Here are some more URL's. Thanks to everyone who contributed. RRE home page: http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html Pick Hit: Los Tigres Del Norte, De Paisano a Paisano war Al Qaeda Feared To Be Lurking In Indonesia http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28483-2002Jan10.html Oil Negotiations with Taliban May Have Interfered With Efforts to Get Bin Laden (I'm not persuaded yet about these particular accusations) http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0201/09/ltm.06.html http://tiger.berkeley.edu/sohrab/politics/taliban+us.html speech by FBI agent who later resigned because FBI wasn't fighting terrorism (he died in the World Trade Center attack weeks later) http://www.nationalstrategy.com/speakers/oneill.html The Ghost of Terror Past (more on Otto Reich and the double standard that everyone knows about but us) http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2002/01/11/reich/print.html German claims that the US translation of the bin Laden video was faked (I have no opinion -- second URL is a rough English translation) http://www.wdr.de/tv/monitor/beitraege.phtml?id=379 http://www.overthrow.com/lsn/news.asp?fileName=lsn20011227115448.html Saudi Arabia's Anti-American Fiction http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/010/oped/Saudi_Arabia_s_anti_American_fiction+.shtml The Rise of Complex Terrorism http://www.foreignpolicy.com/issue_janfeb_2002/homer-dixon.html the Bush scandals Bush's Insider Connections Preceded Huge Profit on Stock Deal (it's not just Enron -- maybe we can look at the whole pattern now) http://www.public-i.org/story_01_040400.htm Faltering Bush Defends Links With Bankrupt Energy Giant (he can't seem to get that Enron logo off his forehead) http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,3-2002018582,00.html Threat to Bush in Enron Inquiry http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,631022,00.html http://www.msnbc.com/news/684964.asp White House Was a Home For Enron http://www.newsday.com/news/columnists/ny-vpren102544126jan10.column Ashcroft Withdraws as Enron Affair Explodes http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=113861 http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000002806jan11.story http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/020110/wat025581_1.html http://www.opensecrets.org/alerts/v7/alertv7_1.asp Enron Executives Contributed to Ashcroft Campaigns http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28374-2002Jan10.html Henry Waxman's letter to Ashcroft, hours before he recused himself http://www.truthout.com/01.11A.Wax.Ashcroft.htm Deputy AG Larry Thompson Tied to Enron (this is the person to whom Ashcroft turned over the Enron investigation) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dem-press/message/63 US attorney's office in Houston recuses itself as well http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/topstory2/1207236 Bush Aide Larry Lindsey Linked to Enron http://www.nydailynews.com/2002-01-11/News_and_Views/Beyond_the_City/a-137885.asp Enron's Campaign Contributions and Lobbying http://www.opensecrets.org/alerts/v6/alertv6_31.asp Enron Auditor Admits It Destroyed Documents (this case should be the last straw that puts Arthur Andersen out of business) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/11/business/11AUDI.html?pagewanted=print http://www.cbsnews.com/now/story/0,1597,323800-412,00.shtml http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20020110/ts/enron_documents_2.html http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000002765jan11.story Did Enron's Auditors Think They Had Something to Hide? http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/11/business/11NORR.html?pagewanted=print Destruction of Records "Unusual", Experts Say http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000002807jan11.story the managing partner of Andersen's Houston Office is a Bush "pioneer" http://www.tpj.org/pioneers/d_goddard.html Lay Hinted Bailout, White House Reveals (do they have tapes?) http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/topstory/local/1207262 http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20020110/ts/enron_investigation_3.html http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/11/business/11ENRO.html Following Enron's Trail http://www.hillnews.com/010902/editorial.shtm White House Moves to Contain Political Damage From Enron Turmoil (nothing could better symbolize their essential viciousness) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/10/politics/10CND-ENRON.html?pagewanted=print jargon watch: counterattack by associating *them* with the bad thing too (no matter how flimsily -- jargon works by destroying all sense of proportion) http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/special/enron/1207291 Your Tar and Feathers Ready? Mine Are (Ari Fleischer is a symptom) http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/editorial/1206915 Firm's Saga Could Dog Bush in Election Year (it's about character) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28593-2002Jan10.html President George W. Bush: United Methodist Layman of the Year (too many religious conservatives applaud words while selectively ignoring deeds) http://www.goodnewsmag.org/news/010102magarticle_bush.html politics jargon watch: once they howled at recess appointments, now they howl for them (it's scary that anyone could scream so horribly just as an expedient tactic) http://www.thenewrepublic.com/011402/notebook011402_wsj.html jargon watch: that book proving that CBS is biased? it's blithering nonsense (any accusation against liberals, no matter how brainless, makes you a hero) http://www.dailyhowler.com/h011002_2.shtml jargon watch: invent a straw man and put a catchy name on him (the next step is to repeat the catchy name endlessly) http://www.brook.edu/press/REVIEW/winter2002/skerry.htm US acknowledges that missile attacks are less likely than numerous others http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28446-2002Jan10.html Books for Political Conservatives Top Best-Seller Lists (thoughtful conservatives exist, but the books that sell are irrational junk) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/10/books/10BOOK.html Guaranteed Deficits http://www.stpetersburgtimes.com/2002/01/10/Opinion/Guaranteed_deficits.shtml budget disasters in the states (in California we pretended that taxes on dot-com capital gains were permanent) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/11/opinion/11KRUG.html civil liberties The Camera as Witness to "Bloody Sunday" (are these images online?) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/11/arts/design/11COTT.html The John Ashcroft Players Present: Our Bill of Rights (the current arguments are precisely how authoritarian regimes get started) http://www.salon.com/comics/boll/2002/01/10/boll/ http://www.miami.com/herald/content/opinion/opcol/digdocs/100595.htm Dollar Ends Program to Fingerprint Car Renters (their customers really hated it) http://www.latimes.com/business/la-000002019jan09.story A Wiretap In Every Home (replicating the Patriot Act in the states, starting alas with California) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22888-2002Jan9.html Judge Rules Fingerprints Cannot Be Called a Match (does anybody have the URL for this decision?) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/11/national/11PRIN.html The Summit on Privacy, Security and Safety, New York, 5-6 March 2002 http://www.globalprivacysummit.net/ The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories http://www.btselem.org/index.asp outline of government control of media in Russia http://ojr.usc.edu/content/story.cfm?request=678 The Complex World of Iranian News http://ojr.usc.edu/content/story.cfm?request=680 http://ojr.usc.edu/content/story.cfm?request=679 intellectual property Norway Indicts Teen Who Published Code Liberating DVDs http://www.eff.org/IP/Video/DeCSS_prosecutions/Johansen_DeCSS_case/20020110_eff_pr.html http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-8434181.html Economics Professor Backs Technology to Protect Copyrighted Materials (his theoretical defenses of Microsoft were not trivial) http://chronicle.com/free/2002/01/2002011101t.htm America Online Seeks to Steer Subscribers to Distance-Education Providers http://chronicle.com/free/2002/01/2002011101u.htm UCLA Will Build TV, Film Archive in Santa Clarita http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000002690jan11.story security Retail Gift Cards Often Unprotected (I never cease to be amazed by corporate obliviousness about security) http://www.msnbc.com/news/598102.asp?0dm=C216T&cp1=1 more informative discussion of buffer overflow security vulnerabilities (not accidents: they are deeply ingrained into "professional" practice) http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/21.86.html#subj12 Microsoft Disputes Donut Virus's Effect on .NET http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s%253D720%2526a%253D20996,00.asp Economics and Information Security, Berkeley, 16-17 May 2002 http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/econws.html everything else Microsoft-Lawmaker Talks Questioned http://www.latimes.com/technology/wire/sns-ap-microsoft-antitrust0110jan10.story The Internet's Invisible Hand http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/10/technology/circuits/10NETT.html?pagewanted=print Library Juice issue including a bunch of links on open source http://libr.org/Juice/issues/vol5/LJ_5.2.html Government Sites Draw Web Traffic http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/173500.html Argentina: just throwing open the market doors is not the answer ("institutional innovation based on domestic needs and local knowledge") http://www.thenewrepublic.com/011402/rodrik011402.html end
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