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 end
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