Here are some more URL's. Thanks to everyone who contributed. RRE home page: http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html civil liberties and security Most Wanted: Terrorists http://www.rewardsforjustice.net/mostwanted.html media suspect in the anthrax case http://www.prospect.org/webfeatures/2002/06/rozen-l-06-27.html http://www.dispatch.co.za/2002/07/01/southafrica/ANTHRX.HTM Government Holds Back on Bag Matching ("the airlines are dead set against it") http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21697-2002Jul3.html "the TSA's broad mandate was simply laid over the existing patchwork" http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30513-2002Jul5.html British Government Unveils National ID Card Proposal (the PDF file may crash Netscape) http://politics.guardian.co.uk/homeaffairs/story/0,11026,748444,00.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/humanrights/story/0,7369,748952,00.html http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/cpd/entitlement_cards.pdf remarkable directory of French Internet laws http://www.justice.gouv.fr/publicat/Infraviaint.pdf Falun Gong Hijacks Chinese TV http://australianit.news.com.au/common/print/0,7208,4600187%5E15322%5E%5Enbv%5E15306,00.html Historic Hearing Delves Into Mexico's Violent, Secretive Past http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-fg-mexico3jul03005102.story "links the efforts of freedom-of-information advocates around the world" http://www.freedominfo.org/ jargon watch: "no government can prevent an American from pledging allegiance" (he twists the issue in a way that's common among theocratic pundits) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25857-2002Jul4.html Deluge of Hate Crimes After 9/11 Pours Through System http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-na-backlash6jul06.story why America is a great country anyway (how many Europeans celebrate their national holiday by welcoming immigrants?) http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-na-citizen5jul05005058.story corruption Bush: I am not a crook (let's appoint a special prosecutor as far left as Ken Starr was to the right) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15500-2002Jul2.html background on the George Bush's Enron-like business career (for some non-mysterious reason the media ignored this during the campaign) http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m1111/1797_300/59086099/print.jhtml Bush's changing stories about his SEC forms are remarkably Enron-like as well (the media are concentrating on the forms, but they are the least of it) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19419-2002Jul3.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21953-2002Jul3.html http://www.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/07/03/bush.stock/ Bush can't fire corrupt staff because the same standard would be applied to him http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2001/0207.green.html allegations of Harken-like business practices at Vivendi http://www.lemonde.fr/article/0,5987,3234--283270-,00.html http://www.vivendiuniversal.com/vu2/en/news/00000980.cfm http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/Page/SpecialLevel1&cid=1024578214823 http://www.vivendiuniversal.com/vu2/en/who_we_are/history.cfm http://fr.biz.yahoo.com/vu.html http://dailynews.yahoo.com/fc/World/Media_Watch/ a page on the Vivendi site that now produces a 404 (and a cached version that is probably temporary) http://www.vivendiuniversal.com/vu2/en/who_we_are/bio_messier.cfm http://216.239.33.100/search?q=cache:iwzzVbF5fRYC:www.vivendiuniversal.com/vu2/en/who_we_are/bio_messier.cfm+&hl=en&ie=UTF-8 Recusals Doom an SEC Case (Ernst & Young is immune because two Bush commissioners had worked for it) http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A16265-2002Jul2?language=printer jargon watch: "critics suggest that Pitt somehow caused Enron and WorldCom" (change the subject with a crazy straw man, then call it crazy) http://slate.msn.com/?id=2067755&device= CEO's Will Have to Swear to Numbers (okay, it's a start) http://www.msnbc.com/news/776495.asp How Everyone Missed WorldCom ("part of the problem is companies have gotten incredibly large and complex") http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/jul2002/nf2002073_5726.htm Trent Lott's "Mississippi Wall of Fame" (which happens to include one Bernard J. Ebbers) http://lott.senate.gov/ms/fame.html Gary Winnick still has the money to restore his 64-room Bel Air mansion (I thought you'd be relieved to know that) http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-fi-mansion4jul04005102.story Accounting Concerns Focus on GE Pension Fund (you'll recall that looting of pension funds was central to the 1980s scandals) http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_2076000/2076235.stm Standard and Poor's Says US Giants Inflating Their Profits by Billions (does anyone have a URL for this report?) http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/story.jsp?story=310455 politics Labor Market Shows Signs of "Jobless Recovery" http://www.epinet.org/webfeatures/econindicators/jobspict-06-2002.html "a startling surge in corporate tax welfare" http://www.ctj.org/html/corp0402.htm more stupid privatization tricks: US Postal Service packages to Europe http://www.iht.com/cgi-bin/generic.cgi?template=articleprint.tmplh&ArticleId=63582 speaking of privatization, here is some news about Edison Charter Schools http://talkingpointsmemo.com/june0204.html#062702528pm the precise definition of "failing schools" is a huge time-bomb (the point is to justify privatization by defining it broadly) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/03/education/03LESS.html?pagewanted=print Of Earnings, Dividends, and Agency http://www.efficientfrontier.com/ef/700/agency.htm interview with Kevin Phillips about plutocracy http://www.pbs.org/now/transcript/transcript_phillips.html http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/fallows/jf2002-07-03/ everything else A Compendium of DARPA Programs http://www.darpa.mil/body/NewsItems/pdf/DARPAfactfile.pdf The Technology Secrets of Cocaine Inc. http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/print/0,1643,41206,FF.html Grudgingly, Music Labels Sell Their Songs Online (I'm still struck that we all take for granted that nobody will care) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/01/technology/01TUNE.html?pagewanted=print technologies that support tying and inhibit end user innovation (starting with rights management) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/04/business/04SCEN.html world music survey http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/05/arts/music/05WORL.html?pagewanted=print interview with Peter Lunenfeld on new media aesthetics http://frontwheeldrive.com/peter_lunenfeld.html A Collection of Reviews of Stephen Wolfram's Book "A New Kind of Science" (some interesting experiment and speculation, much ego) http://www.math.usf.edu/~eclark/ANKOS_reviews.html much more information on the nasty fish in Maryland (some of the photographs are hilariously frightening) http://www.snakeheads.org/gallery/micropeltes/thumbPage1.html http://www.dnr.state.md.us/fisheries/fishingreport/snakehead.html http://www.sunspot.net/sports/outdoors/bal-md.snakehead02jul02.story http://199.250.30.114/fishing/news-rel/snakehead.html http://www.chiangraiprovince.com/dis/kum/ Blood Sculpture May Be Ruined http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,748937,00.html Kane's Coroner Faces Heavy Lifting http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-fat04.html end
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