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: Tidiane et les Dieuf Dieul, Salimata war European media credulity toward Jenin massacre claims (which unfortunately distracted them from more substantiated war crime claims) http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20052002-032952-3644r interesting discussion of the events leading up to September 11th (requires subscription) http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2002/05/23/warning/print.html http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000036701may24.story http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/24/national/24INQU.html Newspaper: Echelon Gave Authorities Warning of Attacks (I have no idea -- does anyone have a URL for the original FAZ article?) http://www.newsbytes.com/cgi-bin/udt/im.display.printable?client.id=newsbytes&story.id=170072 conservatives who support Israel in order to provoke Armageddon (requires subscription) http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2002/05/24/dispensational/print.html review of an HBO film about September 11th this Sunday http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/24/arts/television/24TVWK.html civil liberties and security Patterns of Global Terrorism http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/pgtrpt/ Designated Foreign Terrorist Organization List http://www.fbi.gov/terrorinfo/ftolist.htm details on the INS "watch list" for terrorists etc http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000036434may23.story Biodefense Resource Center http://www.msms.org/biodefense/ "prototype for the next-generation emergency department" http://er1.com/ Taking DNA by Stealth "Should Be Outlawed" http://www.guardian.co.uk/genes/article/0,2763,719807,00.html new online privacy law in Minnesota http://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/cgi-bin/getbill.pl?session=ls82&version=latest&number=SF2908&session_number=0&session_year= letter against a proposal for routine data retention for surveillance in Europe http://www.stop1984.com/index2.php?lang=en&text=letter.txt Privacy in the Electronic Society, Washington, 21 November 2002 http://seclab.dti.unimi.it/~wpes/ Biometric Sensors Beaten Senseless in Tests ("more of the nature of toys than of serious security measures") http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/25400.html Bush's strictures on Cuba were excellent (let's apply them to everyone, starting with ourselves) http://www.sltrib.com/2002/May/05202002/commenta/738348.htm Pro-Palestinian Class Proposal Under Review (left-wing pinheads oblivious to the outside world) http://www.dailycal.org/article.asp?id=8687 jargon watch: spinning questions as disloyalty is authoritarian culture (and the spin repeated by pundits and politicians until it becomes reality) http://www.spinsanity.org/columns/20020518.html politics an example of the most ancient argument of anti-democratic elites (it's pure, refined conservatism) http://www.nationalreview.com/goldberg/goldberg052202.asp they're nominating judges out of the 19th century (they rationalize injustice by harping on the supposed extremism of others) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/22/opinion/22WED1.html what's Orwellian is not the vocabulary change, but pretending it's not a change (the public opposes privatization, vouchers, etc, so get new words!) http://www.thenewrepublic.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020527&s=notebook052702rose "an unprecedented contempt for international rules" (they figure, "hey, we're the only superpower -- we're gonna do what we want") http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/24/opinion/24KRUG.html corruption Merrill Lynch to Pay $100 Million to Settle Analyst Charges http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/21/business/21CND-MERRILL.html http://news.findlaw.com/nytimes/docs/merrilllynch/nymerrill52102agr.pdf aggressive accounting at Halliburton under Cheney (I don't have to tell you who their auditor was) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/22/business/22HALL.html The Failure of the Prosecutors in the Andersen Case http://www.tompaine.com/feature.cfm/ID/5676 "report suspicious activities or transactions involving Enron" http://www.cftc.gov/enf/enron/enfenrondefault.htm Senate subpoena for White House contacts with Enron http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/enron/sgacom52202subwh.pdf news from planet Microsoft Ending Microsoft FUD: An Interview with Peruvian Congressman Villanueva (who wrote the celebrated anti-Microsoft tract mentioned here earlier) http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-05-20-006-26-IN-LF-PB Microsoft Lobbies Hard Against Free Software at Pentagon http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A60050-2002May22?language=printer what Microsoft dreams about ("create the largest and most leveragable database of profiles on the planet") http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/legal/apr02/04-22ntranscriptam.asp serious security bug in Microsoft's debugger (what clowns) http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/25407.html analysis of the Code Red Microsoft worms and what to do about them http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~nweaver/cdc.web/ everything else The Handbook of New Media (with sample chapters) http://www.sagepub.co.uk/shopping/Detail.asp?id=9523 new rules for electronic banking http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=2002_register&docid=02-12333-filed peculiar search engine http://kartoo.com/ video proceedings of a conference about standards http://www.siit2001.org/movies/ National Ice Center http://www.natice.noaa.gov/home.htm Global Environmental Outlook http://www.unep.org/GEO/geo3/index.htm rebuttal to the unpopular "Spurious Foundation of Genetic Engineering" article (I have no opinion) http://reason.com/rb/rb013002.shtml end
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