[RRE]pointers

From: Phil Agre (pagreat_private)
Date: Tue Jan 15 2002 - 23:44:11 PST

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    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: Ferron, Driver
    
    
    war
    
    Special Forces Sent To Philippines Fight
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51681-2002Jan15.html
    
    CIA Looks to Los Angeles for Would-Be Iranian Spies
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-000003859jan15.story
    
    French conspiracy site about the Pentagon attack
    (it's got some interesting pictures anyway)
    http://www.reseauvoltaire.net/actu/conflit3.htm
    
    interview with Noam Chomsky
    (requires subscription)
    http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2002/01/16/chomsky/print.html
    
    
    the Bush scandals
    
    Bush Faces Flak Over Family Links With Winner of US Defence Contract
    http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/story.jsp?story=114163
    
    Racicot Conflict? The Damage Is Done
    http://www.greatfallstribune.com/news/stories/20020115/opinion/1473056.html
    
    did you know that Carlyle group owns one of the two major book distributors?
    (Barnes and Noble was repelled in its attempt to buy the other one)
    http://www.btol.com/history.cfm
    http://www.publishingtrends.com/copy/8-2000/0200carlyle.htm
    
    Eight Questions for Bush About Enron
    http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/jan2002/nf20020114_2690.htm
    
    Bush, the Corporations' Flag-Carrier
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,633578,00.html
    
    As Enron Scandal Spreads, US Starts to Question Cash for Influence Culture
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/enron/story/0,11337,634164,00.html
    
    GOP Enron Plan: Shift the Blame 
    (personal responsibility is for other people)
    http://www.rollcall.com/pages/news/00/2002/01/news0114c.html
    
    elaborate Web site trying to stick Enron on the Democrats
    (read closely and you'll be impressed at how far they had to stretch)
    http://www.continue.to/enron
    
    jargon watch: covering Enron, press "want to show that business is evil"
    (this is a classic, classic defocusing maneuver to insinuate ill motives)
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45564-2002Jan14.html
    
    the famous letter warning Ken Lay of the impending explosion at Enron
    (its exact date is a matter of great curiosity, given Lay's statements)
    http://energycommerce.house.gov/107/news/layletter.pdf
    
    For Andersen and Enron, the Questions Just Keep Coming
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/16/business/16ACCO.html?pagewanted=print
    
    The Scoop: The Enron Story You Haven't Heard
    http://www.newmassmedia.com/nac.phtml?code=har&db=nac_fea&ref=18688
    
    Enron Tax Strategy Opposed by Clinton Draws Attention of Government Officials
    http://interactive.wsj.com/fr/emailthis/retrieve.cgi?id=SB1011049746340475960.djm
    
    Enron had literally hundreds of offshore subsidiaries
    http://www.newmassmedia.com/nac.phtml?code=har&db=nac_fea&ref=18688
    
    Employment Agreement -- Enron Corp. and Kenneth L. Lay, December 13, 1996
    http://techdeals.biz.findlaw.com/agreements/enron/lay.emp.1996.12.18.html
    
    Employment Agreement -- Enron Corp. and Kenneth L. Lay, August 13, 2000
    http://techdeals.biz.findlaw.com/agreements/enron/lay.emp.2001.08.13.html
    
    Enron: Corporate Complicity in Human Rights Violations
    http://www.hrw.org/reports/1999/enron/
    
    State to Investigate Destruction of Enron California Energy Papers 
    http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/01/15/MN191002.DTL
    
    Enron's California Smoking Gun
    (requires subscription)
    http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2002/01/16/california_enron/
    
    Judge Overseeing Host of Enron Suits Recuses Self
    (is someone keeping a recusal scoreboard?)
    http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/020114/n14233871_1.html
    
    Arthur Andersen Fires an Executive for Enron Orders
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/16/business/16ENRO.html?pagewanted=print
    
    Andersen Turns to PR Firm for Help With Enron Issues
    http://www.holmesreport.com/holmestemp/story.cfm?edit_id=1827&typeid=1
    
    the famous letter also refers to conflicts by Price Waterhouse Coopers
    http://www.khou.com/news/khou020115_ds_AnotherEnronAccountingFirm.21c2708.html
    
    a disaster for the accounting industry, which deserves it
    http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?story_id=939057
    
    
    civil liberties
    
    "Special Case" INS Detainees Decline, But Not as Fast as Ashcroft Reckons
    http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZNQ83UGWC
    
    "BlackBerry as an electronic gateway to state and federal criminal databases"
    http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,49740,00.html
    
    ACLU Skewers DMV Proposal As "De Facto" National ID
    http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/173656.html
    
    All 50 States Agree to Upgrade Driver's Licenses
    http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/014/business/All_50_states_agree_to_upgrade_driver_s_licenses+.shtml
    
    AOL Quietly Launches "Magic Carpet"
    (their equivalent of Passport, and no more appealing)
    http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s%253D701%2526a%253D21110,00.asp
    
    Taking "Freedom" Out of the Freedom of Information Act?
    http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZMG2PQGWC
    
    The Myth of Fingerprint Evidence
    http://www.linguafranca.com/print/0011/feature_fingerprints.html
    
    "content and technology industries differ on infringement-sniffing initiative"
    http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZGFPVOGWC
    
    explosion in the conflict between Berlusconi and the Italian judiciary
    (they stood up to the mafia; at least Berlusconi is less likely to kill them)
    http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=114331
    
    Mugabe Closes In on the Free Press
    http://www.indexonline.org/news/20020111_zimbabwe.shtml
    
    
    politics
    
    Bush speech listing all the things the surplus should be used to pay for
    (February 2001)
    http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/02/20010228.html
    
    update on the character assassination campaign against Tom Daschle
    (it's all they know how to do)
    http://www.prospect.org/print/V13/3/mooney-c.html
    http://www.newyorker.com/THE_TALK_OF_THE_TOWN/CONTENT/?020121ta_talk_hertzberg
    
    
    everything else
    
    ISP Giants Form New Lobbying Group
    http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/173633.html
    
    globalizing free software
    http://lwn.net/daily/stanco-world-bank.php3
    
    Gates' Vaccination Drive Attacked
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_1760000/1760819.stm
    
    Delta Farmers Want Copyright on Catfish
    (unfair -- if it's not a catfish then they shouldn't be calling it a catfish)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/16/politics/16CATF.html?pagewanted=print
    
    Debunking Japan's Myths of Its Exceptional Self
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/15/books/15FREN.html?pagewanted=print
    
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