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: Ensemble PAN, The Island of St. Hylarion: Music of Cyprus, 1413-1422 war Shoe Bomb Briton Named as Key Agent in Bin Laden's Network http://www.guardian.co.uk/september11/story/0,11209,634769,00.html Al Qaeda Trained Bombing Suspect, Indictment Says http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/17/national/17INQU.html Spy Trip Log Matches Reid's Travels http://www.msnbc.com/news/688607.asp United States of America v. John Philip Walker Lindh http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/terrorism/uswlindh11502cmp.html Outfit Banned, But Extremism Survives in Pak http://www.hindustantimes.com/nonfram/160102/detnat22.asp Islam in the United States -- US Deptartment of State http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/islam/ Universal Military Training and Service Act of 2001 (search under "bill number" for HR 3598) http://thomas.loc.gov/home/c107query.html The US Is Determined to Dominate the World's Richest New Oil Source http://commondreams.org/views02/0113-04.htm Bush Fuels Oil Conspiracy Theory http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=12205 America's Homegrown Terrorists http://www.salon.com/books/int/2002/01/17/hamm/print.html the war in the Philippines "what is really at stake in Mindanao, an island long coveted by Washington?" http://www.adobo.com/news/today/article.asp?articleID=35200&newssec=149 What Awaits US "Military Advisers" in Basilan? http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2002/jan/17/top_stories/20020117top5.html Unprecedented RP-US Exercise http://www.adobo.com/news/today/article.asp?articleID=35189&newssec=143 Keep Out, MILF Warns US, RP Men http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2002/jan/17/top_stories/20020117top3.html Jolo Folk Massacre 6 Rangers http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2002/jan/17/top_stories/20020117top1.html civil liberties and security Anti-Terror Campaign Cloaking Human Rights Abuse http://www.hrw.org/press/2002/01/wr2002.htm http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57990-2002Jan16.html http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3HAO77IWC US: Geneva Conventions Apply to Guantanamo Detainees (we don't defend people's rights because we like them) http://www.hrw.org/press/2002/01/us011102.htm US Pressed on Detainees' Treatment http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A58069-2002Jan16?language=printer On Defensive, General Says Prisoners Get Mats, Even Bagels (and Froot Loops) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/17/international/17DETA.html California Wiretapping Bill Dealt Legal Setback http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/svfront/wirtap011602.htm Europe: The Watchdog of the Net? http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5101787,00.html "standard for identification information on driver's license applications" http://www.aamva.org/standards/stdAAMVADLIdStandard2000.asp privacy group sues for information about personal data sold to law enforcement http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/173666.html marvelously language-intensive briefing slides on Army PKI/smart card plans http://www.army.mil/disc4/references/Briefings_Borland/IAC/Borland_IAC.pdf manuals for hacking through "social engineering" (why break cryptography when you can just ask people to give you the password?) http://www.securityfocus.com/cgi-bin/infocus.pl?id=1527 http://www.securityfocus.com/cgi-bin/infocus.pl?id=1533 http://www.securityfocus.com/guest/5044 Microsoft Makes Software Safety a Top Goal (billg's memo is self-serving rubbish, but they can do it if they want to) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/17/technology/17SECU.html http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-8509737.html Bush, Citing Security, Bans Some Unions at Justice Department (they will use terrorism as an excuse to pursue *any* agenda) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/16/politics/16UNIO.html complete archive of presidential directives and executive orders http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/direct.htm Chemical Plants Fail to Cut Hazards as Concerns of Terrorism Grow http://www.ombwatch.org/execreport/hazards.html A Merger of Book Middlemen Could Deeply Influence Sales http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/17/business/media/17BOOK.html?pagewanted=print TV6 Case Sets a Bad Example http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2002/01/15/005.html Chirac Judge Resigns, Claiming "Mafia-Like" Corruption in France http://news.independent.co.uk/world/europe/story.jsp?story=114508 Activists Document Apparent Chechen Killings http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000004148jan16.story Republicans used redistricting software that showed where blacks lived http://web.thestate.com/content/columbia/2002/01/15/local/redistrict15a.htm More Than a Dream: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Other Words (MLK Day Monday, January 21st) http://www.poynter.org/centerpiece/011602.htm Martin Luther King Jr.: Never Again Where He Was (weirdly dated Time Man of the Year 1963 article) http://www.time.com/time/special/moy/1963.html the Bush scandals Enron Mess Signals Moral Decay in US (from a prominent conservative in Canada) http://makeashorterlink.com/?S46B22D4 Probe Raises Stakes on Energy Task Force Records (please, please keep them secret through November) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58073-2002Jan16.html On the Hill, Enron Probes Reach Double Digits (it's too bad so many people got hurt, because otherwise this would be fun) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58114-2002Jan16.html Enron and the Gramms http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/17/opinion/17HERB.html Enron's Ties to Tom DeLay Went Beyond Contributions to His Campaign http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/16/business/16DONA.html Marc Racicot: The New Lobbyist at the RNC http://www.opensecrets.org/alerts/v6/alertv6_34.asp SEC Chairman's Conflicts on Enron http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/ap/20020116/pl/enron_conflicts_2.html White House Says Economics Adviser Saw Little Risk on Enron (he thinks the tax cuts are cool too) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/17/business/17BUSH.html Enron may signal reform for campaign financing http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3Z0JG3IWC extensive coverage of Enron including online video http://www.c-span.org/enron/index.asp Computer Sleuths Take On Challenge of Finding Deleted Enron E-Mails http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/svfront/085710.htm Enron Affair Places Davis Polk in Awkward Role http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZ190QXJWC Law Firm Advised Enron Not to Worry http://www.msnbc.com/news/688691.asp several interesting details on today's Enron news http://www.cnn.com/2002/LAW/01/16/enron/ Memo Warned of Enron's Setup Being Seen as "Hoax" http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000004145jan16.story Enron Letter Suggests $1.3 Billion More Down the Drain http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/17/business/17LETT.html Administration Ties to Arthur Andersen Nearly as Tight as Those to Enron http://www.public-i.org/story_01_011602.htm Bush Pioneers, Andersen Consulting, and Enron http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/2002/01/011602_Bush_Pioneers.html Bond Between Enron, Andersen Went Beyond Auditing http://interactive.wsj.com/fr/emailthis/retrieve.cgi?id=DI-CO-20020115-009309.djml Andersen Considered Severing Enron Ties (but they didn't) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58496-2002Jan16.html Auditor Received Warning on Enron Five Months Ago http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/17/business/17ENRO.html?pagewanted=print Firm Sues Andersen Over Enron Books http://www.salon.com/business/wire/2002/01/16/enron_suit/ No Special Counsel on Enron (we need to think and not fall reflexively into the standard scandal story) http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-000003976jan16.story Enron Code of Ethics Book (act fast) http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1061797199 Enron in India New Doubts on Enron's India Investment http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/21/business/worldbusiness/21INDI.html?pagewanted=print Introduction to the Enron India Power Project (investigative work based on Indian documents, November 2000) http://www.indiatogether.org/reviews/powerplay.htm http://members.tripod.com/~INDIA_RESOURCE/iref.html http://altindia.net/pp/fe.html http://altindia.net/pp/outlook1.htm http://altindia.net/pp/eindia.htm http://altindia.net/pp/toi.htm Lack of Transparency Marks Power Deals http://altindia.net/pp/ips.html Enron Educates India http://www.indian-express.com/ie20011211/ed4.html "Enron Project" in Maharashtra: Protests Suppressed in the Name of Development (July 1997) http://www.web.amnesty.org/ai.nsf/index/ASA200311997 India's Power Crisis Escalates (background from May 2001) http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_1351000/1351100.stm Enron and globalisation (a comment from India in August 2001) http://www.blonnet.com/businessline/2001/08/03/stories/040356en.htm Ken Lay threatens India with US sanctions (August 2001) http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_1507000/1507112.stm two weeks later -- September 6th no less -- a warning from the US ambassador (I actually sent this one out earlier) http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_1529000/1529026.stm politics Bush has returned to the incredibly offensive theme of "heartland values" (i.e., "red states" are morally better than "blue states") http://www.consortiumnews.com/2001/011502a.html numerous administration claims about post-Sept. 11th social changes are false (war is not good for you) http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20020116/us/attacks_myths.html the smear campaign against Barbara Kingsolver (they constantly spread lies about their opponents) http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0114-03.htm jargon watch: when caught, plant the idea that they'll do something equivalent (the idea is to neutralize the vulnerability with an idea that cancels it out) http://www.abc.net.au/news/australia/sa/metsa-17jan2002-1.htm Ralph Nader destroyed his life's work out of spite ("for 30 years the left has been a freak show of clashing grievances") http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2002/01/17/nader/print.html World Press Tries to Unknot Tale of Bush and the Pretzel (leave him alone: when you have low blood pressure you're liable to faint) http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000004143jan16.story intellectual property Korea Migrates 120K Civil Servants to Linux Desktop http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/23667.html hacking DVD players to get around the obnoxious "zone" system http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/jan2002/nf20020116_7617.htm Pirated Videos Thrive Online http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/17/technology/circuits/17VIDE.html?pagewanted=all free Wallace and Gromit films coming online this fall http://www.guardian.co.uk/internetnews/story/0,7369,634696,00.html everything else paper casting doubt on the "six degrees of separation" study (social network analysis is good, but it's often trivialized) http://www.columbia.edu/cu/iserp/archives/2000-2001/Kleinfeld.PDF Intel/AMD as a precedent for a Microsoft antitrust settlement (if we can't dissolve the company then the API's are obviously central) http://salon.com/tech/col/rose/2002/01/16/competition/print.html spam laws of the world http://www.spamlaws.com/ report on "high net-worth individuals" around the world http://www.us.cgey.com/downloadlibrary/FSI_world_wealth_report_2001.pdf Argentina: claim that post-colonial land distribution led to dysfunction (many free-market types say distribution doesn't matter if you have markets) http://johnkay.com/articles/search.php?action=view&doc_id=226 From Cuba, With Rhythm, Taking Jazz by Storm http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/17/arts/music/17DRUM.html?pagewanted=print end
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