Here are some more URL's. Thanks to everyone who contributed. politics Huge Voter Database Left in Familiarly Questionable Hands http://www.sptimes.com/News/072901/Columns/Huge_voter_database_l.shtml the illegitimate government has lost control of the policy agenda (so democracy is still working, at least in some narrow sense) http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20010727.atc.14.rmm what can you say about a guy who can't even get along with Canada? http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2001/07/28/canada-us.htm trying to scare people about Social Security, just as they accused others of http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/29/weekinreview/29STEV.html Internal Republican Memo Says US Budget to Tap Medicare Fund http://quote.bloomberg.com/fgcgi.cgi?T=uspolitics_news.ht&s=AO2HN4hWeSW50ZXJu "Bush accelerates trend of installing big donors in government positions" http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/2001/07/30/p1s2.htm Shrub Declares War on Public Information http://www.thespleen.com/politics/xspleennation/index.php?artID=339 John Negroponte's nomination as ambassador to the UN http://www.geocities.com/ravencrazy/Negroponte.html Officials Say Beacon Aids Anti-Missile Test (this is what the military calls "success-oriented testing") http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/nm/20010727/ts/arms_usa_missile_dc_2.html US Looking at Spacecraft as Bomber http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000061380jul28.story "reports debunking the White House vandalism story were often played less prominently than the original articles" http://ajr.newslink.org/ajrlorijul01.html Fox News Channel's Extraordinary Right-Wing Tilt (they constantly make false claims about specifics of other networks' coverage) http://www.fair.org/extra/0108/fox-main.html jargon watch: evidence-free assertion of a liberal program's perverse effects http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000061533jul28.story globalization in action Italy confronts the police riot in Genoa http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20010727.atc.16.rmm "You could sense the venom and hatred" http://www.observer.co.uk/focus/story/0,6903,529074,00.html Briton to Sue Genoa Police Over "Torture and Kidnap" http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,529537,00.html Dossier About Violations of Civil and Human Rights http://www.dyne.org/antig8/ video from German TV of beating victims being carried out on stretchers http://kanalb.de/spezial-genua2001/1uhr30_via_c_battisti_dsl.ram more video http://kanalb.de/spezial-genua2001/ article from La Repubblica on fascism in the Italian police http://www.repubblica.it/online/politica/gottododici/pestaggi/pestaggi.html translation: http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=55472 everyone's trying to figure out which black-masked rioters were "real" http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=55889 next protest: IMF and World Bank meetings, Washington, September 2001 http://www.50years.org/s28/call.html news from planet Microsoft "Code Red" virus hit Microsoft servers too http://www.eastsidejournal.com/sited/story/html/60582 Governments Worldwide Implore Microsoft to Reform Its Engineering Practices (ha ha ha -- no, they're only pleading with users to install the latest patch) http://www.cert.org/archive/html/coderedannounce.html http://www.salon.com/news/wire/2001/07/29/worm/ the court says MS is a monopolist, but the government still can't stop them http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/30/technology/ebusiness/30SOFT.html claim that article about MS software losing track of nukes was a false alarm http://www.lamonitor.com/lamonitor/myarticles.asp?P=226370&S=491&PubID=4272&EC=0 privacy How the Data-Miners Want to Influence Your Vote (pre-election but still relevant) http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/oct2000/nf20001026_969.htm Facial Frisking in Tampa http://www.privacyfoundation.org/commentary/tipsheet.asp?id=46&action=0 Video Surveillance More Pervasive http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000061603jul29.story AOL Might Join "Identity Service" Battle http://www.washtech.com/news/media/11460-1.html Privacy by Design, Montreal, 3-5 December 2001 http://privacy.zeroknowledge.com/privacybydesign2001/ everything else vocabulary-word-a-day mailing list http://wordsmith.org/awad/ Biodiversity Knowledge Management Forum http://plantnet.rbgsyd.gov.au/bioforum/ Faculties Take On Commercialization of College Sports http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/29/education/29COLL.html Jail Time in the Digital Age http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/30/opinion/30LESS.html Will Attention-Getting Yahoo! Ads Spur Adoption? http://www.turboads.com/richmedia_news/2001rmn/rmn20010516.shtml The Essence of Sneaky Marketing (no, not Lucinda Williams!) http://slate.msn.com/moneybox/entries/01-07-26_112612.asp Army PSYOP in Bosnia: Capabilities and Constraints http://carlisle-www.army.mil/usawc/parameters/99summer/collins.htm the communist spy's day job was labeling normal Americans as communist spies http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000061720jul29.story http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4330-2001Jul29.html Papers Show US Role in Indonesian Purge http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62277-2001Jul27.html international politics of the US death penalty http://www.thenation.com/docPrint.mhtml?i=20010806&s=shapiro Israel Is Wary of Rights Cases Across Borders http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/28/international/middleeast/28MIDE.html end
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