Here are some more URL's. Thanks to everyone who contributed. RRE home page: http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html war deepening conflict between the right and far right over Iraq war plans http://opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110002133 http://www.independent.org/tii/news/020805Higgs.html "failure to take on Saddam would produce a collapse of confidence" (scary logic, but the similar things were said about NATO and Kosovo) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/16/international/middleeast/16IRAQ.html?pagewanted=print jargon watch: "Saddam's raving from Baghdad built war fever in Washington" (Saddam is a bad man, but this is still projection) http://www.suntimes.com/output/novak/cst-edt-novak12.html some arguments against the Bush "preemption" doctrine http://www.d-n-i.net/fcs/comments/c453.htm#Werther Officers Say US Aided Iraq in War Despite Use of Gas (and how many members of the current administration were involved in it?) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/18/international/middleeast/18CHEM.html?pagewanted=print Who's on PFIAB? -- A New Bush Secret http://www.thenation.com/capitalgames/index.mhtml?bid=3&pid=96 $100 trillion suit by 9/11 families against various Saudis etc (that's a one followed by fourteen zeroes) http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/terrorism/burnettba81502cmp.pdf On 9/11, CIA Was Running Simulation of a Plane Crashing into a Building http://www.thememoryhole.org/911/cia-simulation.htm State Department Claim Under Oath of FARC-Al Qaida Link Rescinded http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20020807-123019-5992r Death Ray Weapons "Ready in a Decade" http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/archive/7-8-19102-23-44-22.html http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22directed+energy+weapons%22 Ex-General: War Game Rigged http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A28161-2002Aug16?language=printer interviews with 9/11 survivors http://www.observer.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,776307,00.html Measuring Downtown Manhattan's Future http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/16/opinion/16SCOT.html?pagewanted=print civil liberties and security United States: Abuses Plague September 11th Investigation http://www.hrw.org/press/2002/08/usdetainess081502.htm Justice Department Balks at Effort to Study Antiterror Powers http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/15/politics/15PATR.html?pagewanted=print jargon watch: study the techniques used against critics in the first paragraph (the four sentences among them employ maybe a dozen important jargon devices) http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/bminiter/?id=110002119 Camps for Citizens: Ashcroft's Hellish Vision http://www.latimes.com/la-oe-turley14aug14.story Judge Skewers US Curbs on Detainee ("the most interesting precedent since the days of the Star Chamber") http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A14862-2002Aug13?language=printer US to Begin Fingerprinting Aliens http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A10090-2002Aug12?language=printer How Islam-Bashing Got Cool http://www.beliefnet.com/story/110/story_11074.html NASA Plans to Read Terrorists' Minds at Airports (you tell me) http://www.washtimes.com/national/20020817-704732.htm photo ID badges for high school students http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-badges18aug18005057.story computers tracking the driving patterns of people with DWI convictions http://www.sunspot.net/news/custom/guns/bal-md.ignition14aug14.story reporter is sent on a mission to build a dirty bomb, has adventures http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,769645,00.html Air Marshal Program in Disarray, Insiders Say (security is something you build over time -- you can't just buy it) http://www.usatoday.com/travel/news/2002/2002-08-15-air-marshals.htm can hard cyber infrastructure attacks do more harm than easy physical attacks? http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/26675.html Homeland Insecurity http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2002/09/mann.htm Next Generation Data Mining, Baltimore, 1-3 November 2002 http://www.cs.umbc.edu/NGDM02/ summary of extensive problems with the Japanese ID system http://nationalid.hantai.jp/ Palladium and the TCPA http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram-0208.html#1 Silence That Shames Us All as Mugabe Destroys Zimbabwe http://www.opinion.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2002/08/13/do1301.xml articles celebrating our favorite motel operator (please keep digging!) "there's no doubt that Bernie Ebbers is a living legend" (2000) http://www.findarticles.com/m0DUJ/8_104/62449749/p1/article.jhtml "stocks like Worldcom make sense as long-term investing opportunities" (2000) http://www.redherring.com/investor/2000/0710/inv-focb071000.html "WorldCom is here to stay -- it's a smart addition to any portfolio" (1998) http://www.time.com/time/digital/cyberelite/11.html a more neutral Bernie piece (1999) ("only as long as his share price keeps rising") http://www.salon.com/tech/log/1999/10/06/ebbers/ corruption Did George W. Bush Evade Income Taxes on His Harken Loans? (written by a partisan but full of interesting detail) http://www.democrats.com/display.cfm?id=290 yet more Harken docs http://www.publicintegrity.org/dtaweb/report.asp?ReportID=225&L1=10&L2=10&L3=0&L4=0&L5=0 his company defrauded a partner, but conservative radio is okay with that (study the very PR thing they do with the word "crook") http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-me-simon16aug16005054.story Investigation of Potential Manipulation of Electric and Natural Gas Prices http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/enron/fercenron81302rpt.pdf http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/printstory.hts/front/1533711 Vinson & Elkins Lawyers Proud of Role at Enron (and why not? they did their job) http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/printstory.hts/front/1538107 Severance Claims by Enron's Former Execs Anger Ex-Workers http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/printstory.hts/business/1533657 "as a rule, white-collar types are not thought well of by prison staff members" http://www.fastcompany.com/feature/02/novak.html "Jack Grubman wants your sympathy" http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/18/business/yourmoney/18WATC.html?pagewanted=print intellectual property Microsoft Leads Lobby Against Open Source http://zdnet.com.com/2102-1104-949527.html Microsoft's anticompetitive schemes have become even more baroque (open source open source open source) http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/26698.html http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/26645.html stupid rights management tricks http://www.onlisareinsradar.com/archives/000477.php#000477 the eerie parallels between the Backstreet Boys and Blade Runner http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/18/arts/music/18STRA.html?pagewanted=print Digital Music's Future http://www.businessweek.com/technology/tc_special/02digitalmusic.htm everything else more on Kristen Nygaard http://www.ifi.uio.no/in_memoriam_kristen/ http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/14/obituaries/14NYGA.html?pagewanted=print Digital World Research Centre Papers and Publications http://www.surrey.ac.uk/dwrc/papers.html article and resources on ultrawideband wireless http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/focuson0902.asp The Widening Gap Between Internet-Savvy Students and Their Schools http://www.pewinternet.org/reports/toc.asp?Report=67 How Many Online? http://www.nua.ie/surveys/how_many_online/ Report on the Digital Preservation Planning Project http://www.library.yale.edu/~okerson/yea/ The Economist, the Internet, Telecom and the Dow http://www.frankston.com/public/Writing.asp?item=Essays/EconomistTelecom.html the "free trade" system is no such thing (it's an instrument for powerful interests to impose terms on the weak) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/18/magazine/18GLOBAL.html?pagewanted=print more on the heartland that's supposedly better than us (this preoccupation with who's better than who is the most childish propaganda) http://www.economist.com/world/na/PrinterFriendly.cfm?Story_ID=1280837 the latest in sophisticated modern politics http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,60194,00.html#2 http://archive.salon.com/politics/feature/2002/08/09/gore/print.html http://www.townhall.com/columnists/calthomas/ct20020813.shtml http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh081602.shtml http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/734679/posts A Washington Must: Embassies With Elan (this is a very weird article) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/17/international/17EMBA.html?pagewanted=print a bunch of cool MP3's from Steve Coleman http://www.m-base.org/sounds.html One Hundred Albums You Should Remove From Your Collection http://www.jaguaro.org/feature/03-09-02_wesk.shtml end
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