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: Sintesis, Ancestros war Anthrax Probe Centers on Labs http://www.msnbc.com/news/690133.asp police rounding up alleged terrorists in Leicester, England http://www.guardian.co.uk/ukresponse/story/0,11017,635966,00.html the Bush scandals As Questions Get Louder, Cheney Stays Silent http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000004713jan18.story Poll: Bush Administration Lying or Hiding Something http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20020118/pl/enron_poll_glance_1.html finally, dissent from the strange party line praising Bush's Enron "openness" http://www.nationalreview.com/york/york011802.shtml another smirk! (but the article repeats the line that both parties are equally implicated) http://www.msnbc.com/news/689910.asp Evidence Indicates That O'Neill Helped Enron Hide Financial Condition http://www.citizen.org/pressroom/release.cfm?ID=1000 Ari Fleischer discussing huge tax rebates to energy companies on October 31st (i.e., shortly after the administration learned that Enron was imploding) http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/10/20011031-4.html#Stimulus-package3 Enron Owns the GOP http://www.EnronOwnsTheGOP.com/ The United States of Enron http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/19/opinion/19RICH.html Veep Tried to Aid Enron in India Debt Row http://www.mostnewyork.com/2002-01-18/News_and_Views/Beyond_the_City/a-138620.asp http://www.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/01/18/cheney.enron/ Enron Files Claim for Dabhol Losses (from last month) http://globalarchive.ft.com/globalarchive/article.html?id=011221000366&query=Enron+India Little Hope for Enron Shareholders on Recouping Loss http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3IOUF4KWC Enron Creditors Could Invoke "Intent-to-Defraud" Clause http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZ4LYS7LWC racketeering investigation against Enron in Florida http://www.miami.com/herald/content/business/digdocs/096966.htm Capitalist Pigs http://www.salon.com/tech/col/leon/2002/01/19/enron_money/ Enron So Far (what's with this writing style?) http://reason.com/ml/ml011702.shtml Despite Warning, Enron Chief Urged Buying of Shares (looks bad) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/19/business/19ENRO.html Enron's Board May Have Had Role in Dealings http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/19/business/19BOAR.html Enron Scandal Roils Hill http://www.hillnews.com/011602/enron.shtm Did Enron Successfully Buy Influence With the Money It Spent? http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20020118.html Enron's Vision (and Values) Thing http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/19/opinion/19KUNE.html right-wing site recommends counterattacking with accusations against Clinton (on their planet, Chris Matthews is part of the "Democrat media machine") http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2002/1/18/95810 Andersen Linked to Other Shady Cases http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/54925_andersen18.shtml SEC Seeks Pathetically Weak Reform of Auditor Controls http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64561-2002Jan17.html radio story about the abundant recent history of accounting scandals worldwide http://play.rbn.com/?wgbh/world/demand/fr5.rm criticism of US accounting standards http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3OS8HJJWC http://globalarchive.ft.com/globalarchive/article.html?id=020118001350 "fundamental weaknesses in the US system of financial regulation" (Congress did not enhance regulatory system when it repealed Glass-Steagall) http://globalarchive.ft.com/globalarchive/article.html?id=020118001276 http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3RODHJJWC How Media Missed the Enron Story http://www.msnbc.com/news/690116.asp civil liberties Using Technology to Detect and Prevent Terrorism (tract advocating a massive, invasive high-tech surveillance state) http://www.ndol.org/ndol_ci.cfm?kaid=124&subid=307&contentid=250070 Invading the Courts: We Don't Need Military "Tribunals" to Sort Out the Guilty (a different precedent than the ones you've heard about) http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZFCHM4LWC Criminal Charges Settled in Distributed-Computing Case http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/173751.html FTC Settles Probe of Company That Released Names of People Taking Prozac (the punishment? they have to try not to do it again) http://news.com.com/2100-1023-818428.html New Book by Critic of Distance Education Describes Privacy Threats (drafts of some chapters of this book appeared on RRE; see the RRE home page) http://chronicle.com/free/2002/01/2002011801u.htm intellectual property Industry Plans to Restrict Use of HDTV Broadcasts, Harming Innovation http://www.eff.org/IP/Video/HDTV/20020117_eff_bpdg_overview.html Studios Nearing Anti-Copying Tech for TV http://news.com.com/2100-1023-817485.html Studios Spur Measures to Thwart Piracy http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-000004557jan18.story The Future of Copy-Protect Music (hour-long program from public radio in Santa Monica) http://kcrw.com/cgi-bin/ram_wrap.cgi?/tp/tp020118The_Future_of_Copy-P Content Protection Plan Targets Wireless Home Networks http://www.eetimes.com/sys/news/OEG20020111S0060 politics Attempted Coup at Federal Trade Commission http://www.tompaine.com/feature.cfm?ID=5015 http://www.tompaine.com/feature.cfm?ID=5010 more on the strangely withdrawn antiantitrust plan http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/ap/20020117/pl/antitrust_approvals_5.html Interior: Drilling Won't Violate Polar Bear Pact (more incredible disappearing science) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64516-2002Jan17.html jargon watch: inflated use of words, in this case "partisan" (turning words into weapons with no concern for meaning or proportion) http://www.cnn.com/2002/LAW/01/17/enron.task.force/ jargon watch: "guilt" treated as a bad thing -- see the first sentence (another part of the campaign to demolish conscience) http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/rbartley/?id=95001724 jargon watch: "Liberals love erasing the truth" -- it's the new hate (and it's immediately followed by a stream of truth-obliterating fabrications) http://www.townhall.com/columnists/anncoulter/ac20020117.shtml news from Planet Microsoft Microsoft's New Subscription Plan: CIO's Just Say No http://www.cio.com/archive/011502/meter.html commentary on the significance of the Windows UPnP vulnerability http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram-0201.html Settlement Splits Microsoft; One Firm to Make Software, Other to Make Patches http://www.satirewire.com/news/jan02/patchsoft.shtml everything else Dewayne Hendricks' crusade for broadband wireless http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.01/hendricks.html screw threads as a historical case study in standardization http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.01/standards.html The $7 Billion Delusion (that's right, they're talking about Excite@Home) http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.01/excite.html Abandoned Places http://home2.planetinternet.be/henk/ McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry (leading green design firm) http://www.mbdc.com/ http://www.mcdonough.com/ Democracy, Legitimacy and the Rule of Law: Linkages http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/delivery.cfm/000203651.pdf?abstractid=201054 The Family Milosevic: The Unrepentant http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/20/magazine/20MILO.html?pagewanted=all Argentina: Financial Collapse Under Scrutiny ("whether $27 billion was taken out in a convoy of armored trucks") http://www.miami.com/herald/content/news/americas/digdocs/041517.htm Congo volcano pictures http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news?p=volcano&c=news_photos http://www.osei.noaa.gov/Events/Volcano/Congo/VIRnyira018_N6.jpg end
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