person. And a great place for 
this is your local computer market.

Computer markets are popping up all over Australia - local computer 
retailers banding together with rows of trestle tables breathing new life 
into local shopping malls.

One is the Sunday Computer Market at Westfield Shoppingtown on North Rocks 
Road at North Rocks.

You'll not only find many new and second-hand parts but a number of 
second-hand systems.

There are also monthly computer fairs that are held around NSW including 
Parramatta, Wollongong and Newcastle.

Perhaps the largest of those takes place at the University of NSW's 
Roundhouse. The next UNSW markets will be held on April 13 and May 4.

These markets consist of small traders selling their wares at discounted 
prices.

They are run by Computer Fairs Australia.

If you're after cheap Apple computers, try Macs As New 
(www.macsasnew.com.au) - you'll find a range of ex-demo, second-hand and 
refurbished notebooks and desktops all with warranties. One offer at the 
time of writing was a 650MHz iMac with a modem and CD-ROM drive for $650 
with a three-month warranty.

If you're a university student, you could also check with your student 
council about when market days are held or other students who are ready to 
upgrade.

If you already have a spare monitor, you can often buy the computer system 
itself and save even more money.

With the number of ex-lease corporate, government and home PCs for sale

More Bombs,Bullets,Beans and Bits...the shit has hit the fan.

[professor rat]

The war in Iraq is the most digitally intensive conflict ever, with 
virtually every tank, plane, Humvee and - in many cases - bombs and 
missiles linked by satellite to sometimes distant combat control rooms.
The flood of data that orchestrates this gritty fight swamps amounts seen 
even just a year ago in Afghanistan, by far outstripping the relay capacity 
of Defence Department satellites.
To slake its growing thirst for bandwidth, the Pentagon has snapped up the 
services of commercial satellite companies. And its commanders are still 
not satisfied.
"When you are in combat, you want more of everything: You want more 
bullets, you want more beans, you want more bits," said Tim Bonds, an 
analyst at the Rand Corp.
More bandwidth means the ability to put more surveillance planes in the air 
to beam live video to the dispatchers of bombs and missiles. It also means 
uncongested conduits for encrypted conversations with battlefield units.
"We're very reliant on it," said army Captain John Morgan with the 22nd 
Mobile Public Affairs Attachment at Camp Doha, Kuwait. "What the capacity 
does is allow us to respond much more quickly to the situation on the 
ground, whether it's a downed aircraft or assessing what effect our ground 
operations are having."
When the army's 4th Infantry Division hits the ground - the unit was en 
route to the Persian Gulf today - bandwidth demand will jump further. It is 
the army's most technologically advanced division, with wireless 
connections between tanks and other ground vehicles that connect via 
satellite with commanders far to the rear.
The military by necessity must prioritise the communications it relays by 
satellite. What suffers? US commanders refused to discuss that.
"We don't want to tell the world what our capabilities and limitations are 
because that would help the enemy," Morgan said.
From the first Gulf War a dozen years ago, the Pentagon's demand for 
bandwidth has increased roughly tenfold, Air Force Space Command spokesman 
Michael Kucharek said.
Military satellites carry a smaller and smaller percentage of its 
communications traffic. Commercial providers ferry the bulk.
During the 1991 conflict, Pentagon and NATO satellites carried an estimated 
85 per cent of military communications. Not even a decade later, during the 
Kosovo crisis, the percentages flip-flopped, Bonds said.
That's about what it remains today.
The situation owes in part to the Pentagon's increased "comfort" in relying 
on commercial providers to carry encrypted military data, Bonds said. Among 
them are PanAmSat Corp, Intelsat Ltd and Inmarsat Ltd. And Paris-based 
Eutelsat SA recently won a Pentagon contract.
The military's increased use of commercial satellites comes at a time of 
significant excess capacity.
In recent years, the industry had scrambled to beef up its satellite fleet 
to accommodate projected growth in commercial need for bandwidth. That need 
largely failed to materialise after the dot-com crash.
The military has since taken up much of the slack: Since the September 11, 
2001 attacks, the US government has become the largest customer in the 
commercial satellite market, said Tom Eaton, executive vice president of 
sales and marketing for PanAmSat.
The Pentagon's use of commercial satellites will probably continue: 
Projections call for a five- or six-fold jump in military communications by 
2010, Bonds said.
Help will also come from advanced technology. But for now, the Pentagon is 
much like that PC user who craves a faster Internet connection to speed 
surfing and downloads.
http://theage.com.au/articles/2003/03/28/1048653840990.html

Time to Apply Pressure for a Ceasefire.

[professor rat]

Marines have found the bodies of four US servicemen in a shallow grave near 
the town of Nasiriyah.
US military officials said they believed Iraqi paramilitary forces executed 
the four after they were seized in an ambush last Sunday.
The military officials declined to speculate on whether the bodies were 
those of captured US soldiers shown alive by al-Jazeera television last 
weekend. The military had heard reports that the soldiers were executed 
after appearing on the Qatar-based network, but there had been no 
confirmation.
On Friday, marines found the four bodies in a freshly dug grave near a 
house in the north-east corner of Nasiriyah. An army official said the 
bodies were wearing US uniforms but confusion remained about which branch 
of the military they belonged to.
On Saturday a US forensic team and military investigators were flown to the 
site. Officers said the deaths were tentatively being treated as a war 
crime. The soldiers were among 10 Americans listed as missing in action 
since fighting began.
http://theage.com.au/articles/2003/03/30/1048962646023.html

UK Approval for Assassination Politics.

[professor rat]

The US has been studying the techniques used by Mi5 and the SAS in 
Ireland...their own skills were getting a little rusty.
British police and army officers colluded with loyalist paramilitaries to 
murder Irish republicans in the 1980s and 1990s, an official Government 
inquiry has concluded.
The 15-year investigation by Sir John Stevens, now head of Scotland Yard, 
has found that renegade officers ran an assassination policy under which 
personal details of suspected IRA members were passed to loyalist 
paramilitaries who then executed them.
Sir John is recommending a series of criminal charges, including conspiracy 
to murder, against 23 serving or former army and police officers, including 
one serving in Iraq.
The inquiry report, which will be published on April 17, relates to the 
activities of an army intelligence group, the Force Research Unit, in 
Belfast during the late 1980s and early 1990s. While Sir John concludes 
that assassinations were not sanctioned by Government ministers, he does 
say that there was an official policy among the FRU and police officers to 
pass details of senior republicans to paramilitary death squads.
The disclosure will be seized upon by nationalists and republicans who have 
always alleged that the army and former Royal Ulster Constabulary personnel 
carried out a policy of collusion with loyalist murderers in the province.
Among those murdered under the assassination policy was Pat Finucane, a 
Belfast solicitor who was shot in front of his wife and family in 1989.
Sir John's team believes that the renegade officers approved the murder of 
Mr Finucane, who was shot because of his suspected close links with the 
IRA. The army officers are also implicated in a 1987 plot to murder Alex 
Maskey, now Lord Mayor of Belfast, who was shot outside his home in west 
Belfast but survived.
Sir John's inquiry began in 1989 and followed an earlier investigation by 
John Stalker, the former deputy chief constable of Greater Manchester, into 
claims of an official "shoot to kill" policy run by the army.
Mr Stalker's inquiry was abandoned in May 1986 after he was falsely accused 
of corruption and disciplinary offences. Mr Stalker believes that his 
inquiry was sabotaged because of the facts he uncovered.
Sir John has questioned serving and former members of MI5 and Special 
Branch and has identified the Ulster Defence Association team involved in 
Mr Finucane's murder - including men who were working as double agents for 
military intelligence. Since 1989, Sir John's detectives have interviewed 
15,000 people, catalogued 4000 exhibits, taken 5640 statements and seized 
6000 documents.
The report also concludes that the army was responsible for burning down 
the headquarters of Sir John's first inquiry team in 1990. Sir John 
believes that FRU officers firebombed his headquarters at Seapark, 
Carrickfergus, destroying everything inside. Fortunately key documents had 
been copied.
- Telegraph
http://theage.com.au/articles/2003/03/30/1048962644995.html

So Die All Bullies.

[professor rat]

A schoolboy who was bullied mercilessly turned on his main teenage 
tormentor, killing him with a steak knife, a Brisbane court was told today.
The 16-year-old boy, who cannot be named, has pleaded guilty to murdering 
Aiden Liyange, 18, on March 24 last year at Mitchelton, on Brisbane's 
northside.
Director of Public Prosecutions Leanne Clare told the Supreme Court in 
Brisbane the boy stabbed Aiden through the back of the neck with the knife 
in a killing she described as "brutal, chilling and remorseless".
Mrs Clare said the boy was isolated and bullied by his friends who saw him 
as weak and vulnerable, and as a result he became miserable, frustrated and 
very angry.
She said the other boys saw him as "a gentle, placid sook".
The boy told police Aiden and his mates would turn up at his house looking 
for money for marijuana, would rummage through his room, subject him to 
constant teasing, and would bash him every few days.
"This was a boy who was fed up and angry and saw the situation as 
hopeless," Mrs Clare said.
"It is difficult to not feel sympathy for the way he felt, particularly 
because it was out of character."
However, she said he was also extremely violent and merciless in the way he 
took his revenge.
"(The boy) took the law into his own hands and deliberately took the life 
of another," she said.
"The background stress did not eliminate his responsibility."
The boy kissed his mother goodbye, left his house with two steak knives 
from the kitchen and then stabbed Aiden through the back of the neck as 
they walked across an oval.
As he lay dying, Aiden managed to say the name of his attacker to witnesses.
The prosecution has asked for a 10 year sentence while the defence has 
asked for up to eight years with release after serving half the term.
The dead teenager's family described him as being in with the wrong crowd, 
but having reached a turning point where he was studying and spending more 
time with his family.
http://smh.com.au/articles/2003/03/31/1048962690356.html

Code White Alert.

[professor rat]

New Zealand's two main tobacco companies halted sales of loose tobacco 
today after suspicious white powder was found in one packet. The incident 
follows a series of letters, some containing traces of cyanide, which 
threaten to poison food and drink in New Zealand and target the interests 
of Britain, Australia and the United States.
One letter, sent before the war broke out, threatened action if events 
escalated in Iraq.
A white substance was found in a tobacco pouch bought at a supermarket in 
the North Island city of Tauranga yesterday, prompting fresh calls from 
police for the public to report any broken seals on food and drink.
"In the interests of public safety and as a precautionary move British 
American Tobacco and Imperial Tobacco have issued an immediate product 
freeze on the sale of all roll-your-own tobacco," BAT said in a statement.
The two British rivals, which between them control most of the New Zealand 
tobacco market, said the freeze would apply until the results were known of 
police analysis of the powder, probably tomorrow.
The New Zealand Herald newspaper said this month it had passed to police a 
letter that threatened to poison water supplies, use explosives, gas a 
cinema and attack the interests of Britain, Australia and the United States 
in New Zealand.
A hoax call on Friday prompted the evacuation of a cinema complex in 
Wellington, but no cyanide was found.
Traces of the poison were found in one of three letters sent in February to 
the Australian, British and American embassies, threatening a terror act, 
possibly against the America's Cup sailing regatta, if events escalated in 
Iraq. The regatta ended without incident.
Police said there were similarities between the letters and one sent in 
2001 to the US embassy in Wellington, which contained cyanide and a threat 
to disrupt the 2002 NZ Golf Open, attended by Tiger Woods. That threat also 
came to nothing.
Cyanide is widely used by New Zealand farmers and local government agencies 
to kill animal pests such as possums.
Threatening letters are rare in the South Pacific nation.
http://smh.com.au/articles/2003/03/31/1048962679848.html

Encrypted Baby Sales Through Kagaa.

[professor rat]

Baby sold for $160, plus eggs
A couple in China have been arrested for selling their
baby daughter for 800 yuan ($A160) and 5kg of eggs, a news report said
today. 
Clones,women's eggs,kidneys,urine and sperm also available.Fuck the
Government.
Kagaa? Killer Aplication for Governmental Accountability through
Anarchism.

Brothel Owners Know Police are Impotent.

[professor rat]

PROSTITUTION has effectively been decriminalised by default in South 
Australia, police disbanding the vice squad in the face of archaic laws and 
parliament's unwillingness or inability to sort out the legal mess.

A police source told The Australian that police officers in the squad would 
be transferred to the fight against organised crime, particularly that of 
bikie gangs.
While a focus would remain on organised crime's involvement in brothels and 
money laundering, the prostitute and his or her clients would now 
effectively be free to go about their business, he said.
Police in the child exploitation unit would continue to be responsible for 
combating child prostitution. Prostitution itself was seen by police as a 
"health problem", not a police problem, the police source said.
The move comes after years of frustration in dealing with archaic laws that 
did not even recognise the use of credit card or eftpos for the crime of 
receiving money in a brothel.
Policing prostitution was "futile", the police source said, and good 
relations with brothel owners served a more useful purpose in pursing 
organised crime.
"There is very little negative interaction between police and brothel 
owners - they know we're impotent," he said.
Police commissioner Mal Hyde has pushed for law reform, saying that in the 
past 12 months police had arrested 52 people for prostitution-related 
offences, 90 per cent of them streetwalkers, while no prostitute working in 
a brothel had been prosecuted in the past two years.
Liberal MP Mark Brindal, who has introduced several bills to decriminalise 
prostitution, said that if the parliament was incapable of drawing up 
legislation recognising prostitution, it might as well repeal existing laws.
"Prostitution can't be reformed in the way it needs to be," Mr Brindal 
said. "We need a bill to repeal the law so there is no law about 
prostitution apart from laws about age of consent."
While the decriminalisation of prostitution in the state seems unlikely, 
Attorney-General Michael Atkinson has rejected suggestions from the police 
commissioner to amend existing legislation to allow law enforcers greater 
powers to police prostitution.
Any attempt to update laws covering prostitution was futile because it 
would not be passed in parliament, he has said.
Sex Industry Network manager Jenny Gamble said there had been a couple of 
arrests recently of brothel owners for underage workers.
"But we know they haven't arrested anyone for several years for 
prostitution," Ms Gamble said.
"To hear about the police disbanding vice shows they're allocating their 
resources to areas that are more needy."
The move to disband the vice squad comes as a parliamentary committee 
considers police resources.
http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,6214469%255E421,00 
.html

Cowardly ASIO.

[professor rat]

ASIO has confronted seven Australian Muslims who have had terrorism 
training overseas, including one particularly dangerous individual, and is 
closely monitoring them, according to former agent Neil Fergus.

The seven were among the risk factors indicating a heightened threat of 
terrorist attack within Australia because of involvement in the war on 
Iraq, he said, and ASIO had put them on notice that they were not anonymous 
in the community.
But a leading defence intelligence specialist warned yesterday that rather 
than cause an increased risk at home, our involvement in the war meant 
Australians were more likely to suffer terrorist attacks while travelling 
overseas or working at embassies.
Des Ball, of the Australian National University's Strategic Defence Studies 
Centre, said Australia's small population and lack of radical Muslim 
support groups meant the risk of terrorist attacks on Australian soil had 
not been greatly heightened by the war.
"But it (participation in the war) may well translate into more attacks 
against Australian facilities and people overseas," Professor Ball said.
And although the coalition would undoubtedly crush Saddam Hussein and his 
regime in a protracted conflict, the war would be lost in terms of its 
broader political goals, he said. These goals included making the US and 
coalition allies such as Australia safer from terrorism attacks; spreading 
democracy in the Middle East; being perceived as liberators rather than 
aggressors by Iraqis; finding Iraqi weapons of mass destruction in usable 
quantities; and finding evidence of links with al-Qaeda.
"I think that over some months the coalition will capture or kill Saddam 
and the top leadership but that the principal political objectives of this 
war will have most probably already been lost," he said. "The security in 
the long term of coalition members is going to be diminished. Australians, 
I think, are going over the longer term to become identified as enemies in 
this war (the wider war on terror)."
http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,6213350%255E421,00 
.html

Battle of Saskatoon.

[professor rat]

Saskatoon Activists Shut Down General Electric Office (english)
Charlie Clark 10:35pm Sun Mar 30 '03
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Anti-war activists in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada shut down a General 
Electric Capital office on the afternoon of Friday, March 28, 2003 without 
setting a foot in the door.

Saskatoon Activists Shut Down General Electric Office (english) (full story)
www.makingthelinksradio.ca

From George

[George Redebe]

I am George Redebe, Bank Manager of United Bank For
Africa , capetown Branch. I have urgent and very
confidential business proposition for you. On June 6
1998, a gold merchant/contractor with the
Randgold Exploration Company, Mr. Jim Smith made a
numbered time (Fixed) deposited for
twelve calendar months, valued at US$25,000,000.00
(Twenty-five Million Dollars) in my branch.

Upon maturity, I sent a routine notification to his
forwarding address but got no reply. After a month, we
sent a reminder and finally we discovered from his
contract employers, Randgold Exploration company Ltd
that Mr. Jim Smith died from an automobile accident.
On further investigation, I found
out that he did not leave a WILL and all attempts to
trace his next of kin were fruitless. I therefore made
further investigation and discovered that Mr. Jim
Smith did not declare any next of kin in all his
official documents, including his Bank Deposit
paperwork.

This sum of US$25,000,000.00 is still sitting in the
Bank and the interest is being rolled over with the
principal sum at the end of each year. No one will
come forward to claim it. According to the South
African
Law, at the expiration of 5 (five) years, the money
will revert to the ownership of the South African
Government if nobody applies to claim the funds.
Consequently, my proposal is that I will like you as a
foreigner to stand in as the next of kin to Mr. Jim
Smith so that the fruits of this old man's labour will
not get into the hands of some corrupt officials. This
is simple, I will like you to provide me immediately
with your full names and address so that the attorney
will prepare the necessary documents and affidavits,
which will put you in place as the next of kin. I
would also like you to scan you drivers license for
me.

We shall employ the services of two attorneys for
drafting and notarization of the WILL and obtain the
necessary documents and letter of
probate/administration in your favour for the
transfer. A
bank account in any part of the world, which you
provide, will then facilitate the transfer of this
money to you as the beneficiary/next of kin. The money
will be paid into your account for us to share in the
ratio of 60% for me and 40% for you. There is no risk
at all as all the paperwork for this transaction will
be done by the attorney and my position as the Branch
Manager guarantees the successful execution of this
transaction.

If you are interested, please reply immediately. Upon
your response, I shall then provide you with more
details and relevant
documents that will help you understand. Please
observe utmost confidentiality, and rest assured that
this transaction would be most profitable for both of
us because I shall require your assistance to invest
my share in your country.

Awaiting your urgent reply via email.

Thanks and regards,

George Redebe.
 

From Hamburger Hill to Quicksand.

[professor rat]

Echoes of Vietnam are invariably detected whenever the United States
embarks on a course that involves the use of military force. Certainly
this war has a long way to go before it can be credibly compared with
that long-ago conflict. For one thing -- and it's a big thing -- Vietnam
claimed upward of 58,000 American lives. At week's end, the death toll in
Iraq stood at 36. Even so, a few similarities seem worth noting.

In March 1965, American military units landed in what was then South
Vietnam. "Welcome to the Gallant Marines" read the signs that
greeted the troops as they rolled ashore unopposed near the city of
Danang. 
Ten years later, in April 1975, the American mission to that distant
battleground ended in failure. In between, some accounts from the field
and from the home front mirrored events today. 
The fedayeen, for example, are displaying the same passion and brutality
as the Viet Cong did some three decades ago, although clearly not in the
same numbers. Call them terrorists or death squads or irregulars.
Whatever their crimes, they are also engaging in combat activities that
fall under the rubric of guerrilla tactics. 
Ullman, the defense analyst, for one, likened the fedayeen to the Viet
Cong. 
Anti-war movement 
As the Vietnam War dragged on, a vast anti-war movement took hold in this
country, driving one president, Lyndon B. Johnson, out of office and
influencing another, Richard M. Nixon, to severely scale back and
eventually withdraw U.S. combat forces. 
This time, an anti-war movement with global dimensions, not yet
overwhelmingly large but hardly insignificant, had materialized before
this war even began. Sizable anti-war demonstrations have been seen in
New York, Washington, San Francisco and other American cities, as well as
abroad. 
Vietnam was the first war upon which television had an impact. Graphic
visual dispatches from the battlefield, many suggesting that the war was
not going well, arrived each night on the evening news. Vietnam became
known as "the living-room war." 
Iraq is the in-your-face war, as three homegrown cable networks,
augmented by foreign partners, are providing often gripping
around-the-clock coverage while the traditional over-the-air networks
have devoted lengthy parts of their broadcast day to the war. 
In the process, we have seen battles up close, devastated families
mourning the death or capture of a son or daughter, frazzled troops
getting their first taste of combat, acts of kindness amid chaos,
portions of a city ablaze. And the images never stop. 
"For some, the massive TV, the massive volume of television -- and
it is massive -- and the breathless reports can seem to be somewhat
disorienting," Rumsfeld said Friday. 
But Wallace has not swerved from the goal he outlined in February, as he
sat in his command tent in the snowy German countryside, testing elements
of the war plan that would be implemented little more than a month later.

"We may win pretty, or we may win ugly," he said, "but
we're going to win." 
www.sunspot.net/news/nationworld/iraq/ba...

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"grab them by the balls, and their hearts and minds will follow".

[professor rat]

Fresh graffiti on a building in this port town in southern Iraq reads "Down 
with USA" -- painted over the original "Down with Iraq" slogan from before 
the US-led invasion.

Residents here say the change in the predominantly Shi'ite Muslim south 
noted for its opposition to Saddam Hussein, the Iraqi president, has been 
fuelled by US troops' rough handling of civilians which now poses problems 
for their British allies.

During the Vietnam war, a popular response to the mantra of winning over 
the civilian population was "grab them by the balls, and their hearts and 
minds will follow".

That appears to be the tactics of the forces leading the war in Iraq, 
except it is US forces who are attacking Iraq's underbelly and British 
troops being left to make friends after.

The southern Shi'ites also remember how the United States urged them in 
1991 to rise up against Saddam's largely Sunni leadership - only to abandon 
them to brutal suppression of their revolt.

The suspicions are not being allayed by the attitude of many of the US 
troops here. A regular complaint heard in the part of southern Iraq already 
under occupation is that US forces -- mostly at the front of advances -- 
are rude and hostile to civilians caught up in the conflict.

An army the size of that moving through Iraq was never going to creep 
unnoticed into Baghdad, and there is no doubt that the invading forces are 
seriously disrupting the lives of ordinary civilians.

But US forces who took the port of Umm Qasr won few friends among the 
civilian population, and some British troops now charged with setting up a 
transitional authority complain they are having to undo damage caused by 
the Americans.

One British officer being given an escort by Marines to his headquarters 
expressed alarm when they let loose with a volley of rifle fire at a house 
on the outskirts of the town.

"They said they had been sniped at from there a few days ago so they like 
to give them a warning every now and then," he said. "That is something we 
would never condone. You really aren't going to make any friends doing that."

A US special forces officer in Umm Qasr said it was sometimes difficult to 
contain the exuberance of men doing the actual fighting and sometimes they 
could overstep the mark.

He said: "You got to realise these guys are single-minded in their 
training. In the military it is look after yourself and your buddies. Full 
stop. How do we know who the enemy is ... " But we are doing the main 
fighting here. There is no room for us to let down our guard."

That role is being left to the British forces who, in the main, are taking 
up positions once US troops move through.

At many roadblocks mounted by US forces, civilians and journalists moving 
independently to cover the conflict are dismissed without a word. Surly 
marines gesture them to turn away and refuse to answer questions.

The British, however, have generally been polite and helpful where 
possible. Soldiers chat amiably with civilians -- even though neither party 
has a clue what the other is saying.

"I think it is a question of training," one British officer said. "American 
soldiers have all the benefits of technology.

"They are single-minded in. their approach. But British soldiers tend to 
have a more human approach."

"An Iraqi in a taxi containing explosives has become the first known 
suicide bomber of the war to succeed in taking some of the US invaders with 
him.

By itself, his attack is simply another bit of bloodletting in this 
unnecessary war.

But what makes the event so significant is not that it happened, but the 
way in which Washington has reacted to this slaying of at least four of its 
soldiers.

The cry has gone up from the American camp that suicide bombings are the 
acts of terrorists, therefore this attack proves, beyond all doubt, the 
long-argued American case that Iraq is a terrorist state. Thus, Washington 
was right all along to invade, and the sooner Saddam Hussein can be put out 
of business, the safer the world will be. There is none so blind as they 
that won't see.

This ignorant and deeply stupid analysis just about sums up the level of 
what seems to pass for serious thought in George W Bush's White House."

- March 31st

www.theherald.co.uk/news/archive/31-3-19... 

Prey For the Beast.

[professor rat]

Bloggerheads 65 inbound blogs, 76
inbound links Created 2 hours 11 minutes ago
(Cosmos) 
US soldiers in Iraq asked to pray for
Bush. 
SixDifferentWays 53 inbound blogs,
58 inbound links Created 1 hour 48 minutes ago
(Cosmos) 
"Thousands of marines have been given a
pamphlet called "A Christian's Duty," a mini prayer
book which includes a tear-out section to be mailed to the White House
pledging the soldier who sends it in has been praying for Bush."
Goddamn I don't understand religion... 
bit.ch 5 inbound blogs, 7 inbound
links Created 2 hours 46 minutes ago
(Cosmos) 
ABC.net.au: US soldiers in Iraq asked to pray
for Bush “ Thousands of marines have been given a pamphlet
called "A Christian's Duty," a mini prayer book which includes
a tear-out section to be mailed to the White House pledging the soldier
who sends it in has been praying for Bush. ” 

Curses.

[professor rat]

The Buck Stops There Administration
officials try to distance President Bush from controversy over Iraq war
plan. 
Administration essentially waited until war was
announced to begin dampening expectations.
Out-of-favor Army general may be proven
right on occupation estimate.
In the upcoming issue of The New Yorker, Seymour Hersh reports
that Defense Secretary Rumsfeld repeatedly
rejected advice from Pentagon planners that substantially more
troops and armor would be needed to fight a war in Iraq. Plus:
'Back Off, Syria and Iran!'
Current New Yorker: Nicholas Lemann on
"How It Came to War" and
John Lee Anderson on "The Bombing of
Baghdad."
Al Gore criticizes U.S. media for
"completely inadequate
debate" in run-up to war.
Fox News said to have gone "over the
top" in response to war protestor's
"die-in."
Did an errant U.S. cruise missile
strike Kuwait?
Sink or Swim Mine-hunting dolphin
reportedly goes AWOL!
Cause or Effect? Iraqi opposition
group claims al-Qaeda behind suicide bombing.
Missile said to have killed more than
50 in Baghdad neighborhood, as pilots describe
"exhilaration" of dodging
anti-aircraft fire during bombing run.
'Baghdad will be near impossible to
conquer.' Earlier: 'How to take
Baghdad.'
http://www.cursor.org/

Mutiny Mr Christian?

[professor rat]

LONDON, 31 March 2003  Two British servicemen have been sent home from the 
Middle East after refusing to fight in the war against Iraq, The Sunday 
Times reported. They said they would refuse to fight because of the 
civilian casualties being caused by the US-British attack. They face 
possible court martial and up to two years in jail for disobeying orders. 
The two British soldiers are from 16 Air Assault Brigade, a frontline unit, 
which has been engaged in heavy fighting in southern Iraq. Their lawyer 
says they were ordered to return to the brigade's barracks in Colchester, 
Essex, after raising their objections earlier this month. The cases were 
confirmed this weekend by Justin Hugheston-Roberts, a solicitor advocate 
who chairs Forces Law, a nationwide group of 22 law firms that acts for 
service personnel and their families. These cases are being handled by a 
very experienced lawyer,he said. Gilbert Blades, a Lincoln-based lawyer, 
said the Ministry of Defense was trying to hush up the cases because it 
feared a public relations disaster.
http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=306539&group=webcast
Blessings... (english)
Sandy 9:16pm Sun Mar 30 '03
 comment#306557

...to these two conscientious objectors. What a beautiful enlightenment of 
their spirits.

Heroes (english)
tp 9:22pm Sun Mar 30 '03
 comment#306563
These men are the first military heroes of the whole stinking war. The 
world should give them medals.

Just think (english)
jpm 9:22pm Sun Mar 30 '03
 comment#306564
If they base their defence on the legality of it all...

That should open a pandora's box

Arnett agrees with Des Ball.

[professor rat]

Kurt Nimmo's Another Day in the
Empire 16 inbound blogs, 17 inbound links Created 2
hours 11 minutes ago (Cosmos) 
Peter Arnett, covering the war from Baghdad, told state-run Iraqi TV in
an interview aired Sunday that the American-led coalition's first war
plan had failed because of Iraq's resistance and said strategists are
'trying to write another war plan,'" writes
David Bauder at the Washington Post .
"'Clearly, the American war plans misjudged the determination of the
Iraqi forces,' Arnett said during the interview broadcast by Iraq's
satellite television station and monitored by The Associated Press in
Egypt." No, Peter, the war plans "misjudged...

Iraqi Groundhog day.

[professor rat]

If an Iraqi groundhog,'baghdad bill" see's it's shadow then it goes back 
till Summer...

The coalition could, of course, drop food and water - instead of bombs - 
from the air. One could also arrange for a short cease-fire, so as to bring 
the humanitarian aid into the besieged city.
Marine Corps commanders, in the best interests of their troop's welfare & 
quality of life in post combat Iraqi detainment camps, are providing their 
young Marines classes in the "Joy of Homosexuality." Many, if not most, of 
the seasoned instructors are currently working directly under Donald 
Rumsfeld, and will provide instruction, free of charge, after their normal 
duty hours serving the Secretary of Defense. Although some Marine Corps 
commanders are indifferent to the classes, many have expressed 
disappointment at the prospect of replacing the Marine Corps tradition of a 
company commanders "first night" privilege with new recruits. Currently, 
standard Marine Corps operating procedure requires company commanders to 
also instruct young Marines on the finer points of sucking cock, which will 
not be covered in the new, cheaper Rumsfeld plan.

Marines interviewed on the battle field expressed their dismay at the new 
plan's neglect of the cherished Marine Corps cock-sucking expertise that 
the traditional training provided. Many young Marines have been relying on 
their cock-sucking skills to remedy their current ration of one MRE per 
day. It seems that semen is rich in protein, which many consider necessary 
for combat readiness.
George W. Bush has stated he'd prefer to be a dictator at least three times--
Weather window is closing fast (english)
Alastair Dalton 10:12pm Sun Mar 30 '03

Sandstorms, already hampering the invasion, are likely to become more 
frequent during the "40-day shamal", a period from late May when a 
persistent north-westerly wind blows in from Turkey as a side-effect of low 
pressure which causes the Indian monsoons. The storms, with winds of some 
30mph, reduce the invading forces technological superiority, threaten to 
clog up rifles and heavy artillery and prevent helicopters from flying.

Weather window is closing fast (english) (full story)
www.thescotsman.co.uk/international.cfm

Assassinphone Anniversary - Military Rant Generator.

[professor rat]

March 30, 2003 
An Anniversary of Mobile Note
Thirty years ago on Wednesday, Martin Cooper made the first
true cellular phone call, in a demonstration that was the beginning of
massive change in the way we communicate. He's a pioneer, and keeps
pioneering. 
More in my Sunday column.
Ed Felten is telling us about proposed state laws that would make you
laugh out loud if they weren't so idiotic -- legislation that effectively
would ban firewalls and other security measures, for instance.
Read it for yourself.
The smaller the group, the more immediate value in the relationship.
That's one notion behind an emerging phenomenon called ``social
software,'' products that help groups work with each other more
effectively.
At the annual PC Forum conference in suburban Phoenix this week, we got a
glimpse of what Clay Shirky, an acute
observer of the technology scene, called the latest in ``lightweight,
bottom-up and Internet-enabled'' tools.
I especially like SocialText, which
is all about a Web you can write on as well as read. It expands on
technologies that have been around for some time, and lets people work
from browsers to collaborate in remarkably efficient ways. The key is
simplicity.
Among the base technologies are online chat and something called a Wiki,
an extremely lightweight but writeable Web page. Once you're inside the
Wiki, you can edit any page yourself, using tools that make it simple to
create new links and annotations. It sounds like potential anarchy, and
it could turn into a mess without limitations on who can participate in a
given group. But I've participated in several of these
conversations/collaborations lately, and I can attest to their potential
effectiveness.
SocialText isn't the only such idea around, and the tools are still
rough-edged. But it illustrates one way toward a goal we all crave -- to
share our ideas, organize ourselves and generally make better use of this
vastly collaborative new space that combines the real and virtual
worlds.
Meetup is a brilliant idea -- using
online technology to get people together and coordinate a real-world
meeting, not the virtual kind. Yes, in person.
People organize everything online first, including voting on where to
meet in some cases. Check out the Web site for the variety of
meetings.
Using the Net to be truly anti-social. I love it. You will, too. (anti
pr)
Name that Invasion
American Military Operation Name Generating Device 
(Thanks, David.) 
• posted by Dan Gillmor 08:42 
AM
• permanent link to this item

Deckard Style Photo Analysis?

[professor rat]

Fotonotes: Every Picture Can Tell a Story
Greg Elin has been working for a while on a new kind of
photo-related application. At PC Forum he showed me the latest beta, and
I'm ready to say that this is one very cool piece of work. 
It's called Fotonotes. Basically,
it's a tool for annotating JPEG pictures inside the pictures
themselves. Here's an example.
Pic.
I took the above picture at last month's Demo conference. Left to right
are Dan Bricklin, Les Vadasz and Mitch Kapor. 
Now, here's a view of the picture after editing it in Fotonotes and
rolling my mouse pointer over Dan's face:
PIC
I created the same "meta-content" with Vadasz and Kapor, and
could have annotated other parts of the photo. Although I only put their
names in the picture (the text is stored literally as part of the JPEG),
I could have written long passages about each of them, information that
would pop up. 
Now, this doesn't work inside all browsers yet, as it obviously should.
Elin says some browsers do support it, and he's working on others. 
He adds, in an e-mail, that the screen shots I posted are using "the
cross-platform, downloadable Java application. The web-based version
allows all browsers to view stories online, but adding of new stories via
the browser is not yet supported by all browsers." 
This expands possibilities for user-generated Web content. Weblogs have
been about text, with pictures added. What if someone posts a picture of
this kind, where various parts of the picture can tell a variety of
stories? Or what if we can link, transparently, an audio stream? This
could get interesting, fast.
posted by Dan Gillmor 10:26 AM
• permanent link to this item

Skeletons up on Tim Mays Property?

[professor rat]

"Sure have been some strange smells comin offa thar
Sherriff..."
Tim C. May on Curfews [cypherpunks-Off-Topic]
"Curfews"
... name is recorded in police data bases
... the rural part of Santa Cruz, Corralitos,
to
escape ... digital pseudonyms, zero WASTE: Corralitos,
CA | knowledge, reputations ... 
www.maine.com/eric/tcmay.html
- 7k - Cached - Similar pages 
Santa Cruz County Sheriff-Service Centers-Freedom
... south of Aptos, including Freedom, Corralitos, Green Valley ... Tony Campos, and Watsonville
Police Chief Terry ... Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Phone: (831)471-1121 sheriff ... 
www.scsheriff.com/frdm.html - 6k - Cached - Similar pages 
"Think we oughta mosey up there and dig round some,sherriff?"
"Remember that Lenny Lake guy?"
"Folks reckon May's a cross tween him and Charlie Ng."
"No shit!"
"Yeah! They call him 'Mongo' I shit you not. Can I turn the siren on chief?"
"Call Homeland Security fer backup first Festus and get the dog squad."

Santa Cruz County Sheriff (corralitos)

[professor rat]

Santa Cruz County Sheriff
701 Ocean St.
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
Phone: (831)471-1121
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Copyright ©
'03 

Sheriff's Service Center
Freedom 

The Freedom Sheriff’s Center is staffed by Sergeant
Jeff Marsh, Corralitos Community Deputy Ted Mulder and a crew of
volunteers. Sgt. Marsh can be reached at (831) 763-4420, Monday through
Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The Freedom Service Center is in transition,
while a new office, the South County Sheriff's Service Center, is being
built. The new Center will be located at 790 Green Valley Road at Mesa
Park, in Watsonville. 
The Center serves all unincorporated areas of the county south of Aptos,
including Freedom, Corralitos, Green Valley, and Pajaro. The Freedom
center is committed to assisting local neighborhoods, businesses, and the
agriculture community create a safer, more positive environment in which
to live and work. In doing so we hope to forge a strong bond between law
enforcement and the community we serve. 

CURRENT
PROJECTS 
Mesa Village

The Mesa Village Project continues to be the most time consuming of all
South Sector's activities. Community meetings have been held following
the original survey and steps are being made to address Mesa Village
Park, Speeding, Street Lights, Cross Walks, Garbage Pick Up Days, and
Gang Activity. The Community Survey is scheduled to continue across Green
Valley Road into the Pinto Lake Mobile Estates trailer park and toward
Doring and Trembley.
National Night Out
The Mesa Village Park Night Out was a huge
success. Approximately 200 residents, law enforcement members, and county
representatives including Sheriff Mark Tracy, Supervisor Tony Campos, and
Watsonville Police Chief Terry Medina met in the park in conjunction with
National Night Out to show their initial efforts to "Take Back the
Park."
SAL (Sheriff's Activities League)
Program
This program is a huge undertaking for the
Sheriff's Office and provides athletic programs for youth throughout the
county. Deputy Batin has promised the Sheriff a two year commitment in
making this program a success. 
http://www.scsheriff.com/frdm.html

Trials for Liars like James A Donald.

[professor rat]

>>>in the Burning Times (1450-1700 > roughly) the church burned and hanged 
hundreds of thousands > of people, mostly women witches or alleged witches.

 Don't be silly The largest single witchcraft pursecutions killed a few 
hundred, not tens of thousands. Add them all up you are going to get 
something from several hundred to a few thousand See the book "witches and 
neighbors" for a realistic survey of witchcraft persecutions You are 
projecting modern totalitarianism back to an era when it was unknown. <<

According to Carl Sagan's "The Demon Haunted World" the death toll is 
closer to Harmon than Donald.I think I saw that somewhere else as well.If 
Donald scoffs it's probably right.See...
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/9879/jamesd.html
For projecting modern totalitarianism back to an era when it was unknown.See
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/2374/blood.html
It takes an expert ex-trot loony for this.

What We Need...YESTERDAY!

[professor rat]

Chaum Cash ASAP.
Copyright is killing us,we must kill Valenti.
Putin's Hanssen files...we need the plans for the death star.
He's got them,he's pissed...surely they can be leaked?
Shrub Futures,if it's good enough for one tinpot Dictator it's good
enough for another.
http://www.stiffs.com/
http://www.tradesports.com/

More Jim Bells,Toto's,Ted Kasynskies,more Harmons,Gilmores,FUCK more
ME's!
When Cypherpunks are called
"terrorists," we will have done our jobs.
Font: Daschle-Anthrax-Bold
http://www.primitivism.com/assassination.htm
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,35620,00.html
http://freedom.orlingrabbe.com/lfetimes/jbellth.htm
"If we find negligence on the side of any person or
institution...
http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Public_20Subscription_20Assassination
... Public Subscription Assassination .Assassins sans 
Frontiers.
"What's great about a financial market is you've got to put your
money where your mouth is. It's a reasonably good proxy for what the
average person thinks based on publicly available 
information."
Eric Zitzewitz, a Stanford University economics professor.

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Unlucky Greene.

[professor rat]

Danny Greene was as Irish as they come, a red-headed fireplug of a man who 
proudly flaunted his heritage by driving a green Lincoln, giving out green 
Cross pens and copies of “Trinity” by Leon Uris and wearing a large green 
and gold Celtic cross necklace.

In the Cleveland underworld, Greene was a powerhouse, a vicious killer who 
was known to have gotten away with murder and who openly dared those who 
opposed to him to take their best shot.
Two of those who tried paid with their own lives.

In the end, Greene was powerful enough to attract the highest levels of ire 
from the Cleveland mafia and when they finally got their act together to 
take him down, Greene’s influence with local and federal law enforcement 
helped cripple the Northern Ohio mob.

The Rise of Danny Greene

He got his start running a pool hall on Cleveland’s rough waterfront, 
waiting until he could get his longshoreman’s card. When he did, he got a 
job unloading ore carriers in the Flats and getting active in the 
longshoreman’s union. In 1961 he was elected president of his local and 
began looting the treasury and hiring out his goons for muscle work. They 
reportedly beat one man so harshly that he lost an eye and burned another 
with cigarettes after he rejected their protection offer.

Greene quickly attracted the attention of police and the media, and in 1964 
a newspaper expose of waterfront corruption cost Danny his job as 
president. He was convicted of embezzlement and falsifying union records, 
but four years later, a federal court threw out the conviction.

By the 1970s, Greene was working with the Solid Waste Trade Guild and 
lobbied the city of Cleveland to privatize its trash collection services. 
His former coworker and close friend, Mike Frato, was also working for the 
same goal on behalf of a rival union.

On November 26, 1971 Greene was out jogging as Frato pulled up in his car. 
Greene later told police he thought Frato was going for a gun and pulled a 
.45 automatic from the waistband of his shorts and fired two rounds. One 
caught Frato between the eyes.

The shooting was judged accidental and no charges were pursued.

Four years later, another former friend, Shondor Birns, a numbers operator 
who used Greene for enforcement, went to war with the Irishman over a 
$25,000 dispute. Birns had a bomb placed under Greene’s car, but Danny 
found it before it exploded.

“I’m gonna send this back to the bastard who sent it to me,” he reportedly 
vowed.

On the day before Easter 1975, Birns was coming out of St. Malachi’s 
Catholic Church on West 25th Street in Cleveland. Shortly after he started 
his car, a bomb exploded, blowing bits of Shondor Birns back onto the steps 
of the church.

An attempt by Birns’s gang to retaliate failed when a shrapnel-laden bomb 
left outside Danny’s office failed to go off.

The mob that gave the world Moe Dalitz, Cleveland’s mafia is as storied as 
any in America. The best historian of the Cleveland mob is author Rick 
Porrello, whose books on the mafia in Northern Ohio are all worth reading 
and are available at most online bookstores.

I won’t go into much historic detail here, and recommend that those 
interested in the Cleveland mob and its many bloody battles, visit Rick’s 
site online.

Like any organization, disorderly transitions of leadership play havoc on 
the mob. So when John Scalish, don of the Cleveland Mafia died on the 
operating table without leaving a strong successor, a number of men had 
designs on the office.

Jack Licavoli, a Detroit import with connections with the old Purple Gang 
was eventually named to head the gang with Angelo Lonardo serving as 
underboss. One of those who wanted the job and who was angered by his snub 
was John Nardi, a Teamsters official.

Nardi contacted Danny Greene and together the men when into direct 
competiton with the Murray Hill mafia, as Cleveland’s Italian organization 
was known.

Greene had an ace up his sleeve as he went to war with Licavoli, Lonardo 
and the rest of the Italians. He was serving as an informer for the FBI, 
turning over information on his rivals.
What Danny didn’t know was that the Murray Hill mob had a mole in the 
office who had provided it with a list of mob informers.
During the summer of 1977, the war between Greene and Nardi and the 
Italians got hot.
The first big name to die was Lips Moceri, who disappeared in late August. 
His blood was found in the trunk of his girlfriend’s car, but his body has 
never been found.

Three weeks later, the Italians got revenge, blowing up Nardi and the 
entire Teamster’s headquarters in Cleveland.
A retaliatory strike by Greene ended up killing an innocent man, but no 
Murray Hill mobsters.
The Italians spent the rest of the summer stalking Greene without success, 
but in October their mole in the FBI office revealed that Danny was 
scheduled to visit his dentist.
Ray Ferritto and Ronald “the Crab” Carabbia of Youngstown, Ohio were 
brought in to plant a bomb. They 

Re: Trials for those undermining the war effort?

[Steve Mynott]

Harmon Seaver wrote:
On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 01:25:47PM -0500, stuart wrote:
[..]

Apparently you know nothing of the history of Britain and Ireland.


No, I do. 
No you don't.

   But of course, the problems really pre-date all that, going back to when the
christer Romans came and killed off the Druids and Wiccans who wouldn't bend the
knee to conversion, as they did in the rest of Europe. 
Three problems with that:-

1. The Romans never invaded Ireland

2. The Romans which invaded mainland Britain weren't Christian (if 
that's what you mean by "christer").  They worshiped many Gods with the 
cult of Mithras being popular with the army.

3. "Wicca" is a modern invention.

-- Steve

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On 31 Mar 2003 at 10:19, Lucky Green wrote:
> I am currently in Europe and while I had very little time to 
> watch TV, I indulged myself last night for a few hours. The 
> UK stations are as worthless at the US stations: all fluffy 
> propaganda all the time.

BBC says the west is losing -- on the grounds that the most 
dramatic advance in history left the coalition forces over 
extended.  Sounds to me more like Baathist propaganda than 
Pentagon propoganda.

> When a news station uses the phrase "the Iraqi leadership 
> alleges" (that a US helicopter has been shot down) while the 
> screen shows close-ups of the downed helicopter, you know 
> that you might as well listen to the official propaganda 
> station.

It seems likely that the Iraqi leadership is recycling old 
pictures of a previously downed (or crashed) copter as a newly 
downed copter..

Indeed, this "He said, she said" approach, which treats US 
reports and Iraqi reports as equally credible, seems to me like 
Baathist propaganda, like anti western bias.

>  But even just watching mainstream non-English language news
> in Europe it becomes pretty obvious from which corner the 
> propaganda is emanating.

When the BBC announces the west is losing, it is indeed obvious 
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Final solutions (was Re: Trials for those undermining the war effort)

[Major Variola (ret)]

At 01:34 PM 3/30/03 -0500, stuart wrote:
>On Sunday, March 30, 2003, Harmon Seaver came up with this...
>HS> Too bad the Romans didn't finish the job of feeding that lot to
the lions
>HS> a couple of milleniums ago.


A similarly open-minded friend once commented (far too loudly
in a cafe) that exact sentiment --if you're going to invade, kill
em all, or deal with centuries of violence.

After realizing the clarity of this, I did come up with a softer
solution.  Forced reloaction & interbreeding is likely to 1. destroy
territorial histories and 2. eliminate strong physical and cultural
differences.
Move all the Irish to Palestine (give 'em plenty of sunblock),
move all the Palestinians & Zionists to Ireland, and have the
A-type male teens school with B-type female teens.

Banning (or agglomerating or replacing historic) religions is likely to
help too.


>Encouraging the imperial persecution of a religious minority?

Religions are terrorist weapons, dude.

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On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 22:35:55 -0800 (PST), you wrote:
>
> hi,
>
>
> on the first or second day of the war-iraqi missiles
> hit kuwait-4 to 5 of them.
>
> After that there is no word of any more strikes in
> kuwait or else where.What is Iraq waiting for?
What's the US line on why Iraq hasn't shot nukes, chems and bio
weapons at them? If an invasion and missile bombardment of
Badhdad by the world's sole remaining superpower isn't enough,
maybe they were saving them to repel Martians? Or what?
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- they have them and are waiting for the best time to use them
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Re: Trials for those undermining the war effort?

[Harmon Seaver]

On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 10:15:46AM +0100, Steve Mynott wrote:
> Harmon Seaver wrote:
> >On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 01:25:47PM -0500, stuart wrote:
> 
> [..]
> 
> >>Apparently you know nothing of the history of Britain and Ireland.
> >
> >
> >No, I do. 
> 
> No you don't.
> 
> >   But of course, the problems really pre-date all that, going back to 
> >   when the
> >christer Romans came and killed off the Druids and Wiccans who wouldn't 
> >bend the
> >knee to conversion, as they did in the rest of Europe. 
> 
> Three problems with that:-
> 
> 1. The Romans never invaded Ireland

  Yes, I was mixing up the Roman church with the original Roman invasion of the
Isles. The invasion of the Roman church was later, but they did, in fact,
persecute the Druids and Wiccans as well. 

> 
> 2. The Romans which invaded mainland Britain weren't Christian (if 
> that's what you mean by "christer").  They worshiped many Gods with the 
> cult of Mithras being popular with the army.

   You're right, they weren't christers at that point, however they most
certainly did try to eradicate the Druids:

Dealing with the druids. Part of this mopping up took the form of eradicating
the Druids. As a rule the Romans were very tolerant of the religions of the
peoples they conquered (hurrah for the Romans!). However, the Druids represented
not just a religious hierarchy, but real political and administrative authority
among the Celts. And to give the Romans their due, they seem to have been
genuinely horrified by what they considered the grisly and uncivilized practices
of the Druids.

http://www.britainexpress.com/History/Roman_invasion.htm



> 
> 3. "Wicca" is a modern invention.

   Hardly. 
WEIK- [2].   In words connectid  with magic and religious  notions (in
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  WIGLE,  divination, sorcery, akin to the Germanic source of Old French
  GUILE,  cunning trickery: GUILE.   2. Germanic  expressive form *WIKK-
  in:  a. Old  English WICCA,  wizard, and  WICCE, witch: WITCH;  b. Old
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Re: Trials for those undermining the war effort?

[Bill Frantz]

At 5:44 AM -0800 3/31/03, Harmon Seaver wrote:
>On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 10:15:46AM +0100, Steve Mynott wrote:
>> 3. "Wicca" is a modern invention.
>
>   Hardly.
>WEIK- [2].   In words connectid  with magic and religious  notions (in
>  Germanic and Latin).  1. Germanic suffixed form *WIH-L- in Old
>English
>  WIGLE,  divination, sorcery, akin to the Germanic source of Old
>French
>  GUILE,  cunning trickery: GUILE.   2. Germanic  expressive form
>*WIKK-
>  in:  a. Old  English WICCA,  wizard, and  WICCE, witch: WITCH;
>b. Old
>  English  WICCIAN,  to cast  a spell:  BEWITCH.

My ODE defines Wicche as an obsolete word meaning witch.  Now, one can
argue whether the modern concept of Wicca has any relation to the old
northern European religions, but the word seems be based on fairly old
roots.

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Re: Final solutions (was Re: Trials for those undermining the war effort)

[Harmon Seaver]

I still think the best solution is just huge tanker planes full of LSD
spraying combative groups/areas once a week.



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Re: Skeletons at the gates

[Tim May]

On Monday, March 31, 2003, at 02:50 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote:

On Sun, 30 Mar 2003, Harmon Seaver wrote:

   Ever heard of caltrops? I hear it's a new growth cottage industry.
Likewise the cheap EMP devices just talked about here. I've been 
thinking of
There are no cheap EMP devices. You'll need a high voltage capacitor 
bank
at the very least (I would not like carry some Joules worth of it on my
person), or even a flux compressor. I don't think you'd want to 
detonate
some 5 kg of HE just to fry some electronics in some 10 m radius.

Someone attempting to disable computers in a concentrated place, e.g., 
a specific Wall Street or City bank, might.

This was a threat model considered by Winn Schwartau some years ago.

But I would figure a "soft" attack, exploiting security holes, would be 
better for various reasons than a "hard" attack.

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At 01:59 PM 3/30/03 -0800, Bill Stewart wrote:
>Any group of Pranksters willing to buy a bunch of orange traffic cones
>and some sawhorses and a few dozen credible-looking street construction
signs
>could do almost as well without even a large group support group,
>if they got out early in the morning, and if drivers decide to
>collapse the waveform by ignoring all such cones and signs,
>there's be weeks of chaos afterwards until
>drivers get back in the habit of obeying.

Nice persistance on that social DoS, real VX quality.
Playing routing games with that kind of (rolling) traffic, that's cute.

PS Bill: How did management like the news
channels calling the Baghdad CO an "AT&T Building" :-)

Here's an altruistic use of roadsign spoofage:

http://www.nbc4.tv/news/1448667/detail.html

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  UPDATED: 1:26 p.m. PDT May 10, 2002

  LOS ANGELES -- A frustrated artist upset over a confusing freeway sign
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Richard Ankrom (pictured left), 46, worked on his project during the day
as thousands
of motorists passed. Ankrom wore a hard hat and an orange reflective
vest and even
cut his hair to avoid raising suspicion from transportation crews and
police.

The artist built and installed the directions to help motorists
make a smooth transition from the Harbor Freeway to
northbound Interstate 5, located near downtown.

By plastering the "North 5" moniker on
the existing sign, Ankrom not only
followed state specifications but also
 showed that art can make a difference.

Re: Final solutions (was Re: Trials for those undermining the war effort)

[Thomas Shaddack]

On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Harmon Seaver wrote:
> I still think the best solution is just huge tanker planes full of LSD
> spraying combative groups/areas once a week.

Actually, LSD was considered as an incapacitating chemical weapon. Another
psychedelic, 3-quinuclidinyl benzilate, aka BZ, was even weaponized into
an actual chemical munition. For more details, see
http://www.mitretek.org/home.nsf/homelandsecurity/PsychoAgents

Maybe it would be enough to convince the generals (or, better, force
Rumsfeld) to smoke grass. Could make them more peaceful...

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Re: Missile -launchers in iraq

[lcs Mixmaster Remailer]

On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 22:35:55 -0800 (PST), you wrote:
>
> hi,
>
>
> on the first or second day of the war-iraqi missiles
> hit kuwait-4 to 5 of them.
>
> After that there is no word of any more strikes in
> kuwait or else where.What is Iraq waiting for?

What's the US line on why Iraq hasn't shot nukes, chems and bio 
weapons at them? If an invasion and missile bombardment of 
Badhdad by the world's sole remaining superpower isn't enough, 
maybe they were saving them to repel Martians? Or what?

Re: COWed news networks not showing Baghdad market dead

[Duncan Frissell]

At 05:02 PM 3/29/2003 -0800, Eric Cordian wrote:
Let me quote a few of their comments, as it gives new meaning to the term
"World Arrogance," and illustrates why we should "Support Our Troops(tm)"
only if they are on their way to the gallows via an international
tribunal, along with their Commander in Chief.
Luckily for them, the US didn't sign on to the treaty for the World 
Criminal Court.  So no jurisdiction.  There's unlikely to be a special war 
crimes tribunal for this minor war either.  The UN and the Frogs will be 
too busy trying to get a piece of the reconstruction action.  There will be 
a few war crimes trials arising out of it but the "Coalition Forces" will 
probably conduct them.

Eric, any explanation of why Nat Hentoff is neutral and Chris Hitchens 
supports this little contretemps.  I didn't think you were a believer in 
national sovereignty yourself.  I know I'm not.

DCF  

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Iraqi men search for their belongings in a house damaged during an air 
strike in Baghdad last Friday. Bombs and missiles crashed into Baghdad as 
the United States kept up a relentless pounding of the Iraqi capital.

Garwin Davis, Assistant News Editor

"Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear ­ kept us in a 
continuous stampede of patriotic fervour ­ with the cry of grave national 
emergency. Always, there has been some terrible evil at home, or some 
monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not 
blindly rally behind it."

NO, THESE ARE not the words of an Iraqi defector lashing out at the Saddam 
Hussein regime nor from someone making a case for political asylum.

Far from it. These words were actually uttered in 1957 by no less an 
authority than the celebrated American, General Douglas MacArthur, in 
describing the policies of the United States Government in the post-World 
War II era.

And MacArthur should have known. Not only was he the commander of Allied 
troops in the Pacific during World War II, but he also supervised the 
postwar occupation of Japan and led United Nations forces during the Korean 
War.

But, has anything changed? The General could easily have been describing 
the U.S. Government of today.

Under President George W. Bush, the U.S. has been trying to convince the 
world community since last year that Iraq poses a major threat to world 
peace and has to be disarmed by the use of military force.

No matter that there was hardly anything by way of evidence to support the 
claim, the Bush administration was adamant that Iraq possessed what it 
described as weapons of mass destruction and was a part of "an axis of evil."

The military strikes at Iraq started last Wednesday but the planning has 
been a long time in the making...yes, even before any resolution was 
brought before the United Nations Security Council. President Bush, in his 
State of the Union address last year, couldn't have been any clearer:

"Iraq continues to flaunt its hostility towards America and to support 
terror... The Iraqi regime has plotted to develop anthrax and nerve gas and 
nuclear weapons for over a decade. This is a regime that has already used 
poison gas to murder thousands of its own citizens, leaving the bodies of 
mothers huddled over their dead children. This is a regime that agreed to 
international inspections then kicked out the inspectors. This is a regime 
that has something to hide from the civilized world.

"States like these, and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, 
arming to threaten the peace of the world. By seeking weapons of mass 
destruction, these regimes pose a grave and growing danger. They could 
provide these arms to terrorists, giving them the means to match their 
hatred. They could attack our allies or attempt to blackmail the United 
States. In any of these cases, the price of indifference would be 
catastrophic."

What President Bush did that night was to create the link between Iraq and 
terrorist groups, even as the American public was still traumatised by the 
events of September 11, 2001.

It reminded of an even more frightening speech he had given following the 
aftermath of the terrorist attacks on the United States when he told the 
U.S. Congress:

"Every nation in every region, now has a decision to make. Either you are 
with us, or you are with the terrorists. From this day forward, any nation 
that continues to harbour or support terrorism will be regarded by the 
United States as a hostile regime."

By cleverly linking Saddam Hussein's name with terrorists, he knew he could 
easily make the case for a war with Iraq. He didn't need the UN as long as 
he continued to enjoy the vast support of the American people (polls 
consistently show that over 60 per cent of Americans support President 
Bush's decision to invade Iraq), he was safe politically.

Now we see, despite objections from most of the world community ­ forget 
this stupid facade about having a coalition of the willing ­ the bombs have 
been raining down on Iraq.

By the time it's all over, an untold sum of innocent civilians would have 
lost their lives. It's a cruel war that has been propagated on 
speculations, paranoia and self serving allegations.

And for what purpose? Some see oil as the motive but I hardly think so. 
There is a deeper underlying reason at work here- its called arrogance ­ 
the big stick.

US ARROGANCE

The terrible acts of September 11 only served to further shape how the 
American President looks at those he considers enemies. He makes known his 
contempt and distrust for countries which do not subscribe to his way of 
thinking.

Newsweek writer Fareed Zakaria, in a recent article entitled "The Arrogant 
Empire" said this about the Bush doctrine: "The notion is that the United 
States needs to intimidate countries with its power and assertiveness, 
always threatening, always denouncing, never showing weakness. Donald 
Rumsfe

Amien Rais Wants Blair/Bush/Howard on Trial at the Hague.

[professor rat]

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- The United Nations must try President Bush and 
his allies as war criminals, a top Indonesian politician demanded Monday as 
protesters elsewhere denounced the war in Iraq as illegal and voiced 
concern for its victims.
Amien Rais delivered a letter to the U.N. building in Jakarta demanding 
that Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair be tried in an 
international court "for their unjustified use of force against the people 
of Iraq."
Rais heads one of the country's largest Islamic political parties and is 
expected to run for president in 2004.
Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, has been a fierce 
critic of the U.S.-led campaign. Between 100,000 and 300,000 people 
demonstrated against the war Sunday in the capital, Jakarta.
Four doctors from an Indonesian humanitarian group, the Medical Emergency 
Rescue Committee, announced they would fly to Iraq to treat civilian war 
victims.
"We are concerned about all the innocent civilians that we see suffering on 
our television screens," said spokeswoman Giri Inaya.
At an anti-war demonstration in Multan, in central Pakistan, about 400 
doctors also asked that they be allowed to send teams of physicians to 
treat wounded Iraqis.
The doctors, joined by nurses and paramedics, chanted anti-American 
slogans, calling the United States the "No. 1 terrorist" and "an enemy of 
peace."
Pakistan is a key ally of the United States in war in terror, but most 
Pakistanis oppose the U.S.-led attacks on Iraq, and demonstrations against 
the war have been a daily occurrence.
In Egypt, authorities ordered the release of 64 anti-war protesters, 
including two lawmakers, detained after protests, prosecutors said.
Nasserite Party MP Hamdeen Sabahi, 50, and independent politician Mohammed 
Farid Hassanein, 55, were freed Sunday after being among scores of people 
detained over allegedly inciting anti-war protesters to destroy property 
and attack police officers.
Protesters accused Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak of not doing enough to 
stop the war. They also criticized his close relationship with America and 
for allowing coalition warships to pass through Egypt's Suez Canal.
Mubarak has condemned the war but blamed it on what he calls Iraqi 
President Saddam Hussein's failure to cooperate with the international 
community.
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2003/03/31/55020-ap.html

RE: U.S. Drops 'E-Bomb' On Iraqi TV

[Duncan Frissell]

At 12:43 PM 3/29/2003 -0800, Mike Rosing wrote:
I totally agree.  The US has lost everything in terms of world opinion.
We are morons led by an insane lunatic and the US needs to be dealt with
accordingly.  Once we start invading Syria, the world will retaliate in a
big way.  We're already building excuses to do so, so I won't be supprised
if the US "accidentally" bombs a few targets inside Syria.
Washington are very capable of doing something really stupid and I don't
think they appreciate how much military power can be brought to bear
against them.  If it stays in Iraq, the US has a chance.  If they decide
to make it bigger, the US will be toast.


So when the rest of the world retaliates with all their military power that 
the US fails to appreciate, what strategic war plan does the  rest of the 
world have for handling a couple thousand nukes?  Just trying to figure 
their options?

DCF

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Tech writer iced for expressing opinion 
By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco

Posted: 29/03/2003 at 11:21 GMT
Much-loved computer columnist Henry Norr has been suspended by the Hearst
Corporation - owners of The San Francisco Chronicle - for
expressing political views on his day off. 
Along with two thousand other citizens, including the former head of the
Pacific Stock Exchange, Norr was arrested in San Francisco last week as
he was protesting the US-British invasion of Iraq. He emailed the paper
to say he would be late the next day. But the cowardly Chronicle
insisted on calling creating a time card dispute, and Norr is currently
suspended without pay. 
"This is a bogus, after-the-fact cover for an act of political
retaliation and an attempt to intimidate other employees," Norr
wrote in an email to Jim Romensko. 
That his employer should take on the role of policing what employees do
in their own time is a remarkable act of corporate coercion. 
Norr doesn't even do political reporting. "I write about things like
(e-mail) spam," he told Reuters. 
Don't be so modest, Henry. His Monday tech column Tech 21 is a
rare beast: the former MacWeek editor completely eschews the kind
of gushing, techno-utopioan advertorials that are now
the norm for mainstream publications
in favor of a gentle and wise, and hugely-well-informed skepticism. He
also breaks stories. In other words,
he one of the paper's best assets. 
But the punishment lasts for a "minimum" of two weeks.

Norr's shabby treatment highlights one of the absurdities of the US
media: it requires its staff to behave like eunuchs. This strange
hangover from the days of the Puritan ducking stool baffles visitors, but
keeps a mini-industry of "Journalism Schools" and ethics
committees busy. 
Which is why, after the long editorial filleting process of removing
anything that might cause offense to anyone has been
completed, you end up with newspapers that don't have any news in them.

"Total objectivity is an illusion," Norr eloquently explained
yesterday. "Everybody has views on important issues, at least most
people do." 
"Objectivity" - a word you only hear in the USA - isn't just an
illusion, it's a metaphysical impossibility. Although your tolerance for
"objectivity" is bound to be highly selective. Clear Channel
Communications - which dominates commercial radio in the USA - recently
sponsored pro-Invasion rallies and yesterday a Fox News Channel anchor
opened a news segment with the words "800 Iraqis ... and we
pasted them!" But you know that these voices are human, they may
be slanted, that owners exert influence, but hey - you're grown up
adults. Take your pick. 
"The best journalism comes from people who are engaged in the world
around them," added Norr, who are not just blinkered scribes who sit
there at the keyboard and write stories, but people who have passions and
feelings and engagement." 
The ducking stool treatment meted out to Norr by the Hearst Corporation,
which owns the Comical, has already rung alarm bells in the
Macintosh community, where where Norr is widely respected:- 
"Punishing him at work for expressing a political view on what he
thought was his own time is a dangerous way to proceed in a
democracy," writes Applelinks' John Farr. 
Yesterday, San Francisco citizens made their own
protest at their city paper's anodyne coverage of the Invasion
- no pictures of civilian casualties, but lots of light,
"color" pieces from embedded correspondents - by dumping fake
blood at the newspaper's offices. 
Reporters without Borders, an international organization which tries to
measure coercion against the free press, ranks the USA
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Manufacturing Dissent.

[professor rat]

A UNIT will be set up within Australia's security service ASIO to assess 
the threat of terrorism to the nation.
Just days after coming under sustained attack in Federal Parliament for 
underestimating the terrorism risk to Australia, the Howard Government has 
revealed its plans for the specialised unit to "enhance ASIO's threat 
assessment capability".
The Threat Assessments Unit will be responsible for assessing intelligence, 
preparing assessments of the threat to Australia and Australian interests 
from terrorism, and publishing risk levels.
A spokeswoman for Attorney-General Daryl Williams last night said the unit 
was "part of the Government's continuing commitment to enhancing 
counter-terrorism resources".
According to advertisements for interested applicants, the unit will be 
staffed by a director paid about $80,000 a year, a number of analysts 
earning up to $70,000, and a "threats production officer" responsible for 
publishing threat levels. Security service ASIO, which has an annual budget 
of about $65 million, has a staff of up to 550 working from its central 
office in Canberra and other offices in each capital city. The Opposition 
used parliamentary question times during the past fortnight to ask why 
Australia's terrorism threat had not been raised as a result of the war in 
Iraq, when the British and US governments were warning of greater risk.
Senior ministers said ASIO had not passed on any reason to upgrade the 
security alert level.
http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,6218517%255E421,00.html
			

The Devil's Dictionary.

[professor rat]

The Coalition. 
No name could be more appropriate to the
cooperation between the United States and the United Kingdom against
Iraq.
In "The Devil's Dictionary" of the American humorist Ambrose
Bierce, published some 100 years ago, "coalition" is defined as
(I quote from memory) the cooperation between two thieves who have their
hands so deep in each others pockets that they cannot rob a third person
separately.
Reconstructionists. 
The problem of the Brits and the
Americans is that they are possessed by an unquenchable thirst for
reconstructing.
They dream about it day and night. They cannot think and speak about
anything else.
Trouble is, in order to rebuild something one has to demolish it first.
No destruction, no reconstruction.
Therefore the British, together with the Americans, are occupied with
destroying Iraq systematically. Missile and bombs, tanks and artillery,
ships and infantry--everything is employed in order to facilitate the
reconstruction of the country.
The main objective of the urge for reconstruction is, of course, Baghdad.
A city of five million people, miles upon miles of buildings and streets,
which can be reconstructed after their demolition. If Baghdad becomes
indeed the site of Stalingrad-style street fighting, house after house,
street after street, there will be indeed a lot to reconstruct.
The New
Mongols. 
The appetite for rebuilding separates the new conquerors from their
predecessors, the Mongols, who conquered Baghdad in 1258, killed the
Caliph (who had already surrendered) and destroyed the city completely,
after butchering all the inhabitants, men, women and babies. 
They did not bring with them reconstruction crews, but laid waste to
Iraq. The irrigation canals that had been built throughout thousands of
years of civilization were devastated. The event has gone down in history
as one of the biggest disasters ever to befall the Arab world.
By the way, two years later the Muslims annihilated the Mongol army in
the battle of Ein-Jalud (today's kibbutz Ein-Harod), a major chapter in
Palestininian history. That was the end of the Mongols in the Middle
East, but the region never recovered from the Mongol devastation to this
very day.
Demolish and profit. 

Apart from the idealist aim of helping
the Iraqi people, there is also a more material side to reconstruction.
It will be huge business. The big American corporations--some of which
are connected with the paladins of the Bush administration--are already
quarreling about the spoils. They will, of course, allow no foreigners to
come into this. To quote an American saying: "To the victors belong
the spoils". 
A rather obnoxious sight: even before the Iraqi towns are destroyed,
corporate giants are dividing among themselves the profits of their
rebuilding.
Humanitarians. 
The unquenchable idealism of the
Anglo-Americans finds its expression also in the drive for humanitarian
aid. This is becoming quite an obsession. Humanitarian aid must be
brought to the Iraqi people, whether they want it or not. 
The inhabitants of Basra do not want the promised aid? Ha, we'll see
about that. We shall bomb them, starve them--until they open their gates
and allow the humanitarian aid in. After all, one cannot aid people as
long as the city is controlled by the evil Saddam, cursed be his name,
whose only aim is to prevent humanitarian aid from reaching his
people.
The coalition could, of course, drop food and water - instead of bombs -
from the air. One could also arrange for a short cease-fire, so as to
bring the humanitarian aid into the besieged city. But that has been
forbidden by Donald Rumsfeld, another great humanitarian. So there is
really no alternative but to bomb them until they are ripe for aid.
Masters and natives. 

As a preview of the humanitarian aid to
come after the occupation of Basra, the British have distributed a film
about the arrival of aid to a village on the way. They were so satisfied
with this piece of reporting, that they ran it dozens of times on
TV.
It looks like this: a British truck brings food and water. The villagers,
mainly desperate women and children, besiege the truck. They beg for
water. The soldiers distribute mineral water to the maddened crowd--one
bottle to every child and woman. After days of thirst, one (one!) liter
per family.
The whole scene is nauseating. The hunger and thirst of the population,
caught in the middle of the fighting, are exploited for crude propaganda.
The British look again as they have always looked in Iraq: overbearing
colonial masters, doing a favor to the natives. For every Arab beholder,
this is the ultimate humiliation.
Robbing for the robbed. In order to finance everything--the destruction,
the reconstruction, the humanitarian aid and what not--money is needed.
Where will it come from? From the Iraqi oil, of course.
Therefore, it is the humanitarian duty of the Americans to take hold of
the oil fields as quickly as possible. Not for their own good, perish the
thought, but 

GPS phones confiscated from reporters in Iraq

[R. A. Hettinga]

New Scientist

GPS phones confiscated from reporters in Iraq 

 

15:26 31 March 03 

Will Knight 

 

Satellite phones with built-in Global Positioning System (GPS) capabilities have been 
confiscated from journalists travelling with US troops inside Iraq, due to fears that 
they could inadvertently reveal their positions. 

Reporters "embedded" with the troops have been asked to hand over satellite telephones 
operated by Thuraya Satellite Telecommunications, a communications company based in 
Abu Dhabi. The restriction is limited to units near the war's front-line and is 
expected to be temporary, a spokesman for US central command in Qatar told New 
Scientist .

A spokeswoman for the US Department of Defense added that reporters with unaffected 
satellite phones would be asked to share them and that military communications 
equipment would be made available when possible. Replacement phones could also be sent 
to the front line. 

Richard Langley, a GPS expert at the University of New Brunswick, Canada, says US 
military commanders may be concerned that positioning information embedded in signals 
sent by the Thuraya phones could be intercepted and used by Iraqi forces to locate and 
attack US troops. 

"It's not impossible, although it would be rather difficult," Langley told New 
Scientist . "The signals are line-of-sight [from handset to satellite] so very little 
would leak out and be interceptable on the ground." 


Ground station intercept 

It would be easier to intercept the signal as it arrives from the satellite at the 
network operator's ground station, he says. But even in this case, any interceptor 
would still have to crack the encryption protecting the signal. 

An alternative concern is that the US military are worried that computers used to 
store call information are vulnerable to cyber attack. "Perhaps the concern was that 
there would be a log of these positions kept on a computer somewhere," Langley says. 

Positional information captured by any means would only be useful for as long as the 
caller remained in the same place, he notes: "Anyone wanting to use the information 
would have to work quickly." 

Thuraya telephones can connect to GSM mobile phone networks when they are available, 
and a satellite network when in more remote areas. The phones can also be used as a 
GPS receiver, determining its position by communicating with satellites in the GPS 
constellation. 

If the GPS functionality is switched on, the caller's co-ordinates are automatically 
embedded in the voice signal sent to the communications satellites. 


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"... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity,
[predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

PayPal charged with breaking Patriot Act

[R. A. Hettinga]

 | CNET News.com


PayPal charged with breaking Patriot Act
By Dawn Kawamoto
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
March 31, 2003, 1:22 PM PT
http://news.com.com/2100-1018-994810.html

A U.S. Attorney's office has alleged that PayPal violated laws regarding
the processing of online gambling payments, and is asking parent company
eBay to hand over nine months of the gambling-related earnings in
settlement.

The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri told eBay that its
online payment service violated provisions in the USA Patriot Act between
October 2001 and July 2002, according to eBay's annual report, filed Monday
with securities regulators. Under the act, it is prohibited to transmit
funds known to have come from a criminal offense, or that are intended to
promote or support unlawful activities.

The agency is seeking to collect any earnings that PayPal received from
online gambling merchants during the nine-month period, as well as
interest. Last year, PayPal received 6 percent of its revenue from online
gambling, according to its filing with the Securities and Exchange
Commission.

eBay, however, takes issue with the U.S. Attorney's allegations.

"PayPal acted in the good faith belief that its conduct did not violate
(the USA Patriot Act), and PayPal calculates that the amount of its
earnings from online gaming activities was less than asserted in the (U.S.
Attorney's) letter," the filing states.

The San Jose, Calif.-based auction company, which received the U.S.
Attorney's notice on Friday, is reviewing the matter and has not decided
whether it will pay the requested settlement price, said Kevin Pursglove,
an eBay spokesman.

If a settlement is reached, it won't be the first time PayPal has paid up
over processing online gambling payments. Last August, the service reached
a settlement with the attorney general for the state of New York, under
which it ceased processing payments for New York online gambling merchants
and also paid the state $200,000 in penalties.

eBay, which acquired PayPal in October, has halted the practice of
processing online gambling payments. In its filing, the company says the
most recent controversy could hit the service hard.

"Any finding of a civil or criminal violation by PayPal, or potentially any
settlement, could also endanger PayPal's ability to obtain, maintain or
renew money transmitter licenses in jurisdictions where it requires such
licenses to operate, which would materially harm our business," according
to the filing.

The company is aware that PayPal's business could also suffer if future
regulation under the USA Patriot Act requires it to revise its process for
verifying the identity of its customers. The USA Patriot Act, signed into
law in 2001, gives law enforcement agencies greater latitude in monitoring
Internet usage and sharing information. The law is designed to reduce the
prospect of terrorist attacks.

"PayPal's business could suffer if customers use its system for illegal or
improper purposes, or if usage of its system is reduced because of
increased verification requirements," the filing states.

But Pursglove noted that PayPal already uses a rigorous customer
identification system and has a good view, internally, of payments that
merchants try to process for illicit or illegal activity. The loss of such
business would be insignificant to eBay's revenue, he said.

He also noted that whether eBay settles for the amount the U.S. Attorney in
Missouri is seeking, something less or nothing at all, there would be no
material affect on its finances or operations. eBay declined to disclose
the amount the U.S. Attorney office is seeking.

Shares of eBay slipped $3.98, or about 4 percent, to $85.31 in Monday trading.

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