Here are some more URL's. Thanks to everyone who contributed. RRE home page: http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html war Factional Fighting Erupts in Afghanistan, 40 Killed (I'm struck how even a very short article from local media feels informative) http://www.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=7124 More US Troops Arrive in Philippines http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20020120/wl/philippines_us_troops_15.html Terror War Expansion Troubles Allies http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000008677feb03.story "Shoe Bomber" Suspect Linked to Two Other Plots http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000008650feb03.story Indonesian Cleric Had Role in Skyjackings, Officials Say (the problem is that we mostly just have to believe the "officials") http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000008338feb02.story Itinerant Malaysian Cleric Emerges as Terrorist Leader http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/03/international/asia/03MALA.html Split Widens Over Israeli Reservists Refusing to Serve in Palestinian Areas http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1795000/1795362.stm argument for returning to a law enforcement model against terrorism (in other words, even if it was a war last month, it's not a war now) http://writ.news.findlaw.com/commentary/20020131_spiro.html 1's and 0's Replacing Bullets in US Arsenal http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11471-2002Feb1.html "US is so much more advanced than its NATO allies that it doesn't need them" ("only one air force can operate in the dark using night-vision equipment") http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/03/opinion/03FRIE.html eight-part series purporting to describe how the White House went to war http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14101-2002Feb2.html Bush Seeks Big Five-Year Buildup at Pentagon (and with tax cuts, he knows there'll be no money for anything else) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/02/politics/02PENT.html Sorting Military Spending from Squandering ("some key things to watch for in the huge defense-budget boost") http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/jan2002/nf20020131_9382.htm civil liberties and security Pro-Bin Laden Speech Leads to Disorderly Conduct Charge (he was a jerk, but it was the crowd, not him, that was disorderly) http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZ1DZ8K6XC radio story on the proposal to create massive dossiers about air travelers (they sound good in the abstract, but they're expensive and unreliable) http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20020201.atc.03.ram Canadian rules for collecting information on air passengers (search for Aeronautics Act in each) http://canada.gc.ca/gazette/part1/ascII/g1-13552_e.txt http://canada.gc.ca/gazette/part2/ascII/g2-13603_e.txt Mixed Reviews on Anti-Terror Interview Plan http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000008683feb03.story The Pentagon's War Reporting Rules Are the Toughest Ever http://www.cjr.org/year/02/1/hickey.asp declassified US documents on human rights in Peru http://www.nsarchive.org/NSAEBB/NSAEBB64 Mexico's Supreme Court Demanding Inquiry Into '68 Massacre (does anyone have URL's for background and documents on this? Spanish is fine) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/01/international/americas/01MEXI.html Roused by Economic Crisis, Argentina's Middle Class Finally "Gets Involved" ("the movement is largely unstructured, communicating through Web sites") http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/03/international/americas/03ARGE.html Screener Discusses His Role in San Francisco Airport Security Breach (why on earth is Argenbright still in charge of airport security?) http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2002/02/02/state1642EST0063.DTL About Citizen Corps http://www.citizencorps.gov/about.html Terrorist Information and Prevention System ("truckers, letter carriers, train conductors, ship captains, ...") http://www.citizencorps.gov/tips.html E-Business Edgy After Hackers Shut UK Firm (it could be anyone) http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/02/01/hack.attack.reut/ the Bush scandals GAO to Cheney: You're Lying http://www.nationalreview.com/york/york-cheney020102.shtml Enron Probe Reaches Into White House http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000008333feb02.story http://www.msnbc.com/news/698278.asp http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/02/business/02ENRO.html What Enron Wants ("Lay was the only major electric company CEO to confer privately with Cheney") http://www.pbs.org/now/indepth/020102_enron.html Enron Panel Finds Inflated Profits and Few Controls (can someone find this report on the bankruptcy court Web site?) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/03/business/03ENRO.html?pagewanted=print http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14807-2002Feb2.html http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000008652feb03.story http://www.enron.com/corp/pressroom/releases/2002/ene/020202ReleaseLtr.html http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/03/business/03ASSE.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15192-2002Feb2.html California Readies Criminal Charges Against Enron (subscription required) http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2002/02/01/enron/ congressional testimony on Enron's use of derivatives http://www.senate.gov/~gov_affairs/012402partnoy.htm Andersen Gives a Tour of Its New Site for Enron Documents (you can't have a functioning society without proper document management) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/02/business/02SHRE.html Influence Lost, Ex-Enron Chief Faces Congress http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/03/business/03LAY.html?pagewanted=print http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14975-2002Feb2.html http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000008693feb03.story Last Refuge of a Politician in Trouble ("Republicans playing victim-by-proxy after devaluing the suffering of others") http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-000008450feb03.story The Perils of Economic Fundamentalism (Enron managers made government the enemy, when their real enemy was Enron) http://www.sunspot.net/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.enron01feb01.story "Enron is a conservative values scandal" http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11805-2002Feb1.html Meeting in 1997 Was Start of Enron's Slide (so who knew what when subsequent to that?) http://www.msnbc.com/news/697773.asp Bush's Texas "Tort Reform" May Hurt Former Enron Employees http://www.wfaa.com/stateregional/stories/020129wfaa_am_enronlaw.4e318da.html same with the "Contract With America" on the federal level (Chris Dodd is taking responsibility; will Harvey Pitt and Billy Tauzin?) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/03/business/yourmoney/03CONG.html?pagewanted=all politics Bush Budget Seeks $591 Billion in Tax Cuts http://www.salon.com/news/wire/2002/02/02/budget/index.html more Bush deception on tax cuts (notice how his statement is carefully designed so it isn't literally false) http://www.thenewrepublic.com/021102/notebook021102_bush.html Bush to Seek Deep Cuts In Domestic Programs (notice how this news is released on a Friday) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15176-2002Feb2.html Bush Targets Long Island Programs to Fund Pell Grants (good example of using the budget to set constituencies against one another) http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-usbudg012571876feb01.story There's a Sense of Deja Vu as Bush Prepares Budget (back to the deliberately destructive budget policies of the 1980s) http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000008653feb03.story jargon watch: claiming to be oppressed because they claimed a tax privilege (rules that really did outlaw political speech in churches *would* be bad) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/03/national/03CHUR.html?pagewanted=print jargon watch: blandly dismissing rational argument to impugn motives instead (in this case, on the deceptive work of Bjorn Lomborg) http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=965520 conferences Nonprofit Technology Enterprise Network, Orlando, 11-14 April 2002 http://www.nten.org/roundup/ World Telecom Development Conference, Istanbul, 18-27 March 2002 http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/conferences/wtdc/2002/ World Summit on the Information Society, Geneva, December 2003 http://www.geneva2003.org/home/index01.htm more links on upcoming "world information society" conferences http://groups.yahoo.com/group/infosoc4all/links everything else the pro-market argument for separating connectivity from applications http://www.satn.org/about/separateconnectivity.htm more on copy-protected CD's http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2002/01/31/cdrip.DTL Ultrawideband Companies Gear Up for FCC Ruling http://www.commsdesign.com/story/OEG20020201S0083 Feds Streamline Process for Battling Identity Theft (it's about time, and hardly ten percent of what needs to be done) http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/237001p-2265508c.html Internet in Developing Countries http://nt1.ids.ac.uk/eldis/inter/int_lele.htm Survey: The Real-Time Economy http://www.economist.com/surveys/displaystory.cfm?story_id=949071 end
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