Here are some more URL's. Thanks to everyone who contributed. RRE home page: http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html war Tapes Shed New Light on Bin Laden's Network http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/08/18/terror.tape.main/ Saudis Withdraw Billions of Dollars from US http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1028185905754&p=1012571727092 Rumsfeld Key Player in Iraq Policy Shift (more on US aid to Saddam while he was using chemical weapons) http://www.msnbc.com/news/795649.asp jargon watch: distorting the facts to accuse others of distorting them (i.e., accusing the press of bias because it won't print propaganda) http://talkingpointsmemo.com/aug0203.html#082102853am House Whip DeLay Calls Republican Critics "Apologists" (Tourette's Syndrome is no longer a disqualification from public office) http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A42501-2002Aug20?language=printer The Cold War Is Over, But US Preparation For It Continues http://www.independent.org/tii/content/pubs/review/tir62_higgs2.html more on the allegedly rigged war games http://www.armytimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-1060102.php http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,778070,00.html more on the media anthrax suspect http://www.forward.com/issues/2002/02.08.16/featherman.html US Tax Dollars Helped Finance Some Chavez Foes, Review Finds http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/230/nation/US_tax_dollars_helped_finance_some_Chavez_foes_review_findsP.shtml Improving NYPD Emergency Preparedness and Response http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/pdf/nypdemergency.pdf Increasing FDNY's Preparedness http://www.nyc.gov/html/fdny/html/mck_report/toc.html http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2002/08/20/fdny/print.html civil liberties and security "at all times the American position is to support the rule of int'l law" (Ari Fleischer actually said this) http://news.findlaw.com/ap/i/1103/8-20-2002/20020820113005_14.html spam accusations and due process http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/22.19.html#subj7 claim that government data mining would have stopped the 9/11 attacks (he's conflating "data fusion", basically a social problem, with data mining) http://computerworld.com/printthis/2002/0,4814,73633,00.html FBI Gives Warchalking Warning http://www.pcw.co.uk/News/1134451 looking for wireless LAN's in an airplane http://www.e3.com.au/stories.php?story=02/08/18/7667279 more on EU data retention policies http://www.statewatch.org/news/2002/aug/05datafd1.htm http://www.hullocentral.demon.co.uk/site/anfin.htm http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/26751.html much detail about the airplane collision over Germany http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/22.19.html#subj8 Bush helping oil companies accused of involvement in human rights abuses http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/19/opinion/19MON3.html?pagewanted=print politics GOP collecting church directories for voter registration and get-out-the-vote http://newsobserver.com/news/v-print/story/1654190p-1680391c.html Tax Revolt Takes Aim at a County's Libraries http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/20/national/20LIBR.html?pagewanted=print very clear pattern of using any excuse to push pre-conceived policies (as rational thought is destroyed, policies can be unrelated to stated reasons) http://www.latimes.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=la%2Dna%2Dforest21aug21 jargon watch: amazing interview with Ann Coulter (what's so impressive isn't the illogic as such but how practiced it is) http://www.webactive.com/webactive/cspin/cspin20020809.html "platoons of liberals infest the Justice Department" (pundits who casually refer to people they disagree with as vermin) http://www.suntimes.com/output/novak/cst-edt-novak15.html Supreme Court power grab (they opposed judicial activism and budget deficits ... until they took power) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/18/books/review/18GREENHT.html?pagewanted=print what the polls say about Democrats' appeals to populism (they also say that the lies about Gore's "untruthfulness" cost the election) http://www.tcf.org/Opinions/Public_Opinion_Watch/july29aug9.pdf http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/20/opinion/20KRUG.html?pagewanted=print "today in the United States white people have no political representation" http://www.townhall.com/columnists/paulcraigroberts/pcr20020813.shtml intellectual property defending regulations requiring open standards for government software http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/26752.html http://www.redhat.com/opensourcenow/bill_opensource.html China Targets Windows With Linux-Based OS (more details, but it's still hard to tell how real it is) http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/26737.html TextWeaver: Solutions for Online Education http://coe.sdsu.edu/textweaver/ DOE Database PubSCIENCE Joins the Endangered Species List http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb020819-2.htm proposed revisions to UCITA don't change its dumbest, most regressive feature http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/02/08/19/020819opgripe.xml more on the bill giving copyright holders the right to hack P2P networks (sounds cool to me: I hold dozens of copyrights, and you probably do too) http://writ.news.findlaw.com/hilden/20020820.html IWT Bans RIAA From Accessing Its Network (and just as interestingly will ban anyone who tries to download spoof MP3's) http://www.informationwave.net/news/20020819riaa.php The Music Industry's Self-Inflicted Wounds http://slate.msn.com/?id=2069732 Online "Spoofing" Turns the Tables on Music Pirates (that's what you get for having any interest in the very boring Moby album) http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A42239-2002Aug20?language=printer everything else Kopper May Not Be Enough (framing the Enron story as appeasing the mob rather than rendering justice) http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/printstory.hts/business/1542506 http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/enron/uskopper82102cinf.pdf http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/enron/uskopper82102pagr.pdf http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/sec/seckopper82102cmp.pdf Giving Rise to the Professional Blogger http://www.oreillynet.com/lpt/a/2629 virtual architecture exhibit in New York http://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/Out%20of%20Site/detail.htm depressingly unimaginative picture of future laptops http://news.com.com/2100-1001-951449.html Fossil Wrist PDA http://www.fossil.com/Product/Product.asp?Tier1=Mens&Tier2=MW&Dept%5FID=MW&Cat%5FID=MW22&Prod%5FID=FX2001 Finnish Hunting Dogs Are Issued With Mobile Phones (next year they'll issue the deer and ducks with phones too) http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_654158.html end
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