[RRE]pointers

From: Phil Agre (pagreat_private)
Date: Wed Apr 24 2002 - 22:49:56 PDT

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    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: Ralph Stanley, Clinch Mountain Gospel
    
    
    war
    
    Jenin: The Capital of the Palestinian Suicide Terrorists
    http://www.idf.il/english/news/jenin.stm
    http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/go.asp?MFAH0ll60
    http://www.idf.il/arafat/continuation/english/index2.stm
    http://www.idf.il/arafat/english/index1.stm
    
    Against Call for European Boycott of Academic and Cultural Ties With Israel
    http://euroisrael.huji.ac.il/
    
    extensive coverage of Jenin etc
    http://middleeastinfo.org/
    
    radio interview with Tariq Ali on What America Is Sowing Today
    http://www.onpointradio.org/shows/2002/0418_ali.asp
    
    acquittal of apartheid's chemical terrorism expert
    http://www.newyorker.com/archive/content/?020422fr_archive04
    http://www.newyorker.com/online/content/?020422on_onlineonly03
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_1923000/1923000.stm
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_143000/143006.stm
    http://www.mg.co.za/mg/news/99mar2/26mar-basson.html
    http://www.acronym.org.uk/52trial.htm
    
    Statement by the Director of the Org'n for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
    (who Bush forced out)
    http://www.opcw.org/SS1CSP/SS1CSP_DG_statement.html
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/bush/story/0,7369,689142,00.html
    
    more on FBI investigation of US germ warfare laboratories
    http://www.prospect.org/print/V13/9/rozen-l.html
    
    the CIA is back!
    (with no more pesky human rights concerns to blame for its incompetence)
    http://www.msnbc.com/news/741516.asp
    
    interview about Afghanistan with Robert Young Pelton
    http://www.salon.com/books/int/2002/04/23/pelton/print.html
    
    Kissinger: Mistakes Were Made
    http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/04/24/uk.kissinger/
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/Pinochet_on_trial/Story/0,2763,690254,00.html
    
    
    civil liberties and security
    
    S. 2201, the Online Personal Privacy Act
    http://www.epic.org/privacy/internet/s2201is.pdf
    http://www.techlawjournal.com/cong107/privacy/hollings/20020418summary.asp
    http://www.techlawjournal.com/cong107/privacy/hollings/20020418hollings.asp
    
    Prevent Identity Fraud: Death Master File Download
    https://dmf.ntis.gov/
    
    Canada's Privacy Impact Assessment Policy
    http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/media/nr-cp/2002/0424_e.html
    
    purported security-related applications of data mining
    http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/Printer_Friendly_Version/0,1212,NAV47-81_STO70041-,00.html
    
    Ohio Students' Personal Data to Go to State
    http://www.ohio.com/mld/beaconjournal/news/local/3096047.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp
    
    New Money-Laundering Rules Prompt Outcry From Financial Privacy Advocates
    http://www.msnbc.com/news/742407.asp
    
    incredibly silly article about teen hackers
    (yo, dudes! the systems are so porous that *anyone* can hack them!)
    http://www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/printer/17371/
    
    interview with Mary Robinson
    http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0217/fahim.php
    
    Prevent Religious Electioneering
    (if they want to change their tax status, then fine, they can electioneer)
    http://www.sptimes.com/2002/04/22/Opinion/Prevent_religious_ele.shtml
    
    Nearly 100 Arrested in Airport Security Roundup
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000029221apr24.story
    
    
    intellectual property
    
    Microsoft Puts the Squeeze on Northwest Schools
    (wouldn't it be easier to run Linux?)
    http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/steve_duin/index.ssf?/xml/story.ssf/html_standard.xsl?/base/news/10193037769515227.xml
    
    Newsletter on Technological Innovation and Intellectual Property
    http://www.researchoninnovation.org/tiip/archive/2002-1.htm
    
    record companies failing to pay artists their royalties
    (requires subscription)
    http://salon.com/tech/feature/2002/04/23/copyright/print.html
    
    
    everything else
    
    New "Smart" Galleries, Wireless and Web-Friendly
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/24/arts/artsspecial/24JONE.html
    
    Fears About Microsoft Return, in Mexico
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/24/technology/24PESO.html?pagewanted=print
    
    XP Means Extra Pain
    http://www.fortune.com/indext.jhtml?channel=print_article.jhtml&doc_id=207355
    
    online companies making it hard to cancel accounts
    http://www.msnbc.com/news/742475.asp
    
    Victims of Lost Files Out of Luck
    (this is the fallacy of many "ASP" and "Web services" plans)
    http://news.com.com/2100-1023-887849.html
    
    Telecom Slump Gets Deeper Amid New Layoffs, Cutbacks
    (notice how they blame the Telecom Act and technology, not greed and hype)
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000028927apr23.story
    
    House GOP Challenges Bush on Records Gag
    http://www.thehill.com/042402/challenge.shtm
    
    more on the New York Times' blithering non-coverage of the 2000 election
    http://www.prospect.org/print/V13/9/alterman-e.html
    
    end of a long-running highway privatization debacle in Orange County
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000028864apr23.story
    
    US and Oil Lobby Oust Climate Change Scientist
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/bush/story/0,7369,687650,00.html
    
    Research Survey Confirms Life on Earth Now Being Affected by Global Warming
    (whether any of that life is intelligent is not yet known)
    http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/MediaAlerts/2002/200204168354.html
    
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