[RRE]pointers

From: Phil Agre (pagreat_private)
Date: Mon Dec 10 2001 - 20:57:29 PST

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    Here are some more URL's.  Thanks to everyone who contributed.
    
    The RRE home page includes many valuable items from the last few
    years, including many formerly broken links that are now fixed.
    The URL is <http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html>.
    
    Pick Hit: Rachid Tara, Made in Medina.
    
    
    war
    
    Kandahar on Brink of Chaos as Warlords Ready for Battle
    http://www.observer.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1501,615929,00.html
    
    Two Hundred Peacekeepers, Too Many Warlords
    http://www.smh.com.au/news/0112/10/opinion/opinion2.html
    
    The Unseen Side of the Inter-Afghan Talks in Germany
    http://www.smh.com.au/breaking/2001/12/06/FFXTGCUEVUC.html
    
    In Baltimore, an Afghan Restaurateur Fights Against the Taliban
    (two of Karzai's brothers run Helmand Afghan restaurants)
    http://www.citypaper.com/2001-09-26/mobs.html
    
    How My Friend Outwitted the Mullahs
    http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/12/08/wfall308.xml
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1284,615225,00.html
    
    Video Shows CIA Threatened to Let Prisoner Be Killed
    http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia_china/story.jsp?story=108988
    http://www.msnbc.com/news/668588.asp
    http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2001560012-2001565689,00.html
    
    Working With the CIA
    http://carlisle-www.army.mil/usawc/Parameters/01winter/jones.htm
    
    translated excerpts from alleged al-Qaeda Training Manual
    http://www.fas.org/irp/world/para/manualpart1.pdf
    
    My Beating by Refugees Is a Symbol of the Hatred and Fury of This Filthy War
    http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia_china/story.jsp?dir=71&story=109257&host=3&printable=1
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_1699000/1699708.stm
    
    articles relating to Afghanistan humanitarian issues
    http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/vLCE/7AE35E3BD46E47B6C1256AEE002FFD06?OpenDocument&StartKey=Afghanistan&ExpandView
    
    Taliban Ex-Allies Air Few Regrets
    http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/343/nation/Taliban_ex_allies_air_few_regrets+.shtml
    
    How Omar Led Taliban to Power, Then Defeat
    http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/343/nation/How_Omar_led_Taliban_to_power_then_defeat+.shtml
    
    jargon watch: liberals in general are responsible for John Walker
    (study the tricks they use to lump half the country into a stereotype)
    http://www.opinionjournal.com/taste/?id=95001562
    
    "those who say relativism made Walker don't know what they're talking about"
    (stereotypes come so easily to some people)
    http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/12/11/walker/
    
    article about Tamim Ansary's widely circulated message of September 12th
    (but no evidence for its speculation that the message had a material effect)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/09/magazine/09EMAIL.html
    
    Terror Money Hard to Block, Officials Find
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/10/international/10MONE.html?pagewanted=all
    
    Battlefield Clues Key to Bush's Next Step
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000097775dec09.story
    
    Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2002
    http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2001_rpt/hrep107-328.html
    
    The War of Words
    (propaganda campaigns from previous wars)
    http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/337/nation/The_war_of_words+.shtml
    
    
    bioterror
    
    A Compilation of Evidence and Comments on the Source of the Mailed Anthrax
    http://fas.org/bwc/news/anthraxpaper.htm
    
    Ex-Anthrax Makers Want FBI to Talk With Them
    (they should change their name to Abdul)
    http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nationworld/bal-te.anthrax09dec09.story
    
    anti-abortion terrorist feels that Ashcroft is on his side
    http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2001/12/07/national0718EST0514.DTL
    
    Anthrax Pervades Florida Site, Experts See Likeness to That Sent to Senators
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/05/national/05ANTH.html
    
    Lobbyists Seek Special Spin on Federal Bioterrorism Bill
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/11/politics/11LOBB.html?pagewanted=print
    
    Smallpox: What Every Clinician Should Know
    (advertisement for a satellite and webcast training program)
    http://www.phppo.cdc.gov/phtn/1213Factsheet.pdf
    
    
    civil liberties
    
    Testimony of Attorney General John Ashcroft, December 6, 2001
    http://judiciary.senate.gov/te120601f-ashcroft.htm
    
    widespread condemnation of Ashcroft likening dissent to treason
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/08/opinion/08RICH.html
    http://www.msnbc.com/news/668757.asp
    http://www.post-gazette.com/forum/20011209edashcroft1209p2.asp
    http://www.sacbee.com/content/opinion/story/1287465p-1355952c.html
    http://desmoinesregister.com/news/stories/c5917686/16696895.html
    http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ucrr/20011207/cm/there_is_a_difference_between_dissent_and_treason_1.html
    
    jargon watch: tendentiously vague language lets you deny everything
    (jargonheads talk in a netherworld just beyond the reach of rational thought)
    http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011207/pl/attack_justice_dc_1.html
    
    Closing Down Debate: Ashcroft's Attack on Dissent
    (including analysis of Mindy Tucker's even more objectionable follow-up)
    http://www.spinsanity.org/columns/20011210.html
    
    ACLU FOIA request for information on detainees
    http://www.aclu.org/court/detainee-foia-complaint.pdf
    
    Bush's (former) stand against secret evidence
    http://abcnews.go.com/sections/politics/DailyNews/debate001011_trans_8.html
    
    Ashcroft's (former) stand against secret evidence
    http://www.islamicinstitute.org/fb2001-1-12.pdf
    
    Innocent Are Caught in Cross Hairs of the Hunt for Suspected Terrorists
    http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/343/business/Innocent_are_caught_in_cross_hairs_of_the_hunt_for_suspected_terrorists+.shtml
    
    National Identification Schemes and the Fight Against Terrorism
    http://www.cpsr.org/program/natlID/natlIDfaq.html
    
    The Lie Detector That Scans Your Brain
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/09/magazine/09LIEDETECTOR.html
    
    Students Who Speak Out Against War Find Themselves Battling to Be Heard
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14157-2001Dec8.html
    
    Franklin Graham says he doesn't blame Islam, then goes right ahead and does so
    ("the terrible deeds that are committed as a result of Islamic teaching")
    http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=95001576
    
    jargon watch: check out this lie about what Michael Moore said
    (this is the newspaper that constantly claims to speak in the name of truth)
    http://www.opinionjournal.com/taste/?id=95001567
    
    
    politics
    
    Stimulus Bill May Mean Tax Breaks for Corporate America
    (these tax breaks have almost nothing to do with economic stimulus)
    http://www.nandotimes.com/business/story/189970p-1840013c.html
    
    Bush is trying to give a giant handout to a cellular company that defaulted
    http://www.hillnews.com/112801/mutiny.shtm
    
    Waxman Asks Cheney to Come Clean
    http://www.mapcruzin.com/news/bush120701a.htm
    
    Halliburton Battered as Asbestos Verdict Stirs Deep Anxieties
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/08/business/08HALL.html
    
    Bush keeps changing his clothes -- and that just proves how great he is
    (servile pundits will say anything, no matter how stupid)
    http://www.dailyhowler.com/h121001_1.shtml
    
    Supreme Court Conservatives Brought Disgrace on Their Institution
    http://www.thedailycamera.com/opinion/guest/09eguest.html
    
    an entertaining polemic about Pat Robertson
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/09/opinion/09LIND.html
    
    Robertson's Loony Ideas Undercut Christian Cause
    http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/editorial/1164318
    
    A Program for the New Traditionalist Movement
    ("the truth of an idea is not the primary reason for its acceptance")
    http://www.freecongress.org/centers/conservatism/traditionalist.htm
    
    
    security
    
    Four Minors Held for Creating Vicious Computer Virus
    http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=103698
    
    FAA Put Security Testing on Hold
    http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/343/metro/FAA_put_security_testing_on_hold+.shtml
    
    Airport Design in US Took a Big Hit on September 11th
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000097771dec09.story
    
    
    everything else
    
    Revealing the Microsoft Windows Source Code
    http://www.gigalaw.com/articles/ghosh-2000-01-p1.html
    http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2830948,00.html
    
    Sarah, 15, Sticks It to Bill Gates in BBC Interview
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/23274.html
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/club/your_reports/newsid_1697000/1697132.stm
    
    Paypal Warning
    (I have no information about whether this is true or not)
    http://www.paypalwarning.com/
    
    Marketplace of Ideas or Tag Sale?
    http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20011217&s=johnson
    
    IEEE 802.16 Sets Stage for Metro Area Networks Using Fixed Broadband Wireless
    http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/f_headline.cgi?bw.120701/213412218
    
    GeoCommunicator
    http://www.geocommunicator.gov/
    
    Parallel History Project on the Warsaw Pact
    http://www.isn.ethz.ch/php/
    
    Re-Envisioning the PhD
    http://www.grad.washington.edu/envision/
    
    Narco News Beats Banamex!
    http://www.narco.news.xs2.net/
    
    remember my review of the book about the design methods of IDEO?
    http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20011210.html
    
    The Broadband Economy
    ("failed to foresee the enormous difficulty of upgrading the last mile")
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/10/opinion/10KORN.html
    
    First World Map of Lightning Frequency   (cool)
    http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991657
    
    Navy Rewrites Its Course-Writing Software to Enhance Online Distance Education
    http://chronicle.com/free/2001/12/2001120501u.htm
    
    Turbulent Cities, London, 17-18 December 2001
    http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/planning/information/turbulent/
    
    a theological critique of the Social Gospel
    (it doesn't reflect my views, but it's interesting)
    http://www.visi.com/~contra_m/pc/1957/3-1social.html
    
    Prosperity Made Blacks a Target for Land Grabs
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000097774dec09.story
    
    Mexicans Shine Light on State's Dark Secrets
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000097773dec09.story
    
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