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: Asian Dub Foundation, Rafi's Revenge war US Armed Forces Push for Offensive Biological Weapons Development http://www.sunshine-project.org/publications/pr080502.html authoritarians need enemies, so they find them wherever they can (or make them) http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000033153may10.story Beers Asks Congress for Nearly $600m Propaganda Budget http://www.odwyerpr.com/0501beers.htm "what is the status of the meeting between Mohamed Atta and Iraq intelligence?" http://www.edwardjayepstein.com/2002question/prague.htm Dick Armey retracts his wacky statements on Palestine (more or less) http://freedom.house.gov/library/foreignaffairs/hardball.asp Colombian War Brings Carnage to Village Altar http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/09/international/americas/09COLO.html civil liberties and security EU Secretly Planning Universal Surveillance of Telecommunications http://www.statewatch.org/news/2002/may/05surv.htm New Bill Will Increase ISP Surveillance of Users http://dc.internet.com/news/print/0,,2101_1080171,00.html "eBay will use VeriSign to authenticate its auction sellers" http://news.com.com/2102-1017-902040.html INS Tracking System for Foreign Students Set to Roll http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62852-2002May9.html trying to get your name off a "terrorist list" (notice, among other things, how the word "terrorist" got inflated) http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/?020513ta_talk_mcnamer US Non-Lethal Weapon Reports Suppressed http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992254 politics Concerns About Debt Ceiling Rise Again http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0502/050802cd1.htm when Clinton told lies 10% this bad, Bush's followers called him evil names (it's scary how mad they can act about accusations they don't really mean) http://www.thenewrepublic.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020513&s=chait051302 the Constitution artificially favors rural states (which then take our money -- fine, but at least stop acting superior to us) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/07/opinion/07KRUG.html the media echo chamber and Rep. Cynthia McKinney http://onlinejournal.com/Media/Utwater050602/utwater050602.html http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/09/national/09BURE.html jargon watch: dime-store psychoanalysis of your opponents (it's a cheap tactic, and it's everywhere) http://www.spinsanity.org/post.html?2002_05_05_archive.html#85071775 Enron the alleged incriminating Enron memos http://news.findlaw.com/wsj/docs/enron/stoelrives120600mem.pdf http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/enron/stoelrives120800mem.pdf http://news.findlaw.com/wsj/docs/enron/brobeckenronstrpt.pdf http://www.ferc.fed.us/electric/bulkpower/pa02-2/pa02-2.htm Memo Shows Enron Division of Thomas White Manipulated California Energy Market http://www.publiccitizen.org/pressroom/release.cfm?ID=1106 "yet federal officials offered nothing but sermons on the free market" http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/10/opinion/10KRUG.html Information Sooner, Yes, But Make It Better, Too http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/05/business/yourmoney/05WATC.html Microsoft Microsoft's $40 Billion Bet (piling up monopoly profits to deter would-be competitors) http://money.cnn.com/2002/04/12/pf/agenda_msft/index.htm Microsoft Admits to "Critical" Security Hole (all that money and they still write bad software) http://www.vnunet.com/News/1131609 abusive Microsoft contract for schools (wouldn't it be easier to run Linux?) http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25179.html "Microsoft was convicted of software piracy last year by a French court" http://newsforge.com/newsforge/02/05/07/2234251.shtml?tid=3 everything else newsletter about online searching http://www.virtualchase.com/tvcalert.shtml To Reduce Spam, Some ISPs Block E-Mail From Asia (Korea is completely out of control) http://www.startribune.com/stories/535/2717256.html Digitization of Cultural Heritage Information http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_5/lynch/ "unauthorized copies of the next 'Star Wars' episode hit the Internet Thursday" (like, who cares?) http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000033053may10.story International Conference on Advanced Buzzword Engineering, Rome, 17-19 June 2002 http://www.ice2002.org/ Revolutionizing Science and Engineering Through Cyberinfrastructure https://worktools.si.umich.edu/workspaces/datkins/001.nsf how the Internet and reality forced IBM to use open standards (thus leaving Microsoft uncannily in the position IBM occupied 15 years ago) http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/print/0,1643,39361,FF.html AOL Watch http://www.aolwatch.com/ Plagiarism.org http://www.plagiarism.org/ Reclaiming the American Commons in an Age of Market Enclosure http://www.newamerica.net/Download_Docs/pdfs/Pub_File_650_1.pdf "the church was deliberately designed like a mall" (not that there's anything wrong with that) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/09/garden/09CHUR.html?pagewanted=print Ex-Scientologist Collects $8.6 Million in 22-Year-Old Case http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63143-2002May9.html weird new creatures http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v417/n6884/full/417027a_fs.html http://www.biologie.uni-regensburg.de/Mikrobio/Stetter/Bilderhtml/nanoarchaeum.html http://www.nature.com/nsu/020429/020429-8.html http://www.nature.com/nature/links/020502/020502-5.html http://www.forbes.com/home/2002/05/06/0506dvsa.html end
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