Here are some more URL's. Thanks to everyone who contributed. RRE home page: http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html war Bush is proposing to spend more on defense than the next 25 countries combined http://www.d-n-i.net/charts_data/25_power_standard.htm radio program discussing the "axis of evil" http://kcrw.com/cgi-bin/ram_wrap.cgi?/tp/tp020204Bush_Links_War_on_Te where suicide bombers come from http://www.newyorker.com/FACT/?020204fa_FACT The Sonic Memorial Project (search for audio artifacts from the World Trade Center towers) http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20020204.atc.06.ram http://www.picture-projects.com/sonicmemorial/ jargon watch: "every multiculturalist is a recruiting officer for al-Qaeda" (this kind of vast, hyperbolic, primitive thought-form is now utterly routine) http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2002-02-02&id=1535 Angered by Snubbing, Libya, China, Syria Form Axis of Just as Evil (I guess they all listen to Anthrax) http://www.satirewire.com/news/jan02/axis.shtml civil liberties and security "Trusted" Air Travelers Would Minimize Wait http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000009144feb05.story Air-Security Chief Doubts Value of ID Cards for "Trusted" Fliers http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29491-2002Feb5.html UK Move Towards Compulsory ID Cards http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk_politics/newsid_1802000/1802847.stm http://politics.guardian.co.uk/homeaffairs/story/0,11026,645503,00.html circuit court decision upholding a right to refuse to identify oneself http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data2/circs/9th/0016649p.pdf Online Voting Fraud Warning http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk_politics/newsid_1799000/1799883.stm Data Show Shoddy Due Process for Post-September 11th Immigration Detainees http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZZ3A29CXC A Security Net of Sawhorses and Soldiers http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000009358feb06.story Mexican article about the inquiry into the Tlatelolco Massacre http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2002/ene02/020131/057n1soc.php http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Tlatelolco+massacre the Bush scandals Bush and Ken Lay: Slip Slidin' Away (outline of their extensive long-term relationship) http://www.consortiumnews.com/2002/020602a1.html Less Than Zero: Enron's Income Tax Payments, 1996-2000 http://www.ctj.org/html/enron.htm more on Bush and Cheney's constant misrepresentations on the Enron issue (here's how they think: "they lie so they're bad; we're good so we can lie") http://quote.bloomberg.com/fgcgi.cgi?ptitle=Ann%20Woolner&touch=1&s1=woolner&tp=ad_topright_bbco&T=markets_fgcgi_content99.ht&s2=ad_right1_bbco&bt=ad_bottom_bbco&s=APFoi6xaAQnVzaCBI http://www.nypress.com/15/6/news&columns/signorile.cfm Did Enron Steal From Employees? (Enron and the dot-com bubble continued the Reagan-era white-collar crime wave) http://www.cbsnews.com/now/story/0,1597,328170-412,00.shtml Enron Execs Sold Stock as Losses Grew http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000009360feb06.story Enron Liability May Depend on Memo http://www.msnbc.com/news/699890.asp What Should a CEO Expect from a Board? by Ken Lay, April 1999 http://www.stthom.edu/cbes/conferences/kenneth_lay.html Enron's In-House Collapse http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZRGIPCCXC politics of Enron in India http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020218&c=1&s=roy Pension Fund Groups Urge Overhaul of Auditing Rules (pension funds would be central to a cooperative auditing system) http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZ4EXDBCXC politics Bush Budget Trickery http://www.spinsanity.org/post.html?2002_02_03_archive.html#9412291 "80% favor tax cut deferment over using Social Security for other programs" http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000009122feb05.story jargon watch: we've fallen so far, tax cut propaganda needn't be close to true (I'm actually pining for the relative intellectual honesty of the Reagan era) http://www.dailyhowler.com/h020502_1.shtml jargon watch: study the tricks in this really sophisticated letter (e.g. "name games" projection, "I never heard" though it's standard usage, etc) http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-000008945feb05.story The Father of Spin: Edward L. Bernays and The Birth of PR (read it for yourself: PR began as a way to ensure control for a narrow few) http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/1999Q2/bernays.html Documents from NAFTA's Secret Tribunals http://www.nsarchive.org/NSAEBB/NSAEBB65 everything else Antitrust Group Targets Feds Over Microsoft Settlement http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZ9M1YVAXC Global Crossing's chapter 11 petition http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/globalcrossing/glblx012802ch11pet.pdf The Role of Professional Learning Communities in International Education http://www.education.umn.edu/carei/Papers/JULYFINAL.pdf Physics Simulations Create Convincing Illusions in Films and Games http://www.sciencenews.org/20020126/bob10.asp Online Editors Scrutinize Admissions Essays of the Skittish -- for a Fee (I'm sympathetic: nobody explains the expectations for these essays) http://chronicle.com/free/2002/02/2002020602t.htm "a new used book database entirely owned by independent booksellers" http://www.TomFolio.com/ end
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